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Prefatory Note: The following questions were put to me by Patricia Lombroso of the Italian publication, Il Manifesto. 1] How much you think…
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Informed opinion agrees that the response to the presumed Assad regime’s responsibility for the use on August 21st of chemical weapons in…
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