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Unlike many of his generation who were moved to political activism by the turbulent events in the United States in the ’60s, Pitkin found a different inspiration: the Soviet takeover of the former Czeckoslovakia in 1968, which he witnessed while living in Prague...
Like it or not, bin Laden and the Taliban are in power largely as the result of support of the U.S. during Afghanistan’s war with the Soviet Union (back when their militarism was “freedom fighting” and not its more current and accurate name “terrorism”). The U.S. funded them, built the very camps that bin Laden now uses to train terrorists and supplied them with weapons all in the name of anti-Communism. Now the U.S. is supporting the Northern Alliance, another group of hardened...
...Meanwhile, an unknown number of independent laboratories have developed technologies to produce smallpox; at least two of those labs are in the former Soviet Union, and others may be spearheaded by their former countrymen, wooed away by various rogue nations...
...Moscow Times offered an extremely pertinent understanding of anthrax's value as a weapon: Back when they were preparing for war with the West, Soviet generals had no plans to use their considerable stores of anthrax - for the simple reason that nuclear and chemical warheads were more reliable weapons of mass destruction. "Bioweapons could kill hundreds of thousands or no one at all, depending on the weather and other factors that are hard to predict," writes commentator Pavel Felgenhauer. Still, he adds, "The inaccuracy and unpredictability of bioweapons makes them the perfect terrorist weapon that may kill...
...poorest of the former Soviet republics, but Tajikistan is a gastronomic paradise compared to northern Afghanistan. Tajikistan, for instance, has sit-down restaurants. And women can dine out in public...