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Karzai’s Misdirection

by Sekundar
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Going after President Karzai is something I’ve so far (more or less) avoided, but recently he stated “Sometimes I hear that some businessmen are fleeing and moving their businesses to outside Afghanistan… Curses be upon such businessmen that made tons of money here and now that the Americans are leaving they flee. They can leave [...]

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Kazakhstan, Beacon of Anticorruption Activity?

by Alexander_Visotzky

To preface this entry I should say that I’m not really in a position to be objective on this issue, but I’ll attack it nonetheless:  When your girlfriend or wife asks you if she looks fat or ugly, you tell her no, even if she does look fat or ugly. Sometimes a little lie doesn’t [...]

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