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  Augmenting brains: Google turns twenty

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:05am on October 01, 2018

  THE verge starts with a statement that has become commonplace, the compulsory nod to power one has come to expect when engaged with that whole...

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  Plans for attack: US plans for striking Iran

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on August 01, 2018

  THE world of the terrifying hypothetical is programmatically standard in the Trump White House. Periods of tense calm are followed by careless flights of fury,...

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  Helsinki theatrics: Trump meets Putin

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:05am on July 18, 2018

  THE first official meeting between Russian president Vladimir Putin and his counterpart Donald Trump was a fairly casual, unpeopled affair, absent bureaucrats and note takers....

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  Soft Brexits and hard realities: the Tory revolt

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:05am on July 11, 2018

  IT WAS meant to be an away day at Chequers in total hermetic isolation, an effort on the part of UK prime minister Theresa May...

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  Macron, Francafrique and Euro-African relations

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:05am on July 08, 2018

  TIES between Europe and Africa have never been rosy....

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  Leaving the UN Human Rights Council

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:05am on June 23, 2018

  THE margin between what is a human right as an inalienable possession, and how it is seen in political terms is razor fine....

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  Meeting on the island of death from behind

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:05am on June 14, 2018

  EVERYTHING about this summit is in the showy warm-up run....

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  Nominating Trump for peace prize

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:05am on May 08, 2018

  IT SEEMS like rich nonsense, but should peace be attained on the Korean peninsula, with arrangements entrenched to ensure durability as opposed to unconvincing window...

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  Meeting in Panmunjom

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:05am on May 01, 2018

  It seems, and certainly feels, like a distant number of months since a panel of experts noshed and chatted over how best to overcome the...

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  Macron’s Syria game

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:05am on April 18, 2018

  THERE is a certain bullishness in French circles these days, even if there was an initial attempt, with the Macron government, to calm matters down....