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		<title>Terrorism: A Means to a Dead End</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrorism is now associated with Islamic extremists, but in the early 1970s there were terrorist groups on the &#8220;far-left.&#8221; This article looks at the half-baked &#8220;socialist&#8221; notions from the New Left that these terrorists took and then burned to a crisp. Far-left terrorist groups, such as the Weathermen in the United States and the Red Brigades in Italy generally emerged at the tail end of the 1960s with the beginning of the disintegration of the various New Left movements. The members of these groups acquired some of their ideas, such as they were, from this movement. This is not suggest, of course, that the two sides are identical, which would be as absurd as the right-wingers today who are convinced Islam is inherently terroristic. The vast majority of the Left clearly rejected the tactic of terrorism. At the same time, the terrorist groups did not arise fully-formed from the fertile soil of pure evil, either, nor can they be written off as some sort of government conspiracy (although police infiltration is always a sub-plot with such conspirational groups). Understanding the &#8220;logic&#8221; of the terrorists who advertised themselves as revolutionaries requires us to consider the weak aspects of the New Left [...]


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		<title>Japan: A Woman for Emperor?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi is an unlikely advocate of women&#8217;s rights. But earlier this year the well-coiffed leader was keen to promote gender equality. Not for all women, mind you, or even a few, but rather a four-year-old girl known as Her Imperial Highness Princess Aiko. He supported an effort to revise the Imperial House Law that would allow her to &#8220;ascend&#8221; to the throne one day. Why this concern for the plight of royal women? Well, the fact that no male heir has been born for the past 40 years might just have something to do with it. Unless something is done, or a prince is born, the monarchy faces the prospect of withering away. Koizumi responded to the succession crisis by setting up an advisory council in late 2004, which issued a report recommending that women and their descendants be granted the right of succession. The proposal had strong public backing and seemed uncontroversial, this being the 21st century. So it came as a surprise when right-wingers mobilized to oppose the reform. Considering that the reform was intended to save-not abolish-the monarchy, it seems strange that these &#8220;traditionalists&#8221; (to use a charitable term) are dead-set against it. But [...]


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