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  • Deadly Chinese Fentanyl is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins

    “Fentanyl’s potency has « transformed the global trafficking — and policing — of narcotics.” Continue reading →

  • 11:00 | 11-November-1918

    100 years ago today, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the guns along the 440-mile line stretching from Switzerland to the North Sea fell silent. The war started 1 August 1914 just as German Chancellor Otto von Bismark once famously predicted around 1884, by “some damned fool…

  • 9 November: Schicksalstag

    In the next few days, there will be much remembrance of the events of 100 years ago—the end of World War I. Not as much in the U.S., where World War I is like the Korean War, a largely forgotten conflict, even though 115,516 Americans died between 1917-1918, along with over 320,000 sickened, most in…