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...China touts the works as a means to raise low living standards in one of the country’s poorest regions but they also have strategic military objectives, analysts say....
...It is the idea: ‘Tell your government to negotiate with your enemy so you both spend less on the military.’” If military spending is a waste of resources, what about space travel?...
...The father of the Soviet thermonuclear bomb, who became the USSR’s leading dissident (he preferred “freethinker”), would have turned 100 this year....
...If I can put it this way, if I can describe you as a hard line crypto atheist, I would describe myself as more of a crypto agnostic, albeit with atheistic tendencies....
...So it is a little bit unusual for this formerly atheist country to be building churches for Taiwanese compatriots....
...“I sat there without a helmet, reading Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary . . . above lines of Israeli and Syrian tanks. I’m an atheist but reading there was almost a secular prayer....
...Todman, a scholar at Queen Mary, University of London, pulls together the story’s military, political, economic and social threads in masterly style....
...The military is more revered than during the Vietnam war, when returning troops donned civilian clothes before braving the streets....
...A devout Christian, Ms Áñez slams Mr Morales as an “atheist” and a “machista”....
...“The Pentagon found that the force Turkey had trained was simply inadequate and would require tens of thousands of US troops to bolster it in battle,” Joseph Votel, the former commander of the US military...
...The military council led by Gen Burhan has recently met delegations from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, alleged backers of those who moved against Mr Bashir, securing pledges of fuel and wheat...
...It seems crass to build national feeling around a long ago military victory....
...Rippling under the hard plotting is a quiet sense of the numinous; so much so that lead actor Mikkelsen, from a staunch atheist background, reportedly got baptised during filming....
...How wonderful it is, he writes sarcastically, “to watch the drama of the old liberals, Dadaists and freethinkers, as they begin to moralise at the end of a life devoted completely to the destruction of the...
...of the top military brass”....
...And you are trying to scare the world with the build-up of China’s military might? It does not work with this scale of military spending. No, it does not....
...Richard Dawkins March 18, 12 noon Sheldonian Theatre, £8-£20 The scientist and campaigning atheist talks to Nick Higham about Science in the Soul, his career-spanning collection of essays and polemics....
...Venturing into the realm of the metaphysical may appear counter-intuitive for atheist United Front operatives, but all of China’s national religious organisations come under the auspices of United Front...
...But we lack that one crucial piece of paper. A marriage certificate. I’ll freely admit that as a raging atheist I’ve never seen the point....
...military positions at the Kuweires military airport about ten kilometers south of al-Bab....
...Since independence, the country has experienced states of emergency, famines, a series of military coups and insurgencies....
...Under unwritten rules painstakingly introduced by China’s collective leadership since the 1990s, Mr Xi is supposed to step down from all his posts — as head of the nation, the party and the military — in...
...Islamist extremism has been on the rise in Bangladesh for the past two years with the targeted assassinations of secular writers, atheist bloggers, gay rights activists and expatriates....
...Though he loved his work curating fossils, Sevinc says that his views, as an atheist and veteran of protests for LGBT rights, clashed with those of his “reactionary” museum colleagues....
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