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The small Borá, located within the State of Sao Paulo, could become the city with the highest percentage of registered users on Facebook in the world. With 805 inhabitants, according to the last census, and located about 480 km from Sao Paulo, Borá was chosen to receive the campaign “100% Borá on Facebook, ” sponsored by the drops Halls [...]

The reputation held by the Berlin Wall before it was ‘torn down’ twenty years ago was largely a product of propaganda machines. Clearly, it was just another Cold War myth. It played neatly into a Cold War cliché about The Free World vs. Communist Tyranny. ‘In 1961, the East Berlin communists built a wall to keep their oppressed citizens from [...]

In Russia, domestic economic health is not synonymous with national power. The country has always had a dysfunctional economy. ‘By contrast, its military power has always been disproportionately strong.’ The Russian security machinery devoted a bigger chunk of its economy to military power. The Russian government has been able to do this ‘Moscow [...]