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Tales of Old Shanghai

Despite the West’s bluster during the decades of the Cold War, refusing to recognize the Maoist regime and barking about China’s ‘legitimate’ Nationalist government-in-exile, Chiang Kai-Shek even at his most powerful he never did control much of the Chinese mainland. The general’s power base was regulated to the coastal areas, and even then his government [...]
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The Hippie Mafia: Brotherhood of Eternal Love

Thirty nine years ago, the biggest raid that had ever been staged in America’s war on drugs took place when a task force of state, local and federal law enforcement agencies combined to take down a secretive group of hippie acid dealers and hashish smugglers known as the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. On August 5, [...]
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