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Making Sense of a Mad Mad World

John Walcott

The US, Russia, Europe, China, Middle East - what's going on that matters, what isn’t and what, if anything, does it mean to you?

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    John Walcott is one of America’s foremost foreign affairs reporters and educators. He’s the co-author of “Best Laid Plans”, on America’s 1980s war on terrorism, and Rob Reiner played him in “Shock and Awe”, on challenging the case for invading Iraq.

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