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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Recent articles by Tony Burman at the Star<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Click photo to read this first article – from today’s Saturday’s Star.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal"> ---------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Aftershocks from a failed American coup – led by the president.</span></strong><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/01/14/us-capitol-attacks-draw-increasing-parallels-with-nazism-in-the-1930s.html"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#00578D;background:white;text-decoration:none"><o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#00578D;background:white"><a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/01/14/us-capitol-attacks-draw-increasing-parallels-with-nazism-in-the-1930s.html"><span style="color:#00578D;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="114" height="76" style="width:1.1875in;height:.7916in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D6EC07.DAC68DA0" alt="Trump supporters at the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, the day the Capitol was stormed. “You’ll never take back our country with weakness,” the president said. "></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:0%"><span class="c-mediacard-labelslabel"><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#737373;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.4pt;background:white"><a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/01/14/us-capitol-attacks-draw-increasing-parallels-with-nazism-in-the-1930s.html"><span style="color:#737373;text-decoration:none">CONTRIBUTORS</span><span style="color:#00578D;text-transform:none;letter-spacing:0pt;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#00548B;background:white"><a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/01/14/us-capitol-attacks-draw-increasing-parallels-with-nazism-in-the-1930s.html"><span style="color:#00548B;text-decoration:none">U.S.
Capitol attacks draw increasing parallels with Nazism in the 1930s<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></h3>
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15-2021</span><span style="color:#00578D;letter-spacing:0pt;text-decoration:none"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Excerpts from other recent articles by Tony Burman at the Star<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Who would have thought that America’s “great experiment” in democracy — as its first president George Washington so glowingly described it more than two centuries ago — would end up blowing
apart on U.S. national television in the year 2021 in such a grubby and shocking way?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">But that’s what happened this week, nothing less.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">On Wednesday, President Donald Trump led a <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2021/01/07/us-updates-politics-capitol-trump-biden-jan-7.html"><span style="color:#333333">botched
coup attempt</span></a> in a bid to overturn the will of the voters in November’s presidential election. He did it by calling on tens of thousands of his right-wing supporters — many of them racist white nationalists and crazed conspiracy theorists — to storm
the U.S. Capitol building where members of Congress were meeting to certify the victory of president-elect Joe Biden.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">A broken U.S. democracy has survived — but just barely — having a madman in office. Congratulations, America. But when sanity returns to the White House with Joe Biden’s inauguration,
many Americans will begin to realize the enormity of what almost happened. A sitting U.S. president — with the support of the Republican leadership — tried to deny the will of the American people and steal the election. The repercussions from this will be
explosive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">In this age of instant, global communication, there are probably few corners in the world that didn’t witness the grotesque and humiliating scenes from Washington on Wednesday. Unquestionably,
they have done incalculable damage to U.S. democratic institutions and the country’s international reputation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">To U.S. allies, many of whom were humiliated by Trump in the past, the response was wrenching. It was a mixture of surprise, embarrassment and incredulity that what they assumed was the
world’s leading democracy was imploding so dramatically.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Tony Burman on past predictions - My track record</span></strong><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Following the international rules of scoring that have been common in this Trump era — self-serving, of course, and highly suspect — I have averaged seven out of 10 correct predictions
over the past four years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">In that spirit, I was accurate this past year (2020) on seven of my predictions. I was wrong on two. And there is one prediction — “<em><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Trump
resigns to get a pardon” </span></em>— that still has a few weeks to go before final determination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">I was right in predicting that Biden and Kamala Harris would be nominated and then elected in November’s U.S. election, that North Korea’s nuclear threat would return, that Iran would
end the year caught up in Trump’s crosshairs and that the Taliban in Afghanistan would emerge as the winners in a so-called “peace agreement” being worked out by the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">I was wrong in predicting that the era of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel would come to an end — although this may happen in elections in 2021 — and I was wrong, or at least premature, in
suggesting that political violence would explode in Latin America.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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