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Relative to the situation in Egypt, today Canada’s National Post recaps some of the world’s most notorious despots whose regimes were propped up by the United States. “Lots of countries have client states. But, American exceptionalism, its adherence and promotion of supposed democratic values, that’s always also been a part of its foreign policy,” says Alexander Cooley, a political scientist …

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il has decided that his sissified son Kim Jong-chul is too effeminate to succeed him. North Korea’s “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il named his third son his successor — at the expense of an older son whom he considered “too effeminate,” according to the dictator’s longtime sushi chef. Kim Jong-chul, the 27-year-old middle son, was apparently deemed …