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March 7, 2013 Subscribe · Forward CAUSE OF DEATH REVEALED CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez died of a massive heart attack after great suffering and inaudibly mouthed his desire to live, the head of Venezuela's presidential guard said late Wednesday. Continue reading... Furious Over Sanctions, North Korea Threatens To Nuke U.S. Berlusconi Sentenced To 1 Year In Jail Chavez's Legacy: Dictator Or Democrat? Missing War Vet Found 33 Years Later Even In Death, Chavez Gets Choice Of Successor Hugo Chavez Dead At 58 Lion Reportedly Attacks Couple Having Sex In Bush WATCH: Indian Police Brutally Beat Woman In Public Lion Reportedly Attacks Couple Having Sex In Bush CAUSE OF DEATH REVEALED ARIANNA HUFFINGTON 10 Years Later: Looking Back on the Iraq War So We Can Clearly Look Forward "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." It's one of Milan Kundera's most famous lines, from his novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. It's one worth keeping in mind as we approach March 20, the 10th anniversary of one of the biggest disasters in the history of the United States. That was the day George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and a team of others -- along with much of Washington and a very complicit mainstream media -- took the nation to war against Iraq. The devastating consequences of that war will continue for decades, but a full accounting has still yet to happen. Allowing the toxic mixture of lies, deception and rationalizations that led to that war to go unchallenged makes it more likely that we will make similar tragic mistakes in the future. So I hope we can use this moment to assess what really happened, to look back in order to look forward. Continue reading... NATHAN LIPSON Report Shows Grim Trend Toward Income Inequality in Israel Unlike many developed countries, in Israel, good data is hard to come by. Income inequality was never a major issue in Israel and so it received little attention. But now, as it became a major concern, data is starting to pop up. The data points to a grim conclusion. Continue reading... FLYNT AND HILLARY MANN LEVERETT Iran and the United States -- What Really Matters to Middle Eastern Publics? The most disturbing aspect of Looking at Iran is its implicit usefulness for those arguing that America could use force against Iran with little risk of regional blowback. This argument is profoundly -- and dangerously -- mistaken. Continue reading... DAN RATHER What Hugo Chavez Left Behind As long as the oil was flowing, it appeared Chavez would be able to hold onto power. But as he grew ill, it appeared that so did his country. Continue reading... ANNE KOCH How to Fix Italy After the Divisive Vote Italians face the spectacle of continued political gridlock with the old elites, many tainted by corruption scandals, still holding the balance of power. What this shows more than anything else is a profound crisis in the relationship between the governed and their rulers. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.