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Our Goose Is Cooked

February 1, 2012

ow many minutes has it been since you heard someone call this the greatest country in the world? How many seconds? Did you agree? Ooops. Was it you saying that? It used to be arguably true. We got accustomed to telling ourselves it was so. We believed it. Many of us, most of us still [...]

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All Fall Down

February 17, 2011

President Eisenhower, in his farewell address, warned us of the dangers of the military-industrial complex. Was he right? The US spends more on “defense” than all other countries combined. According to official reports from 2003 and 2005, we have 737 military bases in 63 countries outside of the US and its territories. This is intentionally [...]

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Yes, We Have No Bananas

January 9, 2009

Please forgive me. I am doing something I have only done once before. I have copy and pasted a commentary from someone else. Johann Hari is a British journalist. Among other awards, he is the youngest ever winner of the George Orwell Award. This is the pre-eminent award for British political writing. He writes for [...]

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