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Dangerous nostalgia
Dangerous nostalgia by Derek Royden 708 words “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”? –?George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. The last two American presidents from the Republican Party share a sad distinction, if for different reasons. George W. Bush bears the ultimate responsibility for the loss of at least a million lives in Iraq, while
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Global Debt Is Beyond Control
Global Debt Is Beyond Control by Mel Gurtov 949 words The Washington Consensus The debt of developing countries is at “crisis” levels, the World Bank has just said. Supporting that view is a New York Times story December 16 headlined “The Debt Problem is Enormous, and the System for Fixing It is Broken.” The article goes on to
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Acting like we own it
Acting like we own it by Tom H. Hastings 566 words When I was in prison for my nonviolent anti-nuclear actions, one of my disciplines was to write something for publication daily–a letter to the editor, an opinion piece, a book review, or even mediocre poetry. One hundred percent of my writing was in opposition