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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

LINCOLN WAS WRONG: THE EASE OF FOOLING MOST OF THE PEOPLE MOST OF THE TIME

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November 21, 2007 NOTE: PLEASE ALSO SEE MY LATER COMMENT ON AN IMPORTANT NEW PIECE OF INFORMATION, BY FAR THE MOST IMPORTANT WE HAVE REC...
Sunday, July 29, 2007

NIGHTMARES OF AMERICAN MEDICAL CARE

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July 29, 2007 NIGHTMARES OF AMERICAN MEDICAL CARE With the release of Michael Moore‘s new film, Sicko, it seems appropriate to offer a summa...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

HOW TERROR HAS LOST ITS MEANING

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July 12, 2007 HOW TERROR HAS LOST ITS MEANING Why does terror dominate our headlines and the attention of our governments going on six years...
Monday, June 25, 2007

CHINA'S NEW WEAPONS

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June 25, 2007 CHINA’S NEW WEAPONS This is an excerpt from What's It All About? The Decline of the American Empire by John Chuckman publi...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007

MY NEW BOOK, JUST OFF THE PRESSES

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Available from Magpie Books, London.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007

THE LIKELY HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WAR IN IRAQ

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May 9, 2007 THE LIKELY HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WAR IN IRAQ Names like Haditha, Fallujah, Samarra, and Abu Ghraib are likely destined ...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

POLITICIANS MAKING FOOLS OF US ALL: THE CASE OF ETHANOL

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April 24, 2007 POLITICIANS MAKING FOOLS OF US ALL The Case of Ethanol as Motor Fuel Ethanol has always been a poor choice as a fuel, but the...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

A PAUSE IN COLUMNS WHILE WRITING A BOOK

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Emerson said it was the greatest honor to know that strangers actually read his words, and I very much share his sentiment. I have been comm...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

AS I LAY DYING

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November 9, 2006 AS I LAY DYING Sadly, little coming from America's politics can fire my enthusiasm. During my lifetime, America has bus...
Saturday, October 28, 2006

CANADA'S EMBARRASSING FOREIGN MINISTER

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October 26, 2006 CANADA'S EMBARRASSING FOREIGN MINISTER A Man of Poor Character and Thin Talents Were a senior member of any national go...
Friday, October 20, 2006

ISRAEL, PALESTINE, AND CANADA

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October 21, 2006 ISRAEL, PALESTINE, AND CANADA Canada's Thirty-Percent Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, just made a speech at a B'nai...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

NORTH KOREA'S BOMB

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October 12, 2006 NORTH KOREA'S BOMB You might think from all the political noise that something extraordinary happened when North Korea ...
Saturday, October 07, 2006

A SUBTLE FORM OF FASCISM

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October 7, 2006 A SUBTLE KIND OF FASCISM The word fascism is used a lot, often pejoratively. The image that immediately comes to mind is Mus...