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Of course we Americans have been historically illiterate from the beginning. This has been (as the Chinese might say) both crisis and opportunity -- or, more precisely, both our charm and our curse...We've ignored the past -- not such a wise practice,...
Tags: Americanism, China, Shanghai, Predictably Irrational, President Jimmy Carter's Moral Equivalent of War Speech
I have thought very carefully before adding my voice to the discussion about the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace. What I've discovered is that few, if any, have written or talked about the irony of the award, concentrating on whether Obama "deserved" the prize.It...
Tags: Americanism, Nobel, peace, war
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold." William Butler Yeats wrote those words in his brilliant 1920 poem, "The Second Coming," which may be better known for words closer to the end. "What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward...
Tags: W.B. Yeats, Ronald Reagan, Grover Norquist, Abraham Lincoln, Huey Long, Americanism, economy, future
Dear President Obama:I am a citizen of the United States. I am one of your constituents. Since you have billed yourself as a public servant, one who is honored and even grateful for the chance to be "Leader of the Free World", you owe me. Yes,...
Tags: new+world+order, Americanism, change, community, corporatism, democracy, ecology, essay, eugenics, FEMA, hopelessness, martial+law, military, peace, post-democracy, post-politics, principles, responsibilities, rights, techno-fascism, values, war, war+crimes, weapons