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“Control its own energy future”
In light of the increasingly potent coming age of US energy independence, The outgoing National Security Adviser, Thomas Donilon has written in Foreign Affairs about the need for energy security .… more →
Order and Tradition
"Control its own energy future"
wrote 9 hours ago: In light of the increasingly potent coming age of US energy independence, The outgoing National Secu … more →
Where Has America Gone?
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wrote 1 day ago: It seems one can hardly watch television anymore without the bombardment of profanity, sexual conten … more →
What competition? – Part II
wrote 2 days ago: In the second of the series looking at the challengers to the current American lead order, an articl … more →
Radical court decisions blamed on disintegrating society
wrote 2 days ago: Son of atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair: 3-generation stability obliterated SOURCE Did the radica … more →
What competition? - Part I
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wrote 4 days ago: Two articles have recently been written on the BRICS but in the context of South Africa. The first a … more →
Aimed at a different audience
wrote 1 week ago: An article in Foreign Affairs has argued that China’s “soft power” is not aimed at … more →
They Say They Want a Revolution
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wrote 1 week ago: By Scott Locklin According to Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind survey, 29% of US citizens … more →
Things Change. They Just Do.
wrote 1 week ago: E. J. Dionne has a piece in Commonweal about the decline of democracy in America and Europe. Hard-da … more →
Americans are less happy.
wrote 2 weeks ago: Friends, I have said this for years. Americans are less happy. Time only has data going back a coupl … more →
The Age of Authoritarianism: Government of the Politicians, by the Military, for the Corporations
wrote 3 weeks ago: By John Whitehead “[F]orce alone cannot make us safe. We cannot use force everywhere that a radical … more →
911 Dispatcher Tells Woman About To Be Sexually Assaulted There Are No Cops To Help Her Due To Budget Cuts
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wrote 3 weeks ago: CBS Seattle An Oregon woman was told by a 911 dispatcher that authorities wouldn’t be able be able t … more →
Chinese military VI
wrote 4 weeks ago: In the final article in the series on the state of the Chinese military, that has dealt with the gen … more →
Chinese military V
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wrote 4 weeks ago: In the latest of a series on the Chinese military, an article notes the red tape that hinders Chines … more →
"Give Washington time"
wrote 1 month ago: “In a nod to how common debt-limit battles have become in recent years, Treasury Secretary Jac … more →
Chinese military IV
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wrote 1 month ago: As part of the series studying the Chinese military, and article has been published last month notin … more →
Sino-American war?
wrote 1 month ago: An article has been published dealing with the possibility of a Chinese-American war. Theorically th … more →
Lockdown, USA: The Boston marathon manhunt
wrote 1 month ago: by Henry A. Giroux A tragedy of errors: nobody knows any more who is who. The smoke of the explosion … more →
Chinese military III
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wrote 1 month ago: Following on from the previous post about China’s military and article from May 2012 opens not … more →
Chinese military II
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wrote 1 month ago: As part of the series on the Chinese military, an article, “Rotting from Within” from th … more →
