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Playing With Fire: US Elites and Our Deteriorating Social Contract

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

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The conservative elites who exercise definitive control over economic and political affairs here in the United States may well be dangerously overplaying their hand. Apparently uncaring and oblivious to the needs of their less fortunate counterparts huddled far below them in the working classes, they are engaged in a full scale assault on the nation’s [...]

Nancy Pelosi's Smile

Saturday, October 10, 2009

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I read an article about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi this evening that reminded me of an encounter I had with her a couple years ago at a San Francisco restaurant. The article focused on her dominant position at the pinnacle of power in Washington, D.C., and the scowl she leveled on Joe [...]

Torturers and Their Tortured Defense of the Indefensible

Sunday, April 26, 2009

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The firestorm of political controversy engendered by President Obama’s release of four Bush administration torture memos is not likely to subside any time soon. Moreover, there is every good reason to assume that the intensity of debate about torture, and other abuses commonly perpetrated abroad in numerous instances by U.S. personnel during the Bush era, [...]

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THE RIVER OF NO RETURN

Among histories of the civil rights movement of the 1960's there are few personal narratives better than this one. Besides being an insider's account of the rise and fall of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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THE JIANGSU MIRACLE

The Jiangsu Miracle - Modernizing China's Most Economically Developed Province by Author Robert L. Terrell.
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