Get Over Your Industrial Complex
From the monthly archives:
This week’s NYTimes Sunday Magazine had a silly/destructive article titled “Is Afghanistan a Narco State?” Quick answer: obviously yes. It was written by Thomas Schweich, a professor at Wash U and a drug warrior extraordinaire who seems to believe that advancing America’s failed drug war policies in Afghanistan is more important than stabilizing that troubled [...]
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We spend a lot of time talking about democracy but very little time actually defining it. Democracy comes from the Greek words ‘demos’ (people) and ‘kratos’ (power.) For many centuries after the collapse of the Athenian democracy and the Greek and Roman Republics, democracy (people power) was synonymous with mob rule, chaos and insecurity. Many [...]
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