Author: populist

A Letter to Two Chaplains

…How can we in good conscience call our soldiers Peace Keepers? Are we serious when we say that they kill and destroy in distant lands so as to preserve democracy and freedom for us? Can our military people be so...

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What’s Another Billion To Bush?

…The US must borrow more than $2 billion per day from foreigners to finance its huge trade deficits. In 2005, for example, there was a record deficit of $805 billion. And now global economists tell us that Medicare will go...

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Responsibility and War Powers

…In general, people don’t wake up in the morning with the desire to drop bombs on other people in foreign countries that they do not know, have never injured them in any way, and have never threatened them or their...

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Global Capitalism: the Scourge of Democracy

…Few would argue that the world we live in is unjustly shared. But we also know that the walk towards social and economic justice is arduous and long, only doable in measured steps, not in jolts. Shifts in people’s...

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