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BP and US
There are those who feel virtuous going out of their way not to buy gas at stations supplied by BP oil. That in the end may not be where our energies could do the most good. We’re so busy blaming BP we’re blinding ourselves to facts we need to be conscious of. We’re forgetting that…
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Valuing Democracy
We’re accustomed to thinking that our system of free enterprise is embedded in capitalism and fed by democracy. We naturally deduce that this would apply to other nations as well. But what about China? China has robust free enterprise and is neither democratic nor capitalistic in the way the West is. China’s economic success and…
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Remembering Arms Spending
Remembering Arms SpendingMost of us have never heard of SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, a Swedish think tank whose annual yearbook tracks military spending across the world. Their latest edition tells us that worldwide, arms spending has risen %5.9 for 2008-2009 and almost doubled in the past decade. We now spend $1.6 trillion.…
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