Photo by Scott Lowe The war on terror unleashed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attack has led to almost two decades of unchecked militarism. We are spending more money on our military than at any time in history. Endless wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria and elsewhere are
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Canadian Dimension: It’s the Green New Deal or Else
I suppose we all owe UCLA economist and Hoover Institution senior fellow Lee Ohanian a debt of gratitude for telling us how it is. The “free market” propagandist recently took to the pages of The Hill, a Washington, D.C., journal for political insiders, to explain that the holy laws of
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Photo by Luis Sinco “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.” The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists this year advanced the hands of its ominous timepiece by 30 seconds, to two and a half minutes to midnight — the closest the clock
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