I’ll never forget my first exposure to American political scientist Michael Parenti. I was in my late teens, and my education up to that point had been fairly neutral in terms of the United States’ position in the geopolitical world. …
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Americans aren’t too strong in nuanced thinking, i.e., dealing with shades of gray. It is for this reason that the word “socialism” is so terrifying to almost half of the nation. The United States is the only country in the …
A reader notes: South Florida Cubans, who are amongst the biggest enrollees and beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act per capita, anywhere in all the United States, voted en masse for the man whose stated goal is to destroy and …
With Halloween right around the corner, maybe it’s a good time to talk about things that scare us. And those things aren’t necessarily ghosts, chain saws, and meat-cleavers. Some of them are just words. Socialism, for example. Please read through the …
Whenever I come across things like this video, I wonder: a) Do this guy and I actually live in the same country? and b) Has the person making this assertion ever run so much as a lemonade stand? Reagan claims …
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In a comment on my recent piece on Bernie Sanders and the attack on our democracy represented by the U.S. Supreme Court decision Citizens United, one reader attacked Sanders as a communist. In response, another notes: There are some words you …
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Duke Brooks writes on Independent Vermont senator Citizens United opponent Bernie Sanders as follows: Sanders is, of course, not an independent. He is, IN FACT, a self-described socialist…. The opposition to Citizens United (granting corporations the right to spend as much …
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I suppose I should have seen this coming, but the traditional energy industry, apparently starting to feel the heat, has recently ratcheted up the volume of its ongoing public relations efforts against the renewables industry. I had a wonderful conversation …
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Wednesday morning as I was getting ready to conclude my participation in the Renewable Energy Finance Forum, I had a thought I wanted to share. It had been two-days of nitty-gritty financial talk — extremely precise language of tax lawyers …
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The results of political compromise — maybe by definition — are seldom satisfactory to anyone. But hasn’t this whole process recently gotten worse than ever before? The healthcare reform bill that the Obama administration put through was the product of a hammer and …
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