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Myopic Extremists Take the Lead – An Analysis
The electromagnetic spectrum is a window on the real world in all its vast variety. In wavelength it ranges from 0.1 nanometers for gamma rays to long wave infrared …
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Obama, Go Big, Long and Global
Washington - President Obama has only one option as he ponders a world economy teetering on the edge: He needs to go big, go long and go global. …
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When Conflict Gets Impersonally Personal
Charles Sumner. (Photo: Matthew Brady / Wikimedia) In the field of conflict resolution, we define a consensual conflict as one that is conducted about some division of …
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Lemmingly, We Roll Along
There has been unusually wide (and for the most part supportive) reaction to my article of Aug, 7 on Afghanistan, “More U.S. Soldiers Die in Vain,” which was picked …
How Disney Magic and the Corporate Media Shape Youth Identity in the Digital Age
Youth are now assaulted by a never-ending proliferation of marketing strategies that colonize their consciousness and daily lives.
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High-Stakes Blackmail: “Malefactors of Great Wealth“
(Photo: Avelino Maestas) When I recalled that phrase recently, I was sure it had been coined by Franklin D. Roosevelt against the Big Business opponents of the …
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Economics is Always the First Casualty of Politics
President Barack Obama meets with senior advisors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Aug. 12, 2011. (Photo: Chuck Kennedy / White House) Both the past …
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Saudi Arabia vs. the Arab Spring
Rugiya Hassan joins the protest with her son Hamza Jouad, 5, in Pearl Square in Manama, Bahrain, on February 23, 2011. (Photo: Andrea Bruce / The New York Times) …
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How Washington Could Create Jobs Right Now
(Photo: Brian Talbot / Flickr) I like to ask friends about the oddest summer job they ever had. One talks about how he used to don a …
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Bush III Takes His Stand in South Carolina
It was a hero America needed, a hero central to his time, a man whose personality might suggest contradiction and mysteries which could reach into the alienated circuits of …