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It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.
Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living... →
The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties... →
If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end... →
The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much... →
A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them... →
The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval... →
We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will... →
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire... →
Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.
Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.
If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.
Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.
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