Opinion

                
  • Some modest advice for the Democratic candidate

    Some modest advice for the Democratic candidate

    August 1, 2003

    Opinion I’d like to offer some friendly advice to whoever ends up as the Democratic Party candidate for President – a word or two to the wise, so to speak. First off, a history lesson: In...

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  • The military privatization scam

    The military privatization scam

    August 1, 2003

    Opinion Here in sunny San Diego, a petty officer from Chicago told me sailors now have to pay $7 a day from their basic allowance for subsistence (BAS) for the luxury of eating that good ol’...

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  • How globalization threatens democracy in India

    How globalization threatens democracy in India

    July 25, 2003

    Ending the colonial rule of British imperialism, India won its independence and established itself as a sovereign, socialist, democratic republic on January 26, 1950. In the last half century India experienced three wars, two year-long national...

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  • Behind Californias recall lies a Bush

    Behind Californias recall lies a Bush

    July 25, 2003

    The current drive for a recall of California’s Democratic governor, Gray Davis, has this financially strapped state – the seventh largest economy in the world – in a political tizzy. But with all the rhetoric over...

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  • Berlusconi and totalitarianism

    Berlusconi and totalitarianism

    July 25, 2003

    The New York Times reports that Italian students and teachers are protesting the inclusion in high school graduation exams of an essay question about “terror and repression in totalitarian systems,” which the question defines as “communism,...

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