What John Morley wrote over 100 years ago about Westminster is still true: "Most mistakes in politics arise from flat and invincible disregard of the plain maxim that it is possible for the same thing to be and not to be."
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Orientation I returned to college 20 years after dropping out in the late 1960s. After a couple of weeks in the political science class I was taking, I challenged the instructor by asking: “Where are the Marxists and anarchists in your presentation of political science?” Here is what I was told. “Marxists and anarchists are […]
ORIENTATION Why do political science and neoclassical economics go in one ear and out the other? A human being who has a fully integrated social body understands that economics is about a social system of circulation of goods and services. In other words, provisioning for the population. Politics is the collective process of evaluating and […]
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April 30, 2013
Sweden: A Special NATO Partner?
Ryan C. Hendrickson
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[I]t was during NATO’s Operation Unified Protector in Libya that Sweden reached a new level of partnership, which has no parallels among partner states.
"A Badge of Honor"By Michael Hoffmanwww.revisionisthistory.orgMorris Dees' Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled a Catholic organization a "hate group" because the Catholics hosted "speakers who have given lectures on Jewish and Masonic plots for world domination" or who have "members who share that view."This is thought-policing, and it is intended to intimidate freedom of thought and scholarly inquiry, and harm the fu
But in several directions at the moment we can see the unfolding of one of the hidden patterns shaping human affairs, which years ago I called “the fantasy cycle”. It is a pattern that recurs in personal lives, in politics, in history – and in storytelling. When we embark on a course of action which is unconsciously driven by wishful thinking, all may seem to go well for a time, in what may be called the “dream stage”.
