Thomas Harrington They are the stewards Of the whole universe Masters by force Commanders without laws. […] They eat everything They eat everything They eat everything And leave nothing. José “Zeca” Afonso, “Os Vampiros” (1963) Fifteen years ago, a good Uruguayan friend said to me, “Tom, we are at the end of an era, not …
Thomas Harrington The 1970s marked an important turning point in the history of Western democracies. Having led their populations to the obscene carnage of World War II in reaction to Nazi aggression, the elites of North America and their non-communist European subjects understood — above all, for pragmatic reasons linked to the need to rebuild …
Thomas Harrington Ready for another rendition of the “no one could have known” routine made famous by all the self-proclaimed liberals who shamelessly went along with the Neo-Cons planned and lie-supported destruction of the Middle East nearly two decades ago? As in “no one could have known” that by shutting down life as we know …
