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New! David Wingeate Pike`s A Spaniard`s Deathcamp Notebook
Eccolo! I am announcing the arrival of the fourth installment of my Pentad, A Spaniard`s Deathcamp Notebook. (You will notice that it is dedicated to the newest member of my family, Elisa, whose photo, at three days, is also attached.)
Also New! Hall Gardner`s World War Trump
World War Trump (Prometheus Books, 2018), by Hall Gardner argues that President Donald Trump`s "America First" policies, military buildup, and economic protectionism have reinforced a burgeoning Sino-Russian alliance while risking the breakup of NATO, the EU, and ASEAN by aggravating inter-Allied disputes. The possibility of a concerted Allied diplomatic engagement with Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea--to avert a global war--is discussed in relation to calls for Trump`s impeachment.
Health Care Law, Fast and Furious, Fuel Prices
(Randy Black, USA, 11/29/02 4:00 pm) In his response to my 29 March post about the US Supreme Court hearings coupled with the possibility that the court might declare the healthcare law unconstitutional, John Eipper labeled such a possib ...
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(Massoud Malek, USA, 11/29/02 4:00 pm) When our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they allowed people to buy and sell slaves; they felt that only white males had the right to participate in elections; and they never mentioned that o ...
Read moreSo Who`s Going to Paris in May?
(David Pike, France, 11/29/02 4:00 pm) This is slightly unusual, but a WAISer wrote to me a month ago, or less, and I accidentally deleted his message without replying to it. In his letter he said that he and his wife would be in Paris dur ...
Read moreUS Has "Third-World" Schools: Romney
(Randy Black, USA, 11/29/02 4:00 pm) Henry Levin (25 May) stated, "That Mitt Romney calls our education 'third world' shows his own ignorance of facts and paucity of integrity." I researched the char ...
Read moreDarwin`s *On the Origin of Species*
(Richard Hancock, USA, 11/29/02 4:00 pm) I have just completed reading Darwin's On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man. It was a rather boring experience, in that it is a sort of an encyclopedia of zoology and ...
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