(John Eipper, USA, 05/23/22 8:34 am)
Michael Frank writes:
In response to Tor Guimaraes (May 23rd), the rational view is that money isn't a good in itself, but the product of commerce. And that production and consumpti
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China as Leader of BRICS in Virtual Summit of Foreign Ministers
(Tor Guimaraes, USA, 05/23/22 4:11 am)
As we discuss the various social political issues underlying the conflicts within our beloved nation, the effects from decades of living in an alternative reality continue to play out. Yesterday even
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Voice of America, BBC, Radio Tirana: National Shortwave Broadcasts Compared
(Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 05/23/22 3:28 am)
Our esteemed moderator asked: "Eugenio, what do you remember about Radio Tirana?"
Many years have gone by, but let me offer an evaluation of some of the various national broadcasts:
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Posts on 05/22/22
Northern Ireland and Trade: The Squabbles Continue
(Patrick Mears, -Germany, 05/22/22 1:34 pm)
Please accept my apologies for being late in responding to John E's questions posed at the end of my most recent post on the recent political "troubles" involving at their center Norther
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Portuguese PM in Kyiv; Yuri Shevchuk Protests Putin`s War
(Mendo Henriques, Portugal, 05/22/22 5:23 am)
Saturday, May 21, the Portuguese Prime Minister, after meetings in Kyiv with President Zelensky and Prime Minister Shmyhal, announced 250 million euros in aid to Ukraine. Not a bad sum for small count
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"Originalism" vs "Living Constitution" in Constitutional Interpretation
(Cameron Sawyer, USA, 05/22/22 4:44 am)
JE commented on May 19th: "I shouldn't cross pens with legal scholars, but Brown v Board of Education seems to have relied on one ‘penumbra' in its decision: nowhere in t
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Posts on 05/21/22
The State Generates the Nation, and Not Vice Versa
(José Ignacio Soler, Venezuela, 05/21/22 6:01 pm)
It took me a while to assimilate and respond to Eugenio Battaglia's post about countries and nations (May 18th). The concept of "nation" to which Eugenio refers seems useful to hig
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For Supreme Court, the Robes Do Not Transform the Person
(Francisco Ramirez, USA, 05/21/22 7:50 am)
I wrote this in 2016:
"The next President of the US is likely to put forward one or two nominees. These are likely to be less socially conservative and more supportive of some gun control l
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Listening to Radio Free Europe/Voice of America on the Open Seas
(Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 05/21/22 4:17 am)
What a nice remembrance from my friend Anthony J. Candil on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
When I was a young cadet/officer on ships on the open seas, the radio was my companion on the bridge.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
(Boris Volodarsky, Austria, 05/21/22 3:46 am)
I first visited Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in 1989 when it was still in the Englischer Garten at the centre of Munich. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s it relocated to Pr
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