Western world

A RISING TIDE OF POPULISM… (…as a highly infectious form of political botulism) Whenever there’s a massive surge of collective discontent with the status quo in any society, that discontent is often expressed in several ways. Unfortunately those ways rarely

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IN THE CONTINUUM OF HUMAN AFFAIRS… (…it’s that constant seesaw between cultural progression and cultural regression which causes conflicts) The world’s condition today seems to be one of never-ending economic, cultural, and political conflicts and upheavals of one kind or

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THE CHINA SYNDROME IS NOT VIRTUAL…BUT REAL (a classic case of economic acid reflux combined with divisive internal political power plays) We make no pretense of being an expert about history (although it’s been a very strong area of interest

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