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The sky isn&#8217;t falling, exactly. America isn&#8217;t on a fast track to irrelevance. Even in a state of total neglect, we could probably shamble along as a disheveled superpower for a few more decades.
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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One thing about the Internet in China stands out more and more. And that is the evident transparency of quite a bit of ongoing debate about China, what Western journalists say about it and the CW emanating from the usual suspects in the US punditaucracy. It&#8217;s illuminating to consider this discussion about Tom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertg69.wordpress.com&blog=20799&post=4261&subd=robertg69&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[while the US is stagnating because of the current paralysis of its governance, which he labels our one-party democracy. His column in today&#8217;s NY Times is a devastating commentary about this gawdawful situation and he sums it up this way:
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Talk about irony used to make a point about his home town! Here&#8217;s what this guy said about Vancouver:
But the most depressing place in the world today is Vancouver , British Columbia.
More by Arthur Salm: Health care in Canada &#124; Schoolbrary concept as dumb as its name
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My wife, a Chinese citizen and legal immigrant living in Canada, is firmly convinced that most things are better and much cheaper in the US than Canada. Some of what she believes may be true but voter registration and voting is manifestly much better and fairer in Canada than in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertg69.wordpress.com&blog=20799&post=1991&subd=robertg69&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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That&#8217;s the heading of Nick Kristof&#8217;s column in the NY Times this morning. Meanwhile Frank Rich writes about that special technique attributable to GWB and his dark political amenuensis, Karl Rove, TRUTHINESS. But invented by that renowned satirist of weird US political language, Steve Colbert.
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		<title>And here is the real riposte from the Americans</title>
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They couldn&#8217;t and can&#8217;t do much more than say and write and bunch of words about Georgia&#8217;s dire straits. But here is there recent riposte to Russia&#8217;s aggressive actions in Georgia and harsh words about its neighbour states and their connection with NATO.
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		<description><![CDATA[The image says it all, but the source is hardly believable and very troubling.


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		<title>Today I have been introduced to John Pilger&#8217;s harsh opinions</title>
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about many aspects of our Western political and economic worlds. Here is a link to a  wordle created with the words in a recent essay comparing the politics of Robt Kennedy and Barack O
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		<title>Juan Cole &amp; his Napoleon connection</title>
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Juan Cole has been and is recognized for the quality of his blogging about Iraq and the Middle East. Today I discovered that unsurprisingly he has a Napoleon connection. This is not surprising to me because Napoleon led an exceptional expedition to Egypt in the late 1790s.
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