I argue that for non-English speaking countries the English language is an opening to the outside world, but for native speakers of English it is a barrier. The US population is largely ignorant about the outside world, which the Iranian government might be using as a model.
Congress abdicated its responsibility for war making to the executive a decade and half ago; not the executive sources it out to the military. What could go wrong?
Gary, you might use the box upper right on the screen and insert 'Georgia' and 'Ukraine' to see some of the articles that have appeared on Informed Comment.
That would give you a better picture of those two countries and their situations.
Enjoyed reading your post and agree (mostly).
While Great Charles did indeed spread learning, and by doing so possibly rescued some of the "pagan" things from forever being lost, the pagan past of his own people didn't fare so well. If the recording of the Germanic mythology and legends that he commissioned was actually done, it was lost during the tenure of his son. A period of darkness seems to have followed the Carolingian Renaissance.
Fortunately the likes of writers like Paulus Diaconus were able to hide some of the old stuff in their histories.
This is one of those “Let me get this straight” moments.
We've spent trillions of treasury and spilled oceans of blood for geo-political purposes or financial something or other, or some damned thing.
Meanwhile The Empire is helping The Kingdom to make matters worse in the poorest part of the ME, for reasons no one can identify, and supporting factions in Iraq and Syria that are not only fighting against each other, but supposedly against ideologies promoted by The Kingdom.
And we seem to be poised to choose between a POTUS who couldn't find The Kingdom on a map, even though he's been there, and one who assures us that “we have to keep doing what works."
It's a real shame. I get most of my news online, but I do enjoy an hour or so early mornings with my coffee and dog in lap. I suppose I can move the dog over a bit and boot up the laptop.
I argue that for non-English speaking countries the English language is an opening to the outside world, but for native speakers of English it is a barrier. The US population is largely ignorant about the outside world, which the Iranian government might be using as a model.
This is an extremely important issue. I've been following Herman Daly for years.J
Congress abdicated its responsibility for war making to the executive a decade and half ago; not the executive sources it out to the military. What could go wrong?
Gary, you might use the box upper right on the screen and insert 'Georgia' and 'Ukraine' to see some of the articles that have appeared on Informed Comment.
That would give you a better picture of those two countries and their situations.
Giants once walked the Earth.
Simply adjusted for inflation the 1978 $400,000,000 would be over 14 billion today.
Enjoyed reading your post and agree (mostly).
While Great Charles did indeed spread learning, and by doing so possibly rescued some of the "pagan" things from forever being lost, the pagan past of his own people didn't fare so well. If the recording of the Germanic mythology and legends that he commissioned was actually done, it was lost during the tenure of his son. A period of darkness seems to have followed the Carolingian Renaissance.
Fortunately the likes of writers like Paulus Diaconus were able to hide some of the old stuff in their histories.
This is one of those “Let me get this straight” moments.
We've spent trillions of treasury and spilled oceans of blood for geo-political purposes or financial something or other, or some damned thing.
Meanwhile The Empire is helping The Kingdom to make matters worse in the poorest part of the ME, for reasons no one can identify, and supporting factions in Iraq and Syria that are not only fighting against each other, but supposedly against ideologies promoted by The Kingdom.
And we seem to be poised to choose between a POTUS who couldn't find The Kingdom on a map, even though he's been there, and one who assures us that “we have to keep doing what works."
Why is the Democracy Spring protest essentially blacked out in the US media? I learned of it on RT.
Aljazeera America (ALJAM) but unfortunately it's shutting down in April.
It's a real shame. I get most of my news online, but I do enjoy an hour or so early mornings with my coffee and dog in lap. I suppose I can move the dog over a bit and boot up the laptop.