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Subscribe now Only a few times in my life has oil led the news. Otherwise, outside of oil company profit statements, rarely is oil news, puzzling for a fuel that defined modern life for a century. The first time oil spilled across the front pages, there used to be these
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The Mexican state of Veracruz, Xalapa-Enriquez its capital, is best known for the commencement of two great campaigns which irreparably altered the course of Mexican and world history. Over three centuries apart, the two military marches launched from the same place on Veracruz's coast. In 1519, the Spaniards
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Subscribe now The fog of war they call it, where truth, a precious commodity at all times, well actually, truth is always so rare it can never be called a commodity, but when the bombs are exploding, truth's a very, very difficult to thing find, certainly in the
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Subscribe now Above is a nice interview from 1975 with the Good Doctor Thompson and the journalist Harrison Salisbury. Salisbury is lost to history, so too journalism I suppose. He was best known for his work in the late 40s and early 50s as a correspondent in Moscow, sparing with
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Subscribe now Part of the challenge facing humanity in the 21st century is the loss of old ideas that united us. Many of these concepts, whether myths, historical traditions, religions, or political values defined distinct cultures limited by geography. However, despite numerous superficial differences, many of these ideas held deeper
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Subscribe now Yesterday, it was good to see the Wall Street Journal push down their warmongering, if only briefly, and put the money beat on top. After all, the Fed raising rates and promising to keep pushing up the rest of the year is big news. Except for a couple
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Subscribe now With the caveat of if allowed, when the future looks back on our era, political failure will be its defining characteristic. Historians will cite numerous reasons for this deficiency, none unprecedented in scope or degree. As always, there will be intriguing specific differences, along with the not so
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Subscribe now Unfortunately, I just discovered Lee “Scratch” Perry died last summer. Not sure how I missed it, but he deserves recognition. Perry is responsible as any other single person for the sound of much music heard today. He was madly influential in developing reggae and then what became rap,
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Webster: robust adjective 1D: capable of performing without failure under a wide range of conditions In the last few years, we found, and now seemingly look to explore to the point of exhaustion, the present corporate globalization system is not very robust. Centrally controlled and structured systems, dependent on certain
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Subscribe now Oil hit a $100 a barrel last week, touching a $140 last night. The price of oil first hit a $100 in 2007, preceding and in some ways precipitating the financial crisis of 2008. When oil hit a hundred, the US economy went into recession in the last
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For some reason FT's is doing these Turner black & white colorizations of Ukraine photos: Had to do a double take: This is Husker Du's 1984 Zen Arcade and that's Saint Paul, Minneapolis not 2022 Russian bombed Ukraine. A very, very fine collection of
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Subscribe now In the last decades, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life has been pigeonholed in a way precluding a true understanding of his legacy. A radical, thoughtful, and purposeful life of action has been whittled down to one or two statements from one speech. This is not simply