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Some of my best friends

6 October 2008

are Swedish. And one of them read my last post, and commented.  Actually, she did so over on Facebook, where my blog posts are imported as notes, but I liked what she said enough to bring it back over here. Her point is that Engdahl didn’t mean cultural hegemony as much as he meant linguistic [...]

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Nobel judge: U.S. too ignorant to compete

30 September 2008

Now I’m not the biggest fan of the USA.   Let’s put it another way:  I’m not a blind fan of the USA, and a lot of what the US thinks is great about itself I would question. But never would I question the greatness of that nation.   The arrogance of this Swede, though, [...]

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