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The Owl of Minerva flies high over Helsinki
by Lawrence McMahon The true irony of the Arab Spring is that, whilst the Arabs openly declare their allegiance to the universal of political democracy, the Europeans move toward the particularity of...
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The Owl of Minerva flies high over Wasilla, Alaska
by Lawrence McMahon As the most common interpretation of Middle Eastern history goes, the Arab countries’ defeat in the 1967 war with Israel marked the beginning of the end of secular Arab nationalism,...
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The Debt Ceiling and the Holy Alliance of Magical Creatures
by Lawrence McMahon Last week, the website Business Insider ran a story with the apocalyptic title “40 Facts That Prove The Working Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out.” Wow, that’s strongly...
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The U.S. Debt Rating: Downgraded into Mysticism
by Lawrence McMahon Standard and Poor’s downgrades the U.S. debt rating, the Dow Jones goes into a wild tailspin, and meanwhile Italy enters its own debt crisis, and stock markets in Asia and the...
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Washington, DC: The Recession-Proof Fantasy
by Lawrence McMahon Take a trip to Washington, DC. Ask your average upper-middle-class government or non-profit employee, and you will be certain to hear the common mantra that DC has weathered the...
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The Arab Spring arrives in New York, sort of
by Lawrence McMahon You would have to be blind not to see what is happening in the world right now, everywhere, as a whole. All within the past few months, we have the Arab Spring, riots in the U.K.,...
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The Approaching Revolution
by Troy Clavileño When we announced the establishment of Selecting Stones back in February 2011, the world had only just discovered that it was pregnant with another revolution, and while it is now too...
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Why are there so many Ron Paul supporters at Occupy Wall Street?
by Bruno Fournier For the past several weeks, the contingent of Ron Paul supporters at the Occupy Wall Street protest has made its presence felt. They form a small minority of the mass at Zuccotti...
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Slavoj Zizek Has Nothing To Say
Every now and then, if you can restrict him to a Twitter-length sound bite, popular Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek has something interesting to say. But when faced with the actual, real world...
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Hugo Chavez is Dead and the Dow Jones hits Record High
by Frank W. Strauch A brief update on today’s headlines. Hugo Chavez died of cancer this afternoon. Speculation has been running wild as to the state of the Venezuelan president’s health ever since he...
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