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Global Capitalism: The Solution to World Oppression and Poverty (Part 3 of 3)
by Andrew Bernstein
(September 30, 2005)
The freedom of the capitalist countries has created the most upwardly mobile societies of history, with hundreds of millions of human beings currently enjoying middle class comforts -- people whose ancestors were poor just one or two centuries ago, or, in some cases, just decades ago.
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Global Capitalism: The Solution to World Oppression and Poverty (Part 2 of 3)
by Andrew Bernstein
(September 29, 2005)
To fully understand capitalism -- its nature and genesis -- it is necessary to know the source of its fundamental principles. Where did the ideals of individual rights and political-economic freedom originate?
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Global Capitalism: The Solution to World Oppression and Poverty (Part 1 of 3)
by Andrew Bernstein
(September 28, 2005)
A proper understanding of capitalism is sorely lacking today. In order to gain such understanding, it is best to start with a true story that captures the spirit and sense of life of capitalism. Then it is possible to extract the deeper principles it embodies and the intellectual causes that give rise to it.
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G-8 Failure on a Global Scale
by Alan Caruba
(July 27, 2005)
Short-term, debt relief is simply testimony to the history of failure of foreign aid to Africa and will accomplish nothing. Long-term, the leaders of the G-8 nations and all others need to acknowledge that the greatest threat is Islam itself, mired in laws formulated in the seventh century AD. If they do not want to see the world plunged into chaos, they need to start now to address this threat.
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A Wave of Criticism
by Thomas Sowell
(January 7, 2005)
The catastrophic tsunami wave that has devastated so much of southern Asia has even killed more than a hundred people on the east coast of Africa, more than 4,000 miles away. Two questions: First, what country has done the most to help the victims of this natural disaster? Second, what country has been criticized most for not doing enough?
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Tsunami Disaster -- False Alternatives from Cultural Commentators
by Warren Ross
(January 3, 2005)
The tsunami disaster is generating a confusing cacaphony of voices from both the Left and the Right asserting what seem to be contradictory positions. Man caused the disaster say the environmentalists. Man is small compared to the awesome power of nature say voices on both the Left and the Right. Which is it? And how do we reconcile the two positions?
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Hating America's Success
by Daniel Pipes
(October 19, 2004)
"The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years."
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Blame America
by Larry Elder
(October 14, 2004)
Pass this article along to one of those "blame America" public school teachers.
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World Opinion Be Damned: America's Attempts to Appease "World Opinion" Are Depraved and Suicidal
by Alex Epstein
(June 4, 2004)
It is a testament to the perverse priorities of our politicians and journalists that the biggest American outcry over Abu Ghraib has been not about the gruesome decapitation of American Nicholas Berg by terrorists, but about the fact that many Arabs and Europeans are mad at us.
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The Reactionary Left
by Chip Joyce
(March 19, 2003)
The United States of America is clearly the only superpower. The European Union was an attempt to create a second superpower, but it is doubtful especially after the France-Germany debacle regarding Iraq and the fracturing of Europe.
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 Recommended Reading:
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
by Ayn Rand
Whether you are one of capitalism's alleged champions (Conservatives,
Libertarians, etc.), or actually one of its defenders (a rarity in today's
culture), or a part of the "humanitarian" lynch mob that seeks to burn a straw
man, or just a curious observer -- read Ayn Rand's
Capitalism: The Unknown
Ideal -- and then judge for yourself. |
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