Author says U.S. needs to win back respect of world; At War with Ourselves: Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World by Michael HirshWilliams, Kam
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2, 3). In Japan, mortality from ischemic heart disease and cancer was originally low, while that from cerebrovascular disease—which was extremely high—has steadily declined to a level comparable with that of Western countries. This pattern greatly contributed to Japan’s achieving the world’s ...
But not enough. See if you can guess when this was written: And in the past five years we have hardly seen any real vin ordinaire (by which I mean a common, inexpensive table wine) sold in America. The humble gallon jug virtuallydisappeared . . . from our wine merchants’ shelves; in...
Air Americawas the lifeblood of the CIA’s Laos operation, transporting personnel, food and supplies to and from remote bases. As a former CIA officer explained: “We’d negotiate with the tribal groups. If you don’t make a deal with them, give them aid, the communists will do it, an...
Almost everyone at the sauna agreed, even 82-year-old Hong In-su. A child during the Korean War in the 1950s, she said she was anti-nuclear weapons, before reluctantly concluding they were a necessary evil: "Other countries are developing theirs, so I don't see how we can go on with...
aircraft, “something you can only do with a formal ally under normal circumstances”, Muraviev said. He added that the exchange of operational data, likely to be occurring during patrols in which Russian and Chinese nuclear-capable bombers fly together near Japan, also suggested “strategic ...
But the statement that really jumped out at me was “The markets, predictably, were overjoyed,” from the first passage I quoted. Note how the statement is dripping with sarcasm. You’d think it was uttered by someone like Paul Krugman. But no, it wasForbesmagazine, the self-styled “ca...
One more reason for China to continuously buy U.S. Treasuries is the gigantic size of the U.S. trade deficit with China. The U.S. monthly deficit with China in August 2024 was approximately $27.9 billion, and with that large amount of money involved, Treasuries are probably the best avai...
The Pearl Harbor attack against the United States was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, at 7:48 a.m. local time, eighty years ago to this day. That attack led to America’s entry into World War II in the Pacific and European theaters. Th...