If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.
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Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.William Greider
In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.
William Greider
If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.
William Greider
Modern Americans are remarkably capable people, skillful and inventive in many ways, but they are not so good at talking to one another across their vast differences of social class and economic status.
William Greider
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
William Greider
As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.
William Greider
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