WEI LING CHUA—It took China 15 years of negotiation with the US before the US allowed China to enter the WTO in 2000. During that time, the West was happy to transfer polluted and labor-intensive industries to China: they were happy to allow China to set up factories to assemble iPhones for Apple. Why not? Apple pays the price of a cappuccino to the Chinese factories for each iPhone assembled while selling the iPhones back to Chinese consumers and the rest of the world for hundreds of dollars per unit of iPhone.
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DEBORAH ARMSTRONG—As for organized religion, Regis doesn’t miss it. “I guess I’m an atheist,” he observes. “Or an agnostic. I don’t deny that there’s a force in the universe. And I’m a trained theologian. I swallowed the whole thing, hook, line, and sinker. But, over the years, I began to reexamine all of it. And it just didn’t make sense. And, what I do believe, and I follow in my life is, I believe in the radical Jesus. I believe in his message of love and forgiveness, Period. There was nothing else. He didn’t create a church. He didn’t invent the dogma. He didn’t invent the rules. Those were all created years and centuries later by men.”
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JIM KAVANAGH—For whatever opportunistic reasons and however fragmentarily, they have opened the door for questioning the “payroll tax/trust fund” structure, which is actually a weak and failing line of defense for SS&M that must be abandoned. The better response of the left is not to reflexively reject what they are saying, but to say “You’re right. The tax isn’t necessary,” and take the discussion in a much more productive direction.
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EDITOR—South Carolina is justly famous for its beautiful cities and gorgeous women, but the state also carries the dubious honor of sending to Congress some of the most repugnant and vile politicians ever to disgrace that forum. That’s something of a distinction, actually, considering the level of filth that characterises the entire US political class.
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ERIC ZUESSE—[The formally known ‘historian”, but in reality imperialist propagandist] Timothy Snyder comes forth there with one lie after another, while McGovern fails to call any of it a lie, and only argues that Russia’s position is more reasonable than America’s is. So, the really core issues (pertaining to Ukraine’s having the nearest border to The Kremlin) are hidden from the public, instead of exposed to the public. The most core issue of all, in this matter, is whether what had happened to Ukraine in February 2014 was a democratic revolution as Yale’s Timothy Snyder maintains, or instead was a U.S. coup that installed an American rabid anti-Russian dictatorship taking over the country on behalf of the U.S. Government that McGovern fails even to assert to have been the case — though it was the actual situation there.
