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The Discovery That Should Have Changed the Cold War – Daniel Ellsberg on RAI Pt 9/13
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Trump Tariffs: The Madman Theory Applied to Economics (and what we should do about it)
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I am reminded, but not exactly of part of a quatrain from Khayam’s Rubaiyat after listening to more than 20 minutes of this interchange between the late Mr Panitch and Mr Hedges: Out each door I came as I went in.