Tag: USA
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From the Cold War to the ICE Age: The US Abdication from the Free World
From Iraq to Kabul and from foreign battlefields to American streets the United States has drifted from law to force. This post traces how post Cold War hubris 9/11 trauma and Trump era doctrines have hollowed out the rule based order leaving the free world leaderless and at risk. Three and a half decades after…
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The Wisdom of Tomatoes
I saw this meme the other day that had a couple of paraprosdokian phrases and particularly liked one of them. It said “Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” Often life has its ways of coughing up situations that are full of tomato conundrums. Take the…
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I dreamt a dream
It’s been a long while since the last Zolabyte. When my friend put this status up on facebook with his reflections on the scandal that just hit FIFA and the possible links to global politics I could not but ask for his permission to reproduce it here as a guest post. Here is HB’s…
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J'accuse : The Banana Republic
There’s this company and its put a new product on the market. Over the last 80 days it has averaged a sale of 37,500 units per day. There’s this mayor who is doing all he can to tackle the problems of pollution and dust in the air that are threatening to rack up huge fines…