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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche

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Is Global Warming Responsible for the Syrian Civil War, ISIS and the Refugee Crisis?

One can make a strong case that climate change and not George W. Bush or Bashar Al-Assad is the real cause of the collapse of Syria and all the problems it created.

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Mexico’s Strange War on Drugs and Terror

The Federal Police had a budget of $34.6 billion in 2010 and more than 40,000 employees in 2009, making it a formidable bureaucratic empire similar to the U.S. military industrial complex. That empire is growing, and its leaders have figured out how to tap the U.S. national treasury to pay for the expansion.

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