The US is the oligarch of the world. We know it, and statistics show it. Of countries with the highest military spending in 2022, the US spends more than the next nine countries combined (chart should say “9” instead of “10” countries). Even worse, US military spending is $2,219 per person, more than twelve times […]
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IF ONLY . . . 2022!
While looking forward to a new year, I remembered a poem called Ojalá by the late Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano. The Spanish word “ojalá” means “if only.” I feel lucky to have attended a lecture by Eduardo Galeano in 2013, two years before he passed. His many books included The Open Veins of Latin America, […]