Palace of CrystalCurrent affairs and peace politics: the dangers of charismatic leaders to democracy and the peace of the world, and how peace might be achieved for the longer term. |
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... concerned over the lives of a million men'. At the present time the great democracies of the United States and Britain have both elected rather extreme autocrats. George Bush once declared at a meeting that God had instructed him to ...
... concerned over the lives of a million men'. At the present time the great democracies of the United States and Britain have both elected rather extreme autocrats. George Bush once declared at a meeting that God had instructed him to ...
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... concerned with the problem of war? Just to point out a hopeful factor. If we were all out for nothing but personal ... concerns man's inhumanity to man, which makes the more striking news. 'What the media portrays, like one of those ...
... concerned with the problem of war? Just to point out a hopeful factor. If we were all out for nothing but personal ... concerns man's inhumanity to man, which makes the more striking news. 'What the media portrays, like one of those ...
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... concerns and interests in parliament. Democracy, if true to the Greek origin of the word, means people power. Democracy is also correlated with freedom, the rule of law, and a concern for human rights. So it is hardly likely that a ...
... concerns and interests in parliament. Democracy, if true to the Greek origin of the word, means people power. Democracy is also correlated with freedom, the rule of law, and a concern for human rights. So it is hardly likely that a ...
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... concerned with why we condone and even encourage these, our proxies, to strut on the world stage and take risks and order death and destruction on our behalf. In the next chapter we will look at a curious problem. Many wise men and ...
... concerned with why we condone and even encourage these, our proxies, to strut on the world stage and take risks and order death and destruction on our behalf. In the next chapter we will look at a curious problem. Many wise men and ...
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... concerned to point out the dangers in the build-up of the weaponry they understood so well because they had been the instruments of its creation. Einstein and Bohr thought the military concept of security through strength, Mutually ...
... concerned to point out the dangers in the build-up of the weaponry they understood so well because they had been the instruments of its creation. Einstein and Bohr thought the military concept of security through strength, Mutually ...
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