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(This is the 4th and final part of a series of posts on this topic)
Are there any institutions that reduce the ability of a relatively peaceful public majority to counter the influence of the relevant special interests?
I discuss three institutions here – lack of democratic accountability; the poor performance of the mass media; and […]

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By 2006 alone, over 655,000 Iraqi civilians are estimated to have died in excess of normal death rates (Burnham et al. “Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey”, Lancet vol 368, Oct 2006). One of the initial reasons given for the invasion involved members of the Bush administration associating Iraq with […]

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