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[Excerpted from Parenti’s forthcoming book God and His Demons] Republican party politicos espouse an unflagging devotion to old-fashioned morality and family values, inveighing…
Republican party politicos espouse an unflagging devotion to old-fashioned morality and family values, inveighing heavily against gay marriage, abortion, homosexuality, adultery, feminism,…
During his 26-year papacy, John Paul II elevated 483 individuals to sainthood, more saints than all previous popes combined, it is…
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The goal of the transnational corporation is to become truly transnational, poised above the sovereign power of any particuĀlar nation, while being…
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