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At the Precipice of Economic Collapse

2007 May-June
Don Davis


The U.S. government is broke! It must borrow more than $2 billion per day to fund its programs at home and its military operations around the globe. America's trade imbalance is also a huge problem for its economy

Wars and Rumors of Wars

2007 January-February
Don Davis


Many of today's wars are over control of the dwindling supplies of natural resources needed to keep nations' economies afloat—and their people alive. As population pressures grow in arid parts of the globe, nations are even competing for the most basic resources of all: arable land and water.

Slavery Makes a Comeback

2006 September-October
Don Davis


Not long ago, most people assumed that slavery was a thing of the past, and that the idea of one person holding another as property—to be used involuntarily, by coercion, for the master's benefit and profit—had disappeared as human civilization had become more civilized and enlightened.

Science is losing the war against "super-bugs"

10th June 2008
Don Davis


Hospitals and other inpatient facilities are fighting a new, life-threatening intestinal super-bug, Clostridium difficile, which played a part in approximately 150,000 infections in 2000, and caused nearly 300,000 hospitalizations in 2005 (Associated Press Medical, May 28, 2008). This dangerous germ, which is spread by spores in feces, is said to have contributed to at least 5,500 deaths in the United States in 2004.

Where is truth?

24th June 2008
Don Davis


Whom can we trust to tell us the truth? Advertisers want us to believe that their latest model automobile will make us powerful and popular, or that their "new and improved" grooming product will win us a whole new circle of friends. Political parties try to "sell" their candidates, and confused religious teachers offer a bewildering spectrum of contradictory promises and wild ideas.

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