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At what cost?
Reader comment on item: Hating America's Success
Submitted by Peter Demma (United States), Oct 12, 2004 at 14:00
"We dominate every field of human endeavor from fashion to film to finance," - - but at what cost in suffering, misery and waste?We must expect that it is our ravaging the world ever increasingly while we live "high on the hog" that causes the fury, not envy. The book is a very good read but be sure to watch "DemocracyNow!" to get the entire picture...
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| Read John Perkin's Book: "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" then you'll understand why we're hated [100 words] | marcos Villa | Dec 11, 2006 18:23 | 69144 | ||
| Yes, but... [96 words] | Ay-ay-asher-ay-ay | Feb 21, 2006 18:13 | 36867 | ||
| to Pavel A: The Empire of the Sun vs the Empire of Opium [175 words] | C.B. Ko | Oct 30, 2005 08:45 | 27512 | ||
 therefore... [39 words] | gopalan | Mar 4, 2010 11:34 | 27512 | ||
| Envy or Disillusion ? [386 words] | C..B. Ko | Oct 30, 2005 08:06 | 27511 | ||
| Hate and Fear? [58 words] | Morgan | Oct 31, 2004 12:30 | 18047 | ||
| Hatred, criticism and dissent [142 words] | Bill Keane | Oct 26, 2004 00:39 | 17929 | ||
| A Vigorous Vocal Minority [130 words] | Bill Finlay | Oct 20, 2004 10:17 | 17816 | ||
| America... as always. [135 words] | Don H | Oct 19, 2004 22:35 | 17809 | ||
| Hating & Criticizing America Are Not The Same [65 words] | Keith Markman | Oct 17, 2004 22:17 | 17792 | ||
| Envy+Fist=Hatred: A French Primer [111 words] | Kevin M | Oct 16, 2004 11:48 | 17785 | ||
| hating america's success [71 words] | ionut | Jul 25, 2006 09:18 | 17785 | ||
| To Alexander M Smith [50 words] | Thomas J. Cassidy | Oct 15, 2004 21:12 | 17776 | ||
| 1 | Ignoble reasons [79 words] | Rasha Rasul-Taus | Oct 15, 2004 20:56 | 17774 | |
| Well ... I do not agree [135 words] | Marcus Rometsch | Oct 15, 2004 07:10 | 17761 | ||
| What cost? [87 words] | Pavel A. | Oct 15, 2004 02:44 | 17760 | ||
| Ashamed of Success [559 words] | Smith Kinney | Oct 13, 2004 15:42 | 17635 | ||
| A successful America?????? [3001 words] | David Lammermeier | Oct 22, 2006 22:06 | 17635 | ||
| What's the point? [171 words] | Lisa W | Oct 13, 2004 15:13 | 17633 | ||
| We Want to Be Loved [114 words] | Pat | Oct 13, 2004 14:32 | 17632 | ||
| To Alain Jean-Mairet, Hearty thanks to you! [126 words] | Holly | Oct 13, 2004 12:02 | 17631 | ||
| Live in it, but live to criticize it? [146 words] | Joe Clark | Oct 13, 2004 11:12 | 17630 | ||
| Rare acclaim for America [86 words] | Edward Cline | Oct 13, 2004 10:43 | 17629 | ||
| Our radical idea [169 words] | Stephen | Oct 13, 2004 09:11 | 17627 | ||
| America and Europe [74 words] | David Dolties | Oct 13, 2004 08:50 | 17626 | ||
| USA exists.Thank you God! [175 words] | Marcos Berenstein | Oct 12, 2004 23:43 | 17618 | ||
| America: The World Power [172 words] | Alex | Oct 12, 2004 23:33 | 17617 | ||
| Hating America?, try Israel. [80 words] | Sol Ende | Oct 12, 2004 23:07 | 17616 | ||
| Hate is the key word [77 words] | Berg Pearl | Oct 12, 2004 17:16 | 17610 | ||
| The Old Europeans [280 words] | Arthur | Oct 12, 2004 17:07 | 17609 | ||
| No! [45 words] | Octavio | Dec 12, 2006 13:38 | 17609 | ||
| Pot, kettle, black [113 words] | Monty | Oct 12, 2004 16:59 | 17608 | ||
| They can hate us as long as they fear us too [49 words] | Jane | Oct 12, 2004 16:50 | 17607 | ||
| Beware [193 words] | Yoven | Oct 12, 2004 16:43 | 17606 | ||
| Other World Candidates Miss Key US Component [137 words] | James Pash | Oct 12, 2004 15:27 | 17601 | ||
| their envy? or our hubris? [183 words] | Mohammed Hesus Chang | Oct 12, 2004 14:33 | 17600 | ||
| YES! [141 words] | Alexander M Smith | Oct 12, 2004 14:06 | 17599 | ||
 At what cost? [67 words] | Peter Demma | Oct 12, 2004 14:00 | 17598 | ||
| The Two Anti's [120 words] | Diane Krieger | Oct 12, 2004 13:38 | 17596 | ||
| Hating America [129 words] | Roger Gracia-Marenco | Oct 12, 2004 13:26 | 17595 | ||
| Thank You [136 words] | Alain Jean-Mairet | Oct 12, 2004 12:43 | 17593 | ||
| Envy [68 words] | Jaime Eisen | Oct 12, 2004 12:32 | 17592 | ||
| Self Hate [129 words] | Margaret Dodderer | Oct 12, 2004 11:04 | 17589 | ||
| the Great Satan: temptor towards a better future. [120 words] | John Berg | Oct 12, 2004 10:37 | 17588 | ||
| Analogy [84 words] | R. Becker | Oct 12, 2004 09:57 | 17587 | ||
| America, the land of the free........ [167 words] | Kim Segar | Oct 12, 2004 09:36 | 17586 | ||
| What else would you expect? [169 words] | William Eakins | Oct 12, 2004 08:42 | 17585 | ||
| Another phrase [28 words] | Tashan | Oct 12, 2004 07:56 | 17584 |
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