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I’m sure everyone has seen the Chevy Silverado commercial with John Mellencamp’s song “Our Country.” It’s a typical blue-collar/southern oriented truck commercial and I must say it is very compelling, conjuring up a lot of uneeded emotion and imagery concerning “the American way,” individual freedom–and to be frank nationalism–all for the sake of selling a [...] Read more »

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Today is the day we celebrate American Independence. It seems ironic. Perhaps we should be celebrating the comfortable illusion of American independence, or maybe, we should just call it what it is—American Dependence. Because the truth of situation is we can’t function without the rest of the world. We need foreign resources like oil, we [...] Read more »

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