It's fascinating how, in the 1950s, US officials acknowledged - on the record - that socialism in the global South was a more effective development model than capitalism.
Their response was to impose crushing sanctions on *every single* socialist country, to deny them access to necessary technologies and capital goods in hopes of limiting their industrialization.
Bismuth has a much lower melting point than many other types of metals and forms magnificent iridescent square crystals when it solidifies,
the shade is determined by the level of oxygen it’s exposed to as it cools down
The Dems tried to force an unpopular octogenarian president on the electorate. Having finally replaced him at the last minute, they ran a right leaning campaign that doubled down on the worst instincts of Obamaism and Clintonism. And here we are.