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In fact, advocating non-violence actually means advocating one-sided violence. Non-violence does not mean being anti-violence, it just means refusing defense or retaliation; based on the assumption that fighting back will lead to escalation and more violence than the people are already suffering. This is often a logical assumption, but it has the defect of not…

There are alternatives to complete capitulation to the demands of multinationals. I don’t think anyone would regard Singapore as a “failed state”, and I don’t think we see multinationals evacuating Singapore because it does not surrender to them completely. Egypt has vastly more to bargain with than Singapore, and is vastly more important. There is…