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Praise for Joan and Larry

Editor:  You deserve praise.  Your March 3 issue contains two remarkable columns.  Joan Huguenard’s “One Palestinian’s Odyssey” describes those civilizing values that were at the root of our nation’s founding – broad education and egalitarian self-governance leading to “the development of a worldview grounded in principles of  nonviolence, democracy, and equal rights” – growing in a very difficult environment: prison.  It gives one hope.  Larry Barnett’s “Democracy of Make-Believe,” a very concise and accurate description of the powers that move current events, reminds us that what TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines pass off as news and analysis is basically a shallow, mildly entertaining distraction from what’s actually going on. 

Ronald Jones
El Verano

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