Swords and Ploughshares - newspaper of Thomas Fairfax

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Stagnation

13 • Day 739, 10:29 • Published in Netherlands

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Swords and Ploughshares - A polemical rag of the worst kind

A new congress. A new government. New parties. New citizens. New wars, new peace, new alliances. Fertile soil for intellectual debate, for reform, for turmoil, for new things. There is a

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Alliance with the United Kingdom now! War with Highst now!

14 • Day 737, 06:03 • Published in Netherlands

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Swords and Ploughshares - A polemical rag of the worst kind

The United Netherlands is being left behind, now is the time for active government! The United Kingdom and Germany are already proposing alliances, whilst the UNL stands by.

The

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Our future and mutual defence

7 • Day 734, 12:34 • Published in Netherlands

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Swords and Ploughshares - A polemical rag of the worst kind

PEACE is gone. It was good, it was bad, and Swords and Ploughshares most of all had a complex opinion of the organisation. It was good, it was bad, it is gone. The debates surrounding

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On the wealth of nations

10 • Day 731, 11:27 • Published in Netherlands

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Swords and Ploughshares - A polemical rag of the worst kind

Cast an eye over the media, there is an unavoidable atmosphere of defeat. There is talk and accusations of abandoning Flanders and Brussels. Fingers are pointed at the president and the

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The Fairfax manifesto for the Libertarian Party

9 • Day 724, 05:28 • Published in Netherlands

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Swords and Ploughshares must today make a small detour, and promote a private person, who also happens to be the editor of this very newspaper. I have always tried to avoid addressing myself in the first person in Swords and Ploughshares, but for a