When performing, he updated the lyrics of his 1979 song "Pocahontas," relating North America's history of colonization to Canada's present day policies.
Clarification of these matters is critically important, not just to set the record straight but to inform present-day policy toward Colombia.
"You can't hold people to present-day policies that weren't in effect at the time," he says.
Economically feasible production of conventional bioenergies such as biofuels, biopower and bioheat is a challenge in biorefineries because they have to compete with inexpensive fossil fuel energies while external production costs are rarely included into the present-day policies.
Dragging President Obama's decisions into your present-day policies is a cheap distraction.
Next week, Chicago Public Schools will present a revised sick day policy for its non-union employees aimed at bringing to an end the controversial payouts that its employees have received in exchange for unused sick days.
While Ms. Reinhart and Mr. Rogoff have been commended for tracking down historic economic records going back centuries, we believe that the correlation between debt and growth over the last decade is more informative and useful for assessing present-day policy concerns than data from the post-World War II era or, say, the Industrial Revolution.
This fundamental belief that black life is expendable can be traced from enslavement to the present day, in, for example, policies of policing, surveillance and imprisonment, redistricting and voter ID laws, neoliberal privatization and the widely regurgitated rhetoric that refashions black suffering into black pathology.
We expect to present recommendations on our sick day policy on February 17th as the Mayor has requested".
Yet such American idealism - which is real enough - represents one of the ways in which present-day foreign policy closely mirrors imperial ventures in the past.
Of course, as with the present-day foreign policy issues that plague Washington, it is easy in retrospect to say that everyone should have acted with greater foresight, wisdom and determination.
