"Yeah well you know, we'd all love to change the world"

opening lines from Revolution, 1968, flip side of Hey Jude, and later on The White Album ~ by the Beatles of course, who had 4 records on the Rolling Stones Top 10 Greatest Albums ~ but this essay is not about music: its about something else near and dear to our hearts: freedom, peace, and prosperity: the grounds and fruits of…

For a second let's all jump in to our Time Machine and set the dial to 1900.                       We pull the lever, flip the switch and in a few minutes we are in The United States  …