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The Irony of Right-Wing Secessionist Fantasies | The Nation
In the wake of Obama’s victory, citizens in several states submitted petitions to secede from the United States. It is something of an irony that the very states seeking secession from “big government”—like Louisiana and Alabama—have been among the top… Continue reading
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Ambition, Self-Promotion, & Military Demagoguery
The series will show how Petraeus was engaged from the beginning of the Iraq war in creating a myth about himself as a commander with unique ability to defeat insurgents, that he knew he had failed in his first two… Continue reading
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5 glaring contradictions that sank the GOP – Salon.com
What Obama’s win, alongside surging Democratic senators, disrupted was the dubious marriage between billionaires dying to own the government and fundamentalists dying to institutionalize universal morality. This election exploded Reaganite propaganda that “big government” is the problem by spotlighting the… Continue reading
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Folk of the Ether… Your Must-Do Assignment
All war is struggle, but not all struggle is war. Humans live on a boundary of many struggles. When we reduce every struggle to combat, battle, or war, we lay waste vast fields of human experience to unnecessary destruction. Study… Continue reading
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Treaty of Tripoli – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I wholeheartedly believe in the need for a wall that adequately & rigorously separates the laws of the Republic from the customs & dogmas of church, synagogue, mosque, and temple. I think a lot of us would do well to… Continue reading
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