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“Pure Democracies Are Not The Way To Run A Country”
The U.S. has always been very open about their disdain for democracy. This loathing of democratic principles has been part of the very fabric of this nation since day one. Just read John Adams’ reasons for restricting democracy or James Madison’s ideas on “protecting the opulent minority against the tyranny of the majority”. In November 2023, former Republican Pennsylvania…
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Elites Explain Why Class Warfare is Good for Productivity
On September 12, 2023, Tim Gurner, the owner of Gurner Group, addressed a crowd at the Australian Financial Review’s Property Summit: I think the problem that we’ve had is that people decided they didn’t really want to work so much any more through COVID and that has had a massive issue on productivity… They have…
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Downing Street Memo – Fixing the Facts on Iraq!
United Kingdom, Matthew Rycroft, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Cabinet Minutes of Discussion, S 195/02, July 23, 2002 SOURCE: Printed in The Sunday Times, May 1, 2005 These notes offer insight into the attitude of the Bush administration toward regime change, the UN route, and propaganda efforts. The document contains the now-notorious statement in…
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The Battle for Iran – CIA History
The CIA routinely prepares histories of important operations for use by future operatives. Let’s take a quick look at the CIA’s The Battle for Iran, author’s name excised, undated (c. mid-1970s) Though no date is given, judging from citations in the footnotes The Battle for Iran was written in or after 1974. It is marked “Administrative –…
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Jimmy Carter Admits to U.S. Willful Destruction of North Korea
Here’s an interesting admission by a former President of the United States Jimmy Carter on North Korea: “And the North Koreans have suffered because the United States have done everything we possible could to destroy the economy of North Korea, we have done everything we possibly could to boost the economy of South Korea, and…
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Dying Like Flies
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. After arresting and deporting Toussaint Louverture from Saint Domingue in June 1802, the young French General Charles Leclerc was kind of surprised to discover the expulsion of General Toussaint did not immediately spark a mass uprising. The cultivators in the fields had long ago grown disenchanted with Governor for life…
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The Leclerc Expedition
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. For all the attention First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte had taken to arrange the massive expedition he hoped would soon recapture Saint Domingue. When the Peace Preliminaries were signed with the British in October 1801, he had yet to settle on a commander in chief for the campaign, but by the…
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The History of Haiti
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So, last time, we closed the books on the Haitian revolution, which, if you ask me, runs from the bucket on ceremony in August 1791 through to Dessalines speech, justifying his extermination of the whites in April 1804. I think those two events put handy brackets on the revolution. Now,…