Category: Politics
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FOX News: State Television and Propaganda
State television! We like to think that state television is something that exists in autocratic nations like Russia or Cuba. Unfortunately, it exists in liberal democracies as well. Republican media strategist Roger Ailes, who served as paid consultant to Nixon and Bush Sr. in the 1970s and 1990s, launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly…
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American Nazis
Just going to share some images from America’s past so as to better understand the present. 20,000 Americans in Madison Square Garden, February 20, 1939: Check out this quick video: Kinda makes you think a bit harder about the significance of the tiki-torch march of August 11, 2017 when “white nationalist” groups paraded through the…
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Amnesty International: Israel is an Apartheid State
Amnesty International, the world’s largest human rights organization, has for the first time accused Israel of committing “the crime of apartheid against Palestinians.” Amnesty becomes the third major human rights group to decry Israel’s apartheid system over the past year, joining Human Rights Watch and the Israeli group B’Tselem. In its report, Amnesty says the roots…
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Smedley Butler: “War is a Racket”
War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Butler was, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history; so I think we should listen to what he has…
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Notes on NATO Expansion
Declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents show that U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other…
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Thomas Jefferson on the Supreme Court
Jefferson knew then what is clear to everyone now: The Supreme Court is designed to protect the oligarchy of the United States. Let’s read: Jefferson wrote a letter to Judge Spencer Roane, dated Sept. 6, 1819, says: In denying the right they usurp of exclusively explaining the Constitution, I go further than you do, if…