David Swanson
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Quiz: Are You a Foreign Policy and History Genius? (opens the original)
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Grab paper and pencil. Write down the numbers 1 through 10 and get ready to mark down next to them either "True" or "False." Think I can trick you? Ten items follow. Which are true and which false? See the answers at the end. 1. The grandfather of the current leader of North Korea, the guy who ruled over North Korea from 1945 to 1994, was more of a Presbyterian than a Communist. Kim Il Sung was raised in a Christian community created by U.S. missionaries, was a Sunday School teacher and church o
Silence = Death (opens the original)
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When important, serious, respectable people wouldn't even mention that AIDS was killing on a major scale, their silence meant that not enough would be done to stop it. I bring this up because Trump wants Congress to put 77.66% of federal discretionary spending into wars, and the vast majority, if not every single member, of Congress has not even once said so. Likewise virtually every media outlet. The same goes for each politcal party, the governors, the state legislators, the talk show hosts, a
Even a Radioactive Time Bomb Is Right Twice a Presidential Term (opens the original)
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By refusing to take part in waging war on the people of Iran, the South Korean government obtained something else favored by many of the people of South Korea: at long last a reduction in U.S. war rehearsals and hostility toward North Korea. U.S. media outlets panicked. How could Trump abandon his duty to keep the Korean peninsula divided and the risk of nuclear apocalypse respectably high? U.S. comedians were thrilled: Trump and his fellow dictator in North Korea must be in love! The same peopl
The U.S. State Department Is Celebrating Lies About the Monroe Doctrine (opens the original)
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The U.S. State Department has shamelessly published a video celebrating "imperialism" and "dominance" of the Western hemisphere under the banner of the Monroe Doctrine, complete with falsified history and grotesque omissions. In 2013, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had declared the unpopular and blatantly imperialist Monroe Doctrine dead, even while acting as if it were his daily guide to action. The difference in both Trump terms, but especially in this second one, is a move toward more bla
Silence = Death (opens the original)
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When important, serious, respectable people wouldn’t even mention that AIDS was killing on a major scale, their silence meant that not enough would be done to stop it. I bring this up because Trump wants Congress to put77.66%of federal discretionary spending into wars, and the vast majority, if not every single member, of Congress has not even once said so. Likewise virtually every media outlet. The same goes for each politcal party, the governors, the state legislators, the talk show hosts, and
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