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WEBIn the aftermath of the Tucson shootings, many have focused on the death of nine-year-old Christina-Taylor Green. Born on 9/11 and killed by the random violence of a madman, Green has become a martyr for optimistic bipartisanship. “I want us to live up to her expectations,” President Barack Obama told the mourners in Tucson. “I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it.”Obama ...
Gaza, Israel and the Limits of "Escalation Dominance"
WEBGeoffrey Wawro is the General Olinto Mark Barsanti Professor of Military History at the University of North Texas, and the author of Quicksand: America’s Pursuit of Power in the Middle East (Penguin Press, April 2010.) This article originally appeared at Huffington Post. Israel has long defended ...
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WEBWriting a Classic: Richard Tregaskis and "Guadalcanal Diary" by Ray E. Boomhower. Combat reporter Richard Tregaskis's account of the August 1942 Marine invasion of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands passed military censors and became a popular sensation while offering the public an account of the difficulty and brutality of the Pacific war.
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WEBThe Debt Ceiling Law is now a Tool of Partisan Political Power; Abolish It by Mark Weisbrot. There is no "ticking bomb" of national debt; the use of the debt ceiling to threaten the nation with default to secure spending cuts that damage Democratic presidents is by now a clearly established partisan trick, and the US government should no longer be held hostage to it, says an economic policy ...
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WEBTrump's regime is leading America in an insurrection by Carol Anderson. Trump’s regime has ignited the base by conjuring up a vision of whiteness imperiled by ‘illegals’, ‘black identity extremists’ and Muslim terrorists.
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WEBThe Daiquiri is the History of American Empire in a Cocktail by Ian Seavey "The daiquiri rose to prominence as a direct result of the American imperial project in the Caribbean during the burgeoning classic cocktail age from 1860 to 1920."
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WEBNeither Neoliberal nor Woke: What's Really Going on in Elite Higher Ed by David A. Bell. Critics from the right and left who argue that universities are captured by some interest group or other ignore the way that universities pursue …
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WEBWhat a Japanese-American soldier’s thirty-year secret can teach us about race, war, and loyalty by Sandra Vea. Interpreters with the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during WW2 were credited for shortening the war in the South Pacific by two years.