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MIT Video Productions: ‘Howard Zinn at MIT 2005 – The Myth of American Exceptionalism’

Source:MIT Video Productions– author/historian Howard Zinn at MIT. Source:The New Democrat  “Howard Zinn (1922-2010) offers a talk at MIT titled “The Myth of American Exceptionalism,” on March 14, 2005. He is the inaugural lecturer in the series “Myths About America” … Continue reading

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Floyd Anderson: ‘Hunter S. Thompson’s Famous 9/11 Interview’

Source:Floyd Anderson– one of Hunter S. Thompson’s many books. Source:The Daily Review “Hunter S. Thompson 9/11 Interview 8/29/2002” From Floyd Anderson Source:The New Democrat– Hunter S. Thompson: an American original. I don’t quite see George W. Bush as the devil that … Continue reading

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The Nation: John Nichols: President Obama Is Right- This Unauthorized War Needs to Be Debated by Congress

Source:The New Democrat I believe the only impressive point that President Obama made in his ISIS speech on Sunday night, was saying that Congress should be debating this war and passing an authorization for it. If the House and Senate … Continue reading

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Notes on Liberty: Brandon Christensen- From The Comments: A Libertarian Solution to DAESH (ISIS/ISIL) and The Civil War in Syria

Source: Notes on Liberty: Brandon Christenson- From The Comments: A Libertarian Solution to DAESH (ISIS/ISIL) and The Civil War in Syria An interesting idea to dealing with ISIS and the Syrian Civil War. But I gotta tell you its a … Continue reading

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News Receiver: President Obama’s Oval Office Speech on Syria

Source: This piece was originally posted at The New Democrat: News Receiver: President Obama’s Oval Office Speech on Syria I watched President Obama’s speech on CNN and then saw the so-called experts talk about it. And one of them was … Continue reading

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The National Interest: Robert Farley: ‘What If America Had ‘Eliminated’ Saddam Hussein?’

Source:The National Interest– American fighter jets. Source:The New Democrat “In the early days of the air campaign of the 1991 Gulf War, the United States undertook a concerted effort to track and strike Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The effort was … Continue reading

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The American Conservative: Tom Switzer: ‘Dean of the Realists’

Source:The American Conservative– “Owen Harries/ photo courtesy of the Lowery Institute.” From TAC. Source:The New Democrat “When the first issue of The National Interest was published in 1985, its editor, Owen Harries, proclaimed an affinity between realpolitik and conservatism. By … Continue reading

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USA Today: Qanta Ahmed: Islamism’s Double Pronged Assault on Liberal Democracy

Source:The New Democrat Islamism, from ISIS and other groups, is not just and assault on American and Western values, but its an assault on liberal values, whether it’s in America, Europe or in Asia. ISIS Islamists, want to destroy individual … Continue reading

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The Onion: Nathan Eckert: The Iraq War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region & Set Off a Global Shockwave of Anti-Americanism

Source:The Daily Review Looking back at the Iraq War from over a twelve-year perspective it reminds me of someone who knows a guy down the street. Who knows this man has beaten up a lot f people and at the … Continue reading

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Mal Partisan: ISIS Must be Destroyed, But it Won’t be Easy: Time For a Coalition of The Able and Willing to Destroy ISIS

Source: Mal Partisan: ISIS Must be Destroyed, But it Won’t be Easy For anyone to say that this is just about revenge for what happened in Paris and that I and others are scared that this could happen in Washington, … Continue reading

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