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Most Empires In History Fell By Age 250

Propaganda & Narrative

[ad_1] Rory Fanning, Truthout. The US Is at a Weighty Crossroads. It’s far past time to bring an end to US militarism. As a veteran of the U.S. war on Afghanistan, I visit high schools on a regular basis to talk about the military. I try to fill in the blanks that military recruiters intentionally ignore. I find that when asked, most students can say very little about the reasons why the U.S. fights. They often wrongly assume that the U.S. fights in self-defense or to protect democracy when in reality the U.S. empire fights to control other countries’ natural…

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The Pandemic Plan Needs to be Torn Up

Conspiracy Theories

[ad_1] The closest thing we have in this country to a pandemic plan is called the Pandemic Action Crisis Plan or PanCap. It remains the prevailing unclassified document. It posits stay-at-home orders, school closures, business shutdowns, office closures, travel restrictions, testing, track-and-trace, and the creation and distribution of countermeasures called vaccines.  So far as anyone knows, it is still the prevailing document. It’s one of many. Nothing has changed about any of them in light of what we learned from Covid. The CDC currently hosts all these documents:  This approach has no precedent in the long history of public health.…

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Barack Obama, George Washington And The Fourth Of July

Independent Journalism

[ad_1]  Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. The opening of the Obama Center has brought Barack Obama back into the spotlight although he offers nothing new. He will be in the pocket of the oligarchy for the rest of his life, and that means he must continue to erase the history of Black people in order to stay in their good graces. Now he praises George Washington, the slaveholding genocidaire. The 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence once again raises the issue of the lies that were taught as historical fact and how those lies impact Black…

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250 Years of the US & Nuclear Weapons – Consortium News

Propaganda & Narrative

[ad_1] What would it take for humanity, let alone the US, to survive another quarter of a millennium? ask Peter Kuznick and Ivana Nikolic Hughes. An atomic cloud hangs over the Japanese city of Nagasaki after the US dropped a second nuclear bomb on the country on August 9, 1945. (Hiromichi Matsuda, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) By Peter Kuznick and Ivana Nikolic HughesAl Jazeera Arabic On Saturday night the skies across the United States were lit up with fireworks to celebrate an extraordinary milestone for the country, a 250th birthday of the longest-running experiment in republican governance in the modern era.…

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Kamala Harris’s Record on Gaza Could Kill Her 2028 Hopes

Politics & Policy

[ad_1] As she prepares the ground for a possible 2028 presidential bid, Kamala Harris has reportedly been building alliances with the ascendant socialists taking over the Democratic Party. It comes across as a cynical attempt to rewrite her political reputation along prevailing winds, and it is likely to fail. According to Axios, the former vice president […]Read More…Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link

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