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Programs to reshape the American mind, run by the left and right

By / Leave a Comment / 13 July 2016

Summary:   Our leaders run bold programs to reform American society, building on work done by the Nazi’s and Soviet Union.  All of this was  described by George Orwell in his magnum opus 1984 (published in 1949).  His forecast was a little early, but eerily accurate.  This is a follow-up to Successful propaganda as a characteristic of 21st century America. …

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Tom Engelhard asks “Is America is hooked on War?”

By / 19 Comments / 19 September 2009

Good question.  I wish I knew the answer.  This is one of the best articles to date by Englehardt, IMO one of the sharpest knives in America’s drawer of geopolitical observers. “Is America Hooked on War?“, Tom Engelhardt, posted at TomDispatch, 17 September 2009 — Posted in full with permission. “War is peace” was one of …

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The oddity of reports about the Iraq War

By / 6 Comments / 1 August 2010

O’Hanlon’s latest articles raise an important question:  why we are re-hashing the same arguments after five years of war?  It is not a question of who is correct, but why we cannot grapple with key aspects of the war, as proved by the lack of meaningful discussion about the Iraq War in our Presidential campaign.  This …

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