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As I noted last week, a small roll of pages recently showed up at my door. They appeared to have been ripped from a history book entitled 2000-2150 AD: The Emergence of Modernity. I am completing my transcription of them today, verbatim. Make of it
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A small roll of pages showed up in my mailbox last week, printed on an odd size and type of paper. They appeared to have been ripped from a history book entitled 2000 - 2150 AD: The Emergence of Modernity. I'm repeating the text here verbatim, sans
Do You Understand the Electoral College? Was the Civil War About Slavery?
With Dalio, Gundlach, Gross, Greenspan, and Tudor Jones (to name but a few) now firmly in the 'bond bear market is here'-camp, Goldman Sachs has produced a detailed, annotated history of US interest rates... and what happened each time rates spiked.
With Dalio, Gundlach, Gross, Greenspan, and Tudor Jones (to name but a few) now firmly in the 'bond bear market is here'-camp, Goldman Sachs has produced a detailed, annotated history of US interest rates... and what happened each time rates spiked.
25 years ago, on Sunday, February 28, 1993, the US government raided the Branch Davidian "compound" outside Waco, Texas and set the stage for one of the worst massacres in American history.
Malcolm X was reviled and adored during his lifetime thanks to his views of black nationalism and "by any means necessary" approach to battle racial discrimination.
It's sort of silly that it matters. The United States bombed North Korea flat with ordinary, non-bioweapons bombs. It ran out of standing structures to bomb. People lived in caves, if they lived.
I was rummaging through old files tonight and stumbled across this profile from 30 years ago. Charles Clark did a kindly write-up which I much appreciated. The World Bank hated me back then so National Journal photographer Richard Bloom and I trompe
When a state officially declares war on another state, it unofficially declares war on a second front: domestic dissidents.
This is the best work I have ever read on the War of 1861-present.
Has DB Cooper's identity finally been revealed? Investigators say recently uncovered secret coding in letters PROVES Vietnam veteran with CIA links is the hijacker who parachuted from a plane in 1971 with $200,000
After reading this book (as a military veteran and northerner) it would seem that no one can conclude other than that Lincoln intentionally started the War.
Speaking of the first time he reviewed the files of J. Edgar Hoover, Silberman writes how Hoover tasked "his agents with reporting privately to him on any bits of dirt on figures such as Martin Luther King or their families - information Hoover so
Next Monday, January 22, will be the forty-fifth anniversary of the Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortion-on-demand. Forty-five years! Since those dreadful decisions, over 60 million helpless innocent unborn babies h
As most Americans drink their beer and enjoy the day off, the thought that Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle lives on -- is but a fleeting memory.
"The US is the only 'indispensable' country -- all other nations are either vassals or else enemies of the US, but are, in either case, 'dispensable.'"
Decades-old films show the sheer power of nuclear warheads.
Errol Morris dissects MKUltra, the CIA's mind control experiments--and redefines the true crime genre in the process.
It was one of the worst - if not the worst - years for hurricanes and wildfires in modern US history. The first year in office for perhaps the least traditional president the US has ever elected.
As we approach the day in which we commemorate Christ's birth, I am reminded of a quote by John Quincy Adams. On July 4, 1837, he spoke these words: Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerate
In 1791, the first Secretary of the Treasury of the US, Alexander Hamilton, convinced then-new president George Washington to create a central bank for the country.
Extreme Northeast Georgia was occupied by Uchees in the 1700s, not ethnic Cherokees! The Rickohockens, Muskogee Creeks and Cherokees played a major role in an ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples in Georgia and South Carolina. The eight "Lower Ch
What you'll learn in this film you won't learn in school… this is perhaps one of the greatest tricks of the elite. Convincing us we are learning what we think is ultimate truth when in reality much of the time they are careful lies.
Even as an undergraduate I wondered, "Why weren't the aircraft carriers at Pearl Harbor?"
US meddling supported the military junta, undermined civilian rule
This vacuum of truth has created the empty minds that have been easily filled with the egregiously erroneous Israel-First philosophy that has corrupted the thinking of many--if not most--of America's Christians.
"What's the point of having this superb military … if we can't use it?" --Madeleine Albright (U.S. State Department / Flickr)