Jim Mamer continues his series deconstructing the flaws in American history taught in high school classrooms, this time tackling the Vietnam War.
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The mainstream press is unashamedly beating the drums of war while deliberately turning away from what is actually happening, economically and politically in the region. read now...Matt Gaetz sponsored a resolution in the House, supported by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, to force congressional oversight of the continued U.S. military presence in Syria.
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Labor has announced a strategy to recover much-needed water for the environment, reversing one of the Coalition's failures. read now...All laws are ultimately backed up by “if you don’t we will send violent men after you” and we should never, ever, pretend otherwise.
Mao’s “all power comes from the barrel of a gun”, or pre-gunpowder, guys with swords or clubs, is, however, only one-third true.
What matters isn’t the violent men, it is controlling the violent men. If all power came from violence, then it would be guilds of violent men who run society directly, but as powerful as police and armies are, in most places it isn’t military men or cops who who make the laws and are in the executive positions and when they are it is usually in a second or third tier country.
Your brain is not the root of cognition.
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