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Mar 19

What Are the Neocons, Revisited

This article is intended to be the sequel to What Are the Neocons, Really? There have been many attempts lately to concoct new revisionist histories of the United States. It has become especially trendy to disparage the American Revolution and ascribe to its leaders all manner of venal and…

Neoconservatives

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What Are the Neocons, Revisited
What Are the Neocons, Revisited

Feb 19

Neocon to English dictionary

Given the pervasive influence of neoconservatives in academia, the media, and foreign policy establishments throughout the English-speaking world, Neoconese has become a sort of second language for people working in those professions. This has become a major source of confusion for laypersons, since many words in Neoconese have entirely different…

Neoconservatives

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Neocon to English dictionary
Neocon to English dictionary

Feb 5

Greasy Kid Stuff: the Libertarian Problem

Defending on how one defines the term, “progressives” have begun to gain some traction in the United States, to be come an effective political force. An important aspect of this process has been a willingness to ferret out the phonies: the recognition, for example, that while Bernie Sanders is willing…

Progressive

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Greasy Kid Stuff: the Libertarian Problem
Greasy Kid Stuff: the Libertarian Problem

Aug 7, 2021

You can’t be both “progressive” and “green”

Updated 11/9/2021 Once upon a time, the term “progressive” was associated with the policies of former Vice President Henry Wallace and the 1948 Progressive Party of the United States. Those policies included a call to nationalize the energy industry, universal health care, desegregation, and an end to the Cold War…

Climate Change

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You can’t be both “progressive” and “green”
You can’t be both “progressive” and “green”

Nov 8, 2020

The Unfinished Work of the Church Committee

Updated 8/14/2022 According to Merriam-Webster, a “secret police” is “a police organization that is run by a government and that operates in a secret way to control the actions of people who oppose the government.” Of course, in…

Voter Fraud

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The Unfinished Work of the Church Committee
The Unfinished Work of the Church Committee

Sep 25, 2020

The Modern Counter-Renaissance

Why do they want to cancel Beethoven? 2020 has been a weird year all around, but some recent developments on the cultural front really take the cake. There are pernicious efforts underway to rewrite history and re-define culture. Let’s look at some of the initiatives that we have witnessed this…

Cancel Culture

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The Modern Counter-Renaissance
The Modern Counter-Renaissance

Sep 1, 2020

Let’s Bring Back the Freedom Democratic Party

Updated 1/8/2021 In April of 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) was founded by a group of Democratic Party activists who rejected the policy of the official Democratic Party in the southern states, which was to exclude African-Americans from voting in Democratic primary elections and from running as Democratic…

Democratic Party

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Let’s Bring Back the Freedom Democratic Party
Let’s Bring Back the Freedom Democratic Party

Jul 2, 2020

I was suspended by Twitter for what?

Updated 1/24/2021 On the morning of June 30, 2020, I opened my Twitter account and received a notice that it had been suspended. Following a link that promised to lead me an explanation, I learned that I had been suspended for:

Censorship

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I was suspended by Twitter for what?
I was suspended by Twitter for what?

Apr 28, 2020

#Ecofascism Today

Updated July 13, 2021 Ninety years have passed since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and once again, untrammeled financial speculation has rendered the financial system insolvent. The panic-stricken oligarchs who dominate that system are once again trying to preserve their position by transferring wealth from the poor to the…

Ecofascism

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#Ecofascism Today
#Ecofascism Today

Dec 22, 2019

America’s “Color Revolution”

Updated 9/9/2021 For those readers who may be unfamiliar with the term “Color Revolution”, it refers to what has now become the standard technique for promoting “regime change” in targeted nations.

Color Revolutions

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America’s “Color Revolution”
America’s “Color Revolution”
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Marisol is an arts aficionado and a social media habitué.

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