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Censored but not Silenced: Part 5/5
Is it possible that Murdock—or other wealthy neoconservatives—are supplying the money behind the IMED where Julie Lenarz is a fellow?
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Censored but not Silenced: Part 4/5
I have learned that it is best to be suspicious of political nonprofit organizations with impressive sounding names that promise to achieve wonderful things and make the world a better place. They could be a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
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Censored but not Silenced: Part 3/5
There are several private-sector special interest groups that benefited from the Iraq War—each one for a different reason.
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Censored but not Silenced: Part 2/5
Wars are fought with mostly borrowed money that ends up growing the National Debt and that debt—if it is ever paid off—will be paid by U.S. tax payers and not by oil companies.
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Censored but not Silenced: Part 1/5
Civil Liberties says, “The right to free speech is a longstanding U.S. tradition, but actually respecting the right to free speech is not.”
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Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: Sarah McCoy wrote a post for the Huffington Book Blog about “Men of War are Conflicted Characters“. After I read her post, I wanted to leave a comment but couldn’t because that section was closed, so I’m writing it here. You may want to read McCoy’s post. It’s well written and deals with…
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Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: In 1772, Lord Mansfield’s judgment in the Somersett’s Case emancipated a slave in England, and that helped launch the movement that would abolish slavery in the British Empire. If the thirteen American colonies had stayed in the Empire, there would have been no Civil War to end slavery, because slavery in the United States would have…