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Perpetual War ...
U.S. Combat Missions May End, but Fighting Goes OnBy MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT MAY 14, 2016, New York Times [original article contains links]; see also.Image (not from article) fromPresident Obama inherited...
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THE AFTERMATH OF THE HOUSING CRISIS IS MAKING IT TOUGH TO LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM.Hadley Malcolm, USA TODAY
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Twitter Picks Russia Over the U.S.
The company cuts off the CIA. But selling data to Vladimir Putin? That’s fine.ENLARGEPHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGESBy L. GORDON CROVITZ, wall street journalMay 15, 2016 5:04 p.m. ET34...
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FYI, JB Book reviews/articles in the on-line journal "American Diplomacy"
Letter of ResignationBrown, John4/2003The Purposes and Cross-Purposes of American Public DiplomacyBrown, John8/2002Options for InfluenceBrown, John11/2008Islamic Extremism and the War of IdeasBrown,...
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Education: On the anniversary of Brown v. Board, new evidence that U.S....
By Emma Brown May 17, Washington Post Thurgood Marshall, who served as the NAACP’s chief legal counsel through Brown v. Board of Education and who later became the first black Supreme Court justice, is...
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IF YOU DON'T LIKE OUTSTANDING CULTURAL FIGURES, ARREST THEM
Mark H. Teeter added 4 new photos. (on Facebook)Yesterday at 4:30am · IF YOU DON'T LIKE OUTSTANDING CULTURAL FIGURES, ARREST THEMProsecutor at Pavlensky trial: The FSB (CheKa-OGPU-NKVD-KGB) building on...
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New books on 18th century Russian history
Bolotov image fromFull disclosure/confession: I wrote my dissertation on an eighteenth century Russian nobleman (and graphomaniac/pomologist), Andrei T. Bolotov (1738-1833)uwpress.wisc.eduHow Russia...
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History of the Interstate Highway System - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
fhwa.dot.govHistory of the Interstate Highway SystemFuturistic elevated highway as imagined in "Interregional Highways." From original caption: ". . . a [department store] show window [seen on the...
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Asian-American/African-American/Redskins -- Note for a discussion, "E...
image fromBefore leaving for a trip to Vietnam and Japan on Saturday, President Obama signed into law a bill that erases references to “Orientals” in federal law and replaces the word with...
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Urgent Press Release: Donald Trump to receive Hands-enhancement Operation
image fromUrgent Press Release Mr. Trump has decided that, given how criticized his hands' size are (see below), he will receive a hands-enhancement operation.He soon will be undergoing a minor...
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Trump Taps Into the Anxiety of American White Males - Note for a diccussion,...
By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS MAY 23, 2016, New York TimesImage from article: Supporters of Donad Trump at a fund-raiser in Lawrenceville, New JerseyIt has been a cold spring for the forces militating against...
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Disunited We Stand - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
By indulging in ‘competing nostalgias’ for the 1950s, conservatives and liberals ignore our hyper-individualistic culture and economy. BARTON SWAIM, Wall Street Journal May 23, 2016 7:19 p.m. ET ‘Say...
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The literature of fragmentation -- Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
image fromTechnology makes it much easier for us to connect to people who share some single common interest,” said Marc Dunkelman, adding that it also makes it easier for us to avoid “face-to-face...
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The Fragmented Society - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
David Brooks MAY 20, 2016, New York Timesimage fromThere are just a few essential reads if you want to understand the Americansocial and political landscape today. Robert Putnam’s “Our Kids,”...
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"Hands Across America": Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016image fromAmericans united on this day 30 years ago like never before. Six and a half million people formed a chain called “Hands Across America” to raise money for the nation’s...
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Павел Казарин: Придуманный СССР. Ностальгия как приговор
ru.krymr.com; on American political nostalgia, see.image from articleПавел КазаринОпубликовано 23.05.2016Специально для Крым.РеалииПросоветская ностальгия – это не мечта о прошлом. Это мечта о...
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X-Raying Trump
image fromTrump is signals, not words.He "communicates" by insinuation, not language.He's got "body" moves, but his hair his brain.He's mogul's Tee-Vee's reality, not prol flesh and blood.He's, he is...
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Hillary/Catherine the Great
As our beloved "homeland" gets ready for four years of Ms. Clinton, perhaps information on Catherine the Great might shed light on the matter. An internet search will of course provide elementary info....
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Moscow-based Thinker Mark Teeter on Russia-shown films (from Facebook)
Mark H. Teeter added 4 new photos.22 hrs · MOSCOW TV TONITE: The Odd TripleLa fin du jour/Конец дня/The End of the Day (France, 1939)(Kultura, 23:50)-- Kudos to Kirill Razlogov for airing this v....
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Obama’s Howard speech/racial legacy - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
President Obama delivers the commencement address to the 2016 graduating class of Howard University in Washington, D.C., on May 7. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) (image from below article by Katheen Parker)...
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