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How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Reshaped American Politics: Note for...
From xenophobia to conspiracy theories, the Know Nothing party launched a nativist movement whose effects are still felt todayimage from articleBy Lorraine Boissoneault, smithsonian.com, January 26,...
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State Department Senior Staffing
From, citing as sourceThe seniormost staff of the Department of State. Blue X’s are unfilled positions; red X’s are positions which were purged. Note that the “filled” positions are not actually...
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Dissent at the State Department: A book review
The Dissent Papers (May 2012)Review by John H. Brown, PhD.unc.eduThe Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond. By Hannah Gurman, New York: Columbia University Press, 2012,...
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Russian joke on Trump's America (via Facebook)
JB comment :) image (not from Facebook entry) fromJohn Brown shared Игорь Поночевный's post.41 mins · Игорь Поночевный13 hrs · Впереди шествуют три русские старушки, обсуждая текущую геополитическую...
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Understanding the 7 Distinct “Nations” of Appalachia - Note for a discussion,...
appalachianmagazine.com; via GG on FacebookUnderstanding the 7 Distinct “Nations” of AppalachiaBy AppalachianMagazine -January 30, 2017569098Like the American nation itself, the United States of...
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Trump’s Grand Strategic Train Wreck
Trump’s Grand Strategic Train WreckBelieve it or not, the president has a grand strategy. But it's a nightmarish mess.image (not from article) fromBY COLIN KAHL, HAL BRANDS, foreignpolicy.com [original...
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What is the Electoral College?
archives.govThe Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election...
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What does it means to be an American? - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
image fromThursday, February 2, 2017 by LEON HADAR btworld@sph.com.sg, Business Times of SingaporeWashingtonPRESIDENT Donald Trump's executive order to temporarily ban entry into the United States of...
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US misfires in online fight against Islamic State
By DESMOND BUTLER and RICHARD LARDNER, Jan. 31,bigstory.ap.org; via AFImage from article, with caption:In this screen grab of a photo from a Facebook posting, Col. Victor Garcia, left, who served as...
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Trump Administration Divides and Divided - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
lobelog.comPublished on February 2nd, 2017 | by John Feffer0Trump Administration Divides and Divided by John FefferThe resistance to Donald Trump’s presidency has been strong, sustained, and...
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What is an executive order? And how do President Trump’s stack up?
Aaron Blake January 27, Washington Post President Trump signs an executive order that places a hiring freeze on nonmilitary federal workers on Jan. 23. Trump is observed by, from left, Vice President...
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We were keeping our eye on 1984. But it’s Brave New World we should have...
image from articleAndrew Postman, The Guardian; via DO on FacebookThe ascent of Donald Trump has proved Neil Postman’s argument in Amusing Ourselves to Death was right. Here’s what we can do about...
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Canadians invite California, Oregon and Washington to join Canada - Note for...
thinkpol.ca; via MH on Facebook [evidently satire]Canadians are inviting people in the United States Pacific coastal states of California, Oregon and Washington, where United States President-elect...
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New Memo from State Department Dissent Channel Describes Anguish of Spurned...
image from entrySam Biddle, theintercept.comAfter an executive order signed by President Trump last week banning immigrants from majority Muslim countries, the American diplomatic apparatus has been...
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American Anthropological Association Response to OMB Directive 15 1977
learner.orgAmerican Anthropological Association Response to OMB Directive 151977BackgroundThe largest professional organization of individuals interested in anthropology, the study of human existence,...
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Who Are We? - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United...
Ross Douthat FEB. 4, 2017, New York Times [original article contains links]Image from article, with caption: Engraving of a massacre of Indian women and children in Idaho by 19th century white...
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'It will be called Americanism': the US writers who imagined a fascist future
Image from article, with caption: ‘Trump has said he identifies with Kane’ … Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (1941) Photograph: Allstar/RKOFrom Sinclair Lewis and Philip Roth to Donald Trump’s favourite...
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Images to be framed/posted in USG facilities worldwide :)
Images from***In this age of "fake news," let me assure you that the above is indeed FAKE NEWS. :)But we do have to keep a sense of humor ...
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Tillerson’s State Department: Personnel are Policy
[JB comment: a voice of reason?]Tillerson image from articleby Robert E. Hunter, lobelog.comRex W. Tillerson, the newly minted US secretary of state, made a good first impression when he met this week...
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Moscow-based American thinker Teeter on why the USA and the Russian...
John Brown shared Mark H. Teeter's post.13 mins · Mark H. Teeter added 4 new photos.1 hr · AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Renowned Liar calls Renowned Killer a killer -- and Renowned Killer, suddenly All...
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