Racial Inequality After Racism How Institutions Hold Back African Americans:...
How Institutions Hold Back African AmericansFrom Foreign AffairsBy Fredrick C. Harris and Robert C. Lieberman FROM OUR MARCH/APRIL 2015 ISSUERacial Inequality After Racism43 min 18 secs+ADD TO...
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New York City Would Really Rather Not Talk About Its Slavery-Loving Past:...
BY ALEXANDER NAZARYAN / APRIL 15, 2015 6:46 AM EDT NewsweekPedestrians walk in Manhattan's Washington Square Park - an area once known as "The Land of the Blacks" - in New York, April 9, 2015. JARED T....
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Robert Reich on American economic inequality: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus...
Note: In my presentation, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United?" I suggest that the gap between the very rich in the U.S. and "the rest" of Americans -- an economic development which...
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American (word): Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe meaning of the word American in the English language varies according to the historical, geographical, and political context in which it is used. American is...
View ArticleLincoln Off His Pedestal: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
Lincoln Off His Pedestal - New York Review of BooksJames M. McPherson SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 ISSUEA. Lincoln: A Biographyby Ronald C. White Jr.Random House, 796 pp., $35.00Abraham Lincoln: A Lifeby Michael...
View ArticleFrom the United States "are" to the United States "is" -- Note for a lecture,...
"Before 1861, the two words 'United States' were generally rendered as a plural noun: The United States are a republic.' The [Civil] war marked a transition of the United States to a singular noun. The...
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United...
From The OnionA recent al-Qaeda video shows a militant training to carry out his mission of lying back and watching America’s status as a superpower erodeWASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against...
View ArticleBetween Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill –...
An absorbing account explodes the myths of America’s founding to place the colony back in the context of the old worldColin Kidd, The GuardianFriday 20 February 2015 02.30 EST Last modified on Friday...
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Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order - Book Review
From: American Diplomacy (April 2015)Review by Dr. John H. BrownConflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order by Rajan Menon and Eugene Rumer, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London,...
View ArticleUkraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call
7 February 2014 BBCAn apparently bugged phone conversation in which a senior US diplomat disparages the EU over the Ukraine crisis has been posted online. The alleged conversation between Assistant...
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God and an America president: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
From The Guardian (via KR on Facebook):Mr Bush revealed the extent of his religious fervour when he met a Palestinian delegation during the Israeli-Palestinian summit at the Egpytian resort of Sharm...
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Map of 73 Years of Lynchings: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Map of 73 Years of LynchingsThe most recent data on lynching, compiled by the Equal Justice Initiative, shows premeditated murders carried out by at least three people from 1877 to 1950 in 12 Southern...
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When America behaved like ISIS: Jesse Washington and the Bible Belt’s dark...
Salon; via RB on FacebookPundits and politicians decrying the terrorist group's barbarity might wanna take a closer look at American historyBILL MOYERS, BILLMOYERS.COM Share 125K 2K 612 TOPICS:...
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Why Americans Call Soccer 'Soccer': Note for a lecture: "E Pluribus Unum?...
The British started it.From The AtlanticURI FRIEDMANJUN 13 2014, 5:23 PM ETHow different countries refer to the game of soccer. The shades of pink are variations and literal translations of "football,"...
View ArticleNew Jersey Deli Tries to Celebrate “White History Month,” Then Goes Out of...
FromJimbo’s Deli in Flemington, New Jersey went out of business because owner Jim Boggess wanted to cause a scene by celebrating “White History Month,” reported Talking Points Memo.Last month, Boggess...
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Relics and Modern Art: A Russian Art Dealer's Perspective
From: Matthew Bown, "Traces of the holy: The contemporary art work as 'crypto-relic'" -- The Times Literary Supplement (April 10, 2015), p. 14:image from[I]f a relic was acclaimed stolen, that was felt...
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They Have ‘Propaganda,’ US Has ‘Public Diplomacy’–and a Servile Private Sector
byJim Naureckas, Common Dreams; via GG on Facebook 3 CommentsA classic example of the private sector “countering propaganda.”The New York Times headline (4/15/15) paints a dire picture:Turmoil at Voice...
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A facebook exchange on George Kennan (slighty edited)
Kennan image fromJB: Kennan was, I would say, rather provincial (i.e ,"non-politically correct" speaking, from the Midwest, from a non-Eastern establishment background). He longed, as you know, to be...
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Russia in 1941
via SLФотокор "LIFE"в Москве лета 1941-гоNov. 8th, 2013 at 9:34 AMЭту картинку мы знаем с детства: Играет вальс, вчерашние школьники со значками ГТО смотрят друг на дружку влюблёнными глазами... И...
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“I am the Resurrection and the Life”
On an incredibly beautiful Spring day in the Imperial Capital (Washington, D.C) -- with nature miraculously coming to light -- I cannot help -- as a collapsed Catholic/agnostic -- but remember the...
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