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Chairman Mao, the worst mass murderer in history,
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
The Century of the Self - Part 1: "Happiness Machines"
youtube.comThe first source was in the US business community’s opposition to New Deal reforms, which, not unlike the propaganda of the Gilded Age millionaires, cast resistance to regulation as a “righteous fight to defend democracy from dictatorship.”37 A second source was the dread of totalitarianism and collectivism incited by World War II and the cold war,
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During the Korean War, Harry Truman went to war without any authorization of Congress. The Cuban missile crisis was a purely presidential decision, as was the 1998 intervention in Kosovo. The congressional role in authorizing war was at least diminished and sometimes omitted.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
The federal government offers the only hope of a coordinated, intelligent response to threats to the system: there is no private-sector mechanism. To that end the DOE had begun to gather the executives of the utility companies, to educate them about the threats they face. “They all sort of said, ‘But is this really real?’” said MacWilliams. “You ge
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