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American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback? •ï¿½55m ▶

Ron Unz •ï¿½April 21, 2020

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Nearly 30,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus during the last two weeks, and by some estimates this is a substantial under-count, while the death-toll continues to rapidly mount. Meanwhile, measures to control the spread of this deadly infection have already cost 22 million Americans their jobs, an unprecedented economic collapse that has pushed our... Read More

American Pravda: Mossad Assassinations

The JFK Assassination and the 9/11 Attacks?

Ron Unz •ï¿½January 27, 2020

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The January 2nd American assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani of Iran was an event of enormous moment. Gen. Soleimani had been the highest-ranking military figure in his nation of 80 million, and with a storied career of 30 years, one of the most universally popular and highly regarded. Most analysts ranked him second in influence... Read More

American Pravda: Understanding World War II •ï¿½2h31m ▶

The Shaping Event of Our Modern World

Ron Unz •ï¿½September 23, 2019

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In late 2006 I was approached by Scott McConnell, editor of The American Conservative (TAC), who told me that his small magazine was on the verge of closing without a large financial infusion. I'd been on friendly terms with McConnell since around 1999, and greatly appreciated that he and his TAC co-founders had been providing... Read More

John McCain, 2009 Official Senate Portrait

American Pravda: John McCain, Jeffrey Epstein, and Pizzagate •ï¿½45m ▶

Our Reigning Political Puppets, Dancing to Invisible Strings

Ron Unz •ï¿½July 29, 2019

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The death of Sen. John McCain last August revealed some important truths about the nature of our establishment media. McCain's family had released word of his incurable brain cancer many months earlier and his passing at age 84 was long expected, so media outlets great and small had possessed all the time necessary for producing... Read More

The Honorable David L. Bazelon, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

American Pravda: The Power of Organized Crime •ï¿½1h37m ▶

How a Young Syndicate Lawyer from Chicago Earned a Fortune Looting the Property of the Japanese-Americans, then Lived...

Ron Unz •ï¿½July 15, 2019

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As I was growing up in the suburban San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles during the 1960s and 1970s, organized crime seemed like a very distant thing, confined to the densely-populated cities of the East Coast or to America's past, much like the corrupt political machines with which it was usually associated. I never heard... Read More

American Pravda: Secrets of Military Intelligence •ï¿½1h29m ▶

The Hidden Information in Our Government Archives

Ron Unz •ï¿½June 10, 2019

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Some may remember that in 2005 a major media controversy engulfed Harvard President Larry Summers over his remarks at an academic conference. Casually speaking off-the-record at the private gathering, Summers had gingerly raised the hypothetical possibility that on average men might be a bit better at mathematics than women, perhaps partially explaining the far larger... Read More

Israel as One Man: A Theory of Jewish Power

Laurent GuyÃ©not •ï¿½June 10, 2019

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So wrote Henry Ford in The International Jew. Indeed, no other people has been capable of such perseverance toward an unwavering goal, pursued step by step over many generationsâ€”a hundred generations if we trace the Zionist project back to the period of the Babylonian Exile. Jews often find themselves divided on crucial issues and involved... Read More

The Lies About World War II

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½May 13, 2019

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In the aftermath of a war, history cannot be written. The losing side has no one to speak for it. Historians on the winning side are constrained by years of war propaganda that demonized the enemy while obscuring the crimes of the righteous victors. People want to enjoy and feel good about their victory, not... Read More

American Pravda: How Hitler Saved the Allies •ï¿½59m ▶

Ron Unz •ï¿½May 13, 2019

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A couple of years ago I happened to be reading the World War II memoirs of Sisley Huddleston, an American journalist living in France. Although long since forgotten, Huddleston had spent decades as one of our most prominent foreign correspondents, and dozens of his major articles had appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic,... Read More

The Holy Hook

Yahwehâ€™s Trojan Horse into the Gentile City

Laurent GuyÃ©not •ï¿½May 8, 2019

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I concluded an earlier article by what I regard as the most important â€œrevelationâ€ of modern biblical scholarship, one that has the potential to free the Western world from a two-thousand-year-old psychopathic bond: the jealous Yahweh was originally just the national god of Israel, repackaged into â€œthe God of Heaven and Earthâ€ during the Babylonian... Read More

For the Record

Audacious Epigone •ï¿½April 13, 2019

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Things I am not: A white supremacist, defined by Merriam's as "a person who believes that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races". A white nationalist, defined as "one of a group of militant whites who espouse white supremacy and advocate... Read More

World IQ 82

Becker update V1.3.2

James Thompson •ï¿½April 10, 2019

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David Becker has released a new version of the Worldâ€™s IQ. Each country has a score showing the cognitive abilities of their citizens, this being a blend of genetics and the environment of each country, particularly as regards education and health. The worldâ€™s global score is 82. This is 12th percentile rank on the Greenwich... Read More

Zionism, Crypto-Judaism, and the Biblical Hoax

Laurent GuyÃ©not •ï¿½April 8, 2019

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â€œWhatâ€™s a neocon?â€ clueless George W. Bush once asked his father in 2003. â€œDo you want names, or a description?â€ answered Bush 41. â€œDescription.â€ â€œWell,â€ said 41, â€œIâ€™ll give it to you in one word: Israel.â€ True or not, that exchange quoted by Andrew Cockburn[1] sums it up: the neoconservatives are crypto-Israelis. Their true loyalty... Read More

Boeing 737 Max: The Upgrade

James Thompson •ï¿½March 18, 2019

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I may be too trusting, but I generally accept upgrades. Several months ago, I willingly accepted an iPhone operating system upgrade, and lost all the Notes I had stored on my phone. These notes contained bank and credit card details, passport details, and other useful things which I have to consult from time to time,... Read More

Boeing 737 Max: An Artificial Intelligence Event?

James Thompson •ï¿½March 11, 2019

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Conventional wisdom is that it is too early to speculate why in the past six months two Boeing 737 Max 8 planes have gone down shortly after take off, so if all that follows is wrong you will know it very quickly. Last night I predicted that the first withdrawals of the plane would happen... Read More

Immigration, Building a Wall, and Hispanic Crime •ï¿½42m ▶

Ron Unz •ï¿½January 14, 2019

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Back in November I published a long column discussing the results of the 2018 midterm elections and then a couple of weeks ago I also released a private letter I'd distributed to prominent figures in the Alt-Right movement back in 2017, suggesting some of the ways that their public positions had severely damaged their credibility... Read More

Swanning About: Fooled by Algebra?

James Thompson •ï¿½January 3, 2019

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb has tweeted a set of remarks about intelligence research. He has now gathered those together into one format, with links and explanations. There is no lack of confidence in his essay. There is much to discuss here, and what follows covers what I see as the main points. I have added some... Read More

13-year-old Mary Phagan, the girl raped and murdered by Leo Frank, the founding hero of the ADL

American Pravda: The ADL in American Society •ï¿½51m ▶

From the Leo Frank Case to the Present Day

Ron Unz •ï¿½October 15, 2018

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In our modern era, there are surely few organizations that so terrify powerful Americans as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith, a central organ of the organized Jewish community. Mel Gibson had long been one of the most popular stars in Hollywood and his 2004 film The Passion of the Christ became among the... Read More

American Pravda: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories •ï¿½1h18m ▶

Ron Unz •ï¿½September 10, 2018

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Back in 1999 I was invited to join Steve Sailer's HBD email group, where I encountered all sorts of interesting people. The participants were mostly intellectuals or journalists having sharply heterodox views about racial differences, especially those involving IQ and crime, and this was reflected in the somewhat euphemistic title, which stood for "Human Bio-Diversity."... Read More

9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV

Laurent GuyÃ©not •ï¿½September 10, 2018

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Thanks to courageous investigators, many anomalies in the official explanation of the events of 9/11 were posted on the Internet in the following months, providing evidence that this was a false flag operation, and that Osama bin Laden was innocent, as he repeatedly declared in the Afghan and Pakistani press and on Al Jazeera.[1] The... Read More

American Pravda: Holocaust Denial •ï¿½2h8m ▶

Analyzing the History of a Controversial Movement

Ron Unz •ï¿½August 27, 2018

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A few years ago I somehow heard about a ferocious online dispute involving a left-leaning journalist named Mark Ames and the editors of Reason magazine, the glossy flagship publication of America's burgeoning libertarian movement. Although I was deep in my difficult programming work, curiosity got the better of me, so I decided to take a... Read More

American Pravda: Jews and Nazis •ï¿½50m ▶

The Hidden History of the 1930s and 1940s

Ron Unz •ï¿½August 6, 2018

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Around 35 years ago, I was sitting in my college dorm-room closely reading the New York Times as I did each and every morning when I noticed an astonishing article about the controversial new Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir. Back in those long-gone days, the Gray Lady was strictly a black-and-white print publication, lacking the... Read More

American Pravda: Oddities of the Jewish Religion •ï¿½55m ▶

The Surprising Elements of Talmudic Judaism

Ron Unz •ï¿½July 16, 2018

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About a decade ago, I happened to be talking with an eminent academic scholar who had become known for his sharp criticism of Israeli policies in the Middle East and America's strong support for them. I mentioned that I myself had come to very similar conclusions some time before, and he asked when that had... Read More

American Pravda: The JFK Assassination, Part II â€“ Who Did It? •ï¿½57m ▶

Ron Unz •ï¿½June 25, 2018

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A strong dam may hold back an immense quantity of water, but once it breaks the resulting flood may sweep aside everything in its path. I had spent nearly my entire life never doubting that a lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald killed President John F. Kennedy nor that a different lone gunman took the... Read More

Did Israel Kill the Kennedys?

Laurent GuyÃ©not •ï¿½June 3, 2018

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Just after midnight of June 6, 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated in a backroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He had just been celebrating his victory at the California primaries, which made him the most likely Democratic nominee for the presidential election. His popularity was so great that Richard Nixon, on the... Read More

America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars

Shouldn't they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East?

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½September 19, 2017

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I spoke recently at a conference on Americaâ€™s war party where afterwards an elderly gentleman came up to me and asked, â€œWhy doesnâ€™t anyone ever speak honestly about the six-hundred-pound gorilla in the room? Nobody has mentioned Israel in this conference and we all know itâ€™s American Jews with all their money and power who... Read More

Pizzagate

Aedon Cassiel •ï¿½December 2, 2016

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Beginning in 1997, in an English town of more than 100,000 people, eight Pakistani men stood at the core of a group involving as many as three hundred suspects who abused, gang-raped, pimped and trafficked, by the most conservative estimate, well over a thousand of the townâ€™s young girls for years. The police were eventually... Read More

Polling Predictions Versus Actual Electoral Outcomes in the 2016 Presidential Election, by State

Audacious Epigone •ï¿½November 18, 2016

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The following table and map show Trump's electoral performance relative to RCP's two-way polling averages, by state. The poll results were averaged except for the few cases where no polling had been conducted since October 1--in those states, the most recent poll was used as the RCP 'average'. There was no polling data available at... Read More

A "Grand Bargain" on Immigration Reform? •ï¿½36m ▶

An alliance of pro-immigrant Democrats and anti-immigration Republicans could finally fix our broken system

Ron Unz •ï¿½October 3, 2016

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From everything I've heard Swedes seem like very pleasant people, rather agreeable to have around, while my personal experience with Mexicans leads me to a similar conclusion. But suppose so many millions of Swedes poured across the borders into our southern neighbor that within just a few decades Mexico City had become majority Swedish, while... Read More

An Obituary of The New York Times

Johannes Wahlstrom •ï¿½September 14, 2016

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A few years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and Bill Keller at The New York Times building on Manhattan. Keller was the long time editor in chief of the newspaper and Sulzberger its proprietor. We met at what must have been the 50th floor of the company headquarters, on 8th... Read More

Bigger Brains Cause Flynn Effect?

James Thompson •ï¿½December 22, 2015

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Considering that I spent 7 years studying the cognitive effects of cortical lesions sustained in childhood, I should have been open to the possibility that brains might have increased in size over the last century. If I thought about it at all, I think I assumed that any such increase was too small to notice.... Read More

The IQ Gap Is No Longer a Black and White Issue

Chanda Chisala •ï¿½June 25, 2015

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The fact that black immigrants to the United States have shown achievements that are superior to native black Americans has been a phenomenon studied since at least the 1970's. At first it was just the Caribbean blacks who were a subject of this unexpected outcome. As black Africans kept immigrating into the US, they showed... Read More

Gone with the Wind

James Thompson •ï¿½May 20, 2015

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Every now and then a blockbuster paper comes along which, like the 1939 top grossing $1,640,602,400 movie â€œGone with the Windâ€, carries all before it. It may be that â€œMeta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studiesâ€ byTinca Polderman, Beben Benyamin, Christiaan de Leeuw, Patrick Sullivan, Arjen van Bochoven,... Read More

The Strange Death of Osama Bin Laden

Linh Dinh •ï¿½May 18, 2015

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Since September 11, 2001, Bin Laden had been mostly an absence. His few video or audio tapes were highly suspect, and speculations about his death had often surfaced. On July 11, 2002, Amir Taheri wrote in the New York Times, "Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan... Read More

Postcard from the End of America: Washington D.C.

Linh Dinh •ï¿½March 11, 2015

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For nearly four years, I lived just 20 miles from Washington, in Annandale, VA, and I worked in D.C. for 9 months. From my home in Philadelphia, Iâ€™ve also gone down to Washington at least a hundred times, so this metropolis should not be alien to me, and yet no American city is more off... Read More

John McCain: When "Tokyo Rose" Ran for President •ï¿½28m ▶

What Was John McCain's True Wartime Record in Vietnam?

Ron Unz •ï¿½March 9, 2015

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Although the memory has faded in recent years, during much of the second half of the twentieth century the name â€œTokyo Roseâ€ ranked very high in our popular consciousness, probably second only to â€œBenedict Arnoldâ€ as a byword for American treachery during wartime. The story of Iva Ikuko Toguri, the young Japanese-American woman who spent... Read More

State IQ Estimates (2013)

Audacious Epigone •ï¿½January 25, 2015

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Like presidential elections, it has become standard for updated state IQ estimates based on NAEP scores for 8th graders on math and reading tests to be offered here every four years (for estimates based on 2005 and 2009 NAEP results, please click on the corresponding links). The scores for both tests are on a 500... Read More

Americans Should be Ashamed

A Modern Guernica Enabled by Washington

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½August 5, 2014

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The Obama Administration sent Secretary of State John Kerry to Israel to insist on a cease fire in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responds not only with a no but with a â€œhell noâ€ and Kerry backed down, but Bibi didn't let it end there, telling Kerry and US Ambassador Daniel Shapiro "don't ever... Read More

Guns & Violence, Again...

JayMan •ï¿½June 11, 2014

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With the recent spate of mass shootings, (at least four high-profile incidents occurring in the U.S. and Canada in the last two weeks), the issues of guns and violence inevitably come up. Naturally, the politically correct wisdom, which is founded on the blank slate (or at least, a bare slate), wants to blame these events... Read More

The Fateful Triangle: Russia, Ukraine and the Jews

Israel Shamir •ï¿½June 11, 2014

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The erotic reliefs of Hindu temples with their gravity-defying and anatomy-challenging positions have found a new modern competitor in the Ukrainian crisis. Each party wants to get the Jews on their side, while claiming that the other side is anti-Jewish and a Jewish puppet at once. This impossible, Kama-Sutraesque position is the result of extremely... Read More

How the Israel Lobby Works

Pressuring Candidates Even Before They Are Nominated

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½June 3, 2014

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The major organizations that comprise the Israel Lobby are well known: the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations and Christians United For Israel (CUFI). All are well known, benefiting from large budgets and staffs. They are extremely effective,... Read More

On Maya Angelou, Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Whining of Pampered Pets

John Derbyshire •ï¿½May 29, 2014

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The news of Maya Angelouâ€™s passing arrived just as I was bracing myself to write something about Ta-Nehisi Coatesâ€™ big cover story inAtlantic arguing that the U.S.A. should pay reparations to American blacks. [The Case for Reparations, May 21, 2014] Well â€¦ thatâ€™s not actually what Coates is arguing. Of the 57 occurrences of the... Read More

The Son Becomes the Father

Jayman •ï¿½March 31, 2014

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A vigorous discussion has been triggered by the release of Gregory Clark's The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility. In this book, Clark details his work which shows a large transmission of status from generation to generation, all across the world, going back centuries. The discussion has raged on the mode... Read More

On Nicholas Wadeâ€™s A TROUBLESOME INHERITANCEâ€”A Small, But Significant, Step for Race Realism

John Derbyshire •ï¿½March 14, 2014

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Every Tuesday the print edition of theNew York Times includes a Science section. I donâ€™t bother with it much, in spite of having been a science geek since infancy. Like most aspects of our metropolitan culture, the NYT Science section has been colonized by the hipster lifestyle. Girly concerns dominate, and there is very little... Read More

Israel Is No Ally

But is it even a friend?

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½March 13, 2014

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[This is an edited version of a speech given by me at the National Summit to Reassess the Israel-US Special Relationship, which took place at the National Press Center in Washington on March 7th. The all day event included speakers Stephen Walt, Justin Raimondo, Paul Pillar, Jeff Blankfort, Alan Brownfeld, Philip Weiss, Ray McGovern and... Read More

Digit Span: The Modest Little Bombshell

James Thompson •ï¿½March 4, 2014

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Digit Span must be one of the simplest tests ever devised. The examiner says a short string of digits at the rate of one digit a second in a monotone voice, and then the examinee repeats them. The examiner then tries a string which is one digit longer, and continues in this fashion with longer... Read More

Greg Cochran's "Gay Germ" Hypothesis - An Exercise in the Power of Germs

JayMan •ï¿½February 26, 2014

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Updated, 10/17/15. See below! In this post, I will review Gregory Cochran's "gay germ" hypothesis. I wanted to make an index of Cochran's posts from his and Henry Harpending's blog West Hunter that discuss it. These posts don't seem to all show up under the "Homosexuality" category there, and I wanted links to them to... Read More

The Problem with HBD, the Dark Enlightenment, Neoreaction, Alt-Rightism, and All That Jazz

JayMan •ï¿½February 21, 2014

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Courtesy super-commenter "misdreavus", over at West Hunter: let me point out that with notably few exceptions, so-called â€œHBDâ€ (or â€œhuman biodiversityâ€) is a movement that exists largely within the confines of the internet. This, of course, has done absolutely no favors to its dispersal within society at large, because if technology has taught us anything,... Read More

The First Industrial Revolution

Peter Frost •ï¿½January 18, 2014

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Eyed sewing needles from Ice Age Europe (17,000 to 10,000 BP). (source: Didier Descouens) As early modern humans spread farther north, they entered more challenging environments. This was particularly so when they left the boreal forests and entered the open steppe-tundra that covered much of northern Eurasia. Food was plentiful but largely took the form... Read More

The Good War, Revisited

The Bombing of Pearl Harbor: What FDR Knew

Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair •ï¿½December 27, 2013

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Each Pearl Harbor day offers a fresh opportunity for those who correctly believe â€¨that Franklin Roosevelt knew of an impending attack by the Japanese and welcomed it asâ€¨ a way of snookering the isolationists and getting America into the war. And year by year the evidence continues to mount. The Naval â€¨Instituteâ€™s website featured a... Read More

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What Race Were the Greeks and Romans?

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