White people are not being “replaced” by invading non-whites, who have been here all along–because the U.S. incorporated them as we expanded
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Tom Ricks and The Generals: Why the US succeeded in WWII but not Since
Tom Ricks, award-winning military journalist, gives the Nimitz Lecture on why the US military succeeded in WW II but had so much trouble in the […]
Omar Khayyam (283) “Last night I wandered into a dark pottery workshop”
Last night I wandered into a dark pottery workshop and saw about two thousand pots lined up in silence. But then suddenly a vase cried out, […]
Annals of Settler Colonialism: British Atrocities in Post-War Kenya
The anti-colonial movement in Kenya of the 1950s was mythologized by the British as a shadowy ‘Mau-Mau,’ an irrational outbreak of aimless hatred. In fact, […]
What Juan is Tweeting Today (Readings on Middle East, Environment)
Top Ten Things Mitt Romney Gets Wrong about US Middle East Policy
Gov. Romney published an op-ed on Monday criticizing President Obama’s Middle East policies. Aside from urging ‘strength,’ however, Romney offers no concrete alternative. And, he […]
Omar Khayyam (337) “I venerate the finest vintage so as to avoid self-worship”
I sip at wine, but never to get drunk, and I assail no one, save for my glass. I venerate the finest vintage so as […]
Annals of Settler Colonialism (6): German Namibia #savagesunite
In an early instance of Neoliberalism, the German concentration camps for the remnants of the genocided Herero were sometimes given to private companies to run […]
Health-Killing Coal Plant Finally Closes in Alexandria, Va.; Virginia: Put in Wind Turbines!
A notorious polluting coal plant has finally been closed in Alexandria, Va. It had been giving locals lung and heart problems for years. Ironically, the […]
Did Bashar al-Assad Betray Qaddafi?
The polemicists of the fringe left and the far right who depict the Baathist regime in Syria as a beleagured victim of Western plotting may […]
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