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POINT OF VIEW
AND THINGS
richard lightner
5 days ago1 min read
John Pilger
https://www.coldtype.net/Assets.07/Essays/0807.Pilger.Chicago.pdf
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richard lightner
Dec 73 min read
ZIONISM
The Origins of Zionism: A Historical Perspective The emergence of Zionism is a complex narrative rooted in the historical, political, and...
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richard lightner
Dec 13 min read
AFGHANISTAN, edited by AI
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War, published in 2021 by Craig Whitlock, opens with a prescient quote from Supreme Court...
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richard lightner
Nov 2016 min read
2024 Presidential Election
“This is much worse than 2016 . . . Because I really did think we were better than this.” In my opinion, it is worse because he won the...
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richard lightner
Nov 13 min read
America, the Police State
Nancy Chang. Silencing Political Dissent . 2002. Online “Historically, the press has played a crucial watchdog role over our government...
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richard lightner
Oct 118 min read
Minority Rule
Ari Berman. Minority Rule: the right-wing attack on the will of the people - and the fight to resist . 2024 (Kindle Edition) The most...
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richard lightner
Sep 171 min read
FASCIST AMERICA
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jason+stanley+christane+amanpour
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richard lightner
Sep 11 min read
Corporate Death
https://web.archive.org/web/20240828102249/https://grist.org/transportation/the-forgotten-fight-to-ban-gas-powered-cars-in-the-1960s/
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richard lightner
Sep 15 min read
Global Boiling
Jeff Goodall. The Heat Will Kill You First” life and death on a scorched planet . 2023 Global Boiling is here. This book, published in...
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richard lightner
Aug 144 min read
Settler Colonialism - Hokkaido
New Cambridge History of Japan. Volume III, the Modern Japanese Nation and Empire, c. 1868 to the Twenty-First Century . Laura Hein ed....
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richard lightner
Aug 1213 min read
Who Killed JFK?
David Talbot. The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the rise of America’s secret government. Point of View and Things about...
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richard lightner
Aug 45 min read
Democrats are Frauds
Thomas Frank. Listen Liberal or whatever happened to the party of the people? 2016 Journalist Thomas Frank asks serious political...
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richard lightner
Aug 37 min read
Have a Conscience
Norman Thomas. Is Conscience a Crime? 1923, 1927 In the midst of our current wars and global boiling, this book and the views of the...
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richard lightner
Aug 216 min read
Evil in American Diplomacy
JOHN FOSTER DULLES At the end of 1949, after the Russian coup in Czechoslovakia, the first Russian atomic test, and the convictions of...
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richard lightner
Jul 291 min read
Historians and Things: the American Revolution
Historians and Things “Whether the founders are studiously ignored or condescendingly reviled with the academy, the effect on the larger...
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richard lightner
Jul 291 min read
Thomas Paine
The leader of this was Thomas Paine. He had a “deep sense of social justice” and an ability to write inspiringly. “He became the prophet...
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richard lightner
Jul 293 min read
Republic vs. Central Government
Republic vs. Central Government To counter King George’s point of view and things about rule, “The solution was shared sovereignty,...
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richard lightner
Jul 291 min read
Non-Whites
Slavery The Revolution “made it virtually impossible to end slavery or reach a just accommodation with the Native Americans.” (Ellis 6)...
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richard lightner
Jul 292 min read
George Washington
Washington looked down upon his soldiers, describing them as dirty and nasty. (Ellis 44) Washington was not a “military hero. . . . it...
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richard lightner
Jul 291 min read
The Thirteen Colonies
The thirteen colonies were a provincial backwater of the British Empire. They “managed to establish a set of ideas and institutions that...
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