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  • Twenty Years after 9/11—Are We Better Off?

    Twenty Years after 9/11—Are We Better Off?0

    When the hijacked planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that first 9/11, the Taliban were in control of Afghanistan and providing sanctuary for al-Qaida. Today, the Taliban are in control of Afghanistan and providing sanctuary to al-Qaida. What then did our longest war accomplish?      The Afghan army and

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  • Is Democracy Versus Autocracy the New Cold War?

    Is Democracy Versus Autocracy the New Cold War?0

    “He may be an SOB, but he’s our SOB.” So said President Franklin D. Roosevelt of Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, and how very American. For, from its first days, America has colluded with autocrats when the national interest demanded it.  George Washington danced a jig in 1778 when he learned that our diplomats had effected

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  • Cacophony and Confusion in Foreign Policy

    Cacophony and Confusion in Foreign Policy0

    When President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the country was united behind him. The America First Committee, the largest anti-war movement in our history, which had the backing of President Herbert Hoover and future Presidents John F. Kennedy and Gerald Ford, was

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  • A Nurse Shares Six Reasons for Health Care Decline

    A Nurse Shares Six Reasons for Health Care Decline0

    Sally* has worked as a nurse in an operating room for more than 30 years. She’s seen horrors most of us can only imagine, gunshot victims, patients maimed beyond belief, the dead from failed surgeries carted off to the morgue. Right now, she’s witnessing the decline of American health care. That decline is taking place

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  • Ivermectin: Horse Hockey Versus Truth

    Ivermectin: Horse Hockey Versus Truth0

    Shhhhh. The information I’m about to share with you is dangerous and subversive. You cannot publish it on social media platforms without risking scary labels and permanent suspensions. You and anyone you discuss this topic with will be called anti-science “kooks,” “conspiracy theorists” or “quacks.” So be it. I’ve been called every pejorative name in

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  • Bad Moon Rising for Biden—and Us

    Bad Moon Rising for Biden—and Us0

    “April is the cruelest month,” wrote T. S. Eliot in the opening line of what is regarded as his greatest poem, “The Waste Land.” For President Joe Biden, the cruelest month is surely August of 2021, which is now mercifully ending. When has a president had a worse month?       On the last Sunday in August,

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