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The Perpetual Emergency Excuse

With 9/11 on the minds of Americans again, it is interesting to see how sentiment regarding it has moved from misplaced rage and nationalistic xenophobia to recognition of something larger lost than even those who died that day. The great Dave Smith was partially right: more from A Twisted History of the United States, 1450-1945:…
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February 26, 1898: TR Began His Warmonger-In-Chief Career With a Telegram

121 years ago today (in fact nearly to the hour I write this), the then Assistant Secretary of the Navy (!), Theodore Roosevelt ordered the Pacific Squadron of Commodore George Dewey to ready for an attack of the Spanish fleet docked in Manilla. That’s right: Before the Congress acted and without anyone’s knowledge, this warmonger…
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