Giving Thanks for All the Wrong Reasons
VIA Center for a Stateless SocietyMost Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving this year as they have done most every year in modern times – by family gathering to socialize, eat turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and gravy – with perhaps a brief thought spared for the first Thanksgiving in 1621, when a small group of colonists from England broke bread with some Wampanoag indians in celebration of their survival a year after arriving at Cape Cod in their sailing vessel, the Mayflower.Many present-day Americans have a kind of idolatry associated with thos

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What Is Totalitarianism?
Part I by Michael Kleen November 12, 2009 If the United States came under the control of a totalitarian regime, would we recognize it? This question is of utmost importance today, when many of us harbor fears that some time in the near future ideas such as freedom, liberty, and privacy will be alien to our society. But as we witness the regular passage of legislati

Deception Has Always Been The Name Of Zionism’s Game
By Alan Hart November 27, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu described his offer to temporarily restrict construction of all-new Jewish settlements on the West Bank excluding Arab East Jerusalem as a “far-re

Why They Hate Us (I): On Military Occupation
By Stephen M. Walt November 24, 2009 "FP" -- One of the many barriers to developing a saner U.S. foreign policy is our collective failure to appreciate why military occupations generate so much hatred,