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http://www.nytimes.com, By CANDICE MILLARD

What is striking about “Honor in the Dust,” Gregg Jones’s fascinating new book about the Philippine-American War, is not how much war has changed in more than a century, but how little.

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Professor Antal E. Fekete

The opium wars do not belong to the glorious episodes of Western history. Rather, they were instances of shameful behavior the West still has not lived down. Mercantilist governments resented the perpetual drain of silver from West to East in payment

News Link • Global Reported By Ryan Gauger
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The Political Commentator

This article by Dr. Robert Owens examines governments and leaders through time and finishes up with a look at our very own President Obama! "In 114 BC, Rome was a democratic Republic. Representatives elected by popular vote filled the Senate, and

News Link • Global Reported By Michael Haltman
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Recently by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Athens (then the big bully on block) wanted control over the little island of Melos as a strategic asset in its quarrel with Sparta. It gave the Melians an ultimatum: either submit to Athenian control or face annihilation.

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arclein

As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof tha

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AP

Final recordings President John F. Kennedy secretly made in the Oval Office include an eerie conversation about what would become the day of his funeral. In talking to staffers while trying to arrange his schedule, Kennedy remarked that Nov. 25 wa

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arclein

The Real German War Plan, Zuber examines Imperial Germany’s strategic dilemma in the period leading p to World War, giving the reader an analysis and comparison of the various prewar mobilization plans in conjunction with contemporary strategic milit

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Lew Rockwell

On December 8, 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved. They didn't have much of a choice of course. The Soviet Economy collapsed under its own weight as Ludwig von Mises had predicted decades before. Yet, when Gorbachev became premier of the USSR in 19

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blog.independent.org

December 7 marks 70 yrs since the attack on Pearl Harbor, that broke the non-interventionist spirit that had characterized the American people—an attitude that was informed by the utter failure of the United States’s entry in the last world war

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FFF.org

Should America actively support the Allies, especially Britain, by providing direct financial and indirect military aid? Or should America maintain its traditional role of nonintervention? (World War I had been the sole exception.)