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America’s position as the sole great power within the international system has come to an end. The future of the liberal world order has become precarious. Brief History & Theoretical Concepts in International Relations The balance of power within the...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 10:11 PM PST
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Whether ethnic cleansing or genocide, the internal or external displacement of populations by force or appropriation is always an attack on domiciles. Domicide becomes a covering term for the abuse of state power in removing domiciles. NEW YORK (28...
by annieli
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on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 06:30 AM PST
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“Preliminary results from MIP [Military Intervention Project] show that the US has increased its military usage of force abroad since the end of the Cold War. Over this period the US has preferred the direct usage of force over threats or displays of...
by frankfaiola
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on Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 12:20 PM PDT
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Given that the past few weeks (or months) have been rather big in terms of US foreign policy, I thought I might post something on it from the point of view of some of those most affected by that policy. I hope you will take a look at my argument....
by AVeng
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on Tue Jul 26, 2022 at 09:02 AM PDT
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Five days ago, I wrote a diary about religion. Organized religion. I stated that in my first sentence. I didn’t put that stipulation in the title of my diary, and maybe that was the first misstep. Throughout, my tone was irreverent. Flippant. Pointed....
by novapsyche
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on Mon May 23, 2022 at 02:48 PM PDT
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The Guardian this morning described how the Kent State Massacre polarized America into conservative vs. liberal camps that was played in the Media as a generational divide. Fifty years ago today, 28 soldiers opened fire on anti-Vietnam war...
by Helenoftrouble
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on Mon May 04, 2020 at 07:00 AM PDT
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For most of my life I have been taught the “you say potato and I say potahto” lesson in regard to politics. It’s simple really, liberals have a donkey tattoo dress in blue and love the government, conservatives have an elephant tattoo wear red and hate...
by KPMauros13
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on Wed Aug 21, 2019 at 09:47 AM PDT
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There have been long debates in the past over whether a work of art can be separated from its artist if that artist is a terrible person. There have been many popular movies, songs, books, and other assorted pieces of culture which have been created by...
by Doctor RJ
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on Mon Aug 20, 2018 at 07:30 PM PDT
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Like privilege and entitled discourse, we know nothing else about ideology or class when growing up and it is when we realize that those informing us of what seem to be “natural” social relations are only hegemonic manifestations that enslave our...
by annieli
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on Sun Mar 25, 2018 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Seems like a lot of otherwise clear-thinking people are falling for the Fox News claptrap about liberals not being “open-minded” enough. This is how you wind up with another white conservative ...
by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue May 02, 2017 at 06:50 AM PDT
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Emotions all a muck swirling in a giant vortex as we approach the dawn of the rest of our existence…rage…hate…anger…fear…sorrow…sadness… disgust…no trust. A myriad of feelings followed the most bizarre election in the history of the United States of...
by veraberneece
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on Sun Nov 20, 2016 at 03:43 PM PST
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It’s official: for the last three years, children younger than one year of age have no racial or ethnic group as a majority. This is according to a new Census Bureau population estimate and being reported by the Pew Research Center.
The bureau’s...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Jun 23, 2016 at 11:49 AM PDT
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(even though it’s emotionally fun and “entertaining”) and start opposing “terrorist” ideologies and tactics instead.
People educated in those ideologies and tactics and armed with support from a
by bob wahr
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on Sun Feb 14, 2016 at 05:05 PM PST
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To imagine that our times are defined primarily by the struggle between “liberalism” and “conservatism” or between the Democratic and Republican parties is to be dangerously distracted and misled. The
by Geenius at Wrok
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on Wed Nov 18, 2015 at 02:55 PM PST
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...based on "flawed intelligence". Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used flawed intelligence to mislead.
Refusing to admit that invading and occupying Iraq was a ...
by Eric Nelson
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on Sat May 23, 2015 at 01:58 AM PDT
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by Eric Nelson
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on Thu Mar 26, 2015 at 02:44 PM PDT
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..declared Ron Teehan , a resident of Guam who was active in the Chamorro rights movement , and may as well have been speaking of Puerto Rico's fight against the U.S. policy of alien-citizen-status ...
by Eric Nelson
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on Thu Mar 26, 2015 at 02:12 AM PDT
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"I'm outraged,"
by Samuel Vargo
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on Fri Feb 13, 2015 at 12:12 AM PST
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To imagine that our times are defined by the struggle between "left" and "right," between "liberalism" and "conservatism" or between the Democratic and Republican parties is to be perilously ...
by Geenius at Wrok
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on Fri Jul 04, 2014 at 05:35 PM PDT
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Here we present a simple solution to see that a fad is the result of the same type of behavior that causes any other good to be purchased. It is the characteristic of the good, and the interaction ...
by annieli
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on Sun Jun 29, 2014 at 03:00 PM PDT
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