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Students Told to Disavow ‘American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality’

Students Told to Disavow ‘American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality’ | MN News Hound | Scoop.it

Being judged and forced to act a certain way is antithetical to how any institution of higher education should conduct itself.

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Syrian NGOs Working Directly With British Government

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“The coverage by the corporate-owned Western media exclusively relies on “activists inside and outside the country,” the London-based “Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Centre” which apparently has no web presence, the Damascus Center for Human Rights which boasts memberships with the National Endowment for Democracy and Tides Foundation-funded International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, funded by the European Union, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, and Humanity United.

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The Council on Foreign Relations and the “Grand Area” of the American Empire

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By: Andrew Gavin Marshall

Chapter Excerpt: The Making of the American Empire

The process of establishing an American Empire during and after World War II was not – as has been postulated (by those who even admit there is such a thing as an ‘American Empire’) – an ‘accident’ of history, something America seemingly stumbled into as a result of its unhindered economic growth and military-political position as arbiter of world peace and prosperity. A vast literature has developed in the academic realm and policy circles – particularly within Political Science and the think tank community, respectively – which postulates a notion of ‘American empire’ or ‘American hegemony’ as accidental, incidental, benevolent, reluctant, and desirable.

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Out of Chaos, Order: Now IMF Seeks Collective, World Bail-Out of Europe

Out of Chaos, Order: Now IMF Seeks Collective, World Bail-Out of Europe | MN News Hound | Scoop.it

Right on schedule, the International Monetary Fund's Christine Lagarde has emerged to call for a united, Western effort to salvage the Eurozone and perhaps the euro.

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