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The Fascist Dictator Who Saved Europe From Fascism

At the time, many people saw Franco’s victory as a victory for fascism. Yet Franco’s success set the stage for Hitler and Mussolini’s demise.

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Will Artificial Intelligence Make the Thucydides Trap Worse?

September 8, 2019September 8, 2019 daniel Artificial Intelligence War, Could AI Warfare Lead to Mass Casualties?, How AI could make the Thucydides Trap worse, Is it Time to Ban AI Weapons, Swarm Warfare is here, The 21st Century Thucydides Trap and Artificial Intelligence, The AI Arms Race has begun, The Thucydides Trap: Why the Spratly Islands Should Scare You to Death, Thucydides Trap, Will Artificial Intelligence Lead to Endless War?, Will Artificial Intelligence Make the Thucydides Trap Worse?

Moreover, today’s great powers are deploying dangerous and poorly understood new military technologies, as in 1914. In today’s world; though, the most destructive of those technologies could be artificial intelligence.

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How Lenin Explains Modern American Conservatism

September 7, 2019September 7, 2019 daniel American Leninism in the Name of Freedom, Can American Conservationism overcome Leninist Corruption?, How Lenin Explains Modern American Conservatism, Leninist Corruption in Washington, Modern American Conservatism, Neoconservative Leninists, Some of the Leninist Ideas behind American Conservatism, The Catastrophe of America’s Conservative Leninism, The Corruption of Communism, The Leninist Roots of American Conservatism, The Neoconservative Utopia, Vladimir I. Lenin

Notably, Monbiot writes of Charles Koch; “Murray Rothbard; at the Cato Institute that Koch founded, had urged the billionaire to study Lenin’s techniques and apply them to the libertarian cause. Between them, they began to develop a programme for changing the rules.”

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Media Racism is alive and well on the Digital Campaign Trail

September 6, 2019September 6, 2019 daniel Can a Crazy Billionaire Presidential Candidate Save CNN from Oblivion?, Can Shari Redstone save CBS News?, CNN Nominates Another Great White Male Hope, Is Biden Third in the Primary?, Is CNN promoting a Rich Nut’s Presidential Campaign because he is White?, Media Racism, Media Racism is alive and well on the Digital Campaign Trail, Media’s ideological bias on Display, the Digital Campaign Trail, Why is CNN Promoting a Fringe Presidential Candidate?, Why Warren and Bernie are winning the Democratic primary

Thus, CNN is paying more attention to a rich white man who allegedly paid canvassers to go door to door to get enough supporters to make the debate than an Asian with real grassroots support. If that is not racism, I do not know what is.

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American Families need a Basic Income Not the Baby Bond

August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 daniel A Basic Income is better than the Baby Bond, American Families need a Basic Income Not the Baby Bond, Baby Bond, How the Baby Bond will Enrich Wall Street, My Alternative to the Baby Bond, The Baby Bond is Bad for the Economy, The Baby Bond is stupid, Why can’t the Elite Trust Average Americans with Money?, Why the Baby Bond could Lose Money

Moreover, the Baby Bonds could make very little money if they work like other government investment instruments. To clarify, the interest rate on a popular government-issued investment; the 20-year Long-Term Treasury note ,was 1.83% on 21 August 2019, Treasury.gov calculates.

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What we can learn from America’s Most Underrated President?

August 24, 2019August 24, 2019 daniel America’s Most Underrated President, America’s Worst Presidents or America’s Greatest White Supremacists?, Grant vs. Andrew Jackson, Grant vs. James Buchanan, Grant was a Far Better President than You Think, How President Grant Fought Racism, Third, Ulysses S. Grant, Underrated President, Why Do Historians Pick on Grant?

Unfortunately, Grant is the target of what amounts to a 147-year smear campaign by racists. “This man has suffered from more misleading stereotypes than perhaps any other figure in American history,” author Ron Chernow tells the PBS News Hour.

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Lessons from the Cold War

August 17, 2019August 19, 2019 daniel Cold War II, Important Lessons from the Cold War, Is it Cold War II or World War One All Over Again?, Lesson One: Diplomacy and Friendship will not Resolve Ideological Differences, Lesson Three: War is not Inevitable or Unavoidable, Lesson Two Alliances Lead to War, New Cold War, second Cold War

Alliances between the so-called superpowers and weak third-rate powers caused three of the most dangerous Cold War battles.

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Five Worst United States Presidents

August 10, 2019August 10, 2019 daniel 1.James Buchanan (D-Pennsylvania) 1857-1861, 2.Woodrow Wilson (D-New Jersey) 1913-1921, 3.James Madison Jr. (R-Virginia) 1809-1817, 4.Andrew Jackson (D-Tennessee) 1829-1837, Five Worst United States Presidents, Interesting Facts about James Buchanan, Some James Madison Tidbits, Some Strange Facts about Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson Fun Facts

The crisis makes or breaks the president. Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-New York) and Abraham Lincoln (R-Illinois) became great through crisis response. Conversely, Herbert Hoover and James Buchanan’s failure to deal with crises destroyed their reputations.

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Lessons America can Learn from the French Revolution

August 3, 2019August 3, 2019 daniel America in 2019 and France in 1789, Con-Con, Court Packing, Lesson Two: Gridlock can lead to Revolution, Lessons America can Learn from the French Revolution, lessons from the French Revolution, Lessons Modern America can Learn from the French Revolution, Second Constitutional Convention

In the final analysis, America in 2019 and France in 1789 have a lot in common. Both countries were big, powerful, and technologically advanced nations with great income inequality and ineffective governments. France’s inability to fix its problems led to revolution.

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Get Ready for the No-Jobs Future

July 20, 2019July 20, 2019 daniel AI is Coming for Your Job, Get Ready for the No-Jobs Future, How to Prepare for the No Jobs Future, jobs free future, No-Jobs Future, Technological Jobs Apocalypse

Thus, one in four Americans runs a high risk of losing his or her job to a machine in the next decade. Ominously, Brookings’ brains think robots threaten many menial jobs long believed resistant to technological unemployment.