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What we can Learn from Coups

December 8, 2019December 8, 2019 daniel America’s Obsession with Coups, Coups can Backfire, Coups can lead to Bloodshed, Coups in America, Coups need Popular Support, Fear leads to Coups, Illegality leads to Coups, intelligence coup, Silent Coup, The Intelligence Coup Conspiracy, What is a Coup?, What we can Learn from Coups, What we can Learn from Coups in History

In America, there is a growing obsession with coups on both the right and the left.

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What we can Learn from Dead Democracies

December 1, 2019December 1, 2019 daniel America’s Moderates are Emulating Pinochet and Maduro, Dead Democracies, death of democracy, Fear is the Enemy of Democracy, Fear Kills Democracy, Fears of Outside Influence can Destroy Democracy, Income Inequality Kills Democracy, Loss of Social Status Threatens Democracy, Social Status and Tyranny, What Dead Democracies can Teach us, What we can Learn from Dead Democracies

Many democracies die because some group or class becomes frightened of everybody else in the country.

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Why Can’t America see how Stupid Trump is? It’s the Media

November 30, 2019November 30, 2019 daniel how Stupid Trump is, How the Media Perpetuates Trump lies, How the Media Wrecked Britain, Media Lies that Led to Trump, The High Cost of Media Lies about Iraq, The Lies that Led to Brexit, Where do We Go From here?, Why Can’t America see how Stupid Trump is? It’s the Media

Likewise, the American media created Trump by swallowing over a decade of lies from U.S. leaders.

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Did China Just Win the Trade War?

November 24, 2019November 24, 2019 daniel Can Trump Win without Trade?, Did China Just Win the Trade War?, Is the Trade War a Sham?, Is Trump afraid of a Trade War?, Sorry Donald, The American Century is Over, The Meaningless Trade War, Trade Surrender Makes Sense for Trump, Trade War Damage, Trump vs. The World Trade Organization

Yet Trump is surrendering in the face of some tiny trade war losses. Possibly out of fear the trade war could lead to major economic losses.

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The Horrors of the Crusades

November 23, 2019November 23, 2019 daniel “The Crusade Against Christians”, 1. The Fourth Crusade, 2. The Alexandrian Crusade, 3. The Sacks of Jerusalem, 4. The Children’s Crusade, 5. The Destruction of the Cities, greatest horror of the Crusades, the Fourth Crusade, The Horrors of the Crusades

The greatest horror of the Crusades was the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204). The Fourth Crusade was the most cynical and ruthless war in human history.

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Lessons we Can Learn from the Crusades

November 16, 2019November 16, 2019 daniel Chivalry was for the Rich, Economics Trumps Religion in Warfare, Lessons we Can Learn from the Crusades, Terrorism and Piracy can lead to Disaster, War Does not produce Security, Wars of Religion usually turn into Religious Civil Wars, What we can Learn from the Crusades

Hence, the Fourth Crusade destroyed one of the greatest Christian states; which had endured for nearly 1,000 years. In Byzantium’s place, the Crusaders organized the so-called Latin Empire of Constantinople (1204-1261); which lasted for less than 60 years.

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What Impeachment Needs to be About

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 daniel Both Trump and Congress Shirk their Duty, Climate Change kills Americans and Trump does nothin, How McConnell and Pelosi could Rig Impeachment to Fail, Impeachment Needs to Be About Climate Change, the President’s Syrian oil grab, Trump’s Climate High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Trump’s greatest crimes, Trump’s Real High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Trump’s Syria Oil Plunder could be a War Crime, Trump’s war on Climate Change, What Impeachment Needs to be About

If we are to tear our country apart with the unnecessary drama of impeachment let’s at least fight over real issues. There is public evidence of real wrongdoing by Trump we can easily access without secret hearings or shadowy informants.

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What a 1930s Basic Income Crusader can Teach Us about Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend and Social Security

October 26, 2019October 26, 2019 daniel Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend and Social Security, Dr. Francis E. Townsend, Old Age Revolving Pension Plan, Social Rights, Social Security for Everybody?, The 1930s Basic Income Crusade that Scared FDR, The Dysfunctional Economy and Basic Income, The Letter to the Editor that Changed America, The Right to Income, the Townsend Plan, The Townsend Plan vs. Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend, What a 1930s Basic Income Crusader can Teach Us about Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend and Social Security, Why Democrats will Embrace the Freedom Dividend, Yang vs. Townsend

Yang and Sanders, like Townsend, are fighting for a paradigm shift in American political philosophy. They want a society that meets the basic needs of all citizens.

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Lessons we can Learn from the Soviet Union

October 20, 2019October 20, 2019 daniel A few lessons we can learn from the Soviet Union include:, Ideology cannot Nullify Economics, Imperialism Creates Enemies and Breeds Insecurity, Lessons we can Learn from the Soviet Union, Military Might Cannot Save Your Nation, Soviet view of technology, Technology Alone will Not Save You, the American version of the Soviet fallacy, What we Can Learn from the Soviet Union

Hence, the Soviet Union; like the United States, was an empire that claimed not be an empire. Thus, you can call the USSR and the United States, empires built on hypocrisy.

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Lessons we can Learn from the Ottoman Empire

October 19, 2019October 19, 2019 daniel Empires will become Overextended, Imperial Decline is Often Exaggerated, Lessons we can Learn from the Ottoman Empire, Sick Man of Europe, Some lessons we can learn from the Ottomans and their impressive empire include:, the Ottoman Empire

The Ottomans prove that even badly governed and backward empires can survive many defeats and last for a long time. Given that history, today’s empires like the United States, the European Union, the Russian Federation, and the People’s Republic of China could endure for a long time.