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Who Do We Owe and How Much? :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets...

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Letters: Scenes from St. Paul -- Democracy Nows Amy Goodman arrested -...

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Amazon.com: Peoples History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S...

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YouTube - John Adams HBO Full Length Trailer!!

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." John Adams "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." John Adams, Journal, 1772 "Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives." John Adams, Letter to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1808 "More quotations on: [Patriotism] Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide." John Adams, Letter, April 15, 1814 "

How Hitler Became a Dictator by Jacob G. Hornberger

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Dissent Magazine

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The History of Valentine's Day

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Truthdig - Reports - America in the Time of Empire

Dec 9, 2007 1:30am    (4 reviews)  history  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2007...

All great empires and nations decay from within. By the time they hobble off the world stage, overrun by the hordes at the gates or vanishing quietly into the pages of history books, what made them successful and powerful no longer has relevance. This rot takes place over decades, as with the Soviet Union, or, even longer, as with the Roman, Ottoman or Austro-Hungarian empires. It is often imperceptible.

40 Hiroshima pictures they didnt want us to see | Springoo

Dec 2, 2007 10:53am    (170 reviews)  history, war  http://www.springoo.com/history/hiroshim...

Before the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima the USA did not negotiate the needed incentives: allowing them to retain their Emperor, who they believed to be a god or threaten invasion by our allies Russia or convey the horrific atomic destruction of the bombs as the alternative. None of these key incentives to surrender were used prior to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The overwhelming majority of the dead were civilians. Nuking Japan was not needed to save American lives nether is nuking Iran. This all or nothing, no compromise, non-negotiation tactic is what will lead to nuking Iran and starting WWIII. The Japanese did not serenader because they were told they had to give up there Emperor who they believed to be a god. So, giving up there emperor was not an option. Would you sacrifice your God or would you fight for him. That was the option given to them. HERBERT HOOVER told President Truman "I am convinced that if you, as President, will make a shortwave broadcast to the people of Japan - tell them they can have their Emperor if they surrender, that it will not mean unconditional surrender except for the militarists - you'll get a peace in Japan - you'll have both wars over." He also said "...the Japanese were prepared to negotiate all the way from February 1945...up to and before the time the atomic bombs were dropped; ...if such leads had been followed up, there would have been no occasion to drop the [atomic] bombs." In early May of 1946 Hoover met with General Douglas MacArthur. Hoover recorded in his diary, "I told MacArthur of my memorandum of mid-May 1945 to Truman, that peace could be had with Japan by which our major objectives would be accomplished. MacArthur said that was correct and that we would have avoided all of the losses, the Atomic bomb, and the entry of Russia into Manchuria." MacArthur biographer William Manchester has described MacArthur's reaction to the issuance by the Allies of the Potsdam Proclamation to Japan: "...the Potsdam declaration in July, demand[ed] that Japan surrender unconditionally or face 'prompt and utter destruction.' MacArthur was appalled. He knew that the Japanese would never renounce their emperor, and that without him an orderly transition to peace would be impossible anyhow, because his people would never submit to Allied occupation unless he ordered it. Ironically, when the surrender did come, it was conditional, and the condition was a continuation of the imperial reign. Had the General's advice been followed, the resort to atomic weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki might have been unnecessary." DWIGHT EISENHOWER "...in [July] 1945... Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act. ...the Secretary, upon giving me the news of the successful bomb test in New Mexico, and of the plan for using it, asked for my reaction, apparently expecting a vigorous assent. "During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face'. The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude..." - Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate For Change, pg. 380

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Dec 2, 2007 10:49am    (468 reviews)  history  http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17...