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| Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Great Hysteria |
By Andrew Bacevich 2017-08-10
... Trump is not cause, but consequence.... the election of 2016 constituted a de facto referendum on the course of recent American history.... Precepts that members of the policy elite have long treated as self-evident no longer command the backing or assent of the American people. Put simply: it’s the ideas, stupid.... preliminary steps toward devising some new paradigm to replace a post-Cold-War consensus that, in promoting transnational corporate greed, mistaking libertinism for liberty, and embracing militarized neo-imperialism as the essence of statecraft, has paved the way for the presidency of Donald Trump. |
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| The nuclear bomb didn't beat Japan — Stalin did |
By Ward Wilson 2017-08-08
...the story we have been telling ourselves seems pretty far removed from the facts. What are we to think about nuclear weapons if this enormous first accomplishment — the miracle of Japan’s sudden surrender — turns out to be a myth? |
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