United States

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• 11/17/19
  

  Cracked Foundations: The Case for Reparations

  by Julia Brown

  Compensation for historically disadvantaged minorities is nothing new.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/7/19
  

  Before 1619, there was 1526: The mystery of the first enslaved Africans in what became the United States

  by Gillian Brockell

  Spanish explorers brought 100 slaves to a doomed settlement in South Carolina or Georgia. Within weeks, the subjugated revolted, then vanished.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/3/19
  

  World War II Launched a New Age of Global Power. 80 Years After the War Began, That Era Is Ending

  by David Kaiser

  The world order created after World War II has begun to collapse. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/6/19
  

  If We Want to Address the Crisis of Veteran Suicide, We Must Acknowledge Its History

  by Simon Harold Walker

  The growing issue of veteran suicide and how to solve it rarely focuses on the history of the problem.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-9-18
  

  Stumbling Toward Armageddon

  by Sergey Radchenko

  Newly declassified documents show why the Americans and the Soviets came so close to war in 1973.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  3-25-14
  

  Obama honors American WWI dead at Flanders Field

  Obama will visit the Belgian cemetery Wednesday.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3-19-14
  

  Drawing on history, Putin announces annexation of Crimea

  Putin cited the breakup of the Soviet Union and the tenth-century baptism of Prince Vladimir, among other examples.

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• 3-18-14
  

  Crimea and the Dark Side of Self-Determination

  by Walter G. Moss

  Too often self-determination is a mere excuse for territorial acquisition. Just ask Hitler. Or Milosevic.

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• 3-17-14
  

  A Russo-Iranian Bloc against the United States?

  by Juan Cole

  Putin and Rouhani are rapidly uniting behind an anti-American banner.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  3-10-14
  

  Why America Must Stop Comparing Ukraine To World War II

  by Will Cathcart

  Hawkish talk by U.S. politicians and Putin-as-Hitler comparisons are turning the crisis in Crimea into a powder keg that could harm our allies in the region.

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• 3-12-14
  

  America's Dien Bien Phu Syndrome

  by John Prados

  America should have learned its lesson in 1954: firepower is not enough to win wars.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3-8-14
  

  Why Russia can’t afford another Cold War

  Moscow has a stock market.

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• 2-17-14
  

  Russia and America Were Once BFFs -- Why Not Again?

  by Jane Hampton Cook

  In the nineteenth century, relations between the U.S. and the Russian Empire were nothing but cordial. Could that happen again?

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• 2-10-14
  

  U.S.-China: Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Rivalry Redux?

  by Tim Roberts

  Despite all the recent WWI analogies, Sino-American relations may more closely resemble an earlier time.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  1-28-14
  

  The Pacific Pivot

  by John Feffer

  Why America’s strategic rebalance is really just retreat.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11-24-13
  

  World War II still casts long shadow on Asian relations

  A growing chill between South Korea and Japan over history creates problems for the U.S.

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• SOURCE: Atlantic Council
  11-14-13
  

  The Russia Factor in the Egyptian-American Relationship

  by Mark N. Katz

  Good relations between Moscow and Cairo do not preclude good relations between Cairo and Washington.

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• SOURCE: The Mainichi
  10-30-13
  

  Japan pressed U.S. in 1957 summit for deadline on Okinawa's return

  But the Japanese prime minister endorsed the continuing presence of U.S. forces in Okinawa.

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• 10-3-13
  

  The Italian Job

  by David Vine

  How the Pentagon is using your tax dollars to turn Italy into a launching pad for the wars of today and tomorrow.

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• SOURCE: Truthdig
  9-2-13
  

  The West's Chemical Weapons Hypocrisy

  by Juan Cole

  British firms received licenses to sell chemical agents to Syria in 2012... and that's just the tip of the iceberg.