Tag: history
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A post-structural response to wargames – Exitocracy
Exitocracy: Liberal or Socialist? The inescapability of power can be highlighted by taking into consideration the relational understanding of power that Foucault advanced. The most extensive account of his view of power/freedom is presented in The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge, originally published in French in 1976, where he states that Power must…
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Was Abraham Lincoln an American Martyr for Emancipation?
Select excerpts from “The martyr president: a discourse delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, Penn Yan, N.Y., Sabbath morning, April 16th, 1865, on the death of Abraham Lincoln“ The citizens of these United States are today in the dust, agonized, bewildered, stunned by the national calamity which has smitten them down. Sudden as the crashing…
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True History: All Wars are Bankers’ Wars
ALL WARS ARE BANKERS’ WARS [Transcript:] -Michael Rivero (2013) “The most hated sort [of moneymaking], and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural use of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this…