WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2023
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Referring to democracy, “The will of men is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided. Men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence. It does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, until each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America [1831] |
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November 8, 2023
Israeli Officials Are Right About Hiroshima and Nagasaki
In an effort to justify the Israeli government’s massive infliction of death and destruction on the people of Gaza, the New York Times reports that “Israeli officials privately invoked the 1945 U.S atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” in conversations with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken…. |
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