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  • Sad but True: The Republican Party Somehow Still Exists

    By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed

    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with other Senate Republicans during a news conference on Capitol hill in Washington, DC, June 27, 2017. (Photo: Eric Thayer / The New York Times)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with other Senate Republicans during a news conference on Capitol hill in Washington, DC, June 27, 2017. (Photo: Eric Thayer / The New York Times)

    How does this groaning calamity of a political party continue not only to survive, but also thrive? These people control the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Supreme Court, along with legislatures and governors' offices from sea to shining sea, yet they can't seem to legislate themselves out of a wet paper sack.

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  • Racist US Laws Provided Inspiration to the Nazis: An Interview With James Q. Whitman

    Racist US Laws Provided Inspiration to the Nazis: An Interview With James Q. Whitman

    By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout | Interview

    The fact that the richest and most powerful country in the world was manifestly racist excited and emboldened Nazi lawyers in drawing up the Nuremberg Laws, says author and Yale law professor James Q. Whitman. The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments notwithstanding, 30 US states had anti-miscegenation laws, which had a direct influence on Nazi policymakers, as did second-class citizenship laws.

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  • Proxy War and Surrogate Terror: How the US Came to Take an Active Role in War and Torture in Latin America

    Proxy War and Surrogate Terror: How the US Came to Take an Active Role in War and Torture in Latin America

    By John W. Dower, Haymarket Books | Book Excerpt

    Although US involvement in torture focused on the Iraq War in the last decade, the United States has had a long involvement by proxy with torture and the killing of peasants and Indigenous peoples in Latin America. In this excerpt from his book, The Violent American Century, John W. Dower describes the US role in facilitating death and destruction in Latin and South America over the past few decades.

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