The Messed Up Truth About The Louisiana Purchase

American Progress, 1872.

The Louisiana Purchase is usually presented as an incredible, inspiring moment in American history in which President Thomas Jefferson, wise, benevolent eyes twinkling under his powdery white wig, made an incredibly shrewd real estate deal with notorious, disgraced French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and, with one stroke of his giant quill pen, doubled the size of the United States of America for the bargain price of $15 million, or just three cents an acre. What we don’t usually learn about is the negative domino effect this treaty had in terms of inspiring the concept of manifest destiny or the belief that white colonists had a God-given duty to expand across North America and redeem and remake the land in their own image.

The Messed Up Truth About The Louisiana Purchase

Building for future: Chinese construction companies help bridge Iraq’s education gap

Chinese companies are building 1,000 new schools in Iraq to accomodate the growing number of students, which will bridge the education gap in the country still reeling from long years of war and destruction.

Building for future: Chinese construction companies help bridge Iraq’s education gap

It’s beyond pathetic that the US government destroyed both Iraq, and Afghanistan, yet can’t rebuild what they destroyed! They won’t rebuild Ukraine, either!

Stephen Sefton & Camila Escalante on Boric’s new progressive bloc

Progressive political figures with an orientation more favorable to Washington are forming a new alliance of South American parties and are deliberately excluding the forces that are leading the continent’s liberation processes. Don DeBar interviewed Nicaraguan writer Stephen Sefton and Latin America correspondent Camila Escalante on KPFK Pacifica Radio. Below is a transcription of last week’s segment.

Stephen Sefton & Camila Escalante on Boric’s new progressive bloc

Leila Khaled: “This Is Now An Intifada”

Leila Khaled: “This Is Now An Intifada”

THE WESTERN MEDIA ARE CONTROLLED BY A MURDEROUS EMPIRE. IT’S A STRONG MEDIA, THEY JUST HIDE THE FACTS OF WHAT’S GOING ON IN THIS REGION, ESPECIALLY IN PALESTINE.

Leila Khaled

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ICC’s Putin arrest warrant based on State Dept-funded report that debunked itself

On March 17, the Prosecutor General of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, introduced an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Llova-Belova. The warrant, which accused Putin and Lolva-Belova of conducting the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children to a “network of camps” across the Russian Federation, inspired a wave of incendiary commentary in the West.

ICC’s Putin arrest warrant based on State Dept-funded report that debunked itself

Related:

YouTube: The Grayzone exposes shoddy ICC warrant against Putin

Yes, The US Government Threatening To Block TikTok Violates The 1st Amendment

You may have heard that the Biden administration has told TikTok that it must be divested from ByteDance or it will be banned in the US. At least that’s what TikTok said the administration has said. The end result of this might well be that ByteDance divests of TikTok, but we should be clear: the threat, and any potential block, would be a clear, blatant, dangerous violation of the 1st Amendment.

Yes, The US Government Threatening To Block TikTok Violates The 1st Amendment

Previously:

The US government is trying to force ByteDance to sell TikTok