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Foreign Policy: The Legacy of American Racism at Home and Abroad
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Foreign Policy: The Legacy of American Racism at Home and Abroad

Domestic racism has long impacted U.S. foreign policy. It’s time to open up about it. It used to be that Americans had to wait decades to learn how U.S. national security professionals viewed racism within the United States. Only declassified reports and personal memoirs revealed how senior officials and diplomats condemned segregation, inequality, and racial injustice in their own country. Many of them saw the evils of racism as an affront to U.S. values and an impediment to the country’s foreign-policy goals, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. They delivered their points directly or indirectly—in situation rooms, policy debates, and briefings. These…
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CNN: Cathartic acts of rage, or the rewriting of history? How statues became political lightning rods
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Jun
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CNN: Cathartic acts of rage, or the rewriting of history? How statues became political lightning rods

PEJOURNAL - Statues are products of one era built to endure into others. They loom over streets and squares while the views of those who pass by change, from generation to generation. Most people, most of the time, are indifferent to these persons of stone and bronze. Not now.From Richmond, Virginia, to Bristol in England, statues of men who championed or traded in slavery centuries ago are being torn down. The soul-searching about race prompted by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has extended into how the history of racial persecution and prejudice is remembered. It is a heated…
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NOURNEWS: U.S. Society at a Major Crossroad
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Jun
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NOURNEWS: U.S. Society at a Major Crossroad

BY: Martin Love PEJOURNAL/NORTH CAROLINA - What with all the violence and protest after the murder by a Minneapolis cop of a hapless Black man, the U.S. has been in riotous turmoil in myriad locations to an extent probably not seen on American streets since the height of the Vietnam War. And it’s not just over racism and police methods, but the murder of George Floyd was the sudden spark – a murder which in fact was a fairly common occurrence inside the U.S. It has been estimated that such crimes by police have occurred on average three times every…
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US Protests and the Joker that Held his Creator Captive!
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US Protests and the Joker that Held his Creator Captive!

Despite media dominance, the regime has tried to make the Joker a hero of order and security in its adversaries, but with anti-racist protests that have swept across the United States and other countries following the Liberal Capitalist system, Apparently, this time the "Trapped Hunter" and Joker, whose mission was to save liberal capitalism from the wrath of the oppressed class, has become the killer of this system. PEJOURNAL - "The Joker" was first introduced as a villainous character in the DC Comics. He was Batman's main villain, which caused him a lot of trouble and created a great deal…
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