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Chelsea Manning is a patriot

August 30, 2013 Nicole Lopez Civil Rights, Courts, Crime/Violence, Foreign Policy, Military, Uncategorized One comment

Chelsea Manning is a patriot. She will go down in history as one of the great Americans of our time. If you have not

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Put away the flags, by Howard Zinn

July 4, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Government, History, Ideas, International, Language/Words, Military, People, Politics, Uncategorized, War 3 comments

Every July 4th, I think about Howard Zinn’s insightful essay on nationalism and its overused, over-hyped symbols. Like most everything written by Zinn, it’s

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Photographer’s notebook: Flag Day perspectives

June 13, 2012 Bill Kesler Civil Rights, History, Military, Photography, Politics Leave a comment

                  I was perusing an old photo book recently and came across Stanley Forman’s 1977 Pulitzer

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