"The military, prison, and financial policies of the U.S. government are interrelated, creating a social system that is repressive and offensive to human dignity for people who experience it, especially the marginalized, the poor, the 'Third World'. The poor in America are filling the prisons and the 'Third World' are the fodder on the other end of the bombs in America's wars. In categorizing the abuse of power that is undertaken by institutions operating 'above the law' or through State privilege, the deprival of life by government policies through war and the deprival of liberty to individuals through imprisonment are particularly fundamental problems that relate to the basic human rights every person should enjoy equally. Capitalism is being used as a justification for these actions historically by American policies, leadership, and their rhetoric... When you discuss what the alternatives to the 'corruption' that favors the 1% or represents only a fraction of the 1% who are permitted an active or consequential role in politics, it seems that #ows is suggesting an alternative of direct, active, particpative democracy that is also interested in a reform of policy according to moral standards." + Understanding #ows - Noam Chomsky Interview

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Traudl Junge is a symbol for the entire German nation
Traudl Junge in Film
The Evolution of Fascism in Personal Identity - Submitted by: Sara Riverston

“Of course, the terrible things I heard from the Nuremberg Trials, about the six million Jews and the people from other races who were killed, were facts that shocked me deeply. But I wasn't able to see the connection with my own past. I was satisfied that I wasn't personally to blame and that I hadn't known about those things. I wasn't aware of the extent. But one day I went past the memorial plaque which had been put up for Sophie Scholl in Franz Josef Strasse, and I saw that she was born the same year as me, and she was executed the same year I started working for Hitler. And at that moment I actually sensed that it was no excuse to be young, and that it would have been possible to find things out.” - Traudl Junge.

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"Tom is a good, steady, sensible, pious fellow."
American Slave Literature
Uncle Tom's Cabin & Dr. Henry Louis Gates - Submitted by: Meredith Jones-W...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Uncle Tom's Cabin are two of the most popular and historically significant novels in the corpus of what Dr. Henry Louis Gates has called the tradition of American Slave literature. (Gates, 2002) As even to this day, America has not been able to come to terms collectively with slavery as part of American history. Slavery is seen as a type of historical footnote to the American dream despite the lives that it destroyed and the suffering it inflicted.

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Realism projects the self-interest of the individual.
Students of Foreign Policy
Realism, Liberalism, and the English School - Submitted by: Walt Sonnabend

International foreign policy is historically viewed as being based on two competing theories of application, the Realist School and Liberalism, with the "English School" posited as a type of compromise between the two in political methodology. The school of Realism views the State as a unified actor created through the centralization of power and monopoly of legitimate use of force that it possesses within its sovereign territories, including economic, military, social, and ideological factors in application. The School of Realism can be dated primarily to the Italian philosopher Machiavelli, who counseled for a ruthless use of power to secure the goals and aims of a sovereign or politician in an amoral framework of violence and force outweighing ethics, i...

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'North Korea called Wednesday for a peace treaty with the United States to officially end the Korean War decades after the fighting ceased, describing it as a first step toward the peninsula's denuclearization... Pyongyang has long yearned to sign a peace treaty with Washington as a way to improve their relations after decades of enmity following the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in a cease-fire, not a peace treaty.
+ History of Korean Reunification

‎'Atom bomb test, 1951. This was the Operation Buster-Jangle Dog shot, on 1 November. President Truman remarked that his government was actively considering using the atomic bomb to end the war in Korea but that only he—the US President—commanded atomic bomb use, and that he had not given authorization. The matter of atomic warfare was solely a US decision, not the collective decision of the UN... In 1952 the US elected a new president, and on 29 November 1952, the president-elect, Dwight D. Eisenhower, went to Korea to learn what might end the Korean War. With the United Nations' acceptance of India's proposed Korean War armistice, the KPA, the PVA, and the UN Command ceased fire with the battle line approximately at the 38th parallel. Upon agreeing to the armistice, the belligerents established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which has since been patrolled by the KPA and ROKA, US, and Joint UN Commands.'
+ History of the Korean War

"In America, the conflict in Korea was officially a 'police action' because Congress never declared war." 'The 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, with neither side able to claim outright victory. Fifty years on, the truce is still all that technically prevents North Korea and the US - along with its ally South Korea - resuming the war, as no peace treaty has ever been signed... The armistice was only ever intended as a temporary measure.'
+ U.S. Police & Military Actions

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Estimates begin at 3,600,000 African slaves in Brazil
The African Slave Trade
Slave Labor in the Colonies for Plantations - Submitted by: Meredith Jones-W...

The process of colonization in Brazil led to the importation of slaves from Africa, forming a unique aspect of Brazilian culture in the way that African slaves preserved, transmitted, and shared their traditional heritage with other indigenous and foreign ethnic groups in the country. Brazil was the largest destination for African slaves in the New World, and the last country to abolish slavery in 1888. These factors combine to make the African minority groups in Brazil an important part of the modern construction of the country. The mixture of African and Brazilian culture has resulted in a unique expression of art, religion, languages, and customs that is not found in other places of the world. In “The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History,...

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a government managed economy fueled by taxation
Income Tax History
Limitations to the State through Structural Economics - Submitted by: David Marshall

The American Founding Fathers did not include an income tax system as part of their vision of government, and this represents a fundamental limitation of the growth of government that has been lost in modern society. By legalizing the Federal Income Tax through the 16th and additionally by permitting money to buy influence in Congress through special interest groups, we have created a dangerous system where the public finances can be looted by private interest in collusion with the political parties who create the national budget, hand out contracts in a non-transparent manner, and distribute wealth to their supporters in different ways.

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Free will in Christianity is a fundamental prerequisite
Religion Intertwines Authority
Beliefs justify & disrupt the inherited social order - Submitted by: Thomas Evers

Natural law and free will conjoin in Enlightenment thought to form the basis for the ideals of democracy such as liberty, equality, and justice in Colonial America. The Protestant Reformation movement and Anglicanism questioned the most sacred aspects of Papal authority and Catholic theological interpretation, thereby encouraging a spirit of reform in Europe that led to the further questioning of royal hierarchies in feudalism. The social order changed for the Germans and the English when they were free to practice their own interpretation of Christianity without allegiance to Rome, and this transition from the Middle Ages to the Era of Enlightenment also gave birth to a new social order based in democratic theory.

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Building Support for War - The impact of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - Submitted by: Raymond Schach

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7th, 1941 marked a turning point in American history, changing the political consensus on foreign policy in the nation and leading directly to the country’s entry into the largest and most destructive war in history. The first and most lasting consequence of the Pearl Harbor attack was the ending of the isolationist view of American foreign policy that had grown domestically in the electorate following WWI and the Great Depression.  As Krzys Wasilewski writes in "American First in...
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Society-Law and Government - Archaic Laws persist on the Books for enforcement Targets - Submitted by: Nicole Briggs

In America, State and local laws exist and remain as statutes on the books despite representing limited moralities and minority views when compared to the greater population. These archaic laws are generally not enforced, but their existence in statutes give the impression to the citizen that the government is ready and willing to intervene in their personal lives if given the chance. For example, numerous laws exist in the States that defines legal sexual activity as only relating to the missionary position.
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Phenomenology of the Circus - "Power" from the play "Freakshow" by Carson Kreitzer - Submitted by: Jon Akash

The characters of the circus underworld in the play “Freakshow” by Carson Kreitzer appear trapped and exploited by the management of Mr. Flip, but lacking any ability to escape from their situation lacking other viable options in society. As Francine Russo of the Village Voice writes in her review of the play:
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They Thought They Were Free - The Germans, 1933-45 - Milton Mayer

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"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security."
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