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Daniel Ellsberg

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On June 16, 2023
Daniel Ellsberg has died. Few Americans did more to expose the evils of American actions overseas than Ellsberg. While most of what he exposed about the Vietnam War probably would have eventually come out anyway, the impact would have been vastly different if some historian...

Robertson

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On June 8, 2023

Pat Robertson is dead, mourned by no one who can be considered a decent American. Born in 1930, Marion (Pat) Robertson spent well over a half-century pushing a witch doctor.

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Jiang

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On November 30, 2022
Born in Yangzhou in 1926, Jiang was one of the last Chinese leaders to remember the 1949 Revolution. His father died fighting the Japanese while Jiang himself was attending National Central University in Japanese-occupied Nanjing before transferring to what is today Shanghai Jiao Tong University,...

Gorbachev

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On August 30, 2022

Despite what Americans want to believe about the man whom they credit with doing much to end the Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev is probably best described as the greatest failure.

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Echeverría

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On July 11, 2022
Luis Echeverría Alvarez has died at the age of 100. You’d think that this former president of Mexico lived a good century. But you’d be wrong. If you want to consider what’s wrong with Mexico today, a lot of it is at least partially the...

Hatch

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On April 24, 2022

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, presents Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in.

Dole

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On December 6, 2021

Let’s be very clear up front here. Bob Dole was not a nice man. He was never a nice man. Just because he was the last World War II veteran.

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Powell

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On October 18, 2021
Colin Powell has died of COVID-19. One of the most unjustly lauded individuals in early twenty-first century America, an honest portrayal of Powell’s legacy turns out starkly negative. From his significant role in the cover up of the My Lai Massacre to his lies about...

Trumka

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On August 6, 2021

Richard Trumka, long-time president of the AFL-CIO, has died of a heart attack at the age of 72. There is much to admire about Trumka's career. He will be remembered.

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