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The Neo-Colonialism of a School District Pt. II

A hard truth is that conservatives and liberals aren’t as different as they claim to be.  Both parties follow the same invisible laws of power, using their presumed ideological differences at home to distract from the harm they cause, both at home and abroad. Both parties engage in a foreign policy built on imperialism, war, […]

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