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This guy sees it as it is; I recommend it as reflecting much of what I think, but not all. He doesn’t talk about corporate capitalism, or even empire, except obliquely.
<div class="">I understand that some may think this gratuitous on my part to relay this on email.
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<div class="">I would like to know what you all disagree with here, if you do. </div>
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<div class=""><a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176711/tomgram%3A_william_astore%2C_america%27s_forever_wars_have_come_home/#more" class="">http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176711/tomgram%3A_william_astore%2C_america%27s_forever_wars_have_come_home/#more</a></div>
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<div class="">Also, considering Paul’s suggestion regarding the South’s secession in 1860. I recommended Eric Foner as a historian who has made it his preoccupation to understand that war and its consequences.</div>
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<div class=""><a href="https://history.columbia.edu/faculty/foner-eric/" class="">https://history.columbia.edu/faculty/foner-eric/</a></div>
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<div class=""><a href="http://www.ericfoner.com/" class="">http://www.ericfoner.com/</a></div>
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<div class="">This last gives links to utube lectures by Foner. Part I discusses “The Coming of the Civil War.</div>
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<div class="">Remember “E Pluribus Unem” (sp?)</div>
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<div class="">And here’s an article which argues for Paul’s conjecture. <a href="https://ilsr.org/lincoln-should-have-allowed-south-secede/" class="">https://ilsr.org/lincoln-should-have-allowed-south-secede/</a></div>
<div class="">Lot’s of speculation hereof what the future might have been. </div>
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