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Friday, October 16, 2015

United States vs. Denmark, in 17 Charts :    Information Clearing House - ICH

15, 2015 "Information
Clearing House
" - "Demos"
- Denmark played a surprising role in Tuesday's Democratic debate.
Here is how the country stacks up the US on a number of important
social indicators.


The Poor

Here are the overall poverty rates for the two
countries:



Here are the child poverty rates for the two
countries:



Lest you think I am pulling some kind of "relative
poverty" trick, here is per-capita income of the 5th, 10th, and 20th
percentiles in Denmark and the US, displayed in 2005 PPP-adjusted
dollars:





United States vs. Denmark, in 17 Charts :    Information Clearing House - ICH

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

The Longest War in U.S. History  :    Information Clearing House - ICH

The Longest War in U.S. History  :    Information Clearing House - ICH

the author fails to mention Cochise or Mangas Coloradas...

The Longest War in U.S. History




By Ryan Harvey




October 12, 2015 "
Information
Clearing House
" - "teleSur"
- Though it has been a long 14 years, it is historically inaccurate
to call the war in Afghanistan "The Longest War in U.S. History."
This title reveals a deep-seated problem in the popular mythology of
U.S. history – that the nations and assemblies of peoples that
existed here before Europeans came were not sovereign, or even real.
Let's get the facts right:



There was a 30 year-long war from 1860-1890, spanning many nations,
led by the U.S. government against "insurgents" who populated what
would become Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, and the Dakotas.
Part of a larger, longer genocide, this was one sustained war, which
looked unsurprisingly similar to today's campaigns in
Afghanistan/Pakistan.



Fought by the U.S. Army against the Apache, Cheyenne, Navajo, Sioux,
and other nations, this war saw resistance armies, led by Geronimo
and Sitting Bull, give birth to the guerrilla warriors like Crazy
Horse and Little Wolf, and saw the introduction of
"counter-insurgency" tactics by the U.S. Cavalry. War crimes
abounded as the United States systematically eradicated the buffalo
with the intention of depriving the guerrilla warriors of food, to
bring an end to their peoples and nations, and to steal their land.

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