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People would call to her to have curses lifted
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People would call to her to have curses lifted
John Fitzgerald Kennedy is now more myth than man, his brief half-life enthronement at the apex of US political life, providing the basis for romance, not reality.
Camelot, the sweetly sentimental shorthand for a shortened US presidency, has generated a mythopoetry so rich it turns the stomach, clogs the intestines, and soils the historical record. With its effacing tendencies, its soppily loyal hagiographers, its ghastly, ...
The titan of American foreign policy was complicit in millions of deaths — and never showed remorse for his decisions.
Kissinger's amoral, genocidal crimes revealed him to be a faithful representative of the US elites whom he served all his life