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** MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 2026
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War is never a handy remedy, which can be taken up and applied by routine rule. No war which can be avoided is just to the people who have to carry it on, to say nothing of the enemy…In the forum of reason and deliberation war never can be anything but a makeshift, to be regretted; it is the task of the statesman to find rational means to the same end.
– William Graham Sumner,
The Conquest of the United States by Spain and Other Essays ([link removed]) [1898]
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January 19, 2026 Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Right about the U.S. Government ([link removed])
What will be scrupulously avoided in the mainstream press today -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Day -- will be what King pointed out about the U.S. government — that it is “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” Of course, that statement is as true today as it was in 1967. When it comes to violence, including killings, there is no ...
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