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After the 9/11 attacks, “Why do they hate us?” was the constant question. Yet Bin Laden’s motives were neither unknowable nor obscure. September 11 was, in large part, retaliation against the United States for its empire of bases.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
The British discoverers found to their chagrin that the production methods had been patented by the Americans and that they were now required to pay royalties to make use of their own discovery.
Luckett said the city’s infrastructure problems started around 1970, when federal courts forced Jackson schools to desegregate — 16 years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. Thousands of White families moved out of the city, many sending their children to private schools run by the White Citizens’ Councils, white supremacist groups, he said.
Whites Then Blacks Abandoned Jackson, Propelling Its Water Crisis
Molly Hennessy-Fiske
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