[Link] Ted Cruz Doesn’t Think Texas Should Secede—Yet

Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is “not ready to give up on America yet,” but he might support a Texas secession eventually if the party elected to run the federal government were to “fundamentally destroy the country” by enacting progressive proposals.

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[Link] Colin Powell’s UN speech: a decisive moment in undermining US credibility

Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Colin Powell will be most remembered for the act he most regretted, his 2003 presentation to the UN security council laying out US evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which turned out not to exist.

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