William Blum – ThisIsCommonSense.org

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.
William Blum, Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower (2000; 2016).

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Today in Freedom

On May 4, 1796, American historian William H. Prescott was born. Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico and his Conquest of Peru remain classic works of well-researched, “scientific history.” Prescott, Arizona, was named in his honor.

The May Fourth Movement began on May 4, in 1919: Student demonstrations took place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.

In 1961 on May 4, the “Freedom Riders” began a bus trip through the South.