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Oregon Grabbed World’s Attention Back In 1898

USS Oregon

By Fred Delkin

Her mast stands as a memorial today in Portland’s Tom McCall Waterfront Park as a reminder of how the battleship USS Oregon earned global headlines for a madcap voyage of 14,000 miles to seal victory in the Spanish American War and sweep away opposition to the construction of

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Reprise: Blood and Democracy

By Larry Leonard

“There has never been in the history of the world a country in which a regime change happened at the bayonets of guns that has led to stability.” — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal

Every major nation on Earth was purchased in blood — most of them in combat. Some required

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