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2:54:53Now PlayingThaddeus Russell is an adjunct professor of American Studies at Occidental College, and also the author of "A Renegade History of The United States"
ISIS created by American foreign policy decisions
US weapons flooding Middle East fueling ISIS
Vietnam bombing campaign created anti-American hatred and communist recruitment
US Middle East policy is top recruitment tool for terrorists
Allied post-WWI policies created conditions for Nazi rise
US foreign policy driven by desire to remake world in American image
Academic left dominates higher education with no ideological diversity
Conservative control of universities taught racial and gender inferiority
1960s radicals became professors and shaped higher education for 50 years
Federal government mandates campus sexual assault tribunals
Campus sexual assault tribunals lack evidence and due process
Occidental College expelled male student for consensual drunk sex while female student unpunished
Professor claimed valedictorian and athlete more likely to be rapist based on demographics
Campus sexual assault policies reflect Puritan view of sex as dangerous
California law defines intoxicated sex as rape regardless of consent
Professor convinced student she was raped based on perpetrator's demographics
Puritan culture created repressive sexual ideology in America
Protestant work ethic values work as inherently good regardless of compensation
African slaves rejected Puritan sexual repression and work ethic
Jazz represents freedom and liberation from Puritan repression
Irish immigrants were not considered white and lived with Black people
19th century scientists claimed Irish were apes or subhuman
Harvard professors called Irish people apes in 19th century
Irish assimilated to whiteness by becoming police and hating Black people
Early 20th century scientist claimed Jews were Negroes and animalistic
Jews dominated boxing and basketball until 1950s using same racial logic as Black athletes
Irish immigrants led mass lynching of Black people in 1863 New York draft riots
Richard Pryor first Black comedian to publicly mock white people as inferior
Need to eliminate whiteness as cultural concept
PNAC document called for military buildup and needed precipitating event
Bush administration capitalized on 9/11 for military agenda
CIA trained Osama bin Laden and mujahideen against Soviets
CIA taught Islamic jihad concept to mujahideen
All Middle East problems created by US foreign policy
US should stop military interventions to avoid creating enemies
US bombing creates recruitment for terrorist groups
Obama administration worst on whistleblowers and press freedom
Obama's 2008 platform supported military expansion and Patriot Act
Obama always nationalist prioritizing American power over other values
Hillary Clinton hawkish on foreign policy and drug war
Rand Paul less interventionist and pro-drug legalization than Hillary
US military never used defensively, even in WWII
US killed more people than Genghis Khan using modern weapons
Police militarization creates military occupation of Black neighborhoods
Police shot mentally ill youth with butter knife on video
Black neighborhoods under military occupation by police
People imprisoned for life for drug offenses
Drug criminalization imprisons people for life
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