Richard Nixon — Pessoa

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15 de agosto de 1971: o dia em que Nixon rompeu com o ouro e abriu caminho para a era da desdolarização

Há 55 anos, os Estados Unidos encerraram unilateralmente a conversibilidade do dólar em ouro e transformaram o sistema monetário mundial; hoje, BRICS, China e países do Sul Global ampliam o uso de moe

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‘Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?’: Nixon’s War on Drug Abuse Leads to… War and Drug Abuse

“America’s public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new all out offensive.” – Richard Nixon, War on Drugs speech 1

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250 años de presidentes de Estados Unidos y ninguno tan destructivo como Trump

El republicano amenaza con cambiar para siempre, a base de corrupción y expansión del poder ejecutivo, la institución que representa, cuyo diseño emana de la Declaración de Independencia

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Hannah Arendt contra Nixon y Trump

En el actual Supremo se constituye una mayoría casi automática cuando se trata de cabalgar hacia la autocracia presidencial, pero tropieza con el texto de la Constitución cuando revisa derechos inscri

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The US celebrated the end of a ‘long national nightmare’ as it turned 200. What about now?

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David Clayton-Thomas obituary

Singer, songwriter and frontman of the American band Blood, Sweat & TearsIt was thanks to the folk singer Judy Collins that David Clayton-Thomas, who has died aged 84, joined Blood, Sweat & Tears and

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Ronald Reagan to JD Vance: minimizing Watergate is a Republican tradition | Rick Perlstein

On the American right, there is an unbroken lineage of Watergate propaganda going back to the 70s from todayWhen JD Vance spoke at the Richard M Nixon presidential library last week about his new book

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JD Vance and Watergate

Whether JD Vance is right or wrong about this, the comments on one level are profoundly morally offensive. It ignores the moral issues around Watergate, or rather downplays them, and it not be a surpr