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Cuban Espionage — The Saga of Florentino Aspillaga and the Assassination of JFK

In the book, Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine (2012), author Brian Latell, a professor, scholar, and retired CIA officer who had been active in foreign intelligence for 35 years, relies extensively on information provided by half a dozen Cuban defectors and several retired CIA officers. However, the most intriguing and reliable revelations […]

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The UN and Gun Rights — Taking a Soporific or Guarding the Precious Jewel?

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In a recent article, Bill Ferguson, a local columnist for The Telegraph (Macon, Georgia), attempts to give readers a strong political soporific, as to deaden their need to remain informed and vigilant when it comes to guarding their Second Amendment rights from usurpation by a UN treaty.(1) But before that, he takes a swipe at

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Perinatal Mortality, Free Care, and Other Misconceptions—Socialized Medicine vis-à-vis American Medicine by James I. Ausman, MD, PhD

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I have visited 70 countries all over the world. There is no healthcare system that provides the excellence that the USA system does. Much of what you read in the press is not true.[2] Virtually everyone in the USA can obtain healthcare; for those who are “involuntarily uninsured” the number is near 4% not the

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Young Stalin — from Georgia Bandit to Red Tsar!

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Young Stalin by Simon Montefiore is a well-researched, well-written, absorbing, and authoritative biography of Joseph Stalin’s early years. Following the usual formalities, the book begins with a tantalizing “Prologue,” the audacious robbery and bloody bombing at the festive Yerevan Square in the center of the town of Tiflis (now Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia). The

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America, guns and freedom: Part II — An international perspective by Miguel A. Faria, MD

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In anticipation of the release of my new book by the same name, I’m republishing this seminal article on the subject. The need for reducing gun violence is discussed along with the necessity for citizens to assume some responsibility for protecting themselves, their families, and their property from criminal elements because the police cannot physically

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America, guns, and freedom. Part I: A recapitulation of liberty by Miguel A. Faria, MD

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The role of gun violence and street crime in the United States and the world is currently a subject of great debate among national and international organizations, including the United Nations. Because the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the individual right of American citizens to own private firearms, availability of firearms is greater

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Cuban Espionage — The Saga of Florentino Aspillaga and the Assassination of JFK

The UN and Gun Rights — Taking a Soporific or Guarding the Precious Jewel?

Perinatal Mortality, Free Care, and Other Misconceptions—Socialized Medicine vis-à-vis American Medicine by James I. Ausman, MD, PhD

Young Stalin — from Georgia Bandit to Red Tsar!

America, guns and freedom: Part II — An international perspective by Miguel A. Faria, MD

America, guns, and freedom. Part I: A recapitulation of liberty by Miguel A. Faria, MD

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