The Civil War and 150 Years of Forgotten US Military Atrocities

By James Bovard | CounterPunch | October 7, 2014 George Orwell wrote in 1945 that “the nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” The same moral myopia has carried over to most Americans’ understanding of the Civil […]

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