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How an Old Friend Persuaded Harry Truman to Recognize the State of Israel

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“It isn’t polls or public opinion of the moment that counts.  It is right and wrong and leadership – men with fortitude, honesty and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the...

Remembering the McCollum Memo: How FDR Lured Japan into War

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Articles by contributors do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Sentinel. We recommend people do their own research. by Paul Dowling   “On November 24th, 1941, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sent a radio message to Admiral Chuichi...

General Washington’s Christmastime Hanukah Blessing

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General Washington’s Christmastime Hanukah Blessing By Paul Dowling “I the Lord have called you in righteousness, and have taken hold of your hand, and kept you, and set you for a covenant of the people, for...

Break Out: A Retired Nurse Escapes Post-COVID Hospitalization Against Medical Advice

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by Paul Dowling Above All, Do as Much Nothing as Possible “The delivery of good medical care is to do as much nothing as possible,” writes Samuel Shem, in The House of God. This has never been...

Take Heart, Americans, You Live in a Republic

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Take Heart, Americans, You Live in a Republic By Paul Dowling “Remember Democracy never lasts long.  It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.  There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.  It is...

Vetting the News…to Unmask Deceptive Reporting 

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Vetting the News: Using Tor, TinEye, and the Wayback Machine to Unmask Deceptive Reporting By Paul Dowling   “To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to...

Putin’s “De-Militarization and De-Nazification” of Ukraine

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Putin’s “De-Militarization and De-Nazification” of Ukraine By Paul Dowling Opinion: The author’s opinions do not necessarily reflect the views of the Independent Sentinel.   “We’ll have another pandemic.  It will be a different pathogen next time.”  – Bill...

Will Colonel Allen West Become the Next Governor of Texas?

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Will Colonel Allen West Become the Next Governor of Texas? By Paul Dowling   “Galveston is proof that it is not about where you were born; it is not about where you came from.  That does not...

Canceling Freedom: Biden Serves Up Corporatist Fascism to Kill the Bill of Rights

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Canceling Freedom: Biden Serves Up Corporatist Fascism in His Bid to Kill the Bill of Rights Three Quotes by Infamous Fascists: “The party is all-embracing.  It rules our lives in all their breadth and depth....

William Lee: The Patriotic Devotion of Washington’s Confidant

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William Lee: The Patriotic Devotion of Washington’s Confidant and Bodyguard in War and Peace By Paul Dowling   “If Billy Lee had been a white man, he would have had an honored place in American history because...