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Salon
March 24, 2018
To paraphrase Dwight Eisenhower's Cross of Iron speech, this is not a real economy at all, in any true sense. It's a parody of an economy, with a small number of winners and all the rest of us as losers/suckers/“product.” While it's true that Facebook's malignant business model may well provide a hugeÃâà...
Chico News & Review
March 22, 2018
Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. … Is there no other way the world may live?” What Eisenhower famously dubbed the “military industrial complex” has since taken up bigger and bigger chunks of the federal budget. Housing and transportation rate only 4 percentÃâà...
Press Herald
March 17, 2018
After listing various societal infrastructure needs that could otherwise be funded, spurning appropriations for such murder weapons, he announced, “This is not a way of life at all … it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” Sixty-five years after Eisenhower's “Cross of Iron” speech, and 21 years after theÃâà...
Inc.com
February 16, 2018
"Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. Is there no other way the world may live?" - Dwight D. Eisenhower. 15. "I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty." - Woodrow Wilson. 16. "Mankind must putÃâà...
The Real News Network
February 3, 2018
PAUL JAY: So, before we move on to Kennedy, and then we're going to get to Johnson, you wanted to make a comment about Eisenhower, who ... Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. ... PAUL JAY: So, what went on with Eisenhower, making that kind of speech?
The Nation.
October 10, 2017
In a famous speech, dating from early in his presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower said that “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from ... More than six decades later, Americans have long since accommodated themselves to that cross of iron.
Richmond Confidential
September 13, 2017
... to modern standards as well as the number required to adequately serve our communities. Unfortunately our national priorities of late have been war and wall building. Perhaps it is long past time to dust off President Eisenhower “Cross of Iron” speech and take it's wisdom to heart. Comments are closed.
Philly.com
April 10, 2017
Three Days in January, Fox News anchor Bret Baier's account of the Eisenhower administration's endgame, turns out to be unusually timely, given the ... sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children . . . under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
The Nation.
March 2, 2017
It has been a conservative mantra since the Grand Old Party purged itself of the “Modern Republicans” who clung to the vision of former President Dwight Eisenhower and made theirs a party of reaction rather than reason. But even Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush eschewed the budgetary extremismÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
September 30, 2011
The Origins of That Eisenhower 'Every Gun That Is Made. ... Perhaps my favorite quotation from the late President Dwight Eisenhower is making the rounds on Facebook in the form of a virtual poster produced by a progressive ... Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
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