Paul Haeder, Author

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I Wish I Was a Rothschild, don’t you know! The song “If I Were a Rich Man, ” well, Shraga Friedman used Sholom Aleichem’s version, “If I Were a Rothschild.” Wikipedia: “If I Were a Rich Man” is a show tune from the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof. It was written by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock. The song is performed …

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the dirty Americans, the dirty Europeans, the dirty Canadians, the dirty British, the dirty Israelis, the dirty New Zealanders, the dirty Australians, the dirty Japanese . . . making money on murder He was around 42 years old when the Civil War broke out in 1861, and during that time his brother enlisted to fight for the …

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ironies, contradictions, a case of a thousand elephants in the room stampeding Cornel West said to the imperialism-compatible “left”: “You’re still locked into a very knee-jerk defense of NATO so that the militarism still goes on—everybody knows if Russia had troops in Mexico or Canada there would be invasions tomorrow.” Some call it discordance, or the fabric …

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