US Fighters From Abroad | ZeroHedge

Around 3.5 percent, or 600,000 people belonging to the U.S. veteran population were born outside the United States to foreign parents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

According to Migration Policy, another 2 million are the children of immigrants to the country.

As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, among the foreign-born ex-recruits, natives of Mexico and the Philippines are by far the biggest groups, according to the U.S.-based survey.

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Armistice Day & The Empire: A Name Change And The Catastrophe That Followed | ZeroHedge

Authored by Matthew Hoh via Counterpunch.org,

In 1954, the US Congress renamed Armistice Day to Veterans Day.

The stated reason was to remember all generations of US veterans, not just veterans from the First World War.

Congress advanced this rationale on the disingenuous notion that Armistice Day’s purpose was a celebration of veterans.

It was not.

Armistice Day’s purpose was to serve as a reminder of the horrors of the First World War and carry forward the (more…)

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ATF Director Says Assault Weapons Ban Now On His “Wish List” | ZeroHedge

Submitted by Gun Owners of America,

Looks like Biden's ATF director has drastically changed his views from his Senate confirmation hearing.

During a recent interview with Caroline Light, the Director of Undergraduate studies in Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University, ATF Director Steve Dettelbach was asked about his gun control "Wish list."

Steven Dettelbach (right) with historian Caroline Light (left). Source: Harvard 

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