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- 1 2 Karel van Wolferen. "The most monstrous lie of the twenty-first century" karelvanwolferen.com, jottings, articles, books, 19 Sep. 2011
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- ↑ Francis Fukuyama. "Radical Democracy, C. Douglas Lummis" Foreign Affairs, September/October, 1996
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