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A Quiz to See if U.S. Schools Taught You State Propaganda

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142. Which nations did former NATO commander Wesley Clark say the Pentagon wanted to overthrow in 2003, and which nations did former Prime Minister of the U.K. Tony Blair say that U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney wanted to overthrow at the same time? What has happened to those nations?

143. In which nations of the world do the highest percentages of people say they would go to war for their nation?

144. In which nations of the world are the highest percentages of the people religious?

145. What percentage of human beings who have ever lived, and of human societies that have ever existed, have experienced or participated in war?

146. In which nations of the world are children regularly told to pledge allegiance to a flag?

147. If you read that peace activists many years before your birth helped to end a war or halt the production of a weapon, would a good teacher expect you to write about that activism in the first person, using the word "we"?

148. If you read about the United States invading a Central American nation before your birth, would a good teacher allow you to write about it in the first person, using the word "we"?

149. Which nations of the world have not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child? Why haven't they?

150. Which major military nations have not joined the International Criminal Court, or the treaties banning land mines, cluster bombs, racial discrimination, discrimination against women, or weapons in space, or those establishing rights of migrant workers, regulating the arms trade, providing protection from disappearances, defending the rights of people with disabilities, or the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, or the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights?

151. Which nation has used the power of its veto at the United Nations most frequently and for what purpose?

152. How many people were killed or driven out of their homes during the 1948 creation of Israel?

153. Who was the last president to propose abolishing the CIA?

154. What president created the CIA and came to regret it?

155. What was the Safari Club?

156. Which article of the U.S. Constitution sanctions secret agencies?

157. How does war preparation and weapons testing benefit human and environmental health?

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