Communism
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Review: Scott Anderson, Four CIA spies at the dawn of the Cold War — a tragedy in three acts (2021)
These portraits are a riveting expose of the Cold War as it took shape even as peace was achieved in 1945. As I read, I marveled at the herculean efforts of millions of talented, gung-ho players, devoting themselves and untold trillions of dollars, all to ‘defeat communism’. But I kept asking myself: isn’t that what… Continue reading
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Back in the USSR: Communism and Consumerism – RAI with A. Buzgalin (3/12)
On Reality Asserts Itself, Prof. Alexander Buzgalin says that “market fetishism”, the hunger for commodities, became a major obstacle to building socialism – with host Paul Jay Continue reading
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A World in Which Truth is a Dying Species by GAITHER STEWART
Hidden away somewhere within the labyrinth of the Pentagon there must be a top secret euphemism department engaged in the invention of the Orwellian surrogate words that have crept surreptitiously into the American English vocabulary and from there translated into many other languages. In my mind I see a unit of studiously serious executives, coffee… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications 18-24 April, 2010
24 April, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation 2010-04-18 Rafe MAIR (Canada) Thoughts on Communism and Capitalism “Although Communism may be dead in fact if not name, the conditions that spawned and nurtured it are very much with us today. Large corporations have replaced the noblemen, the dwindling middle class is no buffer between the haves Continue reading
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Remembering Vietnam William Bowles
As with the ‘war on terror’, the ‘war on (godless) communism’ (or, if you prefer, fanatical Islamic fundamentalists) relied on a vast disinformation campaign based on fear and paranoia using the conception of the ‘other’ to put the fear of God into the population. So for example, many of the sci-fi movies that were made… Continue reading