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Category Archives: Communism
Nuclear Power, Japan, and Korea
By Terry Welshans By the mid-1930s most nations with an interest in such things, were trying to understand how nuclear energy worked. Physicists in Germany, Denmark, Hungary, Japan, England, and the United States were writing and reading scientific papers on … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Communism, History, Imperialism, Japan, North Korea, Science, South Korea, United States, World War II
Tagged korea, Nuclear Energy, World War II
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The ‘many sides’, of the RWNJs’ phantom enemies
By ann summers YouTube Video The only reason for an American to hold a Nazi flag is if it has been captured in battle. pic.twitter.com/g44h8PSZyd — Senor O (@TKOastIsBack) August 12, 2017 Like Joe McCarthy’s ‘reds under your bed’, the … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Anti-Semitism, Celebrity, Civil Liberties, Civil War, Communism, Fascism, Free Speech, Government Propaganda, History, Holocaust, inequality, Presidential Elections, Propaganda, Racism, Society, Terrorism, Terrorists, World War II
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Culture, KKK, Media, Politics, Racism, Racism in the United States, Racists
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Will the Democratic party recuperate from Late Capitalism’s biggest joke
By ann summers Because you voted for Trump and regret it doesn’t mean you should disavow politics in the future and there may be hope for some transformational movement and/or candidates. Assuming you believe in an emancipatory left, you’ve stuck it … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Capitalism, Communism, Conspiracy, Democracy, Economic Policy, Economics, Fascists/Corporatists, Government, History, Media, Neoliberals, Philosophy, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Progressives, Socialism, Society, United States, World War II
Tagged Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Donald Trump, fredric jameson, late capitalism, Media, Politics, Slavoj Žižek
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Bannon/Trump’s Make America crypto-fascist (Again) … #MAGA just like the 1930s
By ann summers What are the directions for the disinformation campaigns of the now post-truth Trump regime that will repress populations by means of contradictory rationalizations or outright lies. So much traditional ethnic hatred, so little time. Modernity’s issues … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Communism, Democracy, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, History, Uncategorized, War on "Terror"
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, Media, Politics
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Hail Hyperbole! North Korea endorses Trump and bans Sarcasm…
By ann summers Launch more missiles, run more nuclear weapons tests, and ban sarcasm… perhaps the North Korean media is being ironic in praising Donald Trump. Brilliant, but only if you know better than your generals as long as they can be your generals. … Continue reading
purge those free radicals – eight years is not enough
By ann summers Family resemblance in language is like relative autonomy in philosophy, because academic ideologies’ democracy is the Other to anti-intellectual reactionaries across the political spectrum, but are they the same as those of low-information voters (LIV), and more importantly, … Continue reading
Goodbye Person of Interest, gone but forever prescient
Despite appearances, I am not that avid a Person of Interest fan, I just like the strength/flaws of Shaw/Root…a symphony. The program was basically the problem of machine intelligence and the role of human ethics in its construction with a … Continue reading
Posted in 9-11, Big Brother, Capitalism, Celebrity, CIA, Civil Liberties, Communism, Conspiracy, Corruption, Crime, Democracy, Equal Rights, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, Free Speech, Genocide, Government, Government Propaganda, Heroism, Imperialism, information Technology, Internet, Justice, Law Enforcement, Libertarians, Media, Nanotechnology, Neoliberals, New York, NSA, Oligarchy, Police, Political Science, Politics, Progressives, Propaganda, Science, Socialism, Society, Technology, Television, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, US Military
Tagged CBS, jonathan Nolan, Media, person of interest, television, television series
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