Category Archives: Imperialism

Nuclear Power, Japan, and Korea

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Terry Welshans

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 , , | 2 Comments

“look at that view, wouldn’t that make a great condo?” Trump sells a North Korean time share

Posted on June 12, 2018 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Trump in his continuing nouveau vulgarianism pulled a real estate sales stunt at the Singapore summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, showing an iPad video that crudely references the classic DPRK propaganda film series Nation and Destiny Singapore … Continue reading →

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Will Trump return Philippine war trophies

Posted on November 12, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   Trump could salvage what has been a mediocre trip to Asia by a small political act, even if it might give him the same Executive Order troubles he’s experienced with Congress. There have been several decades … Continue reading →

Posted in American History, Celebrity, Congress, Countries, Foreign Policy, Government, History, Imperialism, Media, Political Science, Politics, Society, Uncategorized, US Military | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

Victorians’ Secret: Trump, god-emperor of Afghanistan and Erik Prince (of thieves) as Viceroy

Posted on August 8, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Moscow (CNN) Money, the saying goes, can’t buy love. But $10,000 will buy you the perfect Donald Trump inauguration keepsake — a coin with the words “In Trump we trust.” It’s the handiwork of a Russian mining … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 Election, Afghanistan, Corruption, Foreign Policy, Government, Government Propaganda, History, Imperialism, India, Iraq, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Propaganda, Terrorism, Uncategorized, US Military, World History | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

#TrumpRussia … Bannonism remains, even if Steve plays no golf

Posted on April 10, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers If the Russians knew about the Syrian chemical weapons strike before it was executed, it raises some interesting questions but is not evidence of increased culpable distance between Trump and Russia. Considerable time and media has been … Continue reading →

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Propaganda 200: In Summation, Gist The Whitewashing Power Of Editing

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Gene Howington

by GENE HOWINGTON “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out … Continue reading →

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POTUS45*s new CIA drone policy … more remote killing, less “pooch screwing”

Posted on March 14, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers According to CBS News, an “uncomfortable” visit President Donald Trump paid to CIA headquarters on his second day in office (21 January 2017) left the U.S. intelligence community with a “sense of unease” and “made relations with … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 Election, 9-11, CIA, Foreign Policy, Government, History, Imperialism, Media, Political Science, Politics, Society, Technology, Terrorism, Terrorists, US Military, War on "Terror" | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Lord Dampnut’s Bay of Wigs … because something, something clear and present, but not Russian

Posted on February 20, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers U.S. sanctions Venezuelan vice president as drug kingpin. The Trump administration on Monday slapped sanctions on Venezuela’s new vice president, Tareck El Aissami, accusing him of being an international drug kingpin. El Aissami, one of five children, … Continue reading →

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Your home heating prices will go up because Giant Yam won’t bring back coal jobs

Posted on December 1, 2016 by ann li-summers

   By ann summers Clueless natural Gasbag’s “post-truth” promises to cull votes with more coal jobs will now make your home heating prices go up with little effect on returning coal jobs to the US coal belt. But that was … Continue reading →

Posted in Austerity, Big Oil, Capitalism, China, Climate Change Deniers, Climatology, Denialism, Economics, environment, Foreign Policy, History, Imperialism, Investing, Japan, Media, Political Science, Politics, poverty, Russia, Society, Uncategorized, United States | 5 Comments

Goodbye Person of Interest, gone but forever prescient

Posted on June 4, 2016 by ann li-summers

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 →

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