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War, soldiers and the unspeakable
June 3, 2005“Brothers” is a film from Denmark with English subtitles directed by Susanne Bier. At the beginning, we meet Michael, who’s home on leave, a Danish career soldier about to be deployed to Afghanistan. Then we meet...
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No party, no socialism
June 3, 2005The right wing has attacked historian Moshe Lewin’s new book, “The Soviet Century,” which covers the Soviet Union from the early 1920s through its implosion in 1991, for its sympathetic treatment of Lenin. His principal conclusion,...
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Marxism without meat?
June 3, 2005When at long last war and capitalism, terrorism and religious fanaticism have had their final day, when a communist society breaks out like the glorious sun after the most savage storms, what will our new world...
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Planetary war? Its not just a movie
June 3, 2005On May 23-24 I attended an event organized by Dr. Helen Caldicott called Full Spectrum Dominance. The conference gathered key media representatives to hear briefings on the latest developments in military space issues. The event began...
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Deceptions hammer
June 3, 2005“The first casualty when it comes to war is truth.” — Sen. Hiram Johnson (R-Calif.), 1917 When I was a kid my dad once said: “Deception’s hammer knocks information out of the body politic. Without good...
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