Cold War
New book: Indonesia was model for anti-communist massacres, U.S. complicity
January 7, 2021In many places, to whisper “Jakarta” or scrawl the word on public surfaces served as a warning to activists.
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U.S. angles for new ‘cold war’ with China; it must be stopped
September 25, 2020Mainstream history paints the cold war as a geostrategic battle between two superpowers struggling to extend their influence throughout the world. The Soviets saw it as a united fight of the world’s progressive forces against imperialism....
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Trump threatens to re-start nuclear weapons tests, undoing 50 years of agreements
June 18, 2020Some of this is about making arms manufacturers and generals happy, but it is also about the fact that the last war the U.S. won was Grenada.
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NATO gathering this week did nothing for world peace and progress
December 4, 2019Trump’s talks with General Secretary Stoltenberg laid the groundwork to raise more money for a global war machine.
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Thoughts on the Berlin Wall 30 years after its demise
November 8, 2019East Germany was a lot more than the totalitarian prop that gets paraded out to prove the supposed superiority of capitalism over socialism.
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