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Spreading anti-communist hot air: Washington’s balloon warfare against the USSR
February 8, 2023The U.S. government claims China is deploying “spy” balloons, but during the Cold War, it was Washington that used balloons to carry out anti-communist propaganda missions against the socialist bloc.
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Brendan Behan on the centenary of his birth
February 7, 2023Brendan Behan was arguably one of the last writers to emerge from the Irish literary revival movement.
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Stalingrad – 80 years on
February 2, 2023After the Red Army victory over the Nazis in Stalingrad they were able to begin, as they hooked up with local liberation fighters, what ended up as the liberation of all the Eastern European countries occupied by...
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Leaders of a Nazi homeschooling operation unmasked in Ohio
February 2, 2023Right-wing conspiracy theorists, Republican lawmakers, Trump, and the corporations that fund all of them legitimize what was once unthinkable—Nazi homeschooling in America.
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Leftist ‘life hacks’ from Mike Gold’s farewell columns in ‘People’s Daily World’
February 1, 2023In the 1930s, he was a firebrand agitator writing in the pages of the Daily Worker. By the era of the ‘New Left,’ Mike Gold was at it again on the West Coast.
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