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the cold war: a plague on both your houses
What was the Cold War, who started it? and could it have been avoided?… …In the last days of 1946, the prime minister of Greece, Constantine Tsaldaris, had come to Washington with an urgent request for financial and military aid. … Continue reading
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Tagged Chen Chieh-Jen Taiwan artist, China Civil War, Gar Alperovitz, General George C. Marshall, Greek Prime Minister Constantine Tsaldaris, Henry Roberts Russian Institute Columbia, Howard Zinn, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Secretary of State Byrnes, The Cold War, Truman Doctrine
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cold war: I believe
What was the Cold War exactly? Who started it? Could it have been avoided?… …The morning of February 22, Secretary Marshall, speaking at Princeton University, picked up the burden that Britain had laid down. He said that “if democratic processes … Continue reading
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Tagged Argo movie, Ben Affleck Argo, Dean Acheson, Gar Alperovitz, General George C. Marshall, Henry Roberts Russian Institute Columbia, Howard Zinn, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sam Huntington, The Cold War, The Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine
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thoreau at walden: domestic arrangements
…At the end of his first eight months at the pond he found that he had spent a total of $8.74 for food- an average of twenty-seven cents a week. Clothing for the same period cost him only $8.40, and … Continue reading
thoreau: voluntary simplicity
…Thoreau was in no haste to move in. Once the frame was up, he did the remaining carpentry slowly, living in the meantime with his parents and walking back and forth to the pond each day, carrying his lunch wrapped … Continue reading
thoreau: raise the roof
…Thoreau began his work at the pond with a borrowed axe. It probably belonged to Bronson Alcott, although after its fame spread it was claimed by both Emerson and Channing. But from whoever he obtained it, he returned it later, … Continue reading
in the blink of an eye
As the first rays of the morning sun. Like Howard Zinn made a career out of destroying or at least exposing America’s founding myths as being blatant lies founded on a contrived aegis of moral rectitude, wisdom and a few … Continue reading
the last train in vain
from Zinn Education Project: On April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began when Nazi forces attempted to clear out the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to send them to concentration camps. The Germans were met … Continue reading
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Tagged Amona expulsion, Donald Fagen, Franz Kafka, gush katif, Howard Zinn, John Hersey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MK Michael Ben Ari, Peter Green blues, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Reverand Martin Niemoller, Stanley Milgram, Zinn Education Project
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save the mountain for them
The origins of anti-Catholicism are lurking at the depths of American consciousness, gnawing away like a conspiracy theory and feeding a sense of paranoia and tribal urges that have little basis in fact, but are convenient valves of release when … Continue reading
lets drink to that
The narcissism of small differences. When religion meets politics the poetics of demagoguery can launch a thousand careers. Anti-Catholic sentiment in the New World was an almost original sin of the founding settlers. All that was missing was a blood … Continue reading
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Tagged alfred e. smith presidential candidate 1928, Christopher Hitchens, daniel okrent, david goldfield, Graham Greene, Howard Zinn, James Gillray, ken burns prohibition, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, michael sheldon, Prohibition period, rory gallagher, Thomas Nast, Voltaire
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what price freedom?
A holocaust industry. That god works in mysterious ways seems to be a pretty lame excuse. Forget faith. It was always about the covenant. Trust. The special relationship direct to the throne without intermediary. A misplaced belief? Yahweh simply wasn’t … Continue reading