Tag Archives: Noam Chomsky

the mono men: back to me, myself and sigh

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Dave

The Hawkins, Hitchens legacy… The atheist, too, would not dare deny himself a god and why not get personally involved in the god business; they have a god and it is themselves. You could say that the pagan, the idolator … Continue reading →

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cold war: to frozen to believe

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Dave

The Cold War. Just what was exactly the Cold War? Could it have been avoided?… Iranian troopps entered Tabriz on December 14, 1946, and drove out the remnants of the puppet regime whose local Communist leader, Pishevari, fled to the … Continue reading →

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cold war chills and thrills

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Dave

Rival visions of a world order were heightened by parallel developments of the Soviet and American strategies through the twenties and thirties. The Soviets launched their Internationals, global networks of Communist parties directed from and loyal to Moscow, frightening the … Continue reading →

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catching a cold war

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Dave

What exactly was the Cold War? When and where did it begin? Why? Who started it and could it have been avoided?…. …In the Far East, the Japanese had also moved. They occupied Vladivostok, and the Soviets saw themselves encircled … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Dean Acheson, Gar Alperovitz, Henry Roberts Columbia, Joseph M. Jones The Fifteen Weeks, Joseph M. Jones The State Department, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Noam Chomsky, Russian Civil War, Truman Doctrine, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Woodrow Wilson | Leave a comment

What exactly was a cold war?

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Dave

When and where did it begin? Why? Who started it and could it have been avoided? …Although its history is vast and complex, the Cold War was essentially a struggle for power between the Soviet Union and the United States. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Dean Acheson, Gar Alperovitz, Henry Roberts Russian Institute Columbia, Joseph M. Jones, Joseph M. Jones The Fifteen Weeks, Leon Trotsky, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Noam Chomsky, The Cold War, Truman Doctrine, Woodrow Wilson | Leave a comment

the cold war?

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Dave

…What exactly was the cold war? When and where did it begin? why? Who started it and could it have been avoided? These are fascinating questions that have been posed and answered by all manner of experts for the past … Continue reading →

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cyclical or structural?

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Dave

Technological unemployment… Is our current unemployment malaise of cyclical or structural nature? According to Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz the answer is more stimulus, more government printed money washing through the economy as if at a luxury spa where we … Continue reading →

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1939: plus ca change…

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Dave

.In the United States of 1939 a good many conditions prevailed that seem rather odd today. But some unseen hand, invisible spirit, has always been at the heart of the American experience… ..And change of all sorts is the heart … Continue reading →

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terrorism: violence for its own sake

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Dave

…Degeneration, moreover, does not always take the same forms. The Combat Organization set up within the Socialist Revolutionary party in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth-century carried out terrorist operations on an unprecedented scale. Its victims included, besides the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Evno Azef, Felix Feneon, George Woodcock, Grand Duke Sergius, Kroptkin anarchist, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mikhail Bakunin, Noam Chomsky, The Okhrana, V.K. Plehve, Yevno Azef | Leave a comment

terrorism: letting the psychopaths take over

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Dave

…The arrogant, callous, almost senseless crime in the Cafe Terminus by Emile Henry in 1894, followed some years later by the emergence of the Bonnot gang- motorized bandits who professed anarchist convictions but likewise robbed and murdered for their personal … Continue reading →