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by Context_free 5y ago
Marxism-Leninism
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by Context_free 5y ago
I could give other examples, but if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 1993 WTC bombing was not enough of a warning that that complex was a target, I don't know what would be. Mohammed succeeded on his second try. John P. O'Neill of t
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by Context_free 5y ago
The CIA had offices at 7 World Trade Center. By the logic of that tweet, the CIA was hiding behind and deliberately using the civilians working in the WTC complex as human shields to hide from the Saudi 9/11 militants looking to remove
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From 1947 to 1957 US media was filled with the idea that all progress in the Soviet Union was from stealing US innovations. Particularly the 1949 A-bomb, but other things as well. Then the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Then they put a do
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by Context_free 5y ago
> Hamas is the political party that current controls the Gaza Strip and is widely recognized to be a terrorist organization. Among other things, the first actions Hamas took after seizing power in the Gaza Strip included killing leaders
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by Context_free 5y ago
> bizarrely then talks about unions, which are known to depress wages for top performers I guess that's why top performing movie stars, NBA basketball players etc. have their wages depressed? Maybe companies lowballing salaries, or
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by Context_free 5y ago
MMT reads like "flat earth Facebook group" to plenty of economists outside of the establishment as well, including Bernie supporting ones.
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by Context_free 5y ago
> the West was severely outgunned (at least in conventional weapons) by Soviets in Europe. "The west" was severely outgunned by the west - the largest political party in France in 1948 was PCF, the communist/socialist alli
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by Context_free 5y ago
> So they preempted them by staging a coup supported by People's Militias (a completely illegal armed militia of the party) on February 25, 1948 On February 21st, 1948, the non-communist ministers handed in resignations, without any
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by Context_free 5y ago
"A scientific body to which had been confided the government of society would soon end by devoting itself no longer to science at all, but to quite another affair; and that affair, as in the case of all established powers, would be its
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by Context_free 5y ago
Yes. In the past year I have heard endless breathless "news reports" about how China supposedly manufactured Covid in a lab, to how they are committing genocide with Uighur muslims, to how they are not respecting the UK's co
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by Context_free 5y ago
The irony is one of AEI's goals is that the workers who create all created wealth be put out to pasture early so that heirs owning majority shares of corporations can profit. Now he is being hoisted by the petard he fired. Luckily my
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> It is 'literal' and therefore not subjective. This is a fallacy - as there is always subjectivity and interpretation in human understanding, and certainly in interpreting something as nuanced and contradictory as the bible. A
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> adhering to scriptural literalism What scripture? As Bart Ehrman has written in his books condensing scholarly tomes for the layman, there are many scriptures, and we don't have the originals. The Comma Johanneum being the clear
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by Context_free 5y ago
In 1967 under the British, dozens of Chinese protesting against British rule and for representation were killed in Hong Kong.
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> Unions are also blamed (rightly or wrongly) for the downfall of Detroit and auto manufacturing in the US. What killed off the textile mill manufacturing in North Carolina, a state with the lowest (tied with South Carolina) unionization
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by Context_free 5y ago
Some thinking is inherent to the societies where capitalist relations or feudal relations or slave/master relations or hunter-gatherer band relations predominate. Short-term thinking, centralization and environmental externalities hav
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> Neighbors and friends denouncing each other for minor transgressions. Neighbors denouncing their black, Mexican, LGBTQ what have you neighbors. Then other neighbors denouncing the denouncers - this latter part seems to be where you st
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by Context_free 6y ago
> Mondale was a pro-labor Do those laborers include the Nicaraguans (or Americans like Ben Linder) who were massacred by the Contras Mondale advocated funding for so that they could overthrow Nicaragua's democratically elected gover
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by Context_free 6y ago
In the 1970s the US was encouraging Iran to become a nuclear power ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Shah_of_Iran_... ). The US was also still supporting the mullahs, as it had since the 1
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by Context_free 6y ago
When Bari Weiss was a student at Columbia, she was part of a group that targeted Arab professors that criticized Israel, like Joseph Massad. She did a lot to foster "cancel culture", but it seems to be backfiring on her now.
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by Context_free 6y ago
Gulf of Tonkin. If you look at Arafat's Wikipedia page it says he was not born in Palestine and died (of course) of venereal disease. Insofar as how long it goes on, if you look at US WWI propaganda they were talking about German sold
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One of the most horrific actions in this genocide was when the Chinese Air force bombed a wedding in Xinjiang, killing 37 people - many innocent women and children. Oops! That was the US Air force 13 years ago, bombing a couple hundred kil
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by Context_free 6y ago
If corporations are indeed so positive why do they have to force people into paying them dividend profits? (Aka Fortune 500) I'm sure many other organizations would love the power to force people into their subscriptions. And I'm
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Freedom House is a pretty nutty web site. They have a map of countries which has some unusual aspects, the most bizarre of which is you can't find China on the map. Apparently they have carved it up to their own western satisfaction,
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by Context_free 6y ago
When the money was frozen, UK PM Boris Johnson said "we may have to tighten the economic screw on Venezuela". So the Prime Minister of the UK seems to have a different opinion on this.
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The US is imposing not just US sanctions but a blockade on Venezuela, with one goal to block Covid vaccines from coming in (unless Venezuela bows down to a list of US demands). The US, UK etc. have pilfered Venezuelan money deposited in US
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by Context_free 6y ago
> the EU benefits from buying things from and selling things to the UK English economist David Ricardo made a similar statement in the early 19th century. The example he used was Portuguese wine being traded for English cloth. He said b
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> In the invasion of Western Europe scenario, I think it's hard to say exactly how it would have played out. The Soviets had huge numerical superiority on the ground and in the air. The West had a qualitative advantage. The invasion
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by Context_free 6y ago
I can go to another part of the BBC web site and read about the British killed in the past 6, 7, and 8 years while going halfway across the world to kill Muslims in the country bordering west Xinjiang. https://www.bbc.com/ne

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