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call of the wild: frozen delirium
Delirium. Soviet Union. It’s what is not us, not only separate from us but alien,and so different that to confuse with us is to flirt with madness, like a visceral fear of mad love, a temporary insanity that may have … Continue reading
the secret agent: mostly men in grey
The cult of the secret agent. In fact as in fiction, the spy is the indispensable person of our time. Spies go back to Biblical times, yet today, or more precisely particularly since the Enlightenment their sphere of activity poses … Continue reading
the cold war?
…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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Dean Acheson, Fletcher School of Law Tufts, Fons van Woerkom, Gar Alperovitz, Joseph M. Jones State Department, Joseph M. Jones The Fifteen Weeks, Joseph Stalin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Noam Chomsky, President Harry Truman, The Berlin Wall, The Cold War, Truman Doctrine
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terrorism: like Russian roulette
Evno Azev,( Yevno Azef) according to Roy Medvedev, particularly enjoyed proving to himself his ability to outwit everyone else. He savored the secret power of life or death he held over his comrades by being able to periodically betray a … Continue reading
terrorism: double lust for power
…The anecdote of Yevno Azef is more than a picturesque footnote to the general history of modern terrorism. It illustrates the almost universal vulnerability of terrorist organizations to infiltration by the police or the secret service, and the lengths to … Continue reading
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Tagged Auguste Vaillant anarchist, Dario Fo, Evno Azef, Into the Whirlwind Play, Joseph Stalin, Lenin Bolshevik Troika, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mikhail Bakunin, Roy Medvedev historian, Stalin Terror, The Okhrana, Yevgenia Ginzburg, Yevno Azef
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bourgeois manners
…Bourgeois manners for the Bolshevik masses? With the thaw of de-Stalinization, or at least thaw to them , came a new concern: government sanctioned ways of helping the Soviet citizen improve his mind and conduct himself more in accord with … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Arkady Perventzev Soviet writer, Caspar Wrede, Joseph Stalin, Khrushchev Thaw, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nikita Khrushchev, One Day in the Life of Ivan Desinovich, Soviet De-Stalinization, Yuri Okunav
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like mowing the grass
Imagine Joseph Stalin signing the Seven Noahide laws. Impossible. There was an Eddie Murphy movie where he was unable to spend anywhere near a fraction of the money he had, try as hard as he might. The same way, it … Continue reading
united we stand: complications of moral inversions
Its been a bit dicey ever since Maimonides ( Rambam) pronounced perhaps hat many had thought, but lacked the intestinal fortitude to say: Muhammad was false prophet and an insane man.Even criminally insane. The scathing remarks also included the assertion … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Ashton, Donald Kuspit, ethiopian jews, EU Arab formula, European Union Israel, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Gamal Abdel Nasser KGB, Giulio Meotti, Joseph Stalin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Marcel Duchamp, matisyahu, Matisyahu Bal Shem Tov, Mughrabi Bridge, Rambam and Islam, Shabbetai Tzvi, The Euro crisis, UNESCO Israel
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