Tag Archives: Noam Chomsky

cold war chills and thrills

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

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

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What exactly was a cold war?

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

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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

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cyclical or structural?

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…

.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

…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

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terrorism: letting the psychopaths take over

…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

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terror: the modern condition

“Madness alone is truly terrifying.” – Joseph Conrad Terrorism appears to be a specific malady of modern civilization. No other society, we tend to assume, has suffered to the same extent from precisely the same social and moral pestilence. This … Continue reading

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enemy from within

hypocrisy of humanism? …There is no immediate solution whatsoever. Any lasting peace will take a significant amount of time to be established. That is an unfortunate reality. The difficulties in Israeli-Arab relations stem from problems lying at the core of … Continue reading

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