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first world war: hysterical tremors
No doubt we shall never understand the First World War completely. The malaise, the something sinister and strange lying beneath the prosperity of a seemingly newly minted modern age. The lust for violence, the belief in death and the ominous … Continue reading
1914: cranking up the old hysteria
With a little patience, Germany might have had it all. But Wilhelm II was shrewd, treacherous, and hysterical, the archetype of the chronic bully whose mother had never loved him. He had a habitual style of discourse which in effect, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged George Bellows, John Hodgson Lobley, The Pogues, Thomas Mann, Von Moltke, Wilhelm II, Woodrow Wilson
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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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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
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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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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
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talkin’ bout’ a revolution
How does one explain the enduring legacy of Leon Trotsky? Was it the precient social and political prognosis? The understanding of the forces and dynamic of fascism? Do his admirer’s uphold Trotsky for what he was or for the ideas … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Andre Breton, Christopher Hitchens, christopher hitchens trotsky, Clement Greenberg, Diego Rivera, fida kahlo, g. albert aurier, George Orwell Animal Farm, Justin Raimondo, Leon Trotsky, michel lequenne, nat weinstein, natalya sedova, the trotsky jacob tierney, Woodrow Wilson
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SEVENTH WARD BEGGARS
However whatever what one may conclude about the dubious ethics of Goldman-Sachs,CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s appearance among lawmakers on Capitol Hill was at least long on entertainment as was his entire troupe of well rehearsed players as seen by their choreographed … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Alien Abduction, Andrew Jackson, Andy Borowitz, Ben Bernanke, borowitzreport.com, Carl Levin, Carl Sagan, Fred G. Cooper, George S. Kaufman, Goldman Sachs, Henry R. Robinson, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, Moss Hart, President Andrew Jackson, The Financial Times, Woodrow Wilson, Zoe Brennan
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I'M OK YOU'RE NOT OK
They are just posters. However, they reflected a Europe in anguish. Posters preserved from the First World War’s aftermath recall great propaganda art as well as the desperate years that produced it. This kind of art is harsh but compelling … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Bela Kun, Edward Bernays, European political art, John Heartfield, Levi Berman Collection, Oskar Kokoschka, Steinlen Posters, Toulouse-Lautrec, Treaty of Versailles, Winston Churchill, Woodrow Wilson
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THE POETS DOWN HERE DON'T WRITE NOTHING AT ALL
The attitude was ”better a horrible ending than a horror without end”. There had been peace in the world for too long. From Berlin, in the spring of 1914, Colonel House wrote to Woodrow Wilson, ”the whole of Germany is … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Arthur Koestler, Bertrand Russell, Bruce Springsteen, Carlo Carra, Charles Peguy, Erich Maria Remarque, Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, Freud, henri Bergson, Italian Futurists, Martin Buber, Nietzsche, Otto Dix, Parkinson's Law, Rupert Brooke, Severini, The Great War, Umberto Boccioni, Woodrow Wilson, WWI. World War One, XTC
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