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Here is the transcription of an audio interview with former Republican National Committee chairman Lee Atwater Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wa…

Marxism-Leninism

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 succe…

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 …

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. …

> 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 …

> 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…

MMT reads like "flat earth Facebook group" to plenty of economists outside of the establishment as well, including Bernie supporting ones.

> 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 …

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"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,…

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…

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 h…

> 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 somethi…

> 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 …

In 1967 under the British, dozens of Chinese protesting against British rule and for representation were killed in Hong Kong.

It's great how the protestors stormed the legislature, beat up security guards, spray painted the walls, threatened legislators etc., spurred on by the US president. I am talking a…

> 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 stat…

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 thinki…

> Neighbors and friends denouncing each other for minor transgressions. Neighbors denouncing their black, Mexican, LGBTQ what have you neighbors. Then other neighbors denouncing th…

> 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 coul…

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…

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…

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…

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 …