Day: January 6, 2025

Believers (Arab Spring)

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

SongFacts: Believers (Arab Spring) by Nelly Furtado

Furtado penned this song with San Francisco-based songwriter Rick Nowels around the time of the Libyan revolution and civil war. She explained to Artist Direct: “I was inspired by the rebels and the idea of people having to make really tough decisions in the eleventh hour. I was inspired by the idea of a young man or woman going into battle with one of their close friends. By the time the day is over, their friend has turned to the other side. That dilemma is something we could never imagine in the lives we lead. I found it inspiring people were going through those kinds of emotions the moment I wrote that song, so that’s what I wrote it about.”

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Listening to Soldiers Of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
Opening quote.

Soldiers Of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire

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The Rand Corporation: The Think Tank That Controls America (archived)

By the 1960s, America’s rivals were paying attention. The Soviet newspaper Pravda nicknamed RAND “the academy of science and death and destruction.” American outfits preferred to call them the “wizards of Armageddon.”