In 1985, at the height of popularity for the faddish baby dolls, the Cabbage Patch Kids, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman debuted a subversive line of trading cards, the Garbage Pail Kids.
Art Spiegelman on Maus and free speech: ‘Who’s the snowflake now?’
Category: Mexico
Smedley Butler Wasn’t Kidding, by David Swanson
by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
February 4, 2022
Smedley Butler is generally left out of U.S. history. If you bring up a guy who prevented a Wall Street coup against FDR, you do real damage to the tale of peaceful respect for government from the beginning of time up through January 6, 2021. If you mention the scandal that erupted when he recounted how Mussolini had run over a little girl with his car, it’s hard to leave out the U.S. government’s friendly relations with Mussolini.
Smedley Butler Wasn’t Kidding, by David Swanson
Previously:
Why Smedley Butler left the imperialist front despising ‘Gangsters of Capitalism’
[12-2021] Did Dismissals of Safe Outpatient Drugs Cause Needless Covid Deaths? Dissenting Doctors Say Yes
Why Smedley Butler left the imperialist front despising ‘Gangsters of Capitalism’
New book shows how the American general’s contempt for ‘the racket’ was born during his service in the 20th century ‘small wars.’
Why Smedley Butler left the imperialist front despising ‘Gangsters of Capitalism’
Globe columnist blinded by Canadian chauvinism
Edward Bernays: Propaganda and the U.S.-Backed 1954 Guatemalan Coup
Edward Bernays may be known as the Father of Public Relations, but you would not be mistaken if you thought of him as the Father of Lies. He was a bullshit artist par excellence who pioneered countless methods of deceiving the public.
Edward Bernays: Propaganda and the U.S.-Backed 1954 Guatemalan Coup
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