“THERE IS NO WAY he is a victim of communism,” my partner quips, pointing to a photo of the late Pope John Paul II. We are near the end of our visit to the new Victims of Communism Museum, standing in an elevator-size lobby with photographs of “victims” screen-printed all over the walls. Among the many victims and honorees: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the Dalai Lama, Romanian writer Herta Müller, Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong, and Hungarian neofascist Viktor Orbán.
Red Scared: Revising history at the Victims of Communism Museum (archived)
Tag: Belarusians
The Hypocrisy of a Leftist “No to War” that Comes Too Late
Ramiro Gomez – February 28, 2022
I am writing this trying to contain the rage and indignation I feel at the reactions of the Western left and society in general about the Russian counter-attack against Ukraine.
The Hypocrisy of a Leftist “No to War” that Comes Too Late
Ukraine: How the U.S. Empire Uses Propaganda to Turn People into Monsters
The atomic bomb isn’t the most powerful weapon that the U.S. imperialists have ever used. There’s an even stronger tool that it constantly uses to inflict violence, and that tool is propaganda. It doesn’t merely cause harm to the people it targets, it turns them into monsters. Monsters who are willing to kill their fellow human beings for the benefit of American capital, and believe they’re doing so for a righteous cause.
Ukraine: How the U.S. Empire Uses Propaganda to Turn People into Monsters
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How to Make Russia Bleed
The only way to move Moscow from its disastrous policy, in the 1980s and today, has been to bleed it. Ratchet up the cost to the Russian people, economically, politically, and, yes, in body bags holding Russian troops (not civilians). In addition to sanctions and other measures the Biden administration has enacted, we need to increase the pain to Moscow on the ground by stepping up economic warfare, psychological operations, and robust covert military support to the Ukrainian insurgency.
Russian communists say recognition of Donetsk and Lugansk only way to prevent bloodbath + Growing Western media hysteria over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which is still not coming
US Writes Belarus into Its Familiar Regime-Change Script
The primary reason the U.S. government opposes the Lukashenko administration is not its authoritarianism, real as that might be. Instead, Lukashenko’s steadfast refusal to privatize state assets, join NATO, or open the country up for foreign exploitation are Washington’s principal objections.
US Writes Belarus into Its Familiar Regime-Change Script
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