During the Cold War, the two world powers clashed in dozens of conflicts around the world. However, if Afghanistan, Vietnam and Angola are known to everyone, proxy wars in Ethiopia, Laos and Congo have been largely forgotten.
Top 3 unknown proxy wars between the Soviet Union and U.S.
Tag: South Vietnam
Peace Train: Silencing contrarian voices
In the U.S., we proudly point to the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights that was adopted in 1791.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
Peace Train: Silencing contrarian voices
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Speaker at DSA panel: “War creates the possibility for a push of socialists ideas” + “Democratic Socialism” in the Service of U.S. Imperialism
At a recent panel event hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) chapter for the state of Maine, Vladyslav Starodubstev, a leader of the Ukrainian pseudo-left Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement), put forward the chilling perspective that “the war creates the possibility for a push of socialist ideas in Ukraine.” The panelists and DSA moderators stated their agreement with the speaker and demanded the US government deploy more tanks, missiles, and howitzers to wage war against Russia, regardless of the risk of nuclear holocaust.
Speaker at DSA panel: “War creates the possibility for a push of socialists ideas”
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“Democratic Socialism” in the Service of U.S. Imperialism:
In “The Real Heritage of Harrington’s DSA,” we show where the reformist “democratic socialism” of 2018 came from, and what it actually stands for. Today’s Democratic Socialists of America hails the “tradition” of Michael Harrington and Norman Thomas, long-time leaders of the Socialist Party (SP) that gave rise to what is now the DSA. In that article (see p. x), we explain that this tradition has often, and accurately, been described as “State Department socialism.” Those unfamiliar with the left may think the term is a polemical excess or empty epithet. Not at all. In fact, intimate ties to the Department of State are only the beginning of the intertwining of the official social democrats with the agencies of U.S. imperialism. Activists who want to devote themselves to genuine socialism need to know what’s what. So here’s the story
Destroying the Town is Not Saving It
Although the keynote speaker at this year’s Air Force Academy graduation was delivered by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, historian and retired Air Force lieutenant colonel William Astore gives his own speech to the class leaving the institution where he once taught.
Destroying the Town is Not Saving It
Ukraine Hunts Down “Traitors Helping Russia”
State terror operations that follow from CIA playbook contradict saintly image of Zelensky promoted in the U.S. media.
Ukraine Hunts Down “Traitors Helping Russia”
If any of these “traitors,” ends up like this, AP should be held accountable for their complicity!
Ukraine: The American Tyranny Of Power
Ukraine: The American Tyranny Of Power
The first thing these evil ruling oligarchs want is property, and the best way to drive prices down is to start a war, like they did in Vietnam, and in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and the entire Middle East where people are fleeing the war zones. As soon as this happens, land prices go down and the corporate privateers sweep in.
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Digital Directorate so it can more effectively control internet information. The control of scientific and technological information is just as important as the control of words and language, any intellectual information that is written or spoken. All the internet hypertext language is routed through the supercomputer processors of the CIA in Langley, Virginia. Vladimir Putin recently said that the Internet was a CIA special project. He was right.
H/T: The New Dark Age
Pelosi pledges war “until victory is won”
Andre Damon, WSWS, May 3 2022
Over the weekend, Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives and second in the line of presidential succession, traveled in secret to the war zone of Kiev, Ukraine and pledged a commitment by the United States to ensure “victory” against Russia.
Pelosi pledges war “until victory is won”
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 