Cold War
NATO gathering this week did nothing for world peace and progress
December 4, 2019Trump’s talks with General Secretary Stoltenberg laid the groundwork to raise more money for a global war machine.
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Thoughts on the Berlin Wall 30 years after its demise
November 8, 2019East Germany was a lot more than the totalitarian prop that gets paraded out to prove the supposed superiority of capitalism over socialism.
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Memories of a Jewish American red diaper baby
August 14, 2019Memories are powerful. Certainly they inform who we are, but they can be tricksters.
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Television and Tito in new exhibitions at the Wende Museum
August 2, 2019I remember thinking, on my forays into Eastern European socialism in the 1970s and ’80s, that politics aside, most people’s lives ambled along pretty uneventfully. The Wende exhibition confirms this impression.
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HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’: Writer Craig Mazin’s imploding ideological superstructure
July 31, 2019Mazin chose to flog the dead horse of Cold War anti-Sovietism in order to make a statement about global climate change, but “truth” suffers in the process.
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