Cold War
Trump threatens to re-start nuclear weapons tests, undoing 50 years of agreements
June 18, 2020Some of this is about making arms manufacturers and generals happy, but it is also about the fact that the last war the U.S. won was Grenada.
Read moreNATO 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.
Read moreThoughts 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.
Read moreMemories of a Jewish American red diaper baby
August 14, 2019Memories are powerful. Certainly they inform who we are, but they can be tricksters.
Read moreTelevision 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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