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The Vietnam War: An American crime
Vietnam was ‘the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.’ By Murray Polner | The Rag Blog | October 12, 2017 Our government has no right to send American boys to their death in any battlefield in … Continue reading
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Tagged Cold War, Ernest Gruening, French Colonialism, LBJ, Murray Polner, Peace Movement, Rag Bloggers, U.S. Imperialism, Vietnam War, Wayne Morse
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NATO: An obituary
Who will follow the capitalist class clown car into future military adventures to protect the profits of fossil energy tycoons? By David P. Hamilton | The Rag Blog | July 23, 2017 PARIS — NATO died recently. Over the past … Continue reading
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Tagged Cold War, David P. Hamilton, Emmanuel Macron, NATO, Rag Bloggers, Trump Foreign Policy, U.S. Imperialism
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The Cold War that threatens democracy
The new Cold War doctrine is that democratically elected nationalist or socialist leaders are new dominos threatening the fall of a U.S.-controlled order. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | March 20, 2014 While the first Cold War was … Continue reading
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Is a new Cold War upon us?
From the residue of the old Soviet Union, a new nationalist, nuclear-armed, resource-rich Russia has risen to challenge Western claims of triumphalism. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | March 5, 2014 Haven’t the Republicans, the neoconservatives, and the … Continue reading
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Pete Seeger: ‘To Everything, There Is a Season’
Asked by HUAC if he had sung for Communists, Pete replied: ‘I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.’ By Steve Russell … Continue reading
Harry Targ : STEM and the Tyranny of the Meme
The STEM ‘crisis’ and the ‘fear of falling behind’ meme. The tyranny of the meme: Commies, the arms race, and now STEM The threats of the United States falling behind some fictional adversaries is a similar ‘meme’ to those that … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms Race, Cold War, Communist Threat, Educational Priorities, Harry Targ, Higher Education, Mitch Daniels, Purdue, Rag Bloggers, STEM Crisis
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Harry Targ : From the Bay of Pigs to the Missile Crisis / 3
Front page of New York Daily News, October 23, 1962. From the Mitchell Archives.The Cuba story, Part 3:The Bay of Pigs to the missile crisis The Cuban missile crisis suggests that the United States would go to any extreme, even … Continue reading
BOOKS / Christine Shearer : How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth
Merchants of Doubt:How a handful of scientistsobscured the truth Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway uncover the history of a small group of Cold War scientists and advisers who battled anything, including scientific research, that might threaten their vision of American … Continue reading
Cold War Redux : Dissident, Criminal, Contractor, Spy
Image from Today’s Financial Times.Cold war redux:What’s in a name… Dissident, political prisoner, contractor, spy, criminal? All depends: Which side are you on? By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / July 21, 2010 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called … Continue reading
U.S. in Afghanistan : 1979-2009
Afghanistan: Mujahedin in 1984. Photo from U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective.The thirty years war:The United States in AfghanistanBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / December 27, 2009 When the Soviet Union sent 85,000 of its troops to Afghanistan in … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Cold War, Harry Targ, Imperialism, Jimmy Carter, Soviet Union, U.S. Foreign Policy
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History as Politics : Remembering the Berlin Wall
Man straddles Berlin Wall in 1989. Photo from photosfan.com.History as politics, Politics as history: Remembering the Berlin Wall By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / November 9, 2009 …you are Americans and are meant to carry liberty and justice … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin Wall, Cold War, Communism, Germany, History, Social Change, Socialism, Soviet Union, World History
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Politics of Fear : A Historical Perspective
Harry Truman delivers his “Truman Doctrine” speech to Congress on March 12, 1947. Photo from Truman Presidential Museum and Library.The politics of fear:A basic tool of reaction By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / August 23, 2009 “Scare hell … Continue reading
