Tagged: soviet union

James A. Chisem

/// September 10, 2017

America’s Cold War

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Revisionism

Will

/// November 3, 2009

Stirring the Pot

Via Alex Massie, here’s a telling example of the United States helping dissidents by minding its own business:

Jamelle

/// October 27, 2009

Via Sociological Images is this pretty awesome “pro-capitalist” propaganda cartoon from 1948: The Miller Center of Public Affairs (my employer) is holding a conference on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin...

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Buy American: President Biden’s Executive Order

January 25, 2021

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Running for Governor of Arkansas

January 25, 2021

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Buy American: President Biden’s Executive Order

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Read it for yourself then discuss President Biden's executive order on strengthening the "Buy American Act"

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Running for Governor of Arkansas

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Watch her announcement and discuss Sarah Huckabee Sanders as she announces a long-rumored run for the statehouse in Little Rock.

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Pardon Me, Sir

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The full list of pardons and commutations President Trump has issued on his last day in office, with a little help from Grey Poupon

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Ryan Adams Cleared by the FBI

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While Adams still has the pall of being an asshole hanging over his head, none of those come with possible felonies attached.

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From Rolling Stone: What Happened to Promises to Disband the Minneapolis Police?

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How vows to reform public safety in the wake of George Floyd’s killing devolved into modest cuts to the city’s 2021 police budget

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From CNN Business: Sheldon Adelson, Republican kingmaker and casino magnate, has died at 87

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From CNN Business:

New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.

Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.

(Featured image is "Some birds hanging out at the Sands Casino in Atlantic City" by iirraa is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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From Gizmodo: Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived

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From Gizmodo:

In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.

The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.

(Featured image is "A radio tracking device on a Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) at the Cotswold Falconry Centre" by Anguskirk and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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