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Candida6 months, 2 weeks ago

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I find it interesting that the reason given for the meddling is often "communism." As if a different economic arrangement were in itself an affront to the US. It's as if the Soviet Union would have given the reason for intervention: "capitalism." It does sound strange, doesn't it? I guess the communists were more imaginative: they claimed wanted to free the oppressed working class.

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  dissent6 months, 2 weeks ago
  
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  most people don't know what communism means. they have been conditioned like manchurian candidates or pavlov's dogs to fear and hate it so much so that they're prepared to go and kill and die needlessly for it. they're groomed since birth to become little disposable drones with big fat easy to push buttons. that's all that matters to the hegemony who use them to serve their mostly hidden agendas
  
  for steve martin in "dead men don't wear plaid" it was "cleaning lady" that got him all riled up. communism is just a trigger word. the word itself is irrelevant. it can be any word. today's trigger word is "terrorism" closely followed by "islam" and "muslim."
  
  it's essentially an exercise in racism and/or demonization. jane elliot's blue eyed/brown eyed experiment pretty much nailed how easily brainwashed people can become.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott
  
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    AnteUp6 months, 2 weeks ago
    
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    Great submission, dissent.
    As the site says - a starting point for further exploration ...........Thank you!
    
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      dissent6 months, 2 weeks ago
      
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      thanks anteup. it's time we wake up to just what it is we do and why. after obama admitted to the cia coup that overthrew iran's prime minister in 1953 i'd like to see just how much more he's actually prepared to admit to. as much as we need to hear more i'll bet that will be the first and last we'll ever hear of it.
      
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        AnteUp6 months, 2 weeks ago
        
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        Tried to give you a positive rating but some advertisement is in the way!
        Really though, it couldn't happen all at once but an honest appraisal of our role in history wouldn't be a bad thing.
        It takes a little shifting, a little rearranging - sometimes resentment at
        acknowledging past heroes were scoundrels - but after a period of adjustment -
        how could we not be stronger? I mean what a hoot that the rest of the world
        would know more of the truth of our OWN past than we do!
        
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    dissent6 months, 2 weeks ago
    
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    good point lart565
    
    hunting down and killing "isms" is something for people who have too much money and time on their hands. for the everyday people in this world they don't think in terms of "isms." they think of food and shelter, and maybe not too much sh*t coming their way... that's it.
    
    that is until they have to run away from the guys who rock up to kill "isms." 4 million refugees in iraq and 2 million in pakistan as... we... speak.... running away from us who are there to kill "isms".... and it's just too bad for them if they get in the way
    
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      AnteUp6 months, 2 weeks ago
      
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      Today's most dangerous "ism" is, without question, corporatism.
      
      When it lists unfriendly to our economic interests - read that as
      the masses rising up and demanding better working conditions
      and pay. God Forbid - they should get together and try to unionize!
      That's when the USA, in conjunction with the dictators of Latin
      America sent in the armies and death squads to mow them down.
      They moved many industries there to take advantage of the
      "business friendly" conditions - so now the workers pipe up?
      Might as well have stayed in the USA and used their workers
      if we cannot fill our factories with slave labor! The very idea - huh?
      Consequently when leaders arose to defend the masses -
      they were branded as Marxists or communists, when in reality
      they were not so different from the union organizers here in our
      coal mines, steel mills, etc.
      
      Now, there's a lesson from history that is totally relevant to today!
      
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