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UnskilledLabor's avatar

This was an excellent article. Thank you. I am going to read The Jakarta Method. Keep punching up, as Jimmy Dore says!

Mark Phelan's avatar

possibly the only pairing of "leftist “intellectuals.”" and "The Young Turks" in the time space continuum..

Robert Granniss's avatar

Creating "The Bureau of Free Love" is my next step when Brick Shop ends...

Boris Petrov's avatar

Very interesting. However, mangrove "swamp" can not be in the interior but only be in a coastal region of Cuba as mangrove requires salt water.

..."Fidel Castro spent his time in a mangrove swamp in the interior of Cuba"...

Esha's avatar

Thanks. I must have must have misread it. Indeed they say he was in Sierra Oriente.

Patrick's avatar

Very useful and insightful.

IN fact such terms are abused to serve the self interests of powers.

Democracy, human rights, authoritarianism, totalitarian regimes, etc, are exploited buzz words for political bias and narratives.

Mark Phelan's avatar

any more information on kim il sung's mom's "please go free korea."? thanks for the interesting article..

Esha's avatar

It is somewhere in this book "With the Century" look through this thread.

https://twitter.com/historic_ly/status/1254945451410931712?t=21TP5HVSafTRxxlBycfqwA&s=19