Most people know what communism is at its most basic level. Simply put, communism is the idea that everyone in a given society receives equal shares of the benefits derived from labor. Communism is designed to allow the poor to rise up and attain financial and social status equal to that o...
Another frequent move is to publish a slick video that hints at much more than can be actually delivered. OpenAI did this in October 2019, with a video that showed one of their robots solving a Rubik’s Cube, one-handed. The video spread like wildfire, but the video didn’t make clear...
Kendrick creates an intelligent work that serves as a compelling and taut thriller and a lesson in misogyny and objectification. Yes, it’s set in the 1970s and an argument can be made that society has progressed in that regard but not nearly enough as this film starkly reminds us. An as...
We stand at a crossroads, as we did in the 1870s, with two paths before us, two American stories. One is ethnic and exclusionary; the other is civic and, in principle, universal, though falling far short of that in practice. They each have their own heroes, iconography,...
Maybe not, Nixon was so corrupt he over-shadowed anything Johnson did. Johnson escalated the American involvement in the Vietnam War from 16,000 American soldiers in 1963 to 500,000 in early 1968. Johnson was instrumental in pulling one of the greatest deceptions on the US public and thereas...
(Which did later happen elsewhere in Asia, but only during the Cold War when the West feared that the whole of Asia might go over to their foes.) The Kuomintang also didn’t do anything much to develop capitalism. There was a gigantic landlord class that had become wholly parasitic. It ...
I am a proud United States Marine Corp veteran who served with honor in Vietnam 1968-1969. That having been said, this piece is not about Israel. It’s about America. We need to learn the lessons of history and see the big picture. ...
The veteran was a nurse in Vietnam and was exposed to toxic substances, but while their health was impacted, they never got cancer, and the VA has regularly denied their claim for help with resulting medical problems because the health problems were insufficiently severe to tie current health ...
The moderates circulated a translation of an interview Goldwater had given to a German newsmagazine, in which he was quoted as saying he would tell his generals in Vietnam, "Fellows, we made the decision to win, now it's your problem." CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr then reported, "It...
The Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan fiascos are a powerful reminder of the moral lapses and human tragedies that the U.S. and some of its allies were responsible for in those countries.” In other words, it is not entirely inconsistent for the “Global South” to both condemn the Russian...