https://www.europesays.com/uk/48255/ Europe shows withdrawal symptoms after 75 years of addiction to US troops – POLITICO #Artillery #BarackObama #BorisPistorius #ChristopherCavoli #ColdWar #Defense #DonaldTrump #Estonia #EUUSMilitaryTies #ForeignPolicy #Germany #Italy #JoeBiden #Latvia #Lithuania #logistics #Military #NATO #Pentagon #Poland #Romania #Russia #Tanks #U.S.ForeignPolicy #Ukraine #UnitedStates #us #USA #WarInUkraine
A few years back I read this book, Raven Rock, by Garrett Graff. I can’t recommend it enough. It covers the history of the Cold War and the defense strategies to protect political leadership in the event of a nuclear attack. So many fascinating details and stories. One of the things that really surprised me was how many US presidents said they wouldn’t leave the Oval Office. Eventually the strategies baked this in. Another fascinating detail was that JFK ran on a platform that promoted building more nukes, but once he became president he learned that America already had 10x more nukes than Russia. #BookReview #uspol #coldwar
Switzerland has more bunkers per capita than anywhere else in the world — in the event of a crisis, every resident of the country would be guaranteed shelter space. The Dial takes a look at the origins of the bunker-building policy, what the underground shelters provide, and how they're used during peacetime — as wine cellars, saunas and even, in the case of large "command posts," as overflow housing for refugees.
#Switzerland #Culture #ColdWar #History @histodons #EmergencyPreparedness #Prepping
Four pregen characters and four taster missions for The Agency: Cold Shoulder, made up for "emergencies"—like, if I have to run Sanction demos at Dragonmeet 2 this weekend.
Patrick Lawrence: Exploding Gas Pipelines
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/23/patrick-lawrence-exploding-gas-pipelines/
The Europeans successfully resisted the American imperium’s impositions during the late Cold War years. They would not dream of any such effort now. This is the second in a series of articles on Germany. Read the first one here. By…
#Politics #Commentary #Economy #Germany #Russia #ColdWar #DirkPohlmann #EnricoMattei #EnteNazionaleIdrocarburi(eni) #FerdinandFreiligrath #GordonCraig #ImmanuelKant #KonradAdenauer #OttoVonBismarck #PatrickLawrence #ThomasReed
https://www.europesays.com/uk/39923/ World is ‘lining up’ to work with Europe amid Trump’s trade war – POLITICO #Americas #Canada #China #ColdWar #DonaldTrump #Environment #EU #Europe #European #GiorgiaMeloni #Iceland #India #Malaysia #Markets #Mercosur #NewZealand #Philippines #SouthAmerica #Stability #Tariffs #Trade #TradeWar #UnitedStates #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #XiJinping
#Soviet #MiG21 abandoned in #Mongolia There were many such aircraft left behind during the Soviet withdrawl in the final years of the #ColdWar #photo #photography #travel #TravelPhotography
Just published:
Andrew Adamatzky (Ed.): Post-apocalyptic Computing. New Yersey et al.: World Scientific 2025.
.. with my chapter on "#Doomsday Machines Computer and Computing in #ColdWar #ScienceFiction"
New #history #books
20th c.
Ausstellen in Publikationen. Zum Wandel des Öffentlichwerdens von #Kunst in den60er Jahren 978-3-88960-240-4
Building a White #Nation. #Propaganda, #Photography, and the #Apartheid Regime Between the Late 1940s and the Mid-1970s 978-94-6270-380-3
Der vergessene Widerstand.t, 978-3-406-83030-3
Macht im Umbruch. Deutschlands Rolle in #Europa 978-3-7371-0215-5
The World Is Our #Stage. The Global Rhetorical #Presidency and the #ColdWar 978-0-2268-2365-2
Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger.
For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #cia #mindcontrol #torture #lsd #mkultra #castro #nazis #oss #allenginsberg #lumumba #malcolmx #coltrane #jazz #imperialism #kenkesey #margaretmead #charlesmanson #mescaline #castro #soviet #coldwar #books #nonfiction #ussr #communism #film #documentary @bookstadon
the multi-awarded journalist and filmmaker #PaulJay gave us a great interview in which he analyses the secrets and lies from the #ColdWar to the #Trump Musk-Thiel era, which shape the US foreign policy.
Today we run it in our newspaper #FattoQuotidiano
The full sized M29 Davy Crockett finished printing. Only a couple small changes needed for the production model. I will also be sanding, finishing and painting this one.
It's a lot of fun to hold, I love my nuclear son.
The #Trump admin is using a rarely invoked #ColdWar-era #immigration statute to justify the potential #deportation of #MahmoudKhalil, a #Palestinian grad student which they claim poses a national security threat. The threat of Khalil's #deportation is reigniting debate over the limits of free speech for immigrants and the federal government's broad authority over #immigration policy.
#law
https://www.latintimes.com/look-obscure-cold-war-law-revived-deportation-case-against-pro-palestinian-activist-580484
I am driven by my emotions.
"Our opinions generally have emotional rather than intellectual roots, and indeed rationality largely functions as a post hoc justification. Our political opinions, ultimately, are what we feel about the world, not what we think about it. And in turn, our opinions about particular events have a lot to do with how we feel about the world in general. It’s not an exaggeration to say that most people’s views about the kind of things that happen today are extensions of concerns of their own ego. And consequently, invitations to change their minds because new facts emerge, or because old ideas are discredited by new evidence, are in fact a threat to the strength and even survival of that ego."
"But few people, especially those who have received a decent education, want to acknowledge that their views are based on emotion and not reason. They therefore try to argue".
It's not a coincidence that every concession #workers gained in the 20th-century has been taken away by the #capitalists since the end of the #ColdWar. Why? Because they no longer fear #revolution. As long as that fear of revolution was there, they were forced to make concessions.
As with the #Trump-#Regime, everything is transactional and thus noone in their right mind would turn themselves into a #PuppetState and sign off #UnfairTrade with the #USA.
At least #USpol and the #401k's collapsing are a good reason to firmly showcase why basing #RetirementFunds off #Stocks is a horrible idea to begin with!
In the US, we are taught the Cuban Missile Crisis was probably the closest humanity came to nuclear war: the infamous "Thirteen Days." Against the advice of his more aggressive military advisors, JFK ordered a naval blockade of Cuba and (quietly) agreed to withdraw American warheads from Turkey. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev added the condition that we never invade Castro's Cuba. Deal done. 
That story is broadly accurate, but would the Soviets have gone to war for Cuba? Was there a panic on the streets of Moscow? Did they even consider it a "crisis"?
Khrushchev's son gave a very interesting interview in 2012 on these questions:
https://news.usni.org/2012/10/24/soviet-perspective-cuban-missile-crisis-nikita-khrushchevs-son
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With the #US potentially reducing its role or even leaving #NATO, it's critical that the #EU and NATO align more closely to ensure European security and defense resilience. Here's a thread 
outlining a pathway that could realistically unfold:
#NATO #WeAreNATO #US #Trump #Global #EU #Musk #Tesla #Economy #TradeWar #Palestine #IsraelWarCrimes #Ukraine #Russia #ColdWar #IronCurtian #SovietUnion
@TheBulwark @the-bulwark-online-TheBulwark #Putin - aka #Qanon - is pleased with his puppet in the White House.
The #ColdWar is back and #WashingtonHasFallen.
#Cancel the #MAGA cult and #resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
