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Let me ask it this way: if Red Don isn't a #Russian agent, why is he trying so hard to destroy the #Constitution and our #democratic institutions? He's done more damage to this country in 2 months than the #Soviets managed to accomplish in the entire #ColdWar.

He's #Putin's wet dream, his bitch, his stooge. With all the evidence of coordination with #Russia from his first campaign and term, the conclusion seems obvious: #President Fragile Ego Tinyhands is Putin's puppet.

Who knew this? *Any* of it? Read it in corporate media?

“Modern art was CIA 'weapon'”

by Frances Stonor Saunders in The Independent @Independent@flipboard.com
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“Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War”

independent.co.uk/news/world/m

The Independent · Modern art was CIA 'weapon' | The IndependentBy Frances Stonor Saunders
#Press#UK#US

#US / Newly released CIA report reveals Cold War activities targeting Israeli Communist Party

A declassified 1961 #CIA report details the agency's surveillance of the Israeli Communist Party (#MAKI). The 25-page document, released under the Trump administration, examines MAKI's leadership, its youth wing, and its connections to various Israeli organizations. The report highlights the CIA's concerns about the party's political influence and its efforts to undermine it. The report details the party's membership, split by ethnicity and origin. The report also reveals the CIA's focus on encouraging internal divisions within the party.

[...] The secret document reveals a glimpse of the depth of American global imperialist activity, and one can only wonder how involved then-Prime Minister Ben-Gurion was in the anti-democratic campaign in Israel, as according to the document, he expressed concern on more than one occasion that 'MAKI, MAPAM, and Israeli leftists would seize power

This release is part of a larger declassification effort related to the John F. Kennedy assassination.

Hebrew zoha.org.il/136188/

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#Zionism #USImperialism #ColdWar

זו הדרך · פורסם דו"ח סודי על מק"י שנכתב ב-1961 על ידי סוכנות הביון המרכזית של ארה"ב - זו הדרךמערכת "זו הדרך" 22.03.2025 שתפו דו"ח סודי על המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית (מק"י) שנכתב ב-1961 על ידי סוכנות הביון המרכזית של ארה"ב (ה-CIA) פורסם השבוע בארה"ב. זאת, לאחר שממשלו של דונלד טראמפ התיר לפרסם עשרות אלפי מסמכים הנוגעים להתנקשות בנשיא ה–35 של ארה"ב, ג'ון קנדי, ב–22 בנובמבר 1963 בעת שעבר עם השיירה שלו ברחוב בדאלאס. יצוין שלדו"ח על מק"י אין קשר לרצח הנשיא האמריקאי. טים נפתלי,
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@SocraticEthics The #BrainDrain from #Hungary to the #UnitedStates during #WorldWar2 and the following #ColdWar catapulted #American #Mathematics and #ComputerScience (John Von Neumann…), #Chemistry (George Olah…), #Nuclear #Physics (Leo Szilard…) to become the undisputed world leader in #science and #technology.

That brain drain resulted in the Russia-aligned country full of morons that you see today.

#DonaldTheDeplorable is also a #Putin puppet and starting a brain drain FROM here.

We are live witnessing the rapid collapse of the #USA by the new #fascist world order, now under the umbrella of the axis of #dictatorships.
What a time to be alive for someone who grew up in the #ColdWar.

May the people rise up against this tide and build a fairer and just society the without hyper-#capitalism that led to its demise.

In the meantime the first steps towards collapse in The #Netherlands is becoming more solid, with a #Putin-apologist leading its puppet cabinet to stagnate and sabotaging ours.

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"The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World", by Vincent Bevins

#Book presentation: "In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful."

#Quote from book: “I fear that the truth of what happened contradicts so forcefully our idea of what the Cold War was, of what it means to be an American, or how globalization has taken place, that it has simply been easier to ignore it.”

Recension: lareviewofbooks.org/article/en

Interview: lareviewofbooks.org/article/th

@histodons @bookstodon 🧶

Los Angeles Review of Books · Enduring Cold War Imperialism: On Vincent Bevins’s “The Jakarta Method” | Los Angeles Review of BooksA review of Vincent Bevins’s reflections on America’s efforts to maintain power during the Cold War.
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the creation in 1949 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (#NATO), a security agreement to resist Soviet expansion.
The so-called #ColdWar between the two superpowers dominated much of geopolitics for the next several decades. In the 1980s, President Ronald #Reagan warned that the U.S. was engaged in a titanic struggle between “right and wrong and good and evil.” The Soviet Union was the “evil empire,” preaching “the supremacy of the state” and “its omnipotence over individual man.”
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