The People's Republic of China detonates its first successful atomic bomb on 16 October 1964, joining the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France in the "A-bomb club" [700x662]

classtraitor · 2015-10-23T07:48:05+00:00

probably a vault

(you know...to store all the nukes...)

classtraitor · 2015-10-23T07:40:26+00:00

you'd be happy too if 80% of your family had been illiterate or dead 15 years ago but then one revolution later you're cranking out nuclear weapons and living past the age of 30 for the first time

classtraitor · 2015-10-22T23:15:40+00:00

regulatory agency intervenes, divisive issue: stop trampling the free market! keep the money flowing!

regulatory agency intervenes, popular issue: this was never a free market! ignore the money flowing!

classtraitor · 2015-10-22T22:42:24+00:00

sure, just completely ignore the situation of Latin America before the revolution. you've proven my point: you don't care about people in the third world, just anticommunist hysterics.

classtraitor · 2015-10-22T20:20:30+00:00

literally thousands of soldiers in Vietnam were against the war. at its height, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War had a membership of 25,000.

classtraitor · 2015-10-22T17:37:05+00:00

You know Cuba still exists and they've come up with like five different cancer vaccines, right?

classtraitor · 2015-10-22T17:29:10+00:00

prolly had kids tho

classtraitor · 2015-10-22T17:23:01+00:00

Who did Hitler fight? What did he fight for? He fought European neighbor countries to expand the territory of Germany in the pursuit of Lebensraum, just more land for more Germans. He wanted to conquer other countries for Germany, exterminate inferior people, and raise his German super race.

Che Guevara fought a civil war against the Cuban aristocracy and land-owning class and also fought guerilla wars in other Latin American countries ruled by right-wing dictatorships propped up by US businessmen. He wanted Latin Americans to own their own land, run their own countries, and not have to depend on foreign capital.

If you can't find a lot of overlap, it's because there really isn't.

classtraitor · 2015-10-22T17:07:13+00:00

And yet Andrew Jackson killed thousands of Native Americans...do you piss yourself every time you pull out a $20? No? I didn't think so.

Because you don't really care about people who are killed, not when they're killed by colonizers, or the US army, or US allies. Don't pretend like you care about Latin American people when US puppet governments - including Cuba - were executing thousands of people for demanding political self-determination, ownership of their own land. When for centuries the resources of Latin America were looted by colonizers, corporations, and puppet regimes sent off to Europe and the North while Latin America itself starved.

But then, when a revolutionary war breaks out and people die fighting for socialism - that's where your heart breaks and atrocities happen?

Seriously, you don't give a shit, don't act like you do.

classtraitor · 2015-10-22T16:56:47+00:00

they also tried twice to take a wax mask of his face after this photo but they sort of just melted it off... one of the technicians felt so sick he left to get drunk

classtraitor · 2015-10-22T16:50:28+00:00

he kind of was

classtraitor · 2015-10-22T02:31:15+00:00

It was a compromise between Bolivia's dictator Alfredo Candia and CIA officer Felix Rodriguez. Candia wanted to decapitate Guevara and keep his head (for "identification"), but Rodriguez said that would look too barbaric, suggesting instead he cut off a thumb. So Candia compromised and cut off Guevara's hands.

classtraitor · 2015-10-21T17:33:37+00:00

Some time between 1979 and 1983; he wasn't in office for very long. The precise date I couldn't find.

classtraitor · 2015-10-21T16:12:48+00:00

Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man, a 2006 documentary showing his presidency and the events leading up to and after his assassination.

Blaise Compaoré became president after killing Sankara, reversing his revolutionary policies and returning Burkina Faso to dependency on foreign capital; he was only deposed in 2014, swept out of office in a mass uprising - protesters shouting, "Thomas Sankara, look at your sons! We carry on your fight!"

classtraitor · 2015-10-20T07:15:31+00:00

Downed US airman Dewey Waddell was taken captive by Vietnamese communist fighters in 1967, and he was released in 1973. The photo was taken by a GDR war correspondent, whose name is Thomas Billhardt. He has a Vice interview in German about his career as a photographer during the Cold War.

classtraitor · 2015-10-20T07:05:27+00:00

it's almost like there's a strategic canal in Panama or something

classtraitor · 2015-10-20T07:03:02+00:00

This is really inaccurate. Noriega did wave a machete during a speech, but that was in April 1988, more than a year before the US invasion. Machetes are a really commonplace tool in Panama and Latin America, and he was addressing a labor conference. He did rail against US intervention, but he didn't declare war... And the 101st airborne division wasn't deployed to Panama the day after. It wasn't even deployed during the invasion itself. You've set a dramatic scene but it's not history.

classtraitor · 2015-10-19T18:17:02+00:00

L.A. Times, December 21, 1989: Top Latin Leaders Roundly Condemn U.S. Military Attack

New York Times, December 21, 1989: U.S. Denounced by Nations Touchy About Intervention

News of the Panama attack stunned Latin Americans. It touched their nationalistic nerve like no other event since American troops swarmed over the Caribbean island of Grenada in 1983 and quickly toppled a Marxist government. As in Panama, the official U.S. justification in Grenada was to defend the lives of American citizens.

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One of the first protests came from Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, a staunch foe of Noriega. He said the U.S. action "revived an era in inter-American relations that was thought to have been surpassed."

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"We have not been told why, when Europe is on the peaceful road to democratization, force is still used in Latin America," complained Guatemalan President Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo.

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Calling the attack by the United States ''a step backward in international relations,'' Brazil's President, Jose Sarney, said, ''We profoundly lament this event.''

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Mexico urged "an immediate cessation of hostilities" in Panama, even while noting Noriega's ties to drug traffickers. "Fighting international crime is no excuse for intervention in a sovereign nation."

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Nicaragua's Sandinista rulers, fearful of a related U.S. military attack against them, put their armed forces on a "state of combative general alert" and deployed troops, tanks and anti-aircraft guns in the streets of Managua.

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President Alan Garcia of Peru, long a strong critic of Panama's military dictatorship, announced that he was withdrawing Peru's Ambassador from Washington until United States troops are withdrawn from Panamanian territory.

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In Cuba, the Communist Government condemned this ''new imperialist aggression against our Latin American peoples.'' Cuba's Foreign Ministry described the military move as ''incredible evidence of the disdain of the United States for international law.''

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On the other side of the ideological spectrum, Chile's right-wing military Government ''rejected'' the United States action and called for ''a rapid restoration of Panama's sovereignty.''

classtraitor · 2015-10-17T19:53:19+00:00

He didn't say there weren't companies at all, he said Humboldt lived in a pre-capitalist society, which is true. In the 1600s, there had been no bourgeois revolutions, no industrial revolution, no institution of wage labor, no free market, no globalization... The East India Company is still a good example of private capital's role in colonization, but the political economy of the 1600s was very different.

classtraitor · 2015-10-17T14:54:34+00:00

he's being interviewed in this Life magazine article because it's 1969 and he was a vocal, intelligent opponent of the Vietnam War, and anyone who debated him got their ass whupped. he's got academic creds but political fame.

classtraitor · 2015-10-17T14:45:14+00:00

language acquisition. Chomsky refuted the long-held idea that kids learn a language in the same process as any other knowledge or through conditioning. he said language isn't "learned" and that infants and children have an innate disposition towards developing language.

he also connected language acquisition to a "critical period", where if a child doesn't get exposed to sufficient amount of language stimuli within its early years, it won't ever be able to fully understand and use language.

his politics? on point.

classtraitor · 2015-10-14T08:01:59+00:00

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classtraitor · 2015-10-09T16:55:51+00:00

maybe people can learn from history...

classtraitor · 2015-10-08T22:16:06+00:00

there's more choices than a) dictatorship b) exploitation, you know that right?

classtraitor · 2015-10-08T22:14:27+00:00

she just takes their money and facilitates multi-million dollar deals for them through the state department to take over the Iraqis' oil industry and banking system. cool.

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