Did Goebbels ever write a book? The Art of Convincing? By then I guess his career was already made and he'd diversified to microphone technique. "McCarthyism" enriched the international language - in naive post-war Australia, we thought above all that the rule of law was particularly one-eyed and merciless in America (with uneasy compass…
Did Goebbels ever write a book? The Art of Convincing? By then I guess his career was already made and he'd diversified to microphone technique. "McCarthyism" enriched the international language - in naive post-war Australia, we thought above all that the rule of law was particularly one-eyed and merciless in America (with uneasy compassion for the ruined careers). It was never clear that he'd made it all up. You just didn't do that sort of thing. Heather's Letter brings some comfort today.
Mr Leo cannot, however, be blamed for living in an immensely powerful country whose institutions have become so threadbare that it can select an extreme security risk as Commander-in-Chief... This, quite apart from all those decades as a notorious conman, systematically cheating contractors... and the IRS... just for starters.
My post starting "There was another" seems to have vanished. Pity, the attached article was a very detailed (true) story. There's plenty on the internet, but that one was very good. Google "Willi Münzenberg", or combine Willi Münzenberg Rupert Murdoch and see what comes up.
I was thinking of Mr. Moloch, of course, when I spoke of damage...
This man clearly understood too much, and paid the price.
Must have influenced Goebbels...
Most of the more respectable US press has a whiff of a capitalist Pravda about it... Yet, given the dirty looks I got in the Deepest Deep South when carrying a copy of the NYT, it might as well have been Pravda...
Seems to be similarities in trying to leave the Party he once believed it, after he saw what it was becoming (or looked a bit more under the covers at what it secretly had been longer than anyone thought).
Many wouldn't want to believe what they came to see until they tried to leave the party. Political factions shouldn't be like Mob Gangs where lack of loyalty can be deadly.
I learned to consider different perspectives in many ways, but an early one was from a life long Republican that had been Paul Robeson's locker-mate at Rutgers. He wouldn't tolerate careless criticism of such a talented person for something as simple as his skin color, or as deep as why Robeson would not denigrate communism (without looking at the flaws in our own society).
Did Goebbels ever write a book? The Art of Convincing? By then I guess his career was already made and he'd diversified to microphone technique. "McCarthyism" enriched the international language - in naive post-war Australia, we thought above all that the rule of law was particularly one-eyed and merciless in America (with uneasy compassion for the ruined careers). It was never clear that he'd made it all up. You just didn't do that sort of thing. Heather's Letter brings some comfort today.
I've maintained for decades that Goebbels was the most influential politician of our time.
The grandmaster of political staging.
Just like Leonard Leo is the puppet master of the far-right members of the Supreme Court.
I had to look that up -- you are well informed Gary! https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority There is always someone pulling the puppet strings.
Selecting the best judges that money can buy...
Mr Leo cannot, however, be blamed for living in an immensely powerful country whose institutions have become so threadbare that it can select an extreme security risk as Commander-in-Chief... This, quite apart from all those decades as a notorious conman, systematically cheating contractors... and the IRS... just for starters.
My post starting "There was another" seems to have vanished. Pity, the attached article was a very detailed (true) story. There's plenty on the internet, but that one was very good. Google "Willi Münzenberg", or combine Willi Münzenberg Rupert Murdoch and see what comes up.
Shall look it up.
Extraordinary, how much harm one single businessman can do...
Willi had newspapers and an enormous network. That's where the Murdoch reference ends.
He ended up garotted in a French forest in June 1940.
Just read in The Jacobin. Excellent article.
I was thinking of Mr. Moloch, of course, when I spoke of damage...
This man clearly understood too much, and paid the price.
Must have influenced Goebbels...
Most of the more respectable US press has a whiff of a capitalist Pravda about it... Yet, given the dirty looks I got in the Deepest Deep South when carrying a copy of the NYT, it might as well have been Pravda...
Seems to be similarities in trying to leave the Party he once believed it, after he saw what it was becoming (or looked a bit more under the covers at what it secretly had been longer than anyone thought).
Many wouldn't want to believe what they came to see until they tried to leave the party. Political factions shouldn't be like Mob Gangs where lack of loyalty can be deadly.
I learned to consider different perspectives in many ways, but an early one was from a life long Republican that had been Paul Robeson's locker-mate at Rutgers. He wouldn't tolerate careless criticism of such a talented person for something as simple as his skin color, or as deep as why Robeson would not denigrate communism (without looking at the flaws in our own society).