Grover Furr "He was listed by Conservative commentator David Horowitz as one of the "101 most dangerous academics in America."
"What do the political battles in Wisconsin and the Spanish Civil War have in common? A disturbing characteristic.
The Spanish Civil War is one of those events that are on the way to becoming forgotten history. The term "civil war" is a bit misleading, since the conflict internationalized itself in short order, with Hitler and Mussolini lining up with the rebels, or "Nationalists", and Stalin backing the "Republicans" (actually a motley gaggle of various left-wing elements). The dictatorships utilized Spain as a proving ground for new tactics and weapons, including the Me-109, fighter-bomber, the Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber, along with Rotte fighter tactics and area bombing raids, such as that carried out against Guernica. The war ended in 1939 with the defeat of the Republicans, even as World War II was looming. The Germans learned quite a lot in Spain that they applied to the Blitzkrieg campaigns against Poland and France. (Uncle Joe might have picked up a few things if he hadn't decided to have most of the officers sent to Spain shot on their return.)
Something similar, though on a much lower key (no massacres or bombing raids yet) has been occurring in Wisconsin over the past few months: a nearly open civil war instigated by the left in order to test an array of new tactics.
Last February, newly-elected governor Scott Walker signed a budget containing minor reforms aimed at the public-employees unions. Union members would be required to pay small amounts into their pension and health-care funds. Collective bargaining was curtailed on this and other matters in order to assure that these reforms would remain permanent......."
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Even as he wrote that piece, J.R. Dunn didn't think a 2nd Obama term was possible....but it happened. But he saw something that we're watching now as we're coming up to the 2016 election and the very divisive tone that has been set and nurtured (as he points out in his piece) by the Democratic Party.
Don’t forget that the NY Times is also a fervent defender of Stalin.
>>In many ways, this is the fictional counterpart to Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, the latter an autobiographical account of the British writer’s time as a soldier in Spain.
If you haven’t read Homage to Catalonia, I strongly recommend it. It’s a short read, and these are the real life experiences that led directly to 1984 and Animal Farm.
I’ll have to pick up this book.
What a waste of a human life. He could have studied the Constitution his entire life and fought for it, non-violently, at home. But these Europeans went straight from the old country to America without ever learning anything about America. I don’t think you can find in the entire writings of Emma Goldman a paragraph about the Bill of Rights or the Constitution.
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