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Gaither Stewart looks for the truth behind the biggest propaganda trophy of the 20th Century
THE STALIN ENIGMA
World War II morale poster: The people rally behind the leader.
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What was Stalin really like? Was he the monster, the mass murderer, the megalomanic dictator so many in the West have been taught to believe? Or was he the kind of leader that rises to the occasion in moments of great danger for his people? Few world historical figures can match Stalin for controversy, especially since he is the biggest and most disputed propaganda trophy of the 20th Century.
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Stalin has been the object of attack and vilification not only by reactionary bourgeois historians, politicians and propagandists, but also by Trostkyists, liberals, and naturally fascists. Many in the West have misleadingly sought to equate him with Hitler in perfidy. Yet his legacy, bound up with the idea of communism, perseveres, and is now being re-evaluated, not only in Russia, but also in the West. |
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The Cyrano crew [click on the names for bioblurb information]
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Publisher Patrice Greanville keeps busy making sure we don't hit a hidden reef or sail into a perfect storm...On his free time he helms The Greanville Journal [TGJ] and is now collating a new tv/cinema & media index cataloging the most outrageous examples of service to a criminal System.
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Indefatigable Associate Editor Jason Miller's main turf is his Thomas Paine's Corner blog, Cyrano's largest, plus numerous editorial, administrative and promotional tasks, including our newsletter, Mind Detox. His passion and loyalty to the idea of a new society is CJO's blessing.
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Senior Editor sadi ranson-polizzotti's contributions via tantmieux and other venues comprise a rich blend of poetry, photography and liberated personal chronicles of the most compelling kind-- delivered with characteristic honesty. Since the merging of her tantmieux and Cyrano sites in 2007, she also runs a tantmieux blog within Cyrano itself, something of miracle of commitment, given how busy her life is.
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Polymathic veteran Editor-at-Large Ed Duvin fills many functions, but his most important role is as consigliere on all matters pertaining to the smooth sailing of the Information Vessel Cyrano and helping the skipper glue all the idiosyncratic parts into a harmonious whole. He also pens an unusual column for TGJ, Notes From the Asylum
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"Revolution without the Arts is meaningless,” writes Gary Corseri, a Senior Arts & Culture Editor of Cyrano’s Journal Online (CJO), whose articles, poems, stories and plays have appeared in/at CJO, DissidentVoice, The New York Times, Village Voice, CounterPunch, and over 200 other periodicals and websites worldwide.
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Will Patching is a reformed workaholic mammonist with a total lack of respect for the babblings of the mainstream media and a healthy suspicion of all politicians' words and actions. His eclectic writings range from blogs on politics and current affairs through to short stories and thriller novels. He can usually be found exploring the South China Seas from his base in Thailand or, more easily, at www.willpatching.com. tent
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Senior Editor of Arts and Culture with Cyrano’s Journal Online, playwright, director, screenwriter and teacher, John Steppling was an original founding member of the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival and has had his plays produced in London, LA, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Poland. Steppling lives in Lodz with Norwegian director Gunnhild Skrodal, and teaches at the Polish National Film School. He co-edits with Guy Zimmerman Cyrano's celebrated VOXPOP blog on theater, cinema & politics.
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Rowan Wolf, a senior contributing editor to Cyrano's Journal, is a sociologist, teacher, writer and activist. Her areas of interest include social justice, environment, and globalization/
corporatization at the core.
SINCE 5.6.07, she has also been the main host and director of Cyrano's special blog, AVENGER.
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Guy Zimmerman is the Artistic Director of Padua Playwrights. Since 2001, he has staged award-winning productions of new plays by numerous contemporary playwrights (including John Steppling's Dog Mouth) in Los Angeles and New York. As a Senior Editor for CJO, He co-edits VOXPOP with J Steppling.
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Phil Rockstroh, a self-described, auto-didactic, gasbag monologist, is a poet, lyricist, and philosopher bard, living in New York City, in the company of his loyal muse, Angie. Phil is a CJO Senior Contributing Editor. His essays have been published all over the web and have been translated into many languages.
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Based in Rome, Gaither Stewart, well known for his dispatches and essays from Europe, is Cyrano’s Journal’s Senior Editor & Special European Correspondent. Gaither is currently focused on the troubling re-emergence of fascist parties and movements in the old continent.
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Senior Special Editor Bill Blum is one of the most distinguished critics of US Foreign Policy, chronicling for decades the crimes and hypocrisy of American policies of imperial dominionism under the pretext of waging a global struggle for peace, freedom and democracy.
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Uri Avnery, Emeritus Correspondent on Middle Eastern affairs, and founder of Gush Shalom, is Israel's leading peace advocate with the Palestinian nation. A former journalist, and onetime member of the Israeli Parliament (the Knesset) he was in the Israeli militias that did ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine in 1948 to prepare for the state of Israel. His life inspired Leon Uris for the character played by Paul Newman in the movie Exodus. Since those days, Avnery has travelled a long way and is today one of Palestinians most reliable ally and a brave fighter for peace and a just two-state solution.
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Senior Editor Joe Bageant needs little introduction. The author of the recent instant classic, DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS, Joe is an undisputed expert in the complex mentality of "red staters" who, while often working class, vote repeatedly for plutocratic frauds in the name of "God" & patriotism.
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Steven Jonas-Professor of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University (NY)-- is Special Contributing Editor for Cyrano on Politics & Culture. Always involved in progressive politics, Jonas is also the author of The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022.published in 1996 under the pseudonym "Jonathan Westminster. Lately Jonas has been following the Democratic Party meanderings during a particularly snarky primary season.
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Steven Best, Ph.D. is Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso. He has published numerous books and articles on philosophy, cultural criticism, social theory and animal rights. He has appeared on TV shows like Extra! and is frequently interviewed by national print and radio media including the New York Times and National Public Radio. Best is Cyrano's Journal Special Editor for Animal Rights, Speciesisim and Human Tyranny over Nature.
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Chicago-based Stephen Lendman is Cyrano's chief book editor and one of our most energetic contributing writers on matters of politics and foreign policy. CJO readers are encouraged to visit Steve's blog and listen to The Global Research News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Mondays from 11AM to 1PM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions of world and national topics with many distinguished guests.
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Maryscott O'Connor is mistress of MyLeftwing.com, a fraternal site that represents some of the best values of the new citizens' media, and a featured CJO writer. Her essays are found on many sites across the web.
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Adam Engel is a Contributing Editor for Cyrano's Journal. Adam has published poetry, fiction, articles, and reviews in several web sites and magazines such as CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, Online Journal, Hudson Review, Accent, The Concord Journal, Beacon, Art World, Ward6 Review, CounterCurrents, LewRockwell.com, Literal Latte, Lummux, POESY, Chronogram, Press Action,and many others.
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One of America's keenest students of its history, Gore Vidal is also the nation's most erudite social critic and media gadfly. For many decades Vidal has provided support and inspiration to those who would like to see America live up to its own propaganda, and helped generously the advance and strengthening of citizens' media. For that alone, we are in his eternal debt. Gore Vidal is Cyrano's Journal's first and foremost emeritus editor.
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Poet and part-time actor Viola Ransel is a Senior Contributing Editor with CJO. Here she's perversely attired in a police uniform for an audition but her nonconformist temperament would never allow her to don one for real.
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A SPECIAL BOOK REVIEW OF Joel Magnuson's Mindful Economics
Redeeming the Dismal Science
capitalism for dummies in one step
BY PATRICE GREANVILLE
MASTER SPECIES
Notes from the Asylum
Ed Duvin muses on the emotional and psychological fracture permitting humans to inflict the most brutal forms of enslavement and death on animals, and the absence of progressive voices in the struggle for their liberation.
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WILLIAM BLUM'S SPECIAL REPORT
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Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life.
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THE CUBA-VENEZUELA FILES
The vultures have begun circling above, as they await Fidel's departure: Comment by Monthly Review's editors
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The padded bed: the epileptic in western medicine click here
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A Little Bit Pregnant: Freedom of Speech in America
MaryScott O'Connor tackles one of the trickiest issues in politics today
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PHOTO: Badly traumatized orphaned monkey has managed to bond with this dove in one of China's animal sanctuaries. |
Neither the mindnumbing magnitude of our tyranny over nature, especially "factory farm animals," nor its ubiquitousness, should blind us to the fact that a horrendous crime is being committed here. [READ MORE]
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BLOGOSPHERE STRAIGHT SHOOTERS:
AMERICANISM
No.Americanism is an ism without equal and unlike any other geographicism. It really is all of narcissism, greed, hyper-individualism, consumerism, capitalism, corporatism, faux democracy, media whoredom, asphyxiation of the Left, Christian fundamentalism, Mammon worship, moral retardation, militarism, imperialism, celebrity worship, wars on drugs and terrorism, prison industrial complex, mean-spiritedness, self-absorption, American exceptionalism, bullying, anti-intellectualism and the abandonment of many uninsured and homeless in the wealthiest nation on earth and infected with a national cowardice that sees its people unwilling to confront its leadership. # franc macneilon 17 Feb 2008 [“AMERICANISM: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly””]
SELLING US AN OCCUPATION
BUSH'S IS THE SAME RATIONALE...
Bush has been using this for some time to somehow "justify" his occupation of Iraq after all his other "justifications" and rationales have been exposed as bogus. Somehow, the fact that American military personnel have died fighting bravely in a war of occupation somehow JUSTIFIES that war? Can someone please explain this logic to me? I've never understood it. Because, if American politicians wrongly (and even absurdly) invade and/or occupy another country as was the case in Vietnam and Iraq, yes, many Americans may very well and are likely to die bravely in that war of occupation. I hate to say this, but I'm sure that many German soldiers fought and died bravely in WWII to promote Adolph Hitler's military ends and spread the sanguinary joys of the Third Reich to the rest of the world. And their brave deaths somehow justified Hitler's program of world domination? It's the same logic, folks (I hate to say)....wmbear (HuffPost)
"An Obama obsession fired up by the media has struck this country which remains polarized between a very small minority of enlightened sensitive and socially conscious souls and the inane majority. This almost desperately naïve search for salvation from a tightly controlled political process through a candidate who was cleverly sold to the general public will only bring if he is elected president a tighter hidden bondage, exactly because this population will be given what they think they wanted, while helping to maintain the status quo, much like with the Roosevelt New Deal. Obama, the creature of the Eastern establishment and the Kennedy clan will bring some superficial remedies for the Bush years, but he will cement thereby the continuation of capitalist domination of this country and the world. He may well win against McCain, presenting a new face masking the same capitalist features, a brilliant victory for the established powers, having overcome the present day disillusions of Americans. The help of deluded liberal progressives to bring this about has as always in history been more deleterious and destructive of any freedom than what the conservative section has constructed. Obama is truly the symptom of the disease of a social system that has lost its power to convince but lingers on by hollow simulacra and is truly disastrous for the globe."—Gui Rochat
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> LEARN THE ESSENE WAY OF LIFE, AND PRACTICE IT. AND REDUCE YOUR INTAKE OF COMMERCIAL TV.
John Steppling, Senior Editor, Arts & Culture, Voxpop // Guy Zimmerman, Senior Editor, Arts & Culture, Voxpop // Gary Corseri, Senior Editor, Arts & Culture // Rowan Wolf, Senior Editor, Environment, Globalization & Imperialism // Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti, Senior Editor, Poetry, Photography & Life Chronicles // Susan Rosenthal, Senior Editor, Medicine, Politics & Empowerment // Steven Jonas, Special Contributing Editor, Politics & Culture // Gaither Stewart, Special Contributing Editor & European Correspondent // Steve Best, Special Editor, Animal Rights, Speciesism, and Human Tyranny over Nature // William Blum, Special Editor, US Foreign Policy Hypocrisy and Imperialist Crimes // Stephen Lendman, Senior Book Editor and Contributing Writer // Suki Falconberg, Senior Contributing Writer // Viola Ransel, Senior Contributing Editor
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