“The winds of change were never warm.”

This is the story behind the story—the Cold War’s beginning told without the sugarcoating. From Stalin’s stolen chair to Truman’s frozen silence, this isn’t your textbook history. It’s a poetic, brutal unpacking of American myth and manufactured consent.

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Subject index: Cold War, History, Free Download, Truman, Stalin, Political Writing, Educational, E-book, Nonfiction, PDF, Antiwar, Geopolitics, US History, Soviet Union, Storytelling, Poetic Nonfiction

The moral panic of Prohibition wasn’t just a cultural moment—it was a propaganda masterpiece.

This breakdown explores how the U.S. government sold virtue to the public while expanding surveillance, enriching criminals, and deepening social control.

It’s not history—it’s a blueprint.

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Origins of the Temperance Movement, Feminist advocacy and state betrayal, Racialized and class-based enforcement of Prohibition, Government-sanctioned poisoning, Surveillance and control policies, Economic exploitation of addiction, The War on Drugs as a legacy system, Pharmaceutical profiteering and opioid crisis, The commodification of pain, Resistance, rebellion, and reclaiming history_

In the Rubber Coils: Scene—The Congo “Free” State. In this 1906 cartoon from the satiric magazine Punch, a Congo native is entrapped in a snake whose head is a portrait of King Leopold of Belgium. Published as Parliament was debating its response to the revelations of [Joseph] Conrad’s friend Roger Casement concerning conditions in the Congo, the cartoon emphasizes Leopold’s commercial stranglehold on his private colony, whose principal export was rubber.

Excerpt from Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling - Heart of darkness, “The man who would be king” and other works on empire edited by David Damrosch. ISBN 0-321-36467-8

Interesting read and good reminder that imperial colonization was the subject of debate even in it's prime—at the turn of the century.

Where are all my pro-Putin internet leninist fanboys who one week ago were lauging their ass off about the crazy idea that Putin would invade Ukraine?

Biden "senses" that Russia will invade Ukraine in "next several days". This time for sure. 😂

Russian Foreign Ministry called on Western media outlets to publish a full list of dates on which Russia will invade Ukraine for the year ahead, so diplomats can schedule their vacations accordingly

Sounds like one week ago, all the pro-Putin narrative was along the lines of "NATO is the evil guy escalating violence by deploying military stuff". Now it's all become "Putin had to take actions first by invading a sovereign nation because of NATO is evil".

I strongly recommend you read again George Orwell's 1984. It sounds like your skepticism is well-oiled for western propaganda, but it's not calibrated for other brands of psyops.

Don't listen to me, take it from:

• a marxist-leninist from eastern Europe
• Russian anarchists
• Pirate Party Russia

Of course, US and EU propaganda accounts have not been suspended :)

The operations used photos and images, shell and potentially automated accounts, and fake Uyghur profiles, to disseminate state propaganda and fake testimonials about their happy lives in the region, seeking to dispel evidence of a years-long campaign of oppression, with mass internments, re-education programs, and allegations of forced labour and sterilisation.

“The target is not actually people who are sceptical of the Chinese government, but is giving content to people who trust Chinese state media and are sceptical of western mainstream media,” said ASPI researcher Albert Zhang. “It’s propaganda appealing to the base.”

ASPI found 97% of the identified accounts had fewer than five followers, and 73% of accounts had zero. While 98% of tweets had no likes or retweets, the remainder were often boosted by Chinese diplomats and officials, spreading the content and giving it legitimacy.