Tankies are never heroes.

How sad that America didn’t live up to its own ideals in how it treated a great man like Robeson. How tragic that Robeson couldn’t condemn the Soviets even when they murdered his friends.

This interview provides cover for an authoritarian regime as it murders its own people for agitating for freedom. I really can’t see Scahil’s excuse for this, other than having a Campist Manichean view of reality in which the US is all bad and its opponents wholly innocent.

Watching John Ford’s The Searchers in Monument Valley at Navajo Nation’s View Hotel.

Who is Fowler? According to his account he led men who did the following for the Union and the cause of freedom at Gettysburg. Looked the part too!

actually this was sort of the point of the game Parker Bros. used as a model for Monopoly. Lizzie Magie’s The Landlord’s Game was designed to teach the principles of Georgism. PB ripped her off and she was never fairly compensated for her invention. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopol...