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Drawing clear lines

Today’s battles 1. The Popular Front has been one of the great dead ends of the socialist movement. Today, a terrible version of it has emerged in the NO2EU electoral front in the UK, an allianc… more →

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Review: HUMAN SMOKE by Nicholson Baker

diaryofaneccentric wrote 3 days ago: Gavin from Page247 read Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, The End of Civilization by Nic … more →

Tags: wwii, WWII Challenge, Book Reviews, Nicholson Baker

Drawing clear lines — 4 comments

antigerman wrote 7 months ago: Today’s battles 1. The Popular Front has been one of the great dead ends of the socialist move … more →

Tags: GEORGE ORWELL, ilp, Democratic Socialists, From the archive of struggle, Blogging, The best of Poumista, Albert Einstein, Allen Young, Bertrand Russell

Poumable — 4 comments

antigerman wrote 8 months ago: Blog notes Max Dunbar: Human Smoke, pacifism, fascism and just aggression. Not just Orwell: Christop … more →

Tags: Spanish Civil War, ilp, anarchists, Trotskyists, From the archive of struggle, Franklin Rosemont, Workers Socialist League, International Communist League, alan thornett

Book Review: 'Human Smoke'...

markdowe wrote 12 months ago: HUMAN SMOKE HUMAN SMOKE by Nicholson Baker is underwritten as a book that cites the beginning of Wor … more →

Tags: United Nations, european union, World Affairs, Book Reviews, World War I and II, Books, raf, Great Depression, Second World War

Human Smoke: Reoccurring Themes — 2 comments

redsox0408 wrote 1 year ago: President Roosevelt as Commander-and-Chief President Roosevelt is continually depicted throughout Hu … more →

Tags: Writing & Literature, World War II, wwii, winston churchill, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President Roosevelt

Merchants of Death Watch the Cash Roll In — 1 comment

dcrowe wrote 1 year ago: War is big business, people. According to this morning’s The New York Times: From tanks, helic … more →

Tags: nonviolence, Jesus, bush, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Arms trade

Nicholson Baker. Human Smoke — 8 comments

Ted Grimsrud wrote 1 year ago: Nicholson Baker. 567pp. Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization. New Yo … more →

Tags: pacifism, Book Reviews, Politics, Nicholson Baker, World War II

nahnopenotquite wrote 1 year ago: Nicholson Baker’s new book, Human Smoke, is brilliant. It is a work of diligent scholarship, p … more →

Tags: Books, The Arts, Intellectuals, Society, Culture, Adam Kirsch, New York Sun, Book Review, Nicholson Baker

A Talking Books panel gets into an intense debate on Human Smoke, Nicholson Baker's new book about WW II

thefungus wrote 1 year ago: People often refer to the Allied response in WW II when talking about “just” wars. American author N … more →

Tags: Conspiracy, Empire, MACHINE, Churchill, Nicholson Baker, Roosevelt, War, warmongers, WW2

digression - honest to blog

songsaboutbuildingsandfood wrote 1 year ago: But Baker never answers the questions that he asks. That is, he has not undertaken the historian … more →

Tags: Nicholson Baker, Anne Applebaum, inferiority complex, lil wayne