Sitemap - 2024 - Bruce’s Contradicciones Newsletter

Artificial Intelligence (AI): reality and hype

The right to dissent in the US and “strategic voting” in the 2024 Presidential election

The war on Gaza in US politics and in international law

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 30: Can we find a “usable past”?

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 29: Adelbert Ames, Blanche Ames, LQC Lamar, and John Kennedy

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 28: Confederate icons were not popular nationally for decades after the Civil War

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 27: The “First Arkansas” Marching Song

The latest round in the politics of the Ukraine War in the US

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 26: An Irish look from 1862 at the causes of the American Civil War

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 25: Charles Sumner takes the lead in the Senate against the Fugitive Slave Act

Biden makes more cosmetic gestures for restraint while he ups support to Israel’s Gaza war

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 24: Frederick Douglass and the Compromise of 1850

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 23: More on how the Compromise of 1850 was terrible

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 22: The Compromise of 1850

Is Timothy Snyder stuck in Cold War fantasies?

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 21: Former Mississippi Democratic Gov. Ray Mabus on why celebrating Confederate “heritage” is disgusting

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 20: Yes, the Civil War was about slavery

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 19: Jacksonian democracy and the slavery issue

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 18: Black Abolitionists in the 1830s

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 17: Mississippi’s 2024 version, courtesy of Republican Gov. Tate Reeves

Israel-Iran war: The Biden Administration looks like it's giving a green light

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 16: The slavery issue in the 1820s

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 15: Jacksonian reform and the Abolitionists

Can the Biden Administration restrain Israel? On anything?

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 14: Treacherous slaveowners

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 13: The US Civil War and “Tragedy”

Trump's foreign policy - to the extent he has one

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 12: Slavery: a grow-or-die institution

Argentina, AMIA and ... the expanding Middle East war?

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 11: Can mathematical equations explain the Civil War? (2 of 2)

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 10: Can mathematical equations explain the Civil War? (1 of 2)

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 9: A 1941 Version of the Lost Cause pseudohistory defending slavery, segregation and white supremacy

Waiting for Iran's military response

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 8: The “Democrat Party”

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 7: A bridge to the “DEI” label

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 6: Nullification Controversy of 1832

A very dark instance of AI at work: Israel’s “Lavender” system

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 5: Nat Turner’s Rebellion and politics in 2024

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 4: Presidential Impunity from Jefferson Davis to Donald Trump

US Sen. Chris Murphy on US arms supplies to Israel

Biden, Bibi, and the escalating Middle East war

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 3: Jamaican slave rebellion and how we see history

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 2: Beware of rogue Supreme Courts who don’t care about the rights of voters

Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 1: Nikki Haley and the Lost Cause

Prosperity for the majority and the future of liberal democracy

The Russia-Ukraine War and the future of European security

The US public and especially Democratic voters are not happy with Biden’s policy on Netanyahu’s war-and-starvation policy toward Palestinians in Gaza

US-Israel diplomacy and the starvation campaign against Gaza civilians

Democracy in the real world vs. democracy as people just shutting up and taking what they're given

Artificial Intelligence - what is it? (Besides investor hype, of course!)

US policy on Israel's ethnic-cleansing campaign in Gaza is stunningly bad

"Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell (7/End)

Bracing for new escalation by Israel against Gaza civilians

"Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell (6): In the neighborhood-Indonesia and India

Do aspiring rightwing dictators mean "bloodbath" when they say "bloodbath"?

AI experiment: Looking for 16th-century peasant leader Thomas Müntzer via Google Gemini AI chat

"Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell (5): Former French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) and Peru

Checking in with Über-Realist John Mearsheimer for his (downbeat) views of the Russia-Ukraine and Gaza Wars

An Austrian journalist offers (somewhat dubious) advice to the left-of-center

"Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell (4): Maoism in the Global North (Europe and North America)

Russian elections: Vladimir Putin favored to win

"Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell (3): How Mao projected his preferred image

Framing freedom-and-democracy against Trumpism/Orbanism

"Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell (2): Maoism in China

"Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell (1)

From NATO to stalemate in Ukraine: the "common European home" is still a long way from being realized

Biden, the SOTU and Israel

Candidate Uncommitted is putting real pressure on Biden's support for Netanyahu's war on the people of Gaza

Kamala Harris gets a chance to perk up the Democratic base over Israel's war on the people of Gaza

Ben Hodges, war lobbyist, thinks NATO "boots on the ground" in Ukraine would be awesome!

The spreading Middle East conflict and the dangers of great-power arrogance for the US

Overrating economic sanctions as a foreign policy tool

"Hegel" on the First World War

The Russia-Ukraine War and pseudo-pacifist rhetoric from Trumpista Republicans

Foreign policy, isolationism, and what a second Trump Administration might look like

A Roundup: Navalny, Munich Security Conference, Israel-Gaza, Voting Rights, and "gendering" in Austria

How likely is a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire agreement in 2024?

Netanyahu, Iran, the US, and a widening war

Making excuses for Netanyahu's war

Is Biden going to be willing to go "Dark Brandon" on Netanyahu?

Israel's Rafah offensive - backed by the Biden Administration

Accountability for Trump - and for other economic and political elites

The Democratic Party curses of repeating foreign policy mistakes and "triangulaton"

More on Lenin in the one-century anniversary year of his death

The Biden Administration has begun its promised escalation in the Middle East - in support of Israel's actions in Gaza

Two-state solution? A negotiated permanent peace? Or settler colonialism "from the river to the sea"?

Netanyahu, Biden, and the expanding war in the Middle East

Greg Abbott channels Ross Barnett and other dismal characters

Democracy and the rule of law as election framing

Kamala Harris: a pro at underwhelming voters?

How long will Israel's war morale hold out?

Interacting with Trumpista-Americans

Netanyahu publicly gives Biden the finger

The spreading war in the Middle East

Zionism and Christian Zionism "from the river to the sea"

The case against Israel before the International Court of Justice will affect how people understand the lessons of the Holocaust

Israel, Gaza, and South Africa's genocide complaint to the International Court of Justice

Biden's "antifa" kickoff to this 2024 Presidential campaign

Presidential election gossip (including wider war risks)

Ukraine, Gaza, starvation as warfare, and the “rules-based international order”

Any real hope left for a "two-state solution" for Israel-Palestine?

Vladimir Lenin: A 100-year milestone coming