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 27: The “First Arkansas” Marching Song
The latest round in the politics of the Ukraine War in the US
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 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
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?
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
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 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
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
An Austrian journalist offers (somewhat dubious) advice to the left-of-center
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)
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
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
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"
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?