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Category: Historical Analysis

The Reserve Party of Power

September 20, 2022September 21, 2022 Lark O'DellLeave a comment

After a decade of chaotic "democracy" in Russia the President established a two-party system. "A Just Russia" is a government-in-waiting, not an opponent of the constitutional order. Will they step into the power vacuum when Putin's time is done?

Posted in Current Analysis, Historical Analysis, StrategyTagged Astroturf, Electoralism, Putin, Russia, Social Democracy

Vote Communist!

September 7, 2022September 7, 2022 Lark O'Dell1 Comment

A story of Russian communists regrouping after the Fall of the USSR; their performance in elections; the strategies used against them.

Posted in Current Analysis, Historical Analysis, StrategyTagged Anticommunism, Communism, Electoralism, Nationalism, Perestroika, Putin, Russia, USSR

Harnessing Russia’s Reactionaries

August 24, 2022August 24, 2022 Lark O'Dell2 Comments

Russia's oldest opposition party is a right-wing populist sideshow. Led by a man compared to Hitler and a Court Jester, the LDPR channels popular rage into imperial policies.

Posted in Current Analysis, Historical Analysis, StrategyTagged Anticommunism, Electoralism, Fascism, KGB, Liberalism, Perestroika, Putin, Russia, USSR

Passing the Torch

April 21, 2022May 5, 2022 Norene WeaverLeave a comment

The activists of Perestroika claimed to be champions of liberal values, but their work brought forward a new generation of Nationalists.

Posted in Historical AnalysisTagged Anticommunism, Cold Wars, Fascism, Perestroika, Ukraine, USSR

The Nationalist Reconstruction of Ukraine

March 30, 2022May 4, 2022 Norene Weaver1 Comment

The infamy of Neo-Nazis obscures the role played by other radical Nationalists in Post-Maidan Ukraine. Their histories show us the big picture, the long-term goals and trajectory of the Nationalist project.

Posted in Briefs, Historical AnalysisTagged Anticommunism, Capitalism, Cold Wars, Fascism, Perestroika, Ukraine, USSR

The Social-Nationalist Movement

February 3, 2022April 29, 2022 Norene Weaver1 Comment

Ultranationalists in Ukraine have appropriated Nazi symbolism while denying that they are National Socialists. Are they right-wing provocateurs trolling their opponents? Or is this something deeper than fascist aesthetics?

Posted in Briefs, Current Analysis, Historical AnalysisTagged Anticommunism, Fascism, Nazism, Perestroika, Ukraine, USSR

“He Stops A Canoe By A Spear Handle”: Anishinaabe Resistance in 1763

October 8, 2021November 2, 2021 Ching ShihLeave a comment

Historians treat the Royal Proclamation of 1763 as an "Indian Bill of Rights." These rights were not granted, but won by Anishnaabe people in a protracted war of resistance.

Posted in Historical AnalysisTagged America, Anishnaabe, Anticolonialism, Britain, Canada, Colonialism, Turtle Island

Red Rose, Purple Thorn

September 30, 2021September 30, 2021 Ching ShihLeave a comment

In Canada's status quo election the Tories suffered the greatest disappointment. Their campaign to capture the political center was attacked from the rear by the People's Party. A right-wing split may be part of the Liberal strategy in the next election.

Posted in Current Analysis, Historical Analysis, StrategyTagged Anti-vaxxers, Canada, COVID-19, Justin Trudeau, LPC, Maxime Bernier, Ontario, PPC, Tories

The Lost Colony of Jonestown

August 10, 2021August 10, 2021 Lark O'DellLeave a comment

I've been listening to Transmissions from Jonestown and wrote down some thoughts.

Posted in Historical Analysis, Leads, Pure SpeculationTagged America, Anticommunism, CIA, Communism, Fourth Reich, Grifters, Jim Jones and the People's Temple, New Religions

Protected: 9/11/1991

July 12, 2021January 16, 2023 Lark O'Dell

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Posted in Historical Analysis, Pure SpeculationTagged 9/11, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, America, Big Thonk, Bush Gang, CIA, Cold Wars, Fourth Estate, War Industry

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