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When Armistice Day and Remembrance Day Turned into War Day

Dissident Voice - 2018-03-13 - Original post - Cached copy

Cognitive dissonance in Psychology
The psychological tension that occurs when one holds mutually exclusive beliefs or attitudes and that often motivates people to modify their thoughts or behaviors in order to reduce the tension.
Anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or the like, as when one likes a person but disapproves of one of his or her habits.
Motivated Ignorance in Politics

Putin’s stern lecture to the US: you brought it on yourselves by pushing Russia around

The Duran - 2018-03-02 - Original post - Cached copy

On 8th February 2018 I wrote an article for The Duran discussing the US military’s recently published Nuclear Posture Review.
I said that this was a deeply pessimistic document, in which the US military admitted that the US’s ‘unipolar moment’ had passed, with the US once again and for the first time since the end of the Cold War facing Great Power challenges, this time from Russia and China, together with a nuclear arms race in which it is losing ground principally to Russia.

Venezuela: Revenge of the Mad-Dog Empire

Dissident Voice - 2018-02-21 - Original post - Cached copy

Only in the world of comic-book fantasies is the United States a friend to the oppressed in Africa or anywhere else on the planet. In the real world, the U.S. is a predator, colonial/capitalist nation. But like the imagined nation of Wakanda, in the latest cultural assault on critical mass consciousness, “American exceptionalism” and “make America great again” – two slogans representing both sides of the imperialist coin, ruling class interests are obscured and the people are reduced to working against their objective interests and being accomplices to imperial lawlessness.

The Boomerang Effect: How Netanyahu Made Israel an American Issue, and Lost

Dissident Voice - 2018-02-15 - Original post - Cached copy

Despite massive sums of money spent to channel public opinion in the United States in favor of Israel, unmistakable trends in opinion polls are attesting to the changing dynamics of Israel’s support among ordinary Americans.
Not only is Israel losing its support and overall appeal among large sections of American society, but among young American Jews, as well — a particularity worrying phenomena for the Israeli government.

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