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hifiguy

(33,688 posts) Tue Nov 17, 2015, 06:15 PM Nov 2015

Woohoo! Will be picking up David Talbot's "The Devil's Chessboard"

at the library today. Been waiting to read this one for a while.

Yet further documentary proof, as if more were needed, that lawyer-to-Nazi-sympathizers and Nazi sympathizer Allen Dulles was directly responsible for turning the US into the plutocratic, fascist country it is today. Though Talbot takes the explanation of the consequences further than anyone else has.

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Woohoo! Will be picking up David Talbot's "The Devil's Chessboard" (Original Post) hifiguy Nov 2015 OP

Interesting to consider that a book by formerly mainstream journalist Talbot is more "underground," villager Nov 2015 #1

Isn't it though. hifiguy Nov 2015 #2

And what a neat trick to call yourself an "Underground" while railing against that very villager Dec 2015 #4

You noticed that too? bmyrab Dec 2015 #3

Thanks -- yeah, it's a pretty status quo "underground" all right, sadly/hilariously. As for... villager Dec 2015 #5

villager

(26,001 posts)

1. Interesting to consider that a book by formerly mainstream journalist Talbot is more "underground,"

Reply to hifiguy (Original post)

Tue Nov 17, 2015, 06:25 PM

Nov 2015

...in terms of examining the history and current motives of our country's ruling elites, than the vast majority of what passes for "underground" thought here at this increasingly centrist-shaded-right talking site.

Kind of paralleling what happened to the U.S., in general!

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

2. Isn't it though.

Reply to villager (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 17, 2015, 06:31 PM

Nov 2015

One does not contradict the Ministry Of Truth without being labeled a heretic or unmutual.

I will let the expert explain today's 'murka:

villager

(26,001 posts)

4. And what a neat trick to call yourself an "Underground" while railing against that very

Reply to hifiguy (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 22, 2015, 02:05 AM

Dec 2015

..."unmutuality!"

bmyrab

(6 posts)

3. You noticed that too?

Reply to villager (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 22, 2015, 01:02 AM

Dec 2015

DU has always forbidden critical thinking and promoted only mainstream history and politics.j
It's the reason I avoided it.

Regardless, I'm happy to see that people are reading Talbot's excellent new book, which is up there with "JFK and the Unspeakable."

Great avatar Villager.
That crazy ol' Curtis LeMay/General Ripper sure hated President Kennedy for refusing to nuke Russia.

villager

(26,001 posts)

5. Thanks -- yeah, it's a pretty status quo "underground" all right, sadly/hilariously. As for...

Reply to bmyrab (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 22, 2015, 02:07 AM

Dec 2015

...the avatar, it's in tribute to a late pal of mine, who used to post here under the name "Purity of Essence."

He was the one that first told me about this place, in the early 00's. Non-mainstream thought was actually permitted 'round these parts, back then...

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