Kieselguhr

Have you read Red Plenty?

There are many Soviet books on Cybernetics, but I think they are only available in Eastern bloc languages (for example I have a book version of a Soviet cybernetics conference, but I'm pretty sure it's not available in English... but it's not that interesting to be fair, only a curiosity, there's nothing in it that couldn't be gleaned from Western sources like Ashby et al)

Pekelis's book is available on the internet archive

Alexander Lerner was also a Soviet Cyberneticist, but he became an Israeli settler

Upon rereading, this stands out

Mr Putin may radicalise battle-hardened militias against the West and NATO. He managed something similar in Donbas where, after 2014, he turned some Russian-speaking Ukrainians into partisans ready to go to war against their compatriots.

Ethnic Russians in Donbas took arms against the Ukrainian government not because of historical, material conditions, not because there were already tensions between Russian-Ukrainians and the new ethno-nationalist Ukrainian government, nooo, it was because Mr Putin is a mind controlling comic book villain.
Thank you for explaining to us, Mr Serious Journalist!

The Western narrative starts to shift closer to reality, maybe?

nevermind:

In Hungary people are propagandized to think that Hungarian Stalinism is on par or even worse than the local nazis before them.
Only counting the Hungarian Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust was cca. 600 000. If we add civilian fatalities on the Eastern front where the Hungarian army was committing its war crimes it becomes significantly more.

According to Black Book of Communism type of statistics the "brutal Hungarian communist dictatorship" executed 1200 people. The list is public. I swear I chose someone randomly from the first page.

Péter Rotyis, born in Mezőhegyes in 1890, who worked as a machinist in Budapest. During WWII, he was involved in the persecution and mistreatment of forced laborers [Jewish people] in Hungary. Arrested in early 1945, he was convicted for his role in serious crimes, including complicity in murder, and was executed on February 4, 1945.

Győző Csikvári, originally named Győző Csicsits, born in 1899 in Budapest. After working as a shoemaker, he became a non-commissioned officer involved with labor service units during WWII. Known for his cruel treatment of forced laborers, he was arrested in 1945, convicted of war crimes, and executed on April 28, 1945, in Budapest.

Yeah, some victims.

alright: read some more... and... the literal nazi Hungarian prime minister overseeing the Hungarian Holocaust is also included in the 1200 victims of communism, absolute joke

banned the UN agency UNRWA

very normal thing to do in the rules-based international order

examples from my saved folder:

The Guardian: US state department falsified report absolving Israel on Gaza aid – ex-official

The funny thing is they could easily do the old political trick and make false promises during election season. The Democrats did it all the time. Just lie that you'll give people proper healthcare then shrug after the election. Just lie that you'll prosecute the Wall Street plutocrats.

But they don't even want to pretend to be centre-left, they want to be Reagan democrats so fucking much they can't even fucking pretend to be anything else.

Vice President Kamala Harris has said in the current campaign that she supports raising the federal minimum wage. But her campaign hasn’t specified an exact figure.

They could have made this the main message of their campaign, but it's not even a bullshit promise at this point.

Ilan Pappé's book Ten Myths about Israel is really good

Out of curiosity, does anyone have a similar write up about the events/propaganda since Oct 7?

Things like

• Myth 1 Hamas beheaded babies
• Myth 2 Israel's most important objective is rescuing the hostages
• Myth 3 Israel tries to avoid civilian casualties

and so on, but, you know, detailed with sources

I have a few things bookmarked, but I haven't seen anything that collects propaganda bullshit like this in one place

Obama lying about holding Wall Street accountable for the crash also didn't register. They go by vibes, and they forget any revelation about any lies that happened more than a day ago.

Liberals think if you actually want to get $100 for something an opening bid of $200 is a moral failing.

Exactly this.

We must demand true socialism from liberal politicians, so the compromise at least is somewhat acceptable on the short term. (Not that we can out capitalism...)

The minimum program is non-neoliberal economics and anti-imperialism. That's the absolute minimum. IF they are not willing to make a compromise with the left why would I vote for them? Because the other guy is a right-winger? Therefore I should vote for a different right winger with different rhetoric, because allegedly they are less corrupt?

Same shit is happening in Europe with different team colors.

A liberal gay friend of ours literally said to us that he'd vote for [anti-gay far right party] if they had a chance to win against [corrupt anti gay right wing party who had been in power for a a while now], but now he thinks he will vote for [centre right party with dubious credentials], only to stop the BIG BAD WOLF, even though he's a "leftist". It makes no sense.

Social democracy, real social democracy is the compromise, and even that's nowhere near enough in the age of climate cataclysm....

Liberals say I'm not pragmatic... but hey let's say I have 4 core political principles: who's the politician who shares at least 2 with me? Who? Why would I vote for 0 matches? Is this the glorious democracy you speak of? For fucks sake, liberals are exhausting... in many ways more exhausting than right wingers.