🇺🇸 "Land Of Cotton - King Cotton's Slaves" 1936 Southern Tenant Sharecroppers Documentary XD49484
"This particular episode of the series takes an in depth look at the struggles of Black and white tenant sharecroppers and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in Arkansas during the New Deal Years."
‘ #Irish cliche bingo’: critics pan Obamas’ #Netflix comedy drama #Bodkin"
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“Yet another entry in the worst genre ever – the Irish rural picaresque where booze flows, nuns scowl,” said the Irish Times. “A deeply annoying show that thinks it is critiquing cliches about #Ireland when actively adding to the stockpile. Let’s ignore it and hope it goes away ... the show had recreated #FatherTed without the jokes or self-awareness, it said. “If the locals in Bodkin are gradually revealed to be putting on a sly act in front of the naive #American, the series nonetheless plumbs the depths of diddly dee twaddle.”
#POTUS Biden will champion a new Microsoft #Artificial Intelligence investment in #Wisconsin on Wedn — showcasing the failed #economic commitments of his political rival Trump, whose promises for a #job-rich Foxconn plant in the battleground state never materialized.
…the appearance [is] part of #Biden’s “Investing in #America” strategy, …drawing a sharp contrast w/ #Trump, who spent Tues posting angry msgs on social media about his #criminal trial for falsifying business records to conceal #HushMoney payments to adult-film actress #StormyDaniels.
In 2018, when #Foxconn, at Trump’s urging, announced plans to create 13k good-paying #jobs in #Wisconsin, he celebrated the company’s $10B venture outside Racine as the “8th Wonder of the World.”
@plink@palestine@israel Yup. #America and #Biden were losing the moral high ground by supporting the holocaust abroad, but now by choosing to deploy the same tactics on their own citizens they've lost absolutely any distinction between America and #Russia .
By the way, be prepared for Trump to win the next election. Biden needed the anti-genocide votes he just lost.
1861-1865: The Complete Story Of The American Civil War | History Of Warfare | Timeline
"Less than a century after gaining independence from Great Britain, the United States of America would be wracked by a Civil War as the secessionist Confederate States of the South fought the Union forces of the remaining loyal states. Four long years of war would result in the deadliest military conflict in American history, as the fate of the Union hung in the balance."
1861-1865: The Complete Story Of The American Civil War | History Of Warfare | Timeline
"Less than a century after gaining independence from Great Britain, the United States of America would be wracked by a Civil War as the secessionist Confederate States of the South fought the Union forces of the remaining loyal states. Four long years of war would result in the deadliest military conflict in American history, as the fate of the Union hung in the balance."
What emerged in 2 interviews w/ #Trump, & conversations w/more than a dozen of his closest advisers & confidants,were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape #America & its role in the world. To carry out a #deportation operation designed to remove >11M people from the country…he would be willing to build migrant detention camps [#ConcentrationCamps] & deploy the #US#military…
“We are seeing the illusion of American freedom, the illusion of American freedom of speech, crumbling behind us. The system and this university have decided to showcase that they would rather subjugate, oppress and silence students than allow us to have a peaceful demonstration where we hope to educate each other. We will not be silenced.”
Hadi, a student demonstrator at the University of Texas, Austin
There are more than 180,000 historical markers throughout America, and many of them tell only partial truths. Over the past year, NPR has analyzed crowdsourced data to uncover some of those errors. Many were strange, funny or silly — like a sign that marks the home of a world-famous Santa Claus school in Albion, New York, and a marker in Arizona that pays tribute to a donkey that drank beer. But many paint a fractured version of history: 70% of markers that mention plantations do not mention slavery, and there are 500 markers that describe the Confederacy in glowing terms. Here's more.
It is common knowledge that America had an extremely discriminatory policy against Jewish refugees in the 1930s and ‘40s.
I think there's a sense this was relaxed somehow after World War II, because a lot of Holocaust survivors do end up in the United States.
But that was a long, arduous and contentious process that involves a lot of the key figures I write about in the book.
What happens in 1948 is that Congress passes the Displaced Persons Act,
essentially relaxing the 1924 immigration restrictions, allowing refugees into the United States.
But at the behest of Congress members and senators who were affiliated with #America#First, -- in particular William Ernest Langer from North Dakota, -- they wrote the act to exclude Eastern European Jews.
It actually privileged German displaced persons who had been expelled from what is now Poland, and Harry Truman vetoed it as essentially racist and antisemitic.
But his veto was overruled, and it wasn't until 1952 that these restrictions were relaxed.
That was because a lot of people on the right identified the potential for Jewish immigration in this country as opening the floodgates for Judeo-Bolshevism.
So it's a very different story than the traditional interpretation of the postwar period being a straight line to Jewish assimilation in the country,
as well as about the diminished power of the right, at least until Joe McCarthy.
McCarthy doesn't emerge out of nowhere. That's sort of the point.
You already have, immediately after World War II, the growing power of the farthest fringes of the right. https://www.salon.com/2024/04/20/a-prehistory-of-maga-mainstream-conservatives-never-really-purged-the-fascists/
#Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, including the #UnitedStates, & leverage the #Ukraine#war to forge a global order free from what it sees as American dominance, acc/to a secret Foreign Ministry document.
The academic, Vladimir Zharikhin, called for #Russia to “continue to facilitate the coming to power of #isolationist#RightWing forces in #America,” “enable the #destabilization of Latin American countries & the rise to power of #extremist forces on the far left & far right there,” as well as facilitate “the restoration of European countries’ sovereignty by supporting parties dissatisfied w/ economic pressure from the #US.”
A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.
Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda From the Philippines to Iraq by Susan A. Brewer, 2011
In Why America Fights, Brewer offers a fascinating history of how successive presidents have conducted what Donald Rumsfeld calls "perception management," from McKinley's war in the Philippines to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
"On this day in 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, died. Here is a British Movietone report with highlights of his life"
"On this day in 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, died. Here is a British Movietone report with highlights of his life"