Category Archives: Cold War Memories

Age of Uncertainty: the Colonial Idea

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Age of Uncertainty: the Colonial Idea”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis episode of John Kenneth Galbraith’s 1977 BBC series is probably the best examination of colonialism in broadcast television history. If anything, the age of globalization has merely intensified the issues examined … Continue reading →

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Art And Kulturkampf

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Art And Kulturkampf”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI was pondering culture wars today when I found this UK Independent report on a secret CIA program that supported abstract expressionist art: The next key step came in 1950, when the International Organisations Division … Continue reading →

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Flashback to Cold War

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Flashback to Cold War”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailSome Reagan-era propaganda for your consideration: Nothing Reagan says about the balance of nuclear forces was ever remotely true, nor were the Soviets ever in a first-strike kind of mood. What? You think Iraq … Continue reading →

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