Totalitarianism

North Korea: Behind the Veil (VIDEO)

Thor Halvorssen | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Barbara Demick, Human Rights, The Aquariums of Pyongyang, Kim Il-Sung, Park Sang-Hak, Communist, Repressive, Kim Jong Il, Dictatorship, Oslo Freedom Forum, Kang Choi-Hwan, North Korea, Nothing to Envy, Totalitarianism, Kim Jong Un, Video, Korea, World News
Thor Halvorssen

Hear from two of the world's most prominent North Korean dissidents and one of the world's most prominent North Korea experts.

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Austrian Medicine for the MMT Patient

Robin Koerner | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Modern Monetary Theory, Liberty, Gold Standard, Freedom, Austrian Economics, Civil Rights, G-20, Totalitarianism, Business News
Robin Koerner

Austrians prefer limited government -- limited to enforcing contracts made voluntarily between free individuals. They don't want government to print and inflate money as that allows them covertly to reduce private wealth, transferring it to themselves.

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The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: George Bush, Freud, Manichaeism, Trauma, Ronald Reagan, Rwandan Genocide, Terrorism, Japan Nuclear Crisis, Existential Vulnerability, 9/11, Collective Trauma, Heidegger, Holocaust, Hannah Arendt, Evil, Osama Bin Laden, Nihilism, Radical Rvil, Nazis, Resurrective Ideology, Crusades, Auschwitz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Global Warming, Totalitarianism, World News
Robert D. Stolorow

Is there an alternative to ideological illusion and the rhetoric of evil? Yes, there is. We must remember our common human vulnerabilities and bring them into a collective conversation within which our existential anxiety can be held and better borne.

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Gadhafi and the LSE: A Cautionary Tale

Ben S. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: London School of Economics, Seif Al-Islam, Moammar Gadhafi, Kim Jong Il, Britain, Totalitarianism, Libya Protests, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Stalin, North Korea, Juche, Jamahiriya, Gadhafi London School of Economics, Gadhafi Lse, Saif Gadhafi Lse, Gadhafi Lse Donation, Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, Libya News, Libya, College News
Ben S. Cohen

It was inevitable that the venerable London School of Economics would be rechristened the "Libyan School of Economics" the instant it embraced the financial largesse of the Gadhafi family.

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Totalitarianism, Enlightenment Philosophy and Werewolves with Andrea Cremer

Andrew Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Werewolves, Wolfsbane, Andrea Cremer, The Enlightenment, Nightshade, Thomas Hobbes, Totalitarianism, Books News
Andrew Shaffer

Cremer recently spoke with me about Nightshade, which debuted on The New York Times Bestseller list in October.

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Young Man Defies Iranian Regime's Attempt to Kill His Mother - People of Goodwill Can Show Support

Heather Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, The International Committee Against Stoning, Human Rights, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Hanging, Sajjad Ghaderzah, Stoning, Amnesty International, Totalitarianism, World News
Heather Robinson

Sajjad Ghaderzah, 22, the son of Sakineh Ashtiani, an Iranian woman the regime has sentenced to death by stoning, has been "severely tortured" and rem...

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Is Iceland a Totalitarian State?

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F.A. Hayek, Iceland Economy, Hitler, Stalin, Iceland National Bankruptcy, Iceland Economic Crisis, Halldor Laxness, Iceland Global Economic Crisis, Iceland Financial Crisis, Iceland Economy Collapse, Wikileaks, Iceland, Iceland Bank Crisis, Iceland Bankrupt, Totalitarianism, World News
Iris Erlingsdottir

I have always imagined that a totalitarian state would resemble Stalin's Soviet Union, but it has dawned on me lately that the most effective totalitarian regime would be one that no one (on the inside anyway) would recognize as such.

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The Revolution Will Be Televised: Oscar-pick Burma VJ Airs on HBO

James Rotondi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Burma Human Rights, Video Journalism, State Control, Burma Protests, Civil Disobedience, Myanmar Junta, George Orwell, State Oppression, Theravada Buddhist, Burma, George Orwell 1984, Aung San Suu Kyi House Arrest, Tiananmen Square, Aung San Suu Kyi Detention, Burma Monks, Aung San Suu Kyi, Video, Buddhist Monks Mynamar, Burma Junta, Human Rights, Tibet Protests, Democratic Voice of Burma, Human Rights Watch, Saffron Revolution, Myanmar, Myanmar Protests, Buddhism, Totalitarianism, Dvb, Burma Campaign UK, Rangoon, The Co-Operative, HBO Documentaries, Freedom of the Press, Asian Politics, Freedom, Buddhist Monks, Asian Countries, Freedom of Speech, Television Documentary, Anders Ostergaard, Television, Danish Film, Impact News
James Rotondi

If the totalitarian nightmare portrayed in George Orwell's 1984 strikes you as an implausible portrait of state control and repression, a single viewi...

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Get Gmail. Now. Or else.

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gmail, Electronic Communications, Paranoia, Human Resources, E-Mail, Digital Devices, Big Brother, Google, Totalitarianism, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

During the course of the last year or so, I have detected a trend in corporate life that bears momentary scrutiny, then universal action by anybody wh...

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Rep. Devin Nunes Warns That Health Care Reform Equals Totalitarian Communism

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Devin-Nunes, Totalitarianism, Politics News
Jonathan Weiler

On the House floor Sunday, Republican Rep. Devin Nunes decried health care reform, warning darkly of the awakening of the "ghost of communist dictators," and urging the House to reject "totalitarianism."

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Getting After the Devil: Obama and Civil Liberties

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miranda Rights, Civil Liberties, Bill of Rights, President Barack Obama, Surveillance, Naomi Wolf, U.S. Constitution, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Totalitarianism, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

if Congress gives the Obama administration the green light to scale back the Miranda rule, it would be yet another dangerous expansion of government power at the expense of citizens' civil rights.

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Conservative Is Not Opposite Liberal: That's Totalitarianism

Timothy Ferris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Maher, Conservatives, Books, Liberalism, Progressives, Science, John Locke, The Science of Liberty, Totalitarianism, Books News
Timothy Ferris

When I tell people that there's a symbiotic relationship between science and liberalism, it turns out that what I usually need to define is not "symbiotic," but "science" and "liberalism."

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The Corporatist Explanation for Obama's "Failed" Presidency

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interest Groups, Civil Liberties, Mass Society, Bill of Rights, Populism, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Globalization, Immigration, Tea Party Movement, Contract With America, Sarah Palin, Fascism, Climate Change, Neoliberalism, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Health Care, Global Warming, Totalitarianism, Energy, Scott Brown, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Authoritarianism, Economic Crisis, Terrorism, Campaign Finance, Newt Gingrich, Nafta, Barack Obama, War on Terror, Financial Regulation, Wall Street, Liberalism, Health Care Reform, Stanley McChrystal, Hillary Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Afghanistan, Special Interests, Massachusetts Special Election, Torture, Politics News
Anis Shivani

Obama, more than Al Gore, George W. Bush, John McCain, or Hillary Clinton, has been the most fully realized CONSENSUS CORPORATIST CANDIDATE of the las...

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"Radical Evil"

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Theodicy, Collective Trauma, 9/11, Atrocities, Morality, Auschwitz, Eichmann, Evil, Destructiveness, Totalitarianism, Nihilism, Books, Books News
Robert D. Stolorow

Richard Bernstein has written an important philosophical inquiry into the phenomenon of evil (Bernstein 2002), an inquiry that will be of great value to psychoanalysts.

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Oh, The Humanity! Godless Huffington Post Commenters Wickedly Destroying Conservatism

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liars, George Bush, Andrew Breitbart, National Review, President Obama, Leftist, Communist, Free Speech, Moral Relativism, Obama, Liberal, Jed Babbin, Cold War, Lunatic Ravings, Republican, Bush, Reality-Based, Internet, Goons, Cold War Is Over, Irony, Dirty Tricks, Vandalism, Irony-Impaired, Rush, Socialist, Moveon, Huffington Post, Limbaugh, Totalitarianism, Ends Justify the Means, Marketplace of Ideas, Boycott, Ideologue, Rush Limbaugh, Blog Readers, Commie, Propaganda, Hugh Hewitt, Conservative, Right Wing, Blog Commenters, Ironically-Challenged, Election, Wicked, Barack Obama, Ironic, Fair Play, Media Matters, Blog, Chris Weigant, Instapundit, Dogma, Humanity, Nixon, Censorship, Breitbart, Crazytown, Crazytalk, Media News
Chris Weigant

Due to a genetic deformity among conservatives, they are seemingly born without being able to spot irony in all its delicious forms.

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