photo: Postville, Iowa by Prairie Robin, Creative Commons Although those Communists were staunchly anti-religious, there are some religious underpinnings to their communal land structures that attempted to remove the hierarchal systems that are seemingly inherent in our current industrial …
… the giant military-industrial carnivores have become hungry for shares in this border boom. …Since most tourists and non-military residents—I suppose beguiled by pandas and wet t-shirts—don’t even register the monumentality of these mega-bases and naval installations, they are unlikely to read …
… there was this election thing, where stoic nature boy Al Gore kindly gave the Presidency of the United States over to good old boy George Bush. And so it was. No revolution in America, no, just a commercial break, and it is settled. One would invent the internet, save the world, win the Noble, the Oscar, man …
… not end at the start of the Renaissance period but extended way till the French Revolution. The feudal lords did not meddle with the peasants’ jobs in the fields but maintained justice in their domains. Production doubled as was the case with population; this combined increases led to expansionist …
… of the invisible hand, of the undesirability of government intervention into economic matters, had swept first the intellectual world and then public policy. Reinforced by pressures arising out of the Industrial Revolution, these ideas were beginning to affect public policy. The repeal of the mercantilist …
… of the largest, most successful nation on earth (and maybe ever), descendants of two European nations who one could argue ran rich and important empires, but more importantly, productive and imaginative domestic economies; people who gave us the modern industrial revolution. We are privileged …
… wheel.” One need not look very hard in United States history to see examples of where American culture got this wrong: black slavery, the (second) industrial revolution, our treatment of the “new immigrants.” Whether a culture uses the weaker natural law position for human dignity or the immeasurably …
PROPAGANDA By EDWARD L. BERNAYS 1928 CONTENTS I. ORGANIZING CHAOS ………………………………………….. 9 II. THE NEW PROPAGANDA…………………………………….. 19 III. THE NEW PROPAGANDISTS …. 32 IV. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PUBLIC RELATIONS 47 V. BUSINESS AND THE PUBLIC …. 62 VI. PROPAGANDA AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP 92 VII. WOMEN’S ACTIVIT …
… towns of New England and Upstate New York. Rhode Island was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and was a major center for textile mills that long ago relocated to the South, as well as small factories making tools, silverware and fashion jewelry. “Rhode Island and some of the other …
… ethics was born in the late 19th C., in the wake of the U.S. Civil War (and the Crimean and Anglo-Boer wars), the Industrial Revolution and its resulting social dislocations, the beginnings of global resistance to Euro-American colonial imperialism, the mechanization of wars, the first international …
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