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5 myths about Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)

1.  DPRK men are forced to have the same haircut / banned from having the same haircut as Kim Jong Un Back in 2014 the BBC and other news outlets wrote an article on  North Korean university students ordered to have Kim Jong Un’s haircut . It was with no surprise that the quirkiness and obscureness of the topic help spread this rumour like a wildfire on the internet with all sorts of memes coming out of the woodwork. Tourists travelling in North Korea at the time quickly debunked this which numerous mainstream newspapers were backing their stories from an unknown source within the DPRK.  2. Only elites and military personnel are allowed to have vehicles so traffic is non-existent! Prior to 2010 traffic in North Korea was incredibly low. There used to be few taxis, a handful of vans & trucks, and lots of busses back then. Demand for taxis grew as public transport infrastructure is lacking, and as the local economy grew – so does the number of drivers! Although traffic ...

5 Myths About Socialism

(Vortex Youtube) 1. The Nordic countries are Socialist Nordic countries have free market systems; not government-controlled economies. Their high taxes lead to lavish social benefits. The Nordic nations are welfare states. Their governments do not interfere in business. 2. Socialists want to take away your property This myth confuses private property with personal property. When socialists talk about the abolition of private property, they are referring to the socialization of the means of production—the resources and equipment that create wealth. Working people do not own this type of property—which is why we have to work to survive. Right now, the wealth of the 1,000 billionaires is equal to that of the 3.5 billion poorest people on the planet. To provide everyone with more, that wealth must be redistributed into various welfare programs. 3. The dictatorship of the proletariat is Fascism The two-party “democratic” system under capitalism is in fact a dictatorship of the Bourgeoise. U...

Israel & US : Neo-Colonialism in Palestine

 The history of Israeli colonialism is some 70+ years old. Ever since the conception of Zionism. Zion is the name of the City built by David on the hills of Jerusalem. Ever since Theodor Herzl’s Modern Zionism emerged in the late 19th century in Central and Eastern Europe as a national revival movement, both in reaction to newer waves of antisemitism and as a response to Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. Soon after this, most leaders of the movement associated the main goal with creating the desired state in Palestine, then an area controlled by the Ottoman Empire. A religious variety of Zionism supports Jews upholding their Jewish identity defined as adherence to religious Judaism, opposes the assimilation of Jews into other societies, and has advocated the return of Jews to Israel as a means for Jews to be a majority nation in their state. What went wrong? In 1995, The PLO and Israel sign an interim agreement granting the Palestinians some autonomy in certain parts of the west b...

The Propaganda war against Socialism

Back in the early '30s after Hitler rose to power many American business tycoons were in close relationship with Hitler himself and or with top nazi leaders. One such example is Henry ford, In 1918, Henry Ford purchased his hometown newspaper,  The Dearborn Independent . A year and a half later, he began publishing a series of articles that claimed a vast Jewish conspiracy was infecting America. The series ran in the following 91 issues. Ford bound the articles into four volumes titled "The International Jew," and distributed half a million copies to his vast network of dealerships and subscribers. Hitler was very much inspired by Ford's writing. In 1938, Ford received an award from the Nazi regime called the "Grand Cross of the German Eagle." Have you ever heard about this? No, you have only known his "motivational quotes"  The 1930s and 40s were the time labour unions gained their ground all over the world and American industrialists and politici...

Why do I Keep saying free press is a myth!

  After leaving The Washington Post in 1977, Carl Bernstein spent six months looking at the relationship between the CIA and the press during the Cold War years. This post is excerpted from his 25,000-word cover story, published in Rolling Stone on October 20, 1977. In 1953, Joseph Alsop, one of America’s leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election. Alsop did not go because he was asked to do so by the newspapers that printed his column. He went at the request of the CIA! Alsop is one of more than 400+ American journalists who in the past twenty‑five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to declassified documents of CIA. Some of these journalists’ relationships with the Agency were underground; some were explicit. There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services—from simple intelligence gathering to serving as go‑betweens with spies in Soc...

Roots of extremism - How USA created Terror

The beginning: In 1978, a leading Parcham official fell to an assassin's bullet. Massive demonstrations erupted against Daoud and the CIA, which Parcham blamed for the killing. Daoud responded by arresting the PDPA leadership, spurring military officers sympathetic to the PDPA to move against his government. On April 27, 1978, they seized power in a bloody coup. On April 30, a Revolutionary Council declared Afghanistan to be the Democratic Republic. Initially, the CIA refused to provide American arms to the resistance, seeking to maintain plausible deniability. The State Department, too, also opposed providing American-made weapons for fear of antagonizing the Soviet Union. To keep the covert assistance program small and inconspicuous, the millions were appropriated by the CIA to purchase Chinese, Warsaw Pact, and Israeli weaponry. Operation Cyclone Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covert program to arm and finance the Jih...