My view is that Laurel & Hardy exhibit a generally ‘progressive’ attitude to life that remained extraordinarily ‘aloof’of the quite rampant racism of their day, whilst remaining, in many ways, very much a product of the times within which they lived.
Tunguska Event 1908: the Soviet Scientific Response
The ‘effects’ of Tunguska were plain to see, but the scientific question was what ’causes’ had led to this devastation? This was and remains an important question for humanity, as next time such a devastating event might happen over a crowded city and possess the potential to kill millions. The following modern documentary explores the very good research of Kulik (explaining how he volunteered for the Red Army in 1941 to fight the invading forces of Nazi Germany, and died a year later).
2003 – the Year Capitalist Romania Denied the Holocaust
Capitalism is the reason why fascism exists, and its adherence as a system cannot transcend its own destructive limitations.
Ghost Net: How the Dalai Lama is Watching You…
The 14th Dalai Lama is not the victim of Ghost Net, he is the perpetrator of it, but the Western media would have you think that Ghost Net was developed by which ever country the US currently finds trouble-some.
Jim Jones and the Soviet Connection
This was a massacre and not a mass suicide, but Western narratives are generally racist and anti-Communist in general. The nearly one thousand predominantly Black victims are treated with a wide-spread racist disdain, and Jim Jones is portrayed as an unhinged psychopath.