![]() ![]() It might bring about the end of humanity as we know it. Those surviving the nuclear blasts might die, if not from famine, from all sorts of cancers and other nuclear radiation-related diseases. In an altitude of 30 km it never rains, so the nuclear dust cloud might linger for years, blocking the sun, destroying crops and bringing about deadly famine. (See video below)Įven in a nuclear war between India and Pakistan, the two smallest nuclear powers, within weeks the nuclear smoke would spread around the earth. Ninety percent of the world population could be wiped out and with it, all basic infrastructure, all major cities and sunlight would be blocked out for maybe decades. With a technologically advanced nuclear war, atomic weapons, the kind available today certainly in the US, Russia, Israel and several European countries, a nuclear war could devastate, if not extinct humanity. Imagine a nuclear blast, as depicted by Stephen Fry, in his recent video, describing Washington’s US$ 1.2 trillion plan of annihilation. Their skepticism allowed them to formulate an independent perspective that reimagined the antifascist, anticommunist narrative through the lens of racial injustice, with the United States as a tyrannical force in the Third World but also as an ironic agent of Asian and African independence.īringing a new interpretation to events such as the Bandung Conference of 1955 and the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, Rasberry’s bird’s-eye view of black culture and politics offers an alternative history of the totalitarian century.All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). ![]() Williams, and others remained skeptical that totalitarian servitude and democratic liberty stood in stark opposition. An array of black writers, however, deflected the appeals of liberalism and its antitotalitarian propaganda in the service of decolonization. In Race and the Totalitarian Century, Vaughn Rasberry parts ways with both proponents and detractors of these normative conceptions in order to tell the strikingly different story of how black American writers manipulated the geopolitical rhetoric of their time.ĭuring World War II and the Cold War, the United States government conscripted African Americans into the fight against Nazism and Stalinism. ![]() Today, studies of the subject are usually confined to discussions of Europe’s collapse in World War II or to comparisons between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Few concepts evoke the twentieth century’s record of war, genocide, repression, and extremism more powerfully than the idea of totalitarianism. ![]()
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