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Authoritarian Sadism in U.S. “Foreign Policy” (Part 2)
In the first part of this paper, Authoritarian Sadism in U.S. “Foreign Policy” (Part 1), Dissident Voice, July 25, 2023, I introduced some psychoanalytic concepts and explained their application in revealing the latent motivations of high-ranking policy-makers in recent U.S. presidential administrations. This approach was long ago studied by the eminent political scientist Harold Lasswell, […]
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Mental Health Round-Ups: The Next Phase of the Government’s War on Thought Crimes

Get ready for the next phase of the government’s war on thought crimes: mental health round-ups and involuntary detentions. Under the guise of public health and safety, the government could use mental health care as a pretext for targeting and locking up dissidents, activists and anyone unfortunate enough to be placed on a government watch […]
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The End of Community College?

Find out more about Going Remote Here On Friday, March 13, 2020 the community college system as we knew it ended – and I’m not sure it will ever return. And just maybe, that’s a good thing. The day before the pandemic forced our campus to shut down in the San Francisco Bay Area, […]
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Second-Hand, Third-Hand, Vicarious Trauma

I’ve been helping my friend from another country navigate the legal system, green card in hand, and a husband who attempted to suffocate her to death. The people in both camps — defense and prosecution — are interestingly together bedfellows, working the “system” hard, juggling which judge is this or that (pro- or con-), and […]