Tag Archives: cold war

Seeing and acknowledging the problems of the third world

One of my courses this semester is Third World Politics. To set the groundwork for the course, during the first two weeks, the professor has given us a brief history of the third world (or global south, as sociologists now call it, as opposed to the global north, a.k.a. first world). From the brief history [...]

God bless America?

Last quarter, in the American history course that I took, the class watched a documentary film from the 80s, called The Atomic Cafe (available on DVD from amazon). The film was made up entirely of videos produced during the post-WW2 era, many of them for propaganda use by the American government. No narration was given [...]