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Armageddon Theater: The Day After

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Mike

Originally written for Primary Ignition’s “Mayan Apocalypse Survival Guide,” December 21, 2012. By the 1980s, children of the Cold War knew that those “duck and cover” drills were meaningless. We were living in the era of ICBMs and the doctrine … Continue reading →

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Hidden Gems: Captain America #155-156 (Marvel Comics, 1972)

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Mike

Originally written for the website Primary Ignition, October 2010. TITLE: Captain America and The Falcon #155 & 156 AUTHOR: Steve Englehart PENCILLER: Sal Buscema PUBLISHER: Marvel Comics ORIGINAL PRICE: 20 cents RELEASED: November and December 1972 By Mike Bessler Contributor, Commisar of Comic Book History It was … Continue reading →

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Iran’s ruling clique and the problems of the left

Posted on September 30, 2007 by Mike

Originally posted to my old blog under the title “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Ecce homo” way back on on September 30, 2007. Some material has been been updated as of January 2018. Back in early August, I attended a local Hiroshima Remembrance Day program.  The … Continue reading →

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The story of Chang Hsueh-liang (Zhang Xueliang)

Posted on August 16, 2007 by Mike

Originally posted 16 Aug 2007 on greeklish.org Last week, I was doing a bit of tidying in my home library and I came across a big stack of copies of The Economist  from late 2001 and 2002.  I had a … Continue reading →

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