Word: exploitationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At present the State Department is again trying to mediate between Somoza and certain elements of the bourgeois opposition, and again the U.S. government is betraying the interests and aspirations of the Nicaraguan people. The people rise up in armed struggle precisely because they know that Somoza and the system...
Both were launched by numerical minorities, both ultimately succeeded and both taught the larger American public lessons about the efficacy of organization, demonstration, passionate dramatics and exploitation of the mass media. The tacticians of those movements, dealing with fateful and fundamental issues, could plausibly justify using every available technique, including...
CHINA HAS moved quickly to consolidate these ties. Discussions with four major U.S. oil companies on the exploitation of her offshore resources rattled China traders. Never before has the PRC ventured to negotiate development of its strategic energy supplies. Now they have entered into frank discussions with U.S. technologists and...
AND CLOSER to home, we can do a better job of dealing with our own colonial heritage than by celebrating its inception. Despite our best efforts, Native Americans have survived. Like other minorities (including blacks, who suffered the consequences of slavery, another American "mistake"), they continue to face special problems...
Yet in the end the self-conscious importance of the film produces a rather queasy feeling, for really this story is no more than a crude exploitation - decked out with our latest scientific finery - of what amounts to a penny dreadful fantasy. If you stop and think about it, even...