Category: Politics

A New JFK Assassination Revelation Could Upend the Long-Held “Lone Gunman” Theory
By Categories: History, Politics

Click Here to Read: A New JFK Assassination Revelation Could Upend the Long-Held “Lone Gunman” Theory: In a new book, former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, largely silent for 60 years, says he found a bullet in Kennedy’s limo. A sometime presidential historian explains why that’s so significant, if true BY James Robenalt on the Vanity Fair website on September 9, 2023,.

Picture of the JFK´s limousine in Dallas, TX. (Main Street) (cut-off version)  Image: Walter Sisco  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A century ago, Eugene Debs ran for U.S. president from prison
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Click Here to Read:  A century ago, Eugene Debs ran for U.S. president from prison. Here’s how that went: The forgotten story of the socialist free speech warrior who blazed a trail running for the White House while incarcerated. by Zeeshan Aleem on the MS NBC website on September 4, 2923.

Eugene V. Debs, American Socialist leader, circa 1904.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Review of Why War?: Making Sense of Consciousness and Self, by Mario Rendón
By Categories: Books, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click, Here to Read:  Review of  Why War?: Making Sense of Consciousness and Self, by Mario Rendón, International Psychoanalytic Books, New York, 2018, 663 pp. Cuneyt Iscan M.D.  Reviewed in The American Journal of Psychoanalysis volume 82, pages488–493 (2022).

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A Response to Psychoanalysis and the Left: Comment by Bob Samuels
By Categories: Politics, Psychoanalysis

From a psychoanalytic perspective, here is what I think the article “Freud Save America” gets right and wrong. On a clinical level, there is a real threat to free association if political correctness blocks the ability of people to say what is on their mind without censoring. On the other hand, analysis can provide the space and time for people to reflect on their internal struggle between their own thoughts and what they think is now acceptable. However, analysis only works if people say everything without self-censoring.

As I have written in my book (Mis)Understanding Freud, there is a threat posed to analysis by a certain Left-wing idea that one can only be analyzed by someone who belongs to the same identity group. This misguided application of identity polit Continue reading A Response to Psychoanalysis and the Left: Comment by Bob Samuels

A Troubling Sign for 2024
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Click Here to Read: A TROUBLING SIGN FOR 2024: The midterms were a welcome reprieve for democracy. But the story of Bill Gates, an Arizona election official, suggests that we might not be so lucky in next year’s presidential election. By Barton Gellman on the Atlantic website on March 7, 2023.

Sign for Donald Trump at a rally at Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, Arizona.  Image Gage Skidmore.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons