E. P. Thompson and English Radicalism Edited By Roger Fieldhouse and Richard Taylor Manchester University Press, December 2013 ISBN: 978-0-7190-8821-6, ISBN10: 0-7190-8821-6, 6.175 x 9.250 inches, 256 pages, Book Hardcover 100 usd
The utilitarian, competitive ethic he now saw as the ethic of Cain; he always known that it murdered art, he had come to understand that it murdered man's dignity as a creator in his daily labour, he now discovered that it could murder mankind. He spoke in a lecture of 'the strength of that tremendous organisation under which we live .... Rather than lose anything which really is its essence, it will pull the roof of the world down upon its head'. He was consumed with the urgency of the socialist propaganda. If capitalism were not to be displaced by a clear-sighted constructive revolutionary movement, if it were to end in mere deadlock and blind insurrection, then 'the end, the fall of Europe, may be long in coming, but when it does, it will be far more terrible, far more confused and full of suffering than the period of the fall of Rome'.
"... 4 phases, boost, ascent, mid-course and terminal, each corresponding to a different phase of the threat ballistic missile flight regime.... the geography of each defended area dictates the types of systems that can be employed... Alternatively activities are categorized in 5 "blocks". For example, block 4.0 is "Defend Allies and Deployed Forces in Europe from Limited Iranian Long-Range Threats and Expand Protection of U.S. Homeland". It includes the US missile defense complex in Poland to be constructed, and the European Mid-course Radar (EMR) currently located at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll, to be modified and relocated to the Czech Republic.
Sergei Karaganov: "For many years I have studied the history of nuclear strategy and come to an unambiguous, albeit seemingly not quite scientific, conclusion. The creation of nuclear weapons was the result of divine intervention. Horrified to see that people, Europeans and the Japanese who had joined them, had unleashed two world wars within the life-span of one generation, sacrificing tens of millions of lives, God handed a weapon of Armageddon to humanity to remind those who had lost the fear of hell that it existed. It was this fear that ensured relative peace for the last three quarters of a century. That fear is gone now. What is happening now is unthinkable in accordance with previous ideas about nuclear deterrence: in a fit of desperate rage, the ruling circles of a group of countries have unleashed a full-scale war in the underbelly of a nuclear superpower."
Richard Taylor and Roger Fieldhouse The Guardian, Tuesday 31 December 2013 Our history is under attack EP Thompson knew progress was won from below – a fact that the elite would always rather we forget
Yrjö Kokkonen Yle Uutiset 2.11.13: "Britanniassa julkistetut, tähän saakka salassa pysyneet hallituksen dokumentit paljastavat, että maailma oli erittäin lähellä täysimittaista ydinsotaa vuonna 1983. Tapahtuma säikäytti Britannian pääministerin Margaret Thatcherin, minkä ansiosta Nato-maat alkoivat liennyttää välejä Neuvostoliiton kanssa. Asiasta kertoo brittilehti The Guardian." "Britannian hallituksen asiakirjat on saanut haltuunsa ydinaseita vastustava järjestö Nuclear Information Service (NIS). Sen mukaan ydinsota oli tuolloin paljon lähempänä kuin esimerkiksi Kuuban kriisin aikaan vuonna 1962."