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Writing and teaching as an academic in the 50s, and the government called. kissinger served as an adviser tojohn f. kennedy and then forged a powerful relationship with president richard nixon, becoming national security are adviser in 1969 and secretary of state in 1973. a red baiting anti—communist in nixon wanted to heal the rift. the countries havent talked for decades. kissinger began in secret. none of this was _ kissinger began in secret. none of this was done _ kissinger began in secre...

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Saturday underscored that public servants who resorted to red-tagging have contradicted their obligation to protect and promote the public’s constitutional rights.

The soviet union works is that at a certain age you automatically stop being a member. >> can you look at your records and see if you can find a copy? i dont mean any disrespect. i dont know whether the call you a professor or comrade full. >> senator, i am not a communist. >> that was republican senator jon kennedy of louisiana, interrogating saule omarova, who was born in the soviet union where the membership was compulsory. which explains the red baiting from the senator. saule omarova was pr...

Downscale more than anyone else. >> here he is talking right now about the democrats. lets watch him up in new hampshire. >> now we have a group of socialists or communists could be, could be. theyre not far away. now the fake news will hit me on that. how dare he say that. but theyre not far away, right? >> the trouble with that is historic, rick. its called red baiting. >> you know, im sorry im laughing. its just like watching -- like a bad comedy. >> the old united states communist party. the...

Tuition-free or canceling student debt, whether it is guaranteeing health care to all people through a medicare for all single-payer program, whether its fighting climate change, these are kpanexactly t ideas that the american people support. they dont support trumps ideas of giving tax breaks to billionaires and cutting medicare and medicaid. so what i think he is trying to do is get engaged in redbaiting, the tried and true patent of position of right-wing republicans. i dont think its going t...

Theyre anti-semitic. they stand for all the things that most americans disagree with. >> it appears that the president and his allies are trying to re-brand this attack on socialism. do you agree with that? >> well, actually, you know, thats what trump has been doing for many, many months now. and let me just respond to that, don, by saying that virtually every idea that i am fighting for, whether its raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour, whether its making public colleges and universiti...

Soviet system the party once stood unified against." wow, what did you mean by that? >> well, what i meant by that is under republican leadership, essentially the country is turning into many of the red baiting soviet fever dreams that republicans once held 30 years ago. things like we have purges, we have people standing in literal bread lines these days. we have televised cabinet flattery sessions. we have more advocacy for a centrally planned economy, industrial policy. that is what trump is ...

Peculiarly enamored of president vladimir putin. under republican leadership, the united states is starting to look an awful lot like a failed soviet system the party once stood unified against. wow. what did you mean by that? >> what i meant by that is under republican leadership, essential the country is turning into many of the red-baiting soviet fever dreams that republicans once held 30 years ago. things like we have purges. we have people standing in literal bread lines these days. we have...

Starts, its obvious this is where were going to end up. >> where you want to be in this, just to be a total self-parody here. tis w historically you want to be the senate forfrom maine who in 1950 said that joe mccarthy was violating fundamental american principles. you dont want to be the guys in 54 who just caught up with the idea that maybe things werent so great with red baiting and so one of the tragedies of the last era and ive used this line before but this is one of the few cases of when...

The syrian crisis. and were talking about susan rice. i mean, excuse me, lets focus on the things that really count. >> okay. >> and a foreign policy that, frankly, doesnt exist. we have -- were at a mementos time. the president was right on one thing and that is that the world is a tremendous mess at the moment. >> were going to move on and talk about what exactly is our foreign policy. john, i want to get you in before we do. what do you say to this? >> just at the moment, were living in a wor...