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Hello, my name is Verda.Majo. I am a Marxist-Leninist. I hope to contribute what I can to increase peoples' access to information and knowledge through this project. Currently I am re-reading and making notes on Mao's "On Contradiction" and Stalin's "Dialectical and Historical Materialism." Hopefully one day I can turn my notes into something helpful for others. I am very interested in working together with others to expand our knowledge and understanding on such topics and make such information more accessible to people in general. I'm not very experienced with Wiki editing but I am very motivated to learn and make helpful contributions to this project.
[[File:Teru Hasegawa.jpg|alt=Portrait photo of Teru Hasegawa|thumb|274x274px|The inspiration for my account name, [[Teru Hasegawa]], also known as Verda Majo.]]
Hello, my name is '''Verda.Majo'''. I am a ML.
== Current topics I am researching ==
I hope to contribute what I can to increase peoples' access to information and knowledge through this project.
Here are a few topics I am doing research into and some of the materials I am using, along with some quotes from these works.
=== [[Atrocity propaganda]] ===
== Projects ==
In respect to atrocity propaganda, I am reading a few works with different subjects and scopes, to gain an understanding of (1) how atrocity propaganda functions, (2) specific historical examples of it, (3) how people have attempted to combat against it (such as by writing the books on topics (1) and (2) that I am reading).
Here I will list things I am either currently working on or that I plan to work on.
===== Ponsonby, Arthur. ''[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Falsehood_in_War_Time.pdf Falsehood in War-Time: Propaganda Lies of the First World War]''. 1928. Kimble & Bradford, London. =====
=== Topics and pages to work on ===
This book was written in the wake of World War I, with the author hoping that by cataloguing various rampant lies and falsehoods that circulated in the lead up to World War I would prevent such common acceptance and spreading of lies in the future. He distinguishes somewhat between intentional lies and unintentional lies, as well as between truth-distortions and full-on fabrications, and describes their methods of spread.<blockquote>Man, it has been said, is not “a veridical animal,” but his habit of lying is not nearly so extra-ordinary as his amazing readiness to believe. It is, indeed, because of human credulity that lies flourish. (p. 13)<ref>{{Citation|author=Arthur Ponsonby|year=1928|title=Falsehood in War-Time: Propaganda Lies of the First World War|title-url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Falsehood_in_War_Time.pdf|chapter=Introduction|page=13}}</ref></blockquote>
I want to keep adding information about imperialist individuals (such as [[imperial core]] politicians, CIA Directors, CEOs of major corporations, etc.) and what specific things they have been involved with, the specific ideas and goals they uphold, what they have done, etc. I also want to eventually work on pages about imperialist [[Think tank|think tanks]], such as [[Project for the New American Century]], [[The Heritage Foundation]], the [[Brookings Institution]], etc. and pages about large multinational corporations.
===== Swanson, David. ''War is a Lie''. 2016. Just World Books. =====
One day I intend to increase the amount of information on the [[List of atrocities commited by the United States of America|list of atrocities committed by the United States of America]], as I believe it is an important page to develop. I would also like to add more information in general to [[Democratic People's Republic of Korea|DPRK]]'s page and about pages relating to DPRK, including on DPRK's provinces and prominent cities.
This is a book very similar in its method and intention to the Arthur Ponsonby book. However, it details more modern lies. The author's website describes this book as "a handbook of sorts [...] that can be used to debunk future lies before the wars they’re deployed to justify have any chance to begin."<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=Let's Try Democracy|title=War is a Lie|url=https://davidswanson.org/warisalie/}}</ref> <blockquote>Today, the case for war must overcome people's resistance to arguments that they know have fooled them in the past. But, in order to support war, people need not be convinced to make great sacrifices, enlist, register for a draft, grow their own food, or curtail their consumption. They just have to be convinced to do nothing at all, or at most to tell pollsters on the phone that they support a war. (p. 14)<ref>{{Citation|author=David Swanson|year=2016|title=War is a Lie|chapter=Introduction|publisher=Just World Books|isbn=9781682570005}}</ref></blockquote>
===== McGehee, Ralph. ''Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA''. 1983. Open Road Integrated Media, New York. =====
Otherwise, I want to keep working on pages and topics I have already contributed to before (see heading below).
<blockquote>The CIA is not an intelligence agency. In fact, it acts largely as an anti-intelligence agency, producing only that information wanted by policymakers to support their plans and suppressing information that does not support those plans. As the covert action arm of the President, the CIA uses disinformation, much of it aimed at the U.S. public, to mold opinion. It employs the gamut of disinformation techniques from forging documents to planting and discovering "communist” weapons caches. But the major weapon in its arsenal of disinformation is the "intelligence" it feeds to policymakers. Instead of gathering genuine intelligence that could serve as the basis for reasonable policies, the CIA often ends up distorting reality, creating out of whole cloth "intelligence" to justify policies that have already been decided upon. Policymakers then leak this "intelligence" to the media to deceive us all and gain our support. (p. 15)</blockquote>
===== Parenti, Michael. ''Inventing Reality: The Politics of Mass Media''. 1986. St. Martin's Press, Inc. New York. =====
=== Improving and fixing my old edits ===
<blockquote>The campaign against the Red Menace was not exclusively a media creation but reflected the interests of the dominant corporate-political class of which the media is a part. The twists and turns of media anticommunist alarmism largely parallel similar shifts in official policy. This anticommunism can change its direction and its targets but it can never be put to rest for it is a necessary component in making life safe for corporate capitalism both at home and abroad. Just when we think the cold war is a thing of the past, it reappears like some epic cinematic return. (p. 135)</blockquote>
I want to begin looking through my old edits and trying to improve them and fix problems with them. I will be going through pages where I made big or frequent edits in the past and trying to bring them to a better standard. Of course, I welcome anyone who happens to fix such things before I do. I want to prioritize making my old edits much better cited/sourced, better written, better organized, and in some cases, making subsections of the pages more concise or orderly. In the process of doing this I may end up adding some new information as well, but I mainly want to prioritize cleaning up my edits before adding a lot of new information.
=== [[Korea]] ===
== Other ==
Space for other notes. Nothing at the moment.
===== Cumings, Bruce. ''The Korean War: A History''. 2010. Modern Library, New York. =====
<blockquote>The United States dropped 635,000 tons of bombs in Korea (not counting 32,557 tons of napalm), compared to 503,000 tons in the entire Pacific Theater in World War II. Whereas sixty Japanese cities were destroyed to an average of 43 percent, estimates of the destruction of towns and cities in North Korea 'ranged from forty to ninety percent"; at least 50 percent of eighteen out of the North's twenty-two major cities were obliterated. (p. 159-160)</blockquote>
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Latest revision as of 13:03, 14 March 2024
The inspiration for my account name, Teru Hasegawa, also known as Verda Majo.
Hello, my name is Verda.Majo. I am a ML.
I hope to contribute what I can to increase peoples' access to information and knowledge through this project.
I want to keep adding information about imperialist individuals (such as imperial core politicians, CIA Directors, CEOs of major corporations, etc.) and what specific things they have been involved with, the specific ideas and goals they uphold, what they have done, etc. I also want to eventually work on pages about imperialist think tanks, such as Project for the New American Century, The Heritage Foundation, the Brookings Institution, etc. and pages about large multinational corporations.
One day I intend to increase the amount of information on the list of atrocities committed by the United States of America, as I believe it is an important page to develop. I would also like to add more information in general to DPRK's page and about pages relating to DPRK, including on DPRK's provinces and prominent cities.
Otherwise, I want to keep working on pages and topics I have already contributed to before (see heading below).
I want to begin looking through my old edits and trying to improve them and fix problems with them. I will be going through pages where I made big or frequent edits in the past and trying to bring them to a better standard. Of course, I welcome anyone who happens to fix such things before I do. I want to prioritize making my old edits much better cited/sourced, better written, better organized, and in some cases, making subsections of the pages more concise or orderly. In the process of doing this I may end up adding some new information as well, but I mainly want to prioritize cleaning up my edits before adding a lot of new information.
