The Zeitgeist: Half a Century of the Patricia Hearst Trial (2)

17.June 2026 Milan Milošević

The saga of the kidnapping, brainwashing, crimes, conviction and amnesty of the granddaughter of the creator of yellow journalism, William Randolph Hearst

To wash the image of the extremists, the kidnappers emphasize the Robinhood-like demand that the Hearsts feed the poor; While in captivity, Patricia announces that she has become a guerrilla, Tanja, and then robs banks and plants bombs with her captors. In the longest shootout in American history, the police kill General Field Marshal Sinke Mtume and six of his comrades, and after a year and a half, they arrest Patricia, who declares: "I am Tanya - the profession of a city guerrilla" and then changes her hairstyle and dress

The Zeitgeist: Half a Century of the Patricia Hearst Trial (1)

10.June 2026 Milan Milošević

The saga of the kidnapping, brainwashing, crimes, conviction and amnesty of the granddaughter of the creator of yellow journalism, William Randolph Hearst

She did not differ from most of her rich peers, she was not a participant in the student movement in Berkeley whose campus was one of the centers of the counterculture in 1968. She was kidnapped by a militant group that arose on the fringes of the former mass movement, which included white children of the middle class and a black prisoner who borrowed the name of the leader of the first slave rebellion and declared himself a field marshal...

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09.October 2023 Andrei Ivanji

Israel's 9/11: The Eruption of Frozen Hate

In frozen conflicts that last for a long time, as a rule, violence periodically flares up and erupts. Thus, the hatred of the militant Palestinians for "Jewish apartheid" spilled deadly onto Israeli territory this weekend. There is no doubt that the response of a shaken Israel will be brutal. Hezbollah, Iran and Syria are looking for an opportunity to actively intervene in the raging conflict