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A Weekend in Dallas
Revisiting political assassinations.
by
Noah Kulwin
via
noahkulwin.substack
on
November 22, 2022
"What Are They Hiding?"
Group sues Biden and National Archives over delay of JFK assassination records.
by
Marc Caputo
via
NBC News
on
October 19, 2022
The Secret Black History of LSD
Research on psychedelics has been riddled with medical racism and exclusion but it hasn’t stopped Black people from finding creativity and solace through drugs.
by
Kali Holloway
via
The Nation
on
March 22, 2022
White Malice and the Racist Plunder of U.S. Empire
How American racism, capitalism, and imperialism led the U.S. to sabotage African democracies.
by
Jesse Robertson
via
The Activist History Review
on
March 7, 2022
The Cold War Killed Cannabis As We Knew It. Can It Rise Again?
Somewhere in Jamaica survive the original cannabis strains that were not burned by American agents or bred to be more profitable.
by
Casey Taylor
via
Defector
on
January 11, 2022
Return To Little Pakistan: Bobby Khan v. The Police
An immigrant born to working-class activism stands up to an NYPD reborn in the CIA's image.
by
Spencer Ackerman
via
Forever Wars
on
September 14, 2021
9/11 was a Test. The Books of the Last Two Decades Show How America Failed.
The books of the last two decades show how overreacting to the attacks unmade America’s values.
by
Carlos Lozada
via
Washington Post
on
September 3, 2021
For Two Decades, Americans Told One Lie After Another About What They Were Doing in Afghanistan
The war in Afghanistan was nasty and brutish, marked by the same imperial arrogance that doomed U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
by
James Risen
via
The Intercept
on
August 26, 2021
Why Did We Invade Iraq?
The most complete account we are likely to get of the deceptions and duplicities that led to war leaves some crucial mysteries unsolved.
by
Fred Kaplan
via
New York Review of Books
on
July 6, 2021
Iran-Contra and Domestic Counter-Intelligence Networks
Oliver North and his cronies in the Contra support operations put in motion a clandestine counter-intelligence apparatus to disrupt the flow of information.
by
Edmund Berger
via
Reciprocal Contradiction
on
May 19, 2021
The Untold Story of the CIA’s MK Ultra: A Conversation with Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer discusses his new biography, “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.”
by
Stephen Kinzer
,
James Penner
,
Ed Prideaux
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
May 19, 2021
How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously
For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.
by
Gideon Lewis-Kraus
via
The New Yorker
on
April 30, 2021
The Book That Stopped an Outbreak of Nuclear War
A new history of the Cuban missile crisis emphasizes how close the world came to destruction—and how severe a threat the weapons still pose.
by
Andre Pagliarini
via
The New Republic
on
April 16, 2021
The Once-Classified Tale of Juanita Moody: The Woman Who Helped Avert a Nuclear War
America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative whose story can at last be told.
by
David Wolman
,
Susan Seubert
via
Smithsonian
on
February 23, 2021
First-Person Shooter Ideology
The cultural contradictions of Call of Duty.
by
Daniel Bessner
via
The Drift
on
February 2, 2021
Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair
Reagan's commitment to deregulation, aggressive military spending, and diminished oversight created a cocktail of corruption that was worse than Watergate.
by
Jeremi Suri
via
American Heritage
on
February 1, 2021
You Can Now Explore the CIA's 'Entire' Collection of UFO Documents Online
Thousands of pages of declassified records are available for anyone to peruse.
by
Isis Davis-Marks
via
Smithsonian
on
January 15, 2021
“Allende Wins”
Chile voted calmly to have a Marxist-Leninist state, the first nation in the world to make this choice freely and knowingly, on September 4, 1970.
by
Peter Kornbluh
via
National Security Archive
on
September 3, 2020
The Great Germ War Cover-Up
When Nicholson Baker searched for the truth about biological weapons, he found a fog of redaction.
by
Daniel Immerwahr
via
The New Republic
on
July 13, 2020
Strategic Long-Term Propaganda
A new book considers the mid-century authors who were – and weren't – willing to have their work deployed in the service of the Cold War.
by
Randy Boyagoda
via
First Things
on
June 1, 2020
How ‘Jakarta’ Became the Codeword for US-Backed Mass Killing
The systematic mass murder and assault of accused communists in Indonesia by US-backed military forces has left a mark on the country and the world.
by
Vincent Bevins
via
New York Review of Books
on
May 18, 2020
The Murderous Legacy of Cold War Anticommunism
The US-backed Indonesian mass killings of 1965 reshaped global politics, securing a decisive victory for U.S. interests against Third World self-determination.
by
Stuart Schrader
via
Boston Review
on
May 17, 2020
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Coronavirus: Lessons From Past Epidemics
Dr. Larry Brilliant, who helped eradicate smallpox, says past epidemics can teach us to fight coronavirus.
via
Retro Report
on
March 19, 2020
The Intelligence Coup of the Century
For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.
by
Greg Miller
via
Washington Post
on
February 11, 2020
The Secret History of Facial Recognition
Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. The record of his role all but vanished. Who was Woody Bledsoe, and who was he working for?
by
Shaun Raviv
via
Wired
on
January 21, 2020
Secret US Intelligence Files Provide History’s Verdict on Argentina’s Dirty War
Recently declassified documents constitute a gruesome and sadistic catalog of state terrorism.
by
Peter Kornbluh
via
The Nation
on
November 18, 2019
The United States Overthrew Iran’s Last Democratic Leader
Archival records make clear that the U.S. government was the key actor in the 1953 coup that ousted Mohammad Mosaddeq—not the Iranian clergy.
by
Roham Alvandi
via
Foreign Policy
on
October 30, 2019
The Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control Experiments
Today, it’s a cutting-edge lab. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was the center of the U.S. government’s darkest experiments.
by
Stephen Kinzer
via
Politico Magazine
on
September 15, 2019
From Mind Control to Murder? How a Deadly Fall Revealed the CIA’s Darkest Secrets
Frank Olson died in 1953, but it took decades for his family to get closer to the truth.
by
Stephen Kinzer
via
The Guardian
on
September 6, 2019
Before Oprah’s Book Club, there was the CIA
‘Cold Warriors’ traces how the U.S. and Soviet government used writers like George Orwell and Boris Pasternak to wage ideological battles during the Cold War.
by
Ethan Davison
via
The Outline
on
August 26, 2019
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