by Daniel Bates | Daily Mail | November 9, 2014 Attack would “wipe out” Kremlin Winston Churchill urged the United States to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union to win the Cold War, a newly released document reveals. The previously unseen memorandum from the FBI archives details how Britain’s wartime leader made…
Binoy Kampmark | Global Research | 3 Nov 2014 There have been stages in British history when the Establishment, a term popularised by Henry Fairlie in the 1950s, has come in for some rough treatment, if only in cranky press columns. Structurally speaking, the Establishment – that group of individuals whose role is merely to…
Information Clearing House | 2 Nov 2014 Al Jazeera investigates the shocking truth behind a deadly Israeli attack on a US naval vessel. In 1967, at the height of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, the Israeli Air Force launched an unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty, a US Navy spy ship that was monitoring the conflict…
By Marjorie Cohn | Truthout | 16 Oct 2014 For many years after the Vietnam War, we enjoyed the “Vietnam syndrome,” in which US presidents hesitated to launch substantial military attacks on other countries. They feared intense opposition akin to the powerful movement that helped bring an end to the war in Vietnam. But in…
RT | 28 Oct 2014 Abby reflects on the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and explains why this wasn’t a necessary action in order to end World War II. “Based on a detailed investigation… Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not…
by BBC | October 28, 2014 Declassified US records reveal the nation’s intelligence chiefs used hundreds of Nazis as spies and informants after World War Two. Central Intelligence Agency officials are said to have turned to the country’s former enemies to help beat the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Academics studying the documents say…
Daniel Pye | The Phnom Pehn Post | 27 Aug 2014 Since his early days as a correspondent covering the wars in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and 1970s, documentary filmmaker and journalist John Pilger has been an ardent critic of Western foreign policy. Following in the footsteps of Martha Gellhorn, Pilger set out to…
Brian Rose | London Real | 14 Sept 2014 Ray McGovern is quite frankly one bad motherfucker. He was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990 beginning under President John F. Kennedy and lasting until the Presidency of George H. W. Bush. From 1981 to 1985 he prepared and presented the President’s Daily Brief one-on-one…
by Jeff Thomas | Doug Casey’s International Man | 9 Sept 2014 “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson Histories are generally written by academics. They, quite naturally, tend to focus on the main…
Ingrid Rimland Zundel | Veterans Today | 28 Aug 2014 The “Bad Boy of Holocaust History” blows the lid off Hollywood’s secret right-wing underground (Comments below by Ingrid Zundel) This controversial title is available on Amazon. I read it a few days ago and discussed small parts of it with Ernst. He hasn’t read…