Jakarta: Indonesia’s chief security minister said the country must make peace with its past but ruled out a government apology to the victims of the … State-endorsed talks on 1965 massacresRead more
When I started putting this essay together, it started out as investigation of Richard Armitage as a typical example of the kind of people employed … From Adolf Hitler to George Bush Jnr, US capitalism’s unbroken linkRead more
Orlando Letelier was an exiled former Chilean diplomat. He had served in the socialist government of Salvador Allende, who, in 1973, was overthrown in a … Murder on the Streets of WashingtonRead more
To many, the anecdote described below will sound far-fetched, and logical minds may suspect that the Vietnam vet in the story created the “incident” himself. … The Global Drug ConnectionRead more
Delmer Berg, the last known living veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, which vainly fought against Fascism’s advance into Spain in the late 1930s, died … Delmer Berg, Last of American Volunteers in Spanish Civil War, Dies at 100Read more
AN interesting obituary appeared in The New York Times recently, though the death of its subject last month was largely unnoticed beyond his family and … John McCain Salute to a CommunistRead more
volunteers flooding to Spain to bolster the democratic government’s efforts to stave off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and … Spain in Our HeartsRead more
Adam Hochschild talking: Torkild Rieber, the CEO of Texaco he was a remarkable man who had a remarkable effect on this period—and is almost unnoticed … Oil companies have always made their own foreign policyRead more
In the 1927 case Buck v. Bell, the court upheld a statute that enabled the state of Virginia to sterilize so-called mental defectives or imbeciles. … Forced Sterilization of 70,000 in USA Inspired the NazisRead more
They played every single address of the winners and the losers, except Bernie Sanders’, inexplicably. They instead, while he was starting to speak, kept talking … Trump-Obsessed Media for Wall-to-Wall CoverageRead more