Walter White leveraged his fair complexion to investigate some of the country’s worst attacks against African Americans. Read more Why FDR Didn’t Support Eleanor Roosevelt’s Anti-Lynching Campaign President Franklin D. Roosevelt feared losing Southern support for his New Deal legislation. Read more...
Marx, however, believed that communism is a vastly superior form of social organization because it is the only social system capable of actualizing man’s true human essence. In fact, he was an advocate of communism because he believed it would create nothing less than a new kind of man. C...
had become refugees—including General Vang Pao himself.Declassified documentsshow that 728 Americans died in Laos, most of whom were working for the CIA. The secret war in Laos, or the Laos Civil War to many who lived through it, set a precedent for a more militarized CIA with the power...
As if that weren’t devastating enough for free spirited Americans Homo Sapiens worldwide, Brzezinski also added, “Marxism, disseminated on the popular level as Communism, represented a major advance in man’s ability to conceptualize his relationship to his world.” And just think – a man ...
The facile explanation for the Balkan wars of the 1990s is “ancient hatreds,” an idea that caused the Americans to hesitate to intervene.19You won’t find that canard here. There have been episodes of inter-ethnic violence in the Balkans prior to the 1990s, but there have also been lon...
"simple-minded Americans thought the Shah was a trump card." Dad and Shahed both blamed the so-called coup on the government, and Keyhan carried the text of an alleged Radio London statement quoting Zahedi to the effect that he had a firman from the Shah and that the Shah had left beca...
Section 702 of FISA should not be extended – mass surveillance of Americans should not be allowed to be codified into law. If you are in the US the thought of this unconstitutional Internet surveillance continuing makes your blood boil, the right course of action is to reach out to Congress...
Americans have always had a secret love for pageantry, unfulfilled because of the absence of royalty, and it was this massive grandeur that made the experience strange and thrilling. I remember being struck by the vocabulary of the occasion, words like “bier” and “caisson” and “catafalque...
Party was powerful enough for the Soviet Union to envision Italy changing alliances once again. By 1955 it was clear that there was little chance of Austria succumbing to communism, and its small population made it less than valuable as a potential ally for either side than as a location....
There are some very dangerous and hostile cities everywhere and I don’t think Communism or Democracy places any limits on either. Poor people who reach the bottom and have nothing, have nothing to care about are the most dangerous when food, stress, drug related dependencies force them to ...