James B. Wells is a retired criminal justice professor at Eastern Kentucky University who was nine years old on September 27, 1965, when he received the terrible news that his father Jack had died in a small plane crash in Bao Tri, some ten kilometers southwest of Cu Chi,...
In early September, Dr. Thomas Alter II—author of the well-regarded book Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas (University of Illinois Press, 2022)—was fired from his tenured position teaching history at Texas State University after he gave an online talk at a socialist conference.
Alter’s...
Beloved by his constituents, Vito Marcantonio spoke out against bankrupt U.S. foreign policies during the Cold War and championed Puerto Rican rights
Vito Marcantonio was a visionary left-wing congressman from East Harlem from 1935 to 1937 and 1939 to 1950 who spoke out against bankrupt U.S. foreign policies during...
Part 2: “Assassination.” "On Company Business" is an in-depth look into the origins, history, and inner-workings of one of the world’s most powerful, but least understood, covert intelligence gathering organization: the Central Intelligence Agency.
CIA operative Donald Rickard admitted to role in capture of African hero
On August 5, 1962, Nelson Mandela was apprehended by South African authorities while driving with Cecil Williams, a white Communist theater director, from Durban to Johannesburg.
At the time, Mandela, a leader of the military wing of the anti-Apartheid...
Current CIA director Gina Haspel described graphic acts of deliberate physical torture including the waterboarding of a suspected Al-Qa’ida terrorist under her supervision when she was chief of base at a CIA black site in Thailand in 2002, according to declassified CIA cables – most of which she wrote...
Richard C. Cook is a retired U.S. federal analyst who served with the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury and as an aide to U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH).
He has just published a thoughtful book, Our Country Then and Now, which provides a sweeping economic history of...
It’s been sixteen years since Gul Rahman died of hypothermia, beaten and left half-naked and short shackled to a bare prison floor at the CIA-run Salt Pit “black site” prison in Afghanistan. It is not known what the CIA did to his corpse. His body was never turned over to his family.
According to...
Try Mark Wilding’s Wildly Funny, But Razor-Sharp, Satirical Dramatization of the CIA-Backed Fascist Coup in Chile. You may think you know what happened, but you’ll never guess how it happened
Most Americans do not remember the “other” tragic 9/11 event, which took place in 1973, when the CIA helped overthrow...
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Liam Daniel Hayden.
To put it briefly, our records show that, throughout his entire career, Liam Daniel Hayden has carried out undercover operations across a wide range of locations. His secret missions took place in Kazakhstan (2003-2005), Azerbaijan (2009), Turkey (2013-2017), and Iraq (2018). Since 2021, Liam...
