Tag: Asia
In early 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower authorized the CIA to provide secret campaign funds to Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and other select members of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which favored close integration with the U.S during the Cold War.
According to historian Michael Schaller, between 1958 and 1960...
North Korean “human rights” groups exposed as fronts for regime-change operation as Trump administration threatens their funding
Headlines in a number of publications decry the precarious situation of North Korean human rights groups caused by the withdrawal of funding by the Trump administration.
Under the headline “Another U.S. Funding Cut Threatens...
On August 5, 2024, the government of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, leader of the purported progressive Awami League, was overthrown in a movement publicly framed as a student-led uprising.
However, evidence suggests that this event bore the hallmarks of a U.S.-backed color revolution, strategically supported by Western imperialist interests. While...
The assassin was in the pay of a police general trained by the CIA who functioned as the hatchet man of another CIA asset.
On April 1, 1963, Quinim Pholsena, Laos’s Foreign Minister and head of the “Peace and Neutrality” party, was shot and killed as he walked up...
Set the groundwork for Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and torture chambers across the Middle East in the Global War on Terror
In the summer of 1970, Tom Harkin, a U.S. senator from Iowa from 1985-2015, was a congressional staffer invited to be part of a delegation that was sent to...
Called them “propagandists” and “communists trying to discredit the U.S.”
Got off the plane in Vietnam;It didn't seem like war.With all I saw, I started to wonderWhat I had come there for.Oh, the Army tried some fancy stuff,To bring them to their knees;Like Agent Orange defoliants,To kill the brush and...
Of course he did. And a look at the film’s funders helps to explain why.
In the fall of 2017, more than 60 million people tuned into PBS to watch Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s documentary on the Vietnam War, which was ten years in the making and cost $30...
For years, the global narrative has been saturated with relentless propaganda targeting former Filipino President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
He has been vilified as a monster, a tyrant and a symbol of cruelty—portrayed as a leader despised by most Filipinos. This orchestrated campaign successfully swayed the unsuspecting, idealistic voices of the...
Turkey and the West’s Covert War Against Asian Development
Western imperialism once had a “civilizing mission.” The enlightenment and modernity were its buzzwords. The Europeans and Americans were in the game of railroads and reason. Or so the world was led to believe. Africans and Asians aimed West.
But not today....
Though branded in Western media as a success story, Bangladesh shows eery parallels to Syria
In 2024, The Economist magazine named Bangladesh as its “country of the year,” stating that it had “improved the most” of any other country in the world over the previous 12 months.
The watershed event in...
