Tag: Cold War
OSS founder “Wild Bill” Donovan is said to have given orders for covert operation that helped dramatically shift U.S. politics to the right
Alger Hiss was a former State Department official accused of being a Soviet spy who was imprisoned for almost four years at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg,...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is perhaps the most well-known Soviet dissident. He was the author of The Gulag Archipelago, a three-volume work originally published in 1973 which significantly turned international public opinion against the Soviet Union.
Described by Canadian psychologist and right-wing media personality Jordan Peterson as the most important book of...
New Documentary Explores Life and Legacy of Fletcher Prouty, who wrote about CIA covert operations in his classic book The Secret Team
In a famous scene in Oliver Stone’s epic 1992 film JFK, Kevin Costner’s character confers with a shadowy CIA operative played by Donald Sutherland known as Mr. X...
The late historian Antony C. Sutton is one of the most influential thinkers in the current American populist movement. The Mises Institute has repeatedly promoted his work, as has the Cato Institute, and his books are steady sellers on Amazon (an impressive feat given that most of their content...
Blacklisted in the Cold War, Worthy reported on the struggles of Third World people against American neo-colonialism and on oppression within the United States
secretly runs the online platform African Stream across a wide range of social media platforms.” He added, without providing a shred of evidence, that the...
Ted Hall Helped the Soviet Union to Counterbalance the U.S. Monopoly on Atomic Weaponry After World War II, Which Acted as a Deterrent Against Aggressive U.S. War Plans
Dave Lindorff initiated the documentary film A Compassionate Spy, following a correspondence with Ted Hall’s 87-year-old widow, Joan Hall. Lindorff had written...
Will They Try to Make Life Difficult for His Son?
On August 20, Bernardo Arévalo was elected president of Guatemala, defeating conservative Sandra Torres. An anti-graft crusader, Arévalo has promised to root out corruption and create a large public jobs program by improving services like water sanitation.
Political analyst Edgar...
Yet there are some things to admire about a man whose motto was “why not share the top secrets and expose the absurdity of it all,” and who said “intelligence wars are mostly a silly game. Adults wearing children’s masks, like schoolboys cheating at penny ante poker.”
After a period...
Three museums are commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist, the darkest period in Tinseltown history. What happened during this period of right-wing repression? As actor Humphrey Bogart put it: “We saw it—and said to ourselves, ‘It can happen here.’ We saw American citizens denied the right to...
Let’s hope there are more Vasily Arkhipovs out there today—we need them now more than ever
On October 27, 1962, Soviet naval officer Vasily Arkhipov helped prevent the outbreak of World War III and saved humanity from nuclear catastrophe.
A minesweeper during the Pacific War, Arkhipov was the commander of a...
