Tag: Spotlight
Between 1975 and 1989, the primary U.S. intelligence agency leveraged various financial assistance programs to shape Portuguese democracy and prevent the country from falling under Soviet influence. Here’s how.
The involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Portugal is widely acknowledged. In fact, it was primarily thanks to...
Israeli Minister of National Security and supporter of extremist, far-right policies Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the United States in late April. From the time he got off his plane in Florida and throughout events in New Haven, CT, New York City and Washington, DC, he was met with opposition, protest and resistance...
Hideous nature of the war exposed him to ugly realities of U.S. and Western imperialism
On September 1, 1987, S. Brian Willson, a Vietnam veteran, was run over by a train outside the Concord Naval Weapons Station in Northern California while trying to block munitions shipments to the Nicaraguan...
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...
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...
This week marks the 50-year anniversary of the end of the U.S. war against the country and people of Vietnam. Americans refer to the war as the Vietnam War, but it was actually an American war.
This war had a huge impact on me, my generation and, of course, the...
Similar to the way American conscientious objectors were treated in World War I
On December 26, 2023, Tal Mitnick, then 18, entered an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) enlistment center in Tel Aviv and publicly announced that he would refuse military service.
Subsequently, he was forced to serve 185 days in a...
April 20th marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the largest oil spill in U.S. history, which killed 11 workers and spilled 134 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. For those who rely on fishing and related industries off the Gulf Coast, as well as for those who were involved in the recovery and cleanup efforts, real relief is still yet to come...
Black America has the term “Uncle Tom” for sellouts. In South America, a “vendepatria” is someone who is willing to sell their homeland to the highest bidder. Simón Bolívar, José Marti and Jan-Jak Dessalin conceived of a united, integrated Americas, or “la patria grande,” “the big fatherland;” and fought...
Biden National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is the inaugural Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order
On April 1, former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan started his new job as the inaugural Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order at the Harvard Kennedy School....