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In recent years, we’ve witnessed a disturbing trend in American politics: the revival of anti-immigrant propaganda tactics that pull forward some of the worst periods in the nation’s history into the current political environment. Weird and…
To be candid, I’ve always found the NSA’s “defend forward” pitch intriguing from a historical perspective. The Navy subsequently developed a “transoceanic” strategic concept, orienting the Service away from contesting the oceans…
George Lawson speaks about conceptualising revolution, comparative historical sociology, anatomies of revolution and more, in the first of a two-part series on Revolution.
Recently I mentioned the Ace of Spades playing card that the CIA allegedly left on the body of assassinated U.N. Secretary General in 1961. Here’s some more reference from WWII on the American military intelligence habit of playing with cards. Du…
A provocative Gerald Horne review, published alongside the insightful poet Ishmael Reed’s 2020 anti-disinformation book, seems noteworthy to U.S. historians: This powerful play, originally produced at the Nuyorican Poets Café, comprehensively dis…
Who shot down the U.N. Secretary General plane in September 1961, and why is it so hard to solve? (e.g. The Hammarskjöld Commission and its reports) The mystery may be intentional, as Susan Williams has written in a newly published Yale Review to follo…
In 1889 Mark Twain published his memoirs of life before the Civil War, Life On The Mississippi, in which he mentioned an “itching palm” practice of French-speaking Louisiana that was called “lagniappe“: It is the equivalent of t…
Well, does anyone really have any doubts now about Elon Musk being antisemitic? First, read this 1936 book on why nobody ever should say some of their friends are Jews in response to accusations of antisemitism. That phrase, it’s a dire warning. …
NASA allegedly told SpaceX that the rocket launch this week could NOT be another X. NASA needed this second attempt to go off without a hitch, Jim Free, NASA’s associate administrator for exploration-systems development, said at a space conference last…
Not very surprising, but very late. This should have happened years ago. Gerber, who held some 420,000 shares of Tesla stock as recently as this spring and is the CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, said his clients are “piss…