Monday, 7 October , 2024

US History

On the consequences of the Kennedy coverup | By James K....

In the fourth volume of his biography of Lyndon Johnson, The Passage of Power, Robert Caro remarks that the Warren Commission was suited to...

Remembering Jean Genet: the United States and Palestine

By Franklin Frederick " ... because I don't love the oppressed. I love those whom I love, who are always beautiful and sometimes oppressed, but...

Noam Chomsky: “We’re on the Road to a Form of Neofascism”

By C.J. Polychroniou December 8, 2022 Neoliberalism has reigned supreme as an economic philosophy for nearly half a century. But neoliberal policies have wreaked havoc around...

“Gangsters of Capitalism”: Jonathan Katz on the Parallels Between Jan. 6...

January 26, 2022 We speak to award-winning journalist Jonathan Katz about his new book “Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and...

The True History Behind ‘The Plot Against America’

Philip Roth’s classic novel, newly adapted by HBO, envisions a world in which Charles Lindbergh wins the 1940 presidential election By Meilan Solly Associate Editor, History March 16,...

This Was the Worst Slaughter of Native Americans in US History....

The 1863 Bear River Massacre decimated the Northwestern Band of the Shoshones but was overshadowed by the Civil War By Dana Hedgpeth The Washington Post 26 September...

New Evidence Implicates CIA, LAPD, FBI and Mafia as Plotters in...

By Jeremy Kuzmarov September 1, 2021 photo: washingtonpost.com; collage courtesy of Steve Brown Yet even after over 50 years, high government officials like Vice President Kamala Harris...

Cuban Exile Told Sons He Trained Oswald, JFK’s Accused Assassin, at...

By Nora Gamez Torres / Miami Herald Oct. 30, 2021 photo: Ricardo Morales, known as "Monkey," second left, and his "cleanup" crew posing with CIA-provided sniper...

The removal of Jefferson’s statue. A shame for America and the...

The removal of Jefferson’s statue is a gift to the political right By Tom Mackaman 19 October 2021   New York City will remove from City Hall a...

100 years since the Battle of Blair Mountain

By Andy Thompson, Jerry White 9 September 2021 This month marks the 100th anniversary since the end of the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, when...