I suppose it's good to know for sure that the CIA orchestrated the 1953 coup in Iran, overthrowing a democratically elected government and replacing it with a corrupt but oil-providing Shah, although it's not like anyone doubted it in the first place. There's a reason...
cold war
The story about this fully equipped 1961 nuclear fallout shelter is kind of awesome. But I have to ask, if you were in a bomb shelter suffering from a nuclear.
1950's "How to Lose What We Have" is first-rate capitalist propaganda precisely because it lacks anything even remotely approaching subtlety, unless you count its conflation of the New Deal with.
I love classic capitalist propaganda. Take for example, 1956's "Destination Earth." A cartoon produced by the American Petroleum Institute, it shows that oil + competition=getting rid of that dastardly Stalin Ogg, leader of Mars. CNBC and Fox are pretty lame capitalist propagandists compared to this.
My latest at the Diplomat talks a bit more about Nate Jones' work at National Security Archive: Like in the United States, the political and military elite of the Soviet.
National Security Archive has put together an interesting collection of material on the 1983 Able Archer exercise, which freaked the Russians out. "Do you think Soviet leaders really fear us,.
Very interesting.
Maybe some of you have heard about this before, but I just found out this week that It's a Wonderful Life was communist propaganda. Communist stooge begs before capitalist hero.
This is a fun little account of the origins of one of my favorite Tom Clancy sequences; the attack on the USS Nimitz in Red Storm Rising: The level of.
For no particular reason, I give you the Palm Beach Post, 16 April 1962: At least one of the five Cubans seized here recently with a record supply of cocaine may have been a Castro agent sent here to spread addiction among local exiles and...
Every election cycle brings back the fetishizing of the increasingly non-existent family farm. When combined with the Republican ardor for bombing brown people who could potentially have weapons of mass.
The other day, I watched the documentary Sputnik Mania. It was an interesting piece about the impact of Sputnik and how it moved the U.S. and USSR closer to a.