An article at Truth Out by Thom Hartmann argues that the Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery, particularly to empower the state militia that used arms to enforce the institution through slave patrols. I wrote to Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, an historian who has written at some length about
Did Neil Armstrong lie about the origins of his 'one small step' speech?
posted 01/02/2013, 12:34 AM (The Daily Mail)
[Category: History]
A new documentary has cast doubt on Neil Armstrong's claims that he came up with his iconic 'one small step' line hours after touching down on the surface of the moon.
The first man on the moon had stubbornly maintained up until his death in September that his historic words were unplanned, but a recent interview with his brother claims that he thought up the famous speech months before the July 1969, Apollo mission - and that the phrase he planned to utter did include an 'a'.
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Tuesday November 27th, 2012
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Nuking the Moon
posted 11/27/2012, 1:58 AM (The Circle Bastiat)
[Category: History]
An article linked to on Drudge is reporting that the US actually considered nuking the moon to intimidate the Russians at the height of the Cold War.
It instantly reminded me of a hilarious skit from the 90s comedy series “Mr Show” in which the American people are whipped up into a patriotic frenzy (complete with a country music anthem) over NASA nuking... (more) |
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Monday November 12th, 2012
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Lincoln the Racist
posted 11/12/2012, 5:40 AM (Thomas J. DiLorenzo)
[Category: History]
"Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever ‘freed,’ they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into existence not by Lincoln but by the great emancipators nobody knows, the abolitionists and congressional leaders who created the climate and generated the pressure that goaded, prodded, drove, forced Lincoln into glory by associating him with a policy that he adamantly opposed for at least fifty-four of his fifty-six years of his life."... (more) |
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Monday November 5th, 2012
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Who is the worst civil liberties president in US history?
posted 11/05/2012, 5:19 AM (Glenn Greenwald)
[Category: History]
The following interesting question arose yesterday from what at first appeared to be some petty Twitter bickering: who was the worst president for civil liberties in US history? That question is a difficult one to answer because it is so reliant upon which of many valid standards of measurement one chooses; it depends at least as much on the specific rights which one understands the phrase "civil liberties" to encompass. That makes the question irresolvable in any definitive way, but its examina... (more) |
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Friday November 2nd, 2012
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Monday October 15th, 2012
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Fresh doubts over Hitler's death after tests on bullet hole skull reveal it belonged to a woman
posted 10/15/2012, 2:04 AM (The Daily Mail)
[Category: History]
Adolf Hitler may not have shot himself dead and perhaps did not even die in his bunker, it emerged yesterday.
A skull fragment believed for decades to be the Nazi leader’s has turned out to be that of a woman under 40 after DNA analysis.
[...]Now the story of Hitler’s death will have to rewritten as a mystery - and conspiracy theorists are likely to latch on to the possibility that he may not have died in the bunker at all.... (more) Turns out the "conspiracy theorists" were right... What a shocker. - Chris |
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Thursday October 4th, 2012
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How The Government Killed Fuel Efficient Cars And Trucks
posted 10/04/2012, 12:43 PM (Jalopnik)
[Category: History]
Close your eyes and imagine it's 1979. A first-term Democratic president struggles with unemployment, malaise, high energy prices, and embassy trouble. The landscape of today looks like the landscape of then, but there's one important thing missing: The compact pickup. Where did they go? The small pickup was an indelible symbol of America's lowered expectations in the Seventies and Eighties. Now that crappy times are here again, where are the paper-thin truck beds and wheezy-but-indestructible f... (more) |
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Monday September 24th, 2012
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Tuesday September 11th, 2012
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Memos show US hushed up Soviet crime
posted 09/11/2012, 2:49 AM (Associated Press)
[Category: History]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The American POWs sent secret coded messages to Washington with news of a Soviet atrocity: In 1943 they saw rows of corpses in an advanced state of decay in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia, proof that the killers could not have been the Nazis who had only recently occupied the area.
The testimony about the infamous massacre of Polish officers might have lessened the tragic fate that befell Poland under the Soviets, some scholars believe. Inste... (more) |
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Monday September 10th, 2012
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How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis!
posted 09/10/2012, 12:20 AM (YouTube)
[Category: History]
Today, we are constantly being told, the United States faces a health care crisis. Medical costs are too high, and health insurance is out of reach of the poor. The cause of this crisis is never made very clear, but the cure is obvious to nearly everybody: government must step in to solve the problem.
Eighty years ago, Americans were also told that their nation was facing a health care c... (more) |
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Wednesday June 13th, 2012
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The European Atrocity You Never Heard About
posted 06/13/2012, 11:54 PM (The Chronicle Review)
[Category: History]
Between 1945 and 1950, Europe witnessed the largest episode of forced migration, and perhaps the single greatest movement of population, in human history. Between 12 million and 14 million German-speaking civilians—the overwhelming majority of whom were women, old people, and children under 16—were forcibly ejected from their places of birth in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and what are today the western districts of Poland. As The New York Times noted in December 1945, the numbe... (more) |
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Monday February 20th, 2012
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A US government program secretly injected people with plutonium
posted 02/20/2012, 2:18 AM (IO9)
[Category: History]
The horrors of the nuclear age, in terms of exploding reactors and nuclear bombs, are well known. Behind the well-publicized threat of mass death lies a secret history of nuclear projects being used to destroy individuals. In the late 1940s, United States citizens were injected with plutonium without their knowledge.... (more) |
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Wednesday December 7th, 2011
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Did FDR Provoke Pearl Harbor?
posted 12/07/2011, 4:25 PM (Patrick J. Buchanan)
[Category: History]
On Dec. 8, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt took the rostrum before a joint session of Congress to ask for a declaration of war on Japan.
A day earlier, at dawn, carrier-based Japanese aircraft had launched a sneak attack devastating the U.S. battle fleet at Pearl Harbor.
Said ex-President Herbert Hoover, Republican statesman of the day, “We have only one job to do now, and that is to defeat Japan.”
But to friends, “the Chief” sent anoth... (more) |
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Wednesday September 21st, 2011
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Buffett's dad was the Ron Paul of his day
posted 09/21/2011, 5:10 PM (Washington Examiner)
[Category: History]
 In recent days, the Buffett name has become synonymous with support for higher taxes, but a long time ago, it was associated with fierce opposition to federal taxation and big government.
Warren Buffett may be a committed liberal Democrat, but his father, Howard Buffett, was a four-term Republican member of Congress (1943-49 and 51-53), a John Bircher who fought FDR and warned that the expansion of gove... (more) |
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Wednesday August 3rd, 2011
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the U.S. Terror State
posted 08/03/2011, 12:31 AM (Anthony Gregory)
[Category: History]
 Being a U.S. war criminal means never having to say sorry. Paul Tibbets, the man who flew the Enola Gay and destroyed Hiroshima, lived to the impressive age of 92 without publicly expressing guilt for what he had done. He had even reenacted his infamous mission at a 1976 Texas air show, complete with a mushroom cloud, and later said he never meant this to be offensive. In contrast, he called it a "damn big insult" when the Smithsonian planned an exhibit in 1995 showing some of the damag... (more) |
Tricked on the Fourth of July
posted 07/04/2011, 3:21 PM (Gary North)
[Category: History]
I do not celebrate the fourth of July. This goes back to a term paper I wrote in graduate school. It was on colonial taxation in the British North American colonies in 1775. Not counting local taxation, I discovered that the total burden of British imperial taxation was about 1% of national income. It may have been as high as 2.5% in the southern colonies.
In 2008, Alvin Rabushka's book of almost 1,000 pages appeared: Taxation in Colonial America (Pri... (more) |
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Wednesday June 22nd, 2011
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Welfare before the Welfare State
posted 06/22/2011, 2:39 PM (Mises Institute)
[Category: History]
Many people think life without the welfare state would be chaos. In their minds, nobody would help support the less fortunate, and there would be riots in the streets. Little do they know that people found innovative ways of supporting each other before the welfare state existed. One of the most important of these ways was the mutual-aid society.
Mutual aid, also known as fraternalism, refers to social organizations that gathered dues and paid benefits to members facing hardship. ... (more) |
Time for the United States to Confront Its Coups
posted 05/25/2011, 2:08 PM (Jacob G. Hornberger)
[Category: History]
Two Latin American countries — Chile and Guatemala — are confronting coups of long ago that ousted democratically elected presidents and installed U.S.-supported unelected dictators in their stead.
In 1973 Chilean Army Gen. Augusto Pinochet ousted democratically elected Chilean President Salvador Allende from office in a violent coup. Allende died during the coup, and it has always been commonly accepted that he committed suicide. This week, however, his body is being exhumed to d... (more) |
Reminder: 2053 Nuclear Bombs Have Been Detonated on Earth
posted 04/12/2011, 11:44 PM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: History]
With all the controversy surrounding the nuclear event in Japan, people should know governments around the world have blown up at least 2053 nuclear bombs all over the planet, releasing massive amounts of nuclear radiation throughout the earth, no doubt much more than any nuclear meltdown could release. Funny we don't hear the media mention this. - Chris, IL
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Saturday March 19th, 2011
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AP IMPACT: Past medical testing on humans revealed
posted 03/01/2011, 8:18 PM (Associated Press)
[Category: History]
ATLANTA – Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital.... (more) ...how shocking. |
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Thursday November 25th, 2010
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A Tale of Two Colonies
posted 11/25/2010, 11:11 AM (Mises Institute)
[Category: History]
At Thanksgiving, Americans recall their blessings around bountiful meals, with imagery going back to the Pilgrims, especially Plymouth Colony's 1623 Thanksgiving. But little attention is paid to what allows that bounty to be created — capitalism — though Jamestown and Plymouth both illustrate that lesson.
Reflections restricted to our current bounty ignore that most colonists in both Jamestown and Plymouth starved under their initial communal-property rights. Then, when private-pr... (more) Related: Why the Obsession with Capitalism?! |
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Saturday November 6th, 2010
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Modern Art Was CIA 'Weapon'
posted 11/06/2010, 6:25 PM (The Independent)
[Category: History]
For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art – including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko – as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince – except that it acted secretly – the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.
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Saturday October 23rd, 2010
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Thursday October 21st, 2010
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5 times we almost nuked ourselves by accident
posted 10/21/2010, 2:13 PM (IO9)
[Category: History]
We spent the Cold War in perpetual fear that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. would start an intentional nuclear conflict. The truth is, we came far closer to blowing ourselves up with nuclear weapons than we ever came to WWIII.... (more) ...Or five times the government almost nuked us through their direct actions. - Chris, InfoLib |
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Tuesday October 12th, 2010
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"Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy" by Murray N. Rothbard
posted 10/12/2010, 3:04 PM (Mises Institute)
[Category: History]
 Murray Rothbard's 1984 analysis of modern American history as a great power struggle between economic elites, between the House of Morgan and the Rockefeller interests, culminates in the following conclusion: "the financial power elite can sleep well at night regardless of who wins in 1984." By the time you get there, the conclusion seems understated indeed, for what we have here is a sweeping and compressed history of 20th century politics from a power elite point of view. It represents a small... (more) This is a hugely detailed history of the power elite, if you're looking for solid conspiracy history that's not full of conjecture, this is the book to read. The Trilateral Commission, CFR, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Morgans, Cecil Rhodes and the Round Table Groups, he brings all these people to life and details all their nefarious connections. I can almost guarantee it's like nothing you've ever heard.
To bring it into the present, keep in mind Kissinger and Brzezinski are Obama's handlers and his administration is almost all Goldman Sachs, CFR and Trilateralists. - Chris |
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Wednesday September 22nd, 2010
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Saturday September 18th, 2010
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Saturday September 11th, 2010
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The New American Century
posted 09/11/2010, 12:10 PM (Massimo Mazzucco)
[Category: History]
This film is astonishing, it goes in detail through the untold history of The Project for the New American Century with tons of archival footage and connects it right into the present. This film exposes how every major war in US history was based on... (more) Probably the best film covering 9/11. Somewhat of a leftist bend but still excellent. |
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Thursday August 19th, 2010
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Dead Texts Take Flight
posted 08/19/2010, 12:27 AM (Jeffrey A. Tucker)
[Category: History]
The Mises Institute has made available many previously obscure or out-of-print books. Now students take for granted the living existence of these texts, and that is the highest compliment we could receive.... (more) |
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Wednesday August 11th, 2010
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Killing Hiroshima: Scott Horton Interviews Jacob Hornberger
posted 08/11/2010, 4:03 PM (Antiwar Radio)
[Category: History]
MP3 here. (20:40)
Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the enduring myth of nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki to save the lives of countless U.S. soldiers, how FDR’s rejection of conditional surrender prolonged the war in Europe and the Pacific, how the US empire kicked into high gear after WWII, why purposely killing civilians is a war crime unless the Air Force does ... (more) |
Nagasaki bombing survivor recounts her experience
posted 08/09/2010, 5:21 PM (NJ.com)
[Category: History]
PRINCETON TOWNSHIP -- In three days, it will have been 65 years since the United States dropped the second of two atomic bombs on Japan, an event that devastated the city of Nagasaki where Yasuko Ohta worked as a 15-year-old student.
Ohta, now 80, was just 1.3 kilometers -- less than a mile -- from ground zero at Nagasaki when the atomic bomb detonated.
The unimaginable destructive force of the bomb has shadowed Ohta throughout her life and she suspects the effects ... (more) Related: Barefoot Gen |
The Hiroshima Myth
posted 08/06/2010, 6:31 PM (John V. Denson)
[Category: History]
 Every year during the first two weeks of August the mass news media and many politicians at the national level trot out the "patriotic" political myth that the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Japan in August of 1945 caused them to surrender, and thereby saved the lives of anywhere from five hundred thousand to one million American soldiers, who did not have to invade the islands. Opinion polls over the last fifty years show that American citizens o... (more) |
The man who bombed Hiroshima
posted 08/06/2010, 6:31 PM (Anthony Gregory)
[Category: History]
The man who flew the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima passed away last week at the age of 92. Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. did not die from war wounds or violently at the hands of other people, years before his time. He died in hospice care, in a bed, from heart problems and strokes.
In stark contrast, the more than 100,000 civilians who were killed at Hiroshima 62 years ago were burnt, melted, vaporized, in an apocalyptic act of warfare. Many died painful deaths over... (more) |
'My God, what have we done?' - the commander of the 'Enola Gay'
posted 08/06/2010, 6:40 PM (The Independent)
[Category: History]
5 August 2005 - Sixty years ago tomorrow, the crew of the Enola Gay watched in awe as their payload detonated over the city of Hiroshima. "As the bomb exploded, we saw the entire city disappear," said Commander Robert Lewis. "I wrote in my log, 'My God, what have we done?'"
Below, thousands of people were instantly carbonised in a blast that was thousands of times hotter than the sun's surface; further from the epicentre, birds ignited in mid-flight, eyeballs popped and internal ... (more) |
"My God, what have we done?"
posted 08/06/2010, 6:40 PM (HBO)
[Category: History]
Captain Robert Lewis, pilot of the Enola Gay and responsible for dropping one of the bombs, speaks in Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki's WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN: THE DESTRUCTION OF HIROSHIMA AND NA... (more) |
The Hiroshima Cover-Up
posted 08/06/2010, 6:31 PM (Baltimore Sun)
[Category: History]
A story that the U.S. government hoped would never see the light of day finally has been published, 60 years after it was spiked by military censors. The discovery of reporter George Weller's firsthand account of conditions in post-nuclear Nagasaki sheds light on one of the great journalistic betrayals of the last century: the cover-up of the effects of the atomic bombing on Japan.
On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima; three days later, Nagasaki was hit. G... (more) |
Flashback: Hiroshima, the pictures they didn't want us to see
posted 08/06/2010, 6:30 PM (Fogonazos)
[Category: History]
 The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed about 250.000 people and became the most dreadful slaughter of civilians in modern history. However, for many years there was a curious gap in the photographic records. Although the names of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incised into our memories, there were few pictures to accompany them. Even today, the image in our minds is a mixture of devastated landscapes and shattered buildings. Shocking images of the ruins, but where were the victims?... (more) |
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Wednesday July 21st, 2010
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Quotes From Lincoln That We Never Hear
posted 07/03/2010, 7:46 PM (Laurence Vance)
[Category: History]
Not only are there quotes from the Declaration of Independence that we never hear, here are some quotes from Lincoln that we never hear:
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Any ... (more) |
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Thursday April 22nd, 2010
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Libertarianism in Ancient China
posted 04/16/2010, 10:17 PM (Murray N. Rothbard)
[Category: History]
 The three main schools of political thought: the Legalists, the Taoists, and the Confucians, were established from the sixth to the fourth centuries BC. Roughly, the Legalists, the latest of the three broad schools, simply believed in maximal power to the state, and advised rulers how to increase that power. The Taoists were the world's first libertarians, who believed in virtually no interference by the state in economy or society, and the Confucians were middle-of-the-roaders on this critical ... (more) "The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished — The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu
Related: Alan Watts - Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life |
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Wednesday March 24th, 2010
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Wednesday March 17th, 2010
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Did the CIA test LSD in the New York City subway system?
posted 03/17/2010, 5:43 PM (New York Post)
[Category: History]
On Nov. 28, 1953, Frank Olson, a bland, seemingly innocuous 42-year-old government scientist, plunged to his death from room 1018A in New York’s Statler Hotel, landing on a Seventh Avenue sidewalk just opposite Penn Station.
Olson’s ignominious end was written off as an unremarkable suicide of a depressed government bureaucrat who came to New York City seeking psychiatric treatment, so it attracted scant attention at the time.
But 22 years later, the Rockefeller Com... (more) |
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Wednesday March 10th, 2010
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The New American Century
posted 03/10/2010, 6:13 AM (Massimo Mazzucco)
[Category: History]
This film is astonishing, it goes in detail through the untold history of The Project for the New American Century with tons of archival footage and connects it right into the present. This film exposes how every major war in US history was based on a compl... (more) This film has somewhat of a leftist bend, if you want to know the deeper history and who is behind the neo-cons I would recommend watching "The Capitalist Conspiracy." These characters did not appear overnight. - Chris, IL |
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Wednesday February 24th, 2010
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The Century of the Self: The Untold History of Controlling the Masses Through the Manipulation of Unconscious Desires
Operation Gladio: The Hidden History of U.S. Sponsored False Flag Terrorism in Europe
The New American Century: The Untold History of The Project for the New American Century
A college professor from St. Louis, Missouri has released research claiming that the U.S. Army conducted secret Cold War tests by spraying toxic radioactive chemicals on cities like St. Louis and Corpus Christi. 
Cop Who Karate Chopped NY Judge In Throat Gets Off Scot-Free
Florida Cop Smashes Compliant Woman's Face Into Car -- "Maybe Now You Can Understand Simple Instructions"
VIDEO: Lapel Cam Reveals A Day In The Life Of A U.S. Police Officer (Tasing, Beating, Breaking & Entering, Stomping On Heads... and Laughing About It)
Caught On Tape: Officer Sucker Punches Inmate In Face, Files Report Claiming 'Self Defense'
Insult Person On Twitter, Go To Jail
SWAT Team Brings TV Crew To Film Raid Against Threatening Internet Critic -- Raids Innocent Grandma Instead
Cop Karate Chops NY Judge In The Throat
When the Right to Resist Becomes the "Duty to Submit"
The Missing Lesson From Norway: Never Trust a Man in Uniform
"They're Only Out To Make Cold Hard American Cash"; Park Police Crack Down on Bicycle Cabs in DC