The Whitehouse Coup
posted 07/29/2007, 2:16 PM (BBC) [Category: History] The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.... (more) |
The Ringworm Children
posted 07/23/2007, 9:33 PM (Google Video) [Category: History]
In 1951, the director general of the Israeli Health Ministry, Dr. Chaim Sheba flew to America and returned with 7 x-ray machines, supplied to him by the American army.
They were to be used in a mass atomic experiment with an en... (more) |
CIA releases 'family jewels' on misconduct
posted 06/28/2007, 1:58 AM (Associated Press) [Category: History] WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA released hundreds of pages of internal reports Tuesday detailing assassination plots against foreign leaders such as Cuba's Fidel Castro and the secret testing of mind-and-behavior altering drugs like LSD on unwitting U.S. citizens.
The documents also provide information on wiretapping of U.S. journalists, spying on civil rights and anti-Vietnam war protesters, opening mail between the United States and the Soviet Union and China, and break-ins at the ho... (more) |
CIA plot to kill Castro detailed
posted 06/28/2007, 1:50 AM (Associated Press) [Category: History] HAVANA - The CIA recruited a former FBI agent to approach two of America's most-wanted mobsters and gave them poison pills meant for Fidel Castro during his first year in power, according to newly declassified papers released Tuesday.
Contained amid hundreds of pages of CIA internal reports collectively known as "the family jewels," the official confirmation of the 1960 plot against Castro was certain to be welcomed by communist authorities as more proof of their longstanding clai... (more) |
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Wednesday June 13th, 2007
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Slave Passage Found at Washington House
posted 06/09/2007, 7:25 AM (NewsDay) [Category: History] PHILADELPHIA -- Archaeologists unearthing the remains of George Washington's presidential home have discovered a hidden passageway used by his nine slaves, raising questions about whether the ruins should be incorporated into a new exhibit at the site.
The underground passageway is just steps from the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. It was designed so Washington's guests would not see slaves as they slipped in and out of the main house.
"As you enter the heaven ... (more) |
'Second JFK gunman' theory revived
posted 05/28/2007, 7:48 AM (The Scotsman) [Category: History] TESTS on the type of ammunition used in the 1963 assassination of US president John F Kennedy raise questions about whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, according to a new scientific study.
The Warren Commission concluded in 1964 that Oswald fired three shots from the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas at Kennedy's motorcade.
A further government inquiry agreed in 1979, finding that the two bullets which hit Kennedy came from Oswald's rifle.
The... (more) |
They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, an excerpt
posted 05/28/2007, 7:48 AM (The University of Chicago Press) [Category: History] But Then It Was Too Late
"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really n... (more) |
Airline accused of helping Nazis to flee
posted 05/07/2007, 8:35 PM (The Times) [Category: History] The Dutch national airline is facing calls for an inquiry into its role in helping Nazis to flee to South America, after the discovery of documents suggesting that it played an active role in smuggling suspected war criminals out of Germany.
KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, has always denied that it had a policy of assisting Nazis to escape justice at the hands of the Allies after the Second World War, when hundreds escaped to Argentina.
But... (more) |
New Tape Suggests Kennedy Assassination Inside Job
posted 05/06/2007, 7:15 PM (ABC News) [Category: History]
An audio file serving as the final testimony of CIA veteran and convicted Watergate conspirator, E. Howard Hunt on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has surfaced.
It has been distilled down from a 20-minute tape made by Hunt at his home in Miami, according to his oldest son with whom E. Howard Hunt had enjoyed a good relationship in later life.
The unmarked cassette was received in the mail by his oldest son, Saint John Hunt, in Janurary 2004. At the ti... (more) |
Uncomfortable truth: U.S. troops ignored sex slave atrocity, used Japanese-run brothels
posted 05/01/2007, 8:10 AM (Mainichi Daily News) [Category: History] Japan's abhorrent practice of enslaving women to provide sex for its troops in World War II has a little-known sequel: After its surrender -- with tacit approval by U.S. occupation authorities -- Japan set up a similar "comfort women" system for American GIs.
An Associated Press review of historical documents and records -- some never before translated into English -- shows that American authorities permitted the official brothel system to operate despite internal reports that wom... (more) |
Kent State victim to release recording
posted 05/01/2007, 7:57 AM (Associated Press) [Category: History] CLEVELAND -- A man who was shot in the wrist when National Guard troops killed four Kent State University students during an anti-war demonstration says he has found an audiotape that reveals someone gave a command to fire.
Alan Canfora wants the government to reopen the 37-year-old case because he thinks it will give both the victims and shooters a chance to heal.
"We're not seeking revenge; we're not seeking punishment for the Guardsmen at this late date," Canfora... (more) |
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Thursday April 26th, 2007
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How three million Germans died after VE Day
posted 04/26/2007, 4:26 AM (The Telegraph) [Category: History] Giles MacDonogh is a bon viveur and a historian of wine and gastronomy, but in this book, pursuing his other consuming interest - German history - he serves a dish to turn the strongest of stomachs. It makes particularly uncomfortable reading for those who compare the disastrous occupation of Iraq unfavourably to the post-war settlement of Germany and Austria.
MacDonogh argues that the months that followed May 1945 brought no peace to the shattered skeleton of Hitler's Reich, but ... (more) |
Humans In Secret Radioactive Tests
posted 04/23/2007, 12:09 PM (Sunday Herald) [Category: History] DOZENS OF people drank, inhaled or were injected with radioactivity as part of a series of secret experiments carried out by the nuclear industry in the 1960s, according to official documents passed to the Sunday Herald.
Tests exposing humans to radioactive caesium, iodine, strontium and uranium were conducted despite doubts about their legal and ethical implications. One proposal even envisaged injecting plutonium into elderly people to help assess contamination risks.
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FBI file links Kennedy to Monroe's death
posted 03/18/2007, 3:10 AM (Sydney Morning Herald) [Category: History] For four decades there have been rumours that Marilyn Monroe's death was not a simple suicide. Now a Los Angeles-based Australian writer and director, Philippe Mora, has uncovered an FBI document that throws up a chilling new scenario.
BOBBY KENNEDY'S affair with the screen idol Marilyn Monroe has been documented, but a secret FBI file suggests the late US attorney-general was aware of - and perhaps even a participant in - a plan "to induce" her suicide.
The detail... (more) |
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Wednesday February 28th, 2007
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Papers tie U.S. to 1950s Japan coup plot
posted 02/28/2007, 5:38 PM (Associated Press) [Category: History] Declassified documents reveal that Japanese ultranationalists with ties to U.S. military intelligence plotted to overthrow the Japanese government and assassinate the prime minister in 1952.
The scheme — which was abandoned — was concocted by militarists and suspected war criminals who had worked for U.S. occupation authorities after World War II, according to CIA records reviewed by The Associated Press. The plotters wanted a right-wing government that would rearm Japan.
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Tuesday February 27th, 2007
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AP: CIA recruited Japanese war criminals
posted 02/27/2007, 1:11 PM (Associated Press) [Category: History] TOKYO - Col. Masanobu Tsuji was a fanatical Japanese militarist and brutal warrior, hunted after World War II for massacres of Chinese civilians and complicity in the Bataan Death March. And then he became a U.S. spy. Newly declassified CIA records, released by the U.S. National Archives and examined by The Associated Press, document more fully than ever how Tsuji and other suspected Japanese war criminals were recruited by U.S. intelligence in the early days of the Cold War. The documents also ... (more) |
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Thursday February 15th, 2007
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Web of Deceit
posted 02/15/2007, 1:37 AM (Barry Lando and Michel Despratx) [Category: History] Saddam Hussein - The Trial You'll Never See
Made for European television this film was never broadcast in North America.
Barry Lando and Michel Despratx's documentary
The horrifying truth is the extent to which we in the west have been complicit. Check out Lando's new boo... (more) |
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Saturday February 3rd, 2007
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Bio Weapons Spurned by Hitler Were Tested on Adventists: TV
posted 02/03/2007, 9:35 AM (Bloomberg) [Category: History] Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) -- In 1969, a year after he was elected U.S. president, Richard Nixon renounced the ``use of any form of deadly biological weapons that either kill or incapacitate.''
Nixon's declaration is one of the few cheerful spots in ``The Living Weapon,'' a PBS program that airs Feb. 5 at 9 p.m. New York time.
The U.S. got into the germ-warfare business in 1942 at the request of Britain, which feared that Adolf Hitler was cooking up world-class pes... (more) |
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Monday January 15th, 2007
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Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence
posted 01/15/2007, 8:20 PM (Information Clearing House) [Category: History] By 1967, King had become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."
Time magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi," a... (more) |
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Friday January 12th, 2007
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Ex CIA Analyst: Saddam Did Not Gas The Kurds
posted 01/12/2007, 12:23 PM (LiveLeak) [Category: History] Did Saddam Gas the Kurds? Retired Army War College professor and CIA analyst Stephen Pelletiere answers questions about Saddams alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction and about the gassing of the Kurds in Halabja. [Iraq was not responsible, nor was it genocide by the Iranians] ... (more) |
MI5 rejected Hitler suicide mission
posted 01/12/2007, 12:18 PM (The Times) [Category: History] A BRITISH secret agent who offered to blow up Adolf Hitler at the height of World War II was dissuaded from carrying out the assassination by MI5, according to newly released wartime archives.
The offer to kill Hitler in a suicide mission was made by Eddie Chapman, a professional criminal and safe-breaker who was trained by the Nazis as a spy and went on to become one of Britain’s most successful double agents, codenamed Agent Zigzag.
Chapman was serving a sentence ... (more) |
FBI Files: Rehnquist Had Hallucinations, "Imagined CIA Was Plotting Against Him"
posted 01/05/2007, 3:31 AM (Associated Press) [Category: History] WASHINGTON Jan 4, 2007 (AP)— The FBI's file on former Chief Justice William Rehnquist made public more than a year after his death indicates the Nixon and Reagan administrations enlisted its help in blunting criticism of him during confirmation hearings.
The file also offers insight into the hallucinations and other symptoms of withdrawal that Rehnquist suffered when he was taken off a prescription painkiller in 1981. A doctor was cited as saying that Rehnquist, an associate justi... (more) |
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Tuesday January 2nd, 2007
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Tuesday December 12th, 2006
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US encouraged Iran in 1978 to develop nuclear technology: professor
posted 12/12/2006, 10:55 PM (IRNA) [Category: History] Iran and US signed an agreement in 1978 which allowed Tehran to seek nuclear technology in order to meet its future energy demands but no one now talks about the agreement, said a political science professor on Tuesday. Addressing an international conference of world geologists in this ancient city, central Iran, Professor of Political Geography and Geopolitics Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh said it was the US that encouraged Iran to develop nuclear energy.
"At th... (more) |
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Sunday December 10th, 2006
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65 years later, his questions linger
posted 12/10/2006, 11:34 PM (Colorado Springs Gazette) [Category: History]
Around this time every year, Joe Fenton’s mind wanders back to the preview he had of the destruction that would be unleashed on Pearl Harbor.
Just 17 years old and six months removed from boot camp, Fenton was an oiler on the USS Boise as it escorted five merchant ships carrying air base construction materials across the Pacific to the Philippines. After midnight on the morning of Nov. 28, 1941, the light cruiser’s loudspeakers blared with orders for crew members to man their batt... (more) |
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Wednesday November 29th, 2006
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Effects of ill-advised CIA plot in Iran still haunts U.S.
posted 11/29/2006, 5:56 AM (Scripps Howard News Service) [Category: History] Now that Iran looms on our horizon, here's a story that every American should know. Journalist Sandra Mackey tells it in "The Iranians," as does Daniel Yergin in "The Prize," his monumental history of oil. But the best extended version of the story that I've read is in "All the Shah's Men" by Stephen Kinzer. Although other historians have told this story as well, I suspect that the average American has never heard of Mohammad Mossadegh and Operation Ajax. To make a long story short:
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Tuesday October 24th, 2006
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The secret persuaders
posted 10/24/2006, 6:18 AM (The Guardian) [Category: History] It was 1940, the Nazis were in the ascendant, the Blitz at its deadliest, and Britain's last hope was to bring a reluctant United States into the war. So it was that the largest covert operation in UK history was launched.
"British Security Coordination". The phrase is bland, almost defiantly ordinary, depicting perhaps some sub-committee of a minor department in a lowly Whitehall ministry. In fact BSC, as it was generally known, represented one of the largest covert operations in... (more) |
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Wednesday October 11th, 2006
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CIA responsibility in the Barbados
posted 10/11/2006, 11:16 PM (Granma) [Category: History] IT was 1967. The counterrevolution in Cuba had been crushed. The JM-Wave CIA station in Miami gradually began limiting its dirty war operations against Cuba after long years of crime and aggression. The communications radar and heavy machine guns were dismantled, along with the 57mm recoilless rif... (more) |
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Tuesday October 10th, 2006
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U.S. Aid Helps N. Korea Build Nukes, Congress Told
posted 10/10/2006, 11:17 PM (CNS News) [Category: History] CNSNews.com - 17 April, 2000 - North Korea's nuclear production capacity will increase from a dozen nuclear bombs a year to 65 a year by 2010, thanks in large part to American taxpayer money, two renowned U.S. nuclear scientists told congressional leaders last week.
North Korea observers have long suspected the communist dictatorship is using Western humanitarian aid to starving North Koreans to feed Kim Jong Il's million-man army.
But an aid policy initiated by the... (more) |
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Tuesday September 19th, 2006
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Tuesday September 5th, 2006
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CIA Helped Nazi Eichmann Hide
posted 09/05/2006, 11:38 PM (Spiegel) [Category: History] American and West German intelligence remained silent about the whereabouts of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the 1950s to protect anti-communist operations, according to newly declassified US archives.
The United States and West Germany knew of the location and alias of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann two years before his capture, according to CIA documents released on Tuesday.
The newly declassified intelligence archives reveal that the CIA was told by West ... (more) |
Cardinal says Pope John Paul was spied on
posted 09/05/2006, 11:30 PM (Reuters) [Category: History] ROME - Pope John Paul was spied on by Vatican informers working for the Polish secret services in the communist era, a Polish cardinal was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
Cardinal Joseph Glemp, archbishop of Warsaw, was quoted as telling Italy’s ANSA news agency that John Paul was the target of espionage between his election in 1978 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
John Paul was “spied on, and how,” ANSA quoted Glemp as saying in Assisi, where he was attending ... (more) |
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Saturday August 26th, 2006
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Montezuma's revenge: Cannibalism in the age of The Conquistadors
posted 08/26/2006, 6:01 PM (The Independent) [Category: History] When Cortez led the Spanish to victory over the Aztecs 500 years ago, the indigenous population gave up without a fight. Or so the story goes. But new evidence suggests that some of the invaders suffered a grisly fate.
As every Mexican schoolchild knows, theirs is a nation forged nearly 500 years ago by the conquests of a Spanish adventurer named Hernando Cortez who subdued the once-proud Aztec Empire with just a few hundred men. They also know that Cortez was helped by European d... (more) |
The secret persuaders
posted 08/25/2006, 9:33 PM (The Guardian) [Category: History] It was 1940, the Nazis were in the ascendant, the Blitz at its deadliest, and Britain's last hope was to bring a reluctant United States into the war. So it was that the largest covert operation in UK history was launched. William Boyd sheds light on a forgotten spy ring
"British Security Coordination". The phrase is bland, almost defiantly ordinary, depicting perhaps some sub-committee of a minor department in a lowly Whitehall ministry. In fact BSC, as it was generally kn... (more) |
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Wednesday August 9th, 2006
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Hitler bested God by 2 commandments
posted 08/09/2006, 8:08 PM (UPI) [Category: History] HAMBURG, Germany, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Although he hated organized religion, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler rewrote the Christian bible and added two commandments.
In 1941, some 100,000 Third Reich bibles called "Germans with God" were distributed to Germany's churches, and while most were destroyed by devout Christians during the war, a copy was recently found in a Hamburg church, the Daily Mirror reported Tuesday.
The most notable additions to the 10 Commandments were: "Hono... (more) |
Atomic Coverup Redux: 61 Years After the First Bombs Fell
posted 08/07/2006, 8:38 PM (Editor and Publisher) [Category: History] With nuclear dangers growing again, there is still much to learn from the only two uses of atomic weapons in war. Now comes word of a forthcoming book that compiles the long-suppressed dispatches written by famed reporter George Weller, the first American to arrive in Nagasaki after the bombing.
By Greg Mitchell
(August 06, 2006) -- One year ago, just before the 60th anniversary of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, E&P described, for the first time in th... (more) |
The Plot To Overthrow FDR: America's Hidden History
posted 07/04/2006, 10:20 PM (Information Clearing House) [Category: History] The Plot To Overthrow FDR reveals how, inspired by political trends in Germany and Italy, this group conceived of a plan to either overthrow the newly-elected president or force him to take orders from them. They envisioned a paramilitary organization of disgruntled WWI veterans as the force to intimidate the government. The man they chose to inspire and lead this veteran's army was retired Marine General Smedley D. Butler
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the Presidency in 193... (more) |
Britain mulled nuclear strike on China over Hong Kong in 1961
posted 06/30/2006, 6:09 PM (AFP) [Category: History] Britain discussed the possibility of a nuclear attack on China in 1961 to defend Hong Kong, its former colony, secret documents from the British government revealed Friday.
Letters circulated to then prime minister Harold Macmillan recommended nuclear force as the only real alternative to abandoning the territory in the event of an attack by the neighbouring Chinese.
British officials discussed how to ensure that Beijing understood any attack would be met by the Uni... (more) |
Hawaii's Last Queen
posted 06/29/2006, 11:48 PM (Information Clearing House) [Category: History] On January 16, 1893, four boatloads of United States Marines armed with Gatling guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition came ashore in Honolulu, capital of the independent Kingdom of Hawaii. As the Royal Hawaiian band played a concert at the Hawaiian Hotel, 162 troops marched through the streets of Honolulu, heading for the palace. The Queen of Hawaii, Lili'uokalani, looked down from her balcony as the troops took up their positions.
The following day, she surrendered at gunpoi... (more) |
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Wednesday June 21st, 2006
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JFK Secret Society Speech
posted 06/18/2006, 9:00 PM (Infowars) [Category: History]
Listen to this incredible audio recording of a speech made by JFK before the American Newspaper Publishers Association where he warns the press about the secret societies that are the real power in global affairs.... (more) |
Book links Begin to 1952 plot to kill then-German Chancellor Adenauer
posted 06/13/2006, 7:27 PM (Haaretz) [Category: History] Former prime minister Menachem Begin played a central role in a failed attempt to assassinate then-West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, with the objective of sabotaging the reparations agreement in the works with Israel, according to the journal of Eliezer Sudit, one of the men who carried out the attempted hit.
Sudit's journal, which was published in a limited number of copies only, came into the possession of the Israel correspondent for the German daily, the Frankfurter Allg... (more) |
Documents show CIA covered up Nazi war criminals during Cold War
posted 06/06/2006, 9:33 PM (AP) [Category: History] WASHINGTON (AP) — Determined to win the Cold War, the CIA kept quiet about the whereabouts of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the 1950s for fear he might expose undercover anti-communist efforts in West Germany, according to documents released Tuesday.
The 27,000 pages released by the National Archives are among the largest post-World War II declassifications by the CIA. They offer a window into the shadowy world of U.S. intelligence — and the efforts to use former Nazi war cr... (more) |
The Montana Sedition Project
posted 06/02/2006, 10:19 PM (Seditionproject.net) [Category: History] Imagine going down to your local brewpub or coffee shop. You meet some friends. The talk turns to the war. You criticize the President and his wealthy supporters. Next thing you know, a couple of husky fellows at the next table grab you, hustle you out the door and down to the local police station. You are arrested on a charge of sedition.... (more) |
British Government pays £100,000 over Nerve Gas Death
posted 06/01/2006, 6:56 PM (The Epoch Times) [Category: History] The family of an ex-RAF pilot who died in 1950s nerve gas experiments at Porton Down military research centre won £100,000 in compensation from the government last week.
Twenty year-old Ronald Maddison died in 1953 after liquid sarin was dripped onto his arm in cold war-era chemical weapons experiments. For more than 50 years Mr Maddison's family have pressed the Ministry of Defence to apologise and account for his death. The settlement comes as the MoD accepts "gross negligence"... (more) |
Geronimo's family call on Bush to help return his skeleton
posted 06/01/2006, 6:54 PM (The Independent) [Category: History] The great grandson of the Apache leader Geronimo has appealed to the big chief in the White House to help recover the remains of his famous relative - purportedly stolen more than 90 years ago by a group of students - including the President's grandfather.
The story that members of Yale University's secret Skull and Bones society took the remains - including a skull and femur - from the burial site in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, has long been part of the university's lore. But a univers... (more) |
Orwell's comrade in Spain 'was double spy'
posted 05/30/2006, 9:14 PM (London Telegraph) [Category: History] George Orwell's commander and close confidant in the Spanish Civil War was an agent for both MI5 and the Vichy regime that controlled France on behalf of the Nazis, new research has revealed.
Georges Kopp - who biographers of the great socialist writer previously believed had an affair with Orwell's first wife, Eileen - had fought in Spain as a company commander of the POUM, the Marxist militia that attracted Orwell in 1936.
Papers discovered by a Belgian researcher... (more) |
More Vietnam War Papers Released: Kissinger Told China U.S. Could Accept Communist Takeover
posted 05/27/2006, 10:40 PM (AP) [Category: History] Henry A. Kissinger quietly acknowledged to China in 1972 that Washington could accept a communist takeover of South Vietnam if that evolved after a withdrawal of U.S. troops -- even as the war to drive back the communists dragged on with mounting deaths.
President Richard M. Nixon's envoy told Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai: "If we can live with a communist government in China, we ought to be able to accept it in Indochina."
Kissinger's blunt remarks surfaced from a col... (more) | Previous Page . Next Page
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