In 1972 Democrats were able to praise Nixon for going to China, but the reaction to Trump’s summit in Singapore shows how far, or not, we’ve come since then, says Joe Lauria.
The madman theory of policy is a debatable subject, but the thought of having actual madmen in positions of power is frightening.
Early in Richard Nixon’s presidency, he told his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, that his secret strategy for ending the Vietnam War was to threaten the use of nuclear weapons. Nixon opined that President Eisenhower’s nuclear threats in 1953 brought a quick end to the Korean War, and that he planned to use the same principle of
While the Watergate Hotel break-in is what ultimately brought down the Nixon administration, Ellsberg says a burglary at his psychoanalyst’s office ordered by the president helped hasten its demise.
MINNEAPOLIS --- MintPress News is proud to host “Lied to Death,” a 13-part audio conversation between famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and social justice activist Arn Menconi. Menconi wrote that these interviews are a “mixture of historical, political science and
‘There was pressure to make the war larger’ and ‘nuclear targets were picked’ by the Nixon administration, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower revealed.
MINNEAPOLIS --- MintPress News is proud to host “Lied to Death,” a 13-part audio conversation between famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and social justice activist Arn Menconi. Menconi wrote that these interviews are a “mixture of historical, political science and
On the 46th anniversary of the massacre, historians say that internal documents reveal presidential interference with war-crime prosecution.
President Richard Nixon may have been personally behind an attempt to cover up the brutal killing of over 500 Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers in the South Vietnam village of My Lai in 1968, according to historians who spoke with CBS
With more than a billion dollars spent by each of the major candidates for president in 2012, it must be asked if donors of such large amounts see their contributions as an investment rather than a donation.
In the 2012 general elections, $57,898,751.39 in “dark money” -- money from groups that do not disclose their donors or are forced to disclose their race spending until 60 days of an election -- went to fund a dozen high-profile House races, as calculated
Chileans are still dealing with the aftermath of a CIA-backed coup launched decades ago.
Not everyone knows the name Victor Jara; but for students of rock ‘n’ roll history, Jara’s story -- which has been profiled in Rolling Stone’s “15 Rock & Roll Rebels” -- illustrates the humanity and conscious weight of
