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An interview with the author of ‘Blue-Collar Empire,’ a forthcoming book that uncovers the AFL-CIO’s Cold War-era involvement in undermining left-wing and anti-imperialist labor movements abroad.
Along with the United States, Israel provided weapons and training to Guatemala’s military and their campaign against Indigenous Maya civilians from 1974-1996. Israel was a war machine on its own, searching for arms markets and anxious for allies.
British law prohibits extradition to a country that may impose capital punishment. The indictment would punish conduct that national security journalists routinely engage in; no publisher has ever been prosecuted for disclosing government secrets....
Donald Trump has pledged to revive an executive order known as Schedule F that would give him the power, if re-elected president, to strip employment protections from tens of thousands of government civil servants, a step toward autocracy.
Peter Kornbluh, William Burr and Tom Blanton (eds)
National Security Archive
The historical record documents the darker side of Kissinger’s controversial tenure in power: his role in the overthrow of democracy and the rise of dictatorship in Chile; disdain for human rights; support for dirty, and even genocidal, wars abroad..
A snub from the White House, a controversial stay at Blair House, an encounter with Dave Chappelle’s mother and a CIA-arranged tryst — what happened when Congo’s beleaguered leader visited D.C. in 1960.
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