Nearly three decades after the fall of Suharto, human rights organizations describe Indonesia as a state undergoing democratic backsliding, accompanied by pressure on protesters and journalists and by an expanding military role in civilian affairs.
In 1948, a US-sponsored dictatorship in South Korea launched a brutal campaign of repression on the island of Jeju. Having killed up to 30,000 people — one islander in ten — Washington’s Korean clients covered up the evidence of the crime for decades
The Iran War exposes how a new global catastrophe may unfold. The Iran war contains echoes of not only the Suez Moment, but of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Besides signaling to the world that US hegemony is on a downhill slide
Cold War Puerto Rico by Steve Howell argues that Washington has long treated the island as giant aircraft carrier. The result has been severe: residents face economic strain while lacking many democratic rights and social protections.
This new book survey's the life and work of President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor and foreign policy strategist.
Trumpism is only Bidenism carried to its logical conclusion. Joe Biden was in many ways heir to the militaristic liberalism of Wilson and Truman—especially visible in his efforts to revive the military Keynesianism of the Cold War.
Trump’s effort to end US foreign aid throws out a lot of babies with the bathwater. During the Cold War, the US waged a war of ideas with the Soviet Union to capture the hearts and minds of the world. Foreign aid also boosted US businesses.
In 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and the US conspired to oust Lumumba and impose Mobutu’s kleptocratic dictatorship on the Congolese people.
This is a poignant tale of remembering parents in trouble, careers dashed and of steady FBI harassment. The end is not happy, except that the boy survives and makes his own life as an admired cultural commentator on radio.
A newly released classified document shows that the National Security Agency knew Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy—and that the government executed her anyway.
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