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http://www.esquire.com/features/ak-47-history-1110 It is perhaps the most potent question to echo from the cold war: Who lost Vietnam? Well, there were certainly many factors, but an important new book forces us to consider this: For the first time in human history, a poorly trained peasant army humbled a great power with the gun its fighters carried in their hands. This is the story of that gun, and of the scandalous way that Washington responded to it. An exclusive adaptation. Adapted from C.J.
The Gun - Esquire
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[2012] Haunting MoMA: The Forgotten Story of ‘Degenerate’ Dealer Alfred Flechtheim | Gallerist NY
The Twin Towers Fall | 9/11
La gauche américaine a oublié ses victoires, par Alexander Cockburn (Le Monde diplomatique)
Sortie exsangue des persécutions maccarthystes des années 1950, la gauche progressiste et radicale américaine a d’abord connu une renaissance spectaculaire. Le 1er février 1960, enfreignant le règlement intérieur stipulant que les Noirs devaient manger debout, quatre étudiants du lycée agricole et technique de Caroline du Nord s’assoient à la cafétéria du magasin Woolworth de Greensboro. Le lendemain, ils sont vingt-cinq. Deux jours plus tard, quatre étudiantes blanches les rejoignent. Peu après, le mouvement s’étend à quinze villes, dans neuf Etats du sud des Etats-Unis. Le 25 juillet, après avoir essuyé 200 000 dollars de pertes, le magasin (succursale d’une chaîne nationale) renonce officiellement à sa réglementation ségrégationniste.Pecora: “Well, now, if this memorandum was discussed there was nothing in it, was there, that encouraged the officers in floating this loan?” Baker [defeated]: “Certainly not at that particular time.” Despite the fears of City’s own agents in New York and Peru that the securities were likely to be virtually worthless, the bank ignored the warnings and sold the Peruvian bonds to customers for $90 million before their value collapsed. Undeterred, Mitchell soon moved on to equally risky Brazilian, Cuban, and Chilean bonds—a practice similar to the heedless way in which mortgage markets ignored the risks of moving into shaky real estate properties in the years leading up to the 2008 collapse. By the end of 1927, City had pushed its stock price up to almost $3,000 a share.
When Washington Took On Wall Street | Business | Vanity Fair
Mark Twain’s Unexpurgated Autobiography - NYTimes.com
Whether anguishing over American military interventions abroad or delivering jabs at Wall Street tycoons, this Twain is strikingly contemporary. Though the autobiography also contains its share of homespun tales, some of its observations about American life are so acerbic — at one point Twain refers to American soldiers as “uniformed assassins” — that his heirs and editors, as well as the writer himself, feared they would damage his reputation if not withheld. “From the first, second, third and fourth editions all sound and sane expressions of opinion must be left out,” Twain instructed them in 1906.
Invading Canada won't be like invading Iraq: When we invade Canada, nobody will be able to grumble that we didn't have a plan. The United States government does have a plan to invade Canada. It's a 94-page document called "Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan -- Red," with the word SECRET stamped on the cover. It's a bold plan, a bodacious plan, a step-by-step plan to invade, seize and annex our neighbor to the north.
[2005] Raiding the Icebox
[1972] The Pentagon Papers Trial | The Atlantic
"The judge turned to the jury box. He reminded the jurors, twelve good and true, that the burden of proof lay with the People." By Vivian Gornick A new memoir by Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, warns that Presidents will do anything to avoid losing wars. By Jack BeattyPentagon Papers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A CIA map of dissident activities in Indochina published as part of the Pentagon papers The Pentagon Papers , officially titled United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense , is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States ' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of the New York Times in 1971. [ 1 ] A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers "demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration had systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress, about a subject of transcendent national interest and significance". [ 2 ] The report was declassified and publicly released in June 2011. [ edit ] Contents Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara created the Vietnam Study Task Force on June 17, 1967, for the purpose of writing an "encyclopedic history of the Vietnam War".
Operation Sabotage | The New Republic
Our efforts to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon seem to be in tatters. President Obama spent his first year in office trying to resolve the matter through détente. He offered negotiations, sent a conciliatory letter to Iran’s supreme leader, and was slow to publicly support the demonstrations that followed the June 2009 elections.
[2010] If you were Barack Obama, you'd hate the press, too. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
If White Houses repeat themselves, so do press columnists—especially me. This is the second time I've written about Deakin's book and published his prescient paragraph, the first time being just after the November 2008 election in a piece titled " The Coming Obama-Press War ." The press turns on new presidents not because they're a pack of rabid dogs—which they are—but because everybody turns on new presidents, especially his most ardent supporters, who always feel betrayed by their candidate.
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