The current issue of Foreign Affairs (July/August 2014) contains an article about the 1960-1961 crisis in the Congo. Its key point is as follows: The root of the CIA’s intervention in Congo was an overhyped analysis of the communist threat.
There have been suggestions among some in the media that the Haqqani Network (who were the terrorists Bowe Bergdahl was with) is somehow a separate entity from the Taliban. Al Qaeda is not even being mentioned in this regard, which
Alexis Tsipras, leader of The Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza) Party, is reported by Greek media to have “lambasted western policy on Ukraine and expressed support for separatist referendums in the Ukraine during an official visit to Moscow, upon the
“On [Jimmy Carter’s] watch, Fidel Castro was on the march in Africa and fueling potent Marxist revolutionary groups throughout Central America. El Salvador and Honduras were under siege. Grenada actually went Communist in 1979. Nicaragua was taken over by Marxist
In March of 2014, I did what my left-wing foes always challenged me to do–I traveled to a Communist country to see “real existing socialism” for myself. My two weeks in Cuba, traveling the countryside and staying in working-class Cuban
Former KGB chairman and Soviet dictator Yuri Andropov was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s mentor. As the great historian Anne Applebaum wrote in 2012: [Putin] initiated a minor cult of Yuri Andropov, the longest-serving KGB boss in Soviet history (1967-1982), as well as
In June 2008, Senator Chuck Schumer penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal stating that, in order to enlist Russia’s help in shutting down Iran’s nuclear program, the United States should appease Vladimir Putin in his designs on Eastern Europe.
In his book Disinformation, Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet Bloc official ever to defect to the United States, describes the Soviet intelligence practice called “framing” – changing someone’s or something’s past to suit present political needs. The Soviets perfected this
Amidst an uprising raging in all but two provinces of Ukraine, dissidents inside and outside the beleaguered nation are pushing an effort to immortalize the crimes they suffered at the hands of Communism, leading Ukrainian-American scholars working with the dissidents
A newly discovered audio tape of a June 3, 1964 speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at Arizona State University, reveals the work he had to do to overcome the Democratic Party’s filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act led
The headlines coming out of New York’s education milieu over the weekend were variations of “NY teachers’ union withdraws support for Common Core.” As the Washington Post reports: The Board of Directors of the New York State United Teachers, a
Last year, the depth of frustration with New York’s Common Core burst into the public when parents and teachers confronted State Education Commissioner John King in Poughkeepsie, NY, with their concerns and difficulties. Nobody is happy about it – not the
Republished from FrontPageMag.com. In her memoir of her childhood, Prague Winter, Madeleine Albright describes what it was like to witness the death of democracy in her native Czechoslovakia. She details how the enemies of democracy were able to elect a
“Never trust anyone over thirty” was a slogan of the 1960s New Left. The movement’s members may now be in their 70s, but many of them never really grew up. Now, one of those who did become an adult, David
Bill de Blasio is not the only red coming to power in New York City. He will also be joined by a “progressive” majority City Council. Here is a sampling of three of those he will be working with: —Melissa Mark-Viverito, top
Fifty years ago, the nation stood in stunned silence as they learned that the President had been killed in Dallas, Texas. The shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, was a Communist. Over the years hundreds-of-thousands of stories have been thrown against the
At an event attended by a Breitbart News reporter on September 29, Nobel laureate and Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel announced strong opposition to President Obama’s overtures to the Islamist regime of Iran. The Jewish newspaper The Algemeiner reported Wiesel said he has spoken
The August 2013 edition of Australia’s The Monthly has a piece by Robert Manne which attempts to prove that influential Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett was a paid KGB agent. His method is simple: take the KGB document that says so–smuggled
In 2011, the popular German modal Jordan Carver was asked what kind of beer would be served at a realistic Oktoberfest party. “If you want to be authentic,” she said “you need to know that the beer served during the
In the October 1981 issue of the American Historical Review, Allen Goodman of Georgetown University recounted asking former Comintern member Bertram Wolfe about Ho Chi Minh, whom he had spent three months with touring the Soviet Union as part of
When people say that Detroit’s bankruptcy is the offspring of the Left, they are more right than they know. Within the archives of the Communist Party USA at NYU is the transcript of a 1988 interview conducted with Howard Johnson,
On May 1st, at Union Sqare in New York, the organizers of Occupy had set up a stage for their invited speakers to address the assembled gaggle of malcontents and totalitarians known as “Occupy”. I saw the flags of Red
The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars recently published a document called “Excerpts from a record of a meeting between Soviet journalist, Victor Louis, and General Director of the Prime Minister’s Office,
The boss has put together an extraordinary rundown of Obama administration leaks showing a trend that is sabotaging Israel’s ability to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities. The trend is quite revealing because, as Richard Helms, former director of central intelligence, once explained to Michael
Before Mitt Romney further commits to raising the minimum wage, he should take a trip back in time and across the ocean to witness what it can do to a society. David R. Henderson, “formerly a senior economist on President
