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Showing posts with label Cold War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cold War. Show all posts
Saturday, May 7, 2016

Homefront: How WWII and the US Military Provided the First Spark for the Civil Rights Movement 3 / 3

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by Nomad In the previous installment in this series, we examined how the a progressive president's wife, a black workers' union a...
Friday, December 19, 2014

Why the Cuban Thaw Puts GOP in Danger of Losing Corporate Sponsors

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by Nomad Rejecting Obama's new policy for Cuba could be the biggest political blunder the Republican Party could make. In 2016, Amer...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

The Hunt For Vladimir Putin's Troll Nest

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by Nomad In Vladimir Putin's hometown of St. Petersburg, journalists uncovered one of the Russian leader's covert operations. Pai...
Monday, February 17, 2014

The Long Russian Winter of Vladimir Putin

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by Nomad Russian President Vladimir Putin may not be as popular as he once was. Of late his policies both internationally and domestical...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Before PRISM: The Curious History of the US World-Wide Surveillance Network- Part One

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by Nomad R ecently many people seemed altogether mortified, shocked and angry when whistle-blower Edward Snowden , former contract empl...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Inside Grover Norquist: The Jonas Savimbi Connection

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by Nomad The name, Grover Norquist, made a name for himself by crusading against taxes. Though he has never been elected to political ...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

American Dreams: My Father, Karl Marx and the Man who Sold the Rope 1/2

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by Nomad Let’s Begin With My Father M y father, born in 1929, grew up in the midst of the Great Depression, in what most peop...