Category: History

WATCH: Unspeakable Facts About JFK

James Douglass, author of JFK and the Unspeakable, recounts how Patrice Lumumba was assassinated just three days before J.F.K. took office, and where Fidel Castro was when he learned of the murder in Dallas.

Ignoring JFK’s Warning on Russia

A history of U.S. bullying — from a broken promise not to expand NATO to deceit over Minsk — shows that U.S. leaders since the Cold War’s end have ignored J.F.K.’s dire warning not to humiliate a nuclear power.

What Defeat Looks Like

As in Potsdam at the end of the Second World War, the only path forward now is working out the terms of Ukraine’s defeat. And there is still time to save lives, writes Stefan Moore.