Given the official U.S. optimism over Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Barbara Koeppel concludes that Washington has not learned any lessons from failed wars in Vietnam, and later Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ahead of the G20 summit in New Delhi this weekend, M.K. Bhadrakumar says an event conceived in the world of yesterday, before the new cold war came roaring in, has lost significance.
If Julian Assange is extradited he will face prosecution under a severe espionage law with roots in the British Official Secrets Act that is part of a history of repression of press freedom, reports Joe Lauria.
Donald Trump is not being targeted for the misdemeanors and serious felonies he appears to have committed but for discrediting and undermining the entrenched power of the ruling duopoly.
Declassified files show that the U.K. Foreign Office’s propaganda unit glossed over Washington’s complicity in civilian bloodshed during its devastating war in Vietnam, John McEvoy reports.
With an eye on Brazil’s upcoming presidential election, Vijay Prashad considers the historical context for the slide toward militarization under Bolsonaro, 58 years ago today since the C.I.A.-organized military coup.
At an old gunpowder factory in Delaware — now a museum and archive — Benjamin Franta found a transcript of a petroleum conference from 1959 that included a speech by Edward Teller.
In part two of this multi-part series, Sen. Mike Gravel gets a mysterious phone call from someone saying he had the Pentagon Papers, which Gravel later agreed to accept just blocks from the White House.
When Israel launched a covert scheme to steal material and secrets to build a nuclear bomb, U.S. officials looked the other way and obstructed investigations, as described in a book reviewed by James DiEugenio.