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“Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map”, US Nuclear Attack against USSR Planned During World War II

August 5, 2020 History

First published November 4, 2017. Revisions to the English Text, December 10, 2017 Author’s Note Since this article was first published in 2017, YouTube has decided to Censor the short…

The Sordid History of Scam Science Panics

August 1, 2020 History

I went with scam science in the title partly because of the alliteration but mostly because Steve Milloy already claimed junk science. His Junk Science Judo (and website), Julian Simon’s&nbs…

How a Police Spy’s Stunning Testimony Threatens the Official US-Israeli AMIA Bombing Narrative

July 31, 2020 History

Revelations by a former police spy upend the official story blaming Iran for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, and suggest a cover-up by dirty war elements may have let th…

Presumptuous Pompeo Pushes Preposterous ‘Peking’ Policy

July 29, 2020 History

Quick. Somebody tell Mike Pompeo. The secretary of state is not supposed to play the role of court jester — the laughing stock to the world. There was no sign that any of those listening to his “major…

Commemorating US Occupation of Haiti

July 29, 2020 History

While remembering their past has not prevented history from repeating itself, it is not possible for the descendants of the world’s first successful large-scale slave revolt to forget the trauma infli…

A Few Historical Frauds: Einstein, Bell & Edison, Coca-Cola and the Wright Brothers

July 18, 2020 History

There are only two nations in the world whose existence seems to be founded primarily on historical myths. In the US, false historical mythology permeates every nook and cranny of the American psyche,…

Woodrow Wilson’s Racism & His Support For Zionism

July 17, 2020 History

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was born in Staunton, Virginia, to Christian fundamentalist parents — his father was a Presbyterian minister — who supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. Thus, Wils…

Shield of the Union: How the Russian Navy Protected America in the Civil War

July 10, 2020 History

Strange things happen in civil wars: During the Russian Civil War in 1919, 13,000 U.S. troops were dispatched by President Woodrow Wilson to occupy the cities of Archangelsk in the Arctic and Vladivos…