Encore: Iran Contra | American Coups
For decades, the U.S. has led covert campaigns abroad. These campaigns—spearheaded by the CIA, among others—have shaped the balance of power in the world. The U.S. has even helped topple foreign governments.
Europe is rebelling against American power
President Biden faces a test: What to do when one of our closest allies gets tighter with Russia?
Biden promises diplomacy but offers more militarism
The president has disappointed those who hoped he would begin extricating us from the Middle East.
Trump was right: Get out of Afghanistan
Biden should honor what looks like the best deal we’re ever going to get in that country.
Poisoner in Chief review by London Review of Books
It was during the fallout from Watergate that the American public first heard of MK-Ultra, the most notorious of the secret mind control programmes that the CIA ran through the 1950s and 1960s. After Nixon’s men were caught breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in June 1972, Richard Helms, then director of the CIA, refused to […]
