Category: History
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The Defense of Saudi Arabia is Vital to the Defense of the United States
FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES: DIPLOMATIC PAPERS, 1943, THE NEAR EAST AND AFRICA, VOLUME IV Letter by President Roosevelt to the Lend-Lease Administrator (Stettinius) Washington, February 18, 1943. “My Dear Mr. Stettinius: For purposes of implementing the authority conferred upon you as Lend-Lease Administrator by Executive Order No. 8926, dated October 28, 1941, and in order to enable…
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Kissinger: “Latin America is not important”
In his the The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, Seymour Hersh gives a very interesting story of Henry Kissinger and a Chilean diplomat. Page 263: Any doubts in the Frei government about its standing in the White House we removed after an unusual face-to-face confrontation between Nixon and Gabriel Valdés, Frei’s…
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How May Day Is Celebrated in the U.S.
May Day, or International Workers’ Day, is a worker’s holiday throughout the world that originated in response to the judicial murder of several anarchists after the Haymarket affair of May 1886, in a campaign of international solidarity with U.S. workers struggling for an eight-hour workday. Of course, the U.S., tries their very to suppress this…
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Biden: “The United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region”
Senator Joe Biden speaks during debate over a vote to override Presidential veto of arms sales to Saudi Arabia in 1986: “…If we look at the Middle East, I think it’s about time we stop, those of us who support, as most of us do, Israel in this body, for apologizing for our support for…
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CIA Memo on “Communist Control of Greece”
A few years ago, I wrote an article titled: The Cruelty Behind the Truman Doctrine. I’d like to revisit this Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12,…
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The Truth about the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID)
Occasionally, public officials reveal to the world the truth regarding U.S. foreign policy. This is a statement by Frank M. Coffin, Deputy Administrator, Agency for International Development (AID), outlining the objectives of the AID program. I. Objectives of the Aid Program Our basic, broadest goal is a long-range political one. It it not development for…
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Carter on Vietnam: “The Destruction Was Mutual”
The President’s News Conference, March 24, 1977 Ed Bradley [CBS News]: Q. Mr. President, on the subject of Vietnam, if you feel the United States is not obligated to uphold the terms of the Paris Peace Accords because of the North Vietnamese offensive that overthrew the South Vietnamese Government, do you feel, on the other…
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The Battle for Iran – CIA History
The CIA routinely prepares histories of important operations for use by future operatives. Let’s take a quick look at the CIA’s The Battle for Iran, author’s name excised, undated (c. mid-1970s) Though no date is given, judging from citations in the footnotes The Battle for Iran was written in or after 1974. It is marked “Administrative –…