Libyan Phantoms & Iranian Assassins: Greatest Hit Squads 1981-2011
If you’re feeling like you’re being taken for a ride with all this nonsense about Iranian-Narco-Mexican terror hit-squads infiltrating this great nation, read on… Last week, the curtains finally came...
View ArticleNovember 17: Why this day is so important for Greeks
Yesterday, November 17, was a big day for #Occupy protesters across America, resulting in hundreds of arrests. For Greece, November 17 has special meaning in the fight for democracy and freedom....
View ArticleKill Without Joy: Hit Man Praises Jack Ruby As “Strictly Pro”
I recently came across a book from the late 1970s called “Kill Without Joy: The Complete How To Kill Book” written apparently by a Canadian locksmith. The hard-boiled title belies the book’s dark...
View ArticleGreat Moments In Libertarian History: NAMBLA Spokesman Declares Himself...
Browsing through some old copies of the late, great Spy magazine, I found this interview with the former spokesman for the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), Joe Powers, in which he...
View ArticleRecovered History: 7,000 May Day Protesters Herded Into D.C. Stadium Prison...
The New York Times, 1971: “Traffic disrupters, your time is through!” Today’s May Day protests are the first May Day protests on such a large scale “in memory.” Not that Americans have a memory to...
View ArticleYves Smith: The Hidden History Of The Independence Day Holiday
This article is cross-posted from Naked Capitalism An article in the Boston Review by professor of sociology Claude Fischer falls prey to a pattern that is all too common: attributing social/political...
View ArticleHow Pussy Riot Troupe “Voina” Got The eXile Censored in 2008: The Lost Story
This story was first published in the defunct Radar magazine on March 7, 2008 How “liberal” is newly-anointed Russian President-elect Dmitry Medvedev, the one so many people are saying represents a...
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