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The Masquerade Ball: Fall’s Ghosts and Our Political Farce

December 10, 2016 Edward Curtin

“They didn’t act like people and they didn’t act like actors. It’s hard to explain.”—J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the…

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The Wonder of the Uncanny

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“Shallow men believe in luck.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson As a sociologist, I teach college students to think logically, to make…

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Together Forever

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Your hand in mine, we walk up Yale Hill into the bright night. I am in my robber’s hat And…

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A review of Fernando Faura’s The Polka-Dot File: on the Robert F. Kennedy Killing

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There is a vast literature on the CIA-directed assassination of President John Kennedy.  Most Americans have long rejected the Warren…

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The First Freedom Act

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June 2, 2015 – Obama signs The USA Freedom Act “Liberty isn’t a thing you are given as a present….He…

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The Fiction of Non-fiction

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The following review was written more than two years ago. It is an analysis of the book in which Bill…

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The Façade of Humanitarian Intentions in Libya

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Review of Paolo Sensini’s book, Sowing Chaos: Libya in the Wake of Humanitarian Intervention It is rare for a historian…

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The Bloody Truth of the CIA’s Involvement in Indonesia and the Assassinations of JFK and Dag Hammarskjold – An Interview with Greg Poulgrain

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The truth about Indonesian history and the United States involvement in its ongoing tragedy is little known in the West. …

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The Incubus of Intervention: Conflicting Indonesian Strategies of John F. Kennedy and Allen Dulles – Review of Greg Poulgrain’s book

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“Would Allen Dulles have resorted to assassinating the President of the United States to ensure his ‘Indonesian strategy’ rather than…

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The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government

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  Review of David Talbot’s book This is a bold and profoundly important book, not only for the portrait of…

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