‘On This Day’ 1997: Project for the New American Century Founded
The year was 1992. The Soviet Union was no more and America stood astride the world like a triumphant colossus, reveling in its Cold War..
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‘On This Day’ 1981: U.S. Government Reports First AIDS Cases; President Reagan Silent for Six Years as Tens of Thousands Die
AIDS, although not called such, had been around for decades by the time the US Centers for Disease Control first noted five gay men in Los..
Happy 70th Birthday to the Legendary Bob Dylan
Some call him the voice of one of the most..
‘On This Day’ 2000: Project S.H.A.D. Experiments Revealed– U.S. Military Intentionally Sprayed Deadly Chemical Weapons over Unwitting American Sailors
On May 12, 2000, the CBS Evening News revealed the existence of Project SHAD, a series of 1960s and 1970s US military experiments in which..
‘On This Day’ 1953: U.S. Begins Project MK-ULTRA Mind Control Experiments
It was the early 1950s. Anti-communist hysteria was at a fevered pitch; Senator McCarthy and his red witch hunt were at their ugly nadir...
‘On This Day’ 1948: Jewish Militias Massacre more than 100 Men, Women & Children in Palestinian Village of Deir Yassin
Whenever today’s Israelis rail against the barbarism of Palestinian terrorism, I have to laugh. For it was the fathers and..
‘On This Day’ 1967: Martin Luther King’s “A Time to Break Silence” Speech
Yes, I am fully aware that today, April 4, is the tragic day on which the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., one of the finest specimens of..
‘On This Day’ 1999: NATO’s War Against Serbia Begins
This story begins, believe it or not, in the howling wilderness of Afghanistan in 1989 as the Soviet invaders withdrew in defeat. The US..
‘On This Day’ 1980: The Assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero
(Note: Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated on March 24, 1980. I am posting this story today, as it is timely enough with President..
Obama Visits Tomb of Salvadoran Archbishop Assassinated by US-Trained, US-Armed, US-Backed Death Squad
US President Barack Obama paid a solemn visit to the tomb of slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero in San Salvador yesterday as he..
