Everyone knows about Operation Northwoods, where the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, a…
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Nine Months Before Operation Northwoods, Government Leaders Suggested False Flag Terror in the Dominican Republic
February 19th, 2010 |
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Doris Kearns Goodwin On Rich History Of Mixing Politics And Drinking: “FDR During WWII Had A Cocktail Party Every Night” (VIDEO)
July 28th, 2009 |
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With the news confirmed that President Obama, Henry Louis Gates and Sgt. James Crowley will get together at the White House to have a beer, Ed Schultz invited noted presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on his show to discuss the history…
July 24, 1950: America Gets a Spaceport
July 24th, 2009 |
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1950: Cape Canaveral, Florida, launches its first rocket.
Cape Canaveral, a name that would become synonymous with the U.S. space program by the late ’50s, was just an obscure spit of land jutting into the Atlantic Ocean along Florida’s eastern shore when, in 1948, an Air Force committee recommended its procurement for a missile testing range.
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Jarvis Coffin: That’s the way it is (again).
July 21st, 2009 |
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When I heard that Walter Cronkite had died over the weekend I thought, get ready for all the “That’s the way it was” eulogies that…
Norman Solomon: Cronkite and Vietnam: Beyond the Hype
July 20th, 2009 |
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Despite the posthumous praise for Cronkite’s February 1968 telecast that dubbed the war “a stalemate,” the facts show that the broadcast came only after Cronkite’s protracted support for the war.
Will Bunch: Walter’s Choice –Cronkite’s Lesson for Today’s Journalists
July 20th, 2009 |
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I have to start with a confession — I did not grow up in a Walter Cronkite household. I’m not sure why — I was…
Michael Brenner: Obama and Health Care Reform: A Feckless Approach
July 18th, 2009 |
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Obama seems totally ignorant of the elementary truth that for a president to get what he wants from Congress, he has to wade in and twist arms.
Joseph A. Palermo: Walter Cronkite
July 18th, 2009 |
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Walter Cronkite spoke a language critical of U.S. policy in Vietnam that appealed to the middle class.
Greg Mitchell: Cronkite’s 1968 Dissent on Vietnam Helped Save Thousands of Lives
I probably missed the late Walter Cronkite’s most important TV news moment: his famous February 1968 commentary after returning from Vietnam in which he cast strong doubt on our mission there and its chances for success.