How the CIA used jazz greats as cover for a 1961 coup in Africa
Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...
The purge has begun (in case no one has noticed)
Some of the early actions of the new Trump administration are very ominous.
‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ Director: Our World’s Problems Go Well Beyond Trump and the Republicans
Grimonprez is his own eclectic mix. A cultural theorist preoccupied with mass media and fear; a fast-talking professorial ...
Publishers Weekly2d
Behind the Book: Carmen Agra Deedy's 'The Peanut Man'
PW spoke with the bestselling author about her new picture book, which has received a starred review from PW, in which a young girl makes a deep connection with a peanut vendor in her native Cuba ...
Why Pepsi Once Had More Submarines Than Most Countries
An unusual agreement made during the Cold War led to Pepsi receiving many submarines as a penance for selling its popular, ...
CounterPunch5d
Trump’s New Cuba Policy: Bad for Cuba and Migrants
On his return to the presidency on January 20, Donald Trump rescinded his predecessor Joe Biden’s short-lived removal of Cuba from the State Sponsor of ...
Opinion
Free Malaysia Today5dOpinion
The case for abolishing nuclear weapons
Instead of insisting that such weapons are necessary to deter potential adversaries, members of the nuclear club should listen to the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks and their call for ...
France's Le Monde left without Moscow correspondent for first time since 1957
Russia said on Thursday it had refused to renew the accreditation of Le Monde's correspondent due to France's refusal to ...
Russia ejects Le Monde's Moscow correspondent in 'retaliatory' move
MOSCOW - Russia said on Thursday that it had withdrawn accreditation from Le Monde's Moscow correspondent Benjamin Quénelle due to Paris's refusal to issue a visa to a Russian reporter, leaving the ...