8/27 Ghosts in the Machine, click here. Merle Haggard song, click here.
8/29 For a redacted document, click here. For a video on Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, click here. For video of Hillary Clinton on Muammar Gaddafi's death, click here. For 1933 speech by Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, click here.
9/3 For the video of Eisenhower's Farewell Address (from 6:50-10:50), click here.
9/4 In class, I referenced this article, on insider stock trading and CIA covert operations. Here is the full text of the article for those interested, click here. Don't be intimidated by the math, just skip it.
9/12 Poll on Ukraine war, click here. Cold War era movies about nuclear war: On the Beach, 1959 (1:56 minutes); Fail Safe, 1963; Dr. Strangelove, 1963; The Day After, 1983 (43:30). And the folk song about nuclear war, "We Will All Go Together When We Go," 1959.
9/17 For key dates of the Cold War, click here. Cold War map of Eastern Europe, click here. For a 1997 video from CBS' 60 Minutes, click here. For a video on Zelensky in Canada, click here.
10/1 For a map on 1947 Palestine partition plan, click here. For map of Israel and Occupied Territories after the 1967 war, click here. On US aid to Israel, click here. For articles on the New Israeli Historians, click here, here, and here.
10/8 For a video on Paul Krugman, click here.
10/10 Cuba timeline, click here. For a redacted document, click here.
10/22 Map of the Congo, click here.
10/24 For those who want more information on the CIA as disseminator of disinformation, note the following:
John M. Crewdson and Joseph B. Treaster, "CIA Established Many Links to Journalists in US and Abroad," New York Times, December 27, 1977, click here.
John M. Crewdson and Joseph B. Treaster, "Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the CIA," New York Times, December 26, 1977, click here.
Nicholas M. Horrock, "CIA Infiltration of Press Overseas Viewed as Influencing News Received by Americans," New York Times, February 9, 1976, click here.
John M. Crewdson and Joseph B. Treaster, "The CIA's 3-Decade Effort to Mold the World's Views," New York Times, December 25, 1977, click here.
11/5 For a video on antiwar music, click here. For Merle Haggard, click here. For Barry Sadler, click here. Ellsberg on Hearts and Minds, click here (minute 117).
11/19 For a scene from The Godfather, Part 1, click here. For a scene from The Godfather, Part 2, click here.
11/21 For an interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski on Afghanistan, click here.
12/3 Link to video on propaganda pertaining to the First Gulf War, click here. For a link to a documentary on war propaganda by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, click here. For a fictionalized version of this episode, click here.
12/10 GWU documents on NATO/Russia, click here. For a video regarding the 2008 war in Georgia, click here. For a map of Ukraine, click here. For a map of NATO expansion, click here. Yanks to the Rescue, click here. On Nordstream, click here.
