August 19, 2015
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National Security Archive: The Kissinger Telcons: New Documents Throw Light on Sensitive Ford and Kissinger Views
The 905 telcons released in full contain highest-level verbatim conversations between Kissinger and a wide range of officials and journalists about the evacuation of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War, the crisis in Cyprus, Middle East negotiations, revelations of CIA misdeeds, Ronald Reagan’s challenge to Ford in the 1976 primaries, and other topics,… Continue reading
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The world’s shame: America expects a ‘cascading series of global crises’ & plans to increase drone flights in 90 ‘combat air patrols’ each day
The Pentagon plan grows the capacity for expanding surveillance and lethal airstrikes, the most controversial part of the U.S. drone program, with its rapid growth under President Barack Obama – killing 3,000 people or more as estimated by non-partisan groups. Continue reading