Why Were We in Vietnam? (Published 2012)
During the Casablanca conference in January 1943, Franklin Roosevelt spoke bitterly to his son about European imperialism: “Don’t think for a moment, Elliott, that Americans would be dying in the Pacific tonight if it hadn’t been for the shortsighted greed of the French and the British and the Dutch.” Earlier, he had spoken openly to the White House correspondents: “There has never been, there isn
Matt Taibbi on Hunter S. Thompson and the 1972 Campaign
Following is an excerpt from Matt Taibbi’s introduction to the 40th anniversary edition of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, out now from Simon & Schuster. I doubt any book means more to a single professional sect than Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 means to American political journalists. It’s been read and reread by practically every living reporter i
How Gil Scott-Heron and Stevie Wonder set up Martin Luther King Day
Memphis, Tennessee was only 90 miles west of Jackson, my childhood home. But Memphis was as far away as the north pole in my mind. The history that we were given about it was done in light pencil that hopscotched its way to a semi-solid landing with Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show. Sun Records considered itself the fuse that lit the 1950s with Elvis and rock'n'roll. With Carla and Rufus Thom
Blue Ivy Pet Sunny Obama and Somehow the World Did Not Implode From Cuteness Overload
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How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory
Haki Mohammed and his brothers were shovelling manure on their farm in Yusifiyah in the spring of 2003 when the soldier arrived. Dishevelled and distressed, the man had run a great distance. "Please," he entreated, "are you true Arabs?" The Iraqis, raised in a culture of obligatory hospitality towards needy strangers, immediately understood the subtext. The man needed help. Even had he not been a
Karzai was 'diagnosed with manic depression', new book on war claims
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