CIA

1972-1974: Watergate

Steven. — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:30:49 +0000

A subsequent Senate investigation revealed a cover-up of monumental proportions reaching the highest levels of government and big business. Nixon was scapegoated and resigned, but the system was left intact

Background

1958-1990: Operation Gladio, Italy

Steven. — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:21:15 +0000

Following the end of World War II, the Italian workers’ movement was rapidly gaining strength. In some towns the fascists had been kicked out by Resistance forces (as before the war, these were usually led by socialists and anarchists), and embryonic workers’ councils were governing.

1950-today: Corporate and state intervention in the arts

Steven. — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:07:02 +0000

The Cultural Cold War

1989-today: The War on Drugs

Steven. — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:45:14 +0000

The war on (certain) drugs

1986: The Iran-Contra Affair

Steven. — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:57:55 +0000

The major elements of the Iran/contra story were well known long before the 1986 exposures, apart from one fact: that the sale of arms to Iran via Israel and the illegal contra war run out of Colonel Oliver North's White House office were connected.

1970-1987: The contra war in Nicaragua

Steven. — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:40:05 +0000

It wasn't just the events in El Salvador that were ignored by the mainstream US media during the 1970s. In the ten years prior to the overthrow of the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, US television - all networks - devoted exactly one hour to Nicaragua, and that was entirely on the Managua earthquake of 1972.

1944-1989: The coup and US intervention in Guatemala

Steven. — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:48:23 +0000

Making Guatemala a killing field