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In which Drew Pearson tells Chairman Khrushchev that Americans are a “peculiar people”

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Matthew Lasar

I am finally getting around to the latest Kennedy Assassination files posted on the National Archives. These include a 1964 Central Intelligence Agency document in which some CIA informer summarized a conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Drew Pearson and Soviet … Continue reading →

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Edward Bellamy’s post-corporate utopia

Posted on December 25, 2017 by Matthew Lasar

Edward Bellamy had harsh words for Gilded Age capitalism. But he also shared the perspectives of some of corporate capitalism’s biggest boosters, then and now. Continue reading →

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Socialist Workers Party infiltration statistics, revisited

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Matthew Lasar

I am finally getting around to reading FBI on Trial: The victory in the Socialist Workers Party suit against government spying. The statistics on Federal Bureau of Investigation infiltration of the group are just amazing, even to jaundiced old me. … Continue reading →

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