HIDDEN HISTORY

The Lonesome Death of Frank Teruggi

One of the most memorable characters in the film "Missing" is Frank Teruggi, who was murdered by the Chilean military in the Santiago Stadium in the days after General Pinochet's coup on September 11, 1973. I just published a series of letters between Teruggi's father, a member of the Chicago Typographical Union, to AFL-CIO President George Meany seeking information about the death of his son. Who did Meany ask? Henry Kissinger, the man who helped plan the coup.

The Nagasaki Bomb and the Division of Korea

24 hours after Nagasaki, the U.S. divided Korea in half. Bruce Cumings, the leading historian of the Korean War, has called Truman's directive the “first act of containment." In fact, it was the opening salvo of a Cold War that would soon engulf Korea and the rest of Asia and, five years later, explode into another full-scale conflict.

Max Blumenthal’s Korea Scoop

Over at Harper’s yesterday, Washington journalist Max Blumenthal broke a major story about the Trump administration and North Korea. His scoop was buried in a typically gutsy story from Max about UN Ambassador (and major neocon) Nikki Haley and a speech she…

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