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Bernie Sanders’s candidacy has been set back by strong black support for Hillary Clinton. One reason is that the black community has never really heard the full story of Sanders’s civil rights commitment — or been given a chance to fully compare his record against Clinton’s. That’s by design.
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Activist Rebecca Gordon argues that it’s time to bring to justice those in the US government responsible for war crimes, such as Abu Ghraib.
It’s the fifth anniversary of the raid that purportedly removed Osama bin Laden from the face of the earth. But a close look suggests it’s more complicated.
In the 1950s and 60s, at the height of the Cold War, the CIA cornered the market on the world’s LSD supply. In this podcast, get a firsthand account from a man who was there.
In this podcast with radio host Peter Boyles, WhoWhatWhy founder and editor-in-chief Russ Baker discusses the suppressed 28 pages of the Congressional 9/11 Inquiry Report, which leads to the question: Who is really in charge of this country?
The CIA inadvertently created a monster — al-Qaeda — with black ops fueled by drugs to arm Afghans against the Soviets. This covert policy is the largest single cause of the illicit drugs flooding the world today.
A documentary about some surprising people in our midst.
Mark Lane, the store-front lawyer, freedom-rider, and prolific author, who took the CIA to court and won, talks about a number of subjects, including his lifelong crusade to get the word out on who really killed John F. Kennedy.
We revisit past coverage in ‘Hiroshima Series, Part II,’ as Greg Mitchell documents how film crews capturing the devastation had their work classified from public consumption.
At a secret meeting at Harvard last month, 150 scientists discussed what it would take to create a synthetic human genome — a key step in a controversial initiative.