Right before Thanksgiving in 1959 the United States was hit with a different kind of Red Scare. Primed for panic and paranoia by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s red baiting taunts, Americans reacted anxiously when told that the cranberries they expected to serve with their Thanksgiving turkeys might be contaminated by a chemical weed killer known to cause cancer in animals. What … [Read More...]
Featured Story
10 Cold War Books for Fall Reading
Are you as sick of Zoom as I am? If so, you might want to pick out a good read, grab a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, and decompress. Here are 10 recently … [Read More...]
Featured Story
The Blacklist on Broadway
Quietly and without fanfare, President Trump signed an executive order last week that, to me, is eerily reminiscent of the profiling that was common place during the … [Read More...]
Featured Story
CUBA IN A NUTSHELL: PART TWO (1959-2011)
The video below is the second in a two part series that takes you quickly through the last 50 or so years of Cuba’s political and economic history. Here are the salient points: By 1990, when the Russians were gone, things were really tough. It was … [Read More...]
CUBA IN A NUTSHELL: PART ONE 1959-1990)
I wrote this post for Cold War Magazine in 2016 when, for the first time in 88 years, an American president was visiting the island of Cuba. Now, Cuban Americans are in the news again because of their voting power in the upcoming 2020 presidential election, so … [Read More...]
CHINA and the US-SOVIET RIVALRY
As I think everyone knows, China played a major role in the US-Soviet rivalry during the Cold War, especially impacting the superpowers' presence in the Third World. And, it’s playing a major role today as this year’s American presidential election gets … [Read More...]
