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Mr Intergalactic Keyboard

A few years back I read this book, Raven Rock, by Garrett Graff. I can’t recommend it enough. It covers the history of the Cold War and the defense strategies to protect political leadership in the event of a nuclear attack. So many fascinating details and stories. One of the things that really surprised me was how many US presidents said they wouldn’t leave the Oval Office. Eventually the strategies baked this in. Another fascinating detail was that JFK ran on a platform that promoted building more nukes, but once he became president he learned that America already had 10x more nukes than Russia. #BookReview #uspol #coldwar

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Switzerland has more bunkers per capita than anywhere else in the world — in the event of a crisis, every resident of the country would be guaranteed shelter space. The Dial takes a look at the origins of the bunker-building policy, what the underground shelters provide, and how they're used during peacetime — as wine cellars, saunas and even, in the case of large "command posts," as overflow housing for refugees.

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#Switzerland #Culture #ColdWar #History @histodons #EmergencyPreparedness #Prepping

The DialWhy Does Switzerland Have So Many Bunkers? — The DialInside the underground civilian shelters.
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kriykat

Patrick Lawrence: Exploding Gas Pipelines
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The Europeans successfully resisted the American imperium’s impositions during the late Cold War years. They would not dream of any such effort now. This is the second in a series of articles on Germany. Read the first one here. By…
#Politics #Commentary #Economy #Germany #Russia #ColdWar #DirkPohlmann #EnricoMattei #EnteNazionaleIdrocarburi(eni) #FerdinandFreiligrath #GordonCraig #ImmanuelKant #KonradAdenauer #OttoVonBismarck #PatrickLawrence #ThomasReed

Consortium News · Patrick Lawrence: Exploding Gas PipelinesThe Europeans successfully resisted the American imperium’s impositions during the late Cold War years. They would not dream of any such effort now. This is the second in a series of articles on Germany. Read the first one here. By Patrick Lawrence in Potsdam, Germany ScheerPos
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thkampen

New #history #books
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Ausstellen in Publikationen. Zum Wandel des Öffentlichwerdens von #Kunst in den60er Jahren 978-3-88960-240-4
Building a White #Nation. #Propaganda, #Photography, and the #Apartheid Regime Between the Late 1940s and the Mid-1970s 978-94-6270-380-3
Der vergessene Widerstand.t, 978-3-406-83030-3
Macht im Umbruch. Deutschlands Rolle in #Europa 978-3-7371-0215-5
The World Is Our #Stage. The Global Rhetorical #Presidency and the #ColdWar 978-0-2268-2365-2

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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger.

For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #cia #mindcontrol #torture #lsd #mkultra #castro #nazis #oss #allenginsberg #lumumba #malcolmx #coltrane #jazz #imperialism #kenkesey #margaretmead #charlesmanson #mescaline #castro #soviet #coldwar #books #nonfiction #ussr #communism #film #documentary @bookstadon

Sidney Gottlieb approved of an MKUltra sub-project on LSD in this June 9, 1953, letter. By Dr. Sidney Gottlieb's approval of an w:en:MKULTRA subproject on LSD. - Transwiki approved by: w:en:User:Dmcdevit, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2699307
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