bastard.logic (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
by matttbastard Journalist Tim Weiner discusses future President George H.W. Bush’s appointment to Director of Central Intelligence under Gerald Ford. Recommend this post at Progressive Bloggers
Just World News (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
... and anti-US actors in that struggle having tipped the balance in their favor.I've been reading Tim Weiner's excellent book "Legacy of Ashes" recently. It's a very well-sourced and intensely depressing history of the CIA. It reminds us that in earlier decades, in Syria, Iran, South Vietnam, Latin America, and elsewhere, the US government would frequently overthrow other governments, including...
About Literature: Contemporary (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Legacy of Ashes won the 2007 National Book Award for Nonfiction and is a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at...
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Mind Games By TIM WEINER Published: July 6, 2008 Courtesy Of The New York Times IT was a time of secrecy and fear. Fear of a strange enemy driven by an alien ideology, killing Americans abroad, threatening Americans at home. And it created a new terror. In the early 1950s, American troops were being killed and captured by the thousands in Korea. Panic spread that China’s Communists had learned...
Begging the Question (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner ( Amazon , B&N , Powell's ). Easily one of the best books I have ever read. This is a magisterial study of the CIA, from its birth in the WWII secret services to its post-September 11 demise as the intelligence agencies were melded together. Along the way, we learn of more failures than successes, but both are woven into America's post-war...
Exploring International Law (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Tim Weiner, the author of Legacy of Ashes, has a sobering commentary in today's New York Times. Discussing the historic use of brainwashing and other interrogation techniques, Wein
