Tag Archives: JFK

Che’s Failed 9/11

Posted by Humberto Fontova Sep 18th 2011 at 10:00 am in Cuba, Culture/Art, History, Terrorism | Comments(19)

On the Friday after Thanksgiving 1962 Cuban agents planned to detonate 500 kilos of TNT inside Macy’s, Gimbel’s, Bloomingdale’s and Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal. Che Guevara was the head of Cuba’s “Foreign Liberation Department” at the time. On September 11th 2001, roughly 50,000 people worked at the World Trade Center. Macy’s alone gets roughly 50,000 shoppers [...]

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Tags: 1962, bloomingdale's, Carlos the Jackal, che guevara, Cuba, JFK, Khrushchev, Osama Bin Laden, ramirez-sachez

WaPo Reporter: JFK ‘The Flat-Out Absolute Worst U.S. President Of The 20th Century’

Posted by Sun Tzu Jul 19th 2011 at 9:46 am in Foreign Policy, History | Comments(96)

Tom Ricks is no conservative. He was a military reporter for the Washington Post and describes himself here as the grandson of Democratic Party politicians in Massachusetts. He has this to say about Camelot in Foreign Policy: “As I studied the Vietnam war over the last 14 months, I began to think that John F. Kennedy probably was [...]

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Tags: Bay of Pigs, Camelot, Cuban Missile Crisis, general maxwell taylor, JFK, kennedy, lbjk, Robert McNamara, vietnam

Failing To Learn The Lessons Of Vietnam, Obama Decides To Micro-Manage War In Afghanistan

Posted by AWR Hawkins Jun 23rd 2011 at 1:11 am in Afghanistan, Featured Story, Obama | Comments(48)

In November 1963, after President JFK’s life ended tragically in Dallas, Texas, his V.P., Lyndon Baines Johnson, became president. The Vietnam War was already under way, although it was still referred to as a conflict, for JFK had been sending “advisors” with machine guns there for nearly two years. Nine months after assuming the presidency, Johnson [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama, Gulf of Tonkin, JFK, Lyndon Baines Johnson

An Anniversary Of Heroism And Shame—The Bay Of Pigs At Fifty

Posted by Humberto Fontova Apr 13th 2011 at 1:59 pm in Communism, Cuba, Foreign Policy, Soldiers | Comments(33)

“They fought like tigers,” writes the CIA officer who helped train the Cubans who splashed ashore at the Bay of Pigs 50 years ago this week. “But their fight was doomed before the first man hit the beach.” That CIA man, Grayston Lynch, knew something about fighting – and about long odds. He carried scars from [...]

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Tags: Adm. Arleigh Burke, Bay of Pigs, che guevara, Col. Jack Hawkins, Fidel Castro, Grayston Lynch, JFK, Jose San Roman

Air Cover for Libyan Rebels, None for Cuban Freedom-Fighters

Posted by Humberto Fontova Mar 23rd 2011 at 4:49 am in Communism, Cuba, Foreign Policy, Politics, Soldiers, human rights | Comments(37)

“Where are the planes?” kept crackling over U.S. Navy radios 50 years ago. The U.S. Naval armada (22 ships including the Carrier Essex loaded with deadly Skyhawk jets) was sitting 16 miles off the Cuban coast near an inlet known as Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs). The question—bellowed between blasts from a Soviet artillery [...]

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Tags: Arleigh Burke, Bay of Pigs, Camelot, Castro, Felipe Rodon, Freedom Fighters, Gilberto Hernandez, Grayston Lynch, Guevara, JFK, Leo Barker, Pepe San Roman, Pete Ray, Riley Shamburger, Wade Grey

Big Dupes Presidents’ Day Special: Presidential Dupes and Non-Dupes

Posted by Sun Tzu Feb 21st 2011 at 7:51 am in Communism, Politics | Comments(16)

This is the most recent installment of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College, on his book revealing how communists, from Moscow to New York to Chicago, have long manipulated America’s liberals/progressives. Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century is based on an unprecedented [...]

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Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Bolsheviks, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Washington, Harry Truman, JFK, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Joseph Stalin, Ronald Reagan, Woodrow Wilson

The New Terrorism: A Nuclear Iran and Future Arms Control

Posted by Peter R. Huessy Jan 29th 2011 at 6:03 am in China, Iran, Media Criticism, Middle East, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, arms control/disarmament | Comments(3)

Now that new START has been ratified by the US Senate and is apparently close to ratification by the Russian government, it might be useful to ask “What is the Future of Nuclear Arms Control?” Most Americans would think that the two most urgent threats are nuclear weapons in the hands of the Pyongyang regime [...]

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Tags: Brazil, global zero, Japan, JFK, LBJ, N.Y. Times, NATO, New START Treaty, The Brookings Institution, turkey, Wall Street Journal, wwii

So Alone – JFK and the Unspeakable

Posted by D.L. Adams Dec 18th 2010 at 7:39 am in History | Comments(105)

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters by James W. Douglass Orbis Books, 2008 510 pages, with Appendix, Notes and Index. - One month before his trip to Dallas, President John F. Kennedy returned to Boston. Stealing away from a Harvard football game with just a few friends and no press contingent Kennedy visited the grave [...]

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Tags: American University speech, Assassination of Kennedy, Bay of Pigs, Castro, CIA, Cold War, Communism, Cuban Missile Crisis, Dealey Plaza, House Select Committee, Islam, Jack Ruby, JFK, jihad, John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, military/industrial complex, Multiculturalism, Ngo Dinh Diem, Nikita Khrushchev, nsam 263, nsam 273, Post-Modernism, Secret Service, Vietnam War, Warren Commission

Big Dupes at Big Peace: More Progressives for Obama

Posted by Sun Tzu Nov 7th 2010 at 8:59 am in Communism, History, Obama, Politics, Russia, education | Comments(44)

This is the latest in a weekly series of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania, who has just released a major book revealing how communists, from Moscow to New York to Chicago, have long manipulated America’s liberals/progressives. Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated [...]

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