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Cuban Espionage — The Saga of Florentino Aspillaga and the Assassination of JFK

In the book, Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine (2012), author Brian Latell, a professor, scholar, and retired CIA officer who had been active in foreign intelligence for 35 years, relies extensively on information provided by half a dozen Cuban defectors and several retired CIA officers. However, the most intriguing and reliable revelations […]

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Young Stalin — from Georgia Bandit to Red Tsar!

Young Stalin by Simon Montefiore is a well-researched, well-written, absorbing, and authoritative biography of Joseph Stalin’s early years. Following the usual formalities, the book begins with a tantalizing “Prologue,” the audacious robbery and bloody bombing at the festive Yerevan Square in the center of the town of Tiflis (now Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia). The

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The Jewish Doctors’ Plot — The Aborted Holocaust in Stalin’s Russia!

Stalin’s Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953 by Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P. Naumov is an in-depth study in psychological survival in a nightmarish police state — Stalin’s Russia, circa 1948-1953. The untangling of this Gordian knot of conspiracies and plots is the convincing achievement of the authors of this suspenseful, historical

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The Political Spectrum (Part III) — The Extreme Right: Anarchism

Note: The article below written years ago served as a springboard for an Appendix on Anarchism in Dr. Faria’s book, Contrasting Ideals and Ends in the American and French Revolutions published in December 2024 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The article was fully expanded, revised, and updated for the chapter in that

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