More than 100,000 Cold War-era M14 rifles will be sold to the public early next year by the federally approved distribution program.
Remembering Vito Marcantonio, before the DSA panic sets in. The post You Want a Real Commie? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics You Want a Real Commie? Remembering Vito Marcantonio, before the DSA panic sets in. Fox World is all a-twitter because a handful of members or fellow travelers of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are about to be elected to the U.S. Congress and various state legislatures. They’re “godless communists,” according to President Trump, and what with inflation, an insane war, and Trump family grift, we’ll be hearing about commies all election season. Michael “The Other America” Harrington, founder of DSA, was about as threatening as the Mills Brothers. The current DSA candidates seem, at first glance, as…Open
Instead of scrapping its network of bomb shelters after the Cold War, Switzerland kept building them. The country has more than 370,000 nuclear bomb shelters. Some are now used to house migrants.
In the latest example, the Energy Department will convert a shuttered Cold War-era uranium enrichment facility into a data center campus and gas plants.
In Latin America, the White House abandons its own strategic doctrine for democracy promotion. The post Marco Rubio’s “Democratic Hemisphere” vs. the National Security Strategy appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Marco Rubio’s “Democratic Hemisphere” vs. the National Security Strategy In Latin America, the White House abandons its own strategic doctrine for democracy promotion. Photo by YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images Earlier this month, Daniel Ortega, the dictator of Nicaragua, announced that his country would no longer hold elections. In response, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement condemning Ortega and declaring that Nicaragua “cannot expect to maintain business as usual with other nations when it is thwarting the basic tenets of our democratic hemisphere.” There is no doubt that…Open
Ambassador R. James “Jim” Woolsey, who died on July 21, 2026, at the age of...
Ambassador R. James “Jim” Woolsey, who died on July 21, 2026, at the age of 84, embodied a vanishing ideal in American public life: the serious, non-partisan public servant who treated national security as a duty rather than a career ladder. Across four decades and administrations of both parties, he brought rigorous intellect, moral seriousness, and quiet courage to some of the hardest problems the United States has faced. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1941, Woolsey was a Rhodes Scholar who moved early into the national-security arena. He served as an advisor on the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, General Counsel to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Under Secretary of the Navy under President Carter, and…Open
Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, who led American intelligence through the turbulent early post-Cold War years and spent decades arguing that the collapse of the Soviet Union had made the world more dangerous, not less, died Tuesday at his home in Washington, D.C. Woolsey suffered a fatal stroke, his wife Conchita Sarnoff Woolsey told […] The post R. James Woolsey, former CIA director who warned of post-Cold War threats, dies at 84 appeared first on American Almanac .
Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, who led American intelligence through the turbulent early post-Cold War years and spent decades arguing that the collapse of the Soviet Union had made the world more dangerous, not less, died Tuesday at his home in Washington, D.C. Woolsey suffered a fatal stroke, his wife Conchita Sarnoff Woolsey told The Washington Post . She also said his health had been declining from the effects of Havana syndrome, the mysterious condition that has afflicted dozens of U.S. intelligence and diplomatic personnel. He was 84. His death closes a chapter in American intelligence history that began when the Cold War ended and the country struggled to figure out what came next. Woolsey had an answer from the start, and…Open
Photo Credit:Franz Krüger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Lars Møller The Myth of Carefree Communism: Why some long for the imagined “freedom from worry” of the defunct GDR.
Can you control a human being? MKUltra, a top-secret CIA program born in the Cold War, is back in the spotlight — and this time, it’s Congress leading the conversation. The House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets recently held a hearing titled “Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the Truth of the CIA’s MKULTRA Project” to get answers about the era of human experimentation. In this episode of "The Truth of the Matter," Hena Doba sits down with Rick de la Torre, a retired CIA senior operations officer, to dive into this government program still clouded in secrecy. They dig into what MKUltra was designed to do, what it became and if a program like this could be replicated today.…