Tag: Laos

  • Cocks Coming Back Home to, well, not Roost, but to Gouge, Scratch, Cut, Swipe, Kill

    Cocks Coming Back Home to, well, not Roost, but to Gouge, Scratch, Cut, Swipe, Kill

    Hmm, genocide and boat captains and mates murdered by accused sexual predator and alcohol abusing Cap’n Crunch Pete, a-okay, but cock fights in how many states, a federal crime? This is yet more breaking news (sic) I have to contend with as I get ready to give a crowd a short-short master class on why […]

  • The CIA: Up Close and Personal

    The CIA: Up Close and Personal

    Nicholas Schou interviews Douglas Valentine about his new book, Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire, published in May of this year by Trine Day. Listen To This Story Introduction by Nicholas Schou: In the early 1990s, when the US began to normalize relations with Vietnam, Douglas Valentine, then a young author and historian of […]

  • Henry Kissinger Turns 100

    Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. — Anthony Bourdain, A Cook’s Tour (2002) If a heavy resume of crimes is a guarantee of longevity, then surely Henry A. Kissinger (HAK, for short), must count as a good specimen. The list of butcheries […]

  • “They’re So Corrupt, It’s Thrilling.” – Lenny Bruce

    “They’re So Corrupt, It’s Thrilling.” – Lenny Bruce

    In Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire, Douglas Valentine descends into some of the most sinister aspects of US foreign policy. These include drug running, illegal arms sales, bribery, human and artifact trafficking, far right coups, assassinations, agitprop and disinformation, as well as fiefdoms set up by former CIA and their assets that are […]

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