Category Archives: History

Historians, Documentaries, Forgotten Past, Movements, Riots, Rulings, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, etc

Video: Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution (Occupy Wall Street)

This is from the website http://occupyportland.org/ – Please check it out. Make history and be part of an incredible event – Rain or Shine, it’s gonna happen.  Expect us. Follow the movement on Twitter using hashtags: #occupyportland, #occupypdx, #oct6

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Fusion: The New Cointelpro

In the 60′s and 70′s, secret government operations used to seek information about dissent activity and left-leaning groups by using spies or infiltrators to possibly destroy them from the inside. These were cointelpro programs that often targeted civil rights groups … Continue reading

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My “Six Degrees of Separation” Story

I just discovered last night that my mother’s former landlady from the early 80′s later became the U.S. Treasurer under George W. Bush. My head is spinning.  How did I not know this until now? Seriously.  How could I have … Continue reading

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Watergate – Movie Trailer and Documentary Online

Everything you’d like to know out about the Watergate scandal can be easily viewed here: An excellent documentary – And a trailer for the movie, “All the President’s Men” — a definite must-see:

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We are repeating History’s Mistake of Paris 1789

Last night, I watched this documentary and was completely awestruck by how close we are repeating the same mistakes that led up to the Reign of Terror in Paris, France. During the 1700′s, France practiced the same immoral policies we … Continue reading

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