#185 – Wagging The Dog
In 1951, the CIA’s budget was ballooning out of control to fund its massive covert operations which were all complete disasters. But they were secret disasters, so nobody, not even Congress or the President, let alone the general public, ever heard about most of them....
#132 – A LAND WAR IN ASIA
Kim’s “invasion” of the South gave the US the pretext they needed to ramp up military spending via NSC-68 and to support Rhee directly and indirectly by committing one of the classic blunders: never get involved in a land war in Asia. Admiral Forrest...
#131 – THE UN v NORTH KOREA
WWII had created a strong US economy, mostly for military spending coming out of the public treasury. Lots of industrialists made a fortune during that period. And it was going away after the war. In the aftermath of World War II, US armed forces had not merely been...
Has anyone else watched Domina, the new series about Livia? I watched the first episode yesterday. It started off badly when the very first graphic called Julius a tyrant. Then the depiction of Augustus is completely wrong. He is made out to be a cool, bad ass blood thirsty psychopath, not a coward who relied on Agrippa. Don’t think I can keep watching it.
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