NB: Either you’ve never heard of these events and happenings – or, even if you have, they are not spoken about much. The younger generation, the ones who will live through more of this century than I will, may find these matters to be necessary knowledge. I will add to this list from time to time. DS

Ex-Arunachal CM’s Explosive Suicide Note that the government refused to probe (2017)

The CIA’s Intervention in Afghanistan: Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Paris, 15-21 January 1998

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It

Lying and history: Hannah Arendt and the Viet Nam war (2009)

Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

70 Years ago, the CIA overthrew the government of Mosaddegh in Iran. Washington has been Complaining about Iran ever Since

The joint CIA – MI-6 instigated coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up

Files reveal Nixon’s role in plot to block Allende from Chilean presidency

Alfred McCoy on the Politics of Heroin & CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade

The CIA: An Imperial History

The Assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte (1948)

Sir Edwin Montagu’s views on Zionism (1917)

Arms maker BAE Systems makes record profit amid Ukraine and Israel-Gaza wars

The USA’s role in the Ukraine crisis (2022)

President Eisenhower’s Speech on the American Military Industrial Complex, January 17, 1961

Collapsing Empire: Collateral Murder and the Delusion of US Air Power

The Secret Military History of the Internet

Deathbed Letter from Former Cop Claims NYPD, FBI Helped Kill Malcolm X

Alex Ross: How American Racism Influenced Hitler / The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

Conversation with Lawrence Lifschultz (2014): The reporter who investigated the assassination of Mujibur Rahman

Bharat Bhushan: A hanging in Dhaka, courtesy Delhi

The Blood Telegram

Pakistan’s First Law & Labour Minister, Jogendra Nath Mandal’s Resignation Letter, October 1950

Extracts from B. R. Ambedkar’s book on Pakistan (1940, 1945)

Two years after the massacre, I look back in disbelief. I, too, missed the October 8 surprise / ‘If 1948 was a war of Independence, the current war could be the one that ends Israel’

Stalin, the USSR and Israel: 1947-49 (2017)

In video from Gaza, former CEO of Pegasus spyware announces millions for new venture

Whitewashing Gas Exploration in Post-Genocide Gaza

Seth Anziska on Dominant Orthodoxies

The new barbarians

Arab Failures: The Unspoken Complicity in Israel’s Genocide

Bulldozing Gaza

Rare archival materials from the Stalin era

Halliburton equipment worth $7.1m imported into Russia in past year

Formula Pinochet: Chilean Lessons for Russian Liberal Reformers during the Soviet Collapse

How organized crime plays a key role in the Ukrainian conflict

Decentralizing the Cold War: an interview

The Gulag Archipelago: An Epic of True Evil

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Letter to the Soviet Leaders (1974)

Samizdat: Russia’s Underground Press (1970)

Defiant Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza likens his case to Stalin’s show trials

Mikhail Shishkin: ‘The main enemy of Russian culture is the Russian regime’

‘The end of the big lie’

Arakan Army declares Paletwa junta-free

China-backed militia secures control of new rare earth mines in Myanmar

Myanmar’s Military Junta Appears to Be in Terminal Decline

Monks and militias in Myanmar

Myanmar is a failing state, led by a junta fuelled by Russian arms, says UN rights envoy

Myanmar opium production surges since coup, UN finds

The deep roots of Myanmar’s crisis

PR botch-up: Detention Centre presented as EWS housing for Rohingyas

Saving Tapor Pullom

Remembering the massacre at Turkman Gate: From a memoir of the Emergency

Bulldozer politics: From Turkman Gate under Sanjay Gandhi to Jangpura — via Adityanath’s UP

Terrifying implications of the SC’s Staines Judgement

Justice still eludes 1984 victims, only 39 convictions in 650 cases / Forty-one years on: 13 murder convictions, 253 acquittals

The Broken Middle (EPW, 2014) (30 years after 1984)

The Caravan archive: Malegaon Acquittals, NIA’s Decline, and Sangh Parivar Terror Links

‘Who Killed Justice Loya’ Delves Into The Many Unanswered Questions (2022; the book is unavailable)

A Family Breaks Its Silence: Shocking Details Emerge In death of presiding judge in Sohrabuddin Trial

Apoorva Mandhani: Judge Loya’s Confidants Died Mysterious Deaths

Death of Judge Loya: A critical examination of the ECG and post-mortem demonstrates the failings of the Supreme Court verdict

U.S. leaders knew we didn’t have to drop atomic bombs on Japan to win the war. We did it anyway (2020)

Chastising little brother

Were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings “nuclear tests”? The U.S. government said so

Unit 731 Museum Harbin, China: the Japanese Army site for ‘medical experimentation’ on POWs

The Legacy of Liu Xiaobo

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) Dead At 61, After Years Of Imprisonment

Book review: The State as Faction: Mao’s Cultural Revolution

A tragedy pushed to the shadows: the truth about China’s Cultural Revolution

N.S. Lyons: The Triumph and Terror of Wang Huning

How one man went from China’s Communist party golden child to enemy of the state