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The Founder is a 2016 biopic of Ray Kroc, the man who created McDonald’s. Or did he? In this episode I examine this ambiguous film, one of the best examples of cultural capitalism to come out of Hollywood in recent years.

The story of the relationship between Disney and the various branches and agencies of the US government is long and complex.  A recently uncovered memo adds one more episode to the relationship between Disney and the CIA, and revolves around a question that was critical for national security: How would

Mark Felt is a 2017 biopic starring Liam Neeson as FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt, telling the story of his role in becoming a source for the Washington Post's reporting on Watergate.

The Weather Underground were the most active and successful militant left-wing group in US history. As part of their anti-Vietnam war operations they bombed the Pentagon, the State Department, corporate headquarters and other high-profile targets.

For movie censors, crime is perhaps the most complex issue to make decisions about. They want the public to be alert to the possibility of crimes happening, and respectful of law enforcement institutions.

John Paisley was a senior CIA officer who worked on Team B, was the Agency’s liaison to the Watergate burglars, and according to some was a Soviet double agent.

My ancestors — and likely yours — came to the US from somewhere else. My grandparents arrived in one of history’s great waves of immigration — more than 15 million (largely from Italy, Poland, Hungary, and Russia) poured in between 1900 and 1915.

 By: Jafe Arnold From the Indo-Europeans to the ‘New World’ he world’s diversity of cultures has successfully defied the “globalization” of the Atlanticist, Liberal, unipolar “End of History” scenario proclaimed in the 1990’s.

By unpacking Israeli books, we can learn a great deal about the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948.

In 1974 former CIA officer Victor Marchetti and former State Department official John Marks published their book The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence.

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This week I welcome Martin Darlington, co-host of the History by Hollywood podcast, which reviews and analyses films claiming to be based on real events.

The first intifada empowered Palestinians; its lessons must be remembered.

Britain saw Zionism as a weapon against communism.

Israeli plans for West Bank settlements began as early as 1963, according to historian Ilan Pappe.

We Are Change In his latest video, Luke discusses how difficult it has been to watch the infighting that is occurring and the responses that media have made to the Charlottesville situation.

England feared its policies in the Holy Land would provoke political unrest among Muslims in India.

Book by Syrian filmmaker recalls Palestinian refugee camp shortly before infamous massacre.

International indifference has abetted Israeli occupation until today.

After 50 years of occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, there's no excuse not to recognize the truth.

Palestinians in Gaza recall the 1967 War and occupation.

The massacres of 1948 did not end, a valuable new collection of essays makes clear.

By: Jafe Arnold – CSS liaison to Poland CSS participates in conference: “History and Perspectives of Cooperation between Slavic Countries” n December 10th in Wroclaw, Poland, the Association for Poland-East Cooperation hosted an in

By: Padraig McGrath The Synthetic Public Ideology of Putin’s Russia The reconstruction of the Cathedral of Saint Alexander Nevsky is a microcosm of a broad social reality   ituated adjacent to the Crimean Parliament building in Simferopol, the newly rebuilt Cathedral …

Yusif Sayigh’s wonderfully frank memoirs recall conflict with Arafat.

Today gentrification is the means by which the city's original inhabitants are pushed out.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-04-27%20Higherside%20Chats.mp3"][/audio]The story of the Rockefeller family is more than a cautionary tale, it’s an example of an oligarch’s potential to dominate. On this episode of The Higherside Chats, James Corbett joins us to discuss the far reaching control of the Rockefeller dynasty. We start with the calculated steps to bring a nation to dependence on oil. Though left out of public education lessons, the results of these events reach far into today’s society.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-02-10%20James%20Perloff.mp3"][/audio]Although it gets short shrift in the history textbooks, in many ways the modern American empire can find its origins in the Spanish-American War.

Palestinian artist famous for painting of elderly man carrying Jerusalem on his back.

Author Sherene Seikaly draws a fascinating portrait of Mandate Palestine’s middle class.

New book shows how Palestinians have been written out of history.  

New book shows how Palestinians have been written out of history.  

  By:  Andrés Barrera González, edited by Joaquin Flores – PhD in Political Science and Sociology, Profesor Titular at the University Complutense of Madrid.

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Difficult to categorize as either a history or architecture book, Sharon Rotbard’s White City, Black City is a compelling ghost story.

We Are Change

 Ran Greenstein offers fresh insights into the opposition against Israel’s state ideology.

By looking at Palestine’s past, book offers vision for future.

Three new books help dispel many Western myths about music and culture in the Middle East.

Ilan Pappe criticizes those who questioned Israel’s state ideology yet shunned political activism.