anticommunism

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  2/21/2021
  

  What the FBI Had on Grandpa

  by Molly Jong-Fast

  "I never considered my grandfather to be a danger to the republic, but J. Edgar Hoover disagreed." The FBI surveilled writer Howard Fast extensively, though, as he wrote in his autobiography, "the eleven hundred pages detailed every—or almost every—decent act I had performed in my life."

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• SOURCE: Medium
  12/9/2020
  

  The Other ‘Mank’: Joe Mankiewicz and the Wildest Night in Hollywood History

  by Greg Mitchell

  The Netflix film "Mank" provides an opportunity to remember the civil liberties stand taken by Frank Mankiewicz's brother Joe, who opposed the imposition of loyalty oaths on the Directors' Guild at the height of the postwar red scare. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/30/2020
  

  Joe Biden’s Harshest Critics are Likely to be Some of His Fellow Catholics

  by Theresa Keeley

  Abortion is the most divisive issue for liberal and conservative Catholics in America today, but reflects a decades-long division in beliefs about how the Church should engage with the world. It may be tricky for Joe Biden to navigate as a faithful Catholic.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/6/2020
  

  Did the US Try to Assassinate Lenin in 1918?

  A new book demonstrates that the United States and western allies attempted to thwart the Bolshevik revolution and actually started the Cold War with an ill-fated 1918 invasion of Russia, but is on more speculative ground tracing an assassination attempt against Lenin to the US.  

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• SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
  9/24/2020
  

  The Red Scare and Women in Government

  McCarthyite attacks on the political left also pushed women out of policymaking positions in the federal government, the historian Landon Storrs argues. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/16/2020
  

  Where Conspiracy Reigns

  Historians Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta and Federico Finchelstein offer insight into how the political right has used rumors of communist plots to maintain power in Brazil, and why the country's political culture today is vulnerable to fake news and conspiracy theories. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  9/11/2020
  

  "GUILTY": Justice for the Jesuits in El Salvador

  Applying the doctrine of Universal Jurisdiction for human rights abuses, a Spanish Court found former El Salvador Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano guilty in the assassination of six Jesuit priests and two Salvadoran women in 1989. The National Security Archive supplied hundreds of declassified documents as evidence. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/1/2020
  

  Surveillance, State Power, and the Activism of Shirley Graham Du Bois

  by Denise Lynn

  The Black organizer Shirley Graham DuBois, along with her husband W.E.B. DuBois, faced intrusive and punitive action by the U.S. government for her antiracist activism. The government used anticommunism to justify its surveillance. 

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• 8/2/2020
  

  Who’s Our Roy Cohn?

  by Andrew Feffer

  Two documentaries on the notorious lawyer and fixer portray Roy Cohn as a figure of evil, but don't examine the social and political context of power in New York City. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/27/2020
  

  Joseph McCarthy and the Force of Political Falsehoods

  McCarthy never sent a single “subversive” to jail, but, decades later, the spirit of his conspiracy-mongering endures.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/8/2020
  

  Using the Military to Quash Protests Can Erode Democracy – As Latin America Well Knows

  by Kristina Mani

  Even strong democracies have unraveled when the military was brought in to quell protest. Uruguay in the 1960s, Venezuela in the 1980s and Chile just last year provide insights.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/18/2020
  

  Venezuela Failed Raid: US Has a History of Using Mercenaries to Undermine Other Regimes

  by Andrew Thomson

  The arrest of Silvercorp mercenaries in Venezuela echoes a long history of the U.S. government supporting private troops to overthrow foreign governments. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  3/4/2020
  

  How Eisenhower Secretly Pushed Back Against McCarthyism

  To the end of his life, David A. Nichols says, “Eisenhower never admitted that the White House was behind this.” Yet he couldn’t help but gloat a bit in private. On at least one occasion, he reportedly repeated a joke that “it’s no longer McCarthyism, it’s McCarthywasm.” 

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  11/4/19
  

  When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals

  by Adam Hochschild

  A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

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• 9/22/19
  

  A Family History of the Red Scare

  by David L. O'Connor

  A review of David Maraniss' A Good American Family: My Father and the Red Scare.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/5/19
  

  How Trump finally turned Republicans against McCarthyism

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  After nearly 70 years, Republicans have stopped defending Joe McCarthy.