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Imperial proprietorship over the small Caribbean Island of Cuba, from the United States’ perspective, has been from its earliest founding understood as a foredrawn conclusion, a predetermined inexorable; a geographical inevitable. Heads of State, from Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe to John Quincy Adams et al. shared a similar conviction, “[that Cuba’s] proximity did indeed

The following article by Edward Curtin on the life of President John F. Kennedy, and his assassination on this date, November 22, 1963, is the lead piece in the eighth issue of Garrison: The Journal of History and Deep Politics that has just been published: “The Political Assassinations of the 1960s.” From JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X, to Hammarskjold and Lumumba, the 1960s were a tragic period when the CIA took over the United States and profoundly changed the course of history, and Garriso...

The following article by Edward Curtin on the life of President John F. Kennedy, and his assassination on this date, November 22, 1963, is the lead piece in the eighth issue of Garrison: The Journal of History and Deep Politics that has just been published: “The Political Assassinations of the 1960s.” From JFK, RFK, MLK, […]

Obituary | Krishna Prakash Shrestha: The doyen of Russian-Nepali literature Having won the trust of officials in both the countries, he was seen by many as an unofficial Nepali diplomat in Russia Birth: November 7, 1937, Thankot Death: March 29, 2021, Moscow Krishna Prakash Shrestha wanted to study journalism in the US, the most technologically advanced country in the world. But when the Soviet Union launched its first satellite, the Sputnik 1, Shrestha’s interest in communist Russia grew to ...