The Forgotten Coup – how America and Britain crushed the Government of their ‘ally’, Australia
The 1975 Australian coup was successfully concluded on 11 November when Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was to inform Australian Parliament about the secret CIA presence in the country. He was summoned by Sir John Kerr, who invoked archaic vice-regal "reserve powers" and summarily dismissed him. William Blum has written that Sir John Kerr acted on behalf of the CIA in procuring Whitlam's dismissal. John Pilger ...
CIA 1974 National Security Threat: Global Cooling/Excess Arctic Ice Causing Extreme Weather
In 1974, the intelligence and climate science communities put out a propaganda warning that global cooling was a world threat ...
The Antarctic Treaty System was Opened for Signature
The main treaty was opened for signature on December 1, 1959, and officially entered into force on June 23, 1961. The original signatories were the 12 countries active in Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957–58. The twelve countries that had significant interests in Antarctica at the time were: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the ...
The Secret Meeting That Created United Nations – Dumbarton Oaks Conference
The Dumbarton Oaks Conference, or more formally the Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization, was a global gathering where ideas for the creation of a “general international organization,” which would later become the United Nations, were developed and negotiated. The United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China served as the conference’s four policemen. It took place in Washington, D.C., at the ...
The Christmas Truce of 1914
On Christmas day 1914, something happened near the beginning of the “War to End All Wars” that put a tiny little blip of hope in the historical timeline of the organized mass slaughter that is war. On December 24, 1914, the exhausted troops settled down to their meager Christmas meal with, for the lucky ones, gifts from home, special food, special liquor, special chocolate bars and the ...
