Tag Archives: Cold War

The CIA is apparently responsible for modern art

By Mark | November 1, 2010

I’d wanted to write about something else tonight, but then I stumbled across this article in the Guardian on the CIA’s role in the rise of modern art and felt as though I had to pass it along… Here’s a clip: …Why did the CIA support them? Because in the propaganda war with the Soviet […]

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Congressional support for cutting the military budget is beginning to come together

By Mark | October 13, 2010

Continuing our conversation of a few days ago about cutting the military budget, I just heard that Barney Frank and Ron Paul, along with 55 congressional co-signers sent a letter this evening to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform calling for significant defense cuts. Here’s a clip from the letter: …The Department of […]