Instead of hunting legitimate terror and espionage threats, the group was much more likely to focus its efforts on trying to intimidate, slander and discredit law-abiding organizations that promote cooperation and dialogue between Washington and Moscow...
Billie Holiday and Ethel Rosenberg at 100  By ROBERT MEEROPOL  Counterpunch.org  WEEKEND EDITION MARCH 27-29, 2015 If Billie Holiday and Ethel Rosenberg were alive, they’d both celebrate their 100th birthdays this year. At first glance they may seem an unlikely couple, but a closer look reveals surprising parallels. They were each born into poverty six More
Stateside communists were the underdogs, fighting the establishment for justice – the victims of censorship and police repression, not its perpetrators. Like his party associates, Seeger was consistently on the right side of history  By Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray Al Jazeera America  January 29, 2014   Pete Seeger serenades the faithful in Washington in 1969. Stephen More
