When asked why he emptied the cities, Pol Pot stated that the US had already been bombing areas of Eastern Cambodia, and that he (and the Khmer Leadership) were apprehensive that the US would launch a vast and sustained bombing campaign upon Cambodian cities and towns – much like the years’s of US destruction wrought upon North Vietnam.
Tag: Cold War
On Why Ch’an Master Xu Yun (1840-1959) Rejected Japanese Zen
Interesting to read the attacks on Xu Yun’s age (purported to have been 120 years of age at his death) emanating from pro-Western Taiwan Chinese
China: US Marine Learns Straight Sword (1945)
apanese fighting systems that had been used during WWII against the Western allies, now became the preferred CIA means of spreading Japanese influence throughout Europe and America, and cementing a re-born Japan as an essential ‘frontline’ ally against a potentially threatening Communist China.
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis – Myth & Reality
‘I believe that we created, built and manufactured the Castro movement out of whole cloth and without realising it.’ President John F Kennedy to Jean
Illegal CIA Drug Experiments
This documentary explores the alleged use of LSD (and other experimental compounds) upon the Socialist French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit in 1951, by the CIA, and documents the deaths this incident caused.
Ukraine: Neo-Nazi Insurgency (1945-1947)
‘True, for a short time after the invasion of 1941, the Germans behaved like “liberators” of of the Ukraine, and were far less brutal there
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 