Epstein Secrets

he European war had concluded with the surprising defeat of France in the summer of 1940 — which led to further Japanese expansion that summer into Southeast Asia. Where Week 10 ends is with the world as it has been transformed by these wars, the culmination of a decade of crises. By the time we conclude the

It concluded with a look at broader changes in global society in the "broken world" (a term I will always associate with the last book of the great Berkeley historian, Raymond Sontag). Weeks 10 and 11 will be even more concentrated, covering only ten years apiece, though they are both packed with materi

s because they weren't prepared to believe such testimony as they are in the eighties. In the sixties, we knew that the CIA was smuggling heroin from Southeast Asia. And in the eighties we know that they're smuggling cocaine from Central America. The same planes that fly weapons for the contras to airports in Pan

ary and his research partner, Ram Dass (then Richard Alpert) were about to do a lecture series on the West Coast. At the University of California in Berkeley, there was an official announcement that the HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015302 distribution only of “informative” literature (as opposed to “persuasive” lite

very hard not to subconsciously self-censor.” This person indicated that when their institute does projects on counterterrorism in the Middle East or Southeast Asia, they are very careful about discussing China’s restive region of Xinjiang where up to one million Uighurs are presently believed to be in reeducatio

China Since 1972 (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1992); David M. Lampton, Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing US-China Relations, 1989-2000 (Berkeley: University of California, 2001); James Mann, About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton (New York: Kn