Cold War Truth Commission part 1
Channel: Ed Mays
Date: 2021-04-01

On March 21st 2021, Witness For Peace Southwest, CODEPINK & Addicted To War hosted a 10 hour Cold War Truth Commission. This event featured in-person, pre-recorded testimony, and film clips on: CIA-backed Global Interventions of The Cold War; McCarthyism and the crushing of labor and the left in the U.S.; the Cold War Nuclear Legacy; Hollywood and the Blacklist; the “Red Scare” of the 1930’s; and the red-baiting of social activists as far back as 1850!

The organizers consider the U.S. Cold War to be our nation’s 3rd, and as-of-yet, unrecognized crime, after the genocide and land-theft against Native Americans, and the kidnapping and enslavement of African peoples.

The Cold War Truth Commission exposes U.S. illegal and immoral actions in the name of Anti-communism at home and abroad. And shows how today's pervasive violence and injustice-both at home and abroad-is intimately tied up to the perpetration of the Cold War. Without Truth about the U.S. Cold War, there can be no true Reconciliation for our times.

Pirate TV will be broadcasting this extraordinary testimony edited for TV in one-hour segments in the coming months.  This week, the first installment- Roots of U.S. Anti-Communism and Cold War Part 1, features:

*Former Attorney General, Ramsey Clark in a film clip: “Plutocracy: Wealth Governs This Country”
*LA National Lawyers Guild Executive Director and KPFK radio host, Jim Lafferty on “Why We Need This Truth Commission to Expose ‘Cold War’ Lies”.
*American University professor Peter Kuznick who Co-authored with Oliver Stone, the 10 part Showtime film series and book both titled ‘The Untold History of the United States’, on “Henry Wallace and the Cold War’s beginning”.  Peter then showed a clip from “Untold History” narrated by Oliver Stone.
*Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on “The Role of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex in Starting and Maintaining the Cold War.”

The program hosts are Rachel Bruhnke of Witness For Peace Southwest and Frank Dorrel of ADDICTED To WAR.

Endorsers: CODEPINK, WORLD BEYOND WAR, ROOTSACTION, KPFK 90.7 FM Radio, Veterans For Peace, CovertAction Magazine, Media Freedom Foundation, Project Censored, PeaceWorkers, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power In Space, School of The Americas Watch, Harriet Tubman Center For Social Justice, Anti-Racist Action, COVID-19 Global Solidarity Coalition, Women Against Military Madness & ADDICTED To WAR

Thanks to Witness For Peace Southwest, CODEPINK & Addicted To War

More: https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/04/08/cold-war-on-trial-truth-commission-details-horrible-crimes-akin-to-native-american-genocide-and-slavery/

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