Cryptome.Org has posted documents courtesy of the National Security Archive that describe an early 1960s plan by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to conduct terrorist attacks against U.S. targets and blame Cuba in order to create public support for a possible military intervention in Cuba. In an annex entitled “Pretexts to Justify U.S. Military Intervention…

I’ve always been impressed with RJ Rummel’s books on what he calls democide — the state-sponsored murder of civilians. Rummel has written a number of books about state violence (a good introduction to his work his Death By Government). One of the interesting things, which Rummel has written about in asides to his more scholarly…