Margaret O'Connor

Recent articles by Margaret O'Connor

Coups, covert ops, dirty tricks: how the US abused its power from 1947

Coups, covert ops, dirty tricks: how the US abused its power from 1947

“Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, Carmel Offie, and Frank Wisner were the grand masters. If you were in a room with them you were in a room full of people that you had to believe would deservedly end up in hell.”

As time goes by: eighty years since the premiere of Casablanca

As time goes by: eighty years since the premiere of Casablanca

It was 1942. Across the Atlantic, vast, troubled swathes of Europe were occupied by the Wehrmacht. Millions of its civilians were displaced; millions more would pack up their belongings and flee as World War II continued to unfold.

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