Comments on: Iranian history: that CIA coup that deposed Mossaddegh

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:07:29 +0000

Ymarsakar:

It’s not necessary to purposely “record-wipe” a blog to have it disappear.

Unless a blog is hosted on something like Blogger, which most big blogs don’t use anymore for a number of reasons, bloggers pay hosts to host the blog. If you don’t pay, it disappears. So when a person stops blogging—for example, if a person dies—the blog will disappear after the term for which the blogger has paid, unless some heir or friend decides to continue to pay for it to be online.

By: Ymar Sakar

Ymar Sakar — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 17:29:01 +0000

The lifelong diaries of people like John Quincy Adams and Queen Victoria provide unbelievable context to events of their time and give historians first hand insight where as going forward what will be the equivalent?

Blogs, assuming they don’t get record wiped.

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:41:35 +0000

I guess Wikipedia just sort of forgot about the Soviet armored divisions (as many as 40) poised on the border. I’d be shocked! shocked! if that was a deliberate omission.

By: F

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:35:25 +0000

Baklava:

I presume you mean Neo should be in the NYTimes and WashPost.

I don’t think fiction is her métier..

By: Baklava

Baklava — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:18:04 +0000

wow. you should be in the NY Times and Washington post.

By: Surellin

Surellin — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 13:44:28 +0000

James Clavell’s novel “Whirlwind” is an interesting look at the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and a British company embroiled in it.

By: Griffin

Griffin — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 07:11:54 +0000

I worry about our understanding of history in the future. On one hand there will be massive amounts of digital information available but on the other hand we no longer will have first hand history as provided by diaries kept by important historical figures. The lifelong diaries of people like John Quincy Adams and Queen Victoria provide unbelievable context to events of their time and give historians first hand insight where as going forward what will be the equivalent?

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 06:40:43 +0000

Thanks for keeping the record straight.
I have always doubted that anyone ever has all the information right about anything in history, and I am becoming more sure we do not, as I watch our current “fake news” crowding out reality, because what is happening now simply repeats what happened before.

By: yara

yara — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 05:46:33 +0000

I just finished reading Daniel Yergin's book The Prize which, IYDN, is about the development of the oil business. It more-or-less echoes the non-leftist-meme version. One of the more interesting tidbits is that Kermit Roosevelt, Jr (TR's grandson) was the CIA agent in change. Another one was that the Shah had to be convinced to start the coup and it was not a particularly easy job to convince him. And then, after it had (apparently) failed, they went to Eisenhower w/their tails between their legs (my words, not Yergin's) and admitted that it had failed.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 03:31:02 +0000

I’m struck by the parallels between today’s leftists enabling and acting as apologists for Islam and the 1979 “unholy alliance” between Iran’s religious fundamentalists and the leftist/communists…

Western Europeans, having failed to learn from history are making the same mistakes that Iran’s 1979 leftist/communists made and Canada under Trudeau is heading down the same path…