Cold War Truth Commission: Event and Resources

NAME	TESTIMONY THEME
Rachel Bruhnke & Frank Dorrel	Opening Remarks
Blase Bonpane	The Cold War
Ramsey Clark	Plutocracy
Jim Lafferty	Why We Need This Truth Commission to Expose ‘Cold War’ Lies
Peter Kuznick w/ Oliver Stone	Henry Wallace and the Cold War’s beginning FILM CLIP: The Untold History of the United States
Daniel Ellsberg	The Role of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex in Starting and Maintaining the Cold War
FDR Reading	Excerpt From ‘The Second Bill of Rights’ State of the Union Speech 1944
Rossana Cambron	Anti-Communism as a Weapon Against Progress
Michael Meeropol Son of the Rosenbergs	Cold War Revisionism
Gerald Horne	The U.S. Cold War as a Self-Inflicted Wound
Carol Frances Likens	The Red-baiting of Abolitionists in 1850! (Labor’s Untold Story by Richard Boyer and Herbert Morais)
Rick Fellows	The Pro-Fascist Nature of U.S. Anti-Communism
Mike Feinstein	Is the Fear of “Communists” a Big Deal in Europe? A Green’s Perspective
Jeremy Kuzmarov	“A Sequence of Lies, the U.S Cold War, and Today…”
Chris Agee	Lesson from my Father, Phil Agee, and the CIA
Michael Novick	“The White Supremacist Nature of the U.S. Cold War”
Alice Slater	Historical and Current U.S. Cold War Against Russia
Norman Solomon	“Why So Many Progressives Bought Into the ‘Russiagate’ Frenzy”
MUSIC VIDEO: Gil Scott Heron	Work for Peace (Military and the Monetary)

Mumia Abul-Jamal & Stephen Vitorria	Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI
Julia Scoville	McCarthyism, Employment Fears, and the Vilification of Solidarity
Susan Gossman	What HUAC Did to My Father
Gregory Godels	McCarthyism’s effect on American workers. Case Study: Pittsburgh, PA
Richard Moser	How the American People Lost the Cold War: U.S. Empire and the Decline of American Democracy
Mickey Huff	Censoring of the Truth During the U.S. Cold War to Today
Chris Venn	The Housing Crisis, Land Accumulation, and US Cold War Ideology
Carley Towne	The Co$t of U.S. Militarism in the U.S. Cold War to Today
Bruce Gagnon	Weaponizing Space in the U.S. Cold War to Today
David Vine	There Was Nothing “Cold” About The Cold War
Kathy Kelly	War Resistance In the 1980s As Foundation for 1991 Iraq War Resistance
David Swanson	Combatting the Lies of the U.S. Cold War Today
Jeff Cohen	U.S. News Media: The Enduring Cold War Legacy
Ed Rampell	HUAC, the Hollywood Blacklist and McCarthyism: Cold War Cancel Culture
Peter McLaren	The U.S. Cold War Against Liberation Theology and the Ascendance Of the Religious Right
Rev. Steve Wilson	The Red-Baiting of Progressive Religious Values In the U.S. Cold War
Gail Walker	Lucius Walker: The Legacy of a Visionary Pastor for Peace
John Hankey	The U.S. Cold War and The Murder of ‘Communal’ Values
Gerry Condon	Resist War! A Message to Today’s Youth
YOUTH VOICES: Emily Dorrel	TikTok Video: A Warning on American Hypocrisy
YOUTH VOICES: Mary Miller	“My Generation”
YOUTH VOICES: Alma Bruhnke	The Pledge of Allegiance, “God”, and the U.S. Cold War
YOUTH VOICES: Open Mic for Youth	2-minute Testimonies
Marcy Winograd	The Cold War in the U.S. Classroom
Eric Mann	Combating Anti-Communism in the 1960s
Carl Boggs	The Environmental Catastrophe of Militarism and the U.S. Cold War
MUSIC VIDEO: Sara Thomsen	Is it for Freedom?

Roy Bourgeois	School of Assassins: Resistance to Cold War Training at Ft. Benning, GA”
Silvia Brandon-Perez	Interpreter for Torture Survivors SOA Watch
Barbara Trent	U.S. Cold War in Central America: Iran-Contra and the Invasion of Panama
Medea Benjamin	The U.S. Cold War v. African Liberation Struggles
Danny Sjursen	Cold War in the Heartland
Nuri Ronaghy	Origins of U.S.-Iranian Tension: The 1953 CIA-Orchestrated Coup Against Iran
Peter Phillips	The NSA and CIA Protects Concentrated Global Capitalism
Matthew Hoh	Afghanistan as a Pawn in the U.S. Cold War
Ann Wright	Inside and Outside the Military-Industrial Complex
Jodie Evans	Historical and Current U.S. Cold War Against China
John Parker	The Cold War and Continued Conflict With Syria
Miguel Angel	The Ongoing U.S. Cold War Against Honduras: Perspective From An Exile
Alicia Rivera	The U.S. Cold War Against El Salvador and Its Aftermath
Alicia Jrapko	The Dirty War in Argentina, Operation Condor and the U.S. Cold War
S. Brian Willson	U.S. Involvement in Creating and Sustaining the Cold War Against Korea
Joel Andreas	The Rise of Aerial Bombardment Throughout the Cold War
Nadya Williams	CIA Intrigue, the 1965 Coup Against Indonesia and Its Aftermath
Rachel Bruhnke & Frank Dorrel	Closing Remarks