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The Cold War According to Al McCoy

Espionage and Insurgency

Jonah Raskin
September 14, 2025

“Killing African nationalists is like killing animals. My men and I killed between five and ten thousand Congolese rebels.” – Mike Hoare, British-Irish military officer and the author of Congo Mercenary, quoted in Cold War on Five Continents. Unlike D. F. Fleming, the godfather of cold war historians, Alfred McCoy argues that the cold war […]

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Jonah Raskin is the author of Keeping the Beat Alive.

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