Stalin: The "Good Guy" of the Anti-Colonial Struggle?
Some historical figures resist simple categorization. Joseph Stalin is one of them. In the West, he is remembered almost exclusively as a totalitarian dictator responsible for the Great Terror and the Gulag system. But across the Global South, a different memory persists—one that complicates the dominant narrative. The…
Operation Carlota: When the Global South Fought Back
What happens when an imperial strategy fails against the sheer resolve of international solidarity? History books frequently portray the Cold War as an exclusive chess match between Washington and Moscow, treating developing nations as passive squares on a map. However, a stunning historical episode completely upends this…
The CIA’s Blueprint for the 1965 Indonesia Coup | Global South Documentary
Jakarta, October 1965. Inside the presidential palace, President Sukarno paced alone in the humid night air, listening to conflicting radio reports. Six of his top generals lay dead. While the official military narrative blamed a sudden communist plot, an entirely different script was…