History Commons
A collaborative research site, collecting and organising facts from the corporate media. Data used to be publicly exportable, but that feature is no longer available. The site is famous for its very detailed 9/11 timeline by Paul Thompson. |
Started: 2001
Founders: Derek Mitchell, Michael Bevin
Owner: Center for Grassroots Oversight
In its own words:
"To provide a means for members of civil society to monitor the activities of powerful entities, such as governments, large corporations, and wealthy and influential individuals."
History Commons was a website that documents events and issues of great social and political significance, focusing primarily on events from the 1970s on. It was originally sponsored by The Global Center and is now operated by the Center for Grassroots Oversight. The website was previously named Center for Cooperative Research, and was located at cooperativeresearch.org.[1]
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Importance
History Commons had a pretty high threshold for inclusion, giving it a high reputation for reliability. Compared to Wikispooks, it is more wedded to commercially-controlled media. In this respect it is similar to Wikipedia, but it is not subject to the same censorship, so it has details about a number of events such 2001 Mexican legislative assembly attack, which are completely missing on Wikipedia. If you are creating a new page here, it is good to include a reference to historycommons if one is available.
Activity
As of September 2016, the site was semi-dormant; fatal errors were being attended to, but new material was no longer being added. The site's most recent tweet, from 6 January 2014, was a request for funds and the main site features an "urgent" request for funds.[2] The site remained readable, however, though the last edit was made in July 2016.[3]
By 2021 the website had become inactive, possibly due to lack of funds.[4]
History Commons On Wikispooks
Events
Has historycommons | Description | |
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"Iran-Contra" | http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=irancontraaffair | A drug trafficking/weapons smuggling operation carried out in the 1980s with the approval of the top of the US government. |
2001 Mexican legislative assembly attack | http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=western support for islamic militancy 2848 | Two Israelis caught with false passports grenades, explosives and guns in the Mexican parliament a month after 9-11. Later released without charge. Western corporate media aware but uninterested. |
9-11/Insider Trading | A mound of evidence points to insider trading. However, the 9/11 Commission decided not to investigate the matter and the SEC destroyed important records. | |
9-99/Ryazan incident | http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a092299ryazanbomb#a092299ryazanbomb | Moscow FSB officers discovered wiring up what looked like a bomb in the basement of a building by night. Local FSB unaware. Claimed to be a terror drill but no documentation was presented. Instead documents were sealed and discussion of it prohibited in the Duma. |
Bilderberg/2006 | http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=bilderberg/2006 1 | 54th Bilderberg, held in Canada. 133 guests |
Hurricane Katrina | http://www.historycommons.org/project.jsp?project=hurricane katrina | |
Inslaw | Complex financial/political fraud the full dimensions of which were never uncovered, but some of which were forced onto the official record. | |
Operation Gladio/B | A development of Operation Gladio to help roll out the "war on terror" by promoting US/NATO-sponsored false flag attacks to be blamed on "Muslim terrorists". | |
Townhouse Operation | http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=townhouse operation 1 | The Townhouse Operation was a US deep state operation to gain leverage over US politicians. |
USS Cole attack | http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete 911 timeline&complete 911 timeline alleged al qaeda linked attacks=USSColeBombing | Supposed "terrorist attack", attributed to Al Qaeda. Possibly a false flag. |
United Airlines Flight 553 | http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a120872huntplanecrash | A plane crash which ended the life of the wife of E. Howard Hunt, suspected by some to have been an assassination. |
Vietnam War/My Lai Massacre | http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/my-lai-massacre | The systematic, cold-blooded murder, butchery and rape of 504 Vietnamese civilians including 173 children by a company of 115 US army soldiers. |
Watergate coup | This is framed by the official narrative as a simple case of political corruption, one which proves that "the system works", since the powerful perpetrator was caught - if not actually brought to justice, since outgoing president Nixon was immediately pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford. In fact it may well have been the outworking of a deeper political power struggle at work. |
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A document sourced from History Commons
Title | Type | Subject(s) | Publication date | Author(s) |
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File:The Assassinations of the 1960s.pdf | essay | JFK Assassination MLK Assassination RFK Assassination | 17 October 2008 | Peter Dale Scott |