by Greg Felton
Do we seriously believe that our soldiers, airmen and sailors fought against Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan only to bequeath to us a world terrorized by Israel, the U.S. and Great Britain?
This Remembrance Day, I will show my respect for Canada’s war dead in a different way-I will not wear a poppy.
The poppy, John McRae’s In Flanders Fields and the commemoration of the two world wars are part of a ritual that has become a perverse anachronism. Simply put, (…)
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One. Two. Three. Four---What the hell are we remembering for?
11 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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The Watergate Parallel
3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsby Tom Hayden A 1974 headline - "THE WATERGATE CRISIS, AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE..."
"The Watergate crisis represents a conflict in the American establishment brought on by the Indochina War, giving the peace movement its best chance yet to finally end U.S. involvement..."
So concluded "A Strategy To End the War", a working paper of the Indochina Peace Campaign, in 1974. The IPC was a network in key states which carried out public education and pressured Congress from the grass roots (…) -
The life and death of Pier Paolo Pasolini
2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
The career and achievement of the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is being celebrated thirty years after his brutal murder, but the political controversy surrounding his death haunts Italy still.
by Geoff Andrews
In the early hours of 2 November 1975, the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini - writer, poet, film director and one of Italy’s leading intellectuals - was found on wasteland in Ostia, just outside Rome. Several hours later, Pino “The Frog” Pelosi, a 17-year-old male prostitute, was (…) -
John Conyers On Rosa Parks - ’She Earned the Title as Mother of the Civil Rights Movement’
26 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
10 commentsWe speak with Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan), who worked with Parks for over a decade. Conyers remembers Parks’ life and speaks about the possibility of a state funeral and a national ’Rosa Parks day.’
Rep. John Conyers, (D-Michigan)
AMY GOODMAN: Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has died at the age of 92. It was 50 years ago this December that she refused to give up her seat to a white man aboard a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested and convicted of violating the state’s (…) -
The American Political Tradition
26 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
by Eric Foner
Undoubtedly the most celebrated and influential account of American life by a foreign observer is Democracy in America, written by Alexis de Tocqueville after his visit to the United States in the 1830s. As a French aristocrat, Tocqueville rather disliked democracy, but he understood that it had become central to Americans’ understanding of themselves. Democracy, he recognized, was more than simply the right to vote; it was a habit of the heart, a deeply rooted set of beliefs (…) -
A Bait-and-Switch Charity: The Scandalous History of the Red Cross
22 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsThe Scandalous History of the Red Cross
By JOE ALLEN
Iin recent years, the image of the Red Cross has been tarnished. The worst scandal came after the September 11 attacks, when it was revealed that a large portion of the hundreds of millions of dollars donated to the organization went not to survivors or family members of those killed, but to other Red Cross operations, in what was described by chapters across the country as a "bait-and-switch" operation.
Recently, long-simmering (…) -
OPERATION NORTHWOODS: US PLANNED FAKE TERROR ATTACKS ON CITIZENS TO CREATE SUPPORT FOR CUBAN WAR
8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsFrom BODY OF SECRETS, James Bamford, Doubleday, 2001, p.82 and following. Scanned and edited by NY Transfer News.
...In [Joint Chief’s chair] Lemnitzer’s view, the country would be far better off if the generals could take over. [JFK assassination legend has it some general presided over the fudgy JFK autopsy. —Mk]
For those military officers who were sitting on the fence, the Kennedy administration’s botched Bay of Pigs invasion was the last straw. "The Bay of Pigs fiasco broke the (…) -
Where Fear Can’t Take Us
4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Tomgram: Ira Chernus on Where Fear Can’t Take Us
A world of fear: By the end of 1953, the United States had close to 1,000 A-bombs, H-bombs, and "tactical" nuclear weapons. I was 9 years old. The effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had, by then, largely disappeared under a cloud of official secrecy, as had evidence of atomic dangers in the United States, where test blasts were already being set off with remarkable regularity. And yet in private dreams and popular culture, a lack of (…) -
History of the War Machine
4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsThis presentation comes from a wealth of sources, but I want to acknowledge the outstanding contribution by David Callahan, author of Dangerous Capabilities. For the sake of audio recordings, some of what I say will undoubtedly paraphrase his work, and-lest there be any misunderstanding-whatever overlap occurs between his work and my notes is to his credit and not mine.
Today’s presentation provides information surrounding the co-opting of Cold War policies by post-Cold War (…) -
Playwright August Wilson dies at 60 : Portrayed history of black America
4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
By Ed Siegel
August Wilson, the country’s preeminent African-American playwright, died yesterday at the age of 60 from liver cancer.
Mr. Wilson’s main body of work was a cycle of 10 plays, each set in a different decade in the 20th century, thus covering 100 years of African-American history and attitudes. They featured large ensembles of black actors playing characters debating how to carry themselves in the face of limited opportunities and resources. Although white racism was rarely (…)