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  • Chavez Landslide Tops All In US History
    20 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chavez Landslide Tops All In US History - by Stephen Lendman
    Well almost, as explained below. Hugo Chavez Frias’ reelection on December 3 stands out when compared to the greatest landslide presidential victories in US history. Except for the close race in 1812 and the electoral deadlock in 1800 decided by the House of Representatives choosing Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr, the very earliest elections here weren’t hardly partisan contests at all as the Democrat-Republican party of (…)

  • The Price of Imperial Arrogance
    16 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Price of Imperial Arrogance - by Stephen Lendman
    Lyndon Johnson was a conflicted man about Vietnam almost from the time he took office. As early as May, 1964, he confessed his doubts about the conflict to his good friend Senator Richard Russell in one of the many phone calls he taped in the Oval Office. That was three months before the fateful Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave him congressional authorization for military action in Southeast Asia without needing a formal declaration of (…)

  • Matt Norman, Peter’s nephew who write to Bellaciao and the Margaret Rees’s article
    11 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hello All,
    I wanted to thank all of you for your kind words and incredible support for my best friend and uncle Peter Norman. I am Matt Norman, Peter’s nephew who has just completed a feature film about Peter’s life and the struggle that he, Tommie and John went through during the 60’s.
    I want you all to know that I have had hundreds of letters of support from French people which is very moving to me. French people seem to have a true heart, a true spirit, a true moral to the worlds (…)

  • Benjamin H. Latrobe’s Pennsylvania-German Family Connections
    6 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Baltimore, MD - On Nov. 4, 2006, a colorful ceremony was held to mark the restoration and reopening of the 200-year-old Baltimore Basilica-America’s first Roman Catholic Cathedral. (1) It was designed by the architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the same man who designed the U.S. Capitol. There were speakers galore, music, an historical reenactment, and even a presentation by Fort McHenry’s “Regimental Guard,” accompanied by a sharply attired Fife and Drum Corps of the “U.S. Army Old Guard.” (…)

  • Eamon McGuire: The Life of an Undercover IRA Activist
    26 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.” - Sean O’Casey, Irish Playwright
    Bahrain is an island nation located in the Persian Gulf. Like so many countries in the region, it was a former colony of Imperial Britain. (1) It’s the early 1970s, just outside its capital city of Manama, in the steaming hot desert. A young Irishman can be found testing what he labels “electronic counter measures,” to be used against British military forces in the Occupied Six Counties of northeastern (…)

  • Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna June 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967
    10 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentine-born medical doctor best known as a Marxist, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. As a young man studying medicine, Guevara traveled rough throughout Latin America, bringing him into direct contact with the impoverished conditions in which many people lived. Through these experiences he became convinced that only revolution could remedy the (…)

  • Kissinger’s "Salted Peanuts" and the Iraq War
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By John Prados
    It is important to view Kissinger’s advice in his September 10, 1969 memo to Nixon in its appropriate context. The specific circumstances of this advice are these: a first cosmetic withdrawal of 25,000 American troops from South Vietnam had already begun. The Nixon administration faced a decision about further withdrawals, while the president struggled to craft a strategy under which he could coerce North Vietnam into ending the war on Nixon’s terms. Nixon and Kissinger had (…)

  • America now is Germany then: Analogies
    25 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    America now is Germany then: Analogies
    The German people of the late 1930s imagined themselves to be brave. They saw themselves as the heroic Germans depicted by the Wagnerian Operas, the descendants of the fierce Germanic warriors who had hunted wild boar with nothing but spears and who had defeated three of Rome’s mightiest legions in the Tuetenberg Forest.
    But in truth, by the 1930s, the German people had become civilized and tamed, culturally obsessed with fine details in both (…)

  • Israeli Black Panthers support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israeli Black Panthers support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
    by Reuven Abarjel, introduction by Jeffrey Blankfort
    During the late ‘60s and into the ‘70s, the reputation of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, which had its start in Oakland in 1966, spread far and wide, not only throughout the United States, but around the world, where the party was considered the leading arm of the Black liberation struggle in AmeriKKKa.
    In Israel, the Black Panthers’ exploits (…)

  • Dorothy Healey, 91; Lifelong Communist Fought for Working People
    10 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dennis McLellan
    Dorothy Healey, a onetime labor organizer, civil rights activist and Marxist radio commentator who was chairwoman of the Southern California district of the Communist Party USA from the late 1940s through the 1960s, has died. She was 91.
    Healey, dubbed "the Red Queen of Los Angeles" by headline writers during her heyday, died Sunday of pneumonia in the Greater Washington Hebrew Home, said her son, Richard. She had been a resident of Washington, D.C., since 1983.
    The (…)