By Mark Feeney and Bryan Marquard, Globe Staff
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as "A People’s History of the United States," inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling. He was 87.
His daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn of Lexington, said he suffered a heart attack.
"He’s made an (…)
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Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87 (video)
28 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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UK & Churchill Crimes Exposed from British Raj Indian Holocaust to Palestinian, Iraqi & Afghan Genocides
24 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsHolocaust denial is repugnant but is entrenched in the mainstream academics, media and political Establishments of the Western Murdochracies.
In WW2 Churchill deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death, continued to foster Muslim-Hindu antipathy that led to the horrors of Indian Partition and persuaded his War Cabinet on racist Partition of Palestine. Yet the holocaust-complicit Anglo media, academic and politician Establishment is still in denial.
About a year ago I published an (…) -
Book Review: “Denial. History betrayed” by Tony Taylor ignores ongoing UK and US holocausts and genocides
23 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Holocaust denial and holocaust ignoring must be exposed because they both simply mean that awful history ignored will yield awful history repeated.
“Denial. History betrayed” by Tony Taylor (Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2008) is a very well written, well annotated and well referenced book that deals with the phenomenon of “holocaust denial” and, in general, the denial of horrendous abuses of humanity. This is an important book that should certainly be read by everyone and should (…) -
Daniel Bensaid – 1946-2010
12 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Tragically, Daniel Bensaid, leading French revolutionary socialist and author of Marx For Our Times passed away this morning, Tuesday 12th January 2010.
This is a rough translation of Liberation’s report of the death of Daniel Bensaid.
The Marxist philosopher and theorist of the old Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), a predecessor New anti-capitalist party (NPA), Daniel Bensaid, died this morning at 63. He had been seriously ill for several months.
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GLADIO: THE SECRET U.S. WAR TO SUBVERT ITALIAN DEMOCRACY
6 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
by Arthur E. Rowse
The program in Italy was aimed at the threat that communists might mount an insurrection or gain a share of political power through the ballot box. An insurrection was unlikely, however, since nearly all posts in the bureaucracy were filled after the war by solidly anticommunist veterans of Mussolini’s forces, with Allied approval.
During the war, most Americans considered themselves heroes who freed Western Europe from its brutal Nazi and fascist rulers. It wasn’t (…) -
Video: Attack on Pearl Harbor Remembered at Baltimore Ceremony
8 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
The US Coast Guard Cutter “Taney,” (WPG37), sits in Baltimore harbor, as a museum/memorial, and is known as “The Last Survivor of Pearl Harbor,” according to the program notes prepared by the “Historic Ships in Baltimore.”
See,
http://www.historicships.org/
On Dec. 7, 2009, the “68th Anniversary” of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a moving noontime ceremony was held on the “Taney”; it included the dropping of a memorial wreath into the harbor.
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THE JFK CASE: WHAT INFORMANTS ARE STILL OUT THERE?
25 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
There are many questions about the JFK assassination that can easily be answered - but only by eyewitnesses who aren’t going to be alive for much longer.
Do the math: It was 46 years ago this week. It’s time for these eyewitnesses to tell their stories - or for the rest of us to at least know who to ask.
Thanks to the JFK Act of 1992 passed in the wake of Oliver Stone’s well-known movie, many of the assassination documents were released in the last few years - but the rest are being (…) -
The Mysteries of Trebitsch-Lincoln Con-man, Spy, ‘Counter-Initiate’?
18 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
The Mysteries of Trebitsch-Lincoln: Con-man, Spy, ‘Counter-Initiate’?
BY DR. RICHARD B. SPENCE
Whatever else may be said about Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, few can match his resume. He started life in Hungary in 1879 as plain Ignacz Trebitsch, the son of a prosperous orthodox Jewish family. He ended it sixty-four years later in Shanghai as the Abbot Chao Kung. Or at least he probably did. In between, using innumerable aliases, Trebitsch played the parts of actor, petty thief, (…) -
The Weimar Hyperinflation: Could it Happen Again?
23 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsThe Weimar Hyperinflation: Could it Happen Again?
“It was horrible. Horrible! Like lightning it struck. No one was prepared. The shelves in the grocery stores were empty. You could buy nothing with your paper money.” (1933 interview)
By Ellen Brown May 20, 2009
Some worried commentators are predicting a massive hyperinflation of the sort suffered by Weimar Germany in 1923, when a wheelbarrow full of paper money could barely buy a loaf of bread. An April 29 editorial in the San (…) -
Bastille Day - from French heroism (1789) to Sarkozy France-complicit, US-imposed Afghan Genocide (2009)
16 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsBy Dr Gideon Polya
On 14th July 2009 the French celebrated Bastille Day 220 years after the storming of the Bastille on 14th July 1789 by the heroic French people in the French Revolution.
However what is forgotten is that while the French gained their freedom from oppressive aristocratic rule in the French Revolution, the economic Establishment of France continued its policies of denying non-Europeans their freedom throughout the world.
“Liberté, égalité, fraternité” did not apply to (…)