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  • Worse Than McCarthy
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ELLEN SCHRECKER
    When Barrows Dunham, chairman of Temple University’s philosophy department, faced the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953, he knew that his job was on the line. He was determined not to cooperate with the committee or name names; so, after giving his name, address, and - reluctantly - his date and place of birth, he invoked the Fifth Amendment’s privilege against self-incrimination. He was more forthcoming with Temple’s investigation, explaining to a special (…)

  • The woman warrior
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ellen Goodman
    WHEN THE news came of Betty Friedan’s death on her 85th birthday, I remembered Aug. 26, 1970, the Women’s Strike for Equality. I remembered Betty Friedan parading down New York’s Fifth Avenue, with tens of thousands of exhilarated women behind her.
    I also remembered the afternoon edition of my paper illustrating that march with two front-page photos. On the left was the pretty, blond, smiling figurehead of some unknown group of Happy Homemakers. On the right was Betty (…)

  • "You know what happened to Nixon when he broke the law?"
    7 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    press conference Questioner Helen Thomas...
    Q Does the President think he should obey the law? He put his hand on the Bible twice to uphold the Constitution. Wiretapping is not legal under the circumstances without a warrant.
    MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I guess you didn’t pay attention to the Attorney General’s hearing earlier today, because he walked through very clearly the rationale behind this program. And, Helen, I think you have to ask are we a nation at war —
    Q There is no rationale to (…)

  • The King who led on world peace
    3 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    ONE OF the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous speeches was his April 4, 1967, condemnation of the Vietnam War. He said America could never end poverty at home as long as ’’adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube."
    King confessed in his speech that it took him two years to ’’break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart." A prior, 1965 declaration that (…)

  • Were Abbey Hoffman Jerry Rubin and the Chicago 7 really Police Agents?
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Do you think Abbie Hoffman and the Chicago 7 (exception Bobby Seale) were civilian assets for the police from the very begining as has been documented by Skolnick?
    Short preface 3/17/2004.
    After this preface there is re-typed, VERBATIM, my original investigation report of 1972. Since there is currently supposed Anti-Iraq War Movements, it is instructive to study prior such movements. Why? To determine, by example, if the leadership and direction they are taking secretly serves the (…)

  • THE MISSION: Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s final chapter
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by DAVID LEVERING LEWIS
    In one of his more bizarre Oval Office confidences, Lyndon Johnson said that he didn’t want to “follow Hitler” but that Hitler had the right idea: “Just take a simple thing and repeat it often enough, even if it wasn’t true, why, people accept it.” Johnson was speaking by telephone to Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma, Alabama, about how to convince Southern whites that Southern blacks deserved the franchise. The curious political-science tutorial came on the (…)

  • Reflections on King
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Adrian Walker
    It takes a deep devotion to spend more than two decades of your life on a single topic, and the passion that has kept historian Taylor Branch going for all these years comes through clearly when he discusses his life’s work: the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    Branch has spent the past 24 years researching, analyzing, and chronicling King, whose life spanned just 39 years. ’’At Canaan’s Edge," the third and concluding volume of his grand trilogy on America in the King (…)

  • Tyrant in the White House Bush Crosses the Rubicon
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
    Dictatorships seldom appear full-fledged but emerge piecemeal. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with one Roman legion he broke the tradition that protected the civilian government from victorious generals and launched the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Fearing that Caesar would become a king, the Senate assassinated him. From the civil wars that followed, Caesar’s grand nephew, Octavian, emerged as the first Roman emperor, Caesar (…)

  • Dr. Martin Luther King & the REvolution of Human Rights
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The revolution for human rights is opening up unhealthy areas in American life and permitting a new and wholesome healing to take place,” Dr. Martin Luther King once told a racially-mixed audience. “Eventually the civil rights movement will have contributed infinitely more to the nation than the eradication of racial injustice.”
    Congresswoman Barbara Lee Remembers Martin Luther King By James Butty Washington, DC 16 January 2006
    listen to the interview with Congresswoman Barbara Lee (…)

  • Tyrant in the White House Bush Crosses the Rubicon
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
    Dictatorships seldom appear full-fledged but emerge piecemeal. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with one Roman legion he broke the tradition that protected the civilian government from victorious generals and launched the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Fearing that Caesar would become a king, the Senate assassinated him. From the civil wars that followed, Caesar’s grand nephew, Octavian, emerged as the first Roman emperor, Caesar (…)