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  • THE DEATH OF ROBERT MCNAMARA
    6 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    McNamara may be the greatest modern example of the banality of evil.
    He was, in his heyday, a dry, boring man with the appearance of a corporate executive who taught Baptist Sunday School classes.
    He was very bright and energetic, but dry and boring, driven by an insane need for success and with no evident ethical standards beyond those associated with the ferociously ambitious.
    The United States, under his advice and that of others like McGeorge Bundy, created the greatest holocaust (…)

  • The Message of Benjamin Franklin
    3 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    I was asked: what are you proud of this Fourth? Currently? Very little, but I see the future because the past is the future. These people that we were, are unusual in their patience and uncommon in their valor.
    When the rupture with the British Parliament first occurred, the Continental Congress selected Benjamin Franklin to go to London as the voice of reason. Franklin was considered the foremost American in the world. A man of science and of letters, he was respected (…)

  • The Thriller is gone
    26 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Los Angeles — Michael Jackson - the pop music icon who charmed the world as a child star, dazzled the planet as the King of Pop and, in later years, alarmed millions with his eccentric behavior and unsettling sex-scandal trials - died Thursday. He was 50.
    Jackson’s brother says it’s believed that the pop star died of cardiac arrest.
    Jermaine Jackson cautioned at a hospital news conference Thursday that the cause of his death would not be known until an autopsy was performed.
    He said (…)

  • A look at the career of Michael Jackson
    26 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    A look at the career of Michael Jackson
    By The Associated Press – 27 minutes ago
    A look at the life and career of Michael Jackson: Aug. 29, 1958: Michael Joseph Jackson is born in Gary, Ind., the seventh of nine children. 1963: After several years of training, The Jackson 5 begin to perform in public. Dec. 14, 1969: The Jackson 5 appear on the "The Ed Sullivan Show." 1970: Their first album, "Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5," includes the hit singles "I Want You Back" and "I’ll Be (…)

  • The Ghosts of Detroit (Part 2)
    24 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Ghosts of Detroit (Part 2) By David Glenn Cox
    It was Durant who invented the modern car company, different models in different price ranges with different features all made with basically the same parts. The problem was Durant was a victim of his own success, he kept on buying more and more suppliers and car companies that added little to the GM line up. He bought thirteen different car companies and ten parts companies and then the sales began to slump. GM would need $12 million to (…)

  • The Ghosts of Detroit
    23 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    For the most part they have been forgotten; they are just empty, vacant memories like the empty, dilapidated homes which line her once proud streets. It was a land once ruled over by giants, captains of industry and labor and political thought.
    Of course, some remember the obvious ones, Ford or Durant. Yet there were so many more who, by their brains and backs, created out of thin air an economic powerhouse unrivalled anywhere in the world. Young Mr. Ford was a (…)

  • Lying by omission 1. BBC TV’s “The Story of India” ignores Indian Holocaust & British atrocities in India
    16 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Those aware of the tragic colonial history of India and other former Western colonies will quickly discover that Western historians in the English-speaking world simply IGNORE Western atrocities perpetrated against their non-European subjects i.e. they lie by omission.
    However history ignored yields history repeated and today First World greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution threatens the Developing World with a 10 billion victim Climate Genocide that will dwarf British and other Western colonial (…)

  • Extremism and Suffering Children
    15 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    What does a shootout at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., the confessions of a Khmer Rouge jailer and the murder of a Kansas medical doctor have in common? The answer is “children,” and how they suffer from being targeted and used by extremists to advance their own hateful agendas.
    In 1981, acting as a public interest lawyer, I represented a Holocaust survivor who had been a 17-year-old boy when his entire family was murdered in Nazi concentration camps. We sued a group of (…)

  • Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
    4 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
    My fellow Americans:
    Three days from now, after half a century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor.
    This evening I come to you with a message of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen.
    Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, (…)

  • UK Media censorship: "new" UK New Statesman censors Reader comments re British Indian Holocaust 1757-1947
    2 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The New Statesman (that I have read for over 40 years) used to permit sensible, authoritative, substantiated, referenced comment on its articles - but now it CENSORS comments, and in particular comments that inform about past, present and future Anglo-American genocidal excesses. Having been subject to repeated censorship of this kind by the New Statesmen I have now told them that I will INFORM people around the world about this ongoing holocaust-ignoring, especially in relation to (…)