The MLK Assassination
Apparently, I am a cliché, for it was the well-documented year 1968 that radically changed my perspective on life. And no single event had such a profound effect on me that year as the murder of Martin...
View ArticleBlurring the Lines for “Greater Efficiencies”
The thing about this financial mess that haunts me is the fact it’s part of the “bigger is better” blather we’ve heard before Remember last decade when the telecommunications bills were being...
View Article35 Years After Vietnam
Was it only six years ago when I realized that the Vietnam war, contrary to the historic record, was not over after all? I’m talking, of course, about Vietnam vet John Kerry and what he did (or didn’t)...
View ArticleScott Ritter is…complicated
As the facts emerged, though, it became apparent to me that Scott Ritter was one of THOSE guys.
View ArticleJournalism, by Joe Sacco – a review
Cartoonist/war correspondent Joe Sacco’s new book, JOURNALISM (Metropolitan Books; on sale June 22, 2012) is doing an interesting thing, addressing wars and other conflicts in recent human experience...
View ArticleD-Day
Almost inevitably, they cry. They weep for those comrades they still know by name 70 years after they perished, tears that they weren't allowed to shed at the time.
View Article40 years ago: the fall of Saigon
I knew a guy, Michael, who almost certainly died from Agent Orange exposure in early 1982, just after his daughter was born.
View ArticleMark Twain on war, patriotism and religion
We may not understand fully our prayers of war.
View ArticleNuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power Abolition: Free Three Part Film Series
This August marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombs dropped by the U.S. upon Japan, which caused extreme suffering. Read The Real Reason America Dropped The Atomic Bomb. It Was Not To End The...
View ArticleJoe Hittorff, Jr. (Dec 2, 1916- Dec 7, 1941)
Joe Hittorff was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, the Victory Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and the American Defense Medal
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