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Vietnam
Joe Allen
All imperial systems attempt to reinvent the past, engineer history to suit their needs. The United States is no different. Vietnam is a perfect example. A war of aggression was transformed into a “conflict.” It was “tragic” and a “mistake.” At the other end of the spectrum, the so-called liberal Washington Post called the war a “just […]
Corporatism’s Threat to Democracy
Ralph Nader
Milton Friedman is the godfather of modern conservative economics. A Nobel-prize winner, his ideas informed what is called the Chicago School. He laid the groundwork for Reagan-era neoliberalism with his landmark essay, “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits.” That’s pretty straightforward. Make as much money as you can. Society? It can […]
Famous Speeches & Sermons
Martin Luther King
4 of MLK’s most famous speeches: I Have Dream, I’ve Been to the Mountaintop, Drum Major Instinct & How Long? Not Long.
The Legacy of Reconstruction
Eric Foner
The Declaration of Independence declared equality as an American ideal, but it took a century to even partially realize that goal. One of the key periods of U.S. history is Reconstruction. They were the years following the Civil War. The era began with promises of egalitarianism. The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution […]
Get Up, Stand Up
Michael Moore
Bob Marley sang this song, “Get up, stand up, stand up for your right Get up, stand up, don’t give up the fight You can fool some people sometimes But you can’t fool all the people all the time So now we see the light, we gonna stand up for our rights.” The Occupy movement […]
Land of the Lawless
Ralph Nader
Politicians and pundits love to go on and on about “the rule of law.” The concept that no one is above the law is laudatory and central to a functioning democracy. But we can easily see the grotesque disparities in the application of law and the prosecution of those who commit crimes in the streets […]
Vietnam Voices
John Clark Pratt
Vietnam Voices features audio clips, history, music, poetry, as well as some GI latrine graffiti, among which the most memorable was, “This is a war of the unwilling, led by the unqualified, dying for the ungrateful.” Hear the voices of JFK, LBJ, McNamara, Lodge, Thieu, Cronkite, Fulbright, Morse, Kennan, et al. Music by Joan Baez, […]
From a Nun on the Bus
Simone Campbell
B.B. King sings, “Nobody likes you but your mama and she may be jiving you too.” A lot of poor people may feel that way. They are stigmatized and demonized. If they’d only go away. What’s wrong with them? Can’t they find a job or a place to live? The persistence of poverty in the […]
War as an Addiction
Chris Hedges
War is an emotionally intense and exhilarating experience. From ancient times war and the warrior have been celebrated. The adrenaline rushes of combat, the parades, the medals and the adulation are all part of the allure of war. It is imbued with ideas of nobility, selflessness and glory. General George Patton, one of America’s most […]
The Decline of U.S. Global Power
Alfred McCoy
What’s the shelf life of empires? Decades, maybe centuries. All things come to an end. Recall Shelley’s great poem Ozymandias about the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses the Great and his seemingly invincible kingdom. Ozymandias was Greek for Ramses. I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in […]
War or Peace in Korea
Eric Sirotkin
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. What can you say? They are lightweights fighting in the heavyweight division while the fate of possibly millions are at risk. Two heads of state trading taunts and insults back and forth like kids in a schoolyard. Trump declared that talking with North Korea is a “waste of time” and […]
Covid-19 Lessons for the Future
Stephen Bezruchka
If you weren’t aware of it before, the pandemic demonstrates the fact that the virus recognizes no boundaries or borders. There is no safe place. Our collective fragility has been made all too evident. What will we take away from the Covid-19 plague? We go back to business as usual only at our peril as […]

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