BY WILLIAM BLUM
President Castro addressing the Cuban people in Havana.
FROM OUR APPALLING HYPOCRISY ANNALS
The existence of a revolutionary socialist government with
growing ties to the Soviet Union only 90 miles away, insisted
the United States Government, was a situation which no self-
respecting superpower should tolerate, and in 1961 it undertook
an invasion of Cuba. Continue reading ‘CUBA: The unforgivable revolution—1959 to 1980s’
BY STEVE LENDMAN
Dateline: Thursday, August 09, 2007
Marjorie Cohn is a distinguished law professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego where she’s taught since 1991 and is the current president of the National Lawyers Guild. She’s also been a criminal defense attorney at the trial and appellate levels, is an author, and has written many articles for professional journals, other publications, and for noted web sites such as Global Research, ZNet, CounterPunch, AfterDowning Street, Common Dreams, AlterNet and others. Her long record of achievements, distinctions and awards is broad and varied for her teaching, writing and her work as a lawyer and activist for peace, social and economic justice. Continue reading ‘Reviewing Marjorie Cohn’s “Cowboy Republic”’
The inescapable flagwaving idiots’ brigade on display.
BY “SL”
CLASSIC ARCHIVES
(This was a t r u t h o u t Reader Submission)
t r u t h o u t is a fraternal site | Friday 09 January 2004
Dear Sir,
My family was one of Hitler’s victims. We lost a lot under the Nazi occupation, including an uncle who died in the camps and a cousin killed by a booby trap. I was terrified when my father went ballistic after finding my brother and me playing with a hand grenade. (I was only 12 at the time, and my brother insisted the grenade was safe.) I remember the rubble and the hardships of ‘austerity’ - and the bomb craters from Allied bombs. As late as the 1980s, I had to take detours while bombs were being removed - they litter the countryside, buried under parking lots,buildings, and in the canals and rivers to this day. Believe me, I learned a lot about Hitler while I was growing up, both in Europe and here in the US - both my parents were in the war and talked about it constantly, unlike most American families. I spent my earliest years with the second-hand fear that trickled down from their PTSD - undiagnosed and untreated in those days. Continue reading ‘CLASSIC ESSAYS: The Bush Hitler Thing’
BY NOAM CHOMSKY Dateline: July 29th, 2007
If the Bush-Cheney/Neocon manufactured war against Iran becomes a reality, Tehran could quickly end up in a heap of radioactive rubble.
Published on Saturday, July 28, 2007 by Zmag.org
The following is an excerpt from Noam Chomsky’s new book Interventions published by City Lights Books.
In the energy-rich Middle East, only two countries have failed to subordinate themselves to Washington’s basic demands: Iran and Syria. Accordingly both are enemies, Iran by far the more important.
As was the norm during the Cold War, resort to violence is regularly justified as a reaction to the malign influence of the main enemy, often on the flimsiest of pretexts. Unsurprisingly, as Bush sends more troops to Iraq, tales surface of Iranian interference in the internal affairs of Iraq-a country otherwise free from any foreign interference, on the tacit assumption that Washington rules the world. Continue reading ‘The Cold War Between Washington and Tehran’
By Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington DC
Dateline: Saturday September 25, 2004 / The Guardian (UK)
Far-fetched satire or irrefutable revelations?
Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today’s president
Continue reading ‘How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power’
BY CHARLEY REESE
Many Jews oppose Zionism, including some belonging to highly orthodox religious groups, such as Neturei Karta, who are well noted for their valor in protesting Israeli policies.
One of the myths created by the Israeli lobby is that Jews around the world are unanimous in their support of Israel, regardless of what it does. That’s not true and never has been true. Continue reading ‘Cracks in Zionism’
Courtesy is one thing, but did Pelosi have to applaud so…enthusiastically?
NOTE from CJO editors: When it happens, Americans won’t be able to say they didn’t get enough warnings. The lights are being shut off in this nation, one by one, while most of the public remains glassy-eyed, glued to the latest idiocy performed by one of the innumerable decadent movie starlets of this patethically self-indulgent culture. And as the Constitution gets torn asunder, piece by piece, don’t count on that old hypocritical whore, the corporate media, or the US Congress, to sound the alarm. If anything, given their abject careerism, incurable stupidity, and disconnection from the realities that define life for most people, they can be counted on to compound the problem by serving as propaganda megaphones for the tyrants in the making. Here’s some of the accumulating signs that catastrophe is imminent unless we serve notice to the usurpers in Washington that the American people will not allow the Constitution and what remains of our democracy to be buried under a wave of manufactured pretexts. Continue reading ‘Sliding Toward Tyranny by Criminalizing the Antiwar Movement’
BY WILLIAM BLUM
This is a chapter (the Introduction) from Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum, 1987 edition
American troops parade in Vladivostok, Siberia, in 1918, as part of a multinational intervention force to overthrow the new Soviet government.
Our fear that communism might someday
take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.–Michael Parenti(1)
It was in the early days of the fighting in Vietnam that a Vietcong officer said to his American prisoner: “You were our heroes after the War. We read American books and saw American films, and a common phrase in those days was “to be as rich and as wise as an American”. What happened?” (2) Continue reading ‘A brief history of the Cold War and anti-communism’
BY CHALMERS JOHNSON \ Tomdispatch.com
Posted on July 28, 2007, Printed on July 28, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/58164/
Late Chilean President Salvador Allende (r) and CIA/Pentagon man in Santiago, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, later dictator of Chile for 17 years with ample Washington support. Just one of numerous crimes in the agency’s sordid history in defense of capitalism, not freedom.
This essay is a review of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner (Doubleday, 702 pp., $27.95).
The American people may not know it but they have some severe problems with one of their official governmental entities, the Central Intelligence Agency. Because of the almost total secrecy surrounding its activities and the lack of cost accounting on how it spends the money covertly appropriated for it within the defense budget, it is impossible for citizens to know what the CIA’s approximately 17,000 employees do with, or for, their share of the yearly $44 billion-$48 billion or more spent on “intelligence.” This inability to account for anything at the CIA is, however, only one problem with the Agency and hardly the most serious one either. Continue reading ‘The True — and Shocking — History of the CIA’
BY CHALMERS JOHNSON [Tomdispatch.com]
Posted on May 17, 2007, Printed on July 28, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/51975/
In politics, as in medicine, a cure based on a false diagnosis is almost always worthless, often worsening the condition that is supposed to be healed. The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public ills. Most of them can be traced to the militarism and imperialism that have led to the near-collapse of our Constitutional system of checks and balances. Unfortunately, none of the remedies proposed so far by American politicians or analysts addresses the root causes of the problem. Continue reading ‘Can We End the American Empire Before It Ends Us?’
