Category: The War-making State
Heroes
In this Washington Post piece on Rory Kennedy’s new film, Last Days in Vietnam, she is quoted as follows: “I think the reason why people don’t know what happened [in 1975] was this was such…
Yesterday/Today
Yesterday I was reading a history of Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan In one of the chapters The author noted that during the war The US thought of the Japanese As…
Simple Words
Give back my father, give back my mother; Give grandpa back, grandma back; Give my sons and daughters back. Give me back myself. Give back the human race. As long as this life lasts, this…
Boeing/Gaza (“It’s Not Personal; It’s Strictly Business”)
The Boeing Company must have been thrilled this past month Its warplanes performing so expertly in front of the world And Boeing is proud of its “products” and its customers Conflicts, massacres, wars They’re all…
Hamas and Ourselves
1. U.S. critics refer to “Hamas’s genocidal charter” as odious. No doubt it is. Of course, the U.S. was a practitioner of genocide of the indigenous population across this land. Perhaps a few of those…
Free Palestine
Over the weekend (Scores of Palestinians being killed) The pro basketball player tweeted Free Palestine The president of the Zionist Organization of America stated “Anyone who uses the phrase ‘Free Palestine’ is either ignorant of…
The Thread of One’s Anger — Jean-Paul Sartre
I always felt I had to stay in contact with the world, with my world. Ever since Marx, philosophy must lead to action. Otherwise it is irrelevant. So a philosopher does what he has to…
Interstate Vision
Headed toward Indianapolis See exit for Ronald Reagan Parkway I think of 1980s See a small mountain Of Central American corpses Women & children & men The slaughtered The disappeared At the hands of contras,…
Just Say Thanks?
1. On last year’s Memorial Day The Cardinals played the Royals And to show their gratitude For the soldiers who died in one war or another The players wore camouflage Instead of their regular uniforms…