The Task of Our Lifetime
The ideological position common to nearly everyone in the system is that America is best, its ideals perfect, its history spotless, its actions and society at the highest levels of human achievement and greatness. To…
Category: The War-making State
U.S. Ruthlessness
The leaders of the United States of Amnesia prattle on about our love for democracy, human rights, the rule of law, etc. But Abbie Hoffman knew the truth… “No one who read the fine print of…
Us, Ruthless? Never
I suspect that the Washington Post never used the word “ruthless” to describe Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger’s bombing of North Vietnam. Only the Giaps, Castros, and Arafats of the world are “ruthless.”
When Young People Go to War: Share the Wealth with Chris Wallach
What is it that makes young men and women and boys and girls join the service and go to war? What is their experience like once they get there? Chris Wallach will share what she…
“It’s Not All about Us?”
Why is so much omitted from our most familiar Vietnam war stories? The very size, length, and complexity of the war’s history is a partial explanation, but the harder truth is that we have simply…
Insertion
Wherever you have refugees, you have vultures who feed off them. –Kuan Ying, quoted in Lady Borton, Sensing the Enemy: An American Woman among the Boat People of Vietnam [101] Three worlds collide in this…
Saigon, U.S.A (Plus C’est la Même Chose)
…what Americans need to face is that these horrors are in fact being perpetrated with American assent, by a government kept in power solely by American military might, by men paid for by American dollars,…
A Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Boeing Company
O Lord God We joyously thank you For the many gifts You have provided us in Saint Louis With the Boeing Company Who sees to it That we are gainfully employed and That our community…
Beethoven, Smiling
In the posh concert hall The renowned symphony orchestra is going to town Offering the rapt, elegant audience A rousing rendition A awesome interpretation Of the Ninth Symphony Lo and behold it’s the famed Fourth…
After Reading Levertov’s Poem on the 1972 Christmas Bombing
For Suzanne Renard & Andrew Wimmer Haven’t you had such a fantasy Sure, a different decade A different civilization being destroyed Different men The same crimes Getting away with mass murder Mind movies of…