OpEd

Crash Course & Turn the Guns Around

September 1, 2019 September 4, 2019 / Books, OpEd, Veterans, Vietnam, War

I may write about many different books here, but the top two for now are Crash Course: from the Good War to the Forever War, by H. Bruce Franklin, and Turn the Guns Around: Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and Revolutions, by my friend John Catalinotto, an organizer of the American Servicemen’s Union. Reviews of both follow. Crash …

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The canonization of Bush Sr.

December 10, 2018 September 4, 2019 / Imperialism, Memoir-Manifesto, OpEd, War

The recent fawning canonization of George HW Bush (senior) on the occasion of his death was really too much for me. So I appreciate the comments of Glen Ford of Blackagendareport.com. He said, in part: The daily whitewashing of imperial crimes that masquerades as “news” on corporate media becomes high ceremony when a Genocider-in-Chief dies. …

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