May 5, 2021
My Whirlwind Lives: Navigating Decades of Storms. A political memoir and Manifesto. Publication forthcoming in 2022 Medea Benjamin Co-founder, CodePink (codepink.org) My Whirlwind Lives is a fast-paced and fascinating tour of a life filled with politics, passion and...
May 5, 2021
NOTE: A shorter, adapted version of this Afterword has been published in Democratic Left online, while I was still using the working title Life in the Whirlwind. by Dee Knight When I was in Nicaragua during the first Sandinista decade (the 1980s), there was a saying:...
May 5, 2021
by Dee Knight You could feel the storm brewing. Something was “blowin” in the wind. But it was a whirlwind: threats of nuclear catastrophe over Cuba blaring on the TV news, then images of police dogs and rednecks terrorizing civil rights marchers down...
Sep 1, 2019
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...
Dec 4, 2018
Turn the Guns Around: Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and Revolutions,?by my friend John Catalinotto, an organizer of the American Servicemen’s Union (ASU). I’ll post my review (below) of this hugely important book, and am likely to refer to it from time to...
