Regarding the US war in Vietnam
I lived with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua from 1987 to 1990. Those were not easy years. The US funded the Contras. Villages were burned, schools were attacked and the world was told a different story. Today I watched the war in Ukraine. I see the same patterns, the...
Interest in socialism has grown fast in the U.S. ever since 2008 when the economy failed. It has also been boosted by U.S. support for genocide against Palestinians, as well as war and threats of war against China and Russia.
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...
The world changed and I changed forever in 1968. It was really like a tidal wave. I was swept up in a torrent of change.
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 time. In some...