Category: Vietnam War
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Gulf of Tonkin Papers Finally Released
You mean the NSA deliberately skewed intelligence to start an imperialist war? No way: The most provocative document is a 2001 article in which an agency historian argued that the agency’s intelligence officers “deliberately skewed” the evidence passed on to policymakers on the crucial question of whether North Vietnamese ships attacked U.S. destroyers on Aug. […]
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Keystone Kops and Colostomy Bags: How the Pentagon Papers Happened
Chilling and yet Keystone Kops-esque: Former Pentagon and RAND Corporation analyst, famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Mike Gravel – the former Alaska Senator who is now a Democratic Presidential candidate and Robert West, the former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association which owned the Press and agreed to risk publication of the Pentagon Papers. Listen to […]
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40 Years Ago Today: Martin Luther King, Jr Goes ‘Beyond Vietnam'
1 year before he was assassinated MLK gave a speech that Time magazine called ‘demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi’ and the Washington Post said ‘diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.’ If we do not stop our war against the people of Vietnam immediately, the world will […]
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The Other Martin Luther King, Jr
Every year the media enshrines Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and always conveniently forgets the last several years of his life where he moved from race relations to class structure and poverty. In the early 1960s, when King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South, most major media were his allies. But […]
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Glen Greenwald on Chicken Hawks
Jeff Jacboy went on a tear about the term ‘chicken hawk’ and how it was a slur. Glen Greenwald responds: Chicken-hawkism is the belief that advocating a war from afar is a sign of personal courage and strength, and that opposing a war from afar is a sign of personal cowardice and weakness. and aiming […]
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Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal ‘08,No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War by Greg Palast (Mindmap)
Must read. You know Greg Palast as the ex-pat journalist that reports for the BBC and reported to the rest of the world how the 2000 election was FUBARed while no one in the US did a damned thing. He’s back. Armed Madhouse is a complete tour of the greedy, selfish assholes that run our […]
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Nobel, Laureate Physicists Urge Bush Against Nuking Iran
Thirteen of the nation’s most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran “gravely irresponsible” and warning that such action would have “disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world.” Remember Sy Hersh’s New Yorker articles? A government consultant with […]
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Why We Fight
Whoo I’m drunk! Kevin and I met up for a good ol’ lefty meeting. We went to see Why We Fight. Why We Fight starts with Eisenhower’s presidential exit speech where he warns of the enroachment of the military-industrial complex and the documentary explores how Americans are inevitably drawn to war as a solution to […]
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Gulf of Tonkin Was a Sham
It has long been suspected that the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which spurred our launch into the Vietnam conflict was based on shoddy intelligence. The most provocative document is a 2001 article in which an agency historian argued that the agency’s intelligence officers "deliberately skewed" the evidence passed on to policymakers on the crucial question […]