What we don’t say about the Gold Stars
If we needed to be re-awakened, the PBS Series “The Vietnam War” reminded us that men and women who served in Vietnam were certainly treated differently by the American people than those currently...
View ArticleWhat a Hell of a Way to Organize: An Interview With Francis Horton
(reprinted from Midwest Socialist) Francis Horton is that rarest of U.S. soldiers: a leftist and self-identifying socialist. Born in Missouri in 1983, he joined the U.S. Army in July of 2000 and served...
View ArticleTrump transcripts: Latest “thinking” on Syria
For those who think that Donald Trump is thinking about issues, think again. From his utterances [let’s not dignify them by calling them “statements”] and early-morning bedside tweets, one can only...
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Beware of Putin after World Cup and meeting with Trump
Four and a half years ago, on Sunday, February 23, the 2014 Winter Olympics ended in Sochi, Russia. Four days later, masked Russian troops without insignia took over the Supreme Council (parliament) of...
View ArticleGuns or butter? Butter, says Peace Economy Project
What’s better: a military-based economy or a peace-based economy? Jason Sibert of the Peace Economy Project, says that cutting military spending and funding human needs would create a peace economy,...
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How World War I unleashed total war and the power of propaganda
Nov. 11, now called Veterans Day, was originally Armistice Day, a commemoration of the end of World War I, in 1918, the cessation of 50 months of shooting, shelling and killing that claimed the lives...
View ArticleWhen a President Hits a Home Run, don’t criticize him for wearing the wrong...
President Joe Biden did something that his three predecessors failed to do during their nearly twenty years of presiding over America’s longest war. Biden leveled with the American people and told them...
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Back in the USSR
In 1959, Chuck Berry had a hit with a song called Back in the USA, a rock ‘n roll propelled love anthem to America. The lyrics went: Oh well, oh well, I feel so good today We touched ground on an...
View ArticleWar, huh (good God y’all) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing
Edwin Starr sang it loud in 1970. War, huh (good God y’all) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing Say it, say it, say it War (uh-huh), huh (yeah, huh) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, listen...
View ArticleIs Putin Russia, and Russia Putin?
As Americans, we are not one in any way, shape or form. We are diverse, inclusive, at times exclusionary, conflicted, self-righteous and, more often than not these days, divisive. In our...
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