This interview with Max Blumenthal (author of “The Management of Savagery“) is well worth hearing in its entirety in Aaron Maté’s “Push Back” podcast, here: “US claim of ‘Russian Bounty’ plot in Afghanistan is dubious and dangerous” (Youtube) In the meantime, here are some choice quotes: AARON MATÉ: What do you make of the…
Fear of Falling Can Making Black Lives Matter Rescue a Failing State? By Rebecca Gordon Reprinted with permission from Tomdispatch.com You know that feeling when you trip on the street and instantly sense that you’re about to crash hard and there’s no way to prevent it? As gravity has its way with you, all you…
An Interview with Jonathan Schell on America’s Vietnam Debacle By Chris Appy [The following interview from Chris Appy’s 2003 book Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides is used with the kind permission of his publisher, Viking Penguin, and is posted at TomDispatch.com as a memorial to Jonathan Schell, who died on March 25th, and to his work,…
Editor’s Note: Here’s how the author, William Astore, introduces himself: “I joined the military in 1981, signing up in college for the Reserve Officer Training Corps, or ROTC. I went on active duty in 1985 and served for 20 years, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. I come from a family of firefighters and cops….
Editor’s Note: See also: “CELEBRATED TO DEATH: MEMORIAL DAY IS KILLING US” By Don Pelton On this Memorial Day, I must speak a few words in support of warriors, and in opposition to war. Despite reaching my formative young adulthood during the anti-war 1960s, and despite my minor experience with something remotely similar to combat…