Edward Curtin Despite calendars and clocks and all the mental gymnastics we use to control life and time, surprises are at the heart of existence. This may seem like a truism, but if so, it is one of those truths we often avoid in our desire for stability and the quelling of anxiety. Our expectations, …
Edward Curtin “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous,” warned Rev. King, “than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” How true those words. For the government that honors Dr. King with a national holiday killed him. This is the suppressed truth behind the highly promoted day of service. It is what you are not supposed …
Daniel Broudy It’s a strange thing about human affairs, our natural need to feel belonging, and how, if given time to pause and parse what we think we know about the world, we can begin to see through the grand illusions made to manage human perception and to maintain a mediated, tightly controlled false sense …
Simon Elmer This is the second part of a two-part article. Part 1, featuring questions 1-5 was published here yesterday, and we would recommend reading it before continuing with Part 2. 6. What is Collective Punishment? Those who dare to accuse our soldiers of war crimes are people imbued with hypocrisy and lies, who do …
Kissinger and my Interstate 81 Epiphany By James Bovard Henry Kissinger died last week. So far, I’ve been handling my grief pretty well. Kissinger was the most esteemed war criminal in American history. Kissinger, who was Nixon’s National Security Advisor, summarized Nixon’s order for bombing Cambodia; “Anything that flies on everything that moves.” In […]
The post Kissinger and My Interstate 81 Epiphany appeared first on James Bovard.
Former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died last night at the age of 100. An insider to the core, Kissinger’s early career reads like a list of establishment clichés; educated at Harvard he pledged Phi Beta Kappa before working for the RAND Corporation, the Rockefellers and the Council on Foreign Relations. In a …
Edward Curtin What is the truth, and where did it go? Ask Oswald and Ruby, they oughta know “Shut your mouth,” said the wise old owl Business is business, and it’s a murder most foul Don’t worry, Mr. President Help’s on the way Your brothers are coming, there’ll be hell to pay Brothers? What brothers? What’s this about hell? Tell them, “We’re waiting, keep coming” We’ll get …
Britain’s nuclear terrorism: interview with Milan Raiby Ian SinclairMorning Star8 November 2023 The Editor of Peace News newspaper and author of the 1994 book Tactical Trident: The Rifkind Doctrine and the Third World, peace activist Milan Rai has recently written several articles about the UK’s nuclear arsenal. Ian Sinclair asked Rai to respond to the […]
Reinforcing the imperium: Joseph Gerson on the US nuclear arsenalby Ian SinclairMorning Star7 November 2023 In the first of two interviews on the topic, Ian Sinclair speaks to Joseph Gerson, President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, about his seminal 2007 book Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons […]
Edward Curtin “This is slavery, not to speak one’s thoughts.” Euripides, The Phoenician Women Some time ago on a Sunday evening when my wife and I had just sat down to dinner, our phone rang. Since I didn’t recognize the phone number and it was dinnertime, I hesitated to answer it, but for some chance reason …
