If we can’t curb the violence of our own governments, what sense does it make to condemn the violent reactions of the states or movements they attack? asks Jean Bricmont.
Remaining Silent
Tag: Vietnam War
The Normalcy of US Wars
A government willing to kill millions and spend trillions on war while borrowing to pay interest on borrowed money will one day collapse of its own weight; as have all empires, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano.
Will Iran Be Another ‘Forever War?’
John Mearsheimer discusses with Chris Hedges the balance of power in the Middle East, U.S. military capacity and possible outcomes of the U.S.-Iran War.
Escalating the Escalation
Greg Grandin provides a short history of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.
Vietnamese Still Uncompensated for Agent-Orange
Fifty years later, the impacts of the war on victims of the U.S. defoliation operation have never ended, writes Marjorie Cohn. U.S. Rep. Tlaib is trying to provide recompense.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Losing & Learning Nothing
The delusions about Ukraine continue as from the start. Washington and its puppet regime in Kiev have lost the war they provoked but there is no speaking of a defeat.
TikTok & Free Speech
The same government that cannot audit its own Defense Department, and can’t balance its own budget, is going to protect us from the Chinese — even if free speech is impaired in the process, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Why Jimmy Carter Pardoned Draft Resisters
Gerry Condon recalls the years of determined resistance and organizing that led the late president to pardon draft resisters.
In the US, Make it Armistice Day Again
Declare an armistice in Gaza and Lebanon and make Veteran’s Day Armistice Day once more in the U.S., says Gerry Condon.
On the Call Not to Protest in Chicago
According to LA Times editorialists, Chicago in 1960 and 1964 had good protesters who “worked within the party apparatus.” The 1968 protesters, they say, were bad and “set back the cause,” writes Riva Enteen.