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March of Folly: Fall of American Empire

February 21, 2023

MARCH OF FOLLY: FALL OF AMERICAN EMPIRE “Folly is a child of power.” ― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam “A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than […]

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If You Believe

November 3, 2022

IF YOU BELIEVE If you believed they put a man on the moon Man on the moon If you believe there’s nothing up his sleeve Then nothing is cool REM – Man on the Moon The REM song Man on the Moon, released in 1992, is a haunting melancholy tune, with Andy Kaufmann and his […]

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The Four Disastrous Presidential Policies That Are Destroying the Nation

September 24, 2018

The Four Disastrous Presidential Policies That Are Destroying the Nation The nation is failing as a direct consequence of these four catastrophic policies. It’s admittedly a tough task to select the four most disastrous presidential policies of the past 60 years, given the great multitude to choose from. Here are my top choices and the […]

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Giving War Too Many Chances

January 3, 2018

Giving War Too Many Chances As the new year begins, it is important for the U.S. to acknowledge its troubling history of global war-making, especially  over the past two-decades, as Nicolas J.S. Davies delineates. I met John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Christmas Eve in 1969.  I joined them and a small group of local […]

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Bringing Back the Draft Won’t Stop Unnecessary Wars

October 31, 2017

Bringing Back the Draft Won’t Stop Unnecessary Wars Conscripting soldiers neither stops unnecessary wars nor makes the death toll more egalitarian. Every now and then the old argument that the draft should be reinstated pops back up. Most recently it appeared here at The American Conservative in a piece by Dennis Laich and Lawrence Wilkerson that contended America’s […]

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The Killing of History

September 23, 2017

The Killing of History One of the most hyped “events” of American television,The Vietnam War, has started on the PBS network. The directors are Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.  Acclaimed for his documentaries on the Civil War, the Great Depression and the history of jazz, Burns says of his Vietnam films, “They will inspire our […]

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MH-17 Mystery: A New Tonkin Gulf Case?

July 18, 2015

MH-17 Mystery: A New Tonkin Gulf Case? Exclusive: In 1964, the Tonkin Gulf incident was used to justify the Vietnam War although U.S. intelligence quickly knew the facts were not what the U.S. government claimed. Now, the MH-17 case is being exploited to justify a new Cold War as U.S. intelligence again is silent about what it knows, […]

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America as Dangerous Flailing Beast

June 26, 2015

America as Dangerous Flailing Beast Despite pretty talk about “democracy” and “human rights,” U.S. leaders have become the world’s chief purveyors of chaos and death – from Vietnam through Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and many other unfortunate nations, a dangerous dilemma addressed by John Chuckman. When I think of America’s place in the world today, […]

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