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Woodstock – 10 Days Out of Viet Nam, I Wanted A Revolution

August 17, 2009 – 12:56 pm

Ten days out of Viet Nam 40 years ago yesterday, I was vacationing with my wife at a B&B in Woodstock, Vermont. At our first breakfast we read the morning newspaper about an incredible happening in a small town in upstate New York by the same name — Woodstock! I had not known about it […]

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Terror and Preventive War ARE U.S. American Values

July 1, 2009 – 11:34 pm

Systematic use of terror and preventive war are historic U.S. American values. Their roots are directly and inextricably interconnected to the defense mechanism we call racism. The defining and enabling experience of the Republic of the United States is the genocidal elimination of the human beings who originally lived on our lands. Eurocentric racism and […]

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THE SHADOW

June 28, 2009 – 11:26 pm

Years after my experience in Vietnam, where I witnessed the immediate aftermath of intentional, low-flight bombings of inhabited fishing villages, I again personally witnessed the cruel and nearly incomprehensible U.S. wars against the restive but humble barefoot and shirtless peoples of Central America in the 1980s. I was in disbelief, literally feeling sick to my […]

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What is a Human Being Worth? An “American” versus an Afghanistan Citizen

June 15, 2009 – 1:03 pm

On Sunday, June 14, I read an article in the Sunday Times Online (UK), “Afghan Villagers Slain As They Took Cover,” describing the results of a 2,000-pound bomb dropped by a US B1 bomber in Afghanistan’s Farah Province on May 4. Estimates of number of civilians killed (murdered) range from Afghan officials’ figure of 140 […]

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Disobedience to Top-Down Authority

June 14, 2009 – 1:04 pm

On this day in 1943, the US Supreme Court clearly invalidated compulsory flag salutes and the Pledge of Allegiance for public schoolchildren. This case was brought by Jehovah’s Witnesses who believe it is blasphemous to worship, serve or pledge allegiance to any secular image because it interferes with undivided loyalty to God. It is ironic […]

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