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One Person’s Freedom Fighter/Hero Is Another Person’s Terrorist

On left in photo, Chinese student stands in front of military tank in Tiananmen Sq in Beijing, June 5, 1989. He was lauded by US Pres Geeorge HW Bush as a brave, courageous hero, causing tank to stop. On right, USA Vietnam veteran sits in front of military train in California, Sept. 1, 1987 (21 [...]

The Secret Behind the Arrowheads

Table of Contents
I.  Youth in Seneca Indian Country, Geneva (Kanadesaga), Finger Lakes Region of New York
     **What My Grandfather’s 1906 U.S. American History Textbook Said About The Indians
     **The White Male, Formally Educated Scholars Who Taught Us Our History
     **What My 1953-54 Seventh Grade New York History Textbook Said About the Iroquois Indians 
II.  The Long [...]

We Are the Antidote – Every Choice a revolutionary Act

There is a deeply uncomfortable but clearly structural explanation for the pattern of historic U.S. war-making that continues to this very moment. US Americans, people like you and me, are addicted to insatiable consumption that makes the American Way Of Life totally dependent upon massive exploitation of others and their resources, and the earth herself. 
The [...]

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, From my personal notes on visit to Haiti in 1991

Monday, June 17, 1991
Learning of Aristide’s 1990 election and US efforts via Jimmy Carter to defeat him
Before lunch, we met with Father Antoine Adrien, a former priest in Brooklyn, New York, a current priest in Haiti, and currently a member of the Committee to Honor and Respect the Constitution and a close personal associate [...]

Why Do We Kill, Maim, and Colonize? Chief Sitting Bull Told Us in 1877

The great Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull resisted forced settlement on reservations in the 1870s. In 1877, after he defeated General Custer at Little Bighorn, he decided to migrate to Canada. He had mixed feelings about such migration as he pronounced the following words: 
“Behold my brothers, the Spring has come; the earth has received the [...]

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