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Vietnam: The Redemptive Potential of Our Forever War

April 1, 2000 – 6:18 am

As we reflect on the 25th anniversay of the end of the tragic U.S. war against the Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian peoples, it is time to accept responsibility for the horrific harms we caused the Southeast Asian peoples and ourselves. The U.S. obsession with Cold War ideology blinded us to authentic struggles of common peoples to be free of external oppression.

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Who is Disabled?

March 1, 2000 – 2:03 pm

[Essay originally published as an article in The People’s Voice of Franklin County (Massachusetts), Spring 2000]

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The Unknown Truth About Korea: U.S. Sanctioned Death Squads and War Crimes, 1945-1953

January 1, 2000 – 4:40 pm

The mostly unknown record of the brutal U.S. occupation and subsequent control of Korea following the Japanese defeat in August 1945, and the voluminous number of war crimes committed between 1950 and 1953, have been systematically hidden under mountains of accusations directed almost solely against the "red menace" of northern Korea. The Korean War itself grew out of U.S. refusal to allow a genuine self-determination process to take root.

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U.S. Aggression Against Iraq: Historical and Political Context

January 1, 2000 – 2:23 pm

"We do not have any defense treaties with Kuwait and there are no special defense or security commitments to Kuwait."

–U.S. State Department, July 24, 1990

"We have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait….We have many Americans who would like to see the price go above $25 because they come from oil-producing states."

–April Glaspie, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq officially conversing
with Saddam Hussein, Baghdad, Iraq, July 25, 1990
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U.S. Government Impunity At Home: The Politicization of “Terrorism”

January 1, 2000 – 11:49 am

The history of the United States is loaded with cases of government commission of international crimes against other nations, and against the individual citizens of other nations, in which the U.S. government has enjoyed, and continues to enjoy, absolute impunity from any accountability, sanctions or punishment. This historic record of U.S. criminality is a very good reason why the Clinton Administration and people like Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) are absolutely opposed to creation of a U.N. International Criminal Court (ICC) unless the U.S.

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