Essays by S. Brian Willson
LIST OF ESSAYS
BY DATE WRITTEN
List by Category
|
List by Date Posted
|
Home Page
Summary
of the Common Thread Running through these Essays
Revisiting the Ambush of September 1, 1987: A Metaphor/Myth for the Epoch We Call Civilization
Sept. 1, 2007
posted 09/2007
The Trauma of Civilization for Our Species: War and Its Victims
Aug. 17, 2007
posted 08/2007
9/11 & Bush are Distractions from a People's Revolt from Below
April 21, 2007
posted 05/2007
Air Force "Ranger" Training Provokes Personal Moral Issues
revised March 23, 2007
posted 03/2007
PTSD: Reality Versus Rhetoric
March 18/19, 2006
posted 03/2006
The War on Terror Requires Looking in the Mirror: British Playwright Harold Pinter Tells "Americans" the Truth about Ourselves
Dec. 11, 2005
posted 12/2005
The Defining and Enabling Experience of Our "Civilization": The Thanksgiving Myth
Nov. 2005
posted 12/2005
The End of War, or the End of US
Sept. 2005
posted 12/2005
Torture IS an "American" Value: Reality Versus the Rhetoric
Sept. 20, 2005
posted 09/2005
Root and Structural Causes of War
Sept. 2005
posted 09/2005
Prohibited Government Recruiting
Sept. 2005
posted 09/2005
Terror and Preventive War are "American" Values
April 2005
posted 09/2005
Noncooperation with and Resistance to Illegal Militarism and Wars are
Legal
under International and U.S. Constitutional Law
February 21, 2005
posted 02/2005
People's Strategies for Blocking U.S. Presidents from Waging Pre-emptive (Aggressive) War
July 29, 2004
posted 07/2004
People's Revolt From Below
July 20, 2004
posted 07/2004
John Kerry's Obsession
Spring 2004
posted 07/2004
Who is the Real John Kerry?
January 2004
posted 07/2004
The Pretexts Behind War Making
December 7, 2003
posted 12/2003
Propaganda and Coercion
October 5, 2003
posted 07/2004
Depleted Uranium
revised Sept. 25, 2003
posted 10/2003
Dear America:
A Letter to My Country
April 6, 2003
posted 04/2003
Open-Ended Fast Reflecting Upon A Quantum Leap in Consciousness: Our Survival is at Stake
March 25, 2003
posted 04/2003
Memorandum from the ACLU Regarding "Patriot Act II"
March 18, 2003
posted 04/2003
The Shadow
March 13, 2003
posted 04/2003
A Wounded Child Hobbles Along
Jan. 2003
posted 04/2003
Is 9/11 and Bush's "War on Terror" a Psychic Trigger for a Quantum Leap in Human Consciousness?
Jan. 6, 2003
posted 04/2003
Armageddon or Quantum Leap? U.S. Imperialism and Human Consciousness from an Evolutionary Perspective
Dec. 15, 2002
posted 04/2003
Fundraising Letter for Santa Cruz Film Associates Documentary Film Projects
Dec. 2002
posted 12/2002
Drawing the Line: An Open Letter to Present and Future U.S. Troops
Dec. 7, 2002
posted 12/2002
U.S. Reach: Product of U.S. Fundamentalism, Not Security
Nov. 2002
posted 04/2003
An Open Letter to Senator John Kerry on Iraq
Oct. 10, 2002
posted 10/2002
A Pivotal Evolutionary Moment for the World
Oct. 6, 2002
posted 10/2002
A Radical Manifesto for the New Millennium
Sept. 2002
posted 04/2003
History of Palestine and Green Line Israel
1992, revised May 2002
posted 07/2002
Letter to Sam Farr
Sept. 28, 2001
posted 10/2001
Sept. 11, 2001 Wake Up Call: We Are Not Worth More, They Are Not Worth Less
Sept. 22, 2001
posted 09/2001
When will the United States Apologize for its War Crimes? Importance of the Korea Truth Commission to this End
Sept. 8, 2001
posted 09/2001
History of U.S. Sabotage of Korean Peace and Reunification
revised Sept. 8, 2001
posted 09/2001
"Forgotten" Crimes Continue to be Revealed at Various Locations in Korea: Germ Warfare in
South
Korea?
Aug. 30, 2001
posted 09/2001
Revelations Continue to Mount of U.S. War Crimes in Korea
Aug. 21, 2001
posted 09/2001
The Unknown Truth about Korea: U.S. Sanctioned Death Squads and War Crimes, 1945-1953
2001
posted 09/2001
The Chronic U.S.-Concocted Distortions about Cuba
June 2, 2001
posted 06/2001
Bob Kerrey and the Crime of Vietnam: Will We Learn?
May 13, 2001
posted 05/2001
A Radical Proposal for Healing: The Invocation of a National People's Truth Commission
1999; revised Sept. 2000
posted 09/2000
Revealing Historic Truths as Foundation for Korean Reunification on its Own Terms: Report of Korean Truth Commission Delegation to Korea, Aug. 9-17, 2000
Aug. 21, 2000
posted 09/2001
The First U.S. Korean War
Summer 2000
posted 09/2001
End of Cruel U.S. Policies Demands Radical Healing of the National Ethos
July 20, 2000; revised Sept. 24, 2000
posted 09/2000
What the Flag Means to Me
July 4, 2000
posted 07/2000
U.S. Government Impunity At Home: The Politicization of "Terrorism"
2000
posted 06/2000
Memorial Day! What Does It Mean?
May 29, 2000
posted 05/2000
Who is Disabled?
Spring 2000
posted 05/2000
Vietnam: The Redemptive Potential of Our Forever War
April 30, 2000
posted 04/2000
A Summary of the Common Thread Running through These Essays
Feb. 2000
posted 02/2000
Korea, Like Vietnam: A War Originated and Maintained by Deceit
Dec. 1999
posted 04/2000
Reflections on America
Autumn 1999
posted 03/2000
Domestic Counterterrorist Trainings: A Dangerous Trend
1999
posted 03/2000
Assimilation or Elimination
Pax Americana: Buy In or Check Out
1999
posted 02/2000
Pinochet and the Unraveling of the "American Century"
1999
posted 02/2000
U.S. Criminal History in Indonesia
1999
posted 02/2000
U.S. Lawlessness with Impunity
1999
posted 02/2000
Who Is Going to Stop
Us?
1999
posted 02/2000
Who are the REAL Terrorists?
The REAL Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
1999
posted 02/2000
U.S. Aggression Against Iraq: Historical and Political Context
1999
posted 02/2000
Making War Obsolete: Nonviolence
1990; revised 1999
posted 02/2000
Memorandum: Accelerated Mortality Rates of Vietnam Veterans
Summer 1999
posted 05/2007
Celebrating Columbus is Blasphemy
Oct. 12, 1999
posted 06/2000
The Slippery Slope: U.S. Military Moves Into Mexico
revised 1998
posted 06/2000
NAFTA versus LIFE: U.S. Complicity with Mexico in Waging a Final Solution (Genocidal War) to the Indigenous "Problem"
July 2, 1997
posted 06/2000
"Slow" and "Small" are Beautiful: Recovering from the American Way of Life
1996; updated 2005
posted 09/2005
A Call for a Decentralist, Self-Reliant, Earth-Centered Revolution
1996
posted 02/2000
The Politics of Healing in the Context of Systemic Injustice
1996
posted 02/2000
A Time for Healing
Feb. 1995; revised 1999
posted 02/2000
Sustainable Community
1995
posted 02/2000
The Irredeemability of "America" and the Call for a Decentralist Revolution
1995
posted 03/2000
The Columbus Enterprise Prevails in Vietnam: The U.S. Finally Enjoys a Long Eluded Victory
March 1994
posted 03/2000
The Imperative of Revolutionary Nonviolence
1994
posted 03/2000
BOOK: On Third World Legs
1992
posted 06/2000
Male Spirituality: Die if You Must, But Never Kill
July/Aug. 1991
posted 03/2000
A Dialogue with the Great Spirit
Jan. 18, 1991
posted 06/2000
Reflections on my Personal Theology
1991
posted 03/2000
Reflections with Seneca Indian Floyd Redeye: The Legacy of the Columbus Enterprise
1991
posted 02/2000
How the U.S. Purchased the 1990 Nicaragua Elections
1990
posted 04/2000
U.S.-Waged "Low Intensity" Warfare in Nicaragua
Dec. 30, 1989
posted 02/2005
The Case of Panama: U.S. Continues its Bully Ways as International Outlaw
Dec. 1989; revised 1991
posted 02/2000
The Sept. 1, 1987 Tragedy at Concord, CA Naval Weapons Station (CNWS): Perspective of the People Invoking the Nuremberg Principles at CNWS
Nov. 18, 1987
posted 06/2000
The Significance of Nuremberg Actions
July 4, 1987
posted 08/2007
Veterans Peace Action Teams Press Release
March 20, 1987
posted 08/2000
Letter from Members of the First Veterans Peace Action Team to U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, Harry Bergold
March 19, 1987
posted 08/2000
History of the Idea of the Veterans Peace Action Teams (VPAT)
Feb. 1987
posted 08/2000
A Fast For Life
Sept. 1, 1986
posted 08/2000
Revelations of U.S. Embassy, Managua, Nicaragua
Jan. 17, 1986
posted 08/2000
Tax Resistance
Aug. 15, 1985
posted 04/2000
Walpole State Prison: An Exercise in Torture
June 9, 1981
posted 03/2006
Top of List
Home Page