'…a major destabilizing influence'
To read the whole review in The Decider (it’s worth it! and they’ve also got a the official trailer embedded in it), go here. Here are some particularly good parts of John Serba’s incisive Nov. 30 review and his parting recommendation: “The documentary A Compassionate Spy (now streaming on Hulu) arrived nearly in concert with Oppenheimer, …
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Henry (Heinz) Alfred Kissinger, national security director and secretary of state to Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and advisor to eight other presidents, died at 100 years of age on November 30. Already the corporate media and politicians are memorializing him as a great statesman and brilliant diplomat, but for the many countries his …
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Oh, how I have wanted to write a poem about the F-35! About how angry I was when it was allowed To crash the mountain skies above Burlington. But when I visited Burlington recently I realized that the F-35 is only part of the story Of a town that has lost its way. And …
US backpedaling in its support for Israel’s brutal invasion of Gaza and the destruction of the entire northern half of the walled-off and blockaded territory that is home and prison for 2.3 million trapped Palestinians. This stepping back from full-throated support for Israel is occurring however, only after Israel achieved or claimed to have achieved …
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` (Issued Nov. 2, 2023) Radical Elders adds our voice to the worldwide outcry for an immediate ceasefire in the Israeli government’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza. The insanity of our imperialist, racial capitalist world continues to explode. We add our voice to the world’s outrage at this most recent eruption, in one of …
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I would like to start by quoting excerpts from a recent article in the New York Times, “A Secret War, Strange New Wounds, and Silence from the Pentagon.” by Dave Phillips: Many U.S. troops who fired vast numbers of artillery rounds against the Islamic State developed mysterious, life-shattering mental and physical …
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[Source: goodreads.com] Ted Hall Helped the Soviet Union to Counterbalance the U.S. Monopoly on Atomic Weaponry After World War II, Which Acted as a Deterrent Against Aggressive U.S. War Plans Dave Lindorff initiated the documentary film A Compassionate Spy, following a correspondence with Ted Hall’s 87-year-old widow, Joan Hall. Lindorff had written an article in …
When the US was bombing levees and hospitals in North Vietnam and peasants in their rice paddies in Laos and burning villages in South Vietnam, herding those not killed in the process into “strategic hamlets,” Americans took to the streets en masse, occupied the Pentagon mall, brought central Washington DC to a standstill, and broke …
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Yesterday, here in Philadelphia, I watched as a large grey four-engine jet with the distinctive fat squarish-looking fuselage of a military C-17 lumbered eastward far overhead, almost certainly one of the earliest of many such massive cargo planes bound for Israel loaded with heavy ammunition, bombs and who knows what other horrors designed by the …
Providence, RI – The decades long efforts to erode the public credibility of U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal sustained a substantial setback recently at an unlikely location: an Ivy League university. Brown University, the Ivy League institution located in Providence, Rhode Island, opened a unique exhibition on September 28, 2023, at its John Hay Library, …
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