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Solidarity maximum with the oppressed for whom you sacrificed your life will resonate forever, my brother. One day, the people will rise up against, as you told us in your last breath,”I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people …
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One of my three journalist mentors, John Pilger, died December 30, 2023, of pulmonary fibrosis. I first knew of his work when he covered the US’s aggressive dirty war (with Australia’s active support) against Vietnam-Cambodia-Laos when I was an anti-war activist in the United States. As Jeremy Corbyn wrote about him, “John gave a voice …
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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 …
I sat on the bench watching sinking sun spectacle. There she was, as so often in the twilight poised on her favorite rock resting in the shallow bay just 50 paces from me. Grey Heron standing still. She raises her pointed head; legs stretch out; neck unfolds halfway. Serious eyes slop downward. The bay before …
Friends Are Urging Credico to Go Underground Advisers are suggesting Randy Credico to lie low—keep out of sight—because too many journalists, activists, academics and dissidents placed on this hit-list coincidentally wind up dead, sometimes only days after being listed. Once killed, the Ukrainian word ЛИКВИДИРОВАН (“LIQUIDATED”) is plastered across their pictures in big red letters—as in the …
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One of the world’s greatest marathon peace messengers, Daniel Ellsberg, died in his California home June 16, at age 92. He had been arrested between 80-90 times for participating in anti-war protest. When Ellsberg graduated from Harvard with a doctorate, he was gung-ho and joined the Marines. He soon found his way into the …
Interviewer Ron Ridenour holds Ted Hall’s posthumous Nobel Peace Prize in the form of a Peace Lily as film director Steve James makes a point with Joan Hall and journalist-producer Dave Lindorff. [Source: Photo courtesy of Jette Salling] [In this piece, Ron Ridenour interviews Steve James, the director of A Compassionate Spy, and Joan Hall, Ted …
New Documentary Reveals How A Teenage Army Physicist Named Ted Hall Saved The Russian People From A Treacherous U.S. Sneak Attack In 1950-51—And May Well Have Prevented A Global Nuclear Holocaust The provocative documentary “A Compassionate Spy” tells the amazing but almost unknown story of a “near-genius” Harvard physics major, who at age 17, was selected to …
My colleague and long-time friend Dave Lindorff did it. He provoked me to rescind my vow, quite temporarily I’m hoping, to stop writing about political matters, at least directly. Dave’s desire to rename the Republican Party as the “Bad Losers Party”, and his closing remark opening others to rename the Democratic Party, motivated …
Julian Assange is the most important political prisoner in the world today, and we need to act in a myriad of ways to get him freed from the torturers’ prisons. As he faces extradition from a supine and accommodating Britain to the waiting assassins in Washington who already stand exposed for plotting to murder …