106 Articles

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
$2,000 for a dead Afghan Child, $100,000 for Any American Who Died Killing it.
(2 comments) Shocking? Shame provoking? Embarrassment for the discrepancy betw the value of an American soldier's life and the the value of lives of people in US forcibly occupied countries? In imperialist America, there is no interest in such 'war casualties,' considered 'inevitable' as a popular Obama continues to react violently worldwide (except in Saudi Arabia) to a 9/11 attack by Saudis. Obama not value AfPak kids equally as his own?

Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Buchenwald, D-Day, Communists, Hitler's Backers, Capitalism and Media
(2 comments) Missing from Buchenwald and D-Day observances is the awareness that famous and wealthy US industrialists and bankers made enormous profit from heavily investing in Nazi Germany's rearming. And while media presents Muslim hostility to Zionism as being virulently hateful of Jews while burying deep the memory of the extreme anti-Semitic climate in the US before and during World War Two experienced by the author.

Sunday, May 31, 2009
A Dream Cabinet of Integrity for a More Progressive Economy
OEN study group on capitalism responds to OEN publisher Kall request, proposing a highest caliber cabinet of integrity that would allow for "businesses and the economy to be run more progressively" Joe Stigletz, Treasury; Noam Chomsky, Foreign & Domestic Affairs Advisor; Ralph Nader, Interior; Howard Zinn, Health and Welfare; and a surprise for Secretary. of Defense.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
U.S. Threat to Atom Bomb North Korea Never Forgotten
(4 comments) On Nov. 30, 1950, President Truman at a press conference, remarked that the use of the atomic bomb was under active consideration. Koreans heard this as menacingly foreboding apocalypse, for U.S. forces were in retreat, and had suffered losses when China send 'volunteer' forces to N. Korea 45 days earlier. North Korea going to great expense to acquire nuclear capability. Is memory of that U.S. threat to Nuke fueling paranoia?

Monday, May 25, 2009
Mourn! Not Honor!, Our Dying in Dishonorable, Murderous Wars
(17 comments) Instead of solemn mourning, on Memorial Day, media, having tricked us into fighting and dying in unjust, murderous wars based on lies, now hypes our inglorious death as beautiful military service to entice recruits. Save the use of the words 'honor' and 'praise' for someone like Muhammad Ali, who refused to do what we, for all our good intentions, unfortunately went along with. Mourn civilian deaths and ours together.

Saturday, May 23, 2009
Most War Dead Are Civilians: On Memorial Day, Mourn Them First
To honor only US military dead is to glorify the military mindset. Non-Americans watching CNN in Korea, Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Panama, Afghanistan, and Iraq will likely be squinting in grim incredulity at American indifference to the loss of THEIR countrymen's lives. Memorial Day is NOT Veterans' Day, but a day of solem mourning, let's be inclusive.

Sunday, May 17, 2009
National Day of Mourning for Afghan Dead in US Bombing
(4 comments) We often have a Day of Mourning for victims of a shooting on campus or in school. If Obama would declare a Day of Mourning for this greater number of Afghani men, women and children inadvertently killed in this latest and gravest air strike, it might show the world that Americans don't just care about American dead or the foreign dead caused by America's perceived enemies - give cause for thought about choosing the war option

Saturday, May 16, 2009
American Values? Obama: 'Americans don't resent the rich, they wanna be rich'
(2 comments) No, Mr. President, not most Americans. All religions and conventional wisdom warn the 'wanna be rich'. Jesus especially warned them. "Rule by financial capital- by money and those who have it-in disregard of all non-financial values, has triumphed over democracy, markets, justice, life, and spirit."- David Korten. Ask Obama what we, who want our COUNTRY and WORLD to be rich, can do?

Thursday, April 30, 2009
How Many More Lives Will Obama Take to 'Protect' Us From What Jimmy Crater Began?
(18 comments) While we are 'being protected' from what President Jimmy Carter created in Afghanistan in 1979 - by Obama sending additional troops to war and bombings in Pakistan, - let's remember Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.' counsel, that today's occupation wars should be seen in context of imperialism and predatory capitalism. And not forget! It didn't start on 9/11/2001.

Friday, April 17, 2009
On the Need for Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in America
In 2005, in keeping with its maturation as a constitutional democracy, the South Korean National Assembly established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to seek to "reveal the truth behind civilian massacres during the Korean War and human rights abuses during the [South Korean] authoritarian period and recent evidence of U.S. and South Korean responsibility for the massacre of civilians before and during the Korean War."

Monday, April 6, 2009
Obama Calls on U.N. to Punish North Korea Over Rocket, but WHO PUNISHES THE U.S.?
(4 comments) Commercial media feeding frenzy on the space missile launch by North Korea at the same time whipping up fear of Iran. Obama has harsh words for North Korea, as earlier for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Venezuela and Iran, which received a kind invite to talk mixed in with such severe public criticism as to make the invitation unacceptable. So far, Obama, both as president and as commander-in-chief belies change to serious diplomacy.

Saturday, March 21, 2009
English Capitalists Starved Millions of Irish to Death For Profit - George Bernard Shaw
(6 comments) Ancestors of millions celebrating St. Pat's Day 2009 emigrated to excape stavation in an Ireland of plentiful food for export. That 19th century capitalist orchestrated slow mass-murder is worth remembering now, as mega-massive capitalist banking frauds for profit begin to have their inevitable loss-of-life effect in the neo-colonized 3rd World. And UK deMOCKracy is seen in its gerrymandered retention of northern Ireland.

Sunday, March 8, 2009
Call For Counter Demonstration In Appreciation Of Jane Fonda
(3 comments) Monday, March 9 official opening night for Jane Fond at the Eugene O'Neil Theater! Veterans For Peace, Vietnam,Iraqi,West Point Grads Against the War working hard to halt Iraqi, Afghan wars are facing a revival of pride in the U.S. war in Vietnam heralded in media, proclaimed heroic even in Obama's inaugural address. Evening of its first preview performance a dozen Vietnam vets and other protesters picketed the theater. Help!

Thursday, March 5, 2009
Suffering Post-Traumatic Stress for Having Killed Them In Their Own Home Country
Post-Traumatic Stress, until recently, a therapy reserved for something like "shell shock", not for emotional pain, guilt, shame for OUR having bombed, invaded other peoples' countries killing and maiming to conquer, occupy for U.S. corporate interests. A multitude of us applying for treatment for PTS syndrome might be an a good tactic for veterans and peace activists to raise public consciousness of its complicity in wars.

Friday, February 27, 2009
MLKjr' Condemnation of Predatory Capitalism Again Deleted in Black History Month
(1 comments) King's anti-imperialism speech in New York one year to the day before his assassination remains an embarrassment for all members of the establishment, an establishment which felt obliged to make King's birthday a national holiday. When King's thundering teaching about imperialism, becomes known by America's young, the nation's true interests will become more important than the interests of its capitalists.

Monday, February 2, 2009
EU Capitalist Neocolonialists Tighten the Screws on Cholera Weakened Zimbabwe
(1 comments) The cruel neo-colonialist image the European Union creates for itself in African eyes seems to be of little concern, as it continues its financial war on Zimbabwe causing extreme suffering. An investment driven E.U., U.K., U.S. conspiracy depends on silence from conglomerate owned international media, its dutiful disinformation and propaganda that Robert Mugabe, is the sole author of the destruction of his own nation's economy

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
NINE BRUTAL DISAPPOINTMENTS FOR US OBAMA FANS
(8 comments) Breaking laws in bombing Pakistan; continuing the killing of Afghanis in disregard of Afghani wishes for negotiations; ignoring Israeli use of U.S. weapons on civilians-plight of captive Arab population; inaugural speech pride for Vietnam War, slighting Native-Americans, arrogantly proclaiming no apology for the American way; alienating China over U.S. economic debacle, not copying FDR's and China's emphasis on infrastructure.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Mr. President, They Did Not Die For Us When Killing Vietnamese in Khe Sahn, Vietnam
(14 comments) Dear President Obama, In your inaugural address you said, "For us, they fought and died in places like ... Khe Sahn" If the US is to change, don't Americans have to be honest about their past.They did not die for us while they were killing Vietnamese in Khe Sahn, They were shaming their country. King called it an atrocity. Afterward, most veterans felt angry and deceived. What kind of message are you sending to Vietnam and us

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Reality: America and Americans Invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam etc., Not BushCheney
(10 comments) Americans followed murderous orders, again, within memory of the murderous war on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia How bad is America for not impeaching its president(s) who lied, broke laws, and gave the murderous orders? for pretending to believe preposterous lies? for continuing to believe conglomerate owned media to be honest, reliable? For torturing? For arrest and imprisonment without trial? Will it continue to bomb, occupy?

Sunday, January 18, 2009
Condemn "International Community" Acquiescence During The Slaughter of Children
(9 comments) It is not Zionist Israelis that deserve prime condemnation, for they have obviously been acting out of an somewhat understandable emotionally unbalanced state of mind. No, it is the so called "international community" made up of First World authorities, the UN Secretariat, and civil society movements that participated in the few debates they agreed to have while children were slaughtered, that merits our prime condemnation

Sunday, January 18, 2009
Help Obama by Reading MLKing Speech Condemning Murderous US Foreign Policy
(2 comments) If enough Americans could become familiar with King's dream for a peaceful, kind and benevolent American foreign policy and King's condemnation of decades of brutal past policies, it will be easier for Obama to create one with their support and in spite of opposition from the hawks and war promoting corporate media. Help Obama! Read or listen to King's speech "Beyond Vietnam - a Time to Break Silence" on the Internet!

Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Anti-war Movement? Americans Interested in Egoism, Scrooge Not Jesus
(1 comments) No anti-war movement during the shopping season marking the birth of the teacher of "turn the other cheek" and "love thy enemies." Can one be anti-war, but not anti the capitalism that requires imperialist war? George Bush didn't bomb, invade and occupy Afghanistan and Iraq, America did. Awakening to, and getting ride of, the homicidal and now inoperable system of capitalism could make anti-war movements superfluous.

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Call Obama Re His Stiff One-Sided Remarks For Iran on Meet the Press
(3 comments) Who wouldn't like to see Obama apologize for CIA crimes? Maybe less talking to ourselves and more to Obama. The Obama Transition Team web site is calling for people to write and tell the team what they, the people, want done or feel needs to be done after Jan. 20th. http://change.gov gives a e-mail page. Progressive mail could work as a counterweight against pressure from the establishment's industrial-military-complex.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
No Difference for an Iraqi Mother - Whether Death Was Ordered by a Bush or Clinton.
With all decent Americans focusing on President Bush's military orders causing the death of hundreds of thousands, one tends to forget President Clinton's orders also took thousands of innocent lives with missile attacks in three countries. In this article published in Hong Kong in 1993, the author berates commercial mass media for presenting official & political justification for military strikes that kill innocent childen.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The Day Veterans Felt Shame
(8 comments) Veterans experience a hell of emotions different than those expressed in speeches of praise for veterans of all America's wars, without regard to the justness of any of these wars. How 'bout the veteran who killed an Iraqi, maybe a child, in what Obama rightly called a "dumb war" - a veteran who has seen dead Afghani civilians after an air-strike. Vets don't need a day! Already have Memorial Day. Vets want a War Victims Day!

Sunday, November 9, 2008
Next! Impeach the Child Murderer Who Okays 'up to 30' Innocents per Strike
(2 comments) What should be shocking for everyone in the world is the homicidal official policy calmly expressed on 60 Minutes by a air-strike controller: "If you're gonna kill up to 29 people in a strike ... that's not a problem." before January 20th, how many more Afghani, Iraqi, Somali Pakistani and now Syrian children will die in cowardly U.S. air-strikes to kill 'insurgent' leaders who will be replaced by more fervent U.S. enemies.

Monday, October 27, 2008
Obama/Buffett Plan to Make Rich Pay SS Tax Like Everyone Else is NOT a 'Tax Hike'
Every time anyone, including Obama or Warren Buffett puts forward a plan to make the wealthy pay the same Social Security tax/contribution that the rest of the public pays on every single dollar of income, big media reporters, anchors and commentators (who of course work for the wealthy), decry, mislabel or misrepresent it deceitfully as a 'raising' of Social Security tax - a 'tax hike' - to sound bite tax fear. e.g. ABC,CNN

Saturday, October 25, 2008
"BEYOND ELECTIONS" a Film/Check Out the U-Tube Trailer "What is Democracy?"
Just weeks away from one of the most important elections in US history, everyone is talking about elections, but few are talking about democracy. This film comes out of the grassroots democracy sweeping Latin America and redefining a term's highjacked meaning, worn thin by its attachment to parliaments and congresses controlled by big capital.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Media Suppression of MLKjr's Condemnation of Vietnam War as an Atrocity Helps McCain
(2 comments) King's blistering condemnation of the Vietnam War as a crime against humanity, which made bold type headlines on the front pages of newspapers all over the world BEFORE McCain's 1st bombing mission, has been intentionally suppressed in commercial media and school books. If voters knew King's sermon on the true history of the heroic Vietnamese fighting invasions of 3 powerful nations, McCain's 'hero status' would evaporate

Saturday, October 18, 2008
U.S. Nuremberg Trials Prosecutor Would Have Proudly Prosecuted McCain As a War Criminal
(1 comments) A chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials after World War Two, told CBS Editor Richter that he strongly supported the idea of trying the U.S. pilots captured in North Vietnam as war criminals. Then U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander John McCain, who was captured a year later, would have been among the group Taylor wanted to prosecute - By the courts decision, military personnel cannot claim that they were simply following orders

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Stop Celebrating Columbus, the Enslaver and Murderer of Americans?
(2 comments) Knowing what we know today, Columbus Day seems to be celebrating murderous racism, and as such is an embarrassing admission of the ethical inferiority of the white man centuries ago. White people best be quiet about that 1492 voyage whose success was that it made slaves of Americans. Best rename the October holiday, Native-Americans Day. Apart from being more noble, it would bring indigenous music, art and dance to celebrate.

Sunday, October 12, 2008
Capitalism Condemned in Scriptures; Let's Dump It
(7 comments) "The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The most astounding sleight of hand ever invented. If you want to be slaves of bankers, and pay the costs of your own slavery, let the banks create money." Lord Josiah Stamp, Director of The Bank of England. The Bible encourages loans to help the poor, but forbids charging interest. "Those who persist in usury, incur Hell, wherein they abide forever" Qur'an 2:275

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Please Everybody: Time to Understand Our Financial 'System'! Kucinich's Easy Read + 2 Videos
(1 comments) "Here is a very quick explanation of the $700 billion bailout ... The taxpayers loan money to the banks. But the taxpayers do not have the money. So we have to borrow it from the banks to give it back to the banks. But the banks do not have the money to loan to the government. So they create it into existence through a mechanism called fractional reserve and then loan it to us, at interest, so we can then give it back to them"

Monday, September 29, 2008
A Nation of Jerks? Culpably Accepting of Basic Dishonesty and of Unscrupulous Big Shots
(3 comments) "admit the obvious: ordinary people have turned a blind eye to what their government's leaders through the years have done in their name. Big media has sold America that to be critical of capitalism is to be unpatriotic. It is conglomerate owned and cartelized media that is unpatriotic supporting lies & criminality in high places. America can be whatever it wants to be, rather than a captive of misappropriated technology!

Thursday, September 18, 2008
Tricky Banking Socialism for the Rich
(1 comments) In corporate media dumbed down American majority opinion capitalism must not be questioned! That to be critical of capitalism is unpatriotic. American's Thorstein Veblen, "The fabric of credit and capitalization is essentially a fabric of concerted make-believe resting on the routine credulity of the business community at large. The relation of the leisure class to the economic process is of a parasitic character, exploitive.

Saturday, September 13, 2008
ECONOMIC TERRORISM, CIA and MILITARY TERRORISM CAUSES TERROR BLOW-BACK
Haiti is continually in the news as an example of violence, political incapacity, and extreme suffering caused by endemic economic exploitation common to the great majority of third world nations today. Mindless business-for-business's-sake world wide trampling & co-opting the commonweal to increase the wealth of the wealthy has spawned unofficial lawless terror in response to economic, C!A and 'lawful' military terror.

Friday, September 5, 2008
So How Many Poor Vietnamese Did McCain's Bombs Kill in 23 Runs?
(1 comments) Given all the praise heaped upon McCain, the bomber of Hanoi, this is a natural question - especially for millions of us who remember the inexpressible shamefulness of this genocidal war on the agrarian Asian population of a brutal French colony that suffered Japanese occupation and fought both the Japanese and Vichy French as a U.S. ally; painful question for a teacher who has 100 Hanoi students who lost family to Americans.

Monday, August 25, 2008
Overplaying the Political Importance of a Country 'Winning' the Olympics
China's media lists China at the top for having won more gold medals. U.S. media lists the United States first for having won more medals overall. For all the displays of nationalism, more charming, important and humble in the cases of winning athletes from the smaller nations, it was nice to see that human interest given the individual medal winners, a break from media over-dramatizing the medal count s of U.S. versus China

Saturday, August 9, 2008
In Pakistan, Impeachment! in U.S., No! Pelosi/Conyers Squirm, Bush/Cheney/Rice laugh
(3 comments) In an Islamic nation portrayed in Western media as a rather unstable 'developing' nation an impeachment process is constitutionally going forward. Meanwhile in the United States, portrayed by its corporate media as a paragon of constitutional law and democratic virtue, the majority 'opposition' party protects Bush from impeachment and is willingly complicit in his homicidal crimes and scores of other illegal acts accused of

Sunday, August 3, 2008
Immigration Solution? Kindness! Tex, Cal, Nevada, Utah, Parts of AZ, CO, NM, WY was Mexico
(13 comments) Most Mexican "illegals" live in a land that was still Mexico at the time some of their grandfathers were born. President Grant, "bitterly opposed" to the war on Mexico, called it "one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation" The essay is directed at those self-righteous and outraged at comparatively much smaller misdemeanors and illegalities of Mexicans caught in an unfair world economic arrangement

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
"I KnowHowToWinWars!" Says McCain Who Bombed Cities in a Lost War
Huh? Which war did McCain know how to win? His 23 bombing runs over North Vietnam did not win anything but shame and disgust at home in streets filled with war protests. America LOST THE WAR. Surely Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper REMEMBER that America LOST THE VIETNAM WAR, but a paid to forget it. They are war facilitators pushing Obama to be competitively warlike. In reality McCain is to pitied.

Friday, June 20, 2008
But Will Obama Bring the U.S. To Justice? Or At least Bell The Cat?
Good that Obama says that he will bring Osama bin Ladin to justice. Obama is as yet untested as a killer of 'bad guys', whereas McCain to his credit bombed lots of civilians. But previous wisdom calling for attention to the condition of the half of Mankind living on less than two dollars a day in 'Pax' America, wherein resentment is fertilized and recruitment and support for anti-American violence grows, is now rarely heard.

Friday, June 13, 2008
Conyers Answered Himself, So I Told Him He Was The Most Guilty
(17 comments) I called Rep. Conyers's office, and was surprised to reach the Congressman in person. I charged that, because he was blocking the impeachment process, I held him even more responsible than Bush for the ongoing disaster in Iraq. Conyers didn't hang up.

Sunday, June 8, 2008
War Criminal Media: Focus on Obama, Forget Reality
(1 comments) All this focus on WHY Obama won the nomination and will become Emperor is just so much distraction. Rather than overblow the importance of our pathetic domestic election-show, let us keep in mind events in Chiapas, Nepal, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Zimbabwe, Cuba, China, India, Japan, Russia, Korea, and in every country in this capitalist dominated world, and put it all into perspective within our U.S.'mediaocracy'

Friday, June 6, 2008
Greatest Homicidal Con Game Ever is Led by New York Times Credentials
(1 comments) Featured poignant photo and review flaunts in face of the American majority against the wars of occupation. The Times, the academic leader within the conglomerate owned cartel of ninety-five percent of all print and electronic entertainment and information media deceiving our nation and world, continues its pro-glory and war justifying propaganda.The blood of millions is upon the hands of media CEOs who manage public deception

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
But Obama! Americans Are NOT "Compassionate" nor "Generous" Toward Iraqis, Afghanis, Somalis
It would be a mistake for progressives to wait until after the election to criticize Obama when he feels it necessary to bow to the public's ignorance and repeats the deceptions promoted in conglomerate media, which portend frighteningly to keep the system intact in all its iniquity. Obana felt obliged to mention Truman and Kennedy as models, but both were exceedingly pro-status quo and not pro-change. Help Obama!Expose media!

Monday, May 26, 2008
U.S. Military Deaths Glorified - Indifferent Scorn for the Non-American Millions Grieving
(1 comments) Memorial Day, originally intended as a solemn day of mourning for families has long become an opportunity for jingoistic media, deceiving politicians and recruiting officers to glorify warfare as a means to entrap the young. Loved ones cut down for having gotten 'in harms way' of invading & occupying U.S. military are not considered. Author recalls the hype of each war. We honor the dead best by mourning our ignorance. H Zinn

Monday, May 26, 2008
On Subway & Bus Veterans For Peace Denounce Media, Urge Calling Congress, Clergy
(3 comments) Author tape-records a Veteran's subway lecture. Wonderful way for peace activist organizations to reach the hearts and minds of fellow citizens. E.g. "Folks, we are trying to end these wars! We need your help. This message comes to you from Americans who have been trained to KILL, go overseas and kill people very OFTEN IN THEIR OWN HOMES. Problem is we FELL IN LOVE with the PEOPLE WE WERE KILLING. Please use your cell phones!"

Monday, May 12, 2008
Cruel Americans Always Enjoy Hearing Enemy Body Counts – So do Suicide Bomber Recruits
(2 comments) Associated Press daily reports how many "suspected insurgents" were killed yesterday. Americans don't imagine 'enemy' cadavers as bringing suffering and destruction to lives of family members. Bodies of America's 'enemies' are counted with the same satisfaction, that one feels while removing the opponents eliminated counters when playing a board game. The U.S. plan remains the same: Get higher body counts before the 'they' do.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Marines Taliban Killing Hunt - Shoot Afghans in Afghanistan, but Wright is 'Outrageous'
CNN: Marines invade a village long under Taliban 'control', (Taliban provincial administration), caption - "Marines on Taliban Killing Hunt!", next -"outrageous" Wright quoting Bible on terror coming back to those who use terror, accusing the U.S. of using terror. Not new, media vilified Rev. King condemning U.S. genocide in Vietnam and a murderous foreign policy worldwide. What is new an anti-war personality on prime time!

Monday, April 28, 2008
Pope Benedict Praised the UN & Subsidiarity (Rev. MLK Jr Praised the Peace Movement!)
(1 comments) Pope Benedict made oblique criticisms of Anglo-Americans causing crises, said human rights are only real where based on justice, called for "a greater degree of international ordering based on a broad principle that communities be more important and free of top-down governance. No mention of the wars of occupation! Is his silence not embarrassing for Catholics in a peace movement ignored while thousands of Iraqis/Afghanis die?

Sunday, April 27, 2008
Shock Rev. Wright's Critics with Quotes from Rev. King Jr.' "Beyond Vietnam!"
(4 comments) Two clips of Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.' sermons heard and seen on PBS Bill Moyers Journal contained the thrilling recounting of failed immoral governments of empires throughout history that preceded his "God Damn! America", and the detailed list of government offenses against God and his people that followed the "Damn!" Best shock tactic to counter the media's deception is to quote King Jr.' condemnations out of context!!

Monday, April 21, 2008
First, His Holiness Visited the Homicidal Strongman of the World Superpower
(2 comments) The President and Pope Benedict, two powerful men – one is using every ounce of power he has at his disposal, even quite cruelly, to promote the agenda of the out-of-control corporate world he is beholden to. We kept our fingers crossed that the Pope would make some public comment about the sin of continuing these wars of occupation. Thinking of Iraqi children dying one shuttered to see holy man and murderer shaking hands.

Saturday, April 19, 2008
Iraqis, Afghanis Don't, as Vietnamese, Koreans Didn't, Fight Well For US Against Their Own
(1 comments) Iraqi Unit Flees Post, Despite American's Plea – shades of Vietnam/Korea. The perennial problem of empires: how to get an indigenous army to cooperate with an occupying force? Iraqi refusal to attack will be portrayed in U.S. media as Iraqis lacking courage, or being ingratitude for all that the American occupiers 'have done' for Iraq.

Sunday, April 13, 2008
For Today's Wars, Courageous Help From An Insider During Vietnam's Crucifixion
(2 comments) Our Bill Moyers began his acceptance speech retelling how as publisher of Newsday he saw to the My Lai massacre being brought before the American public. He might have gone on to recount with regret his key role in the Johnson administration's prosecution of our nations worst national tragedy and loss of world respect. It could have been a bombshell in today's atmosphere of Iraq war promotion and hailing Vietnam vets as heroes

Friday, April 4, 2008
MLK Was Murdered Exactly One Year After Condemning U.S. Imperialist War and Capitalism
(1 comments) It is widely believed that King's condemnation of imperialist war madness and the capitalist "insanity of putting profit above humanity" cost him his life and cost the U.S. the loss of his much 'too effective' leadership. Historian Howard Zinn supports awakening Americans today by quoting from King's "Beyond Vietnam" speech. Read UN Ambassador Andrew Young testimony in the King family's successful Memphis conspiracy trial.

Saturday, March 22, 2008
McCain Shot Down by Heroic Vietnamese Defenders in Shameful US War & Defeat
(4 comments) Years before Airman McCain began his 23 bombing runs, Ike had admitted Ho Chi Minh was a hero to his countrymen and would have won an all-Vietnam election with 80%+ had he (Ike) not blocked it. Well before McCain's 1st bombing mission, Rev. King Jr. had angrily condemned U.S. genocide, and Muhammad Ali had refused to go. Was McCain taken in then, and now as well, by war propaganda? McCain, an anti-hero or heartless dumbbell?

Saturday, March 1, 2008
Black History Month Ignored MLKJr. Condemnation of U.S. Wars, Predatory Capitalism
What keeps even black leaders from quoting Rev. King Jr.' '67 condemnations of U.S. wars and predatory trade? Why does no highly profiled American pick up where King left off? Quoting words of the only American allotted the national recognition of a public holiday honoring his birth, dangerous? Almost like quoting the bible. "My country, greatest purveyor of violence in the world! Silence is treason! Everyone must protest!"

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
NY Phil Plays in a Korea Once Destroyed by U.S. Invasion, Flattened by U.S. Bombers
(2 comments) Beautiful telecast. Koreans interviewed spoke of avowed resolve to protect their country,they knew Americans were their enemies, spoke softly, politely, with calm pleasant countenance. Americans can go on thinking they were good guys doing good. But they might like to remember that 'good' was done in Korea, to Koreans, all of whom were not in agreement that it was for their own good. Picasso's Cheju Massacre Painting sobering

Monday, February 25, 2008
In "Charlie Wilson's War" Carter's CIA Funding Islamic Terror to Sucker in the Soviets is Left Out
(14 comments) Charlie Wilson's War could have won an Oscar in a category Best Public Deception. Film hides Carter's having secretly funded, armed and trained the fundamentalist hill tribes, attacking a modern women emancipating government in Kabul, to sucker the Soviets into entering Afghanistan SIX MONTHS LATER. Photo of men lying face down, hands wired behind their backs – the caption reading "Teachers executed for having taught girls."

Monday, February 4, 2008
Respect Vietnamese Patriots Gunned Down by "Beloved" Swift Boats
(1 comments) Jolted to read in Jan. 23, Huffington Post article, "Swiftboating", John Kerry's insensitive references to, "the Swift Boats we loved while we were in uniform on the Mekong Delta" -"the boats we honored when we were in uniform in Vietnam". Kerry experienced the death these boats brought, called the war an atrocity. Remarks especially sickening for those who, like Jane Fonda, sided with Vietnam fighting Japan, France, and U.S.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
"Capitalism - a threat to life on Earth" OpEdNews Discussion Group 1 of 3 Lead Articles
(15 comments) Capitalism Presents Itself as Unreformable, by Definition Marginalizing Ethics and Social Well-being. This article completes the four lead-in articles for the OpEdNews Disscussion Group, "Capitalism – a threat to life on Earth", following Richard Mynich's, "Capitalism as the Engine of Global Crisis", Cameron James' Why I Say Capitalism is the Problem, & JJ's HOPING TO REFORM CAPITALISM MAKES YOU COMPLICIT IN ITS INIQUITIES

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Anti-war Alternate Media Again Allows 'Big Brother' to Handkerchief King Holiday
(2 comments) Tragically, progressive community's editors and writers, including Afro-American writers, again did NOT take advantage of the national holiday to feature martyred King's 1967 -68 anti-war, anti-imperialism, anti-international predatory capitalism speeches which since his assassination remain completely media suppressed from public attention; did NOT seek to publicize King's thundering condemnations into public awareness. Why?

Monday, January 21, 2008
MLK at 79 Would Still be Debating the Slaughters and Lies of Capitalist Imperialism
Corporate media blocks public knowledge of the fury of King's outcry over U.S. wars of occupation and the powerful indictment of his government in his Beyond Vietnam speech, that made bold headlines in newspapers around the world. OpEdNews has highlighted ten Jay Janson articles which review King's, now media buried, thundering imperialist war condemnations in context with current events King was not permitted to live to see.

Sunday, January 20, 2008
Corporate Media Keeps King "in his place"! Buries King's Fiery Condemnation of US Wars
(2 comments) King thundered eloquently against U.S. genocidal imperialist wars, international predatory capitalism, factually denounced CIA overseas crimes, the cruel indifference and blind immorality of America. Corporate media blocks public knowledge of the fury of King's outcry over U.S. wars of occupation and the powerful and vehement anti war pronouncements from his Beyond Vietnam speech, that made bold headlines news around the world

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Call the FCC and FEC re TV Fascism Programming the Election Process
Call FCC & FEC! Complain of the incredible misuse of public owned airwaves, only leased to NBC, FOX, ABC. Not only Kucinich, Gravel and Paul supporters should call the Federal Communications Commission 888 225 5322 and the Federal Elections Commission 202 649 1000. – everyone should demand fair elections. The FCC and FEC have statutes to comply with under congressional law. Call 'em! Kucinich, please keep taking them to court!

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Dr. King Jr. 79 Today, Would Have Been a Serious Candidate/Eight 2007 Highlighted Articles
(1 comments) King was assassinated as a young man. Think how many elections King might have been a candidate in. Barack Obama, as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Shirley Chisholm and Moseley Braun before him, will not be quoting King's condemnation of a murderous U.S. foreign policy, of imperialism and international predatory capitalism would not be acceptable in an election process TV programmed by conglomerate owned media. 9 2007 articles:

Friday, January 4, 2008
Blackout of Kucinich, Hiring of Falsifier Kristol, NY Times Loses Credibility Protecting the Insane
(12 comments) The Times leads conglomerate media in lethal distortions, promoting unwarranted fears, justifying war, defending a corrupt and undemocratic corporate governance that blindly relishes war for profit. Its agenda is to denigrate, blackout, or put in bad light, honest criticism of a murderous foreign policy & imperialist intentions. When the public awakes it will see it as its closest enemy unless already marginalized by Internet.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Hillary Endorsement from a Misfortunate Slaughterer of Enemy Children – A Gain?
Monday Dec. 17, 2007, all day on TV, "Hillary Clinton has picked up the endorsement of Bob Kerrey, President of New School University, former Senator and Governor of Nebraska!" Long repeating interviews of Kerry on CNN etc. Huh? Back track to spring of 2002, Bob Kerrey on "60 Minutes", ashen faced trying to defend himself, "They [18 massacred girls, baby] were at the very least, at the very least, [Viet Cong] sympathizers!"

Monday, December 10, 2007
Descendents of Bloody Racist Colonizers of Africa Pretend to Care, Keep Sanctions on Zimbabwe
(7 comments) 80-year-old President Robert Mugabe, seen by millions of Africans as a liberator, continues to be condemned by white EU celebrity politician grandchildren of the masters of Africa's murderous military occupation of enslavement and plunder, silent about their cruel punishing of Zimbabwe over many years with strict and severe EU and US economic sanctions. A preposterous pretence of concern as Europeans continues to bilk Africa.

Sunday, December 2, 2007
HOPING TO REFORM CAPITALISM MAKES YOU COMPLICIT IN ITS INIQUITIES/4 Books
(4 comments) Whatever one wants to call whatever takes its place, it is the inhumanity, murderous criminal insanity, of totally materialist, mindless capitalism that we are living through right now. Those of us who merely try to make it a bit less monstrous, are more acquiescent to its continuance, than to its being replaced with something more intelligently human. Extricate mind from complicity in Capitalist Crime with a four book course!

Monday, November 12, 2007
Veteran Awareness of The Real Hero of the Vietnam War,Champion Muhammad Ali
During Veterans Awareness Week, lets finally be candid about who deserves to be called a 'Vietnam War hero.'Ali is an honest American hero of the Vietnam War who inspired millions How wonderful if America could take a time out and recognize the suffering of the non-American victims of its many wars and CIA crimes in third world nations while Champion Muhammad Ali is still alive and with us as a continuing American inspiration.

Sunday, November 11, 2007
A Vet With His Face Burned Away Is Visited By His President & Commander in Chief
(8 comments) On Veterans Day, there will be foolish pride in smart looking uniforms, but millions of veterans have woken up to having been used! Used to kill and maim and be maimed for some few desperate, pathetic and immoral rich folks to get richer. Those vets who realize they have been taken for a ride, will not be not be further taken in by 'honors' bestowed upon them by citizens asleep to murder for money hailed 'defending freedom'

Thursday, November 8, 2007
During Vote on Kucinich Impeachment Bill, C-SPAN Has the Bill Ridiculed
(5 comments) Tuesday, November 6, 2007, while the House of Representatives was voting on the resolution put forward by Rep. Kucinich and twenty-one other members to impeach the Vice President of the United States, C-SPAN had its viewing audience lectured by one Mr. Epstein emphasizing how ridiculous the proposed bill was. C-SPAN is supposed to be a public service broadcaster under FTC regulation. Request redress from corporate criminality.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Iraqi and Somali Kids Jump for Joy on Bodies of Americans! Don't Ask Why.
In media coverage of lawsuit against Blackwater USA, no mention of those Iraqi teenagers and kids jumping up and down on the burned out vehicles of the Blackwater mercenaries and cheering on the burning and dragging of their bodies in the street and the hanging of two from that bridge in Fallujah on March 31, 2004. Media promotes wars of occupation as benevolent and underplays disturbing expressions of hate for US military.

Thursday, September 27, 2007
"Iran President Vows to Ignore U.N. Measures" a Misleading NY Times Title
Millions of readers scan titles more often than read text. The effect of this article's title is to promote the Bush administration nuclear weapon scare and make its option to bomb Iran acceptable. NY Times keeps its reputation as the US newspaper of record, while satisfying a 'conservative' corporate tilt in favor of justifying predatory wars (later priding itself in editorially turning against wars going badly.

Thursday, September 13, 2007
Carter Funding Fundamentalists to Sucker Soviets into Afghanistan a History Channel No-No
No mention of President Carter having secretly funded, armed and trained the fundamentalist hill tribes, attacking a modern women emancipating government in Kabul, in order to sucker the Soviets into entering Afghanistan SIX MONTHS LATER in History Channel special on fundamentalists in Afghanistan. Cover up of now documented presidential homicidal crime by conglomerate owned entertainment/news industry is our shame.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Could a Vietnamese Court Fine the U.S. $ Trillions for a Thousand 9/11 Equivalents?
(4 comments) 9/11 should have been a wake up call. If violence against America is awful, violence by Americans can be understood to be awful as well. Article traces U.S. lawlessness throughout the world, thumbing its nose at the International Court of Jusitice and the International Criminal Court. Calls for U.S. citizen action for a kind law abiding world leadership.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Pity America! Bombed, Invaded, Occupied by Vietnamese. Now by Iraqi and Afghani!
(1 comments) So terrible to recall that the combined air forces of the Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians bombed our beautiful American homeland with twice the tonnage dropped during WWII, even carpet bombing areas of Mexico and Canada. Today, the desperate wasteful consumer society of gas guzzling Iraq and Afghanistan bombs and occupies the U.S. to control the huge Texas oil fields. Everyone wonders who will be invaded next.

Friday, August 17, 2007
MLK Jr. & Acceptable Killing of Children by Air Strkes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia
(1 comments) What if the heartbreaking photo had instead been that of an AMERICAN father clasping his dying infant son to his chest staring vacantly into the camera, holding an AMERICAN child with shrapnel wounds. Amoral Mr. & Mrs. America approve sending terror under the American flag! MLK Jr said, "Every man of humane convictions must protest." Its easy. Just quote King! We need his moral leadership.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Reporting on Cindy in NYC/Did News of Her Presence Spread Like Wildfire?
(2 comments) A reporter listens to Cindy Sheehan's weekend speeches at the UN, Union Square and Central Park, New York, and walks and talks with her and members of her Journey for Humanity. In the end, there was one especially great reason for astonishment.

Sunday, July 22, 2007
Rev. King Jr. Re: U.S. Extermination Programs and 1/2 Humanity living on $2 a Day
An Anglo-American terror tactic of extermination is traced up to present indiscriminate air strikes in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia stopping off at genocide in Vietnam to quote MLK Jr., who is also quoted regarding capitalism's horrendous effect on most of the non Western world, making a breeding ground for communism then and today's savage suicide bombing reaction to the brutal violence of the superpower over control of oil.

Thursday, July 5, 2007
Files: Focus On The President Who Ordered Each Specific CIA Crime Against Humanity
(1 comments) The Head of the CIA by law executes directives of the President of the United States of America. When we hear of CIA criminality, think of the U.S. President that had to have ordered said covert crimes against humanity. These files give a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde side of two of our most highly regarded Presidents. Speak out if you don't want covert crime presidential power. Suicide bombers target our indifference.

Sunday, June 17, 2007
A Letter to MLK Jr. re the Same Media War Promotion He Fought & the FCC
(1 comments) Dear Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Jr., we are still watching the same war mongering on television as when you were with us, but we are much more zeroed-in on the fact that only deceitful conglomerate media programming makes wars possible by first making war acceptable. Here is what media has been doing to us. Here is how we are finally filing complaints with the FCC in your style and in your name by phone, fax, mail and e-mail.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Confessions: Cindy re Casey, Bill Moyer re Vietnam, Jimmy Carter re Funding Terrorism
Cindy Sheehan, "I bought into this system for so many years and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy." Bill Moyer could stop media Vietnam War worship, by telling how the lies worked during dark days when he was Press Secretary to Johnson. Jimmy Carter please 'fess up' to secretly arming fundamentalist tribes against the socialist (women liberating) government in Kabul, six months BEFORE the Soviet entry.

Friday, May 25, 2007
Honor Our Fallen by Remembering All Those Fallen 'Foreigners'.
(1 comments) How best to serve our fallen soldiers' memory while remembering the millions of 'foreigners' who were killed by our countrymen? Put ourselves in the shoes of Korean, Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, Panamanian, Iraqi and Afghan bereaved families. Could we even imagine such bombings upon US towns and countryside? We can improve the whole world and ourselves with such imagination. Make a War Victims Day to foster war prevention.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
The Silence of Clergy Today versus Rev. King's "Silence is Betrayal!"
(4 comments) At the polls, citizens have finally expressed themselves against the war in Iraq. Candidates and incumbents feel the need to call for an end to the war. But we rarely hear even a peep from Clergy. Is this for its observing the doctrine of 'Separation of Church and State' or because the Church has become BOUND to the State and SEPARATED from its faith?

Sunday, May 13, 2007
Today's AP Disinforms by Omitting Yesterday's AP, "Iraqi Lawmakers Endorse Pullout", AND
AP articles "Iraqi officials discourage U.S. pullout" and "Iraqi President: U.S. troops should stay" disinform hurried headline readers by omitting mention of a day earlier AP article: "Iraqi Lawmakers Endorse Pullout of Foreign GIs". In "Cheney in Saudi Arabia seeking Iraq help". no mention of "Saudi King Condemns Illegal U.S. Occupation of Iraq" AP editors are using YahooNews slow down any rush to peace by managing the news

Monday, April 30, 2007
CNN, 4/28/07, "Killers in Our Midst"?... Say Primarily Bush & the Bomb, Bomb Bombers
(1 comments) CNN, April 27, "Killers in Our Midst" ran a history of school massacres by mentally ill killers. But two evenings before, Bill Moyer with "Buying the War" on PBS documented the prime killers in our midst in a conspiracy with conglomerate media setting a roll-modeled example of how righteous preemptive mass killing in the name of self-protection and security can be made to be seen as noble by criminally insane killers.

Sunday, April 15, 2007
April/Quote A Martyred Progressive's Condemnation of U.S. Wars
(2 comments) Asks why Congressional Black Caucus and Progressive Caucus do not repeat MLK's condemnation of U.S. war policies on the floor of Congress. The fourth article in the series appearing on the 15th of each month exhorting peace and justice activists to follow the example of Howard Zinn, who, in radio interviews quotes King Jr.' strong condemnations of U.S. murderous war policies and the use of its military throughout the 3rd world

Thursday, April 5, 2007
MLK Assassination Anniversary Yesterday Unnoticed, Useful Today
(1 comments) A Memphis jury's verdict on December 8, 1999, in the wrongful death lawsuit of the King family versus Loyd Jowers "and other unknown co-conspirators," found that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a conspiracy that included agencies of his own government. Read UN Ambassador Andrew Young testimony. put King's condemnation of U.S. wars to use today as 'peoples historian Howard Zinn does in his radio interviews!

Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Rather Than Impeach, Dems Setting Themselves Up to be Blamed for
The Democratic leadership, feeling citizen pressure to end the war, but knowing what is expected of itself by publicly hidden corporate governance, is only pretending to end the war. To avoid a 2008 election theme of Democrats betraying the troops, articles of impeachment could be passed by the House. A Trial would embarrass the President and the G.O.P., even though the Senate won't convict. We lose with either party.

Friday, March 16, 2007
Dems, Bush, Fear Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.' Words! Shake 'em Up! Quote King!
The third article in the series which appears on the 15th of each month exhorting peace and justice activists to follow the example of Howard Zinn, who, in radio interviews quotes Martin Luther King Jr.'s strong condemnations of U.S. murderous war policies and the use of its military throughout the third world to support inequitable and oppressive trade arrangements. Send King's words to Dems backing the Iraq occupation!

Saturday, March 10, 2007
CNN Sold Us the War. Now It Sells Us the Heartbreak with Unctuous Consoling, "Heroic! Brave!"
(1 comments) Duplicity in CNN news presentation is recalled in detail, marketing war on Iraq.. CNN holds special responsibility, along with all conglomerate owned media, for all casualties, including the deaths of the young American members of the 'Striker' armored car/tank urban warfare unit killed at meal-time by a Iraqi suicide bomber as seen in the heart rending documentary shown on CNN's Anderson Cooper news hour, March 5th.

Monday, February 26, 2007
Dean asks, "I'm a terrorist sympathizer?" answer: Only if you Sympathize with Cheney
(1 comments) In an open letter response to Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean's weekly mail posing a provocative question meant to discredit Dick Cheney's linking Democrats with terrorist priorities the author points out that it not the criminally insane who are legally responsible for their crimes against humanity, but those of us who support, aid, abet or even merely acquiesce to such crimes

Monday, February 19, 2007
Imprison Us Too! Abuse Us Without Charge Too! Let Us Expiate! Be Normal!
(1 comments) A heart-breaking but disgusting and enraging full page article on the front page of the New York Sunday Times of February 18, detailing the step by step degradation of an Iraqi citizen through arrest, imprisonment and torture for more than two years without being charged leads to the anguished but angry demand that we torturers call for our own arrest.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007
King's Anguish versus Our Apathy Then and Now / Quote Rev. King Day, the 15th of EACH Month
(1 comments) Passages from King's "Beyond Vietnam", if widely known, would be enough to make network entertainment/news current promotion of both Vietnam and Iraq military ventures as glorious look ridiculous at best or dastardly otherwise. King spoke firstly to the foreign lives so wantonly taken in the destruction of their homelands. That the 15th of each month be "Quote MLKjr Day" for peace and justice activists.

Monday, February 12, 2007
Pledge to the People of America, Not to a Nationalist Symbol!
(1 comments) A veteran complainS of the nefarious use of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag by unscrupulous politicians for blindly following the Commander-in-Chief on when, where, how and whom we bomb, invade and threaten.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Early CIA Involvement in Darfur Has Gone Unreported
While there is great sorrow and indignation over the suffering and loss of life in the Sudan, early U.S. involvement in the war goes unmentioned.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Madam Senator, How Is It That You Allowed Yourself To Be Misinformed. We Didn't.
(4 comments) An open letter to Senator Clinton compares her protest that she was misinformed about the weapons Saddam was supposed to have had to what the common man in the street was thinking at the time. The Senator's "I was misinformed." sounds like the "I didn't know!" of so many German leaders protesting innocence after the Holocaust.

Monday, January 15, 2007
King's Anguish When He Condemned U.S. War Crimes and Foreign Policy Worthy of Emulation
A call for activists to make frequent use of the words of Martin Luther King Jr in his 1967 speech "Beyond Vietnam", condemning the U.S. war in Vietnam and its violent foreign policy toward countries in the third world. Being that the entire speech is relevant to our deathly predicament today, and King's stature being such that his outcry and accusations if often quoted could have a belated effect on foreign policy.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
A Modest 'Kill the Terrorists' Proposal by a Modern-Day Jonathan Swift
In the satirical spirit of Jonathan Swift's famous 1729 pamphlet proposing that poor Irish families sell their children to be eaten.

Monday, January 8, 2007
Progressives in a Pseudo-democracy Battling Conglomerate Media' Empire Propaganda
The dilemma of Progressives in a Pseudo-democracy. Enjoying free speech and freedom of assembly, yet marginalized by an all pervasive conglomerate owned media control of information and selection of what is news, which reaches into public schools and academia, promoting, projecting and at the same time masking a mindless conspiracy of murderous destruction, theft and power over all of humanity. How to proceed?

Saturday, December 30, 2006
Saddam & Reagan! Progressives Should Hammer Sound Bites Like Conglomerate Owned Media Does!
Conglomerate owned entertainment/news repetitious sound bites about Saddam Hussain black out history of Reagan's backing and help. Let progressive media counter by repeating history sound bites!l

Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Christian Ethiopia bombs Islamic Neighbor on Christmas Day
(2 comments) Muslim Somalia bombed by largly Christian neighbor Ethiopia and the loss of life that now ensues from not so clever past U.S.actions and present foolish policies in Washington.

Saturday, May 27, 2006
Victims of War Remembrance on Memorial Day
Veterans initiate a broader commemoration on Memorial Day to include the fallen soldiers of both sides and especially the innocent civilian dead. This project has the endorsement of peoples historian Howard Zinn and many other writers, editors, clergy, veterans and people from all walks of life. A Memorial Day for all victims of war.