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Fred Branfman's writing has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Harper's, and many other publications. He is the author of Voices From the Plain of Jars
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 20, 2014 Gas Chambers, Chemical Warfare, Blindings, Mass Bombing and Shelling Civilians -- Where do you Draw the Line?
It is the actual massive bombing and shelling of Gaza's civilian infrastructure that raises the basic question: as a human being, where do you draw the line? How do you justify to yourself your support for mass misery inflicted on hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians through a bombing and shelling campaign?
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 24, 2013 US Executive Branch; World's Most Evil and Lawless Institution; Part 2
We speak of "institutional evil" here because the greatest evils of our time are conducted by often personally decent, even idealistic, men and women. It is not necessary to be hate-filled or personally violent for an American to commit evil today. One need only be part of, or support the police, intelligence and military activities of the U.S. Executive Branch. Series: America's Executive Branch (4 Articles, 6339 views)
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, July 22, 2013 Executive Branch leaders have killed, wounded and made homeless over 20 million human beings in the last 50 years
It is a matter of indisputable fact that the U.S. Executive Branch has over the past 50 years been responsible for bombing, shooting, burning alive with napalm, blowing up with cluster bombs, burying alive with 500 pound bombs, torturing, assassinating, and incarcerating without evidence, and destroying the homes and villages of, more innocent civilians in more nations over a longer period of time than any other government Series: America's Executive Branch (4 Articles, 6339 views)
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, July 22, 2013 Executive Lawlessness: Might Makes Right; Executive: Branch Part 3
the truth is that we live in a world, and an America, in which the rule of law does not prevail and might makes right. Our leaders endlessly inform us that America is a "nation of laws not men," even though they only escape punishment for their massive violations of basic human decency and the law, as McNamara suggested, because they are too powerful to be punished. Series: America's Executive Branch (4 Articles, 6339 views)
SHARE Tuesday, April 23, 2013 The new face of evil: why Henry Kissinger is still relevant today
Henry Kissinger's quote recently released by Wikileaks,"the illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer", likely brought a smile to his legions of elite media, government, corporate and high society admirers. It is unlikely, however, that the descendants of his more than 6 million victims in Indochina, and Americans of conscience appalled by his murder of non-Americans, will share in the amusement.