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Celebrating the Rebel Jesus
• December 23, 2021
• 2,000 Words • 340 Comments • Reply
The media distorted parts of Jesus' message right from the start. The Gospels, and the first generation of Jesus' followers, effectively altered or hid his more radical teachings, and what has been preached from a million pulpits and that we still get from many today is a gross distortion. Jesus was not preoccupied with individual... Read More
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The Killing of History
• September 22, 2017
• 1,600 Words • 269 Comments • Reply
One of the most hyped “events” of American television, The Vietnam War, has started on the PBS network. The directors are Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Acclaimed for his documentaries on the Civil War, the Great Depression and the history of jazz, Burns says of his Vietnam films, “They will inspire our country to begin... Read More
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Infamy at Sea
Israel’s Attack on the USS Liberty 50 Years Later
• June 2, 2017
• 4,200 Words • 130 Comments • Reply
In early June of 1967, at the onset of the Six Day War, the Pentagon sent the USS Liberty from Spain into international waters off the coast of Gaza to monitor the progress of Israel’s attack on the Arab states. The Liberty was a lightly armed surveillance ship. Only hours after the Liberty arrived it... Read More
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The Problem Is Washington, Not North Korea
• April 17, 2017
• 1,900 Words • 126 Comments • Reply
Washington has never made any effort to conceal its contempt for North Korea. In the 64 years since the war ended, the US has done everything in its power to punish, humiliate and inflict pain on the Communist country. Washington has subjected the DPRK to starvation, prevented its government from accessing foreign capital and markets,... Read More
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Socialist Senator Explains the Difference Between Democrats and Republicans
• April 12, 2016
• 1,300 Words • 60 Comments • Reply
What’s the biggest difference between “socialist-lite” candidate, Bernie Sanders, and a political heavyweight like Huey Long? For one thing, Long didn’t mind bending the rules. After his scuffle with Standard Oil, (Note: The Louisiana legislature tried to impeach Long after he threatened to raise taxes by $.05 on every barrel of oil refined in the... Read More
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Truth and Fiction in Elie Wiesel’s “Night”
A Moral Fabulist
• October 21, 2014
• 8,000 Words • 210 Comments • Reply
A couple of weeks ago Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and self-appointed moral conscience for Holocaust survivors, praised the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes to make way for yet more illegal settlements in Jerusalem. His chilling statement ran in an ad placed inHa’aretz. Here are Wiesel’s appalling words: Though Wiesel offers himself as a paragon... Read More
Did the Elites Have Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Killed?
and • January 24, 2014
• 1,200 Words • 18 Comments • Reply
The most compelling argument against the existence of a vast conspiracy orchestrating the assassinations of Jack and Bobby Kennedy is that the brothers were never threats to ruling power. The Kennedys were card-carrying members of the global elites, ran in their circles, catered to their whims, administered their political and economic bidding. (Just ask Fidel... Read More
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The Good War, Revisited
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor: What FDR Knew
and • December 27, 2013
• 1,700 Words • 4 Comments • Reply
Each Pearl Harbor day offers a fresh opportunity for those who correctly believe 
that Franklin Roosevelt knew of an impending attack by the Japanese and welcomed it as
 a way of snookering the isolationists and getting America into the war. And year by year the evidence continues to mount. The Naval 
Institute’s website featured a... Read More
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The Day a Cockburn Set Fire to the White House
Denying Military Disasters
• September 7, 2012
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As a correspondent in Washington 20 years ago, I received occasional calls from local television stations on the anniversary of the burning of the White House by a British force in August 1814. The reason they wanted a comment was because the raid was jointly led by my distant ancestor, Admiral Sir George Cockburn, who... Read More
Vietnam MIAs: Ghosts Return to Haunt McCain and the US Press
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• May 28, 2010
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The ghosts that haunt Senator John McCain are about 600 in number and right now they are mustering for an onslaught. McCain, one of America's foremost Republicans and President Barack Obama's opponent in 2008, is currently locked in a desperate bid for political survival in his home state of Arizona. After 20 years of immunity... Read More
Did the Elites Want MLK Dead--If So, Why?
CounterPunch Diary Did the Elites Want MLK Dead--If So, Why?
• April 5, 2008
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I believe Oswald killed JFK and Sirhan killed Bobby. Lone gunmen both. With MLK, it could be a different matter. And with the infinitely more radical Malcom X it certainly was. The Kennedys were no threat to ruling power. They were part of the ruling power. Whatever his actual function--and King was given a hard... Read More
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A Rainbow Over a Graveyard
Orlando Figes and The Whisperers
• October 6, 2007
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Orlando Figes' The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia is in its most literal sense an act of collective memory, and the only quibble I have with the author's tremendous achievement is that homage to those he rightly calls "the heroes" of his book comes not at the beginning but at the end in "Afterword... Read More
Zyklon B on the US Border
CounterPunch Diary
• June 23, 2007
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Zyklon B came to El Paso in the 1920s. In 1929, for example, a U.S. Public Health Service officer, J.R. Hurley, ordered $25 worth of the material--hydrocyanic acid in pellet form--as a fumigating agent for use at the El Paso delousing station, where Mexicans crossed the border from Juárez. Zyklon, developed by DEGESCH (the German... Read More
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Truth and Fiction in Elie Wiesel's Night: Is Frey or Wiesel the Bigger Moral Poseur?
Did Oprah Pick Another Fibber?
• April 1, 2006
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When in trouble, head for Auschwitz, preferably in the company of Elie Wiesel. It's as foolproof a character reference as is available today, at least within the Judeo-Christian sphere of moral influence. One can easily see why Oprah Winfrey and her advisers saw an Auschwitz excursion in the company of Wiesel as a sure-fire antidote... Read More
Who Beat Hitler?; Linings to Blair's Victory; I Choose Laura (Over HRC); the End of 666?; Hail Ike Turner (And Audrey); Mo...
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• May 7, 2005
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Monday, May 9, brings us the sixtieth anniversary of the defeat of Nazism in Europe. I remember the first VE Day in 1945, sitting on my father's shoulders on the side of some London street, watching the tanks rumble by and a soldier in a tin hat popping up and down in the hatch. Each... Read More
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"Herr Hitler: Is He Serious or Just Having Fun?"
• April 23, 2005
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New Orleans, Louisiana A week after he was praised in Life’s magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” issue, Time magazine, in its scheduled April 20, 1934, issue went a step further by making the controversial German black-shirt nationalist, just installed as chancellor, the subject of a lengthy cover story, bearing the title quoted in the headline... Read More
When Billy Graham Planned to Kill One Million People
• March 12, 2002
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There's a piquant contrast in the press coverage across the decades of Billy Graham's various private dealings with Nixon, as displayed on the tapes gradually released from the National Archive or disclosed from Nixon's papers. I'll come shortly to the recent flap over Graham and Nixon's closet palaverings about the Jews, but first let's visit... Read More
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