Category Archives: THE GULF WAR
IN DEFENSE OF BOWE BERGDAHL
For years, Arizona Senator John McCain hammered President Obama for failing to exchange prisoners being tortured in Guantanamo for American POW Bowe Bergdahl, imprisoned in Afghanistan. Now that the President has finally done so (after years of trivial squabbling while Bergdahl as well as the so-called “enemy combatants” wasted away in prison), Sen. McCain flip-flops […]
FOR EACH & EVERY WARRIOR WHOSE STRENGTH IS NOT TO FIGHT
The story of the widespread (and, today, hard to believe) resistance of working class kids in the U.S. military to the 1991 Gulf War. The weakness of strategies based on Lowest Common Denominatorism was in full evidentiary blossom during the 1991 bombardment of Iraq, re-packaged as “the Gulf war.” “Support Our Troops, Not the War!” […]
THE GULF WAR 24 YEARS LATER: WHY CLASS MATTERS
“We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a New World Order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations.” – President George H.W. Bush, Sept. 11, 1990 On that infamous date in 1990, U.S. President George H.W. Bush, […]
WHY I HATE THANKSGIVING
Posted on November 14, 2011 by MITCHEL COHEN
Learn the Truth about Thanksgiving, this celebration of genocide of millions of people native to the Americas, as well as the ritual mass-slaughter of 43 million turkeys for this one day, in this year alone. INTRODUCTION GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER? On Thanksgiving morning 2003, George W. Bush showed up in Iraq before sunrise for […]
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