Category Archives: Foreign Policy

Inside Oliver Stone’s Kennedy-Conspiracy-Complex

Posted on May 9, 2022 by buzzanco

(I vanquished DiEugenio, so my challenge to Oliver Stone to debate is still on the table) “When Oliver Stone heard it, he immediately called me, as he was excited about the result.” And thus Kent Dorfman James DiEugenio, aka “Jimmy … Continue reading →

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John F. Kennedy Goes Hollywood: Oliver Stone’s Fantastic History

Posted on April 30, 2022 by buzzanco

©Robert Buzzanco Jim Garrison: I never realized Kennedy was so dangerous to the establishment. Is that why? X: Well that’s the real question, isn’t it? Why? The how and the who is just scenery for the public. Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, … Continue reading →

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Doing Miami’s Dirty Work (Wittingly or Not): Responding to “New Politics”

Posted on September 13, 2021 by buzzanco

A few days ago, the self-described socialist magazine New Politics put out an editorial, penned by Lois Weiner and Daniel Fischer, titled “NP on Cuba: Consistent Oppostion to US Imperialism and Support of Democratic Rights.”  The image attached to the … Continue reading →

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Noam Chomsky talks about the 1960s on Green and Red Podcast

Posted on June 28, 2021 by buzzanco

We recently had a great, lengthy discussion with Noam Chomsky about the 1960s radicalism, the New Left, The Black Panthers, SDS, the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Student protests, feminism, “woke” politics, and much more. We also provided some edited clips of … Continue reading →

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The Reality of the Tet Offensive: Military Failure and Economic Crisis

Posted on January 28, 2021 by buzzanco

Tet was a pivot point of the Vietnam War, and it’s been misrepresented ever since…… At the end of January the media will commemorate one of the more important and decisive events of the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive. On … Continue reading →

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Jimmy Carter is a Liberal Saint Now, Was a War Criminal Then…..

Posted on November 19, 2020 by buzzanco

For a deeper discussion of this, check out Green and Red Podcast’s episode on Jimmy Carter as Liberal Saint/Neo-Lib War Criminal, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krp2XygLxgo&t=17s Please support Green and Red Podcast by subscribing, sharing and following on social media, and you can … Continue reading →

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Dien Bien Phu and the First Indochina War [Part 1]

Posted on May 7, 2020 by buzzanco

The French, Vietnamese Nationalism and Communism, and American Imperialism (Part 1 of 2, from French colonization to putative independence and war against France.  The story below is largely derived from my books Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life, and … Continue reading →

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Ken Burns’s War Stories

Posted on September 23, 2017 by buzzanco

[Original version at History News Network, 21 September 2017] I began my first book on Vietnam (Masters of War) with a poem, Adrian Mitchell’s “To Whom It May Concern”: You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out. You … Continue reading →

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“. . . to maintain this position of disparity”

Posted on February 3, 2016 by buzzanco

George Kennan is one of the more important diplomats (and scholars) in the history of U.S. foreign relations. Best known as the “father” of the Cold War policy of “containment,” Kennan was the ultimate “cold warrior” of the immediate postwar … Continue reading →

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They’ve Hated Us . . . (Postscript: Hillary and Israel)

Posted on January 10, 2016 by buzzanco

A few days ago I discussed a document about “resurging” anti-Americanism in the Arab world, juxtaposing it with Barack Obama’s warning of a “new phase” in Middle Eastern terrorism after the Paris andSan Bernardino attacks. The memorandum, sent from the … Continue reading →

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