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Category Archives: Foreign Policy
Inside Oliver Stone’s Kennedy-Conspiracy-Complex
(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
John F. Kennedy Goes Hollywood: Oliver Stone’s Fantastic History
©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
Posted in Civil Rights, Conspiracies, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Foreign Policy, History, Imperialism, John F. Kennedy, Military, Oliver Stone, Politics, Vietnam
Tagged Assassination, Conspiracies, Cuba, JFK, Oliver Stone, Vietnam War
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Doing Miami’s Dirty Work (Wittingly or Not): Responding to “New Politics”
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
Posted in Colonialism, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Foreign Policy, History, Imperialism, Military, Politics, Protests, Repression, Uncategorized
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Noam Chomsky talks about the 1960s on Green and Red Podcast
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
The Reality of the Tet Offensive: Military Failure and Economic Crisis
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
Posted in Foreign Policy, History, Military, Uncategorized, Vietnam, War
Tagged 1968 Crisis, Lyndon B. Johnson, Tet Offensive, Vietnam War, Walter Cronkite
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Jimmy Carter is a Liberal Saint Now, Was a War Criminal Then…..
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
Posted in Colonialism, Foreign Policy, Liberals, Middle East, Military, Muslims, Repression, Russia, Vietnam, War
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Dien Bien Phu and the First Indochina War [Part 1]
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
Posted in Colonialism, Foreign Policy, History, Military, Politics, Uncategorized, Vietnam, War
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Ken Burns’s War Stories
[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
Posted in Foreign Policy, Ken Burns, Military, PBS, Politics, Uncategorized, Vietnam
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“. . . to maintain this position of disparity”
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
Posted in Foreign Policy, Military, Uncategorized
Tagged George Kennan, Global Hegemony, Imperialism, Military Spending, Policy Planning Staff, PPS 23
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They’ve Hated Us . . . (Postscript: Hillary and Israel)
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
Posted in Foreign Policy, History, Uncategorized
Tagged Hillary Clinton, Iran, Israel, Middle East, U.S. Aid
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