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Is Your Outrage Pure?
Planned Election Protests Shouldn’t Have Been Postponed First, there’s not going to be a “coup” or any other type of stolen election. The hysterics surrounding this issue have frankly become embarrassing on the Left. No reason to go into the … Continue reading
Cracks in the Empire
The Military Says “Stand Down” to Trump “I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights, Constitutional Crisis, History, Military, Politics, Repression, Trump, Uncategorized, Vietnam
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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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Death Cults, Wildcats, and Liberal Civility
For about a week now, media and liberal hysterics have been riveted to scenes of protestors in many states having outdoor demonstrations to demand that “the economy” reopen. They’re white people, many of whom are hoisting Confederate flags and Trump … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights, Constitutional Crisis, History, Liberals, Politics, Repression, Trump, Uncategorized
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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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Does Russia Matter?
Memes aren’t great ways to learn a lot about history or politics, though they’re used that way a lot. Still, some are funny and make a good point in a few lines in a way that might take paragraphs otherwise. … Continue reading
Posted in Constitutional Crisis, Foreign Policy, History, Politics, Repression, Russia, Trump, Uncategorized
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Oligarchs Want Cruz Control
“Cruz gains steam with 2 wins on ‘Super Saturday’” (Washington Post Headline, 6 March 2016) Donald Trump has really rattled the ruling class. Cruz won a few more delegates, but yesterday’s results were consistent with previous GOP primaries yet the … Continue reading
Batshitville, A.K.A. Texas
I haven’t gotten apoplectic over Donald Trump, like so many of my associates on the Left. It terrified me that he’s unleashed the Brown Shirts at his rallies, and I don’t know that they’ll be contained, but Trump himself is … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Education Policy, Texas, Texas Crazy, Texas Textbooks
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From Tuskegee to Flint–Biological Warfare at Home
. “W” . . . as in Water; . . . as in “WMD”; . . . as in “WTF?” By now, most Americans should have heard about the lead in Flint, Michigan’s water. Lead—the stuff that was the subject … Continue reading
Here Today, Oregon Tomorrow
On June 5th, 1967, Reies Lopez Tijerina and about 20 armed compatriots in the Alianza Federal de las Mercedes (Federal Land Grant Alliance) attacked the Rio Arriba County courthose in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico to liberate 11 Alianza members believed … Continue reading
Afflict The Comfortable (The Mind of Bob Buzzanco) 