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“Jimmy Carter . . . Liberal Saint Now, Neo-Liberal War Criminal Then” (Transcript)
[Unedited transcript of podcast on Jimmy Carter’s legacy as president, November 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krp2XygLxgo&t=14s. Opened w/ discussion of Carter’s well-deserved reputation as a humanitarian and peace advocate after he left the White House, then segued to discussion below]. Bob Buzzanco (BB): … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, History, Imperialism, Liberals, Military, Uncategorized, Vietnam, War
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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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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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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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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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Afflict The Comfortable (The Mind of Bob Buzzanco) 