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MY LAST POST: Final Thoughts on Zionism`s Success and Arab Failure

A review of a lifetime dedicated toward raising awareness of the suffering of Palestinians.

(LONDON) - I am withdrawing from the battlefield of the war for the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine.

More than three decades ago when I made my commitment to this war effort, in the full knowledge that it would make me persona non grata in the eyes of the mainstream...

Can True Blue Democrats Do What Other Progressives Won`t?

"The self-labeled Progressive Movement that has arisen over the past decade is primarily one big propaganda campaign" - John Stauber

(COPENHAGEN) - Sympathetic critics of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) contend that its passionate energy has faded due to massive federal, state and local government spying and police brutality.

They also cite a lack of political direction that could inspire millions of the 99% to join in, thus enabling it to be alive and kicking today.

Intellectuals and Race: Getting it Wrong from Eugenics to `Social Justice`

Intellectuals and Race" can help bring us back to a serious examination of a question which has not received the empirical examination it deserves.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Intellectual theories, which have largely bypassed complex reality, have had a dramatic influence upon the way Americans view race---and racial differences.

In an important new book, "Intellectuals And Race", tests the underlying assumptions about race that have prevailed among intellectuals and which have led to a variety of crusades...

Sometimes, A Great Town

Human nature cannot be studied in cities except at a disadvantage--a village is the place. There you can know your man inside and out--in a city you but know his crust; and his crust is usually a lie. - Mark Twain

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Sleepy Slater had a store-front shop on Main Street, with a fortunate sort of bay window, at which he sat crouched over his shoemaker's workbench.

Through the bay window, he commanded a view of the far reaches of our town's principal thoroughfare, and could note the approach of any customer...

Greatest Purveyor of Violence

The allure of combat is a trap, a ploy, an old, dirty game of deception in which the powerful, who do not go to war, promise a mirage to those who do.
--Chris Hedges

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Reverend Martin Luther King delivered his "Beyond Vietnam" speech in New Yorkh on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered.

He called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

The "shot heard 'round the world" is a phrase that has come to represent several historical incidents that mark the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in the battles of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.

(BOSTON) - Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere...

On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march..." By land or sea from the town tonight, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch

Reflections on Pearl Harbor and World War II

Of our eight battleships at Pearl Harbor, four were sunk and the others were badly damaged.

(WASHINGTON DC) - What I learned history in school – and as it usually is taught even today – is that the surprise attack on our forces in Hawaii by the Imperial Japanese Navy was devastating.

The Naval base at Pearl Harbor and the Army Air Corps base at Hickam Field were attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes launched from six aircraft carriers.

Two Cheers For Post-America... Obama: Redux et Reductio

The corporate media exists not to illuminate but to perpetuate the mirage. Coke or Pepsi. Take your pick. As if there is a difference. - Chris Hedges

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Nothing has really changed since President Barack Obama delivered his final first-term State of the Union address.

It was a powerful presentation, pushing all the right buttons, pulling all the correct levers, convincing everybody...

C-SPAN Breaks Story About Investigation Into What Happens to MIA and POW Americans

Watch the special program Saturday, April 20, noon EST; repeat airing Sunday, April 21, 11 a.m. EST on cable C-SPAN stations.

(NORFOLK, Va.) - Author Amy Water Yarsinke, a veteran author of more than 55 non-fiction books on American history, is known as “the POW Hunter” due to her experience in military intelligence.

An American in the Basement is an expose about the betrayal of Captain Scott Speicher and the cover-up of his death, according to the author.

To Throw or Not to Throw a Stone

The people of Deir Yassin did not go gently into that good night; they, like their Jewish brothers and sisters in Warsaw, fought valiantly against terrible odds, against a systematic brutality...

(REDLANDS, CA) - A debate rages in Israel today on the truth of Amira Hass’s words:

“Throwing a stone is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance”