Salem-News.com History articles Page 48

What if `Pre-History` was Really History?

Goodbye Columbus (Deleting our favorite myth).

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Two things happened recently that reaffirm how strange and misguided our popular mythology really is.

First, there is the popular North American myth that prior to the entrance of fat, conquering white explorers from Europe's decadent empires there was no civilization here...

Ooops, I just Committed a Thought Crime!

'Our' battle will be over as soon as Israel makes the bombastic declaration that it abandons Zionism.

(LONDON) - Oops ... what did I say!
What was I thinking?
Where was my head?
What have I done!

Sorry, I beg your pardon, I profusely apologize
How dare I entertain such an "evil" and blatant "anti-Semitic" thought?
How dare I ask such a "controversial" question?!

`A Newfangled Impeachment Better Should I Have Known!`

A poem verbalized in the context of the current prearranged and equipped “impeachment” by Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa government, against the present Chief Justice (CJ) of Sri Lanka, Dr. Shirani Anshumala Bandaranayake...

(LOS ANGELES) - “Impeachment”, as we all may know…
illicit detached, and off they go…
else if lingered, tragedy may grow…
though slow in pace, the end shall show…
a state in ruin, as crimes galore…
hence, better indict - reprimand them so…

Still Weeping for Gaza

“Today in Gaza we have no cement to build graves for those who die.” - words of a friend

(LONDON) - Exactly five years ago I was in Gaza to see the situation for myself. That was before the murderous blitzkrieg they called Operation Cast Lead, but Israel's crimes against humanity were already piled high.

When I got home memories of the visit so haunted me that I sat down and wrote an article titled "See Gaza and Weep".

Kevin Annett and Bill Annett Are OK in My Book

Kevin was one of the few people in British Columbia in the 1990's with the courage to go public with concerns about a pedofile group operating in the judiciary.

(BRITISH COLUMBIA) - I DO NOT concur or agree with any of the allegations made against Kevin Annett or William Annett.

I have met Kevin Annett on several occasions and I follow his important work. I have found him to be an honourable gentlemen in all respects.

Voting is Bad for You and the Planet

... we must keep planning and implementing sophisticated campaigns of nonviolent resistance to prevent wars, end economic exploitation and save threatened ecosystems..

(BLACKBURN, Victoria Aust) - Should Americans vote for Rocky Anderson, Virgil Goode, Gary Johnson, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney or Jill Stein in the presidential election on Tuesday?

There must be someone who will genuinely represent the interests of US citizens once they are in the White House. Surely.

The Poverty of Relative Deprivation

Give a man a spade and he'll plant a seed. Give him a horse and plow and he'll plant a crop.
Give him a tractor and he'll drive to the nearest liquor store
- Ancient Peace Corps rubric.

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Julius Grodinsky was a wise man who was once a prof at The Wharton School in Philadelphia, at whose feet I was first introduced to the early marvel of Texas Instruments, not to mention the alchemy made possible by mixing bourbon and sweet vermouth.

He also delivered a universal truth, as valid in 1960 as it is today...

Truth, like the Air We Breathe

An Open Letter and Appeal to Dennis Banks, the American Indian Movement, and People of Good Will

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - In this writing, Kevin Annett addresses one of his most outspoken critics; a man who insists that Kevin's work exposing the Native American Genocide in Canada is wrong.

Kevin explains how pointless the public attacks are and tells his critic he's been the target of "badjacketing" tactics by the FBI

Cuban Missile Crisis: Lessons for Iran?

Lesson for Obama: the Cuba missile crisis

(BERKELEY, CA) - Fifty years ago millions of people around the world worried that nuclear war would break out between the U.S. and USSR over demands that the Soviet Union withdraw its nuclear missiles from Cuba.

Many Americans still think that an angry Fidel Castro wanted to launch them at U.S. targets because he hated our country.

Philadelphia Site of Proposed Tun Tavern Reproduction

Whatever became of the plan for a Tun Tavern reproduction site?

(WASHINGTON DC) - The attached photo was taken on Saturday, 27 October 2012 @ Penns' Landing in Philadelphia, PA. The Philadelphia Beirut Memorial is one block north of this site.