Category History
Bradley Manning and our helicopter attack memory hole
I’m just remembering how horrifying this scene in Charlie Wilson’s War was when I saw it in a movie theater. Now that we’ve seen the Wikileaks video of the Apache attacks on civilians, can somebody please tell me how we can pretend we’re more moral than the Soviets?
Iraq at ten years out
A quick look at the Calendar (I HAVE been kind of busy lately) tells me we’re at the ten-year anniversary of the regrettable decision by our last president to go to war with people who had NOTHING to do with 9/11. On the Sunday before the war, my former church (Washington Square United Methodist Church) […]
Don’t know much about history–Stories I told you about first
Back in January, I posted a story here about the LBJ Library’s release of information about the theft of the 1968 Presidential election. Specifically, I was reporting that the information released confirmed that Richard Nixon sabotaged the Paris Peace Talks in 1968 in order to win the election. He sent information via intermediaries to the […]
the back-and-forth on the gun debate
A couple of weeks ago, I tried to line up the contradictions of the pro-gun lobby’s version of history. This was in reaction to two pro-gun guys being on WBCR Sex and Politics. Last night, we played host to another Second Amendment advocate, and I was able to bring out some of the more nuanced […]
Bradley Manning’s Awful Day–and ours
I was afraid it would come to this. On Thursday, Bradley Manning appeared in court in Fort Meade, Maryland and read a 35 page statement about his actions and motivations behind the leaking of information. Manning had been a US Army intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq, and he he was increasingly disillusioned about the things […]
Bradley Manning right to a speedy trial denied
This is an update on the Bradley Manning case. It was written by Nathan Fuller and you can find the full version here. Emphasis mine. Nathan Fuller, Bradley Manning Support Network. February 26, 2013. On PFC Bradley Manning’s 1,005th day in prison without trial, military judge Denise Lind ruled that the government has not deprived him […]
BBC taken to court over 9/11 coverage
The sane wing of the 9/11 truth movement is about to get its day in court. Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, a group of 1,600 engineers, metallurgists and architects, has been working to demand a re-investigation of the 9/11 building collapses, arguing that the science and design practices they embrace indicate that the buildings did […]
A court challenge to the BBC over 9/11 coverage
Last year I told you all to watch a video about 9/11 that was not Loose Change or some other odd piece of Youtubery that your cousin found late one night before the Xanax kicked in (I especially like the two minute long file of two seconds of video purportedly showing that both jets hitting […]
Obama’s drone policy expands definitions of ‘enemies’
This is an article I posted two weeks ago. It has some interesting links both to information about the Obama drone policy and the protesters who’ve been trying to call attention to the downsides of the use of drones against American citizens (and everyone else, too). Currently, there’s a prisoner of conscience named Brian Terrell […]
The Pope’s resignation and Conspiracy theories about it
I’ll start this by saying I don’t really have a dog in this fight. I consider many priests and nuns in the Catholic Church to be heroes, but I also have many, many friends and relatives who remember Catholic grade school back in the 50’s and 60’s, and won’t set foot in a church unless […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 