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don’t know much about US war crimes…

November 5, 2015 · by · in Don't know much about..., History, peace protesters, Protests, war crimes · Leave a comment

This is ground I’ve been over before. Coming back to it is necessitated by the US attack on a hospital in Kunduz in Afghanistan. The organization Doctors without Borders (MSF) has reported that at least 30 people (including 12 staff members) were killed and scores of others were wounded or missing. There are reports that patients burned to death in their […]

General Petraeus, War Crimes and culpability

September 23, 2013 · by · in History, peace protesters, Protests · Leave a comment

We had a lively discussion (code for ‘I seriously lost my temper’) a few weeks ago on Sex and Politics. I thought we’d be discussing the proposed bombing of Syria, but the topic was General David Petraeus. For those of you not keeping up, he has been hired to teach at CUNY, and there are significant […]

Don’t Know much about History: Ron Reagan, War Criminal

September 11, 2013 · by · in Don't know much about..., History, Protests, Uncategorized · 7 Comments

Finally–someone (in the form of Stephen Colbert) called out Bill O’Reilly for constantly bringing up Ronald Reagan in all the discussion of Obama’s reaction to Syria’s alleged poison gas attack. I don’t take Bill-o terribly seriously anyway, but since the memes about Reagan are constantly being picked up, let’s be clear: Reagan inarguably made the […]

It’s official–George W Bush is a War Criminal

October 24, 2012 · by · in Uncategorized · Leave a comment

In Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, George W Bush was convicted of war crimes in absentia last May. Funny it didn’t receive much official press, though some progressive websites reported it. I found out about it because CNN has a feature called “I report” and someone had posted it there. Perhaps the rest of the news media […]