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Harry Targ : The War on Afghanistan is Our Biggest Fantasy
Image from Reuters.The war on Afghanistan:Our longest war and biggest fantasy Obama’s announcement sounded eerily like the policy of ‘Vietnamization’ which President Nixon put in place in 1969. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | May 9, 2012 On … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, American History, Harry Targ, Obama Foreign Policy, Vietnam
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BOOKS / Tom Hayden : Was LBJ More Lear Than Machiavelli?
Was LBJ more Lear than Machiavelli? Reflection on Robert Caro’s The Passage of Power By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | May 8, 2012 [The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro (2012: Knopf); … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Books, LBJ, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Robert A. Caro, Tom Hayden, Vietnam
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Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers : Looking Back at Kent State and Jackson State
President Richard Nixon, pointing to a Cambodian map, announces the entry of American soldiers into Cambodia, on April 30, 1970.Kent State and Jackson State:Looking back / leaning forward Richard Nixon and the political class had denounced students as thugs and … Continue reading
Nancy Miller Saunders : Idiots and Blinders
Vietnam Veterans protest the war at the Republican National Convention in 1972. Photo by Langelle.Idiots and blinders:Military ‘intelligence’ then and now There is nothing new about such blindness to alternative possibilities. Forty years ago those of us who wanted to … Continue reading
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Tagged G. Gordon Liddy, Military Intelligence, Nancy Miller Saunders, Peace Movement, Sixties, Vietnam, VVAW
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Jay D. Jurie : Vietnam and the Historic Struggle Against ROTC
Marchers in 1970 want ROTC removed from the campus of Ohio University. Image from Cape Girardeau History and Photos. ROTC resurgent Part I: ROTC and the anti-war movement They held regular drills on an open field approximately two blocks from … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Boulder CO, Jay D. Jurie, Military, New Left, Peace Movement, ROTC, SDS, Sixties, Student Activism, Vietnam
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Nancy Miller Saunders : Jane Fonda and the ‘Home of the Brave’
Jane Fonda at the Oleo Strut GI Coffee House, Killeen, Texas, circa May 1970. Photo by Thorne Dreyer / Space City! Jane Fonda and the ‘home of the brave’ By Nancy Miller Saunders / The Rag Blog / August 11, … Continue reading
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Tagged Actresses, Anti-War GIs, Jane Fonda, Nancy Miller Saunders, Peace Movement, Political Activists, Vietnam, VVAW, Winter Soldiers
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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : Wachsberger’s ‘Insider Histories’ of the 60’s Underground Press
Keeping the Sixties alive:Ken Wachsberger’s ‘Insider Histories‘ arepassionate essays about the underground press By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / May 3, 2011 [Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Part I, edited by Ken Wachsberger; (Michigan State … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Jonah Raskin, Journalism, Ken Wachsberger, Sixties, Space City, Underground Press, Vietnam
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Harvey Wasserman : Honor Dr. King and Bring the Troops Home Now
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with President Lyndon Johnson in the White House, March 1966. Photo by Yoichi Okamoto / Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.Honor Dr. Martin Luther King: Bring the troops home NOW! By Harvey Wasserman / The … Continue reading
BOOKS / Mariann G. Wizard : The Odyssey of Our Winter Soldiers
Nancy Miller Saunders’ Combat by Trial:Documenting 20th century ‘winter soldiers’ By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / August 25, 2010 Combat by Trial: An Odyssey with 20th Century Winter Soldiers by Nancy Miller Saunders. (iUniverse, Inc., 2008.) 591 … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Anti-War Vets, Books, Mariann G. Wizard, Nancy Miller Saunders, SDS, Vietnam, VVAW, Watergate
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Thomas McKelvey Cleaver : ‘Crossing the Rubicon’ at the Gulf of Tonkin
E. J. Fitzgerald’s painting (1980) illustrates the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. U.S. Navy Historical Center / Wikimedia Commons.Crossing the Rubicon:The Tonkin Gulf Incident It’s an event I can never forget, because I was there, a young sailor working in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Gulf of Tonkin, Imperialism, Military, Thomas Cleaver, Vietnam
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Vietnam and Afghanistan : Still Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
American soldiers carry a wounded comrade through a Vietnam Swamp. Photo by Paul Halverson, 1969. Image from The Veterans Hour.Afghanistan, and the specter of Vietnam:Waist deep in the big muddy By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / May 27, … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, American History, Counterinsurgency, Harry Targ, U.S. Foreign Policy, Vietnam
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Who Should We Believe? : Faisal Shahzad, and the Gulf of Tonkin
Gulf of Tonkin incident, off the coast of North Vietnam, August 2, 1964. Illustration by E.J. Fitzgerald (1980) / U.S. Navy Historical Center / Wikimedia Commons.Who should we believe?How foreign policy lies lead to war By Harry Targ / The … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Lies, Faisal Shazad, Gulf of Tonkin, Harry Targ, Military History, Taliban, Vietnam
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