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richard lightner
Aug 6, 20232 min read
George Kennan
George Kennan. Memoirs. In 1950 the famed diplomat wrote the Secretary of State his opinion about the situation in Indochina. “we are...
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richard lightner
Jul 13, 20232 min read
Failure of West in Vietnam
John T. McAlister and Paul Mus. The Vietnamese and Their Revolution. The following is the best and clearest explanation of the conflict...
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richard lightner
Jun 30, 20233 min read
Fascist Nixon
The following are from books about I.F. Stone, the muckraking journalist and analyst of the 20th century. First, (D.D. Guttenplan....
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richard lightner
Jun 27, 20231 min read
Profiles in Ignorance
Andy Borowitz wrote an excellent book with this title tracing our Trump affliction back to Reagan. He documents outright conservative lies.
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richard lightner
Jun 18, 202359 min read
DANIEL ELLSBERG
David Cohen Fri, June 16, 2023 at 8:39 AM HST Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who profoundly influenced American politics, military...
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richard lightner
May 21, 20231 min read
The Great Depression
This posting is a cursory view with selected books on US History in general. I am interested in changes in historians’ points of view and...
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richard lightner
Mar 30, 20236 min read
CRUSHING LABOR
Taft Hartley Act The reason for the Taft-Hartley Act was the resurgence and power of labor unions not that they had been led or organized...
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richard lightner
Mar 25, 20231 min read
John Kerry
John Kerry testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and said that, “there is nothing in South Vietnam . . . that...
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richard lightner
Mar 25, 20232 min read
Anti-War Movement 2
Nancy Zaroulis and and Gerald Sullivan. Who Spoke Up?: American protest against the war in Vietnam, 1963-1975. 1984. i. The Vietnam War...
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richard lightner
Mar 25, 20232 min read
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Operation Dewey Canyon III was an event where nearly one thousand Vietnam veterans threw their medals over a fence. Most expressed...
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richard lightner
Mar 25, 20234 min read
Anti-War Movement 1
“The war in Vietnam soon became the subject of violent political dissension, as well as a burden on the conscience of all Americans who...
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richard lightner
Mar 25, 20231 min read
MOSHE DAYAN
The famed Israeli General visited Vietnam in 1966. The Americans promoted bombing as their strategy to win the war but Dayan said, that...
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richard lightner
Mar 25, 202318 min read
DAVID DELLINGER
Dave Dellinger a long time peace activist and a conscientious objector during World War II protested the Vietnam War vigorously. In his...
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richard lightner
Mar 20, 20231 min read
CORRUPTION
A Whistleblower’s Lament by Stuart Hamm recounts the corruption of the justice system in Suffolk County New York. The police and the...
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richard lightner
Mar 10, 20232 min read
Manifest Destiny
Julius W. Pratt wrote in America’s Colonial Experiment, in 1950, about the back and forth Manifest Destiny desires of the United States....
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richard lightner
Feb 16, 20231 min read
Compassion
The conservative mantra toward the poor and oppressed in our country is obscene. The following is a coherent and realistic bucket of cold...
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richard lightner
Jan 24, 20231 min read
Bombing
Peter Grose died. He was a New York Times of war correspondent in Saigon during the Vietnam War and he questioned the American use of...
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richard lightner
Jan 24, 20231 min read
Moshe Dayan - The great Israeli general.
Moshe Dayan has traditionally been given credit for Israel’s stupendous victory of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan in the Six-Day War. Tom Segev...
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richard lightner
Jan 24, 20231 min read
CHRISTIAN FACSISM
Randall Balmer. Bad Faith: race and the rise of the religious right. This is a very short and to the point book noticing that abortion...
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