Tag: U.S.

Che Guevara: “This is What Imperialism Does to Humen”

Ernesto Che Guevara on

This is an edited video of speech cut up in three pieces from Ernesto Che Guevara’s address to the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 11, 1964:  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30459.htm   Full transcript below This is…

Two Front International Struggle For Palestine

Prof. Lawrence Davidson on

Part I – Two Fronts 　 In January 2011, I wrote an analysis in support of a one-state solution to the on-going Israeli-Palestinian struggle. It is the Israelis themselves who have made the one-state solution…

Culture of Lies in US: Truth about Afghanistan

Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis on

How military leaders have let us down: Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis   I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping…

Anniversaries From The “Unhistory”

Prof. Noam Chomsky on

George Orwell coined the useful term “unperson” for creatures denied personhood because they don’t abide by state doctrine. We may add the term “unhistory” to refer to the fate of unpersons, expunged from history on similar grounds. The unhistory of unpersons is illuminated by the fate of anniversaries. Important ones are usually commemorated, with due solemnity when appropriate: Pearl Harbor, for example. Some are not, and we can learn a lot about ourselves by extricating them from unhistory. Right now we are failing to commemorate an event of great human significance: the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s decision to launch the direct invasion of South Vietnam, soon to become the most extreme crime of aggression since World War II.