Reflections on Memorial Day, 2006

Originally posted Memorial Day 2006 Various commentators on the network political shows on Sunday, May 28 reminded us to take some time to remember, on Memorial Day, those who had died in our current and past wars. Some even suggested that we do so at a particular...

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Songs for Memorial Day

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Fairly eclectic group, but here goes: John Prine unveils “Sam Stone” in very early TV appearance. A little-known early Joni Mitchell song, “The Fiddle and the Drum,” performed by...

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A Glimpse of Light in Times of Darkness

An unusual gathering took place in Washington on May 21, 2024. At a time when US-Russia relations hit the lowest historical level, when Washington keeps pumping tens of billions of dollars plus huge volumes of all kinds of weapons in its proxy war with Russia in...

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America’s Disastrous Afghan War

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Remember when Barack Obama claimed in 2007-09 the Afghan War was the right war, the good one, as opposed to the wrong and bad Iraq War prosecuted by Bush/Cheney? Of course, they were both disastrous wars, but...

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