William J. Astore: My Dad’s Silver Dollars

My dad left me two silver dollars. They’re worth much in sentimental value (I’ll explain in a moment), but they also teach us something about how America has changed.Here’s a photo of them. Lady Liberty is on the front, an eagle is on the back.These...

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Vietnam Veteran by Camillo Mac Bica

You were conscripted against your will or convinced by lies and deceit that the threat to all you held sacred was real, and grave, and imminent.You believed that patriots must rally, sacrifice their life's plans and dreams, enlist in the military or submit to the...

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Phony Withdrawals and Illegal Wars

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.A new AP report calls attention to the illegality of the U.S. military mission in Syria:President Donald Trump has approved an expanded military mission to secure an expanse of oil fields across eastern Syria, raising a...

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The Folly of Killing New START

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.New START is the last major arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia, and the Trump administration is going to let it die:New Start expires in February 2021, just weeks after the next presidential inauguration in...

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An Apology to Christine Assange

After review of Diana Johnstone's piece, The Lynching of the Charismatic Geek, we agree that the assertions regarding Christine Assange are unnessarily provocative. While Ms. Johnstone was making a point about the nature of counter culture eccentrics against the mind...

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A Confused Syria Policy Gets Even Worse

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.U.S. troops sent into Syria on an illegal and pointless mission to “take the oil” don’t know what they are supposed to be doing:US military commanders overseeing Syria operations are still waiting for...

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First They Came for Max

Well, not really first. They had already come for Chelsea Manning; for Julian Assange; for John Kiriakou; for Jeffrey Sterling – the list is longer still. Last Friday they came SWAT-Like for the founder and editor of thegrayzone.com, journalist Max Blumenthal, whom...

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