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Tag: Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Are Republicans and Democrats the Same?

    Early in my progressive activist/organizer life, begun in 1968, I was a big believer in the need for a “third party.” A primary reason was the prosecution of the Vietnam War by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson. As I studied in college in 1967 about the history of that war, I learned that the USA had […]

  • On Harris, Hawthorne, and Fears of Smart, Strong Women for Political Offices

    It was a shock to some of us progressives when Liz Cheney—once a rising, strong Republican star in the U.S. House—recently declared she was endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president, and would campaign and spend millions on it in battleground states. As Cheney put it after a speech at Duke University: “Those of us who believe […]

  • If This Is 1968 over Again, More Popular Upheaval Is on the Way

    Mass graves, the criminalization of dissent, systematic slaughter glorified as self-defense, resisting students making history. Yes, the current nightmare does seem reminiscent of 1968, the year kaleidoscopic change burst forth seemingly everywhere at once. On January 31, the beginning of Tet, eighty-thousand Vietnamese troops issued Washington a formal eviction notice, attacking all the major cities […]

  • Who Must Go?

    Who Must Go?

    President Kennedy was furious at the CIA for having misled him. Waiting several months before he compelled CIA Director Allen Dulles to resign, Kennedy told him, “Under a parliamentary system of government it is I who would be leaving. But under our system it is you who must go.” Thus John F. Kennedy defended the […]

  • From Dallas to Gaza: How JFK’s Assassination was good for Zionist Israel

    President John F. Kennedy was assassinated sixty years ago. If he had  lived and won a second term, the Israeli Palestinian conflict would have evolved differently. Possibly the path toward Israeli apartheid and genocide in Gaza could have been avoided. In his short time in office, Kennedy changed US foreign policy in significant ways. As […]

  • Censoring Israeli Violence: Western Media Outlets Capitulate

    The cathedral of censorship is a vast, airy one.  In its embrace, texts are abridged, images removed, ideas scrubbed.  Historical inconveniences are filed and rendered inaccessible.  The only sermons tolerated will be those satisfying and serving the dictates of power. The power Israel disproportionately wields here, notably across a number of Western democratic states, is […]

  • Refreshing the Camelot School: Kennedy Hagiography at Sixty

    Camelot, the sweetly sentimental shorthand for a shortened US presidency, has generated a mythopoetry so rich it turns the stomach, clogs the intestines, and soils the historical record.  With its effacing tendencies, its soppily loyal hagiographers, its ghastly, moist worshippers, anniversaries are the best occasions to shine.  Six decades have passed since President John F. […]

  • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide

    It has been fifty-five years since Senator Robert F. Kennedy stepped onto the presidential nominating stage to try to mend the massive breach that had opened in American society.  The country was torn asunder by the Vietnam War, racism, poverty, the assassination of President Kennedy and the soon-to-be assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.  […]

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