Media eulogies for Walter Cronkite -- including from progressive commentators -- rarely talk about his coverage of the Vietnam War before 1968. This obit omit is essential to the myth of Cronkite as a courageous truth-teller.
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18 July 2009
Last week’s announcement from Moscow, of a new treaty between the U.S. and Russia to begin cutting their nuclear stockpiles by a quarter to a third, is indeed “modest” and perhaps downright “disappointing” in its tentativeness, as critics...
11 July 2009
The United States has produced several mythic historical figures – Paul Bunyan, John Henry and the like – but our actual prophetic peace activists are actually far more interesting. People like Eugene Victor Debs, Emma Goldman, and in our...
09 July 2009
California’s state finances have gone to pot, and that’s what it should use to pay its employees.
Right now the state is issuing I.O.U.’s to those who work for it. Sacramento says they are worth the paper they’re printed on...
Right now the state is issuing I.O.U.’s to those who work for it. Sacramento says they are worth the paper they’re printed on...
08 July 2009
Do they have a fourth of July in Italy? That's not a trick question. This July 4th, Italians plan to gather in Vicenza to take nonviolent action aimed at freeing Italy from U.S. occupation and opposing the proposed construction of an...
08 July 2009
The day after ramming through nearly $100 billion more for wars and $100
billion in loans to European banks through the IMF, the majority leader
in the U.S. House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer, introduced a "PayGo"
bill, requiring...
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