CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite offered his advice and his news division’s resources to anti-Vienam student organizers from Rollins College in 1969, according to FBI documents uncovered in the latest Freedom of Information Law treatment from John Cook.
Mr. Cook, formerly of Gawker and now of Yahoo!, has found information about a phone Read More
Lefty Jew Jeffrey Blankfort offers the same diagnosis as I have for the tepidness of the antiwar movement, the absence of Jews from the vanguard this time round.
Historically, [Jews] have funded the Left… They were the major funders of the Civil Rights Movement. They were the funders of the anti-war movement during Read MoreThe war is too small for the stink of confusion and defeat to percolate out very far from Washington. Elsewhere, the prevailing mood seems to be disgust and disappointment.
The closest to what is happening now might have been when the British burned Washington while James Madison, a President whose bad judgment rivals George Bush’s, Read More
The war is too small for the stink of confusion and defeat to percolate out very far from Washington. Elsewhere, the prevailing mood seems to be disgust and disappointment.
The closest to what is happening now might have been when the British burned Washington while James Madison, a President whose bad judgment rivals George Read More
What may be remembered someday as one of the strangest moments of George W. Bush’s Presidency took place last week in Vietnam, when he chose to mention the American defeat there in the same breath as our failing occupation of Iraq. That comparison is often made by his critics, and often elicits irritated rebuttals from Read More
Rockefeller Center installs its Christmas tree tomorrow! And we’re leading up to Veteran’s Day..
There will be an unveiling of tribute panels honoring Vietnam War heroes at Vietnam Veterans Plaza, otherwise known as 55 Water Street.
A new WWII Veterans Memorial Plaza at Queens College will have its dedication ceremony in Flushing.
France presents the Read More
Admitting failure is a healthy sign. Talking about “growing doubts about the Iraq war” for three years running, and issuing reports that “We have just a few months to correct the problems,” again and again and again, is to be mired in self-delusion and stupidity.
Admitting that it’s a failure means we can actually come Read More
Only live to a great age and you can become a hero. For much of his life, I.F. Stone was a marginal figure in American journalism, neither persecuted nor impoverished but sometimes harassed by the government and ignored by the respectable press. By the time he died in 1989 at the age of 81, he Read More
The New Republic this week has a snidely-vicious attack on John Murtha as the destroyer of the Democratic party’s hopes for November. The article reflects TNR’s belief that the war in Iraq is a good thing, and underscores the deep divisions within the Democratic party over Iraq. It also demonstrates a key difference between Vietnam Read More
No Draft, No Winds Of Change
To the Editor:
I was surprised that Sheelah Kolhatkar’s article [“Where Have All the Marchers Gone? They Feel Very Futile,” June 12] didn’t mention what seems to me to be the obvious reason why we don’t see the kind of massive mobilizations and protests that we saw Read More
