Memorial Day: It’s Not About the Dead Soldiers but About Glorifying War
Edward Curtin
Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is, rather, a day for promoting war. If it were to...
DISCUSS: Henry Kissinger Dead at 100
Former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died last night at the age of 100. An insider to the core, Kissinger’s early career reads like a list of...
The New York Times is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
Edward Curtin “Ingsoc. The sacred principles of ingsoc. Newspeak, double-speak, the mutability of the past.” – George Orwell, 1984 As today dawned, I was looking out the window into the...
Chomsky’s Unearned Prestige
Eric Zuesse A large part of Noam Chomsky’s public image as an intellectual is derived not from his role in the field of linguistics, but instead from his having...
A Spiritual Special Ops Team’s Christmas Gift
It was snowing hard in the days before Christmas in 1972 as I sat at my writing desk looking out the back window toward the woods that were filling...
