Category: History

That we may be worthy

  Excerpts from a speech that never was… JFK’s Trade Mart Speech, to be delivered the day he was assassinated, November 22, 1963.   … This link between leadership and learning is not only essential at the community level. It is even more indispensable in world affairs. Ignorance and misinformation can handicap the progress of …

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On the wilder shores of American Christianity

George W Bush’s new ‘crusade’: converting Jews to Christianity By Andrew Brown, November 14, 2013   Some people think George W Bush did as much as he could to bring about Armageddon with his earlier interventions in the Middle East. But not the man himself, apparently. He has signed up for a fundraising event for …

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The ongoing business of slaughtering the other

Imploding the Myth of Israel By Chris Hedges, Nov 4, 2013   Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and racism of apartheid South Africa. Its democracy—which was always exclusively for Jews—has been …

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O ye beguilable humanitarians

Begging! — For Work.   A man beseeching fellowman for work, for a chance to earn the means to keep the life within his frame, within the form of him or her he loves! What curst conditions cause such scene and fact to be? O sight more fit to stir Omnipotence on High to slaying-wrath …

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Always some prejudice or pretext of religion

A Correction Van Buren, Ark., Aug. 25, 1902. A. M. Simons, Editor International Socialist Review.   My Dear Comrade:  The Cincinnati Enquirer, of the edition of August 22d, publishes a scare-head article anent my so-called resignation from the Catholic priesthood and asserts that “the reason assigned for his withdrawal from the ministry and communion of …

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Not an idle question

Romans 1:26-27: A Clobber Passage That Should Lose Its Wallop By Don M Burrows, October 1, 2013   Whenever I’m debating with someone who authoritatively declares that the Bible condemns homosexuality, and who cites the infamous Romans 1:26-27 as proof, I almost always offer this rejoinder: “What do you make of the vocative at the …

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How have we become so spineless?

On laws that must be broken By Ilana Hammerman, Sep. 24, 2013 6:36 AM   “Legally mandated destruction.” That is how Haaretz’s editorial on Sunday described the destruction of the village of Khirbet Makhoul in the Jordan Valley. “The structures in question are unlawful and were built without construction permits. The structures were demolished in …

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