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ReThink Interview with Daniel Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks (Part One)

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Nationalism, Henry Kissinger, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Rethink Reviews, Daniel Ellsberg, Jonathan Kim, Film, Movies, Movie Reviews, Insurgency, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith, Richard Nixon, Occupation, Vietnam War, Documentary, Afghanistan, Movie Critic, Pentagon Papers, Counterinsurgency, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

I was enthralled by The Most Dangerous Man in America, and when I was told that Ellsberg would be in Los Angeles for a week in late September and would be available for an interview, I jumped at the chance.

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Rethink Afghanistan: Filmmaker Robert Greenwald "Took A Lot Of Grief" For Movie On Afghan War Policy

Raw Story | Kathleen Miller | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Vietnam, Mcchyrstal, Vietnam War, Kennedy, Stanley McChrystal, Afghanistan, Obama, Donna Edwards, Terrorism, Robert Greenwald, Troop Levels, Rethink Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics News

The left-wing filmmaker behind a documentary that questions U.S. policy in Afghanistan says he "took a lot of grief" and lost progressive donors when ...

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Woodstock Film Fest -- William Kunstler

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Counterculture, Bill Kunstler, 1960s, Radicalism, William Kunstler, American Indian Movement, Chicago 7, Vietnam War, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, New York News
Stewart Nusbaumer

A sensitive, truthful, insightful film about a lawyer who stood at the center of a confrontational movement as it spearheaded a political assault on injustice in America from Vietnam to the Chicago 7.

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Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism (Review)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: The Death of Conservatism, Sam Tanhenhaus, Civil Rights Movement, Joe Mccarthy, Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, Willam F. Buckley Jr., Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sarah Palin, Communism, Martin Luther King, John Birchers, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam War, Benjamin Disraeli, New York Times, African Amercans, Rick Perry, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Soviet Union, Books News
Joseph A. Palermo

Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.

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Obama Will Also Lose the Afghani Olympics

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Obama, Chicago, Ioc, Vietnam War, Olympics, Foreign Affairs, No Games Chicago, Cuba, World News
Harvey Wasserman

Team Obama needs -- as the International Olympics Committee has just done -- to be continually reminded that the rest of the world is not an American kick ball.

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Obama Should Adopt the "Public Option" in Afghanistan

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, The Surge, Foreign Policy Elites, President Barack Obama, Democrats, Bush, Afghanistan War, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Conservatives, President George W, Vietnam War, Tim Geithner, Walter Lippmann, Stanley McChrystal, Neoconservatives, Hillary Clinton, Washington Post, Republicans, Politics News
Leon T. Hadar

Will Obama disappoint the foreign policy elites or will he, like Bush, send a "Drop Dead" message to the American people?

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Obama and the Irony of Afghanistan

Stanley Kutler | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam War, Gen. Petreaus, Gen. McChrystal, Afghanistan War, President Obama, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics News
Stanley Kutler

The bells of Afghanistan echo the Vietnam War. Like then, we have a powerful military establishment clamoring for an expansive military adventure to protect us from an onrushing enemy.

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A Vietnam Book That Haunts the US in Afghanistan

Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 11.30.2009 | World

Read More: McGeorge Bundy, Lessons in Disaster, Afghanistan, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Vietnam War, Vietnam, Afghanistan War, Advocacy, World News
Stephen Schlesinger

Do we have the necessary sobriety, humbleness and wisdom in our current times in Washington to weigh appropriately our next moves on Afghanistan?

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Mindless Stars and the Glamour of the Gun

Tom Gregory | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Lindsay Lohan, Mlk, Rfk, Fergie, Uzi, Kent State, Sarai Givati, Khloe Kardashian, Gun Violence, Gang Warfare, Hayden Panettiere, Future Heretics, Columbine, Gerald Ford, Vietnam War, Gun Control, Walter Cronkite, Charles Manson, Jfk, Bullets, Guns, Entertainment News
Tom Gregory

Across the pages of leading fashion magazines mindless stars with thin careers are being showcased wearing Future Heretics t-shirts glamorizing guns.

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The Ghosts of Vietnam Haunt Washington

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Stlaney McChrystal, Military, War in Vietnam, Moscow, Osama Bin Laden, Vietnam War, Mullah Omar, Taliban, Congress, Mike Mullen, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Tet Offensive, World News
Eric Margolis

The American general Stanley McChrystal's news that America risks losing Afghanistan is a bombshell. Washington has spent some $250 billion there since 2001.

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Asia Society's Prez on Global Citizens Like Obama

Jim Luce | Posted 11.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Upper East Side, Facebook, Performances, That, Shanghai, Afs, Pakistan, Jaffna, Hong Kong, Asian Art, Vishakha Desai, John D. Rockefeller, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Muslim, Andy Warhol Foundation, Indonesia, Hindu, Vietnam War, Korea, Williams College, Buddhist, Elephant Story, Nigeria, Mumbai, Brookings Institution, Sri Lanka., Robert B. Oxnam, Thought Leader, Manila, University of Massachusetts, Education, Asian Women Leaders, United States, Asia Society, Mathew Luce, Barack Obama, Global Citizen, Boston University, Asian-Americans, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Columbia University, Bombay University, U.S.-Asia Relationship, Hillary Clinton., Youtube, Taliban, India, International Relations, Asian Art History, Gates Foundation, New York News
Jim Luce

Asia Society president Vishakha Desai says, "Ours is a complex institution, and those experiencing it can describe it in the same way the blind men touch and describe an elephant."

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Vietnam's Latest Casualties

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Unexploded Ordnance, Marc Kielburger, Landmines, Craig Kielburger, Vietnam War, War, Peacetrees Vietnam, Quang Tri, World News
Craig and Marc Kielburger

The country's landscape is littered with leftover, unexploded ordnance -- still deadly after 34 years. Those farmers who dare till the land often step on landmines in their own fields.

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Taylor Branch To Reveal "The Clinton Tapes"

GQ | Wil S. Hylton | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, 1964 Civil Rights Bill, Monica Lewinsky, Hillary Rodham Clinton, George W. Bush, Martin Luther King Jr., George Mcgovern, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Whitewater, Taylor Branch, Katherine Graham, Lyndon Johnson, Politics News

It has been nearly forty years since three young Democratic activists named Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham, and Taylor Branch moved into a small apartme...

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Van Jones May Be Better Off on the Outside

Byron Williams | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam War, Van Jones, Watergate, Martin Luther King, Van Jones Resigns, Politics News
Byron Williams

Van Jones' transition from outside activist to inside political player wasn't as easy as it may appear. As an activist, the First Amendment protects Jones, but inside-the-Beltway politics is played by different rules.

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"And That's The Way It Really Is": My Memorial to Walter Cronkite

Steven G. Brant | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Government, Citizenship, Birthers, John McCain, Vietnam War, Walter Cronkite, Fair and Balanced, CBS News, Cultural Wars, Barack Obama Citizenship, Barack Obama, Media News
Steven G. Brant

If Walter Cronkite were alive today, I wonder what he would say to us -- as he looked out over the landscape of another war that can't be won.

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Afghanistan by the Numbers

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam War, Us War Afghanistan, Cost of War in Afghanistan, Nation Building, Afghanistan, Politics News
Tom Engelhardt

Metrics in war almost invariably turn out to occupy treacherous terrain. Think of it as quagmire territory, in part because numbers, however accurate (and they often aren't), can lie.

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Shame, Shame On Them 2!

Norman Horowitz | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Korean War, Vietnam, Air Force, Vietnam War, Loyal-Opposition, Republicans, Politics News
Norman Horowitz

Our country is in deep trouble, and Obama is doing mostly the right things in order to remedy this horrid situation. The Republicans have incredible chutzpah.

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Rock Music Legend Sandy Pearlman On The Passing Of Feminine Culture Power Source, Ellie Greenwich

Howie Klein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Shangri-Las, Crystals, Ellie Greenwich, Sandy Pearlman, Billboard, Black Sabbath, Woodrow Wilson, Blue Oyster Cult, Vietnam War, Music, McGill University, Pavlov's Dog, Rolling Stones, Library of Congress, Clash, Hunter Thompson, National Recording Preservation Board, The Byds, Technology, Entertainment News
Howie Klein

Ellie Greenwich beat Pat Benatar to the punch with the pixie slut haircut. Signaling that feminine power source, the union of opposites.

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Health Care and Other Communist Ideas

Ian Ruskin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Harry Bridges, Vietnam War, Labor Day, War, Health Care Reform, Health Care, From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks: The Life and Times of Harry Bridges, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Ian Ruskin

Harry Bridges said very simply that America should have a national health system and once suggested the best way to get one would be to do away with health insurance for members of Congress.

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Lies, Damned Lies -- and the DoubleSpeak I Would Erase From the English Language

Johann Hari | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: 1984, Pentagon, Malawi, Afghanistan, Doublespeak, Vietnam War, Christian, Collateral Damage, George Orwell, Fertilizer, Jewish, Climate Change, Elizabeth, New Labor, Muslim, Richard Dawkins, Queen Elizabeth, Infant Mortality, Global Warming, World News
Johann Hari

The English language needs a spring cleaning to purge phrases that, while posing as neutral descriptions of the world, contain a hidden political agenda that then molds the assumptions of the listener.

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A Seven-Step Program to Return America to a Quieter, Less Muscular, Patriotism

William J. Astore | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Patriotism, Vietnam War, Iraq War, Rambo, Gary Cooper, 9/11, Afghanistan War, Politics News
William J. Astore

While ending the steroid era in baseball proved reasonably straightforward once the will to act was present, we as a country have yet to face, no less curtail, our ongoing steroidal celebrations of pumped-up patriotism.

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Afghanistan is Obama's Vietnam

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lbj, Military, Democrats. President Obama, Afghanistan, Vietnam War, Bill Clinton, Gop, George Bush, Us Troops Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Afghan Election, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Public distaste for the Afghanistan War can easily make it Obama's Vietnam -- history should serve as a warning for him.

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Is Bernie Goldberg Right? Had Bush "In Fact Volunteered to Go to Vietnam?"

Thomas Lipscomb | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas Air National Guard, Texas, Chicago Sun-Times, Mary Mapes, Vietnam War, George W. Bush, CBS News, Vietnam, Dan Rather, Bernard Goldberg, Air Force, Gregory Peck, Rathergate, Politics News
Thomas Lipscomb

Bernard Goldberg has unearthed a "lost fact" in the Rathergate mess: that George W. Bush volunteered to serve in Vietnam. Until valid paperwork is produced, that claim will remain a supposition.

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Senator Ted Kennedy: American Patriot

George Mitrovich | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Theodore Roosevelt, Senate, Iraq War, John F. Kennedy, Vietnam War, Camelot, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
George Mitrovich

Against his family history Senator Ted Kennedy never wavered from his profound commitment to public service, of his consuming desire to serve America and the public interest.

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Ted Kennedy: A Whole Human Being

Beth Arnold | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Yin and Yang, Senator John L. McClellan, Capitol Hill, Watergate, Vietnam War, Ted Kennedy, Senator Edward. M. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Mike Huckabee, Massachusetts, United States, Senate, Politics News
Beth Arnold

I discovered that I'd misjudged Ted Kennedy. I hope that now I would have the wisdom to confer more compassion on any and all in tragic circumstances.

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