April 15, 2012
“If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.” - Howard Zinn, historian and author “Understand that all battles are [...]
Tags: George Orwell, History, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Teresa Stover, Twentieth Century, United States, Wars and Conflicts
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January 27, 2012
Howard Zinn dedicated his life to decency, democracy and civil disobedience; to grassroots movements and ‘unknown people’ [GALLO/GETTY] Editor’s note: Today, January 27, is the second anniversary of the death of Howard Zinn. An active participant in the Civil Rights movement, he was dismissed in 1963 from his position as a tenured professor at Spelman College in [...]
Tags: A People's History of the United States, Atlanta, Civil Rights Movement, Daniel Ellsberg, Howard, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Pentagon Papers, Spelman College, United States
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October 28, 2011
Remembering Howard Zinn Noam Chomsky Resist Newsletter, March/April 2010 It is not easy for me to write a few words about Howard Zinn, the great American activist and historian who passed away a few days ago. He was a very close friend for 45 years. The families were [...]
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October 28, 2011
Police, teachers, the corporate press, mental health professionals — the guards of the system — are given small rewards to pacify and control the population. October 20, 2011 | “In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the [...]
Tags: Erich Fromm, Howard Zinn, Mental health, Mental health professional, Police, Ronald Reagan, United States, United States Secretary of Education
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October 10, 2011
Why the Elites Are in Trouble Illustration by Mr. Fish By Chris Hedges Ketchup, a petite 22-year-old from Chicago with wavy red hair and glasses with bright red frames, arrived in Zuccotti Park in New York on Sept. 17. She had a tent, a rolling suitcase, 40 dollars’ worth of food, the graphic version of Howard [...]
Tags: Adbusters, Howard Zinn, JPMorgan Chase, New York, New York City, New York City Police Foundation, Wall Street, Zuccotti Park
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August 23, 2011
You may find this article interesting even if it makes assumptions about how Zinn felt at stages of his career and life. Without asking Zinn why he wrote the book the article for the most is conjecture about the reason/s. Any number of factors could have or may have been involved. Ultimately it is the [...]
Tags: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, Declaration of Independence, History, Howard Zinn, Independence Day, Kurt Vonnegut, Politics of History, Royan, United States, Wars and Conflicts
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July 25, 2011
Even Birds Have Withdrawn From Afghanistan By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58598 Comparing the brain sizes of migratory birds and U.S. presidents may not help explain this one. Birds have been avoiding Afghanistan for some years now. Afghans with higher educations have been leaving for decades. War profiteers, and occupation profiteers, and “reconstruction” profiteers seem to know [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Barack Obama, Chris Harman, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Howard Zinn, Joe Biden, Ryan Crocker, September 11 attacks, Soviet Union, Soviet war in Afghanistan, Taliban, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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June 30, 2011
King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July! By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58333 Preface: It has always been a matter of concern that the US has for so long lived in an deluded state that it had gained its independence from the harsh and odious British rule to replace that with a Grand Dream of Republicanism. In this way the future [...]
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May 23, 2011
War Is the Health of the State excerpted from a People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn “War is the health of the state,” the radical writer Randolph Bourne said, in the midst of the First World War. Indeed, as the nations of Europe went to war in 1914, the governments flourished, patriotism [...]
Tags: Douglas Haig 1st Earl Haig, Encyclopedia of World History, Erich Maria Remarque, History, Howard Zinn, Randolph Bourne, Richard Hofstadter, Twentieth Century, United States, Wars and Conflicts, Woodrow Wilson, World War I
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