This week, I was drawn to do something I have thought about a lot, but never done until now. I visited the MACHAL memorial and Burma Road. What’s that and
A decade ago
Crikeydiscussed Tony Abbott’s complete lack of interest in facts and predicted he would be our first postmodern prime minister. But Abbott’s disregard for facts was in the service of a political agenda of constant, remorseless attack and negativity in relation to his opponents.
Scott Morrison lies occasionally about his opponents, yes, but most of his lies are about himself, or his government, and what it has done, or failed to do; often he has lied about things he himself has said or done, as if he wasn’t present when a woman refused to shake his hand and he turned his back on her, or he didn’t carefully explain to Parliament that the secretary of prime minister and cabinet had given him no update about his report in relation to Brittany Higgins.
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From Howard Zinn s People s History of the United States
Classic Archives: The Gulf of Tonkin con job and other covered up facts by mainstream media and historians
Hal Ashby s Coming Home, with Bruce Dern and Jane Fonda among the leads was a powerful statement about the effects of the war in Vietnam on the home front.
From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny, peasant country and failed. When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.
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