Near Landing Zone Ross, South Vietnam, Jan. 14, 1968: A Huey helicopter lands to pick up wounded from a combined infantry and cavalry mission that was halted when the North Vietnamese opened up with 75mm recoilless, 50 cal. and AK-47 rifles.
This week’s tumultuous events in France have torn the “democratic” mask off the capitalist state, exposing it as a dictatorship of the financial oligarchy.
Yesterday, around 3 million workers went on strike and marched in cities across France on calls to “block the economy” and force a stop to President Emmanuel Macron’s pension cuts.
In her book, “When the News Broke,” MIT Professor Heather Hendershot examines the tumultuous Democratic National Convention of 1968 as a flashpoint for long-running political divisions over the news media.