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Strangers in a Strange Land: Dennis Waldman and His Secret Jewish Mother
4+ hour, 6+ min ago (1539+ words) Image Source: Cover art for the book Amid the Alien Corn: A Son's Memoir by Dennis Walder The Algerian-born French novelist, Albert Camus, a pied-noir, began his existentialist classic, The Stranger, with the now memorable words, "Mother died today. Or…...
Is it Un-Patriotic to Want Your Country to Lose a War?
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (809+ words) Kate Smith singing "God Bless America," The Ed Sullivan Show, Oct 6, 1963. (Screenshot: The Author) The emerging liberal consensus You may have heard politicians in the U.S. and Europe, as well as liberal commentators state some version of the following: I'm opposed…...
Corrupt "Democracy" Makes Fascism Inevitable
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (241+ words) Image by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona. With that being confessed, I do feel that it is extremely important to point out that the people who made this possible aren't trailer park proud boys or even those mutant millionaires in the Christian…...
Held Captive in Their Own Country During World War II, Japanese Americans Used Nature to Cope With Their Unjustified Imprisonment
3+ week, 5+ day ago (455+ words) To cope with their fear, anger and loss in the turbulent times, they would have to dig deep into their emotional reservoirs of resolve and ingenuity. As I describe in my book "When Can We Go Back to America? Voices…...
Nazi Germany 1933 and MAGA America 2025
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (839+ words) Melvin A. Goodman'is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University.' A former CIA analyst, Goodman is the author of Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA'and'National Insecurity:…...
From the Battle of Okinawa to the New Cold War
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (289+ words) This was not an act of collective madness, nor a cultural predisposition to suicide. What happened here was manufactured. It was the consequence of disinformation used as a weapon of war. Today, in the heightened New Cold War that the…...
Social Democracy During World War III
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1488+ words) I'm not writing this to try and convince a Zionist to not be a Zionist, or to get a fence sitter off the white picket. Put another way: WWIII is being waged by the white supremacist ruling classes of the…...
From Nuremberg to Rome: Keeping Humanity Safe
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (297+ words) Given my long-term interest in international affairs, I went to see the recently released movie, "Nuremberg," to revisit the issue of how a court of law can be used to convict those guilty of war crimes. As a result, several…...
The Law Meets Its Limits: What ‘Nuremberg’ Reveals About Guilt, Evil and the Quest for Global Justice
3+ mon, 11+ hour ago (1115+ words) The film "Nuremberg" depicts events surrounding the post-World War II International Military Tribunal " the first and best-known of the Nuremberg trials " which was created to carry out the "just and prompt trial and punishment of the major war criminals of…...
Nuremberg Law Should Apply to Nuclear Weapons Before They’re Used Again
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (357+ words) Image by Yves Alarie. With another film depiction of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal story being debuted, today's plans and preparations involving thermonuclear weapons should be adjudged in this historical context, before they are used again. Justice Jackson said in his…...