Tag: MLK

David Neal, Why the Assassination of JFK Matters to Us Today

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By David Neal To keep the peace and defend the country are a U.S. President’s primary duty. Contrary to many shallow historians, President John F. Kennedy was not going into Vietnam with ground troops; he was pulling 1000 “advisors” out in Dec 1963, all the rest of them by 1965. (see NSAM 263).  He was murdered on Nov 22, 1963, one month before the first 1000 could be pulled out.  Lyndon Johnson reversed this order with NSAM273 four days after the murder and by March 1965 500,000 American soldiers were in Vietnam. The…

Edward Curtin, Unspeakable Memories: The Day John Kennedy Died

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By Edward Curtin November 22, 2019 There is a vast literature on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who died on a November 22nd Friday like this in 1963.  I have contributed my small share to such writing in an effort to tell the truth, honor him, and emphasize its profound importance in understanding the history of the last fifty-six years, but more importantly, what is happening in the U.S.A. today. In other words, to understand it in its most gut-wrenching reality: that the American national security state will obliterate…

John Simkin, A Call to Reinvestigate American Assassinations

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By John Simkin To mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day a group of academics, journalists, lawyers, Hollywood artists, activists, researchers and intellectuals, including two of Robert F. Kennedy’s children, are calling for  reinvestigation of four assassinations of the 1960s. On the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a group of over 60 prominent American citizens is calling upon Congress to reopen the investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Signers of the joint statement include Isaac Newton Farris Jr., nephew of…

PENN Magazine (December 2018): The Resistance

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PENN Magazine December 2018 Vol. II No.  2 Go here: pennmagazine.us Or here: https://archive.org/details/December2018PennMagazine210/page/n3 Maybe tomorrow. But for sure by next Wednesday. No, wait, that’s not good for me. Can you do Thursday? Thursday’s good. The Revolution Is Thursday. See you there. Will it be streamed? Didn’t we already cover this decades ago? It will not be streamed. [What is Friday looking like for you?] In 2008, when Chuck Gregory and I started The New American Dream website and in 2011 the radio show, the premise has always been that there…