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The Gated Society

May 29, 2014 – 11:38 am

I just posted an essay “The Gated Society: The U.S. love affair with incarceration, solitary confinement and torture.” It’s filed under the date I originally authored it, May 29, 2013. You can find it by clicking on the link above.  

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The Failure of Peace Treaties

May 15, 2014 – 12:40 am

8,400 Historical Treaties for Peace, 1500 BC to 2013 AD (over 3,500 years = average 2.4 treaties per year) Efforts to prevent and outlaw future wars are well established. Historical sociologist Jacques Novicow reported more than 8,000 treaties for peace between 1500 BC and 1860 AD (a 3,360-year period with an average of nearly 2.4 […]

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RE: FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force/JTTF

March 31, 2014 – 7:21 pm

From the FBI’s origins it has been used primarily as an instrument to repress ideological enemies. In the late 1910s and 1920s, after collecting names of 150,000 US residents, it ravaged with jail, deportations, and killings, those labeled labor and immigrant “radicals” who were harshly condemning US entrance into World War I and intelligently critiquing […]

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American Exceptionalism: The Rhetoric and the Reality

December 19, 2013 – 6:23 pm

“Our business is killing, and business is good.” – Slogan painted on a US 9th Infantry Division helicopter in Viet Nam’s Mekong Delta, 1969   The Conditioning Virtually all of us born and raised in US America have been, or were, inculcated in the myth that the United States is the greatest country in the […]

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Grieving

December 10, 2013 – 4:16 pm

Written December 17, 2012 I grieve for the 20 children, ages 6 and 7, who were murdered in Newton, CT elementary school last Friday (Dec. 14, 2012). Then I remember the hundreds of small children murdered by fellow military in numerous villages in Viet Nam 43 years ago. These are just the ones I saw. […]

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