Category Archives: Brian’s Blog

The US AMERICAN WAY OF WAR – Intentional Killing of Civilians and Civilian Infrastructure

October 19, 2015 – 12:00 am

In Viet Nam, being terribly ignorant like so many others, I “accidentally” discovered, against my greatest wishes, that the US was systematically targeting for destruction, schools, hospitals, churches, and inhabited, undefended villages, often by low-level napalm and 500 pound bombs. These were not accidental. US Army intelligence personnel admitted that hospitals had been routinely listed […]

By brian | Also posted in Brian's Blog, The Most Dangerous of Rogue Nations: The United States, Pax Americana, Root & Structural Causes of War | Comments (0)

My Statement* Opposing VFP USA Being a Fiscal Sponsor for US Agency for International Development (USAID) Monies

October 8, 2015 – 11:44 am

*S. Brian Willson: USAF, 1966-70; Combat Security Police Officer, Viet Nam, 1969; first joined VFP in 1985 Background: The board of Veterans For Peace (VFP) by a majority vote has agreed to serve as fiscal sponsor for Project RENEW in Viet Nam in order to receive government grant monies to be funneled through the US […]

By brian | Also posted in Brian's Blog, The Most Dangerous of Rogue Nations: The United States, Vietnam | Comments (1)

Rhetoric vs Reality (the patterns)

September 18, 2015 – 12:09 am

The US loves basking in its social myth of being a country committed to equal justice for all, but it operates in a social reality of being committed to profit for a few through expansion at any cost. It is called “American exceptionalism”. This idea that the US American people hold a special place in […]

By brian | Also posted in Brian's Blog, The Most Dangerous of Rogue Nations: The United States, Challenging Traditional Patriotism | Comments (1)

Obedience To Vertical Authority – Pathology of Civilization

September 5, 2015 – 11:32 pm

Hannah Arendt In 1961 moral philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, a Jew, watched the trial of Adolf Eichmann (April – August), the architect of moving Jews to the Nazi gas chambers. She was surprised to discover that he was “neither perverted nor sadistic”. Instead, she wrote, Eichmann and many others just like him “were, […]

By brian | Also posted in Brian's Blog, Challenging Traditional Patriotism, Root & Structural Causes of War | Comments (0)

The Secret of the Arrowheads (Summary)

August 29, 2015 – 2:03 pm

When I was kid growing up in Geneva in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State, I was fascinated with collecting arrowheads from the previous civilization that lived there until wiped out in 1779 by the Continental Revolutionary Army. Then it was called Kanadesaga, the headquarters for the forty-strong village network of the Seneca […]

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