Essays by S. Brian Willson

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Summary of the Common Thread Running through these Essays

I. The Most Dangerous of Rogue Nations:
The United States of America

JOHN KERRY
An Open Letter to Senator John Kerry on Iraq Oct. 10, 2002 (posted 10/2002)
Who is the Real John Kerry? Jan. 2004 (posted 07/2004)
John Kerry's Obsession Spring 2004 (posted 07/2004)

PAX AMERICANA
Assimilation or Elimination Pax Americana: Buy In or Check Out 1999 (posted 02/2000)
U.S. Lawlessness with Impunity 1999 (posted 02/2000)
Who Is Going to Stop Us? 1999 (posted 02/2000)
The Shadow March 13, 2003 (posted 04/2003)
Reflections with Seneca Indian Floyd Redeye: The Legacy of the Columbus Enterprise 1991 (posted 02/2000)
Depleted Uranium revised Sept. 25, 2003 (posted 05/2000)
Dear America: A Letter to My Country April 6, 2003 (posted 04/2003)
The Pretexts Behind War Making Dec. 7, 2003 (posted 12/2003)
Propaganda and Coercion Oct. 5, 2003 (posted 07/2004)
Revisiting the Ambush of September 1, 1987: A Metaphor/Myth for the Epoch We Call Civilization Sept. 1, 2007 (posted 09/2007)

CHALLENGING TRADITIONAL PATRIOTISM
Memorial Day! What Does It Mean? May 29, 2000 (posted 05/2000)
What the Flag Means to Me July 4, 2000 (posted 07/2000)
Celebrating Columbus is Blasphemy Oct. 12, 1999 (posted 06/2000)
Noncooperation with and Resistance to Illegal Militarism and Wars are Legal under International and U.S. Constitutional Law Feb. 21, 2005 (posted 02/2005)
Terror and Preventive War are "American" Values April 2005 (posted 09/2005)
Torture IS an "American" Value: Reality Versus the Rhetoric Sept. 20, 2005 (posted 09/2005)
The Defining and Enabling Experience of Our "Civilization": The Thanksgiving Myth Nov. 2005 (posted 12/2005)
Walpole State Prison: An Exercise in Torture June 9, 1981 (posted 03/2006)

ROOT & STRUCTURAL CAUSES OF WAR
Root and Structural Causes of War Sept. 2005 (posted 09/2005)
The End of War, or the End of US Sept. 2005 (posted 12/2005)
The Trauma of Civilization for Our Species: War and Its Victims Aug. 17, 2007 (posted 08/2007)

"TERRORISM" & "HOMELAND SECURITY"
September 11, 2001 Wake Up Call: We Are Not Worth More, They Are Not Worth Less Sept. 22, 2001 (posted 09/2001)
Armageddon or Quantum Leap? U.S. Imperialism and Human Consciousness from an Evolutionary Perspective Dec. 15, 2002 (posted 04/2003)
Who are the REAL Terrorists? The REAL Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda 1999 (posted 02/2000)
U.S. Government Impunity At Home: The Politicization of "Terrorism" A Personal Account 2000 (posted 06/2000)
Domestic Counterterrorist Trainings: A Dangerous Trend Conditioning the Public to Accept the Threat of Domestic Terrorism While Masking a Genuine Understanding of the Structural Injustices that Lead to Global Impoverishment and Anger 1999 (posted 03/2000)
Letter to Sam Farr Sept. 28, 2001 (posted 10/2001)
Memorandum from the ACLU Regarding "Patriot Act II" March 18, 2003 (posted 04/2003)
U.S. Reach: Product of U.S. Fundamentalism, Not Security Nov. 2002 (posted 04/2003)
The War on Terror Requires Looking in the Mirror: British Playwright Harold Pinter Tells "Americans" the Truth about Ourselves Dec. 11, 2005 (posted 12/2005)
9/11 & Bush are Distractions from a People's Revolt from Below April 21, 2007 (posted 05/2007)
Revisiting the Ambush of September 1, 1987: A Metaphor/Myth for the Epoch We Call Civilization Sept. 1, 2007 (posted 09/2007)

MIDDLE EAST
A Dialogue with the Great Spirit Jan. 18, 1991 (posted 06/2000)
U.S. Aggression Against Iraq: Historical and Political Context 1999 (posted 02/2000)
History of Palestine and Green Line Israel 1992, revised May 2002 (posted 07/2002)

KOREA
The First U.S. Korean War Summer 2000 (posted 09/2001)
The Unknown Truth about Korea: U.S. Sanctioned Death Squads and War Crimes, 1945-1953 2001 (posted 09/2001)
Korea, Like Vietnam: A War Originated and Maintained by Deceit Dec. 1999 (posted 04/2000)
Revealing Historic Truths as Foundation for Korean Reunification on its Own Terms: Report of Korean Truth Commission Delegation to Korea, August 9-17, 2000 Aug. 21, 2000 (posted 09/2001)
When will the United States Apologize for its War Crimes? Importance of the Korea Truth Commission to this End Sept. 8, 2001 (posted 09/2001)
Depleted Uranium revised Sept. 25, 2003 (posted 05/2000)
"Forgotten" Crimes Continue to be Revealed at Various Locations in Korea: Germ Warfare in South Korea? Aug. 30, 2001 (posted 09/2001)
Revelations Continue to Mount of U.S. War Crimes in Korea Aug. 21, 2001 (posted 09/2001)
History of U.S. Sabotage of Korean Peace and Reunification revised Sept. 8, 2001 (posted 09/2001)

VIET NAM
Memorandum: Accelerated Mortality Rates of Vietnam Veterans Summer 1999 (posted 05/2007)
PTSD: Reality Versus Rhetoric March 18/19, 2006 (posted 03/2006)
Air Force "Ranger" Training Provokes Personal Moral Issues revised March 23, 2007 (posted 03/2007)
A Wounded Child Hobbles Along Jan. 2003 (posted 04/2003)
The Columbus Enterprise Prevails in Vietnam: The U.S. Finally Enjoys a Long Eluded Victory March 1994 (posted 03/2000)
Bob Kerrey and the Crime of Vietnam: Will We Learn? May 13, 2001 (posted 05/2001)
Vietnam: The Redemptive Potential of Our Forever War April 30, 2000 (posted 04/2000)

INDONESIA
U.S. Criminal History in Indonesia 1999 (posted 02/2000)

CHILE
Pinochet and the Unraveling of the "American Century" 1999 (posted 02/2000)

NICARAGUA
Revelations of U.S. Embassy, Managua, Nicaragua Jan. 17, 1986 (posted 08/2000)
Letter from Members of the First Veterans Peace Action Team to U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, Harry Bergold March 19, 1987 (posted 08/2000)
Veterans Peace Action Teams Press Release March 20, 1987 (posted 08/2000)
U.S.-Waged "Low Intensity" Warfare in Nicaragua Dec. 30, 1989 (posted 02/2005)
How the U.S. Purchased the 1990 Nicaragua Elections 1990 (posted 04/2000)

PANAMA
The Case of Panama: U.S. Continues its Bully Ways as International Outlaw Analysis of the Dec. 20, 1989 U.S. Invasion in Historical Context Dec. 1989; revised 1991 (posted 02/2000)

CUBA
The Chronic U.S.-Concocted Distortions about Cuba June 2, 2001 (posted 06/2001)

MEXICO / ZAPATISTAS
NAFTA versus LIFE: U.S. Complicity with Mexico in Waging a Final Solution (Genocidal War) to the Indigenous "Problem" Extracted from a report of the War Veterans Delegation to Southern Mexico April 7-April 24, 1997, Finding U.S. Involvement Supporting the Repression in Southern Mexico July 2, 1997 (posted 06/2000)
The Slippery Slope: U.S. Military Moves Into Mexico Originally published as a 64-page booklet, revised 1998 (posted 06/2000)

II. Envisioning Nonviolent Revolutionary Alternatives

9/11 & Bush are Distractions from a People's Revolt from Below April 21, 2007 (posted 05/2007)
Armageddon or Quantum Leap? U.S. Imperialism and Human Consciousness from an Evolutionary Perspective Dec. 15, 2002 (posted 04/2003)
Is 9/11 and Bush's "War on Terror" a Psychic Trigger for a Quantum Leap in Human Consciousness? Jan. 6, 2003 (posted 04/2003)
A Radical Manifesto for the New Millennium Sept. 2002 (posted 04/2003)
A Pivotal Evolutionary Moment for the World Oct. 6, 2002 (posted 10/2002)
Open-Ended Fast Reflecting Upon A Quantum Leap in Consciousness: Our Survival is at Stake March 25, 2003 (posted 04/2003)
End of Cruel U.S. Policies Demands Radical Healing of the National Ethos July 20, 2000; revised Sept. 24, 2000 (posted 09/2000)
Vietnam: The Redemptive Potential of Our Forever War April 30, 2000 (posted 04/2000)
A Radical Proposal for Healing: The Invocation of a National People's Truth Commission A commission to reveal the U.S. Government's historical complicity in state terrorism, both at home and abroad, while covering up such activities with fallacious pretexts and 'plausible deniability,' 1999; revised Sept. 2000 (posted 09/2000)
A Time for Healing Feb. 1995; revised 1999 (posted 02/2000)
A Call for a Decentralist, Self-Reliant, Earth-Centered Revolution 1996 (posted 02/2000)
The Politics of Healing in the Context of Systemic Injustice 1996 (posted 02/2000)
Sustainable Community 1995 (posted 02/2000)
The Irredeemability of "America" and the Call for a Decentralist Revolution 1995 (posted 03/2000)
The Imperative of Revolutionary Nonviolence 1994 (posted 03/2000)
Making War Obsolete: Nonviolence 1990; revised 1999 (posted 02/2000)
Tax Resistance Aug. 15, 1985 (posted 04/2000)
History of the Idea of the Veterans Peace Action Teams (VPAT) Feb. 1987 (posted 08/2000)
A Fast For Life Sept. 1, 1986 (posted 08/2000)
The Sept. 1, 1987 Tragedy at Concord, CA Naval Weapons Station (CNWS): Perspective of the People Invoking the Nuremberg Principles at CNWS Excerpts from Testimony Prepared and Presented by S. Brian Willson for Hearings Conducted by the U.S. House Armed Services Subcommittee on Investigations, Washington, D.C., Nov. 18, 1987(posted 06/2000)
The Significance of Nuremberg Actions July 4, 1987 (posted 08/2007)
Drawing the Line: An Open Letter to Present and Future U.S. Troops Dec. 7, 2002 (posted 12/2002)
People's Revolt From Below July 20, 2004 (posted 07/2004)
People's Strategies for Blocking U.S. Presidents from Waging Pre-emptive (Aggressive) War July 29, 2004 (posted 07/2004)
Noncooperation with and Resistance to Illegal Militarism and Wars are Legal under International and U.S. Constitutional Law Feb. 21, 2005 (posted 02/2005)
"Slow" and "Small" are Beautiful: Recovering from the American Way of Life 1996; updated 2005 (posted 09/2005)
Prohibited Government Recruiting Sept. 2005 (posted 09/2005)

III. Philosophy, Religion and Ecology

Reflections on my Personal Theology 1991 (posted 03/2000)
Male Spirituality: Die if You Must, But Never Kill July/Aug. 1991 (posted 03/2000)
Reflections on America Autumn 1999 (posted 03/2000)
Who is Disabled? Spring 2000 (posted 05/2000)

IV. Fundraising Appeal

Fundraising Appeal for Santa Cruz Film Foundation Documentary Film Projects: Divided Country, Disposable People and Friends of Ho (posted 10/2002; revised 12/2002)

V. Bonus Book Text

On Third World Legs (Published in 1992 by Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co., 1740 West Greenleaf Ave., P.O. Box 914, Chicago, IL 60626; Phone 773-465-7774. This book is now out of print.) (posted 06/2000)