New Events

International

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

Anti-Empire

offsite link North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link ?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty

Anti-Empire >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Trump Threatens to Unleash ?Hell? if Hamas Doesn?t Release Hostages by January 20th Tue Dec 03, 2024 09:00 | Will Jones
President-elect Donald Trump threatened to unleash "hell" in the Middle East if hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip are not released before his inauguration on January 20th.
The post Trump Threatens to Unleash “Hell” if Hamas Doesn?t Release Hostages by January 20th appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Has Tony Blair Forgotten That it Was His Labour Government That Blocked Nuclear Power? Tue Dec 03, 2024 07:00 | Ben Pile
Tony Blair is now promoting nuclear power in a new report from his Institute for Global Change. Has he forgotten that it was his Labour Government in the 1990s and 2000s that blocked its development, asks Ben Pile.
The post Has Tony Blair Forgotten That it Was His Labour Government That Blocked Nuclear Power? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Tue Dec 03, 2024 00:43 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Cost of Switching Off U.K. Wind Farms on Windy Days Hits ?Absurd? ?1 Billion Mon Dec 02, 2024 20:00 | Will Jones
British energy bill payers have spent an "absurd" ?1 billion to?temporarily switch off wind turbines?so far this year because the grid struggles to cope with their power on windy days.
The post Cost of Switching Off U.K. Wind Farms on Windy Days Hits “Absurd” ?1 Billion appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link David Starkey is Right That Blair Destroyed the British Constitution But Wrong About This Mon Dec 02, 2024 18:03 | James Alexander
David Starkey is right that Tony Blair and New Labour destroyed the British Constitution and did lasting harm to the country, says Prof James Alexander. But here are some things he gets wrong.
The post David Starkey is Right That Blair Destroyed the British Constitution But Wrong About This appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link What is changing in the Middle East , by Thierry Meyssan Tue Dec 03, 2024 07:08 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?110 Fri Nov 29, 2024 15:01 | en

offsite link Verbal ceasefire in Lebanon Fri Nov 29, 2024 14:52 | en

offsite link Russia Prepares to Respond to the Armageddon Wanted by the Biden Administration ... Tue Nov 26, 2024 06:56 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?109 Fri Nov 22, 2024 14:00 | en

Voltaire Network >>

R.I.P. Howard Zinn -radical U.S. historian and anti-war activist.

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Friday February 05, 2010 14:31author by Ciaron O'Reilly - Catholic Worker/Plowshares Report this post to the editors

VID (58 mins) - "America's Holy Wars"

VID 58 minutes - Howard Zinn was an American historian, social critic, and activist. He is best known as author of the best-seller A People’s History of the United States. In one of his last lectures before his death last week, he spoke at Boston University on November 11 2009, on the subject of American “Holy Wars.”

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/1/8/howard_zinn_t..._wars

Sad to hear of the passing of radical U.S. historian Howard Zinn. I have just viewed the above lecture that captures Zinn's wisdom, gentle humour and peace he embodied in old age. His journey from a bombadier over Dresden to radical educator and nonviolent anti-war resistance is quite amazing. In this lecture he tackles the rarely questioned Holy Wars of U.S. history
-the revolutionary war
-the civil war
-and WW2

I heard him once in a New York bar along with Alan Ginsberg and Norman Mailer at an evening in memory of the then recently departed Abbie Hoffman. They have all since passed.

He is sorely missed as the U.S. wars on Iraq and Afghanistan grind on with little resistance or debate in civil society.

Related Link: http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/1/8/howard_zinn_three_holy_wars
author by Ciaronpublication date Fri Feb 05, 2010 14:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

A shorter piece (5.52) is Zinn's speech at the 85th. birthday party of anti-war activist Fr. Daniel Berrigan. Berrigan and Zinn travelled to North Vietnam together during the war to take delivery of 3 U.S. pilots who had been shot down. Zinn later was the "handler" of Berrigan as he was underground being hunted by the F.B.I. following the raid on the Catonsville draft board.

http://www.getacd.org/listen_SuGPciAvgrI/howard_zinn_ho...rigan

Related Link: http://www.getacd.org/listen_SuGPciAvgrI/howard_zinn_honoring_daniel_berrigan
author by Boston Globe Obitpublication date Fri Feb 05, 2010 18:54author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Boston Globe Obit

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/....html

 
© 2001-2024 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy