Killing Democracy in America
July 30, 2020
The phrase “thinking about the unthinkable” has always been associated with the unthinkable cataclysm of a nuclear war, and rightly so. Lately, though, I’ve been pondering another kind of unthinkable …
Vietnam War
Book Review: Waging Peace in Vietnam
January 1, 2020
One of the enduring myths connected to the Vietnam War is that the U.S. military could have won the war if the politicians and protestors back in Washington didn’t somehow handicap the generals. When …
How the US Navy Sold the Vietnam War
April 22, 2019
The US Navy was behind the massive propaganda coup in popularizing Tom Dooley and his false accounts; “But it was widely recognized within the U.S. government that these stories were false” Dr. Tom Do…
How the NYT Plays with History
January 20, 2017
Whenever The New York Times or some other mainstream news outlet holds itself out as a paragon of professional journalism – by wagging a finger at some pro-Trump “fake news” or some Internet “conspira…