Stories by Fred Branfman
Fred Branfman's writing has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic, and other publications. He is the author of several books on the Indochina War.
Posted on Jul 17, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Presidents serve the institutional interests of the corporations behind them. A President McCain may have at least triggered a true progressive fight.
Posted on Jul 11, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Obama should be held accountable for vastly expanding the military establishment's worldwide license to kill.
Posted on Jan 16, 2011, Source: Truthdig
The Obama Administration is pushing for the very policies that are destabilizing Pakistan and its nuclear materials.
Posted on Jan 3, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Wikileaks has shown that our government and military form a 'vast lying machine' that perpetrates mass murder in our name.
Posted on Nov 3, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Rather than seeking to stabilize Pakistan, General David Petraeus has been irresponsibly lighting matches with his shortsighted use of Special Forces and drone strikes.
Posted on Sep 28, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Future historians will marvel at how U.S. leaders failed to learn from their horrific crimes in Indochina, and are instead repeating many of them today.
Posted on Aug 24, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Greatly expanded U.S. military Special Ops teams, U.S. drone strikes and private espionage networks run by former CIA assassins create a threat to our security.
Posted on Jun 21, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The immensity of Iraqi civilian suffering is incomprehensible. How can war's cheerleaders claim to fight on behalf of the people whose lives they helped destroy?
Posted on Jun 8, 2010, Source: Truthdig
As America’s economy and politics continue to unravel, it is clear that the elite mentality and the system it has created will produce more and more victims in the years to come.
Posted on May 18, 2010, Source: Truthdig
Author Michael Lewis in his best-selling book takes us inside capitalism’s “doomsday machine,” and it’s your worst nightmare come true.
Posted on Dec 9, 2009, Source: Sacramento News & Review
A strange cloud envelops human civilization as its leaders fail to take the measures to protect it in Copenhagen that they themselves endorsed just five months ago.
Posted on Oct 9, 2009, Source: Truthdig
The U.S. has even less control over events in Pakistan than it does in Afghanistan -- Obama's really playing with fire here.
Posted on Jun 24, 2009, Source: Truthdig
Petraeus's tragic blunders in Afghanistan and Pakistan leave only one option: he must be replaced.
Posted on May 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Despite the endless human capacity for denial and self-destruction, the Earth can still be saved. But we must act now.
Posted on Apr 16, 2008, Source: Truthdig
How is it possible to write a book about the '60s without an in-depth discussion of the Vietnam War?
Posted on Aug 30, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Swift Boat veterans' attack on John Kerry dishonors themselves and every brave soldier who spoke out against the atrocities committed in Vietnam.
Posted on May 26, 2000, Source: Sacramento News & Review
If you learned you were dying, would you reduce your workload, place a higher priority on love and relationship or switch mates? If so, why put it off just because you don't have a terminal illness yet?
