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'The Things We Do to Make It Home' -- Novel Takes Us Back to Soldiers' Horrors of Vietnam

Andy Kroll, AlterNet. November 20, 2009.

Author Beverly Gologorsky explores the tragic, scarring experiences for Vietnam vets in her new novel, and discusses the parallels she sees in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Let The Sun Shine In: Marriage Equality Comes to Broadway

Paul Gorrell, Religion Dispatches. August 14, 2009.

The classic protest musical, Hair, is back to tackle what many consider to be the biggest civil rights issue of our era: marriage equality.

Michael Moore Slams McCain for Overplaying POW Card

ZP Heller, Meet the Bloggers. August 31, 2008.

From this week's Meet the Bloggers

Delusions of Grandeur: Does McCain Think He Won Vietnam?

Digby, Hullabaloo. July 25, 2008.

McCain is running as a military leader -- but he isn't one. And yet the myth of military leadership is the foundation of his claim to the presidency.

Gook: John McCain's Racism and Why It Matters

Jason Barnett, The Uptake. July 23, 2008.

A new book chronicles McCain's racist views.

Brokaw's Blind Spot on Vietnam

Fred Branfman, Truthdig. April 16, 2008.

How is it possible to write a book about the '60s without an in-depth discussion of the Vietnam War?

Agent Orange Deforming a Third Generation in Vietnam

Tom Fawthrop, Comment Is Free. February 13, 2008.

Washington denies responsibility for the effects of chemical warfare, fearing that legal precedent may limit future military endeavors.

The General Lies

Robert Scheer, Truthdig. September 12, 2007.

Once again, we have a general repeatedly promising to save Western civilization by turning the corner in yet another intractable and unnecessary foreign war.

Let Us Now Praise an Infamous Woman -- and Our Own Possibilities

Norman Solomon, AlterNet. August 7, 2007.

A grand total of two people in the entire Congress were able to resist a blood-drenched blank check for the Vietnam War. Decades later, a single Congress woman stood up after September 11, 2001 and voted against the gathering madness.

The Film That Could End the War

Guest Blogger, July 30, 2007.

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Normon Soloman's "War Made Easy" aims to become a valuable new organizing tool for the anti-war movement in America.

From the Grave, a Senator Exposes Bloody Hands on Capitol Hill

Norman Solomon, AlterNet. July 19, 2007.

Listening to a video clip of the late Senator Morse speaking in the 1960s exposes the big media lie that members of Congress are doing all they can to impose a schedule for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet. July 11, 2007.

A new film, War Made Easy uses archival footage to show the continuity of the propaganda messages that have been used to to justify war from LBJ to George W. Bush.

Vietnam All Over Again

Bobby Muller, AlterNet. January 11, 2007.

A well-known leader of Vietnam vets, paralyzed in combat, describes the frighteningly familiar path that is leading us into a widening conflict: With such a small percentage of the population bearing the burden of the war in Iraq, the sense of shared sacrifice has been lost.

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