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RECENT
WRITINGS:
2018
In
America, anti-Muslim bigotry is more acceptable than other prejudices
In
Present Wars, Repeating Past Mistakes -- Reading about Iraq and Afghanistan,
Remembering Vietnam
Review
of The Violent American Century -- War and Terror Since World War II,
by John W. Dower
Excerpts
from Frederick Douglass's last published essay before his death in 1895,
"Why Is the Negro Lynched?" These
quotes were prepared for a program on Douglass's bicentennial, organized
by the local chapter of the Fulbright Association. The essay gives a
remarkable view of the post-Reconstruction era, which restored white
supremacy rule in the South and largely nullified the emancipation --
a period in America's racial history that is usually overlooked in our
customary celebratory narrative. The
full text is available online.
Podcast
interview 3/15: "calling out BS" about immigration and terrorism
(ARI segment begins at minute 17:00; follows an earlier segment
on a college course called -- really! -- "Calling Out Bullshit,"
which is worth a listen too)
Using
Fake Facts to Make Us Afraid: On Immigration and Terrorism, the Trump
Administration Misleads About Its Own Misleading Data
Review
of The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness,
by John Prados
2017
Fact-checking
the Pentagon's misleading Vietnam War 50th Anniversary Commemoration
website
Video accompanying
"Remembering
Vietnam"
I am one of several talking heads appearing in this video, which accompanies
an exhibition of Vietnam war documents at the U.S. National Archives
in Washington (third of three segments, arranged chronologically; this
one covers the years 1970-1975)
Review
of Anatomy of Failure: Why America Loses Every War It Starts,
by Harlan K. Ullman
Review of Bringing
Vincent Home, a very unusual Vietnam war novel by Madeleine
Mysko
"Facts About
the Vietnam War," 5-part series in advance of Ken Burns-Lynn Novick
Vietnam documentary: Part
I,
Part II, Part
III, Part
IV, Part
V
Podcast
interview, 9/7: separating myth from facts about the Vietnam War
Review
of A Rift in the Earth, by James Reston Jr., on the creation
of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
In
shaping Trump's immigration policies, Jeff Sessions misrepresented his
own data on refugees and terrorism
Lies
have power even when we know they're lies
Remembering
a long-ago encounter with John McCain -- reprise (originally published
in 2000)
Podcast
interview 7/24: telling the truth in the Trump era, and whom do you
trust on the facts? (go to minute 30:55)
The
Real Danger of Fake News
Are
David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt (Planned Parenthood sting videotapers)
really journalists?
Review
of Generation Revolution, by Rachel Aspden
Podcast
interview 3/7: more perspective on American fears of terrorism and the
roots of Islamophobia (go to minute 22:25)
Fact
Sheet 1: Refugees and the Risk of Terrorism
Fact
Sheet 2: Real Facts About Islamophobia Fake Facts
Podcast
interview 2/24: Trump's fear-mongering on refugees (go to minute 7:00)
How
scared should we be of refugees? Jeff Sessions claimed to make the case,
but didn't.
Podcast
interview 1/31: Trump's travel ban, false fear of refugees, and anti-Muslim
hysteria (go to minute 21:20)
Are
We Safer Yet? Part 1: Some facts on refugees and terrorism -- an imaginary
danger
Are
We Safer Yet? Part 2: Islamophobic influence in Trump's White House
and why it is dangerous
Review
of A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military
CIA, by Joshua Kurlantzick
Review
of Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, by
John Nixon
2016
Review
of Retire the Colors: Veterans & Civilians on Iraq and Afghanistan,
Dario DiBattista, ed.
Remembering
two friends whose lives were upended by the Vietnam war... http://warontherocks.com/2016/12/vietnam-two-brave-men-and-the-paths-they-took/
Is
Islamophobia a blind spot in American journalism?... http://www.mediafiledc.com/op-ed-media-falling-covering-anti-muslim-bigotry/
A
look back at the reporting of Vietnam... http://mwi.usma.edu/no-american-journalists-did-not-lose-the-vietnam-war-or-disparage-the-soldiers-who-fought-it/
Review
of Children of Paradise, by Laura Secor: http://mwi.usma.edu/4040-2/
Review
of McNamara's Folly, by Hamilton Gregory: http://mwi.org/book-review-mcnamaras-folly/
Donald
Trump's call to bar Muslims from entering the country got all the attention,
but an even uglier thread of anti-Muslim bigotry exists inside Ted Cruz's
campaign
2015
Who
lost the Vietnam war? Forty years after the event, the facts on that
question have been increasingly challenged by a series of myths (first
of a four-part series)
CICERO ARCHIVE:
Writings originally in Cicero Magazine.com
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