Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsTHE LIE OF THE CENTURYclipped by: lifecyce1898clippers remarks: "All war is based on deception." -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War There is nothing new in a government lying to their people to start a war. Indeed because most people prefer living in peace to bloody and horrific death in war, any government that desires to initiate a war usually lies to their people to create the illusion that support for the war is the only possible choice they can make. ![]() President McKinley told the American people that the USS Maine had been sunk in Havana Harbor by a Spanish mine ![]() Hitler used this principle of lying to his own people to initiate an invasion. ![]() FDR claimed Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack. It wasnt. ![]() President Johnson lied about the Gulf of Tonkin to send Americans off to fight in Vietnam. Seymour Hersh: Mario Savio Memorial Lectureclipped by: katsteevnsSeymour Hersh: Mario Savio Memorial LectureAugust 21, 2007 One of Americas premier investigative journalists, Seymour Hersh shocked the world with his expose of the militarys treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. His revelation of the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. He writes regulary for The New Yorker on military and security matters and is the author of many books. The 9th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award is presented annually to honor the memory of Mario Savio (1942-1996), spokesperson for Berkeleys Free Speech Movement of 1964, and the spirit of moral courage and vision which he and countless other activists of his generation exemplified; to promote... [Video] MLK: Why I Oppose the Vietnam Warclipped by: katsteevnsclippers remarks: MP3 ![]() I looked around the web and couldnt find audio of what is in my opinion Kings best, most powerful, most beautiful, and most pertinent speech, "Why I Oppose the War In Vietnam". So here it is, in MP3 and complete, enjoy. Its a discussion of Americas motives for involvement in Vietnam and a little bit about our hushed history, amazing how little has changed, the speech could have been made yesterday. In 1964, the year Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize, Time Magazine called him man of the year, but they called this speech "a demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi." Sort of like what they said about Susan Sontags beautiful critique of America in Afghanistan. Made one year to the day before he was assassinated, April 4, 1967. Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |