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Commentary Zinn: A Marvelous Victory

Commentary, February, 01 2010 Howard Zinn
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American historian, playwright and social activist Howard Zinn died January 27, 2010, aged 87. Below is an excerpt from his recent book A Power Governments Cannot Suppress published by City Lights Books.

Commentary Zinn: War And Peace Prizes

Commentary, October, 11 2009 Howard Zinn
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I was dismayed when I heard Barack Obama was given the Nobel peace prize. A shock, really, to think that a president carrying on two wars would be given a peace prize. Until I recalled that Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Henry Kissinger h...

Commentary Zinn: From Empire to Democracy

Commentary, October, 03 2008 Howard Zinn
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This current financial crisis is a major way-station on the way to the collapse of the American empire. The first important sign was 9/11, with the most heavily-armed nation in the world shown to be vulnerable to a handful of hijackers.

Commentary Zinn: Memo to Obama, McCain: No one wins in a war

Commentary, July, 19 2008 Howard Zinn
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For someone like myself, who fought in World War II, and since then has protested against war, I must ask: Have our political leaders gone mad? Have they learned nothing from recent history? Have they not learned that no one "wins" in a war, but t...

Commentary Zinn: Are Hillary and Obama Afraid of Talking About the New Deal?

Commentary, April, 02 2008 Howard Zinn
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We might wonder why no Democratic Party contender for the presidency has invoked the memory of the New Deal and its unprecedented series of laws aimed at helping people in need. The New Deal was tentative, cautious, bold enough to shake the pillar...

Commentary Zinn: Antiwar talk at the Boston Commons

Commentary, March, 27 2007 Howard Zinn
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Howard Zinn, addressing the crowd gathered for the March 24th 2007 antiwar rally at the Boston Commons.

Commentary Zinn: War Is Not A Solution For Terrorism

Commentary, September, 07 2006 Howard Zinn
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THERE IS SOMETHING important to be learned from the recent experience of the United States and Israel in the Middle East: that massive military attacks, inevitably indiscriminate, are not only morally reprehensible, but useless in achieving the st...

Commentary Zinn: Lessons of Iraq War Start With US History

Commentary, March, 19 2006 Howard Zinn
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On the third anniversary of President Bush's Iraq debacle, it's important to consider why the administration so easily fooled so many people into supporting the war.

Commentary Zinn: After This War

Commentary, January, 03 2006 Howard Zinn
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The war against Iraq, the assault on its people, the occupation of its cities, will come to an end, sooner or later. The process has already begun. The first signs of mutiny are appearing in Congress The first editorials calling from withdrawal fr...

Commentary Zinn: Victory?

Commentary, October, 05 2005 Howard Zinn
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How quickly would you like to see society change in fundamental ways? How quickly do you believe it will, or ought, to occur? Do you believe that serious social change is literally possible within a matter of a few years?

Commentary Zinn: The Optimism of Uncertainty

Commentary, September, 30 2004 Howard Zinn
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In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved and seemingly happy?

Commentary Zinn: An Occupied Country

Commentary, September, 30 2003 Howard Zinn
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It has become clear, very quickly, that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country.

Commentary Zinn: Victory?

Commentary, July, 25 2003 Howard Zinn
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The ÒvictoryÓ over an already devastated and disarmed Iraq led Bush, Rumsfeld and their teammates into a locker-room frenzy of exultation and self-congratulation. I half-expected to see Bush joyfully pouring beer on RumsfeldÕs head and Ashcroft sn...

Commentary Zinn: War

Commentary, February, 28 2003 Howard Zinn
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Forthcoming from The Progressive

Commentary Zinn: Veterans Day

Commentary, November, 15 2002 Howard Zinn
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Veterans Day used to be called Armistice Day, because it was November 11, 1918, at 11 AM - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, that the first World War came to an end. It would be good to remember a few things about tha...

Commentary Zinn: TENNIS ON THE TITANIC

Commentary, December, 16 2000 Howard Zinn
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As the prize of the presidency lurched wildly back and forth in the last days of the year, with the entire nation hypnotized by the spectacle, I had a vision. I saw the Titanic churning through the waters of the North Atlantic toward an iceberg lo...

Commentary Zinn: A CAMPAIGN WITHOUT CLASS

Commentary, September, 30 2000 Howard Zinn
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There came a rare amusing moment in this election campaign when George Bush (who has raised $150 million or thereabouts, anyhow, for his campaign) accused Al Gore (who has only raised $140 million or thereabouts, anyway, for his campaign) of appea...

Commentary Zinn: Downfall

Commentary, August, 18 2000 Howard Zinn
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I am surprised that my friend Hans Koning, a stalwart protester against the war in Vietnam, seems to have been taken in by the argument of Richard Frank, in his review of Frank's DOWNFALL. Yes, we must all be willing to reconsider our most hardene...

Commentary Zinn: A Fourth of July Commentary

Commentary, July, 04 2000 Howard Zinn
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In this year 2000, I cannot comment more meaningfully on the Fourth of July than Frederick Douglass did when he was invited in 1852 to give an Independence Day address. He could not help thinking about the irony of the promise of the Declaration o...

Commentary Zinn: THE HEROES AROUND US

Commentary, May, 07 2000 Howard Zinn
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Recently, meeting with a group of high school students, I was asked by one of them: "I read in your book, A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, about the massacres of Indians, the long history of racism, the persistence of poverty in the rich...

Commentary Zinn: Sender Garlin

Commentary, March, 09 2000 Howard Zinn
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As the twentieth century came to an end last December, an extraordinary man, whose life spanned the century, died at the age of ninety-seven. His name was Sender Garlin.

Commentary Zinn: Notes for a Gathering

Commentary, January, 02 2000 Howard Zinn
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I have been asked to imagine this situation: "The progressive third party movement has captured the White House, 60% of Congress and 30 Governorships. What do we do now?"

Commentary Zinn: Seattle

Commentary, December, 22 1999 Howard Zinn
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In the year 1919, when the city of Seattle was brought to a halt by a general strike - beginning with 35,000 shipyard workers demanding a wage increase - the mayor reflected on its significance:

Commentary Zinn: On Rewarding People for Talents and Hard WorkÊ

Commentary, November, 25 1999 Howard Zinn
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There are two issues here: First, why should we accept our culture's definition of those two factors? Why should we accept that the "talent" of someone who writes jingles for an Advertising agency advertising dog food and gets $100,000 a year is s...

Commentary Zinn: On Rewarding People for Talents and Hard Work 

Commentary, November, 25 1999 Howard Zinn
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There are two issues here: First, why should we accept our culture's definition of those two factors? Why should we accept that the "talent" of someone who writes jingles for an Advertising agency advertising dog food and gets $100,000 a year is s...

Commentary Zinn: A Larger Consciousness

Commentary, October, 10 1999 Howard Zinn
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Some years ago, when I was teaching at Boston University, I was asked by a Jewish group to give a talk on the Holocaust. I spoke that evening, but not about the Holocaust of World War II, not about the genocide of six million Jews.

Commentary Zinn: Beyond the Soviet Union

Commentary, September, 02 1999 Howard Zinn
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In the spirit of killing two obligations with one effort, I offer as my Commentary a response I just made to a letter by a retired professor in California, who wrote: "As a great admirer of Howard Zinn [should he have said "as a former great admir...

Commentary Zinn: Inspire Please

Commentary, July, 16 1999 Howard Zinn
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The order came from above (I will not reveal the name, unless tortured) ): "Write something inspirational." The exact words were: "Inspire, please."

Commentary Zinn: Whose Atrocity Is Bigger

Commentary, May, 25 1999 Howard Zinn
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Milosovic has committed atrocities. Therefore it is okay for us to commit atrocities. He is terrorizing the Albanians in Kosovo. Therefore we can terrorize the population of cities and villages in Yugoslavia.

Commentary Zinn: On Getting Along

Commentary, March, 07 1999 Howard Zinn
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You ask how I manage to stay involved and remain seemingly happy and adjusted to this awful world where the efforts of caring people pale in comparison to those who have power?

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