But count on Washington to interpret the Russia-Ukraine War as an imperative of militant American globalism.
Current Events
“Nothing is Impossible” Finds It Impossible to Tell the Truth About Vietnam
Thoughts on “Nothing is Impossible: America’s Reconciliation with Vietnam” by Ted Osius, US ambassador to Vietnam, 2014-2017.
Ukraine: Dilemmas for the Progressive Left Movement
Opposing Russian imperialism should go along with opposition to US interventions, and its hundreds of military bases, internationally.
U.S. aid to Ukraine could trigger a wider war
The U.S. is poking the Russian bear with its burgeoning arms shipments, from safely outside the cage. For now.
Condemn Russian aggression and critique western militarism?
War crimes in Ukraine committed by an occupying army today. But from Vietnam to Iraq, few called for trying US leadership as war criminals.
Putin’s mythological, fascist view of blood ties with Ukraine
I’ve analyzed the war as a geopolitical rivalry between Russia and the US/western Europe. I now question this view. By Howard Machtinger
Russian Nationalism and Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine
As the situation in Ukraine deteriorates, I’ve been struggling to learn about a nation about which I knew little. By Howard Machtinger.
How VA unlawfully denies health care to veterans with bad paper discharges
For most benefits administered by VA, including health care, a bad paper discharge does not render a veteran categorically ineligible.
Patrick Leahy’s full-circle moment caps a half-century political career
In 1974, Patrick Leahy entered the Montpelier Statehouse as a 33-year-old insurgent with the seemingly impossible dream.
Senator Pat Leahy will not run again
Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and the chamber’s longest-serving member is one of a few senators who were decent toward Vietnam.
All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic: From Vietnam to the Capitol Steps
Echoes of the war in Vietnam were everywhere. What about the conspiracy theories that animated the rage of Trump’s passionate followers?
‘The Temperature in Saigon Is 105 and Rising’
What I learned about American power watching the U.S. leave Vietnam — and then Afghanistan decades later. by Philip...
The Last Hearing of a Khmer Rouge Leader
The impending closure of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal must be recognized as the beginning of a new chapter in Cambodia’s...
Afghanistan | Vietnam Redux
Perhaps policymakers would avoid such folly, such willful blindness to reality, such hubris, such wishful thinking in the future. Fat chance.