What We Truly Learned from the Great War and the Absurdity of Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day is not really about loss of life because the only way to hold those or any lives sacred is not to send them off to war in the first place.
Read MoreJohn Chuckman is former chief economist for a large Canadian oil company. He has many interests and is a lifelong student of history. He writes with a passionate desire for honesty, the rule of reason, and concern for human decency. John regards it as a badge of honor to have left the United States as a poor young man from the South Side of Chicago when the country embarked on the pointless murder of something like 3 million Vietnamese in their own land because they happened to embrace the wrong economic loyalties. He lives in Canada, which he is fond of calling “the peaceable kingdom.”
Posted by John Chuckman | Nov 14, 2014 | US, Viewpoints |
Remembrance Day is not really about loss of life because the only way to hold those or any lives sacred is not to send them off to war in the first place.
Read MorePosted by John Chuckman | Nov 11, 2014 | US, Viewpoints |
For the 95% of humanity living outside the United States, no one in America’s government ever gives them a moment’s thought, unless they step out of line.
Read MorePosted by John Chuckman | Sep 29, 2014 | Europe, Viewpoints |
Europe plays a subservient role to Washington, DC.
Read MorePosted by John Chuckman | Mar 27, 2011 | Africa, Middle East, News & Analysis, US |
French air force planes struck the first blows; using “intelligent” munitions, the...
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