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Antiwar.com Original The False Promise of Universal National Serviceby Doug Bandow Posted on War fires the imagination, especially of those who never suffered its horrors. Washington, D.C.’s faux heroes find nothing so courageous as sending other people off to fight and die in one grand cause or another. Of course, some professionals glory in death and gore, such as World War II’s Gen. George S. Patton. In his infamous speech to the Third Army he declared: "Men, all this stuff you hear about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans l...

Bellamy, socialism and utopia  Winter 1987-88 issue of the  World Socialist For as long as there has been human oppression there have been dreams of the oppressed. Oppressed people have not usually had access to the means of recording their dreams, so too many of them have been lost. Nor have they had the power to communicate their dreams as widely as the powerful have been free to spread theirs, so all too often such visions of what could be have been relegated to an area outside of “serious politics”, derided as the literary yearnings of unimportant masses, or neatly filed away under ...

To our readers, Maine Historical Society continues topical bicentennial series Jan 01, 2021 Maine Historical Society is relaunching its Bicentennial public programming with a new virtual series, Maine at 200, through March 2021. The series will feature live conversations and panels on topical issues with prominent speakers, historians and authors, including Earle Shettleworth Jr., Colin Woodard, and Lise Pelletier. Maine at 200, which is broadcast via Zoom, will explore how Maine became a state in 1820, what that has meant to Maine people and how 13,000 years of history shape the issues that...

Summer School Maymester Literature and Race, Literature and Ethnicity Considers texts in a comparative ethnic/race studies framework and examines how these texts explore historical and contemporary connections between groups of people in the United States and the Americas. Honors version available   English Composition and Rhetoric This college-level course focuses on written and oral argumentation, composition, research, information literacy, and rhetorical analysis. The course introduces students to the specific disciplinary contexts for written work and oral presentations required in coll...

Aftermath hurricane maria affecting puerto rico and saying they are doing that in order to make him look bad. this coming at a time when the resource of the federal government are poised to deal with florence as it's bearing down and initial effects are starting to hit where you are ali. the president looking backward and upset about the political storm surrounding hurricane march ray. now the issue is there are roughly 3,000 deaths associated with hurricane maria. those are not the deaths that the president is talking about. he says when he was on tiled there were a few dozen deaths that were...