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Category: Real History Lessons

Followers of Glenn Beck have described themselves as "students of history" and "historians." Everyone who opposes Beck's racist, reactionary agenda needs to know and bring out the real history of the U.S. and the world in order to, and as part of, politically opposing this agenda.

Things we learned from Hiroshima

Posted on August 19, 2023

Debra Sweet | August, 2023 Last week, dozens of people joined, virtually, our discussion of “The film Oppenheimer & Lessons for NOW.” Some of the thoughtful contributions are here and below are…

Comments from August World Can’t Wait conversation: The film Oppenheimer and Lessons for NOW

Posted on August 17, 2023

Debra Sweet | August 17, 2023 Debra: I think it’s been all of our experience both people that go out to speak very publicly on the streets and also to students that…

Hiroshima + 78 years: how to abolish nuclear weapons?

Posted on July 31, 2023

 Debra Sweet | July 31, 2023 Thanks to so many of you for responding to my query about the film Oppenheimer. It is not a film showing people the horror of nuclear weapons…

Have you seen the film Oppenheimer?

Posted on July 21, 2023

Debra Sweet | Friday, July 21 2023  “Oppenheimer,” the film about the pivotal physicist in the Manhattan Project which developed the atom bomb, opens nationally today. I’m going to see it this…

Huge story of this century, ignored

Posted on May 26, 2023

Debra Sweet | May, 26, 2023 This week, we had planned to share a look at the U.S. drone war — it’s aftermath and ongoing and growing carnage as the use of…

Memorial Day Thoughts

Posted on May 28, 2022

Debra Sweet | May 29, 2022 Even when I was very young I felt strangely about Memorial Day. We would drive to relatives’ graves and put flowers, out of respect, as my…

How Many People Does It Take to Drive Out an Oppressor?

Posted on February 25, 2018

Curt Wechsler | February 24, 2018 “We are still in the early stages of an authoritarian regime change,” warns Salon writer Chauncey Devega. “We still have an aspiring authoritarian leader. Many people have gotten to the…

Wars & Protests: Anniversaries to Reckon With

Posted on May 9, 2015

Debra Sweet | May 9, 2015 It’s worth thinking about how imperialist wars start; how they can end up; how opposition develops externally and domestically. Sometimes waging wars make the aggressor less…

Timeline: War and Protest Post-9/11

Posted on March 20, 2015

World Can’t Wait | March 19, 2015 What happened since 9/11? There was a time before endless war, but here’s a chronicle of the actions the government took since then, and the…

Nine Years After Camp Casey, Reflections on Nixon and the Legitimacy of the System

Posted on August 9, 2014

Debra Sweet | August 8, 2014 August 8,1974: it’s been 40 years since Richard Nixon was driven from office in disgrace, and rightly so. He didn’t go because the system “worked,” as…

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