In May of this year Mona Chalabi won a Pulitzer Prize in the “Illustrated Reporting and Commentary” category for her contributions to the New York Times. According to an item in the Times (they always…
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“...Was a matter of timing and the timing was right” –Bob Dylan, Murder Most Foul A newly released documentary, “JFK: What the Doctors Saw,” irrefragably contradicts the Warren Commission’s finding that President John F. Kennedy…
Last week three veterans who opposed the US intervention in Vietnam years ago told their stories at a symposium that’s now online (Google “Peace Movement Support for Antiwar GIs”). The speakers were John Kent, a…
We are moving to a smaller house and I’m deciding what not to bring. A drawer in a file cabinet contains leaflets and newspapers from the Vietnam War era. These are destined for a library…
The New York Times science writer Gina Kolata is the older sister of Judi Bari, but that’s not the item, as Mr. Caen used to say. Kolata is a serious weight lifter. Perhaps due to…
(Slightly condensed from an article in the March 1949 American Legion Magazine by Paul Gardner) In mid-summer of 1946 Bill Veeck limped into Cleveland to head up a syndicate which had bought out the 6th…
Back in 2000, Congressman Tom Campbell, a liberal Republican who had served five terms representing Silicon Valley, resigned to run for the Senate against Dianne Feinstein. At the time I was working as public information…