Deranged Trump may start war against Iran in final days: Vietnam War whistleblower

Daniel Ellsberg, a whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers, which revealed the U.S. government had lied to the American public about the Vietnam War, has blamed Donald Trump for the Nov. 27 assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in order to find a pretext to start a large-scale war against Iran.

By Martin Love

A search for counters to U.S. imperialism is necessary and hard

Few often learn anything until it is too late, and even then they may not learn much that matters except in a context of a disaster that probably could have been avoided. The reference here is to the relatively comfortable and well off, say the mid to upper levels of a shrinking middle class in a society such as the U.S. has.

By Martin Love

Overreach and arrogance are the curses of every empire

I have an acquaintance and occasional correspondent who was a famed U.S. Marine Corps pilot during the Vietnam War. At age 20 he began two years in Nam and logged over 800 combat missions in F-4B Phantoms and other aircraft. He won Distinguished Flying Crosses.