Monthly Archives: August 2011

AAUP Files Amicus Brief in Loretta Capeheart Academic Freedom, Free Speech Federal Case

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Peter Kirstein

Professor Loretta Capeheart teaches at Northeastern Illinois University. A Latina and tenured faculty member, she has been a strong advocate for increased minority representation at NEIU and has protested imperialism and military recruiting on campus. She was denied an elected … Continue reading →

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Obama Administration First to Participate at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Remembrance

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Peter Kirstein

The United States is beginning to recognise, however belatedly, its responsibility for the greatest war crime in history: the atomic genocide and extermination of 100,000s of innocents in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Last year President Obama sent Ambassador John Roos to … Continue reading →

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Remembering War Criminal President Harry S Truman’s Hiroshima Genocide August 6, 1945

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Peter Kirstein

America’s Hitler: President Harry S Truman, adored by historians Most historians in the US now consider President Harry S Truman to have achieved great president iconography. The new “revisionism” is typical of American historiography. Emphasise crisis management, toughness, resolve in … Continue reading →

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Dr Martin Luther King’s Home, Church and University in Close Proximity

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Peter Kirstein

While Dr Martin Luther King Jr was born about 250 years after Bach, they share a curious commonality. Bach apparently spent his life around Thuringia and apparently never went further north than Hamburg or east of Dresden: later to be … Continue reading →

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King Center Peace Pledge

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Peter Kirstein

Make Dr King’s Dream Come True I pledge to honor Martin Luther King’s, Jr’s life and non-violent work by helping to make this world a better, more just place for all people. I will: Respect all people. Live a life … Continue reading →

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Ku Klux Klan, Stone Mountain and Me

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Peter Kirstein

I went to the top of Stone Mountain east of Atlanta, Georgia where the infamous William Simmons reestablished the KKK in 1915. “Inspired” by the cinematic evil masterpiece, The Birth of a Nation, Simmons lead a g roup of fellow … Continue reading →

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