Monthly Archives: June 2013

Orlando Sentinel Rejects Supporters of Mr Trayvon Martin Statement

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Peter Kirstein

Dear Friend, The Orlando Sentinel has refused to publish the “We Say No More!” statement, as a paid ad on the grounds that it’s “inflammatory” and “is more of an opinion rather than a substantiated fact and therefore are unable … Continue reading →

Posted in Diversity and Race | Comments Off on Orlando Sentinel Rejects Supporters of Mr Trayvon Martin Statement

American Human Rights Activist Edward Snowden Hounded by America

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Peter Kirstein

David G. Mcintyre/ZUMA Press These are some thoughts seriatim: 1) Don’t trust Senator Dianne Feinstein. The eighty-year old senator from California has a long history of opposition to civil liberties, dissent and protest. This person wants to criminalise flag burning as … Continue reading →

Posted in External Affairs, Freedom & Socialism | Comments Off on American Human Rights Activist Edward Snowden Hounded by America

Kirstein Article on Alperovitz, Realism and A-Bomb

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Peter Kirstein

Advances in Historical Studies 2013. Vol.2, No.2, 46-53 Published Online June 2013 in SciRes (http://www.scirp.org/journal/ahs) DOI:10.4236/ahs.2013.22008 The article was submitted to three readers. Reclaiming Realism for the Left: Gar Alperovitz and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb Peter N. … Continue reading →

Posted in External Affairs | Comments Off on Kirstein Article on Alperovitz, Realism and A-Bomb

Hero Edward Snowden, defender of the Constitution, Speaks to the World

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Peter Kirstein

In an online chat with the British paper, the Guardian, Mr Snowden discusses further his courageous act in revealing police-state surveillance N.S.A. tactics by the US government. Not knowing if the C.I.A. will shut down the Guardian or not, or … Continue reading →

Posted in External Affairs, Freedom & Socialism | Comments Off on Hero Edward Snowden, defender of the Constitution, Speaks to the World

Pictures at an Exhibition: well not Mussorgsky but Half Marathon With Racial Overtones

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Peter Kirstein

These are images of a very tired person running the First Midwest (banks are good for something I guess) Half-Marathon in Palos Heights, Ill. on May 5, 2013. It’s a 13.1 mile jaunt! I returned early from St Louis from a Mary … Continue reading →

Posted in Diversity and Race | Comments Off on Pictures at an Exhibition: well not Mussorgsky but Half Marathon With Racial Overtones

The Tragedy of American Diplomacy

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Peter Kirstein

William Appleman Williams, the greatest revisionist historian, used the blog-post title for one of his seminal works. It unfortunately is ongoing: William Appleman Williams (1921-1990) Allies: The U.S. persists in using this term as if we are in a permanent … Continue reading →

Posted in External Affairs | Comments Off on The Tragedy of American Diplomacy

National Louis University Censured by AAUP Based on Committee A Recommendation

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Peter Kirstein

Letter followed by censure at AAUP DC annual meeting on June 15.                                                                                          5/31/13 NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY (ILLINOIS)             The investigation of Association concerns at National Louis University followed the actions taken by the administration in spring 2012 to discontinue numerous academic … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia/Academic Freedom | Comments Off on National Louis University Censured by AAUP Based on Committee A Recommendation

N.L.R.B. Defies Police State and False Claims of Religious Exemption, Gives Adjuncts Green Light at Pacific Lutheran

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Peter Kirstein

The epochal National Labour Relations Board (N.L.R.B.) established in 1935 during the Great Depression, has ruled once again that faculty adjuncts, part-timers, at Pacific Lutheran University have the right to hold an election to determine if they can organise under a union … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia/Academic Freedom | Comments Off on N.L.R.B. Defies Police State and False Claims of Religious Exemption, Gives Adjuncts Green Light at Pacific Lutheran

Sign the Petition for Pres. Obama to Pardon American Hero Edward Snowden. He Pardons Turkeys!!

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Peter Kirstein

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD I don’t like pardons. They presume there is something to pardon. Yet due to the heroic, self-sacrificing nature of Mr Snowden’s actions, I signed. Will you? Of course the national-security elites will ignore this. After all, this is Amerika. … Continue reading →

Posted in Freedom & Socialism | Comments Off on Sign the Petition for Pres. Obama to Pardon American Hero Edward Snowden. He Pardons Turkeys!!

End the Police State, Cyber Imperialism and the N.S.A. Traitorous Campaign Against America

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Peter Kirstein

Thank you American hero, that is what you are, Edward Snowden, for protecting our freedoms. Not the militarists who are taking it away History shows, especially American history, that when it is under siege or attack (real or imagined) usually … Continue reading →

Posted in External Affairs, Freedom & Socialism | Comments Off on End the Police State, Cyber Imperialism and the N.S.A. Traitorous Campaign Against America