Kent State: After 45 Years We Need a Serious Look at What happened and Why
"Mary Ann Vecchio gestures and screams as she kneels by the body of a student, Jeffrey Miller, lying face down on the campus of Kent State University, in Kent, Ohio. On publication, the image was...
View ArticleObama's Dangerous Legacy Could Include a War in Russia's Backyard
Dynamivska Barricades Murray Polner is HNN’s senior book review editor and a blogger.When all the biographies, memoirs and histories are written about Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy it will be a...
View ArticleThe Neocons: First in War, Last in Peace
Irving Kristol Murray Polner is HNN’s senior book review editor and a blogger.I was hired in 1972 by the American Jewish Committee to serve as editor of a new magazine I named Present Tense. My vague...
View ArticleWhy Three Jailed Pacifists Took on the Empire and What We’ve Learned Because...
This post is by Murray Polner, a blogger, writer and HNN Book Department editor. In February 2014, I wrote— portions reprinted here, with a few modifications-- about three imprisoned religious...
View ArticleAfter Obama's Executive Order Against Venezuela, We'll Be Hearing "Yanqui, Go...
This post is by Murray Polner, a blogger, writer and HNN Book Department editor. In early March, President Obama issued a surprising and unexpected Executive Order declaring Venezuela, that mighty...
View ArticleAre You Ready To Fight Putin's Russia?
Murray Polner is a blogger, writer and HNN Book Department editor “Who came down from the mountain and said the U.S. must police the globe from the South China Sea to the jungles of Peru”? -- Eric S....
View ArticleIt's SUPER BOWL Time!!!!
This post is by Murray Polner, a blogger, writer and HNN Book Department editor. Sometime last year a critical blogger whose name I’ve forgotten called out NY Times columnist Joe Nocera who, he...
View ArticleWho Knows Eric Fair?
Murray Polner is a blogger, writer and HNN Book Department editor.Before we Americans become bored with all that talk about torture and move on to our next distractions about celebrity breakups, sex...
View ArticleHappy Holidays, President Obama! Harding Pardoned Debs So Why Not Pardon...
Murray Polner is a blogger, writer and HNN Book Department editor. The New York Times once ran a series of comments about President Obama’s reluctance to use his power of pardon. Obama, perhaps...
View ArticleDeja vu, Afghans: We're Ba-a-a-a-ck!
One of my favorite New Yorker cartoons features two men picketing while holding competing signs. One reads “No War” and the other “Some War,” sounding a lot like a description of Barack Obama’s...
View ArticleAre Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine, etc. Worth the Life of a Single U.S....
Murray Polner is a blogger, writer and HNN Book Department editor.Some years back when an off-Broadway play opened with the delicious title “Now That Communism is Dead My Life Feels Empty” I...
View ArticlePutin, Putin, Putin & More Putin
Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin & More Putin By Murray Polner I rarely agree with Henry Kissinger, our latter day Metternich, but his recent Washington Post Op Ed was on the mark: Western...
View ArticleHow Much Freedom for Journalists?
How Much Freedom for Journalists? By Murray Polner: F or far too long it was Edward Snowden, Snowden, Snowden, and Snowden everywhere, at least in spyworld, euphemistically dubbed our “Intelligence...
View ArticleResisting Evil
Resisting Evil By Murray Polner What more is there to say about the Holocaust that hasn’t been said before? Herded into concentration camps, one-third killed far from the death camps, dragged...
View ArticleHiroshima & Nagasaki 69 Years Later
Hiroshima & Nagasaki: 69 Years Later By Murray Polner The 69th anniversary of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was approaching last August and a neighbor, a retired fireman and...
View ArticleRemembering Al Campanis: Was Justice Done?
Remembering Al Campanis: Was Justice Done? By Murray Polner I often think of Al Campanis, a true baseball old-timer I knew, who was drummed out of the game he so loved in 1987 because of his...
View ArticleStalin & American Myths
Stalin, Hiroshima & American Myths By Murray Polner To historian David Murphy, author of What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa, Stalin was cunning and cruel yet a failure when confronted...
View ArticleWar Crimes: Who Arre Accuntable?
War Crimes: Who Is Accountable? By Murray Polner In October 1944, General Tomoyuki Yamashita was assigned to lead the Japanese forces in the Philippines. Ten days later U.S. army units began...
View ArticleSodliers, Vets & the Rest of Us
Soldiers, Veterans & the Rest of Us By Murray Polner Fort Hood, in Texas, is named after Confederate General John Bell Hood, who lost his arm and leg at Gettysburg and Chickamauga but was...
View ArticleLeft and Right Against War
Left and Right against War By Murray Polner “Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”...
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