Articles by Richard Kreitner
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16 Mar 1968: The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam by US Invading Forces
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
“The obsolete pretensions of sovereign prerogative and military necessity had better be challenged soon if life on earth is to survive,” — Richard Falk
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Richard Kreitner – The Nation,
12 Oct 2015
Che Guevara was executed by the Bolivian army on this day in 1967. When his self-selected executioner hesitated before firing, Guevara allegedly spat at him and shouted: “Shoot me, you coward! You are only going to kill a man!”
→ read full articleMarch 5, 1871: Rosa Luxemburg Is Born
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac – The Nation,
9 Mar 2015
5 Mar 2015 – Rosa Luxemburg, founder of the Spartacus League, brutally murdered by proto-fascists in January 1919, was born on this day in 1871, just two weeks before the Paris Commune took hold.
→ read full articleFebruary 19, 1942: FDR Orders the Internment of the Japanese
The Almanac and Richard Kreitner – The Nation,
23 Feb 2015
19 Feb 2015 – The Nation’s response to the president’s evacuation, relocation and internment order was not nearly as firmly opposed as one now wishes it had been.
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