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	<title>Comments on: A History Lesson for Oliver Stone on Vietnam</title>
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		<title>By: John Stuff</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Stuff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[seriously? &quot;...after stealing foreign assets...&quot;? Would you consider everything in the U.S. to be &quot;stolen assets&quot; as well? If I&#039;m not mistaken, (and I just checked, I&#039;m not mistaken) it was aggressive wars with Native Americans and Mexico that led to the &quot;expropriation&quot; of our vast territory. You are not fit to teach if you believe nationalization is theft--if it were the U.S. nationalizing an industry we&#039;d call it patriotism. What Allende tried to accomplish in Chile is a beacon of hope for true progress--which is not measured in skyscrapers and GDP, but the physical and psychological wellbeing of a people. Unfortunately capitalist interests in the U.S. sabotaged Allende&#039;s economic initiatives, bankrolled his opponents, and fomented the transition to power of a ruthless, neoliberal dictator in Pinochet who would craft policies that were economically favorable to the U.S. Your reading of history is founded in cognitive dissonance, and I am entirely sorry to the poor student of the University of Dayton who take your classes. Stone is not a neo-communist he&#039;s a goddamn realist, YOU, Professor Schwartz, are a neo-McCarthyist content with a lop-sided status-quo and suppressing any ideology that acknowledges the irrevocable shortcomings in social and economic justice that characterize modern liberalism and global capitalism.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>seriously? &quot;&#8230;after stealing foreign assets&#8230;&quot;? Would you consider everything in the U.S. to be &quot;stolen assets&quot; as well? If I&#039;m not mistaken, (and I just checked, I&#039;m not mistaken) it was aggressive wars with Native Americans and Mexico that led to the &quot;expropriation&quot; of our vast territory. You are not fit to teach if you believe nationalization is theft&#8211;if it were the U.S. nationalizing an industry we&#039;d call it patriotism. What Allende tried to accomplish in Chile is a beacon of hope for true progress&#8211;which is not measured in skyscrapers and GDP, but the physical and psychological wellbeing of a people. Unfortunately capitalist interests in the U.S. sabotaged Allende&#039;s economic initiatives, bankrolled his opponents, and fomented the transition to power of a ruthless, neoliberal dictator in Pinochet who would craft policies that were economically favorable to the U.S. Your reading of history is founded in cognitive dissonance, and I am entirely sorry to the poor student of the University of Dayton who take your classes. Stone is not a neo-communist he&#039;s a goddamn realist, YOU, Professor Schwartz, are a neo-McCarthyist content with a lop-sided status-quo and suppressing any ideology that acknowledges the irrevocable shortcomings in social and economic justice that characterize modern liberalism and global capitalism.   </p>
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		<title>By: @matthewdowd</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oliver Stone is CIA. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oliver Stone is CIA. </p>
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		<title>By: Jack O&#039;neil</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack O&#039;neil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Purge Continues  - Stalin would be proud. 
 Obama Fires Top General Without Even a Phone Call  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-fires-top-general-without-even-phone-call_697744.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-fires-t...&lt;/a&gt; 
All the generals that won&#039;t go along  with the globalist agenda,  Obama&#039;s destruction of America and support of radical Islam are being purged. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Purge Continues  &#8211; Stalin would be proud.<br />
 Obama Fires Top General Without Even a Phone Call  <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-fires-top-general-without-even-phone-call_697744.html" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-fires-t" rel="nofollow">http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-fires-t</a>&#8230;<br />
All the generals that won&#039;t go along  with the globalist agenda,  Obama&#039;s destruction of America and support of radical Islam are being purged. </p>
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		<title>By: mlcblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CIA money to demonstrate against the war?  That takes the cake. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CIA money to demonstrate against the war?  That takes the cake. </p>
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		<title>By: mlcblog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mlcblog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[INteresting. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>INteresting. </p>
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		<title>By: mlcblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was there, too.  Given that Verona authentication stopped in 1946, I have a different take on CP activity in the 1950&#039;s and 1960&#039;s, being able to observe first-hand certain activities.  I assure you that communists were not a &quot;minimal&quot; influence in all these that you mention above, but a major, instigating factor in peace marches, women&#039;s protests, and every sort of thing, bringing people together through various methods.  I saw it close up and personal.  The professor is correct. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was there, too.  Given that Verona authentication stopped in 1946, I have a different take on CP activity in the 1950&#039;s and 1960&#039;s, being able to observe first-hand certain activities.  I assure you that communists were not a &quot;minimal&quot; influence in all these that you mention above, but a major, instigating factor in peace marches, women&#039;s protests, and every sort of thing, bringing people together through various methods.  I saw it close up and personal.  The professor is correct. </p>
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		<title>By: visitor</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[visitor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve read the Mitrokhin archive and I don&#039;t doubt the effectiveness of mass CPs in western Europe in playing a substantive role in the protests in France, Italy, and Spain. I just think the American CP was a shell of its former self by the 1960s and was viewed as irrelevant by most of the antiwar students of the time. There was an influx of young blacks, the Angela Davis generation, but most CPers of the time were elderly and out of touch culturally with the younger generation. Sure the CP, SWP, and old line pacifists knew how to run organizations and could provide a platform (like the Mobe) but I still think direct CP influence was scant. And of course, the average rank and file CPer had no awareness of the secret apparatus of the 1930s and 40s. By that time Americans who spied for Russia tended to be venal types like Ames, not ideological zealots like Philby or Julius Rosenberg. The average &quot;Jimmy Higgins&quot; would have truly believed that spy accusations were lies, just as he believed that the USSR was a worker&#039;s paradise. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;ve read the Mitrokhin archive and I don&#039;t doubt the effectiveness of mass CPs in western Europe in playing a substantive role in the protests in France, Italy, and Spain. I just think the American CP was a shell of its former self by the 1960s and was viewed as irrelevant by most of the antiwar students of the time. There was an influx of young blacks, the Angela Davis generation, but most CPers of the time were elderly and out of touch culturally with the younger generation. Sure the CP, SWP, and old line pacifists knew how to run organizations and could provide a platform (like the Mobe) but I still think direct CP influence was scant. And of course, the average rank and file CPer had no awareness of the secret apparatus of the 1930s and 40s. By that time Americans who spied for Russia tended to be venal types like Ames, not ideological zealots like Philby or Julius Rosenberg. The average &quot;Jimmy Higgins&quot; would have truly believed that spy accusations were lies, just as he believed that the USSR was a worker&#039;s paradise. </p>
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		<title>By: visitor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think your point is very valid. But the shootings at Kent State also scared a lot of students out of protesting actively, moving the antiwar movement from the streets to Congress. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think your point is very valid. But the shootings at Kent State also scared a lot of students out of protesting actively, moving the antiwar movement from the streets to Congress. </p>
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		<title>By: Rostislav</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rostislav]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To say that &quot;the broad opposition to the war reflected revulsion to the war, not effective KGB manipulation&quot; is, in my opinion, the same as to insist that Auschwitz reflected Germans&#039; revulsion to Jews, not effective Nazi propaganda (or that enthusiasm of our Soviet informers reflected their idealism, not effective fear of GULAG). Of course, both aims were made much easier by the absence of any strong opposition in media, education, law. It was annihilated in the Reich and in the USSR. Alas, there was, in fact, nearly nothing to annihilate in the USA. I remember well the horror with which we (young students during the Vietnam war) were translating clandestine rare copies of the &quot;NYT&quot;, &quot;Newsweek&quot; or &quot;WP&quot;: their Vietnam stories were the exact echo of our own &quot;Pravda&quot;. We just honestly couldn&#039;t understand why &quot;Newsweek&quot; was forbidden in ours! As for KGB manipulations &#8211; well, this organization always was (and is) professional enough to work as invisibly as it was only possible, and I must say that with the general left-adoring US climate all around the task wasn&#039;t too difficult, to judge from many documental books published here after the USSR collapse &#8211; in yours such fine works as, say, Paul Kengor&#039;s &quot;Dupes&quot; explain the phenomena with perfect clarity (the worthy author devoted to it a separate chapter &quot;Vietnam Dupes&quot;).  
    Anyway, your strange hollow logic helps me to understand better Ann Coulter&#039;s need to supply her title &quot;How to Talk to a Liberal&quot; with the bracketed addition &quot;(If You Must)&quot;. Thanks God, I must not!   
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To say that &quot;the broad opposition to the war reflected revulsion to the war, not effective KGB manipulation&quot; is, in my opinion, the same as to insist that Auschwitz reflected Germans&#039; revulsion to Jews, not effective Nazi propaganda (or that enthusiasm of our Soviet informers reflected their idealism, not effective fear of GULAG). Of course, both aims were made much easier by the absence of any strong opposition in media, education, law. It was annihilated in the Reich and in the USSR. Alas, there was, in fact, nearly nothing to annihilate in the USA. I remember well the horror with which we (young students during the Vietnam war) were translating clandestine rare copies of the &quot;NYT&quot;, &quot;Newsweek&quot; or &quot;WP&quot;: their Vietnam stories were the exact echo of our own &quot;Pravda&quot;. We just honestly couldn&#039;t understand why &quot;Newsweek&quot; was forbidden in ours! As for KGB manipulations &ndash; well, this organization always was (and is) professional enough to work as invisibly as it was only possible, and I must say that with the general left-adoring US climate all around the task wasn&#039;t too difficult, to judge from many documental books published here after the USSR collapse &ndash; in yours such fine works as, say, Paul Kengor&#039;s &quot;Dupes&quot; explain the phenomena with perfect clarity (the worthy author devoted to it a separate chapter &quot;Vietnam Dupes&quot;).<br />
    Anyway, your strange hollow logic helps me to understand better Ann Coulter&#039;s need to supply her title &quot;How to Talk to a Liberal&quot; with the bracketed addition &quot;(If You Must)&quot;. Thanks God, I must not!   </p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[reader]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with your logic is that - and this is typical way to argue on the left - you&#039;re setting the bar just high enough to make a point. It&#039;s absurd to demand the proof of written orders or payment receipts. I think, it&#039;s safe to say that the mentioned groups used talking points and campaign strategy developed by KGB and channeled to them via CPUSA members - not necessarily in its entirety. I&#039;ve already mentioned the former DIE chief Pacepa linking Stone&#039;s FDR story line with the disinformation campaign designed by DIE on orders from PGU KGB. Perhaps, you want a copy of the instructions written by Sakharovsky himself to accept this? Don&#039;t hold back. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The problem with your logic is that &#8211; and this is typical way to argue on the left &#8211; you&#039;re setting the bar just high enough to make a point. It&#039;s absurd to demand the proof of written orders or payment receipts. I think, it&#039;s safe to say that the mentioned groups used talking points and campaign strategy developed by KGB and channeled to them via CPUSA members &#8211; not necessarily in its entirety. I&#039;ve already mentioned the former DIE chief Pacepa linking Stone&#039;s FDR story line with the disinformation campaign designed by DIE on orders from PGU KGB. Perhaps, you want a copy of the instructions written by Sakharovsky himself to accept this? Don&#039;t hold back. </p>
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		<title>By: Ghostwriter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ghostwriter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother recorded this and the last few episodes recently. I didn&#039;t watch a whole lot of this series. The whole series was just one big &quot;Blame America First&quot; thing and I didn&#039;t really like it all that much. My mom was a part of the peace movement back then and even now,she holds some pretty radical views. She didn&#039;t exactly like Jane Fonda a whole lot. I think she thought it made the movement look foolish. She&#039;s not a communist but she still holds some pretty radical views,as I&#039;ve said before. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My mother recorded this and the last few episodes recently. I didn&#039;t watch a whole lot of this series. The whole series was just one big &quot;Blame America First&quot; thing and I didn&#039;t really like it all that much. My mom was a part of the peace movement back then and even now,she holds some pretty radical views. She didn&#039;t exactly like Jane Fonda a whole lot. I think she thought it made the movement look foolish. She&#039;s not a communist but she still holds some pretty radical views,as I&#039;ve said before. </p>
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		<title>By: ben t</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ben t]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yo Visitor, 
                I, too, was very active in the left during the &#039;50&#039;s, &#039;60&#039;s, and &#039;70&#039;s.  I am 75 yrs old but my memory is still very sharp.  Yes! There were heinz 57 varieties of anti- USA groups. I used to fall asleep counting the various parties, splinters, &quot;church&quot; groups, Trots, Maoists,  et cetera. ad nauseum. Usually i got around 35-40 groups before I fell asleep. BUT, one would have to be extremely naive not to know that the CPUSA was more numerous and certainly more connected to actual politicians and power than all the other groups put together. I can, personally, bear witness to that assertion.  Obviously you have not read the numerous KGB histories that have been published since the fall of leninism in the USSR. For example, KGB efforts to kill NATO and to help the &quot;Finlandization&quot; of W. Europe by the USSR placing IRBMs in Central Europe using anti-nuke, &quot;peace&quot; groups is extremely well documented.   MAN!!! You gotta READ!!!! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yo Visitor,<br />
                I, too, was very active in the left during the &#039;50&#039;s, &#039;60&#039;s, and &#039;70&#039;s.  I am 75 yrs old but my memory is still very sharp.  Yes! There were heinz 57 varieties of anti- USA groups. I used to fall asleep counting the various parties, splinters, &quot;church&quot; groups, Trots, Maoists,  et cetera. ad nauseum. Usually i got around 35-40 groups before I fell asleep. BUT, one would have to be extremely naive not to know that the CPUSA was more numerous and certainly more connected to actual politicians and power than all the other groups put together. I can, personally, bear witness to that assertion.  Obviously you have not read the numerous KGB histories that have been published since the fall of leninism in the USSR. For example, KGB efforts to kill NATO and to help the &quot;Finlandization&quot; of W. Europe by the USSR placing IRBMs in Central Europe using anti-nuke, &quot;peace&quot; groups is extremely well documented.   MAN!!! You gotta READ!!!! </p>
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		<title>By: Chezwick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chezwick]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &quot;The main reason so many Americans turned against the war had to do with the nature of the war (e.g., the My Lai massacre) and the loss of life, especially the loss of American lives.&quot; 
 
Only partly true. The MAIN reason for opposition to the war was the draft and the fact that millions of American young people did not want to participate in the fighting. The proof is in the pudding; after Nixon ended the draft in &#039;71, the anti-war movement completely lost its steam, even though American participation would continue for another two years. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> &quot;The main reason so many Americans turned against the war had to do with the nature of the war (e.g., the My Lai massacre) and the loss of life, especially the loss of American lives.&quot; </p>
<p>Only partly true. The MAIN reason for opposition to the war was the draft and the fact that millions of American young people did not want to participate in the fighting. The proof is in the pudding; after Nixon ended the draft in &#039;71, the anti-war movement completely lost its steam, even though American participation would continue for another two years. </p>
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		<title>By: visitor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with your logic is that you seem to equate the mere presence of a CPUSA member (eg., professor Jackson) to control by the CPUSA to control by the KGB. Look at it this way: if the advisor to the Young Republicans on a college campus is a vegetarian, that doesn&#039;t &quot;prove&quot; that all Young Republicans are vegetarians or that their club is being secretly controlled by PETA. It just means that the advisor is a vegetarian. The New Left student movment regarded the pro-Soviet CPUSA as a bunch of old fuddy-duddies and was much more in tune with their romanticized fantasy heroes in China and Cuba. Do you think that the Chinese or Cuban intelligence services were behind the peace movement too? In their wet dreams, maybe, but not in the real world. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The problem with your logic is that you seem to equate the mere presence of a CPUSA member (eg., professor Jackson) to control by the CPUSA to control by the KGB. Look at it this way: if the advisor to the Young Republicans on a college campus is a vegetarian, that doesn&#039;t &quot;prove&quot; that all Young Republicans are vegetarians or that their club is being secretly controlled by PETA. It just means that the advisor is a vegetarian. The New Left student movment regarded the pro-Soviet CPUSA as a bunch of old fuddy-duddies and was much more in tune with their romanticized fantasy heroes in China and Cuba. Do you think that the Chinese or Cuban intelligence services were behind the peace movement too? In their wet dreams, maybe, but not in the real world. </p>
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		<title>By: visitor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think anyone who was there -- David Horowitz, if you like -- could inform you reliably that the CPUSA and its front groups such as the World Peace Council had little influence on the movement to stop the Vietnam War. This is not to say that they didn&#039;t want to, but they were very much on the sidelines. The main reason so many Americans turned against the war had to do with the nature of the war (e.g., the My Lai massacre) and the loss of life, especially the loss of American lives. Of course the CP, like the SWP, WWP, and a dozen other mini-sized leftwing parties tried to advance their cause by participating in the movement. I am just saying that the broad opposition to the war reflected revulsion to the war, not effective KGB manipulation. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think anyone who was there &#8212; David Horowitz, if you like &#8212; could inform you reliably that the CPUSA and its front groups such as the World Peace Council had little influence on the movement to stop the Vietnam War. This is not to say that they didn&#039;t want to, but they were very much on the sidelines. The main reason so many Americans turned against the war had to do with the nature of the war (e.g., the My Lai massacre) and the loss of life, especially the loss of American lives. Of course the CP, like the SWP, WWP, and a dozen other mini-sized leftwing parties tried to advance their cause by participating in the movement. I am just saying that the broad opposition to the war reflected revulsion to the war, not effective KGB manipulation. </p>
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		<title>By: Rostislav</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Anyone who was actually involved in the anti-war movement, whatever their later politics, knows very well that the CPUSA played a very minimal role&quot; &#8211; a very minimal role?! Do you take us for some Californian kindergarten kiddies? Just one name: the old dead professor Sidney Jackson from the Kent State! The excellent book &quot;None Dare Call It Treason&quot; quite deservedly calls him &quot;responsible for the Kent State tragedy which robbed America of the victory in Vietnam&quot;. The traitor&#039;s funerals in 1979 were honored by the top Communists of the USA (Hall and  Winston), with farewell word from Ohio state CP chief Jim West: &quot;We are proud of his membership and his life&#039;s work&quot; &#8211; a very minimal role?! As for the most active role of KGB in the &quot;Peace Movement&quot; all across the globe, America including, - Oleg Gordievsky in his detailed study &quot;KGB, the Inside Story&quot; writes that &quot;In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the main focus of both World Peace Council public campaigns and of covert KGB &quot;active measures&quot; was on the Vietnam War&quot;. There are lots of other sources on  &quot;a minimal role&quot; too, fully supporting this article&#039;s author. A very minimal role, that is, &#8211; sorry. Isn&#039;t your name Hillary, by the way? Rostislav, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Anyone who was actually involved in the anti-war movement, whatever their later politics, knows very well that the CPUSA played a very minimal role&quot; &ndash; a very minimal role?! Do you take us for some Californian kindergarten kiddies? Just one name: the old dead professor Sidney Jackson from the Kent State! The excellent book &quot;None Dare Call It Treason&quot; quite deservedly calls him &quot;responsible for the Kent State tragedy which robbed America of the victory in Vietnam&quot;. The traitor&#039;s funerals in 1979 were honored by the top Communists of the USA (Hall and  Winston), with farewell word from Ohio state CP chief Jim West: &quot;We are proud of his membership and his life&#039;s work&quot; &ndash; a very minimal role?! As for the most active role of KGB in the &quot;Peace Movement&quot; all across the globe, America including, &#8211; Oleg Gordievsky in his detailed study &quot;KGB, the Inside Story&quot; writes that &quot;In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the main focus of both World Peace Council public campaigns and of covert KGB &quot;active measures&quot; was on the Vietnam War&quot;. There are lots of other sources on  &quot;a minimal role&quot; too, fully supporting this article&#039;s author. A very minimal role, that is, &ndash; sorry. Isn&#039;t your name Hillary, by the way? Rostislav, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. </p>
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		<title>By: visitor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes the project continued, but the traffic being decrypted dated from the 1940s. After Philby defected, it was clear to western intelligence that the Soviets knew about Venona, as Philby had been the British liason to the project. There are no decrypts of 1960s traffic that I am aware of, nor does NSA claim any in its history of the project: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_heritage/publications/coldwar/venona_story.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_herit...&lt;/a&gt;. If I am mistaken, please correct me.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes the project continued, but the traffic being decrypted dated from the 1940s. After Philby defected, it was clear to western intelligence that the Soviets knew about Venona, as Philby had been the British liason to the project. There are no decrypts of 1960s traffic that I am aware of, nor does NSA claim any in its history of the project: <a href="http://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_heritage/publications/coldwar/venona_story.pdf" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_herit" rel="nofollow">http://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_herit</a>&#8230;. If I am mistaken, please correct me.  </p>
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		<title>By: pagegl</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Venona project was started in 1943 and terminated in 1980, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/venona/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/venona/&lt;/a&gt;. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Venona project was started in 1943 and terminated in 1980, see <a href="http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/venona/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/venona/</a>. </p>
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		<title>By: pagegl</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Venona was active until 1980, so, it is possible there was info collected about infiltrators in the anti-war movement. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Venona was active until 1980, so, it is possible there was info collected about infiltrators in the anti-war movement. </p>
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		<title>By: visitor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Venona is very relevant to the history of the 1930s (cf. Klehr and Haynes&#039;s work) but totally nonrelevant to the 1960s, which is what Dr. Schweikart is writing about here. Historians above all people should be scrupulous as to sources. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, Venona is very relevant to the history of the 1930s (cf. Klehr and Haynes&#039;s work) but totally nonrelevant to the 1960s, which is what Dr. Schweikart is writing about here. Historians above all people should be scrupulous as to sources. </p>
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