Imagine what our country could have been if the political assassinations of the 1960s had not happened (JFK, Malcolm X, MLK, RFK, among others), the War on Viet Nam had ended in 1965 instead of 1975, and the resources spent on the military industrial complex had been shifted toward human needs. Would we have shifted course on the energy and environmental crises when our ability to change was much greater? How many homeless people would live in our streets if the Cold War had been ended in the 1960s? Why is this topic (the coup on November 22, 1963) forbidden in the mainstream media, 46 years later? Worse, why do the "alternative media" echo the mainstream media by refusing to touch the topic (except to ridicule it)?
James Douglass, a long time peace advocate and author of "JFK and the Unspeakable," suggests we should give thanks around Thanksgiving, at the anniversary of the JFK assassination, that President Kennedy stood up to the generals and refused to bomb Cuba, Viet Nam and the Soviet Union, knowing what the consequences would be for him personally. It's anyone's guess what the world would look like if he had gone along with militarist plans for nuclear war in 1962, but the fact we can debate these issues today shows we owe a debt of gratitude toward Kennedy's sacrifice that stopped the momentum for global war. While JFK's goal of a peace for all time was not achieved, neither did we have a nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis, primarily because Kennedy refused to go along with his military advisors who wanted the US to bomb Cuba and risk World War Three. JFK died for our sins.
“Who controls the past controls the future.†-- George Orwell, 1984
“If you want a Democracy ... the first step is to take back your history.†-- John Judge
http://www.oilempire.us/jfk-unspeakable.html book reviews of: James Douglass JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters (2008: Orbis Books)
"the best book I have read on the Kennedy assassination, Presidential policy making, and the hidden history of the US National Security State." -- Mark Robinowitz, www.OilEmpire.US
audio files:
James Douglass November 20, 2009 keynote presentation to the Coalition on Political Assassinations annual meeting, Dallas, Texas http://www.oilempire.us/audio/jamesdouglass2009112... http://www.politicalassassinations.com 33 megabytes, 1 hour 9 minutes
James Douglass November 20, 2009 - questions and answers http://www.oilempire.us/audio/jamesdouglass2009112... 10 megabytes, 21 minutes
John Judge November 20, 2009 - introduction of James Douglass plus commentary http://www.oilempire.us/audio/johnjudge20091120dal... 15 megabytes, 32 minutes
related file:
John Judge speech in Dealey Plaza, November 22, 2009 http://www.n5gar.com/JFK_11-22-2009-JohnJudgeMomen... about 15 minutes
related pages:
JFK: November 22, 1963 the national security state's coup d'etat in Dallas http://www.oilempire.us/jfk.html
JFK Truth Movement: how disinformation disrupted independent investigations http://www.oilempire.us/jfktruth.html
JFK and the Moon Race: Kennedy's September 20, 1963 speech to the United Nations urged converting the Moon Race to a cooperative effort with the Soviet Union http://www.oilempire.us/moonrace.html
President Kennedy’s Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963 http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/JFK061063.html
One of the most important policy statements in US history. If its goals had been implemented, it is likely the Cold War could have been ended in the second Kennedy term, without the disastrous War on Viet Nam, the Watergate scandal, the divisiveness of the polarization of the country, and the waste of trillions of dollars toward useless weaponry. The fact that this shift was not allowed to happen (through the pre-emptive removal of the President) is the same reason why decades of warnings about the environmental crisis were deliberately ignored by the powers who really run the United States.
Douglass's book states that this speech sealed JFK's fate in the same way that Martin Luther King's April 4, 1967 speech against the War on Viet Nam sealed MLK's fate. If you read the speech the motive for removing Kennedy from office becomes obvious, and the motive indicates who was ultimately responsible (Eisenhower called it the military industrial complex). The American University speech got more attention in the Soviet Union than from the US media
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srstQVfVNEM James Douglass - JFK and the Unspeakable
http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0513c08.mp3/view JFK & the Unspeakable Tuesday, May 13 2008 by Katy Barron and Lindsay Thomas There are myriad conspiracy theories about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. But in his new book, "JFK and the Unspeakable," (Orbis Books/2008) author James Douglass takes a crack at not only the how, but the why behind the murder of the former president. Douglass contends that Kennedy's break with Cold War ideology and urgent push for global peace may have been what cost him his life. The author joins host Frank Stasio to talk about his new book and share his ideas on how the world may have been different if JFK hadn't been killed.