T. F. Kelley | April 7, 2009
The original May Day, known as International Workers May Day, marked the success of a decades-long campaign that began in the 1860s for the recognition of a standard eight-hour workday. Now it is celebrated in very few countries and here Labor Day took its place. Mayday, the international code word for distress is appropriate for [...]
T. F. Kelley | October 7, 2007
Administrations have lied to people for generations. An imaginary attack on a Navy destroyer led to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution and the unlimited expansion of the Vietnam War. The invasion of Kuwait by Iraq did not adequately alarm the American people until a young woman, testifying before Congress, told of witnessing Iraqi soldiers taking [...]
T. F. Kelley | May 28, 2007
A recent report from a leading British international affairs think tank (Chatham House) described the situation in Iraq as “unremittingly bleak.” They noted it was not one civil war but several and that the Iraqi government had become powerless and irrelevant in many parts of the country. Now in year five of this dismal tragedy [...]
T. F. Kelley | December 1, 2006
Earlier this year I was privileged to hear a lecture by Dr. Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel laureate in physics, who spoke about his experience as a member of several science & technology commissions that advised our presidents from Nixon to Clinton. After the lecture a member of the audience asked him how the conservatives in the [...]
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