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- AND SO PASSES A WOMAN’S LIFE IN TURKEY (21 October 2014)
- Bury My Heart At Heartbreak
- "Adil" means "just" in Arabic (18 July 2012)
- THERE WILL BE NO ICE CREAM IN DAMASCUS THIS LOVELY EVENING (14 June 2013)
- IN ISTANBUL A DOORMAN DIES (31 January 2014)
- İSTANBUL'DA BİR APARTMAN GÖREVLİSİ ÖLÜR (31 Ocak 2014)
- "Terrorist Pietá"
- NOTHING BUT MARGARET (9 May 2014)
- August 6, 1945 (6 August 2012)
- BREATHLESS IN AMERICA (5 December 2013)
- JFK DIES FOR THESE SINS (27 December 2013)
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- TO THE IRANIAN KIDS BUSTED ON EXCESSIVE HAPPINESS CHARGE BY TEHRAN’S KORANIC KOPS (22 May 2014)
- AMERICA
- Joe the Biden Eats the Bison (21/01/2013)
- A poem by Etheridge Knight
- Apprehension in the Bronx Botanical Garden
- A Shine on the Quay at Üsküdar
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On Peace
- A WAR ON WARMONGERS, A “JEFFERSONIAN” REBELLION (April 4, 2016)
- WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SOCIALIST by Chris Hedges (21 September 2015)
- THE YOUNG EURO CLASSIC PEACE ORCHESTRA
- Toxic Legacy of US Assault on Fallujah ‘Worse than Hiroshima’ 15 October 2014
- Criminal Complaint: International Criminal Court, 6 October 2014
- What I'd Like to See on Front Pages of Newspapers (By Noam Chomsky)
- THE NOBEL OBAMA (2 September 2013)
- My Vote For President: 2012
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On West Point
- OBAMA VISITS WEST POINT THEN LIES, CHEATS AND STEALS (6 June 2014)
- West Point Graduates Organize Against The War - 21 April 2006
- Good Neighbor Senator Sessions Walls Out Mexico . . . and Robert Frost - 19 May 2006
- Now Is The Time - 12 May 2006
- Cadet Bush at West Point: Screw that chin in, beanhead! - 1 June 2006
- Guantánamo: The Subject Was Linens- 15 June 2006
- Impeach the President of the United States - 7 October 2006
- Election Eve Daze--Hanging in There Together - 6 November 2006
- Peace Award Remarks - 12 November 2006 - Syracuse, New York
- George W. MacBush–Serial Murderer - 15 December 2006
- Abolish It! - 9 Feb 2007
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On America
- BRONX GIRL OUSTS 10-TERM DEMOCRAT POLITICAL BOSS!
- The United States of America: Land of internment camps
- THIS IS AMERICA!
- MY DISGUST AND DESPAIR ABOUT TRUMP'S SCHEME TO DESTROY THE V.A.
- MY LETTER TO SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER , 3 February 2017
- DONALD DEMENTIA
- Service Academy Graduates Against the War
- U.S. Service Academy Graduates Oppose Bombing Syria (5 September 2013)
- NO WAY OUT YOU NO GOOD PSEUDO-AMERICAN NEOCON NUDNIK APPARATCHIKS! CATCH ME IF YOU DARE!
- WILLIE MAYS FOR PRESIDENT! (SEPTEMBER 24, 2016)
- COUNT ME OUT, BERNIE! NO MORE $3 CONTRIBUTIONS! March 2, 2016
- The atrocities of ISIS and the US wars of sociocide (26 August 2015)
- WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (25 August 2015)
- KILLING RAGHEADS FOR JESUS (By Chris Hedges) (26 January 2015)
- The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro by Frederick Douglass
- THOMAS PAINE, OUR CONTEMPORARY (27 May 2014)
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MY DISGUST AND DESPAIR ABOUT TRUMP'S SCHEME TO DESTROY THE V.A.
TO MY THREE REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS:
Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Congresswoman Lowey:
Do not let the treasonous, treacherous Trump continue to deconstruct (destroy) the administrative state (the federal government). His latest revolting scheme to plunder the VA is as reprehensible as it is stupid. As a disabled vet for over fifty years, my experience with the VA has been seamlessly outstanding. You and your fellow timid pols must really do something. Vets are fed up with the warmongering Trump and the enabling Democratic Party. Open your mouth and suck up some courage. Why is this dangerous moron still president? If you don’t know then I ask—Why are you still in politics?
Totally Disgusted And Despairing,
James C. Ryan
United States Military Academy, 1962
TO MY THREE REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS:
Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Congresswoman Lowey:
Do not let the treasonous, treacherous Trump continue to deconstruct (destroy) the administrative state (the federal government). His latest revolting scheme to plunder the VA is as reprehensible as it is stupid. As a disabled vet for over fifty years, my experience with the VA has been seamlessly outstanding. You and your fellow timid pols must really do something. Vets are fed up with the warmongering Trump and the enabling Democratic Party. Open your mouth and suck up some courage. Why is this dangerous moron still president? If you don’t know then I ask—Why are you still in politics?
Totally Disgusted And Despairing,
James C. Ryan
United States Military Academy, 1962