The Progressive - Howard Zinn

Put away the flags

The Progressive Magazine — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:37:35 +0000

Remembering Howard Zinn on July 4.

On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

Remembering Howard Zinn on July 4.read more

Distilled Zinn

Howard Zinn — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:00:35 +0000

March 2010 issue

"Yes, we’re dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don’t want war. We don’t want capitalism. We want a decent society."read more

Changing Obama's Mindset

Howard Zinn — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:23:17 +0000

By Howard Zinn, May 2009 issue

Obama has not gotten out of the militaristic missionary mindset. So he has to be pulled by the people who elected him, by the people who are enthusiastic about him, to renounce that mindset.read more

A Just Cause ≠ A Just War

Howard Zinn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:37:21 +0000

Howard Zinn in the July 2009 issue

I want to talk about three holy wars. They aren’t religious wars, but they’re the three wars in American history that are sacrosanct, that you can’t say anything bad about: the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II.read more

Untold Truths About the American Revolution

Howard Zinn — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:23:45 +0000

By Howard Zinn, July 2009 Issue

The American Revolution was not a simple affair of all of us against all of them. And who actually gained from it? Not the Indians.read more

Changing Obama's Mindset

Howard Zinn — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:17:56 +0000

By Howard Zinn, May 2009 Issue

Obama has to be pulled in the right direction.read more

Howard Zinn's Urgent Plea to You

Howard Zinn — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:25:49 +0000

Howard Zinn, November 13, 2008

I’ll be blunt: The Progressive magazine needs your support.
It’s one of our most important voices, and yet it is facing an acute cash-flow crisis right now.read more

Howard Zinn Defends Studs Terkel from Red-Baiting in the Times

Howard Zinn — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:58:54 +0000

By Howard Zinn, November 6, 2008

Reading Edward Rothstein’s sour commentary on Studs Terkel in the New York Times on November 2 I was surprised that Rothstein, presumably a sophisticated thinker, seems to believe one can separate one’s political views from a historical narrative, even from oral history.

“It is, in fact, impossible to separate Mr. Terkel’s political vision from the contours of his oral history,” he wrote.read more

The Obama Difference

Howard Zinn — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:41:16 +0000

By Howard Zinn, October 2008 Issue

It seems that Barack Obama and John McCain are arguing over which war to fight. McCain says: Keep the troops in Iraq until we “win.” Obama says: Withdraw some (not all) troops from Iraq and send them to fight and “win” in Afghanistan.

As someone who has fought in a war (World War II) and since then has protested against war, I must ask: Have our political leaders gone mad? Have they learned nothing from recent history? Have they not learned that no one “wins” in a war, but that hundreds of thousands of human beings die, most of them civilians, many of them children?read more

Election Madness

The Progressive Magazine — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:47:44 +0000

By Howard Zinn, March 2008 Issue

The very people who should know better, having criticized the hold of the media on the national mind, find themselves transfixed by the press, glued to the television set, as the candidates preen and smile and bring forth a shower of clichés with a solemnity appropriate for epic poetry.There’s a man in Florida who has been writing to me for years (ten pages, handwritten) though I’ve never met him. He tells me the kinds of jobs he has held—security guard, repairman, etc. He has worked all kinds of shifts, night and day, to barely keep his family going.read more