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The Just War

Talks by Howard Zinn and Italian surgeon Dr. Gino Strada. BookTV. May 12, 2006.
On May 12,2006, American historian and activist Howard Zinn and Italian surgeon and author Dr. Gino Strada presented a forum on the theme “The Just War” held at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church.
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History of America

Howard Zinn in discussion with Walter Mosley. BookTV. July 21, 2007.
At the 9th Annual Harlem Book Fair in the Schomburg Center’s Langston Hughes Auditorium, Howard Zinn and Walter Mosley talked about the history of America. Topics included politics, power, wealth and poverty, democracy, and the war in Iraq.
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Scare Words Leave Scars on Everyone

By Howard Zinn. Article. Newsday. January 22, 1989.
“The use of scare words is profoundly undemocratic. It stifles debate; it creates an atmosphere in which people are afraid to speak their minds, honestly, afraid to examine all ideas.”
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Veterans Day

By Howard Zinn. Article. ZCommunications. November 13, 2002.
It would be good to remember a few things about that war as this country is about to embark on still another war. First, that you don’t "win" wars. We "won" World War I, but sowed the seeds of another world war. War is a quick fix, like crack. An exultant high — we won! — and soon you’re down again, and you need another fix, another war.
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Secrecy, Archives, and the Public Interest

By Howard Zinn. Midwest Archives Conference/Archival Issues. July 1977.
This paper was presented at "The Archivist and the New Left" panel of the Society of American Archivists' (SAA) annual conference held in Washington, D.C. in which he urged archivists “to take the trouble to compile a whole new world of documentary material, about the lives, desires, needs, of ordinary people.”
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A People’s History of American Empire • Talks at Google

Talk by Howard Zinn. Authors@Google. 2008.
The Authors@Google program welcomed Howard Zinn to Google's Cambridge office on November 11, 2008. Professor Howard Zinn discusses the role of U.S. Empire and how militarism and U.S. interventionism comes at a cost of harming the people in the U.S., as well as the harm done to other countries.
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