In this inaugural talk, Howard Zinn calls for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney. Zinn accuses the Bush administration of starting a “war of aggression” against Iraq and the American public. He argues that the government and its “warmongering” organs – the mass media and the congress – are not to be relied on for information and exhorts Americans to stop believing that government has the interest of the people in mind.

Hosted by College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences on November 2, 2006.

CLIP: The Wartime Failings of American Democracy

 

Howard Zinn discusses the wartime failings of American democracy in the first annual Howard Zinn Lecture in 2006.


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