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Aaron Sarver

- 10 Mar 06
- 1:00 pm
Why?

Posted to Louder Than a Bomb: an Interview with Chicago Hip-Hopper Kevin Coval
- 18 May 05
- 2:40 pm
That is not Zinn's point. The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. No one disputes that. The point is the judgement to talk about that fact instead of any other fact. What is the motivating factor behind the facts you choose to present? The newspapers today leave out the facts of the Iraqis who have been killed, they leave out the fact that perhaps 100,000 Iraqis have been killed in the present war. If they just give you facts about what the Americans are doing about bringing good things to the Iraqis, they have made a judgment about …

Posted to Howard Zinn Gets to the Source
- 18 May 05
- 4:09 pm
A fact can be selected for it brute usefulness in solving a problem. The non-selection of all other facts, simply means they weren’t as useful and that can be the only motivating factor. But history is not a physics problem. Other facts may not to be useful to you, but that's from your perspective. As they say history is written by the victors. Who determines what is useful? Zinn is trying to present history from a variety of perspectives that are not normally heard. There is not one answer or fact to the broad questions of history. On another note I …

Posted to Howard Zinn Gets to the Source