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on Tue Jun 18 5:08 PM
Data supports raising CA state officials pay, panel chairman says
CAPITOL ALERT
The chairman of California's Citizens Compensation Commission has concluded personally that data supports full restoration of cuts made to state elected officials' salaries the past four years - but he hasn't decided whether to vote that way...
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on Tue Jun 18 3:36 PM
Texas Insider » Boehner Won’t Back Immigration Bill Without Majority
TEXAS INSIDER
By David M. Drucker[1]
House Speaker John Boehner is not going to bring a comprehensive immigration-reform plan to the floor if a majority of Republicans don’t support it, sources familiar with his plans said.
“No way in hell,” is how...
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on Tue Jun 18 3:29 PM
Arne Duncan to visit Hill on student loans - Burgess Everett
POLITICO
Duncan, Sperling to meet with senators to prevent student loan rates from doubling.
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on Tue Jun 18 3:26 PM
Reid: House will face pressure to approve immigration reform - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Camp...
THE HILL
Reid has told Democrats not to worry about the House or Boehner's statements, he said.
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on Tue Jun 18 3:03 PM
Senate GOP vows payback if Reid triggers nuclear option on nominees - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Politic...
THE HILL
Sen. Alexander has assembled an agenda Republicans would pursue with then nuclear option if they retake control of the chamber.
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on Tue Jun 18 2:06 PM
Biden: White House has 'not given up' on expanded background checks - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Politic...
THE HILL
"You will pay a price, a political price for not getting engaged and dealing with gun safety," Biden warned senators.
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on Tue Jun 18 6:07 AM
Perils of moving to a no-tax state
CNN MONEY
You might think that moving to a state with no income tax would greatly simplify your tax life. Not so fast.
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on Tue Jun 18 6:00 AM
Camouflaging the Vietnam War: How Textbooks Continue to Keep the Pentagon Papers Secret
GOOD WORLDWIDE
In the Academy Award-winning documentary Hearts and Minds, Daniel Ellsberg, who secretly copied and then released the Pentagon Papers, offers a catalog of presidential lying about the U.S. role in Vietnam. Truman lied. Eisenhower lied....
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on Tue Jun 18 12:27 AM
Senate Democrats Want Action on Immigration Bill
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, warned that the Senate could be held in session over the weekend if there was no progress on the immigration bill.
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on Mon Jun 17 11:26 PM
Senate Democrats Want Action on Immigration Bill
NEW YORK TIMES
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, warned that the Senate could be held in session over the weekend if there was no progress on the immigration bill.
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"I don't know what my policy position is - I want to listen to (commissioners) before I decide, in the end, what I think." The governor's salary has dropped from $212,179 to $165,288 in the past four years. Lawmakers saw their pay fall from $116,208 to $90,526, their benefits reduced, and their lease-car program eliminated during the same period. California's officeholder salaries tend to be high compared to their counterparts in other states, but they pale in comparison to salaries paid to many city managers, district attorneys, county executive officers and other key local government administrators, the commission's surveys show. Dalzell contends that the salary-setting panel must consider whether, despite the state's firmer financial footing, hiking state officeholders' pay would be appropriate so soon after the state's massive budget crisis. Dalzell said he will not seek a vote on restoring the state's program of purchasing lease cars for lawmakers or increasing legislative per diem because he believes the board acted beyond its legal authority in cutting those benefits in 2009. "I would propose letting the Legislature handle its affairs, which is what I think the statute envisions." Dalzell said he has no idea how the seven-member panel will vote Wednesday when it meets in Sacramento. Dalzell is the swing vote among four Brown appointees and three appointees of GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Two of Schwarzenegger's appointees, Charles Murray and John Stites, said they do not support increasing elected officials' pay. "Restoration? There's no such thing as a restoration - it's a raise," Stites said. "There are millions of people out there in the private sector, and even in the public sector, who have suffered through cuts. Nobody's talking to them about restoration." Stites plans to vote during Wednesday's meeting despite controversy over his residency. He has conceded that his primary residence is in Henderson, Nev., though he also owns a house in Los Angeles County. Dalzell said he will raise the residency issue Wednesday but let Stites decide for himself whether to leave or to participate in the session. Responded Stites: "My conscience is telling me that I'm staying." Murray said he has not talked with colleagues on the commission but suspects that a majority will vote for total restoration of officeholder pay cuts. "I think, if I was to guess, they'll vote along party lines -Brown appointees will vote for total restoration and Schwarzenegger appointees will vote for status quo," Murray said. Commissioner Scott Somers, a Schwarzenegger appointee, said that he is "keeping his options open." Brown's appointees, other than Dalzell, could not be reached for comment. 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(www.sacbee.com)", "story_date" => "2013-06-18 17:08:06", "source" => "Capitol Alert" ), array( "id" => "2013061800005401", "provider_id" => "1152", "story_seo_url" => "http://www.texasinsider.org/john-boehner-wont-back-immigration-bill-without-majority-gop-support/", "story_title" => "Texas Insider » Boehner Won’t Back Immigration Bill Without Majority", "story_summary" => "By David M. Drucker[1] House Speaker John Boehner is not going to bring a comprehensive immigration-reform plan to the floor if a majority of Republicans don’t support it, sources familiar with his plans said. “No way in hell,” is how several described the chances of the speaker acting on such a proposal without a majority of his majority behind him. Boehner, R-Ohio, does not view immigration in the same vein as the fiscal cliff last December, when he backed a bill that protected most Americans from a tax increase even though less than half of the GOP lawmakers were with him, said multiple sources, who spoke anonymously to allow greater candor. With economists warning that the deep cuts and higher taxes needed to avoid the fiscal cliff could devastate an already ailing economy, Boehner felt compelled to compromise with President Obama and allow taxes to rise on the wealthiest taxpayers. He feels no such urgency about immigration reform, lawmakers said. Boehner has long supported an overhaul of U.S. immigration policy and would like the House to act on it before August. But he also understands the issue’s political sensitivity and the impact it could have on Republicans in the 2014 mid-term elections. Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., a former pollster aligned with the GOP leadership, said Boehner will not approach to immigration reform the same way he did the fiscal cliff tax bill, or the Violence Against Women Act, which also passed with a minority of the majority. “I just don’t think that’s the winning formula here,” Cole told The Washington Examiner. “What the speaker wants to do is have a hopefully bipartisan product — certainly one that has the majority of Republicans — pass the House. This has got too much emotional, political impact and I think it really has to be genuinely bipartisan.” The Senate is debating the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” proposal, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is pubhsing for a final vote before the July 4 recess. The House also is creating its own a bipartisan comprehensive plan, authored by four Democrats and three Republicans, but it is also advancing multiple bills of much narrower scope that will deal with individual Republican priorities like border enforcement. Democratic and progressive immigration reform advocates remain hopeful that the Senate bill, which includes a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants already living in the U.S., will be the basis for any final congressional compromise. The Senate bill’s citizenship pathway, although arduous, conditional and designed to take 10 to 15 years to achieve, will almost assuredly face opposition from House Republicans. That is why Boehner, in an interview last Monday[2], raised eyebrows and excited Democrats when he declined to specifically rule out bringing up an immigration bill that did not have the support of a majority of his majority. The speaker latered clarified his remarks, saying most Republicans would have to support anything brought to the floor. “My goal is always to bring bills to the floor that have a strong Republican majority,” Boehner said. “Immigration reform is a very difficult issue. But I don’t intend to bring an immigration bill to the floor that violates what I and what members of my party — what our principles are.” The practice of bringing to the floor only bills that are supported by the majority of the majority party has become known as the “Hastert Rule,” named after former Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., who used that standard as a litmus test. Hastert’s successors are free to violate that guideline, as Boehner did on the tax deal, and so conservative activists are now urging House Republicans to incorporate the standard into the body’s internal rules to prevent Boehner or his successors from violating it. Boehner has so far maintained a commitment to moving immigration reform through “regular order,” delegating authority over much of the process to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. The speaker has acted behind the scenes to keep the process from sputtering, but otherwise prefers to foster member involvement and encourage as many as possible to introduce bills and legislate. One GOP strategist noted that Boehner is navigating a different set of dynamics than Reid in the Senate. In particular, House Republicans are likely to suffer a greater voter backlash in the 2014 elections is they back the wrong immigration reform bill than they would if they simply did nothing on the issue. “There is no national crisis with an artificial deadline the president can trump up and trot out on the nightly news,” the GOP strategist said. “Boehner is under no pressure to put the Senate bill on the floor.” Like this:Like Loading... References^ David M. 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The Pentagon Papers that Ellsberg exposed were not military secrets. They were historical secrets—a history of U.S. intervention in Vietnam and deceit that Ellsberg believed, if widely known, would undermine the U.S. pretexts in defense of the war's prosecution. Like this one that President Kennedy offered in 1961: "For the last decade we have been helping the South Vietnamese to maintain their independence." No. This was a lie. The U.S. government’s Pentagon Papers history of the war revealed how the United States had sided with the French in retaking its colony after World War II, ultimately paying for some 80 percent of the French reconquest. By the U.S. government's own account, from Truman on, Vietnamese self-determination was never an aim of U.S. foreign policy. Like today's whistle-blowers Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg knew the consequences for his act of defiance. Ultimately, he was indicted on 11 counts of theft and violation of the Espionage Act. If convicted on all counts, the penalty added up to 130 years in prison. This story is chronicled dramatically in the film The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, and in Ellsberg’s own gripping autobiography, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. In June of 1971, Ellsberg surrendered to federal authorities at Post Office Square in Boston. Forty-two years later, few of the historical secrets that Ellsberg revealed—especially those that focus on the immediate post-World War II origins of U.S. involvement in Vietnam—appear in the school curriculum. Corporate textbook writers seem to work from the same list of must-include events and individuals. Thus, all the new U.S. history textbooks on my shelf mention the Pentagon Papers. But none grapples with the actual import of the Pentagon Papers. None quotes Ellsberg or the historical documents themselves, and none captures Ellsberg's central conclusion about the United States in Vietnam: "It wasn't that we were on the wrong side; we were the wrong side." Textbooks resist telling students that the U.S. government consistently lied about the war, preferring more genteel language. Prentice Hall's America: History of Our Nation includes only one line describing the content of the Pentagon Papers: "They traced the steps by which the United States had committed itself to the Vietnam War and showed that government officials had concealed actions and often misled Americans about their motives." The textbook offers no examples. Teaching students a deeper, more complete history of the American War—as it is known in Vietnam—is not just a matter of accuracy, it's about life and death. On the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, spoke bluntly about what it means when we fail to confront the facts of our past wars: "If we don't know history, then we are ready meat for carnivorous politicians and the intellectuals and journalists who supply the carving knives." The "we" in Zinn's quote refers especially to the young people who will be convinced or tricked or manipulated—or lied—into fighting those wars, even if it is only "fighting" by guiding remote assassination drones from bases in a Nevada desert. For almost 30 years, I taught high school U.S. history. I began my Vietnam unit with a little-remembered event that happened on Sept. 2, 1945. I showed students a video clip from the first episode of PBS’s Vietnam: A Television History, in which Dr. Tran Duy Hung, a medical doctor and a leader of the resistance to French colonialism, recounts the massive end-of-World War II celebration with more than 400,000 people jammed into Hanoi’s Ba Dinh Square. Japan had surrendered. The seemingly endless foreign occupation of Vietnam—Chinese, then French, then Japanese—was over. Dr. Hung remembers: "I can say that the most moving moment was when President Ho Chi Minh climbed the steps, and the national anthem was sung. It was the first time that the national anthem of Vietnam was sung in an official ceremony. Uncle Ho then read the Declaration of Independence, which was a short document. As he was reading, Uncle Ho stopped and asked, 'Compatriots, can you hear me?' This simple question went into the hearts of everyone there. After a moment of silence, they all shouted, 'Yes, we hear you!' And I can say that we did not just shout with our mouths, but with all our hearts." Dr. Hung recalls that, moments later, a small plane began circling and then swooped down over the crowd. When people recognized the U.S. stars and stripes on the plane, they cheered, imagining that its presence signaled an endorsement for Vietnamese independence. "It added to the atmosphere of jubilation at the meeting," said Dr. Hung. I want my students to recognize the hugeness of this historical could-have-been. One of the "secrets" Ellsberg risked his freedom to expose was that the United States had a stark choice in the fall of 1945: support the independence of a unified Vietnam, led by Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh, which had spearheaded the anti-fascist resistance during World War II; or support the French as they sought to reimpose colonial rule. Think about all the suffering that might have been avoided had the U.S. government taken advantage of this opportunity. Howard Zinn quotes from the Pentagon Papers in A People’s History of the United States: Ho [Chi Minh] had built the Viet Minh into the only Vietnam-wide political organization capable of effective resistance to either the Japanese or the French. He was the only Vietnamese wartime leader with a national following, and he assured himself wider fealty among the Vietnamese people when in August-September 1945, he overthrew the Japanese. . . established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and staged receptions for incoming allied occupation forces. . . . For a few weeks in September 1945, Vietnam was—for the first and only time in its modern history—free of foreign domination, and united from north to south under Ho Chi Minh. . . . In class, I brought this historical choice point to life with my students through a role play, in which some students portrayed members of the Viet Minh and others represented French business/government leaders arguing before "President Truman" about the future of Vietnam. (A fuller description and materials for the activity can be found at the Zinn Education Project website.) The role play depicted a make-believe gathering, of course, because the United States never included any Vietnamese in its deliberations on the future of Vietnam. Nonetheless, the lesson offers students a vivid picture of what was at stake at this key juncture. In this and other activities, I want my students to see that history is not just a jumble of dead facts lying on a page. History is the product of human choice—albeit in conditions that we may not choose. Tragically, the United States consistently chose to side with elites in Vietnam, first French, then Vietnamese, as our government sought to suppress self-determination—perhaps most egregiously in 1954, when the United States conspired to stonewall promised elections and to prop up the dictator Ngo Dinh Diem. Forty-two years ago this month, Daniel Ellsberg allowed himself to be taken into custody, with no clear outcome in sight. A reporter asked Ellsberg whether he was concerned about the possibility of going to prison. Ellsberg replied: "Wouldn't you go to prison to help end this war?" No one expects that kind of integrity from textbook corporations. But educators needn't confine ourselves to the version of history peddled by giant outfits like Pearson and Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt. Right now, every high school student is learning either to accept or to question the premises that lead our country to wage war around the world. As Howard Zinn suggested, if students don't know their history, then they are "ready meat" for those who will supply the carving knives of war. Fortunately, more and more teachers around the country recognize the importance of teaching outside the textbook, of joining heroes like Dan Ellsberg to ask questions, to challenge official stories. Click here to add demanding Congress end unconstitutional snooping by the NSA to your GOOD "to-do" list. Bill Bigelow taught high school social studies in Portland, Ore. for almost 30 years. He is the curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools and the co-director of the Zinn Education Project. This project offers free materials to teach people’s history and an “If We Knew Our History” article series. 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"I don't know what my policy position is - I want to listen to (commissioners) before I decide, in the end, what I think." The governor's salary has dropped from $212,179 to $165,288 in the past four years. Lawmakers saw their pay fall from $116,208 to $90,526, their benefits reduced, and their lease-car program eliminated during the same period. California's officeholder salaries tend to be high compared to their counterparts in other states, but they pale in comparison to salaries paid to many city managers, district attorneys, county executive officers and other key local government administrators, the commission's surveys show. Dalzell contends that the salary-setting panel must consider whether, despite the state's firmer financial footing, hiking state officeholders' pay would be appropriate so soon after the state's massive budget crisis. Dalzell said he will not seek a vote on restoring the state's program of purchasing lease cars for lawmakers or increasing legislative per diem because he believes the board acted beyond its legal authority in cutting those benefits in 2009. "I would propose letting the Legislature handle its affairs, which is what I think the statute envisions." Dalzell said he has no idea how the seven-member panel will vote Wednesday when it meets in Sacramento. Dalzell is the swing vote among four Brown appointees and three appointees of GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Two of Schwarzenegger's appointees, Charles Murray and John Stites, said they do not support increasing elected officials' pay. "Restoration? There's no such thing as a restoration - it's a raise," Stites said. "There are millions of people out there in the private sector, and even in the public sector, who have suffered through cuts. Nobody's talking to them about restoration." Stites plans to vote during Wednesday's meeting despite controversy over his residency. He has conceded that his primary residence is in Henderson, Nev., though he also owns a house in Los Angeles County. Dalzell said he will raise the residency issue Wednesday but let Stites decide for himself whether to leave or to participate in the session. Responded Stites: "My conscience is telling me that I'm staying." Murray said he has not talked with colleagues on the commission but suspects that a majority will vote for total restoration of officeholder pay cuts. "I think, if I was to guess, they'll vote along party lines -Brown appointees will vote for total restoration and Schwarzenegger appointees will vote for status quo," Murray said. Commissioner Scott Somers, a Schwarzenegger appointee, said that he is "keeping his options open." Brown's appointees, other than Dalzell, could not be reached for comment. 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(www.sacbee.com)", "story_date" => "2013-06-18 17:08:06", "source" => "Capitol Alert" ), array( "id" => "2013061800005401", "provider_id" => "1152", "story_seo_url" => "http://www.texasinsider.org/john-boehner-wont-back-immigration-bill-without-majority-gop-support/", "story_title" => "Texas Insider » Boehner Won’t Back Immigration Bill Without Majority", "story_summary" => "By David M. Drucker[1] House Speaker John Boehner is not going to bring a comprehensive immigration-reform plan to the floor if a majority of Republicans don’t support it, sources familiar with his plans said. “No way in hell,” is how several described the chances of the speaker acting on such a proposal without a majority of his majority behind him. Boehner, R-Ohio, does not view immigration in the same vein as the fiscal cliff last December, when he backed a bill that protected most Americans from a tax increase even though less than half of the GOP lawmakers were with him, said multiple sources, who spoke anonymously to allow greater candor. With economists warning that the deep cuts and higher taxes needed to avoid the fiscal cliff could devastate an already ailing economy, Boehner felt compelled to compromise with President Obama and allow taxes to rise on the wealthiest taxpayers. He feels no such urgency about immigration reform, lawmakers said. Boehner has long supported an overhaul of U.S. immigration policy and would like the House to act on it before August. But he also understands the issue’s political sensitivity and the impact it could have on Republicans in the 2014 mid-term elections. Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., a former pollster aligned with the GOP leadership, said Boehner will not approach to immigration reform the same way he did the fiscal cliff tax bill, or the Violence Against Women Act, which also passed with a minority of the majority. “I just don’t think that’s the winning formula here,” Cole told The Washington Examiner. “What the speaker wants to do is have a hopefully bipartisan product — certainly one that has the majority of Republicans — pass the House. This has got too much emotional, political impact and I think it really has to be genuinely bipartisan.” The Senate is debating the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” proposal, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is pubhsing for a final vote before the July 4 recess. The House also is creating its own a bipartisan comprehensive plan, authored by four Democrats and three Republicans, but it is also advancing multiple bills of much narrower scope that will deal with individual Republican priorities like border enforcement. Democratic and progressive immigration reform advocates remain hopeful that the Senate bill, which includes a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants already living in the U.S., will be the basis for any final congressional compromise. The Senate bill’s citizenship pathway, although arduous, conditional and designed to take 10 to 15 years to achieve, will almost assuredly face opposition from House Republicans. That is why Boehner, in an interview last Monday[2], raised eyebrows and excited Democrats when he declined to specifically rule out bringing up an immigration bill that did not have the support of a majority of his majority. The speaker latered clarified his remarks, saying most Republicans would have to support anything brought to the floor. “My goal is always to bring bills to the floor that have a strong Republican majority,” Boehner said. “Immigration reform is a very difficult issue. But I don’t intend to bring an immigration bill to the floor that violates what I and what members of my party — what our principles are.” The practice of bringing to the floor only bills that are supported by the majority of the majority party has become known as the “Hastert Rule,” named after former Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., who used that standard as a litmus test. Hastert’s successors are free to violate that guideline, as Boehner did on the tax deal, and so conservative activists are now urging House Republicans to incorporate the standard into the body’s internal rules to prevent Boehner or his successors from violating it. Boehner has so far maintained a commitment to moving immigration reform through “regular order,” delegating authority over much of the process to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. The speaker has acted behind the scenes to keep the process from sputtering, but otherwise prefers to foster member involvement and encourage as many as possible to introduce bills and legislate. One GOP strategist noted that Boehner is navigating a different set of dynamics than Reid in the Senate. In particular, House Republicans are likely to suffer a greater voter backlash in the 2014 elections is they back the wrong immigration reform bill than they would if they simply did nothing on the issue. “There is no national crisis with an artificial deadline the president can trump up and trot out on the nightly news,” the GOP strategist said. “Boehner is under no pressure to put the Senate bill on the floor.” Like this:Like Loading... References^ David M. 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Not so fast.", "story_date" => "2013-06-18 06:07:41", "source" => "CNN MONEY" ), array( "id" => "2013061800001732", "provider_id" => "495", "story_seo_url" => "http://www.good.is/posts/camouflaging-the-vietnam-war-how-textbooks-continue-to-keep-the-pentagon-papers-secret", "story_title" => "Camouflaging the Vietnam War: How Textbooks Continue to Keep the Pentagon Papers Secret", "story_summary" => "In the Academy Award-winning documentary Hearts and Minds, Daniel Ellsberg, who secretly copied and then released the Pentagon Papers, offers a catalog of presidential lying about the U.S. role in Vietnam. Truman lied. Eisenhower lied. Kennedy lied. Johnson "lied and lied and lied." Nixon lied. Ellsberg concludes: "The American public was lied to month by month by each of these five administrations. As I say, it’s a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to; it's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public." The Pentagon Papers that Ellsberg exposed were not military secrets. They were historical secrets—a history of U.S. intervention in Vietnam and deceit that Ellsberg believed, if widely known, would undermine the U.S. pretexts in defense of the war's prosecution. Like this one that President Kennedy offered in 1961: "For the last decade we have been helping the South Vietnamese to maintain their independence." No. This was a lie. The U.S. government’s Pentagon Papers history of the war revealed how the United States had sided with the French in retaking its colony after World War II, ultimately paying for some 80 percent of the French reconquest. By the U.S. government's own account, from Truman on, Vietnamese self-determination was never an aim of U.S. foreign policy. Like today's whistle-blowers Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg knew the consequences for his act of defiance. Ultimately, he was indicted on 11 counts of theft and violation of the Espionage Act. If convicted on all counts, the penalty added up to 130 years in prison. This story is chronicled dramatically in the film The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, and in Ellsberg’s own gripping autobiography, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. In June of 1971, Ellsberg surrendered to federal authorities at Post Office Square in Boston. Forty-two years later, few of the historical secrets that Ellsberg revealed—especially those that focus on the immediate post-World War II origins of U.S. involvement in Vietnam—appear in the school curriculum. Corporate textbook writers seem to work from the same list of must-include events and individuals. Thus, all the new U.S. history textbooks on my shelf mention the Pentagon Papers. But none grapples with the actual import of the Pentagon Papers. None quotes Ellsberg or the historical documents themselves, and none captures Ellsberg's central conclusion about the United States in Vietnam: "It wasn't that we were on the wrong side; we were the wrong side." Textbooks resist telling students that the U.S. government consistently lied about the war, preferring more genteel language. Prentice Hall's America: History of Our Nation includes only one line describing the content of the Pentagon Papers: "They traced the steps by which the United States had committed itself to the Vietnam War and showed that government officials had concealed actions and often misled Americans about their motives." The textbook offers no examples. Teaching students a deeper, more complete history of the American War—as it is known in Vietnam—is not just a matter of accuracy, it's about life and death. On the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, spoke bluntly about what it means when we fail to confront the facts of our past wars: "If we don't know history, then we are ready meat for carnivorous politicians and the intellectuals and journalists who supply the carving knives." The "we" in Zinn's quote refers especially to the young people who will be convinced or tricked or manipulated—or lied—into fighting those wars, even if it is only "fighting" by guiding remote assassination drones from bases in a Nevada desert. For almost 30 years, I taught high school U.S. history. I began my Vietnam unit with a little-remembered event that happened on Sept. 2, 1945. I showed students a video clip from the first episode of PBS’s Vietnam: A Television History, in which Dr. Tran Duy Hung, a medical doctor and a leader of the resistance to French colonialism, recounts the massive end-of-World War II celebration with more than 400,000 people jammed into Hanoi’s Ba Dinh Square. Japan had surrendered. The seemingly endless foreign occupation of Vietnam—Chinese, then French, then Japanese—was over. Dr. Hung remembers: "I can say that the most moving moment was when President Ho Chi Minh climbed the steps, and the national anthem was sung. It was the first time that the national anthem of Vietnam was sung in an official ceremony. Uncle Ho then read the Declaration of Independence, which was a short document. As he was reading, Uncle Ho stopped and asked, 'Compatriots, can you hear me?' This simple question went into the hearts of everyone there. After a moment of silence, they all shouted, 'Yes, we hear you!' And I can say that we did not just shout with our mouths, but with all our hearts." Dr. Hung recalls that, moments later, a small plane began circling and then swooped down over the crowd. When people recognized the U.S. stars and stripes on the plane, they cheered, imagining that its presence signaled an endorsement for Vietnamese independence. "It added to the atmosphere of jubilation at the meeting," said Dr. Hung. I want my students to recognize the hugeness of this historical could-have-been. One of the "secrets" Ellsberg risked his freedom to expose was that the United States had a stark choice in the fall of 1945: support the independence of a unified Vietnam, led by Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh, which had spearheaded the anti-fascist resistance during World War II; or support the French as they sought to reimpose colonial rule. Think about all the suffering that might have been avoided had the U.S. government taken advantage of this opportunity. Howard Zinn quotes from the Pentagon Papers in A People’s History of the United States: Ho [Chi Minh] had built the Viet Minh into the only Vietnam-wide political organization capable of effective resistance to either the Japanese or the French. He was the only Vietnamese wartime leader with a national following, and he assured himself wider fealty among the Vietnamese people when in August-September 1945, he overthrew the Japanese. . . established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and staged receptions for incoming allied occupation forces. . . . For a few weeks in September 1945, Vietnam was—for the first and only time in its modern history—free of foreign domination, and united from north to south under Ho Chi Minh. . . . In class, I brought this historical choice point to life with my students through a role play, in which some students portrayed members of the Viet Minh and others represented French business/government leaders arguing before "President Truman" about the future of Vietnam. (A fuller description and materials for the activity can be found at the Zinn Education Project website.) The role play depicted a make-believe gathering, of course, because the United States never included any Vietnamese in its deliberations on the future of Vietnam. Nonetheless, the lesson offers students a vivid picture of what was at stake at this key juncture. In this and other activities, I want my students to see that history is not just a jumble of dead facts lying on a page. History is the product of human choice—albeit in conditions that we may not choose. Tragically, the United States consistently chose to side with elites in Vietnam, first French, then Vietnamese, as our government sought to suppress self-determination—perhaps most egregiously in 1954, when the United States conspired to stonewall promised elections and to prop up the dictator Ngo Dinh Diem. Forty-two years ago this month, Daniel Ellsberg allowed himself to be taken into custody, with no clear outcome in sight. A reporter asked Ellsberg whether he was concerned about the possibility of going to prison. Ellsberg replied: "Wouldn't you go to prison to help end this war?" No one expects that kind of integrity from textbook corporations. But educators needn't confine ourselves to the version of history peddled by giant outfits like Pearson and Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt. Right now, every high school student is learning either to accept or to question the premises that lead our country to wage war around the world. As Howard Zinn suggested, if students don't know their history, then they are "ready meat" for those who will supply the carving knives of war. Fortunately, more and more teachers around the country recognize the importance of teaching outside the textbook, of joining heroes like Dan Ellsberg to ask questions, to challenge official stories. Click here to add demanding Congress end unconstitutional snooping by the NSA to your GOOD "to-do" list. Bill Bigelow taught high school social studies in Portland, Ore. for almost 30 years. He is the curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools and the co-director of the Zinn Education Project. This project offers free materials to teach people’s history and an “If We Knew Our History” article series. Bigelow is author or co-editor of numerous books, including A People’s History for the Classroom and The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration, and a contributor to Teaching About the Wars.", "story_date" => "2013-06-18 06:00:00", "source" => "Good Worldwide" ), array( "id" => "2013061800000232", "provider_id" => "371", "story_seo_url" => "http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/us/politics/senate-democrats-want-action-on-immigration-bill.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss", "story_title" => "Senate Democrats Want Action on Immigration Bill", "story_summary" => "Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, warned that the Senate could be held in session over the weekend if there was no progress on the immigration bill.", "story_date" => "2013-06-18 00:27:42", "source" => "THE NEW YORK TIMES" ), array( "id" => "2013061800000274", "provider_id" => "1067", "story_seo_url" => "http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/us/politics/senate-democrats-want-action-on-immigration-bill.html?partner=rss&emc=rss", "story_title" => "Senate Democrats Want Action on Immigration Bill", "story_summary" => "Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, warned that the Senate could be held in session over the weekend if there was no progress on the immigration bill. 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