To the Editor: Just finished reading a friend’s copy of THE FIFTH ESTATE. Enjoyed very much Mr. Ovshinsky’s article about Dr. Hoffer and LSD [FE #13, August 30, 1966]. It was refreshing to read an article that dealt with …
To the Editor: Just finished reading a friend’s copy of THE FIFTH ESTATE. Enjoyed very much Mr. Ovshinsky’s article about Dr. Hoffer and LSD [FE #13, August 30, 1966]. It was refreshing to read an article that dealt with …
The State convention of the Democratic party of Michigan was with few exceptions a total victory for L.B.J. and his local apologists the U.A.W.-C.I.A. The workings of organized labor at the convention was not at all like the moderate socialists …
Michigan Democratic Convention Likes U.A.W., Loves L.B.J. Read More »
James Lafferty’s campaign for the Congress from the 17th District on Detroit’s far West side took on a new dimension with the appearance in the district of a leaflet branding Lafferty a “traitor” and calling the FIFTH ESTATE an “anti-Christian, …
Pro-War Group Tries to Smear Lafferty, Fifth Estate in 17th District Read More »
The possible trial and execution of United States airmen as war criminals by the Hanoi government has been handled by the administration and by the press as a crucial turning point in the war in Vietnam. Partially to justify the …
Face the Nation Thru Hickman’s rolling earth hills icy winter gray sky bare trees lining the road South to Wichita you’re in the Pepsi Generation Signum enroute Aiken Republican on the radio 60,000 Northvietnamese troops now infiltrated but over 250,000 South Vietnamese armed men our Enemy— Not Hanoi our enemy Not China our enemy The Viet Cong! McNamara made a “bad guess” “Bad Guess?” chorused the Reporters. Yes, no more than a Bad Guess, in 1962 “8000 American Troops handle the Situation” Bad Guess in 1954, 80% of the Vietnamese people would’ve voted for Ho Chi Minh wrote Ike years later Mandate for Change A bad guess in the Pentagon And the Hawks were guessing all along Bomb China’s 200,000,000 cried Stennis from Mississippi I guess it was 3 weeks ago Holmes Alexander in Albuquerque Journal Provincial newsman said I guess we better begin to do that Now, his typewriter clacking in his aged office on a side street under Sandia Mountain? Half the world away from China Johnson got some bad advice Republican Aiken sang to the Newsmen over the radio The General guessed they’d stop infiltrating the South if they bombed the North— So I guess they bombed! Pale Indochinese boys came thronging thru the jungle in increased numbers …
SATURDAY HANOI, Eyewitness Report by Dr. Herbert Apthekar. Central Methodist Church 8:00 p.m. 2/12 FILM: “Beauty and the Beast” (1946), directed by Jean Cocteau. Sponsored by UCAE at WSU Community Arts Aud, Cass and Kirby. 8 p.m. Adm. charge. 2/12 …
The calendar is prepared by Fifth Estate calendar girls, Karen Kovac and Naomi Epel, [Naiomi Epil —Web Archiver] with cooperation from Detroit Adventure. Copy deadline is the 6th and 22nd of each month and should be sent to the Fifth …
The Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) had its long-awaited dinner at the Rackham Bldg. recently, only a few days after anti-war demonstrators had clashed with the warmakers and local gendarmes in the same locals.
I would like at this time to point out what I believe to be the central considerations involved in my position that the United States is totally unjustified in pursuing its current policy in Vietnam.
Wed. Nov. 1 PLAY “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” WSU Hillberry Classic Theater, 2:30 p.m. Adm. 11/1. LECTURE Sander Vanocur speaks, Mercy College, 12:30 p.m. 11/1. CONFERENCE Communism in China: Democracy in India, Oakland U. Center, 10:00 a.m., 11/1. FILM “Old and …
LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE—As the unexpectedly early monsoon rains fell on War Zone “C” by the Cambodian-South Vietnamese border, a U.S. divisional planning officer said, “The people who advised President Nixon to start something like this at this time of year …
The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power—known by its acronym ACT UP—coalesced in the late 1980s with a simple motivation: the desire to live.
Answer to last issue’s quiz: The designer of the nationally known Willow Run bomber plant was Charles Lindberg, former Warren-Forest resident and grandson of John C. Lodge, of X-way fame… Rumors of the week: The J.L. Hudson Co. will announce …
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him with absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar. —Mikhail Bakunin
a review of Cheap Copies! Cheap Copies! The OBSOLETE! Press Guide to DIY Hectography, Mimeography, & Spirit Duplication by Rich Dana. Obsolete Press, 2022