Remembering a Christ-like US President (Jimmy Carter 1924-2024)
On December 29th, when news arrived of the passing of Jimmy Carter at age 100, I wrote the following preamble on my Facebook timeline in reference to a letter I…
Jimmy Carter
Why Jimmy Carter Pardoned Draft Resisters
The passing of Jimmy Carter has been duly noted in ubiquitous remembrances and commentaries on his four-year presidency, 1977-1981. Carter is lauded more for his post-presidential humanitarian projects, while his…
Jimmy Carter, Israel and the Apartheid Question
The late centenarian, Jimmy Carter, occupied a difficult position in the line of imperial magistrates we know as US Presidents. Coming to power in the aftermath of murderous US adventurism…
Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter may have done good works out of office, but in power he fomented a series of domestic and foreign policy disasters. Jimmy Carter, out of office, had the…
Jimmy Carter Told Trump How to Put America First, But Will He Do It?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies With President Jimmy Carter’s passing and Donald Trump about to return to the White House, it’s a good time to recall a…
False Saviors – Jimmy Carter
A pious Sunday school teacher confessing to lust in his heart but swearing never to lie, he came to Washington to reestablish public faith in government just when popular disgust…
Carter Helped Argentine Satellite Dictator Drown Thousands of Dissidents: New Docs
Newly declassified documents pertaining to ‘Operation Condor‘, a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy sentiment in US satellites in Latin America, reveal that the government of Jimmy Carter provided assistance to the…
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