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War, What Is It Good For?

Tom Engelhardt CounterPunch
As “our” president took on Iran recently, I couldn’t help thinking about that antiwar song of the Vietnam era that began with the phrase “War, what is it good for?Absolutely nothin’.”

This Week in People’s History, Jun 10–16, 2026

Portside
Cartoon of early-U.S. printshop workers Striking U.S. Workers Are Off to a Great Start (1786), YOU Are the Un-Americans! (1956), The Pentagon Papers, Warts and All (1971), ¡Vieques Libre! (2001), A Conspiracy of Hope (1986), The Beginning of the End for Apartheid (1976)
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