Lifton is co-editor of a new book titled “Crimes of War: Iraq.” The book is being published 35 years after Lifton and the same editorial team published the landmark book “Crimes of War” about Vietnam.
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Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, a psychiatrist and historian who is the director of the Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College in Manhattan.
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The 2005 lecture was delivered by Dr. Robert Jay Lifton on “America and the Human Future: Surviving Vietnam, 9/11, and Iraq.”
Lifton was also a sponsor of the communist created and dominated National Committee for a Citizens’ Commission of Inquiry on the US War Crimes in Vietnam, letterhead, 1971 (as appears in my study “The Meaning of the Bicentennial: Volume One: The Peoples Bicentenntial Commission”, 1976 ACU (American Conservative Union) Education & Research Institute (Wash. D.C.)
He has always been a leftist and largely anti-America re Vietnam and now Iraq.
His book, “Thought Reform in Red China” was actually very good, but he leans to the Hanoi, Castro side of the marxist movement.
The John Jay College (Of Criminal Studies or something like that) was taken over by the far-left decades ago. Just check out their teaching staff.