★ Epic★ Matt Damon, a lifelong friend of Howard Zinn and his family, read excerpts from a speech Howard Zinn gave in 1970 as part of a debate on civil disobedience. | 2013-2014 | [Epic?? Really?? Quoting a marxist is epic today…what a sad state of low information Americans we have today!] View Video: http://disturbeddeputy.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/matt-damon-tells-the-truth/

The Case Against Howard Zinn: FBI files show Stalinist past of the “people’s history” author.

Howard Zinn was teaching a class, but he wasn’t yet a professor and his classroom wasn’t at a university. It was late 1951, and the students who gathered for Zinn’s lessons in Brooklyn were his fellow members of the Communist Party USA.

One of Zinn’s comrades described him as “a person with some authority” within the local CPUSA section and said that Zinn’s class was on “basic Marxism,” the theme being “that the basic teachings of Marx and Lenin were sound and should be adhered to by those present.”

That description, furnished to the Federal Bureau of Investigation by a former Communist in 1957, is included in more than 400 pages of Zinn’s FBI file made public last week.

The FBI files demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt that Zinn — author of A People’s History of the United States, widely used as a textbook or supplement in many of our nation’s high schools and universities — was a card-carrying Communist at a time when the Soviet Union was America’s most dreaded enemy.

Longtime professor of political science at Boston University
Marxist
Member of the Communist Party
Depicted America as a veritable terrorist state
Despised Israel, accusing it of practicing “ethnic cleansing” against the Palestinians
Author of A People’s History of the United States, one of the most influential books on college campuses today
Died in January 2010 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=939

Inside Howard Zinn’s FBI Files

The historian and activist died in January, but the 400 pages the FBI compiled on him for over 25 years are just being released. Friends Noam Chomsky and others tell Clark Merrefield what they mean.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 423 pages on historian and self-described “democratic socialist” Howard Zinn, released Friday morning, outline a record of investigation spanning 25 years, beginning in 1949 with his alleged involvement in communist front groups. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/07/30/howard-zinns-fbi-files-reveal-communist-allegations.html