GI and veteran resistance is growing and critical to theĀ struggle against the illegal United States war on Iraq. Ā Here is a…
In his 1999 book on Bill and Hillary Clinton, No One Left to Lie To (Verso), the still Left Christopher Hitchens wrote…
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One of the distinguishing features of early Athenian democracy was the āselection by lotā ā the random appointment ā of ordinary citizens…
The Pale Reflection: Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Meaning of the Black Revolution Empire and Inequality Report, No.…
Maybe (see my last post) I’m looking in the wrong place for the American fascism that matters most. Ā Ā I went to one…
With all my emphasis on what I call "level-two"Ā – covertĀ and institutional or societal and "state-of-being" – racism (see this for just…
Ć¢€ÅTOWNS PUT DREAMS IN PRISONSĆ¢€Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Sometimes it’s the silences that speak the loudest. Consider, for example, a page-one article that appeared…
I am concerned about the speed with which many people can be convinced that astonishing recent injustice and criminality are normal and…
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