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A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan,…
Obama is definitely a great and compelling speaker, certainly by mainstream political standards. But that is not what I was pondering in…
Magnitsky Act implementation and uneasiness in US-Russia relations, NATO approving the deployment of Patriot missile interceptors to defend Turkish border with Syria,…
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A reductionist discourse is one that selectively tailors its reading of subject matters in such a way as to only yield desired…
Minutes before the interview began we received news of a school shooting in CT (the Sandy Hook tragedy). Details were unclear at…
Dear Progressives, With President Obama’s second term underway and huge decisions looming on Capitol Hill, consider this statement from Howard Zinn: “When…
A friend recently told me how a relative of theirs was most concerned about developments in Egypt, given the dominance of the…
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my…
A simple twist of fate has set President Obama’s second Inaugural Address for January 21, the same day as the Martin Luther…
A Review of Douglas Bland. 2009. Uprising: A Novel. Blue Butterfly Books. “By every measure, be it respect for treaty and…
When telecom technician Werner Schonau came to Nashville last February, it wasn’t for a fun-filled vacation, inspired by some Teutonic affection for country music.…
In this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, Noam Chomsky sits down with Rosiland Jordan to talk about the two main tracks…
The following piece titled, "Replying to Siefkes' Reconsideration," responds to Christain Siefkes' Peercommony Reconsidered, which was reacting to Albert's initial comment on Peercommony. Siefkes…
This week, in Washington, D.C., Presidents Obama and Karzai will discuss a proposed Bilateral Security Agreement between Afghanistan and the United States.…
This is the introduction to the book Occupy Strategy – which is the third and concluding volume of the series titled Fanfare…
What does a Palestinian farmer who is living in a village tucked in between the secluded West Bank hills, a prisoner on…
The failure of the Congressional Progressive Caucus to stand up to President Obama on many vital matters of principle is one of…
I could not believe that I was actually seeing what I was seeing. I had heard about Oliver Stone’s 10-part documentary regarding…
Reporting on the final U.S. presidential campaign debate, on foreign policy, The Wall Street Journal observed that "the only country mentioned more…
Promised Land, the new movie starring Matt Damon, is a movie in part about fracking, the new and extremely problematic way of…
As 2013 gets underway, progressives need to be here now. We’re in a new era of national politics — with different circumstances…
There are many things to be thankful for in 2012, starting with the fact that the world didn’t end on December 21…
Women's rights have been in the forefront of international concern over the last few weeks. Up in arms against rape. Making the…
The following piece titled, Peercommony Doubts Parecon?, responds to Christian Siefkes' My Doubts About Parecon, which was reacting to an Albert summary of Parecon. Christian will…
In this often personal interview, renowned linguist and political commentator Noam Chomsky outlines a libertarian perspective on work and education, arguing that…
Either: 1) Africa owes its takeoff to a variety of accelerators, nearly all of them external and occurring in the past…
In the first of two interviews with EUROPP editors Stuart A Brown and Chris Gilson, Noam Chomsky discusses technocratic governance in Europe,…
Linguistics professor Noam Chomsky has been America’s premier political dissident since the Vietnam War. Steven Durel: President Obama was just re-elected with…
France is insisting on ‘rapid’ military intervention in Mali. Its unmanned drones have reportedly been scouring the desert of the…
What constitutes a dictatorship? Haiti had an election in 2006, which the popular candidate won. It had an election in 2011, which…
“We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now…. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the…
This is part of an exploration/debate regarding parecon and peercommony. The first two essays are Summarizing Parecon, by Michael Albert and Summarizing Peercommony by Christian Siefkes.…
Keane Bhatt: So let's start with your post-November 6 analysis. What, in your mind, have been the lessons to take away from…
Professor Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
Eman El-Hawi, a smart and perky 24-year-old business student from Gaza got teary when she told our delegation about what she witnessed…
When Belgium realized in the 1950s that, given that France and Britain were losing their African colonies, it would no longer be…
Palestine has become a “non-member state” at the United Nations as of Thursday November 29, 2012. The draft of the UN resolution…
The first half of my interview with world-renowned political activist, linguist, cognitive scientist, philosopher author, MIT Professor emeritus Noam Chomsky. Thanks to Don…
In life, some phenomena cannot be explained by ordinary logic or technical language, let alone official discourses. How did Gaza manage to…
In the week Lord Leveson published almost a million words about his inquiry into the “culture, practice and ethics” of Britain’s corporate…
Dr. T., a medical doctor, is a Palestinian living in Gaza City. He is still reeling from days of aerial bombardment. When…
An old man in Gaza held a placard that reads: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take…
On November 15, 2012, day three of the recent eight day bombardment of Gaza, Ahmed Basyouni and his family were watching news…
CS: I contacted you six months ago in relation to provocateurs in the Occupy Denver movement and I wanted to ask you…
The following piece titled Summarizing Participatory Economics is an initial entry for a debate/exploration conducted with Christian Siefkes, whose first piece is on Peercommony: A…
There is no political will among rich nations to find funding for developing countries experiencing the brunt of changes in global weather…
Seldom has a global conference been so devoid of positive expectations than the coming United Nations Climate Conference that will take place…
An uneasy cease-fire has been declared ending Israel's attack on Gaza, Operation Pillar of Defense. Take this quiz to see how much…
A review of Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting For the Labor Movement, by Jane McAlevey with Bob Ostertag. New York/London:…
