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City Lights Books / Open Media Series Foreword by Peter Hart | Editor’s note by Greg Ruggiero 234 pages | $15.95…
In the U.S. August is almost upon us. Six weeks and U.S. students will trek back to school, including college. Would that…
Many of America‘s most prominent journalists want us to forget what they were saying and writing more than four years ago to…
When Hamas members were elected as the majority bloc of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and as it became apparent that a US-led…
Participatory economics, or parecon for short, is a classless economic system that serves as an alternative to capitalism, market socialism, and centrally…
The Hamas-Fatah clash that has culminated into a mini-civil war in recent weeks is both old and new, and while some of…
Regrettably, there are all too many candidates that qualify as imminent and very serious crises. Several should be high on everyone’s agenda…
I came of age politically in the middle of the Black Power movement.Ā Within the ranks of organized labor, both the Black…
All my forewarnings have suddenly been actualised, all at once: Gaza has descended into total and utter chaos; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas…
When I resorted to Mark Twain’s writings I attempted to escape, at least temporarily from my often distressing readings on war, politics…
On June 10, Senator Joe Lieberman said on CBS Face the Nation that he had seen incontrovertible evidence that Iran was training…
An experienced British officer serving in Iraq has written to the BBC describing the invasion as “illegal, immoral and unwinnable” which, he…
INTERVENTIONS By Noam Chomsky City Lights Books Open Media Series 234 pages | $15.95 ISBN – 13: 978-0-87286483-2 www.citylights.com Since 2002, the…
The headlines in the lead-up to the Group of Eight (G8) meeting here in Rostock have focused on the dispute over the…
Stephen Shalom’s recent book of interviews with Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar covers a wide variety of topics in Middle East politics,…
As far as world public opinion is concerned, as reflected in the international media, the pronouncements of freedom of expression groups, and…
“It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years and Casey paid the…
South Africa‘s Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils whispered to me as I sat down following a most enthusiastic speech I gave at…
To read and view the U.S. news media over the past week, there is an episode of grand tyranny unfolding, one repugnant…
It was with great surprise that we read Cindy Sheehan’s message about her decision to pull back from her activism in the…
The picture in the ad immediately caught my attention. The photo was of a very dignified older African American man looking into…
I stand at the southernmost corner of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope. The grand mountains underneath and behind infuse a moment…
Northern New England is just emerging from its annual “mud season” — long the bane of back-road drivers throughout the region. Nevertheless,…
Senator Barack Obama has become a major celebrity, a truth that is now almost a cliche. His campaign has raised massive amounts…
The Darfur crisis in Sudan is perhaps the most politically convoluted conflict in the world today. Its underpinnings involve local, regional and…
In recent years, a number of important contributions have influenced the growing debate on global warming. Paul Baer and Tom Athanasiou’s book,…
Two days ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the third of four reports this year on the current state…
A new stage in the evolution of the global justice movement was reached with the inauguration of the World Social Forum (WSF)…
The 20th century was a terrible blight on small farmers everywhere. In both wealthy capitalist economies and in socialist countries, farmers paid…
The Democrats and the peace movement are walking into a trap. The Republicans are preparing with Rovian cunning to focus the mind…
Over the years I have gotten to know a guy named ‘Bob’ [not his real name].Ā The government would probably classify him…
How can unions tear down the wall erected by management to keep organized and unorganized workers apart within the same company? Ā …
In Trafalgar Square in London, dozens of journalists representing every major news organisation descended on a designated corner in the tourist infested…
April 14th was without doubt a turning point in the movement to prevent catastrophic climate change. Many tens of thousands of people…
AMY GOODMAN: It’s a question that’s been posed to social movements for year: We know what you oppose, but what’s your alternative?…
AMY GOODMAN: Today an hour with Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky in a rare interview with them together, and I welcome you…
The April 2002 coup attempt against President Chavez represented the perhaps most important turning point of the Chavez Presidency. First, it showed…
The reality of global warming and its catastrophic consequences are today beyond debate. But American labor is caught in an internal stalemate…
Conflicts in the Middle East are often orchestrated from afar, using proxies — the least risky method to fight and win a…
In a spacious yet fortified UN compound in Rome members of the Palestine committee at the General Assembly repeated old mantras; they…
Unsurprisingly, George W. Bush’s announcement of a “surge” in Iraq came despite the firm opposition to any such move of Americans and…
Noam Chomsky is the world’s leading critic of US power. He has been voted the most important intellectual of the 20th century…
Dennis Ott: In a recent interview you quoted Thorstein Veblen, who contrasted Ć¢€Åsubstantial peopleĆ¢€Ā and Ć¢€Åunderlying population.Ć¢€Ā[1] At a shareholderĆ¢€ā¢s meeting of…
The Stockholm air was too cold, even for the most animated speaker to excite a crowd. But I had little choice: thousands…
Two days ago, over 90% of the 71 members of the Progressive Caucus in Congress voted to essentially give Bush and Cheney…
The rapid, almost hasty, developments on the Arab Israeli front, almost immediately following the Saudi sponsored Makkah Agreement on February 2, should…
It is painful, and hard, to write about the loss of an old and cherished friend. Tanya Reinhart was just that. Tanya…
This weekend, in hundreds of cities throughout the country, Americans commemorated the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq by participating in…
ItĆ¢€ā¢s never easy, although a sure assertion, to maintain that the Palestinian front, at home as well as abroad remains as fragmented…
Sameer Dossani: Let’s talk about the recently passed Iraqi oil law. It’s well known that the law was drafted in…
