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This election clearly represented both a repudiation of Bush but also very intense anger with the environment that has been building in…
Fundamental, revolutionary, political and social change is clearly needed in the USA and the world. Corporate domination of the economic and political…
Attempts to coerce Palestinians into submission have not always manifested themselves in the crude form of a tank, a bullet, the withholding…
Saddam Hussein has received a death sentence for crimes he committed more than a year before Donald Rumsfeld shook his hand in…
On November 14 a group of lawyers and other experts will come before the German federal prosecutor and ask him to open…
“The world is investing too little,†according to one prominent economist. “The current situation has its roots in a series of crises…
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How critical is the situation in Iraq? It depends on who you ask and when. Common sense tells us that the situation…
The US administration’s double standards in dealing with the intensifying nuclear crisis in North Korea further strengthens the argument that President George…
Former Secretary of State James Baker, co-chairing a bipartisan commission on Iraq, offered Bush a prudent version of imperialism. He didn’t quite…
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus, regarded as the father of microcredit, comes at a time when microcredit…
In its struggle for the regional order it wants, the US is reaching new lows in its deceitful and disingenuous stance towards…
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butcheredthere was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered.…
A public event on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the bombing of Cubana airliner, flight 455, which cost the lives…
It is no secret that the Palestinian people have always struggled with the problem of impotent, self-seeking leaderships, who have historically invested…
The public announcement stated, “Democratic Policy Committee Announces Major Iraq Oversight Effort; Hearings to Identify Changes Necessary to Move Forward in Iraq. 
The uproar over Bob Woodward’s new book has intensified the media focus on a basic controversy that’s summed up this way: Is…
The military coup in Thailand is the second high-profile collapse of a democracy in the developing world in the last seven years.…
The ongoing war of words between US President George W. Bush and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, coupled with deluded western media misconceptions or…
[Talk given at the Canadian launch of Bleeding Afghanistan September 21, 2006] Just over five years ago I visited Colombia for the first…
The following is a letter sent by Michael Albert to the ZNet Update list… — The folks at The NewStandard need our…
What can leftists learn from Chavez’s UN speech and its aftermath? That the U.S. is the world’s most egregious rogue state. We…
The Sept. 25 edition of Time magazine illustrates how the U.S. news media are gearing up for a military attack on Iran.…
LONDON – An expert in international law and an old friend of the Palestinian people wrote me with utter distress a few…
This is the time of year when media campaigns for the latest digital products are apt to go into overdrive. Schools are…
In a significant rebuff to President Bush and his security-driven strategy for Republican victory in November, the Senate Armed Services Committee on…
Removed from reality, self-consumed and desperate, the Bush administration went on another PR offensive, in what is considered the “third most major…
The political documentary, that most powerful and subversive medium, is said to be enjoying a renaissance on both sides of the Atlantic.…
When I began working as a journalist, there was something called “slow news”. We would refer to “slow news days” when “nothing…
Fifteen years ago, Robin Hahnel and I published a book titled Looking Forward. It was the first in-depth presentation of the economic…
In a recent article appearing on ZNet (re-posted from Dollars & Sense), Ethan Miller argues passionately and effectively on behalf of a…
Billed as the most comprehensive gathering of Latino leaders in the US in three decades, over 1,600 delegates and observers attended the…
Two Fox News journalists, Steve Cantani and Olas Wing were released by their Palestinian kidnappers in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, August…
Alan Dershowitz’s regular little performances are eminently ignorable, including the one reproduced below. But since I’ve been asked several times for comments…
In Lebanon, a little-honored truce remains in effect – yet another in a decades-long series of ceasefires between Israel and its adversaries…
In researching a new film, I have been watching documentary archive from the 1980s, the era of Ronald Reagan and his ‘secret…
And yet another menacing terror plot was thwarted 10 August, with the arrest of 24 suspects, all British Muslims. It was an…
UN Security Council Resolution 1701 came very late and posed a fragile ceasefire, yet there will be another war as long as…
Though there are many interacting factors, the immediate issue that lies behind the latest US-Israeli invasion of Lebanon remains, I believe, what…
UN Security Council Resolution 1701 came very late and posed a fragile ceasefire, yet there will be another war as long as…
And yet another menacing terror plot was thwarted 10 August, with the arrest of 24 suspects, all British Muslims. It was an…
Beirut – The bittersweet mood in Beirut on this day when the ceasefire took effect was perhaps best expressed by Rahul, a…
Do you agree with the argument that Israel’s military offensive in Lebanon is “legally and morally justified?” Noam Chomsky: The invasion itself…
A Sky News newscaster, interviewing British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Sunday, July 30 demanded an answer to this paraphrased question: if…
Doesn’t Israel have the right to defend itself? One has the right to self-defense if one is not oneself guilty of…
Murray Bookchin, the visionary social theorist and activist, died during the early morning of Sunday, July 30th in his home in Burlington,…
As a new front in the Middle East powder keg opens up in Lebanon, as Iraq descends into what can only be…
[The following excerpt is from the Epilogue to Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, by Noam Chomsky & Gilbert…
Syndicated columnist Richard Cohen declared in the Washington Post on July 25 that an-eye-for-an-eye would be a hopelessly wimpy policy for the…
Israel, the U.S., and the yet-again submissive Britain are now totally isolated in their collusive attack on Lebanon. As the emergency meeting…
