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( October 9, 2007) Sometimes history–and necessity–make strange bedfellows. The German general staff transported Lenin to Russia to lead a revolution. Union-buster…
08 August, 2007 — Nuclear-armed states are criminal states. They have a legal obligation, confirmed by the World Court, to live…
When the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite on Oct. 4, 1957, American horizons darkened with self-reproach and fear. Sputnik…
The recent death of Haider Abdul-Shafi could not have come at a worse time. Bearing in mind the grim shortcomings of…
Recognizing the historic significance of the Presidential campaign of Senator Barak Obama and the deep meaning that this has for many Black…
EVA: I read a quote of yours which said power is always illegitimate unless it proves itself to be legitimate. So in…
The assassination of Lebanese politician Antoine Ghanem on September 19 is likely to be used, predictably, to further US and Israeli interests…
“[World] Bank researchers have…done extremely visible work on globalization, on aid effectiveness, and on growth and poverty. In many ways, they have…
When one commits to the life of an active citizen, spending their hours days and years reading and writing about current events,…
More information about John Pilger’s film can be found at johnpilger.com Ā To view the trailer go to warondemocracy.net Ā (13 Jun…
Racism is, among many things, convenient. It provides simplified, definite and ready-to-serve answers to complex and compounded questions. Racists, in turn, come…
Avaiable through Venezuelanalysis.com Introduction La verdad de Venezuela no se ve en el Country club la verdad se…
Changing Venezuela By Taking Power:The Policies of the Chavez Presidency 1999-2006 By Greg Wilpert is Avaiable through Venezuelanalysis.com Can you tell ZNet,…
On August 30, about two weeks before Canada became one of only four countries to vote against a UN declaration on indigenous…
Osama bin Laden has once again managed to occupy the stage and to insist on his relevance to the story of September…
The decision made by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to halt his Mahdi Army’s attacks on occupation forces and Iraqi security is likely…
Reading his “Letter From Baghdad” column in the New York Times this week, you’d never know that Thomas Friedman has a history…
Karl Rove might be a nasty guy, but he’s no dummy. In a press interview as he left office, he gave the…
As the security check line began moving slowly at Washington Dulles airport, one passenger standing a few steps ahead of me appeared…
Those calling for a boycott of Israel were once distant voices. Now the discussion has gone global. It is growing inexorably and…
“We who believe in freedom cannot rest We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes (repeat chorus) Until the killing…
I was happy to see a review of Parecon: Life After Capitalism in the journal “Historical Materialism” (Issue 15, 2007). The author,…
These are exciting days in Washington, as the government directs its energies to the demanding task of “containing Iran” in what…
The rash and self-defeatist behaviour emanating from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his close circle in the West Bank cannot possibly…
So, what do we make of the controversy surrounding the actions taken at the office of Congressman Conyers when protesters demonstrated against…
It is Edward Bernays who fine-tuned the art of public relations in the 20th century. Using many of the psychoanalytic theories put…
[Conference Interview with Noam Chomsky, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mon. June 25, 2007] The Responsibility of Intellectuals GMS: Addressing a community…
Since the foundation of the United Nations’ Security Council, the Palestinians did not manage to have any kind of sway that would…
Amman, Jordan – “GET A JOB!” These three words are very familiar to activists bearing signs calling for an end to war,…
Ten years after the Asian financial cataclysm of 1997, the economies of the Western Pacific Rim are growing, though not at the…
The last weekend in July the new SDS (http://www.newsds.org) held its second national convention in Detroit Michigan. Roughly two hundred students from…
The US writer Noam Chomsky talks about the mechanisms behind modern communication, an essential instrument of government in democratic countries – as…
(Amman, Jordan — August 6, 2007) At a small, informal school in the basement of a church in Amman, many strings of…
Sixty-two years after the U.S. dropped the first atomic bombs on two densely populated cities, killing more than 200,000 civilians, nuclear weapons…
07/30/07 — The death of a nation is a rare and somber event. But the vision of a unified, independent Palestine threatens…
The name of Alberto Gonzales is rapidly becoming synonymous with all that has gone wrong under the Bush administration. Repeated media discussions…
Ten years after the Asian financial cataclysm of 1997, the economies of the Western Pacific Rim are growing, though not at the…
(Amman, Jordan – July 30, 2007) Last weekend was an important one, regarding education, here in Jordan.Ā Jordanian high school students learned…
The following interview was prepared for ZMag Balkans, a new print magazine, produced by “Freedom Fight collective” for Balkan audiences, modeled…
It really hit me in the 1980s while living in Boston. At that time the southern Irish economy was a complete mess.…
[Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World By Aimee Allison and David Solnit, Seven…
The following is an excerpt from Noam Chomsky’s new bookĀ Ā INTERVENTIONS published by City Lights Books. Ā City Lights Books / Open Media…
The following is an excerpt from Noam Chomsky’s new book INTERVENTIONS published by City Lights Books. City Lights Books / Open Media…
The Hamas government crackdown on Mohamed Dahlan’s corrupt security forces and affiliated gangs in the Gaza Strip in June appears to mark…
Last week, Umm Daoud, (her name means “Mother of Daoud”), met me and three friends at a bridge that crosses into her…
I remember before the 2006 election being at a fundraiser in Los Angeles for the Democratic Party when one of the featured…
From October 21-23, 2007, join a global movement rising up against war and global warming by participating in a massive intervention in…
It was a chilling moment on a split-screen of history. While the Senate debated the Iraq war on the night of July…
In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the…
City Lights Books / Open Media Series Foreword by Peter Hart | Editor’s note by Greg Ruggiero 234 pages | $15.95…
