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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]. 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? …
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 “substantial people†and “underlying population.â€[1] At a shareholder’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…
It’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…
Recently, Nikolas Kozloff, who is working on a new book entitled South America´s New Direction, about the political realignment in South America,…
Washington‘s escalation of threats against Iran is driven by a determination to secure control of the region’s energy resources. In the…
Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, it was a very familiar encounter: Israeli soldiers storming our house…
Years back, an old and astute professor at the University of Washington ended a fascinating lecture to a small group of freshmen…
This past Tuesday, in Fairbanks, Alaska, nine people entered the office of Senator Ted Stevens to deliver their “emphatic request” that the…
Maine, and New Hampshire are waging a grassroots campaign against Verizon’ abandonment of “low-value” landline customers in northern New England. Verizon’s $2.7…
The configuration of the New Middle East — as envisaged by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the Israeli war against…
“E noi che siamo donne, paura non abbiamo La base non vogliamo, la base non vogliamo.†And we who are women are…
As Congress wrestles with US policy in Iraq, the human reality on the ground grows worse and worse throughout the region. We…
Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On February 9, Michael Shank interviewed him on the latest developments…
The Makkah agreement, signed between rival Palestinian groups, Hamas and Fatah on February 8, under the auspices of the Saudi leadership, was…
Dear Mitch Potter, It has been some time since you wrote me on September 10, 2006, in response to my blog post…
The relationship between Iran and the United States is one of peculiar temperament: intense but accommodating at times, barefaced and seemingly self-destructive…
Q. What is the importance of Hezbollah’s last year victory and how will it influence future events in the region? Hezbollah’s…
A military judge in Fort Lewis, Washington, has declared a mistrial in the court-martial of Lieut. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer…
The relationship between Iran and the United States is one of peculiar temperament: intense but accommodating at times, barefaced and seemingly self-destructive…
Thanks for coming. Growing resistance inside and outside the U.S. military, together with the Vietnamese resistance to the U.S. occupation in Vietnam…
(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Remembering Tomorrow, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Remembering Tomorrow…
Earlier this week, I received a joyful phone call from Baghdad. Members of a family I’ve known since 1996 announced that one…
The Michael Steele 2006 Senatorial campaign in Maryland posed the question front and center of what does one mean by “Black Politics?†Does…
Sr. Rose Leo, the principal of the grade school I attended, was also a talented musician who could have had a career…
Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Please click here if you are…
Caracas, January 8, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)’” During the swearing-in ceremony of his new cabinet, Venezuela’s President Chavez announced a series of dramatic new…
While the November elections provided the Democratic Party a public mandate to end the war in Iraq, President Bush has signaled his…
Last month a coincidence of birth and death signaled a transition for South America and indeed for the world. The former Chilean…
2006 was yet another year of tribulations in the ever tumultuous Middle East. It defied all early expectations that 2005 would be…
An Iraqi friend whom I’ve known for ten years looked worn and very weary yesterday when he came to visit me in…
It’s all too convenient for the BBC website to describe the ongoing bloodshed between Hamas and Fatah supporters in the Gaza Strip…
1. Why did the U.S. invade Iraq? (And why did important sectors of the political elite, like Scowcroft, oppose doing so?) What…
