In 1988, the English literary critic and novelist, D.J. Taylor wrote a seminal piece entitled ‘When the Pen Sleeps’. He expanded this…

“The propagandist’s purpose,” wrote Aldous Huxley, “is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his right wing government could not have possibly envisioned a more gratifying scenario to the post-disengagement…

AttacD-AWWO: Can you say something about the process, the discussion that lead to Parecon (participatory economics) and the book that is now…

The three days of anti-war actions in Washington, D.C. last weekend organized primarily by United for Peace and Justice were a huge…

Last week we talked to Desmond Molloy, an old soldier who heads the ‘DDR’ program for MINUSTAH, the UN Stabilization Mission in…

One of the earliest philosophers to wrangle with the blurred relationship between language and reality was the Buddhist Nagarjuna. He contested that…

Here are questions that are not being asked about the latest twist of a cynical war. Were explosives and a remote-control detonator…

It’s reasonable to estimate that more than a quarter of a million people demonstrated against the Iraq war on Saturday in Washington,…

September 26, 2005   The Southeast   We spent the weekend outside Port au Prince in the Southeast — in the city…

The post-coup Haitian presidential election, currently planned for November 20, has a list of 54 candidates. The Canadian Prime Minister’s ‘special advisor…

I came to Haiti on a short trip to study a country that doesn’t really understand its place in the world or…

The New York Times began a new week with an editorial that typified the media mind-set of the warfare state.   The…

[Leslie Cagan is national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, a coalition of more than 1,300 local and national groups that…

The United States has supposedly created new “democracies” in Afghanistan and Iraq, but these endeavors give democracy a bad name. Sure, the…

There should be no doubt regarding the centrality and intensity of the relationship between the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the internal and external…

Traveling from New York City in late September 2001, on a pre-scheduled book tour, author Joan Didion spoke with audiences in several…

Introduction First, I’d like to thank everyone here and especially the organizers for inviting me. It is a great honor and I…

Calls for firing Michael Brown are understandable. Aptly described as “the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA” by columnist Maureen Dowd a…

Jesse Jackson and Bruce Gordon are just two of many high-profile Black leaders who have expressed indignation at the description of those…

The following was a ZNet Sustaiiner Forum Post replying to a question about the aftermath of bombing Afghanistan. It also appeared in…

The growing outrage over the willful ignoring of warnings and overt cutting of local expenditures that paved the way for New Orleans’…

The man in the Oval Office is fond of condemning “killers.” But his administration continues to kill with impunity. “They can go…

In the U.S. summer is winding down. Soon U.S. students will trek back to school, including college. Would that I was one…

The men and women of the National Guard shouldn’t be killing in Iraq.They should be helping in New Orleans and Biloxi. The…

The comments made by Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson calling for the assassination of the popular and democratically elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez…

“Rise Up, Keep the Sprit Alive,Come Together, Got to Organize,Rise Up, It Won’t Be Long,Come Together, Keep our Movement Strong!” -song by…

Over the weekend, a spectrum of liberal responses to Cindy Sheehan came into sharper focus. The message is often anti-Bush… but not…

For a long time, the last refuge of scoundrels was “patriotism.” Now it’s “the war on terror.” President Bush and many of…

It is rather curious how the Palestinian Authority opted to get engaged in a process that was solely aimed at excluding it,…

Thomas Friedman is a famous columnist on the New York Times. He has been described as “a guard dog of US foreign…

This month’s anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki prompts only the most somber reflection and most fervent hope that the…

The surge of antiwar voices in U.S. media this month has coincided with new lows in public approval for what pollsters call…

On Sunday, the New York Times published a piece by Frank Rich under the headline “Someone Tell the President the War Is…

In 1972, after many years of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg wrote: “In that time, I have…

The BBC’s striking revelations regarding the secretive and disconcerting British role in making an Israeli nuclear bomb possible, deserves more than a…

Mid-August 2005 may be remembered as a moment in U.S. history when the president could no longer get away with the media…

A lot of people want to believe that the current war on Iraq is some kind of aberration — a radical departure…

When super-pundit Robert Novak stormed off the set of a live CNN show Thursday — just after uttering what the New York…

The deadly terror attacks in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheik Red Sea resort in July and the earlier October 2004 bombings at two other…

Since the onset of the Bush administration’s ill-defined mission and subsequent “long, long war on terror”, the American people, even the whole…

We gathered, the other day, at the International Brigades’ Memorial in Jubilee Park beside the Thames in London. It was warm with…

What is behind the Gaza ‘disengagement plan’? It has been spelled out clearly enough by Ariel Sharon’s own advisor, Dov Weisglass, in…

Conscience is not in the chain of command. “Before being sentenced to 15 months for refusing to return to Iraq with his…

The latest bombings in London have produced a strange political atmosphere here; I cannot recall anything like it. A truth is struggling…

The acclaimed New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has often voiced enthusiasm for violent destruction by the U.S. government. Hidden in plain…

In capitalism, owners together with about a fifth of the population who have highly empowered work decide what is produced, by what…

Midway through this month, the Karl Rove scandal was dominating the national news — until the sudden announcement of a Supreme Court…

In a world riddled with suicide bombings, inconclusive conflicts, and terribly selfish politics, it is a relief to see there are people…

Bill Fletcher is president of TransAfrica, a national policy organization in Washington dealing with issues surrounding Africa. After the reform administration of…