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Three days before Christmas, the Bush administration launched a new salvo of bright spinning lies about the Iraq war. Ć¢€ÅIn an interview…
I turned with interest to Oliver Kamm’s critique (Prospect, November 2005) of the “crude and dishonest arguments” he attributes to me, hoping…
Interviewer: This is Irene from No One’s Listening, but in honor of your appearance on the show today we’re entitling it Noam’s…
In many ways a year-end review is artificial. The structures of injustice, oppression and environmental destruction continue to grind people down and…
More than a dozen years ago, I joined with Jeff Cohen (founder of the media watch group FAIR) to establish the P.U.-litzer…
In a landmark speech before a most friendly audience at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis on November 30, President Bush repeated…
Review: Aristide and the Endless Revolution. 2005. Baraka Productions. 83 min. Movie site: www.aristidethefilm.comĀ Available from www.firstrunfeatures.com Each fact is disputed. Haiti’s…
No buzzards were gliding overhead, but several helicopters circled, under black sky tinged blue. On the shore of a stunning bay at…
With public support for the Iraq war at low ebb, the White House is more eager than ever to conflate IraqĆ¢€ā¢s insurgency…
The U.S. government is waging an air war in Iraq. Ć¢€ÅIn recent months, the tempo of American bombing seems to have increased,Ć¢€Ā…
How has the Bush administration gotten away with such apparently illegal acts as hiding intelligence reports from Congress, creating secret prisons, establishing…
Ā ON JULY 11, 2005, WITH great nuance and tact, CanadaĆ¢€ā¢s Chief of Defence Staff General Hillier described the forces arrayed against…
Newspapers across the United States and beyond told readers Wednesday about sensational new statements by a former top assistant to Colin Powell…
From Eastport, Maine to Los Angeles, California, North Americans concerned about global warming are holding events later this week to demand action…
1. On Reconstruction Anthony DiMaggio: The “humanitarian reconstruction” of Iraq has been acknowledged to a large degree as a failure in the…
Within progressive circles thereĆ¢€ā¢s growing talk about the 2006 and the 2008 elections. The Bush/Cheney free fall to an average, between them,…
Bob Woodward probably hoped that the long holiday weekend would break the momentum of an uproar that suddenly confronted him midway through…
The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an “insurrection of subjugated knowledge”. The insurrection is well under way. In trying to…
When Thanksgiving arrives, the media coverage is mostly predictable. Feature stories tell of turkeys and food drives for the needy. We hear…
Starting Nov. 25, Palestinians from the Gaza Strip may, in theory, be able to freely cross the Rafah border into Egypt, according…
Revised: Nov. 2005 typos corrected Oct. 2011 (This draft benefited from conversations with many people, but especially Michael Albert and Cynthia Peters,…
Thanksgiving week began with the New York Times noting that Ć¢€Åall of Washington is consumed with debate over the direction of the…
Despite initial claims that Yasser Arafat’s absence – as an ‘obstacle’ to peace – would reinvigorate the Arab-Israel peace process, events on…
Three weeks ago, Prof. Noam Chomsky was voted the most important public intellectual in the world today. About 20,000 people took part…
How do activists become activists? How do they choose what issue or issues to work on? And how do they decide to…
How do activists become activists? How do they choose what issue or issues to work on? And how do they decide to…
This is an open letter to a few of the people with whom I had discussed the Guardian interview of 31 October,…
Steven Durel: Professor Chomsky, for forty years now you have been a leading voice in political action and social justice. After this…
I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the…
President George W. Bush favours teaching both evolution and “Intelligent Design” in schools, “so people can know what the debate is about.”…
Brandon Hughey was a private at Fort Hood when he discovered that his army unit was about to be sent to Iraq.…
Going to Venezuela? There are beautiful waterfalls and mountains. There is rich surf, sand, and sun. But nowadays the biggest attraction is…
The huge gap between Tehran and Washington has widened in recent months. Top officials of Iran and the United States are not…
This October I spent a week in Buenos Aires, Argentina learning about Argentina’s workers movement to recuperate factories. During the recent corporate…
A lot of media outlets are now scrutinizing some of the lies told by the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq.…
Many politicians and pundits have told us that “Iraq is not Vietnam.” Certainly, any competent geographer would agree. Substantively, the histories of…
By now, millions of TV viewers have seen the video numerous times on television: Two police officers are beating a man on…
By a twist of political fate, the Oct. 28 deadline for special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to take action on the Plamegate matter…
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More than any other New York Times reporter, Judith Miller took the lead with stories claiming that Iraq had weapons of mass…
In 1988, the English literary critic and novelist, D.J. Taylor wrote a seminal piece entitled ‘When the Pen Sleeps’. He expanded this…
“The propagandistĆ¢€ā¢s purpose,Ć¢€Ā wrote Aldous Huxley, Ć¢€Åis to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.Ć¢€Ā…
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…
ItĆ¢€ā¢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 Ā The Southeast Ā We spent the weekend outside Port au Prince in the Southeast — in the city…
