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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 “all 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.”…
[This is an edited excerpt of the Introduction to IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY: AMERICAN WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ AND BEYOND edited…
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 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…
