The reported desecration of the Quran by US guards at the infamous Guantanamo prison, as originally reported by Newsweek on May 9,…

Memorial Day weekend brings media rituals. Old Glory flutters on television and newsprint. Grave ceremonies and oratory pay homage to the fallen.…

A little over two years ago, anti-war demonstrations of unprecedented magnitude rocked the globe and the New York Times termed the anti-war…

The endless show that seems to fill America’s every waking moment — and many of its nightmares — could be called “Media…

Vicente Otero was once the elected mayor of the small Colombian town of Caldono in the department of Cauca. He was instrumental…

Q: We want to talk about the two dominant power structures of the modern era: the national state and the transnational corporations.…

Nearly five years have passed since the Palestinian people transformed their hunger for long denied rights into a commanding display of will…

In 1987, the Australian sociologist Alex Carey, a second Orwell in his prophesies, wrote “Managing Public Opinion: the corporate offensive”. He described…

Media activism has achieved a lot. But I don’t believe there’s anything to be satisfied with — considering the present-day realities of…

The battle over the filibuster is now one of the country’s biggest political news stories. The Bush administration seems determined to change…

Years from now, when historians look back at agenda-building for a missile attack on Iran, they should closely examine a story that…

For those who wonder if the struggle is worth it, if there is reason to believe that we can ever fundamentally transform…

American news outlets provided extensive — and mostly laudatory — coverage of Marla Ruzicka after she died in Baghdad on April 16.…

There are no conspiracies to dissect, no hidden agendas to sort through and no oblique language to skillfully decode: the Bush administration’s…

Yesterday (April 22), as the attacks on their communities continue to intensify, the indigenous communities of Northern Cauca, specifically Toribio and now…

Q: Michael, the WTO is set to come to Hong Kong for its next ministerial in December 2005. Could you describe briefly…

The recent decision by General Motors to pull its advertising from the Los Angeles Times has not gone over very well. “Blame…

I’ve known of Kassim Kafarneh for many years. His thick, wild beard is now neatly trimmed and his once unruly, black hair…

Saigon, April 1975. At dawn I was awake, lying under my mattress on the floor tiles, peering at my bed propped against…

The title of our panel here at the Left Forum in New York City, is “Class or Multitude?”   By way of…

I was immensely privileged as a young activist in my 20’s to meet Ella Baker and work together with her in the…

No other national struggle in the world has assimilated itself, or has been inadvertently assimilated, to symbolize so many things to different…

I was glad to open the New York Times last Monday and see the headline: “In Steinbeck’s Birthplace, a Fight to Keep…

1) The progressive movement, broadly defined, from socialists/Marxists on the left to reasonably progressive Democrats on the right, has been doing its…

The first quarter of 2005 brought significant media dividends for the Bush-Cheney limited liability corporation. Stakeholders received windfalls as mainstream news outlets…

Danilo Mandic: Could I please get your views on the recent World Social Forum that was held a few months ago in…

In the past two years the US media have drastically reduced their coverage of Afghanistan. According to the American Journalism Review only…

“But for me the real loser was the Democratic Party. It showed that it’s almost totally without leadership. If there is a…

Journalists often refer to the Bush administration’s foreign policy as “unilateral” and “preemptive.” Liberal pundits like to complain that a “go-it-alone” approach…

Speech delivered in Vancouver, Canada, at an event sponsored by StopWar.ca, March 18, 2005, held on the occasion of the March 19-20…

I visited Baghdad as a reporter a few years before the US invasion. There were posters and statues of the ousted President…

While apologists for Bush’s and Blair’s murderous adventure in Iraq see a “silver lining” in pseudo-events in the Middle East, real events…

President Bush just told reporters that he has no intention of setting any timetable for withdrawal. “Our troops will come home when…

  Since the 1950s, many young Americans have first encountered critiques of mass media in the pages of Mad. With its intricate…

Sadly, it has come to this. Two years after the invasion of Iraq, the online powerhouse MoveOn.org — which built most of…

Saigon, April 1975. At dawn I was awake, lying under my mattress on the floor tiles, peering at my bed propped against…

(Adapted from the author’s speeches during an anti-war tour of Italy, Feb. 22-27, 2005)   Europe and the world have witnessed over…

Once in a while, mass media outlets give a fair hearing to radical ideas that make sense. But those ideas have little…

If you can imagine some rational observers from Mars looking at this curious species down here, I don’t think they’d put very…

Indulging in speculation regarding the identity of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri’s real assassins is of little value now. What demands urgent…

An Associated Press dispatch from a Thai fishing village summed up the media spin: “Former President Bill Clinton’s voice trembled with emotion…

When I think of newspaper journalists who became authors and had enormous impacts on media criticism in the United States, two names…

The recent and supposedly ‘successful’ Sharm el-Sheikh summit in Egypt on February 8 was anything but a triumph, as far as Palestinians,…

        The Newsweek story that the Pentagon is considering the “Salvador option” for Iraq has gotten much play in progressive circles,…

I first met Ward Churchill when I was working at South End Press twenty five years ago and Ward submitted his first…

(The article below is an account of the genesis, experiences and accomplishments of the David Cobb/Pat LaMarche 2004 Green Party Presidential/Vice-Presidential campaign.…

As George W. Bush is inaugurated for a second term, let it not be said that people in the United States silently…

Jan. 4, 2005 at his office in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA.   [Transcript lightly edited by Noam Chomsky…

“The story today is going to be very discouraging to the American people,” President Bush said at a news conference Wednesday, hours…

“Agitation: discussion meant to arouse or increase dissatisfaction with things as they are and produce changes; work of an agitator.”  Webster’s New…