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[A talk given in Ottawa on January 21 to an anti-imperialist group at the beginning of a national campaign against SNC-Lavalin, a…
The latest polls show that most Americans are critical of the war in Iraq. But the option of swiftly withdrawing all U.S.…
A system glorifies its winners. The mass media and the rest of corporate America are enthralled with professionals scaling career ladders to…
The swaths of South East Asia worst hit by the tsunami on December 26 and subsequent days have long been analogous with…
“This is the beginning of a long, important fight for our Democracy. We have to keep fighting! Thanks to you the PEOPLE’S…
The new year has scarcely begun, but Americans watching television have already heard a lot about God. Ā When Larry King interviewed…
Part 2 / Part 3 Ć¢€ÅPresident Alvaro Uribe badly wanted to show Colombians his only recent success: BushĆ¢€ā¢s re-election. But the US…
Part 1 / Part 3 Mass arrests by the army, paramilitary massacres and assassinations were among the ongoing effects of Uribe’s ‘democratic…
Part 1 / Part 2 Uribe returned to Europe – to Spain – at the end of May. As every tin-pot repressive…
(This article was put together with much assistance from colleagues who have been deeply involved in the Ohio recount.) Ć¢€ÅOur next governor…
Jesse Jackson and the Green Party are both on the progressive side of the political spectrum, but it’s still quite something to…
On December 17th Left Hook co-editor M. Junaid Alam met with Professor Noam Chomsky at his MIT office to get his thoughts…
When Democratic Party leaders move to the right, astute leftists quickly criticize them. The critique has three core components. One… watered down…
It goes without saying that what happens in the US has an enormous impact on the rest of the world ‘ and…
Maybe it’s just the circles I run in, but I sure haven’t seen too many signs of a demoralized Left since the…
The P.U.-litzer Prizes were established a dozen years ago to provide special recognition for truly smelly media performances. As usual, IĆ¢€ā¢ve conferred…
[This is a talk given in Rimini Italy at the Conference of the Pio Manzu Institute…on the occasion of Albert receiving the…
v In the summer of 1994, I was part of a four-person Christian Peacemaker Team dedicated to filing reports on human rights…
Early in the coldest season, optimists think of the day after solstice. It’s predictable: the hemisphere will start tilting toward more light…
For some people oĀn the left in the US, the Bush reelection was a speed bump, something that slows you down but…
For some people oĀn the left in the US, the Bush reelection was a speed bump, something that slows you down but…
With the death of Yasser Arafat, the leadership of the Palestinian movement has been thrown wide open. While the central question is…
July 14, 2004 in Cambridge, MA. Ziga Vodovnik: When somebody declares himself as an anarchist, he basically tells very little about his…
I am here to talk about economic vision. But it is September 11th, and I just came from the United States, and…
The elections of November 2004 have received a great deal of discussion, with exultation in some quarters, despair in others, and general…
There used to be two mainstream politicians with a spine in Canada.Ā Svend Robinson from British Columbia was a member of the…
When misleading buzzwords become part of the media landscape, they slant news coverage and skew public perceptions. That’s the story with the…
There continue to be credible allegations of fraud, particularly in the vote count in the state of Ohio, but most of the…
I am fortunate to live in the Newark, N.J. area. Because of it I’m a member of the People’s Organization for Progress,…
Edward S Herman’s landmark essay, “The Banality of Evil”, has never seemed more apposite. “Doing terrible things in an organized and systematic…
To engage the state one must answer two key questions. What do we want now? What do we want later? Regarding…
The conflict in Iraq has become a holy war. In both directions. On the surface, the most prominent headline on the New…
In the Spring of 2002, after the US had taken Afghanistan from the Taliban and handed it to the warlords, Israel launched…
If Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s illness and unexpected departure to France represents the end of an era, as some rashly noted, it…
I woke up, suffered through the news, and opened my email. This was the first message I read. “Seriously.. I don’t know…
Ralph Nader won’t receive more than 1 percent of the vote nationwide on Election Day, but he’s already the winner in a…
The Bush administration is poised to steal this election as it did the one in 2000. Thousands of voters, mostly African Americans,…
Reviewing: Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India A story of people at war over borders and boundariesA documentary film by Pervez Hoodbhoy…
Three forgotten, grainy films shot more than 40 years ago reveal the evidence of a crime committed by British governments against some…
We’re at a moment in history when progressives must work together — not with a false kind of unity that papers over…
I was struck by two emails that came my way a few days ago. One was an endorsement of John Kerry by…
[This is a talk given in Rimini Italy at the Conference of the Pio Manzu Institute…on the occasion of Albert receiving the…
With the presidential debates now behind us, the struggle for the White House will tilt even more toward decentralized media battles for…
As American labor began gearing up for the 2004 election, many activists joined high-profile protests a year ago against free trade, mistreatment…
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin gave a moving speech at the United Nations on September 22, 2004.Ā “Tens of thousands have been…
In 1983, the principal media in the Western world, which dominate much of the media in the rest of the world, were…
Peter Camejo was the first one I heard put it out, back in April: “Kerry will do what Bush wants to do…
We are assembled here in Beirut at a critical moment. It is a moment marked by crosscurrents: In Iraq, the US gets…
The following is an interview between Stephen Shalom and Matt Grinder of the Vancouver Participatory Economics Collective. Introduction: In the 2003 World…
The world is dividing into two hostile camps: Islam and “us”. That is the unerring message from western governments, press, radio and…
