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I was glad to open the New York Times last Monday and see the headline: Ć¢€ÅIn SteinbeckĆ¢€ā¢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 administrationĆ¢€ā¢s foreign policy as Ć¢€ÅunilateralĆ¢€Ā and Ć¢€Åpreemptive.Ć¢€Ā Liberal pundits like to complain that a Ć¢€Ågo-it-aloneĆ¢€Ā 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…
Ā 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) Ā 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: Ć¢€ÅFormer President Bill ClintonĆ¢€ā¢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 Ć¢€ĖsuccessfulĆ¢€ā¢ Sharm el-Sheikh summit in Egypt on February 8 was anything but a triumph, as far as Palestinians,…
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā 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. Ā [Transcript lightly edited by Noam Chomsky…
Ć¢€ÅThe story today is going to be very discouraging to the American people,Ć¢€Ā 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.” Ā Webster’s New…
[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…
