As Colin Powell explained the National Security Strategy (NSS) of September 2002 to a hostile audience at the World Economic Forum, Washington…

Venezuela’s presidential recall referendum was one of Latin America’s most historic electoral events of the past twenty five years. Such a statement…

Racism within U.S. institutions, law and culture is deeply imbedded in the history and reality of the United States going back to…

Understanding Cuban society objectively is incredibly difficult, given 45 years of unremitting US propaganda against Fidel Castro, the Cuban government and Cuban…

Most of the US’s recent wars were launched by Democratic presidents. Why expect better of Kerry? The debate between US liberals and…

The crows beat their wings against the bay windows, waiting to ascend and dive. Their cries are incessant; it is their apocalyptic…

It is hard not to believe that yesterday’s illegal and repressive arrest of approximately 200 peaceful sidewalk walkers across the street from…

I just saw a horror movie — “Bush’s Brain” — the new documentary based on a book with the same name by…

‘[W]hen you live in the United States, with the roar of the free market, the roar of this huge military power, the…

On August 22, 2004, a commission of leaders left the indigenous community of Toribio, part of the municipality of Toribio in the…

[This is a reply to an article by Noah Cohen, which in turn is a response to an interview Chomsky gave with Shalom…

On 6 May last, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution which,in effect, authorised a “pre-emptive” attack on Iran. The vote…

The nation’s top dog of war is frisky again. Donald Rumsfeld has returned to high visibility — after a couple of months…

At the time of writing (6am), the preliminary results of the Venezuelan referendum are in, courtesy of the National Electoral Council (CNE)…

Today is the day before the referendum. Not only is campaigning formally closed, but there is also a law in effect, quite…

Last night was the closing of the referendum campaign.  It closed with huge marches of the opposition and the chavistas.  They say…

It has been an interesting night and day. I have spent a substantial portion of the past 24 hours listening to Chavez…

We saw butterflies turning into bombers. And we weren’t dreaming. At the time when the Woodstock festival became an instant media legend…

Carlos Andres Perez, a former President of Venezuela and leader of the Venezuelan ‘opposition’ against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said in a…

MIT Professor Noam Chomsky is one of the world’s most perceptive social critics. I had the opportunity recently to ask him some…

In an oversimplified gesture of a defused crisis, Palestinian Authority President, Yasser Arafat and his Prime Minister, Ahmed Qurei kissed, hugged and…

In the first minute of his July 29 Democratic National Convention (DNC) acceptance speech, John Kerry told us that the Democratic Party…

No, hope does not gallop in like Paul Revere. And it certainly doesn’t arrive breathless from a corporate party convention. Movements…

I am constantly asked, nowadays, what should we do about the election? More often, I am told to work for Cobb, work…

Anyone who has been actively involved at a grassroots level in a progressive political campaign has probably done the nitty-gritty work of…

Ali Rodriguez is the president of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA. He is one of the Venezuelan Left’s main oil industry experts,…

With two words, the governor of California has managed to highlight the confluence of anti-gay bias and misogyny. Open contempt for “girlie…

Tom Ridge, the federal official in charge of defending the United States against terrorism, was on message when he told a July…

BRITAIN remains one of the few countries where documentaries are still shown on mainstream television in the hours when most people are…

“Political leadership is a matter of program, strategy and tactics, and not the color of those who lead it, their oneness of…

On 8 July, BBC television showed an outstanding documentary called The Boy from the Block. It is about Australia and opens with…

A recent Associated Press dispatch — headlined “Gadget May Help Sleepers Choose Dreams” — told the story of a new product that…

Based on a talk given to the ‘Nageh’ community group on June 11, 2004, in Toronto. Part 1 of 2. Go to…

Back to Part I From local ‘threats’ to global ‘threats’ Desmond Morton, another completely mainstream and conventional historian, nevertheless makes a good…

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one…

The Green Party of the United States took a huge step forward on Saturday, June 26th in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And it wasn’t…

This morning I mailed a form changing my party registration from “decline to state” to the Green Party. It’s a tiny individual…

When a federal judge compares George W. Bush to Benito Mussolini, is that newsworthy? After the conservative daily New York Sun…

Over the last year, I have been preoccupied, as so many of us have, with o­ne thing, Iraq. Iraq, as Bob Woodward…

For over a year, the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees has been working in Montreal to stop deportations against these…

First it was Reagan, now it is Clinton. The homage continues. When Reagan died, Gavin Esler, one of the BBC’s star reporters,…

A few months ago, the commander of the Venezuelan Army, Raul Baduel, described something that worried him (1). Colombia had just purchased…

I am going to make an argument for voting for the lesser evil, not always, but sometimes, and in particular this time…

1) In Poland a growing number of economists are in favour of free market ideology. They called themselves ‘anarchists’ or ‘libertarian’ economists.…

Oldenburg: In one chapter of your book Understanding Power – recently published in Germany under the title Eine Anatomie der Macht -…

With regard to the political system, the Reagan era represents a significant advance in capitalist democracy. For eight years, the U.S. government…

The D-Day anniversary and the election campaign have been a rich time for the kind of propaganda that marks the limits of…

Hal Draper’s “The Two Souls of Socialism” is a very interesting essay, even decades after its origin. It is flawed, however, in…

We have just passed the first anniversary of the President’s declaration of victory in Iraq. I won’t speak about what is happening…

This year, Ralph Nader’s presidential campaign has two trains running that will collide at an unfortunate intersection — the Green Party’s national…