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This article is the foreword to David Swanson's new book, War No More: The Case for Abolition. I lived in Iraq during…
We have held on to this statement out of fear that the Egyptian authorities would harm Tarek and John if we released…
Dear Hope, Who the hell is Hope? Hope is, hopefully, you. But, if you are over 50, or perhaps over 40, maybe…
Noam Chomsky is the Institute Professor and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. The most cited living source…
Political conflict, or even just political activity, typically has three broad types. 1. Activity aimed at changing occupants of positions of power. …
As part of an ongoing series of interviews for the radio show "Le Mur a Des Oreilles; conversations for Palestine", Frank Barat talks…
Many US media commentators were fairly accurate in labeling some of the language used by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his recent…
In its most recent world public opinion survey, the Pew Research Centre found that āinternational financial instabilityā is considered a major threat…
Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author, weighs in on today’s 12th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks and…
Now that public pressure has foiled U.S. plans to bomb Syria, the next urgent step is to build public pressure for stopping…
As AFL-CIO leaders packed up to leave Los Angeles last Wednesday, they basked in the glow of favorable media coverage of their…
When we sat down to talk with 60-year old Gayle McLaughlin, the mayor of Richmond, Calif., she had just been through a…
The distance between Gaza and Ramallah in sheer miles is hardly significant. But in actuality, both cities represent two different political realities,…
In a national address from the White House Tuesday night, President Obama announced he is delaying a plan to strike Syria while…
I have recently returned from two weeks in Caracas. I visited with Greg Wilpert (of Venezuela Analysis) and Omar Sierra (of Venezuela’s…
I’ve only been to two national AFL-CIO conventions in forty years of union activity. The one four years ago was pretty dreary—setting…
On August 15, the Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, announced that he is abandoning plans for an internationally funded conservation program for the Yasuni…
Many senators began this week still uncommitted on whether they’ll vote for attacking Syria. Among the fence-sitters are enough “progressives” to swing…
Ceasefire (Frank Barat): What is the definition of negotiations in Israel-US language and why is the Palestinian Authority playing along? Noam Chomsky:…
No matter how many times we’ve seen it before, the frenzy for launching a military attack on another country is — to…
It was September 19, 2002, and US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was scheduled to address the Senate Armed Services Committee about…
Like many labor negotiators, I looked to health care reform for legislative relief from endless haggling with management over employee benefit costs.…
Grassroots pressure has forced President Obama to seek approval from Congress for an attack on Syria. But Obama is hell-bent on ordering…
The British Parliament’s rejection of an attack on Syria is a direct contrast — and implicit challenge — to the political war…
In the run-up to their convention next month in Los Angeles, top AFL-CIO officials have welcomed closer ties with non-labor groups and…
Without whistleblowers, the mainline media outlets are more transfixed than ever with telling the official story. And at a time like this,…
The northern hemisphere summer has just peaked and though the torrid heat is now ebbing, it is evident the climate crisis is…
“On April 4, 1967, exactly a year before he was killed, Dr. King named ‘materialism’ as one of the deadly triplets afflicting…
One of the most striking features of the current Egyptian crisis has been the response by most of the US Left and…
August 28 will mark the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Publicly associated with Dr. King’s…
Dear President Obama: As commander in chief, you’ve been responsible for the treatment of the most high-profile whistleblower in the history of…
“Blowback" is a lesson the United States government should have learned in the mountains of Afghanistan, the streets of Iraq and the…
In Oslo, the world’s most important peace prize has been hijacked for war. In London, government authority has just fired a new…
Here’s a thought: hundreds of local climate activists around the country running for federal, state and local offices in 2014, doing so…
Chapter Seven – the Logic of Revolution This is the last chapter of the book Occupy Strategy – which is the third…
In a powerful speech, Chomsky lays out how the majority of US policies are practically opposite of what wide swathes of the…
The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks beginning in Jerusalem proceed within a framework of assumptions that merit careful thought. One prevailing assumption is that…
Two years ago I was among more than a thousand people who committed civil disobedience at the White House to oppose the…
Considering the off-putting reality, one fails to imagine a future scenario in which Yemen could avoid a full-fledged conflict or a civil…
The price of campaigning for union reform can be high. Dissidents in the U.S. labor movement have been fired, blacklisted, and beaten…
The headquarters of the Nobel Committee is in downtown Oslo on a street named after Henrik Ibsen, whose play “An Enemy of the…
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āA habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants.ā- Bertrand…
Chapter Six: Paths Ahead This is chapter six of the book Occupy Strategy – which is the third and concluding volume of…
Seasons come and go, yet Arab countries are in ongoing turmoil. They called it an ‘Arab Spring’, but even if that ‘spring’…
The critical moment in the political trial of the century was on 28 February when Bradley Manning stood and explained why he…
Declare a moratorium on drone strikes: The head of Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is calling on jihadists to retaliate for US drone strikes…
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RICHMOND, CA.–Last Friday and Saturday were busy days for progressive mayor Gayle McLaughlin, She’s the earnest, hard-working, and often embattled political…
Chapter 5: What Else Can You Show Me? This is chapter five of the book Occupy Strategy – which is the third…
