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Torture: Stripping Bare the Body
Mark Danner
A former president of Haiti, once observed that political violence “strips bare the social body” allowing us “to place the stethoscope and track the real life beneath the skin.” This stripping bare produces a “moment of nudity” that presents an opportunity to place the stethoscope against the naked skin and listen to the reality beneath. […]
Poverty and Human Rights
Irene Khan
The problem of the world’s poor is at its core a human rights issue. The worldwide economic downturn is working its way through every level of the global economy. Many people in the industrialized West are experiencing its negative effects with loss of jobs, savings, and homes. But the recession’s impact on people in the […]
Empire of Illusion
Chris Hedges
Many sectors of the media and the general culture form veritable weapons of mass distraction. Maybe they should be monitored to protect citizens with regular inspections from the United Nations. Perhaps the Surgeon General should label TV programs the same way she labels cigarettes and alcohol. So while we are enduring yet another episode of […]
Imperialism in the Age of Obama
John Pilger
The election of Barack Obama was greeted in many circles with a combination of relief and euphoria. It was of course historic. But does Obama represent a genuine change from the previous regime? Eloquence and charisma, while attractive qualities are not policy. Obama is imbued with the same imperial mentality that prevails in Washington in […]
Capitalism and Health
Stephen Bezruchka
Is health care a right or just another commodity, subject to market fluctuations, to be bought and sold? As long ago as 1944, FDR said that health care was a right. A few years later, Truman tried to advance a national health plan. He got nowhere. Our health care system is located in a political […]
Thinking Outside the Box
Helena Norberg-Hodge
The current economic system, with its almost total disregard for nature, is steamrolling both people and the planet. Profits uber alles inevitably will lead to social and ecological breakdowns. Bold, innovative ideas are needed to repair and nurture the earth. The traditional path of growth for growth’s sake and conventional notions of development require urgent […]
Economy, Ecology & Empire
John Bellamy Foster
George Orwell once observed, “To see what is in front of your nose needs a constant struggle.” Certainly when it comes to the interrelated crises in the economy, the environment and imperialism that seems to hold true. The obvious eludes most citizens. The media divert people’s attention or simply fail to provide crucial information. And […]
GI Resistance
Dahr Jamail
At Nuremberg the plea of, “I was just following orders” was not accepted by the tribunal. That raises the question: What are soldiers to do when faced with orders they know to be against international law and basic morality? Today, reports of U.S. troops refusing orders, of active duty soldiers refusing deployment and speaking out […]
Conservatism: Making Government Fail
Thomas Frank
Ronald Reagan led the rhetorical charge against government. It was the Reagan Revolution. Remember his 1981 inaugural address when he said, “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Reagan ushered in the era of free market ideology, unfettered and unregulated capitalism, tax cuts for the wealthy, supply side economics and […]
Afghanistan: Endless War
Norman Solomon
Operation Enduring Freedom, the name of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan is looking more like Operation Enduring Disaster. The New York Times reported, “General McChrystal’s plan is a blueprint for an extensive American commitment to build a modern state in Afghanistan, where one has never existed, and to bring order to a place famous for […]
What Do Afghans Want?
Medea Benjamin
Afghanistan is “a war of necessity,” Obama tells us. One of the justifications for the invasion was to liberate Afghan women from Taliban oppression. As Arundhati Roy of India commented, “We are being asked to believe the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.” Beyond puppets in Kabul, we hear little from Afghans themselves. […]
In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan
The Time magazine cover story, The Real Cost of Cheap Food, says, “Horror stories about the food industry have long been with us ever since 1906 when Upton Sinclair’s landmark novel The Jungle exposed how America produces its meat. In the century that followed, things got much better, and in some ways much worse. Big […]

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