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Prospects for Peace and Palestine
Naseer Aruri
The Oslo Accord between the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization was signed in Washington on September 13, 1993. The gala event, featuring Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, generated much media fanfare. The New York Times called it “the handshake that shook the world.” Now that the euphoria has subsided, it is clear […]
Workers & the Challenge of Globalization
Dana Frank
Globalization poses acute challenges for workers. While corporations go transnational, workers remain national. In a race to find cheap labor, businesses move to Third World countries. Unions are largely defenseless in the new economic order. Along with a decline in membership has come an erosion in the standard of living for most workers, whose real […]
Faithful Peacemaking in a War-Making State
Daniel Berrigan
Berrigan outlines a grammar of dissent and calls for an ethical housecleaning of the “Just War” theory. Just War is invoked to give a moral and juridical guise to a war one intends to wage for reasons different than stated. When this happens, “We are called to be conscientious objectors to war,” and “put the […]
Houshamadyan: Armenian Memory Books
Khatchig Mouradian
April 24th marks the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. I grew up in the 1950s in New York in the shadow of that tragedy. I was surrounded by survivors named Garabedian, Giragosian, Hagopian and others who always spoke fondly of “yergeer,” the country they were forced to abandon. My mother, Araxie, was from Dubneh, […]
Double Standards: U.S. Middle East Policy
Rami Khouri
The dictionary defines a double standard as a rule or principle applied more strictly to some than to others. Double standards are seen as unjust because they violate fairness, that everyone is equal before the law. When this basic principle is violated, it creates anger and resentment. U.S. policy in the Middle East has long […]
A Case for Reasonable Doubt
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Radio documentary produced by Noelle Hanrahan from the film produced by John Edginton and co-produced by Sarah Teale for Otmoor Productions broadcast HBO and channel 4 (UK)
The Political Economy of Policing
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
At nearly two million Americans behind bars and counting, the United States leads the world in imprisoning its own population. Along with record levels of incarceration, there has been a boom in prison construction. An extensive prison-industrial complex is now an integral part of the economy. Private companies use prison labor to enhance their profits. […]
Iraq: Eyewitness to War
Kathy Kelly
US diplomacy has evolved into, “You do what we say, or else.” Gung-ho machismo is the order of the day. Bush intones, “Bring ’em on.” And “There will be no retreat.” The president announces that by invading and occupying Iraq the world is safer. Can anyone believe this? Sure. If you only watch corporate TV […]
In Defense of Government
Elaine Bernard
George Bush likes to talk about an ownership society in the United States, a place where more people own property, businesses and shares of stock. The president says we can get there by cutting taxes and by reducing regulation of commerce and industry. Except for the military, government is the bad guy who should get […]
Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister
bell hooks
Recorded at Simon Fraser University.
Wealth and Democracy
Kevin Phillips
The French have a theory that behind every great fortune lies a great crime. The recent corporate crime wave certainly lends credence to that idea. Corporations & the individuals who own them use their money and power to exert an inordinate influence on national politics, thus undermining democracy. Rather than government of, for and by […]
Poetry Reading
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders and Nanao Sakaki at Naropa University

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