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The Other September 11: Chile, 1973
Peter Kornbluh
September 11 is now engraved on the consciousness of Americans. Yet for the South American country of Chile, the date has a different and much more tragic significance. It was on that day in 1973 that the democratically-elected government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a CIA-backed military coup. Augusto Pinochet seized power. In the […]
How I Became An Activist
Michael Parenti
In the Spanish of the American Southwest a palito is a piece of kindling wood that ignites the larger logs. What is that palito that sparks a passive citizen to become an activist? We are all products of many influences. One big factor for me (AR’s David Barsamian) was my uncle Sarkis Hagopian. He wasn’t […]
Education: The Shame of the Nation
Jonathan Kozol
Almost four years ago, and with much fanfare, President Bush signed the “No Child Left Behind” law. It placed sweeping new requirements on schools, teachers and students for greater accountability and improved performance on standardized tests. But the new mandates did not come with enough new money. And the narrow focus on testing for a […]
Drugs & War
Peter Andreas
The drugs and war nexus is an old story involving not just criminal gangs but states. Just go back to the U.S. wars in Vietnam and Laos in the 1960s and 70s or in Central America in the 1980s or more recently in Afghanistan to see the connections. Alliances with drug dealers and cartels were […]
Weaponizing Religious Freedom
Andrew Seidel
The separation of church and state has long been a cornerstone of American democracy. The Founders of the Republic, Jefferson, Madison, et al, insisted on a secular government unencumbered by religious dogma. However, in recent years decisions by a conservative-dominated Supreme Court have increasingly blurred that barrier. How has this happened? Enter Leonard Leo and […]
India’s Covid Catastrophe
Jayati Ghosh
The news from India is grim. A Covid wave is sweeping the country, inflicting widespread misery and deaths. Government figures of Covid-related fatalities are widely seen as very much underreported. India may soon pass the U.S. as the global leader in deaths. Analysts say that the country wasn’t prepared to handle the surge. Hospitals have […]
Radical Views from the Global South
Vijay Prashad
The concept of Global North and Global South are not geographical terms but rather describe a grouping of countries along economic lines. The Global South, previously called the Third World, is a term used to identify lower-income countries on one side of the so-called divide, the other side being the countries of the Global North […]
Human Rights & Democracy in the Middle East
Sarah Leah Whitson
The Middle East is in turmoil. The hope and promise of the 2011 Arab Spring are now a distant memory. The toppling of the decrepit Mubarak regime in Egypt was greeted by many Egyptians with joy. But that elation didn’t last long. Since 2014, Egypt is ruled by General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Sisi has changed […]
Race, Gender & Class Struggle
Michael Parenti
Albert Einstein once said that it is easier to split the atom than to crack a prejudice. Prejudices abound about all cultures and societies. In the U.S., we pretend there is no class or that we are almost all satisfied members of the middle-class. Class struggle? What’s that about? Are you some kind of Marxist? […]
The Illusion of Growth
Vandana Shiva
In this interview with David Barsamian following her Seeds of Freedom keynote speech at the 8th Annual Traditional Agriculture & Sustainable Living Conference in New Mexico, Dr. Shiva questions the notion of growth and the idea of the world as a machine.
Economic Warfare: From Argentina to Iraq
Naomi Klein
Warfare does not only occur on battlefields. There’s another kind that is waged in corporate boardrooms and in the suites of the IMF and World Bank. Its lethality and casualties are different from conventional warfare. Workers lose their jobs or are forced to work for lower wages. Public services are rolled back and cut. Hard […]
History as Mystery
Michael Parenti
One of America’s leading progressive thinkers discusses his book History as Mystery. He demonstrates how history’s victors distort and suppress the truth to perpetuate their power and privilege. In his inimitable and incisive style, he examines class biases of pack historians and why they mystify the past, historians’ debt to Marx, the strange death of Zachary Taylor, conspiracy theories, psychohistory, […]

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