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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 […]
Vietnam: War Crimes
Deborah Nelson
Vietnam never really goes away and one should never forget Laos and Cambodia. It’s a huge stain on the American conscience. The Vietnamese were reduced to gooks and dinks who lived in hooches in Indian country. They were herded into strategic hamlets. Their lands were turned into free-fire zones and carpet bombed. They were subjected […]
Dateline: Middle East
Rami Khouri
It’s embarrassing. Despite decades of military invasions, occupations and intervention it is remarkable how little most Americans know about the Middle East. Do people recall how the Eisenhower administration destroyed democracy in Iran or Washington’s close alliance with Saddam Hussein? Do people realize that Arabs are Semites and to call them anti-Semitic is an oxymoron? […]
Whither Pakistan?
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Reports of Pakistan’s impending collapse are frequent. It helps to know a little history. After Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in 2007 there was a wave of tributes. A lot was left out. She was dismissed twice as prime minister for corruption. Her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, was at the center of scandals and went to jail. […]
Health Care Reform
Steffie Woolhandler
Discussions around health care reform at times border on the hysterical. Relentless misrepresentations and lies are the keys to successful propaganda. Stoked by talk show hosts and politicians, there are wild allegations about death panels and killing granny. Why is there so much anger and fear around health care? In times of bankruptcies, foreclosures and […]
Manufacturing Consent
Noam Chomsky
The media like to present themselves as objective, balanced and free from any bias or agenda. Reality suggests something quite different. The media function as weapons of mass distraction. Much of what passes as news is, sometimes subtle, sometimes crude, propaganda. The media are large conglomerates that serve to mobilize support for the special interests […]
Betraying Nature
David Suzuki
Our planet and its people are in peril. Diminishing fresh water supplies, destruction of forests, polluted air, species extinction at an unparalleled rate, and a toxic petrochemical environment are all clear signals that things are going seriously haywire. And climate change, the impacts of which are already evidenced at an accelerating pace, threatens environmental devastation […]
The Politics of Health Care
Ralph Nader
More than six decades after President Franklin D. Roosevelt articulated “the right to adequate medical care and opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health,” the United States, virtually alone among wealthy nations, does not have universal health care coverage. The health care system is sick, failing, expensive, and inefficient. Its attendant paperwork and mumbo jumbo […]

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