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A People’s History of Sports in the U.S.
Dave Zirin
“1968. There was never a year when the world of sports and politics collided so breathlessly,” writes Dave Zirin. And nothing symbolized that year more than the iconic image of medal winners Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the podium with their raised black gloved fists at the Mexico City Olympics. They also wore no […]
Casino Capitalism
Richard Wolff
F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby, his signature novel about the Roaring Twenties, wrote, “They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures. Then they retreated back into their money, or their great carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together. They retreated and let other people clean up the messes they […]
Terrorism: No Easy Answers
Arundhati Roy
There are myriad types of terrorism. But the focus is highly selective. 200,000 Indian farmers killing themselves because of debt or 4,000 children dying every day around the world because of no access to clean water are not considered. Nor are massacres of Muslims in the Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra or of Sikhs […]
Free Tibet
Tenzin Tsundue
Tibet is the inspiration behind the idea of Shangrila, paradise on earth. Scholars can debate the veracity of that. But today Tibet, in the words of the Dalai Lama, its spiritual leader, is “hell on earth” and “these 50 years have brought untold suffering and destruction to the land and people of Tibet. Today, the religion, culture, language and […]
Pakistan: Failed State or Failed Leaders?
Fatima Bhutto
Almost since its inception in 1947 Pakistan has been in the orbit of U.S. power. Billions have flowed to a succession of military dictators and corrupt civilian regimes. Today, Pakistan, armed with nuclear weapons, is on the verge of economic and political collapse. It is called “the next Somalia.” American bombing of Pakistan is a […]
Food Justice
Vandana Shiva
The global financial debacle has drowned out coverage of the rise in food prices. There are billion-dollar bailouts for banks while the poor go hungry. A billion people around the world face food insecurity. The crisis has arisen from a mix of speculation and deregulation, promotion of inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides, the diversion […]
Dr. King and the American Dream
Michael Eric Dyson
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr has been branded and packaged. The sharp edge has been largely replaced with a dull and unthreatening one. King moved way beyond his poetic “I Have a Dream” speech to a radical societal analysis. His ideas in his last few years have been glossed over and sanitized. This is what […]
Pakistan: Environment in Crisis
Najma Sadeque
Pakistan is much in the news. Almost all the attention is on its perilous security situation. But it is also beset with acute environmental problems. Typical of many post colonial countries, Pakistan went headlong into a western model of industrial development. Big dams were seen as an elixir. Now, most of those dams are silting […]
Endless Consumption: The Party’s Over
Richard Heinberg
The global financial crisis may mark the demise of the salad days of mindless shopping on multiple credit cards. The squeeze and contraction could have a positive effect. It can be seen as an opportunity for a genuine change in consumption patterns as well as recovering the concept of sacred earth, once so prevalent among […]
Inside the Company: CIA Diary
Philip Agee
In the cavernous marble and glass lobby of CIA HQs in Langley, Virginia there is an inscription etched into the wall. Not some patriotic slogan, but words from the Gospel of John: “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” No matter who is president, particularly since 1945, there has […]
War Reporting
Robert Fisk
State-organized muzzling of the media began with the American invasion of Grenada in 1983, then came Panama in 1989. Two years later, by the time the First Gulf War came around, the White House and the Pentagon had an iron grip on the free press. What’s curious is that with few exceptions how willing the […]
Swimming with the Sharks: The U.S. Economy
Kevin Phillips
Since the end of World War II, almost automatically, each generation is expected to be better off than the previous one. No more. The American economy is in decline. The rapidity of the collapse has been startling by historical standards. Thanks to reckless bi-partisan policies at home and endless imperialism and militarism overseas the salad […]

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