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Iraq: The Forever War
Noam Chomsky
Imperial powers have historically cooked up great reasons to sell their wars to their people. The standard litany for aggression is self-defense, freedom, liberty and democracy. The attack on Iraq was not a mistake. It was a crime. And criminals should be brought to justice. But we don’t have anyone in the political system that […]
Iran: All Options on the Table
Scott Ritter
George W. Bush proclaimed, “The action and policies of the Government of Iran continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.” That was part of executive order Bush issued extending the national emergency with respect to Iran. The leaders in Washington and those […]
Brave New India: Uprisings
Arundhati Roy
India is hot. Its meteoric rise as an economic power with a growing number of millionaires and billionaires is a great success story. Not quite. Politically, India has gone from its Nehru-inspired non-alignment to aligning itself with Washington. Its priorities mirror its mentor’s. 19% of the country’s budget goes to the military while education gets […]
Israel, Iran & the US: Treacherous Alliance
Trita Parsi
You know the old saw, politics makes strange bedfellows. How about this one? Israel, Iran and the U.S. Yep, hard to believe but true. For many years the three acted in close cooperation. It’s a story that’s barely known. And for good reason. It is inconvenient. It’s like being reminded that the U.S. supported Saddam […]
Iraq: Beyond the Green Zone
Dahr Jamail
The Green Zone is a special highly privileged area in Baghdad. It is heavily fortified and surround by high blast-resistant walls. It has everything most Iraqis lack: a steady supply of clean drinking water, sanitation and sewage services, lots of gas and most important electricity. The U.S. is now building its largest embassy in the […]
The Corporate Takeover of Water
Deborah Kaufman, Alan Snitow
Remember Pete Seeger’s classic song, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” A new version of that may be “Where Has All the Water Gone?” Scientists have identified large areas of the planet as “hot stains,” that is regions of the earth running out of clean, drinkable water. Our most precious natural resource is imperiled. Rising […]
The Meaning of Freedom
Angela Davis
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve? Or if the candidates on the ballot are yoked to unjust power structures, what’s that? The freedom to vote? The colonies in Asia and Africa gained […]
The Small-Mart Revolution
Michael Shuman
The end of the 20th century saw an extraordinary change in scale in world trade. Supply lines became ever longer. We get water from Fiji, grapes from Chile and almost everything else from China. Corporate chain stores proliferate. Globalization is constructed on a foundation of cheap and endless oil, gas and coal. The environmental consequences […]
Invading the Middle East: Napoleon to Bush
Juan Cole
In 1798, France under Napoleon, invaded Egypt. In 2003, the United States, under Bush, invaded Iraq. Both invasions were characterized by colossal ignorance and breathtaking arrogance. Both rulers were going to remake the map of the Middle East. The quest for domination was camouflaged behind a façade. Spreading the ideals of freedom, liberty and democracy […]
Kashmir: The Struggle for Freedom
Sanjay Kak
In 1947, the British partitioned India into India and Pakistan. One unsettled issue was then and remains now Kashmir. Once compared by a Moghul emperor to heaven on earth, today it is highly militarized zone with armed troops in the streets of the capital Srinagar. Kashmir’s towns and villages are dotted with garrisons, checkpoints, roadblocks, […]
India: States of Resistance
Vandana Shiva
Washington and its echo chambers in the media like Thomas Friedman never cease to extol the virtues of so-called free trade. So-called because it is heavily dependent on taxpayer subsidies. While well-paying jobs disappear in the United States and wages are stagnant, citizens fork over billions of dollars to top corporations to export their products. […]
The Terror Dream
Susan Faludi
9/11 was a double hijacking. First the actual event, and then the political hijacking engineered by an assortment of neocons, theocons, chicken hawks and born-again imperialists. Within weeks Afghanistan was attacked and occupied and plans were underway to invade Iraq, even though that country had nothing to do with 9/11. America, muscular and robust, fights […]

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