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The Case of Sacco & Vanzetti
Howard Zinn
From Massachusetts to California, immigrants today are the target of government raids and deportations. A massive wall is being built between Mexico and the United States. Armed vigilantes, self-styled Minutemen, patrol the border. U.S. history has been marked by periodic outbursts of anti-immigrant racism fueled by jingoism. One notorious example was the case of the […]
Challenging Empire: U.S Middle East Policy
Phyllis Bennis
“Saddam Hussein and his weapons are a direct threat to this country,” warned President Bush just two weeks before launching the war. U.S. troops will be greeted as “liberators,” the Vice President predicted. A servile press corps, perhaps better called a press corpse, went along and asked few questions. Washington invades Iraq on totally false […]
Apocalypse Now: Christian Fundamentalism
Chip Berlet
Fundamentalist preachers and doctrines have for long been part of the American landscape. In recent years, starting with Billy Graham, they have moved prominently into the political arena with bromides and nostrums on domestic and foreign policy. Take Pastor John Hagee, a Texas-based evangelical. He broadcasts on radio and TV and has reportedly millions of […]
White Supremacy, Patriarchy, & Capitalism
Robert Jensen
There is a close connection between who rules and who benefits. Today in the U.S the gap between rich and everyone else has reached levels not seen since the 1890s. Tax breaks and tax cuts have enabled the top 1% to corner 20% of the nation’s income and more than 40% of the wealth. Those […]
Cable News Confidential
Jeff Cohen
The advent of CNN, the first 24/7 news channel in 1980, was hailed as a revolutionary development in media. It was soon to be followed by others. The results have not been encouraging. Most of the so-called news consists of fluff pieces on celebrity deaths, divorces, marriages, adoptions, babies, affairs and kidnappings. Recall Fox’s Geraldo […]
Deep Economy
Bill McKibben
Public opinion on global warming has dramatically shifted. Perhaps it was the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” or people finally feeling the heat. Eleven out of the dozen years from 1995-2006 were among the 12 hottest on record. A recent poll reveals 86% of respondents favored action to deal with the problem. An authoritative UN report […]
Jihad: Theirs and Ours
Tariq Ali
Now in its fifth year, how is “mission accomplished” in Iraq going? The National Intelligence Estimate says, “The Iraq conflict has become the ’cause celebre’ for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement.” A newly released study “Iraq Effect” reports the war […]
Journalism That Matters
P. Sainath
Journalism is in decline. At the pop tabloid end there is “People” magazine. It assigns seven reporters to cover the latest activities of Britney Spears. Then there is the high brow, serious genre. In this realm, powerful seductive forces lure journalists away from actual journalism. A system of perks and privileges keep reporters tethered. If […]
Dateline: Tehran
Nader Talebzadeh
No doubt wanting to build on its “enormous successes” and “progress” according to Dick Cheney in Iraq and Afghanistan the Bush administration is now threatening Iran with war. For the propaganda masters, it’s a dream. All they have to do is change the q in Iraq to an n and they are good to go. […]
Palestine: The Iron Cage
Rashid Khalidi
How was Israel able to forge a state while the Palestinians have been unable to? A key element in establishing Israel was British colonial control of Palestine and the 1917 Balfour Declaration. In 1936-39 the Palestinians rose up in revolt against their British masters. Key cadres were killed and exiled. Thus crucially in the decisive […]
Culture, Language, Media & Meaning
Amiri Baraka
Culture is an area of conflict and contention. Supposedly top Nazi Hermann Goering once said, “Whenever I hear the word ‘culture’ I reach for my gun.” In the U.S. in recent decades there are cultural wars over books, movies, language and lifestyles. It’s the grist for many a radio and TV show. Listeners and viewers […]
South America Rising
Noam Chomsky
From one end of the continent to the other, South America is rising. After centuries of colonial, semi-colonial rule and Monroe Doctrine U.S. gunboat diplomacy and coups, the erstwhile “banana republics” are saying, “Basta!” With Chavez in Venezuela and Morales in Bolivia taking the lead, they are being joined by Correa in Ecuador, and to […]

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