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Schechter: Media Complicity in Financial Crimes
Sep 01, 2010
When you connect the dots in your writing or look for deeper explanations behind the decisions of policymakers, market makers and media-makers, it’s easy to be dismissed as a conspiracy nut.
Engler: CSIS/MOSSAD
Aug 31, 2010
Is the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) trying to intimidate and spy on pro-Palestinian Canadians? Do they share this information with Mossad?
Gordon: McCarthy in Israel
Aug 30, 2010
On May 31, I joined some 50 students and faculty members who gathered outside Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to demonstrate against the Israeli military assault on the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid toward Gaza. In response, the next day a few hundred students marched toward the social-sciences building, Israeli flags in hand. Amid the nationalist songs and pro-government chants, there were also shouts demanding my resignation from the university faculty.
Bennis: Mosque Hysteria
Aug 29, 2010
At its core, the controversy surrounding the proposed Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan is not about religion. It’s about war.
Jensen: Illegal & Immoral Wars
Aug 28, 2010
When the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division rolled out of Iraq last week, the colonel commanding the brigade told a reporter that his soldiers were “leaving as heroes.”
Glick: Rethinking Gandhi
Aug 27, 2010
I first learned of and read about Mahatma Gandhi in 1968 when I was a student at Grinnell College in Iowa, around the time that Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed on April 4th. That was the event which got me going on my now-42-years-long life of political and social activism.
Bohmer: Olympia Food Coop Israel Boycott
Aug 26, 2010
The decision by the board of the Olympia Food Coop to not buy Israeli made goods and boycott them is a positive and important contribution towards ending the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Gordon: Is the State Loyal?
Aug 25, 2010
Several weeks ago, hundreds of students demonstrated in front of Ben-Gurion University’s administration building. About a third of the protestors were expressing their opposition to the government’s decision to attack the relief flotilla, while the remaining two thirds came to support the government. At one point the pro-government protesters began chanting: ‘No citizenship without loyalty!’
Glover: Visiting Gerardo
Aug 24, 2010
From the Ontario California airport some 60 miles east of downtown Los Angeles we drove north on Highway 15, the road to Las Vegas. Cars with expectant amateur gamblers and loaded big rigs climb and descend the mountains where the Angeles and San Bernadino National Forests meet.
Bond: S. African Public Sector Strike
Aug 23, 2010
The two major civil service unions on strike against the South African government vow to intensify pressure in coming days, in a struggle pitting a million members of the middle and lower ranks of society against a confident government leadership fresh from hosting the World Cup.
Cohn: California Human Rights
Aug 22, 2010
On August 9, the California Assembly took the historic step of becoming the first state to agree to publicize the text of three ratified U.N. human rights treaties, and to submit the required reports to the State Department for consideration by the U.N. treaty committees. The State Assembly voted to pass ACR120, the Human Rights Reporting legislation, by a vote of 52 to 11, with 16 abstentions. The legislation will now move to the state Senate.
Hayden: Will Iraq Invite US to Stay?
Aug 21, 2010
While the Obama administration struggles to keep its pledge to end the Iraq war, a behind-the-scenes plan is developing in which the Baghdad regime “invites” the American military to stay.
Boyle: Israeli Apartheid State
Aug 20, 2010
I'm not going to go through the entire history of the Israeli divestment/disinvestment movement, except to say that in the late summer of 2002 the President of Harvard, Larry Summers accused those of us Harvard alumni involved in the Harvard divestment campaign of being anti-Semitic.
Pilger: Why Wikileaks Must Be Protected
Aug 19, 2010
On 26 July, Wikileaks released thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan. Cover-ups, a secret assassination unit and the killing of civilians are documented.
Wallerstein: Latin American Contradictions
Aug 18, 2010
Latin America has been the success story of the world left in the first decade of the twenty-first century. This is true in two senses. The first and most widely-noticed way is that left or left-of-center parties have won a remarkable series of elections during the decade. And collectively, Latin American governments have taken for the first time a significant degree of distance from the United States. Latin America has become a relatively autonomous geopolitical force on the world scene
Solomon: Petraeus Media War
Aug 17, 2010
It’s already history. In mid-August 2010, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan launched a huge media campaign to prevent any substantial withdrawal of military forces the next summer.
Bond: Africa Looting & WTO
Aug 16, 2010
The continent’s own elites, together with the West and now China are still making Africans progressively poorer, thanks to the extraction of raw materials. Reinvestment is negligible and the prices, royalties and taxes paid are inadequate to compensate the wasting away of Africa’s natural wealth. Anti-extraction campaigns by (un)civil society are the only hope for a reversal of these neocolonial relations.
Jamal: Wikileaks & Imperial Press
Aug 15, 2010
The release of some 70,000 + files from the Afghanistan War has been treated by most corporate media as, at best, a minor irritant, and worst, an act of treason.
Guma: Pacifica Radio’s Plight
Aug 14, 2010
A lot has happened since I left my job as Pacifica Radio’s Executive Director at the end of 2007.
Blum: Things Which Don't Go Away
Sep 02, 2010
But no American should be allowed to forget that the nation of Iraq, the society of Iraq, have been destroyed, ruined, a failed state.