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Author: Poll: Venezuelans Have Highest Regard for Their Democracy
Dec 20, 2006
Venezuelans view their democracy more favorably than the citizens of all other Latin American countries view their own democracies, except Uruguay, according to a new survey released by the Chilean NGO Latinbarometro last Saturday. Also, Venezuela is in f
Albert: Hello Hugo
Dec 14, 2006
Have you ever felt like there are things you want to know about what someone thinks that would matter for the lives of many people and yet you have no way to get the answers? You can't call the person on the phone and ask their views. The person doesn't h
Author: My Friends Are Being Tortured In Zimbabwe
Dec 01, 2006
Several years ago, I and a number of other African American individuals came under attack for our public criticism of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and his repressive regime. Some African American activists who have been outstanding champions of the
Author: THE INSURANCE COMPANIES' PLAN FOR COVERING THE UNINSURED
Nov 30, 2006
In a plan revealed November 13th, less than a week after the historic election of a new Congress, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) called for more hundreds of billions of dollars to be provided by the federal government to pay for the uninsured - a
Author: Hugo Chavez Gains An Ecuadoran Ally
Nov 29, 2006
Ecuador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal is still counting the votes in the November 26 presidential runoff election but the results seem clear - with one-half of them tallied so far they show: the peoples' candidate, Rafael Correa, 68% and the bible-toting b
Albert: What, Actually, would it mean to win?
Nov 28, 2006
Winning could mean a lot of things. It could mean that we won an end to a war, or to the IMF or World Bank. Or it could refer to winning higher wages, better work conditions, open information in a workplace, affirmative action for race or gender, or new e
Author: Alternative media can balance establishment's experts
Nov 25, 2006
The late political philosopher Isaiah Berlin coined the term ''secular priesthood'' to describe Russian commissars who were apologists for Stalin's crimes. Later, MIT Professor Noam Chomsky adapted the term to characterize their counterpart in contemporar
Author: How to Turn This Election Into a Progressive Mandate
Nov 06, 2006
Many pundits are comparing the expected Democratic victory in the upcoming election to the Newt Gingrich-led Republican triumph of 1994, an election in which the GOP gained 52 House seats and ended 40 years of Democratic majority in that chamber.
Author: The Erosion of Democracy and Freedom in America
Oct 05, 2006
On December 8, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the US Congress the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He said that "date....will live in infamy" because of what the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan did. Two and one-hal
Author: Journalism, Wall Street Journal-Style
Sep 26, 2006
It takes great courage to venture onto the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal - especially on Fridays when Mary Anastasia O'Grady's Americas column appears. This is a woman who surely will have a serious back problem one day resulting from her pe
Author: ÒDevilÓ is in the Details: Chavez, Limbaugh and Name-Calling
Sep 24, 2006
Across the U.S. political and media spectrum, there was wide agreement yesterday: Name-calling and personal attacks are bad for national and global dialogue. Prompting the unity were Venezuelan President Hugo ChavezÕ comments that President Bush was the
Albert: Solidarity and Participatory Economics Friends or Foes?
Sep 15, 2006
In a recent article appearing on ZNet, Ethan Miller argues passionately and effectively on behalf of a movement that has developed in Latin America and to an extent also in Europe, called Òsolidarity economics.Ó What is this movement about? And what is th
Author: Globalization and terror
Sep 10, 2006
The bomb attacks in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005 raised the issue of racism especially starkly for politicians in Europe as well as for their North American and Pacific allies. No matter how they spin it, the fundamental question they face is whether
Author: Wrong War, Wrong Word
Aug 30, 2006
If you control the language, you control the debate. As the Bush Administration's Middle Eastern policy sinks ever deeper into bloody incoherence, the "war on terror" has been getting a quiet linguistic makeover. It's becoming the "war on Islamic fascism.
Author: Mexico Rising: Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Aug 01, 2006
(Mexico City -- July 30, 2006) The sea of yellow swept through the veins of Mexico City en route to the Zocalo on Sunday, the platelets returning to the heart. Yellow for clean elections; amarillo for democracy, as manifest in the candidacy of Andres Man
Author: Palestinian Diaspora Is Cause of Conflict
Jul 30, 2006
To grasp what's happening in the Middle East requires understanding two intertwined matters that are largely absent in mainstream media coverage and pro-Israeli government commentaries.
Ali: A Protracted Colonial War
Jul 22, 2006
In his last interview - after the 1967 six-day war - the historian Isaac Deutscher, whose next-of-kin had died in the Nazi camps and whose surviving relations lived in Israel, said: "To justify or condone Israel's wars against the Arabs is to render Israe
Author: Christians Who Want Democracy Must Stop Bowing to a Dictator Christ
Jul 10, 2006
Whereas American theology was born out of a hope for democracy, much of it is wedded to a picture of Christ as a benevolent dictator. Should we be surprised that a hierarchical cosmology would produce hierarchical churches and nations? Should we be surpri
Author: 1491: The Truth About the Americas Before Columbus
Jul 09, 2006
UpsideDownWorld.org
Dec 21, 2006
Anthony Arnove is the author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal, just published in an updated paperback edition, with a foreword by Howard Zinn, in the American Empire Project (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt) (http://www.americanempireproject.com/bookpage.as