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Author: The Night Hell Fell From The Sky
Mar 11, 2005
March 10 is the 60th anniversary of one of the great forgotten atrocities of World War 2: the fire-bombing of Tokyo which killed over 100,000 people
Author: Porto Alegre Manifesto
Feb 21, 2005
There was much ado about a document put out by I think it was nineteen notable figures at this yearsÕ WSF. Oddly, the document itself wasnÕt dispersed very visibly or widely, perhaps in part because there was considerable consternation over process as wel
Author: Summers of Our Discontent
Feb 20, 2005
As the saying goes, behind every successful woman is a man who is surprised. Harvard president Larry Summers apparently is that man. A distinguished economist who was Treasury Secretary under Clinton, Summers caused a firestorm on January 14 when, speakin
Author: Prisoners Of Hope
Feb 17, 2005
"He who has never despaired has no need to have lived."-Goethe
Author: WSF 2007 IN AFRICA
Feb 16, 2005
The World Social Forum (WSF) is coming to Africa in 2007. This is great news. But how exactly will the coming of the WSF to Africa in 2007 advance the struggle against neo-liberalism and capitalist domination? This is an important question for people who
Author: The Tsunami in a Harvest Festival
Feb 01, 2005
"The sea was like boiling milk. But after the first wave, it was like boiling milk with rice in it, from the sediment the sea churned up," said the man from the fishing community Nalla Thanni Odai, in North Chennai, India. Three weeks after the tsunami hi
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign
Jan 18, 2005
We all know about Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's. civil rights work and his famous I have a dream speech delivered in Washington in 1963 because of the power of the media to shape what we think. I want to discuss what the mainstream media doesn't c
Albert: Moving Left Is Always Better
Dec 19, 2004
When Democratic Party leaders move to the right, astute leftists quickly criticize them. The critique has three core components.
Author: Thailand : Killing Hope
Nov 14, 2004
Thailand : Killing Hope
Author: The Country-City Split
Nov 13, 2004
In his recent Znet commentary, "Don't Blame the People," Andrej Grubacic makes what seems to me to be one of the most important points that can be made post-election: the need to go to the places where the people live who vote time and again largely again
Author: Why Kerry Lost
Nov 04, 2004
John Kerry has definitively lost the popular vote by some three and a half million votes. That makes an all-out lawyers' war in Ohio devoid of moral force (and I doubt that in the end there'll be one).
Author: The Colonial Precedent
Nov 01, 2004
The redeployment of British forces in Iraq to support a US assault on Falluja marks another stage in a creeping return to the colonial era, when popular revolts against occupation were routinely suppressed by overwhelming force. These past episodes, revea
Author: Guantanamo Prison
Oct 30, 2004
In August 2004, a special panel set up by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to investigate American abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq reported that "Interrogation techniques intended only for Guant‡namo came to be used in Afghanistan and Iraq." B
Author: Toyota: Suicide and Worker Depression at the World's Most Profitable Manufacturer
Oct 24, 2004
Toyota is the most profitable company in Japan. Its net profit for fiscal 2004 was reported at 1.16 trillion yen ($10.5 billion). This is after-tax, clear profit, the first time in the history of Japanese capitalism that a company has passed one trillion
Author: Support War Resisters
Oct 10, 2004
The iniquity of the U.S. occupation of Iraq came home to me yet again this week as I watched a BBC report on the aerial bombardment of Samara. There was a helmeted American colonel, smilingly telling the camera that the residents of this city of 200,000 w
Author: Don't Blame the NRA, Blame Swing Voters
Oct 09, 2004
For all the national outrage in recent years over the Columbine massacre and ongoing gun violence, that sentiment could not keep federal legislation outlawing semiautomatic weapons from expiring recently. As with so many other issues, majority support doe
Author: From Monroe to Bush...to Martin? Failed State Doctrine in Haiti
Sep 23, 2004
ÒAmerica is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones...We must defeat these threats to our Nation, allies, and friends.Ó - United States National Security Strategy, September 2002
Arnove: The Dead End of ABB
Sep 14, 2004
ABB -- Anybody But Bush -- is one of the most harmful slogans progressives have put forward in decades.
Author: Israeli Mole in the Pentagon
Sep 13, 2004
The FBIÕs investigation into Pentagon official, Larry Franklin, on charges of spying for Israel, has left many of us scratching our heads and wondering, ÒWhy?Ó
Mar 15, 2005
Early last week Latin America inaugurated its most recent in a long line of left-wing Presidents. Uruguay's new leader TabarŽ Vasquez heads a coalition of socialists, labour leaders, and former guerrillas, and has sparked considerable speculation among La