BY ANN WRIGHT Citizen activism to bring about changes in how brutal wars are conducted is extremely difficult, but not impossible. Citizens have successfully pushed through the United Nations General Assembly treaties to abolish nuclear weapons […]
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Still from Ingmar Bergman’s “Shame.” “The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.” – Joseph Heller, Catch-22 + In the manufactured showdown over the […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Ken Walton – CC BY 2.0 The Washington Post finally conceded in an editorial last week that the United States must “spend smarter” when it comes to defense. Instead of looking for ways to […]
BY ISHMAEL REED Six African-American men lynched in Lee County, Georgia, on January 20, 1916. Photo: Crisis magazine, April 1916. A growth industry is a sector of an economy that experiences a higher-than-average growth rate compared […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Mike Mozart – CC BY 2.0 Technology wielded by oligarchic government is a nightmare. From killer police dog robots to facial recognition in public housing, it’s not just the poor who are […]
BY BOB BUZZANCO – SCOTT PARKIN Scott: Welcome to the Silky Smooth Sounds of the Green and Red podcast. I’m your co-host Scott Parkin in Berkeley, California. And as always, I’m joined by Bob Buzzanco in Ohio. […]
Infamy at Sea, Cover-Up in DC: Israel’s Attack on the USS Liberty BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR The USS Liberty being escorted to Malta after an attack by Israeli air and naval forces that killed 34 members […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff A coalition of faith groups and secular organizations will officially launch an ‘Apartheid-Free Campaign’ in the United States, according to a statement issued by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). In the […]
BY DAVID BARSAMIAN – NORMAN SOLOMON The Apotheosis of War, 1872 – Vasily Vereshchagin [The following is excerpted and adapted from David Barsamian’s recent interview with Norman Solomon at AlternativeRadio.org.] David Barsamian: American Justice Robert Jackson was […]
BY PAUL ATWOOD Photograph Source: Fibonacci Blue – CC BY 2.0 When was the last time a foreign army invaded the United States? When was the last time our “national security’ was really at stake? Was it […]