BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Alisdare Hickson – CC BY-SA 4.0 Years pass and Julian Assange languishes in a dungeon. His crime? Well, he hasn’t been convicted of anything yet, but he had the intolerable courage to […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy – Public Domain Riled up against China, GOP congressmembers have long felt that Washington’s new cold war needed a special venue. So as soon as […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Braian Reyna Guerrero – CC BY 2.0 The U.S. tyranny of monopoly capital has long preferred to deal with fascist governments abroad, specifically in the Global South. American oligarchs’ foreign fascist sycophants […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Life expectancy in the U.S. plummets down, down, down, driven chiefly by the multitudinous gun deaths of children. Amurica outstrips the world with its hordes of kids shot […]
BY PETER LINEBAUGH Image Source: The Haymarket Riot – Harper’s Weekly – Public Domain “Murther, murther, murther, murther …” shouted Free-born John Lilburne from prison. “M’aidez, m’aidez,” says the international distress signal. Murder is the crime, and help is […]
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR + Tucker Carlson’s transformation from the brattish scion of a “Deep State” diplomat and former head of Voice of America to a bow-tie-wearing talk show smart-aleck into the white working-class tribune of […]
BY ANTHONY DIMAGGIO – RAIHAN ALAM Photo by Kayle Kaupanger In mid-April, we hosted renowned linguist, political analyst, and activist Noam Chomsky for a speaking and Q&A event at Lehigh University as part of the Douglas Dialogues […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photo by Levi Meir Clancy The American republic morphed well over a century ago into an empire of many endless wars. With U.S. troops still in Syria, Iraq, Somalia and numerous African countries, with […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante One of the world’s most courageous whistleblowers, Daniel Ellsberg challenged U.S. prosecutors on December 6 to come after him, as they have pursued Julian Assange. The 91-year-old Ellsberg, whom the […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Mike Steele – CC BY 2.0 The Spanish civil war of 1936 becomes more relevant every day. That’s because it was a war against fascism in its pure form. In case you […]