ALLAN C. BROWNFELD Photo by shoah.org.uk Protesters gather outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel as Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a conference on March 12, in Washington, DC. U.S. government officials refused to meet with […]
HASAN AGA Lubna Al Turki’s radio programs focus on talented Palestinian youth who are trying to make a change in their society. (PHOTO COURTESY SOCIAL MEDIA). Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July 2023, pp. 18-19 […]
BY JAMES BOVARD Photograph Source: Mike Mozart – CC BY 2.0 Ten years ago this week, Edward Snowden began shocking the world with his revelations of federal surveillance crime sprees. Unfortunately, many of the media outlets that […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: The U.S. Navy – Public Domain Today marks the 56th anniversary of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, which has been described by too many U.S. and Israeli accounts as an accident. […]
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 MARK STEVEN Cover Art for the book The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner Since class war first appeared in radical thought during the final decades of the eighteenth century, it has continuously evolved through an exchange […]