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 […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: (Jose Villa) at VillaPhotography – CC BY-SA 3.0 The Zapatista revolution has survived in Chiapas, southern Mexico, since 1914, and that is a miracle. Zapatistas endured the assaults of government paramilitaries, the […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison – Public Domain Tens of thousands protested against the skyrocketing cost of living and against Macron in France October 16, led […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair One of the six colossally dangerous promises made by Trump, should he regain the white house, is his plan to deport homeless people from urban centers to tent […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: elliotstoller – https://www.flickr.com/photos/23114432@N05/52024190882/ – CC BY-SA 2.0 The business of America is said to be business. But that is not the business of America’s tens of millions of workers. Their business is […]