Electoral Blowback: Reality Kicks us in the Rump One More Time

JOHN BOLTON HELPING TO COUNT THE BALLOTS IN FLORIDA DURING THE 2000 FRAUDULETION BY JOE MOWREY Everyone is carping about the betrayal of the antiwar movement by the Democrats. It won’t take more than a few paragraphs to state the obvious. We no longer live in anything resembling a democracy, and we haven’t for many [...]

LESSONS IN CURTAILING MEDIA FREEDOM

Pres. Chavez at a recent public rally in support of his policies. VENEZUELA, RCTV, AND MEDIA FREEDOM: JUST THE FACTS, PLEASE BY JAMES JORDAN There are a number of ways to curtail press freedom. You can charge a journalist with murder and put him on death row-Mumia Abu-Jamal, for instance. You can grant special favors, [...]

The Price of Fire in Latin America

Dateline: May 8, 2007 An Interview with Ben Dangl | By JOSHUA FRANK Ben Dangl is the author of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia (AK Press 2007) and the editor of Upside Down World, an online magazine that covers Latin American politics, and Toward Freedom, a progressive perspective on [...]

Cindy Sheehan, denouncing Democrats’ hypocrisy, quits in disgust

I will try to maintain and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is now, I am [...]

Cindy Sheehan, denouncing Democrats’ hypocrisy, quits in disgust

I will try to maintain and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is now, I am [...]

 Shape Up Democrats, Anybody But Bush Will Not Do

BY PAUL A. DONOVAN With the 2008 election approaching fast, I find myself with the same unsettled feeling I had in the last presidential race to the bottom. Perhaps it is because I feel that the age-old maxim, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” is as true for today [...]

Coup Co-Conspirators as Free-Speech Martyrs

President Chavez at podium, during Bolivarian rally. ANNALS OF SCUMBAG PRESS It’s obvious that the American media are, once again, doing their dirty imperial job and working hard to assassinate the character of a non-capitalist leader and his revolution so as to facilitate the entry of assassins or the US military. A viler form of [...]

PREFIGUREMENTS OF FRIENDLY FASCISM —

BY PATRICE GREANVILLE While the object of fascism is always the same, to disarm, intimidate, repress, and roll back the sectors of society pushing for further equality and democratization, thereby making possible a higher degree of exploitation, its various manifestations take up the coloring dictated by specific cultures and epochs. That’s why military fascism in [...]

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