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 [...]

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