ANTI-AMERICAN? By Tom Joad | [print_link] Whenever anyone dares to point out the painfully obvious fact that the U.S. and its leaders have for two hundred years consistently acted in a fashion diametrically opposed to the values which America claims to represent, that person is instantly accused of being anti-American. Share on Facebook
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power. In our efforts to include voices that offer options for our current human predicament, we often overlook those in our own local communities. I’m fortunate to live within an hour’s drive of sustainability expert and futurist, David Wann. He recently spoke here in Boulder, Colorado, promoting his [...]
By Ramzy Baroud Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his supporters in the Fatah party want us to believe that dramatic changes are underway in the occupied Palestinian territories. This is part of a strategy intended to offset any public dissatisfaction with the self-designated Palestinian leadership in the West Bank. The PA hopes the ‘news’ [...]
Of all the uprisings in the Maghreb, the case of Libya is perhaps the most opaque. Is the country a locus of true spontaneous insurrection or simply the target of an opportunistic maneuver by the West? By Gaither Stewart | 24 February 2011 Simulposted with The Greanville Post [print_link] (Rome) Does colonialism pay off for [...]
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by editor and columnist Jared A. Ball. Republished from Black Agenda Report. “DuBois described us as ‘semi-colonial,’ or ‘domestically colonized.’” This past week the left-of-center host of GritTv, Laura Flanders, had a powerful segment focused on James Baldwin. It began with a clip of Baldwin explaining so poetically how race [...]
By Rowan Wolf If there were any doubts about where Wisconsin Governor was coming from, there is none after the phone conversation between Walker and Ian Murphy of the The Buffalo Beast. Murphy pretended to be David Koch of the Koch Industries, and had an amazing conversation with Scott Walker. Share on Facebook
By Eric Walberg. Republished from Al-Ahram article Why? Understandably, the West’s small Arab and leftist communities followed Egypt’s revolution with bated breath and came out to celebrate its triumphal conclusion around the globe. It was a rare privilege as a Canadian to live through this world-shaking event, which will reverberate for long into the future. [...]
By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman. Republished from The Free Press. The escalating confrontations in Wisconsin and Ohio are ultimately about preventing the United States from becoming a full-on fascist state. The stakes could not be higher—or more clear. As defined by its inventor, Benito Mussolini, fascism is “corporate control of the state.” There are [...]
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