Dear friends: Several months ago, Cyrano’s Journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Rowan Wolf, after being implored to do so by Cyrano’s staff, reluctantly made an appeal for contributions to facilitate her qualifying for an organ transplant. Rowan suffered from pulmonary arterial hypertension, which had irreversibly ravaged her lungs and damaged her heart. Before proceeding, some history of Cyrano’s [...]
By Peter Whoriskey, Published: June 18 It was the 1970s, and the chief executive of a leading U.S. dairy company, Kenneth J. Douglas, lived the good life. He earned the equivalent of about $1 million today. He and his family moved from a three-bedroom home to a four-bedroom home, about a half-mile away, in River Forest, Ill., [...]
SPECIAL— The Destabilization of Syria and the Broader Middle East War By Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research, June 17, 2011 What is unfolding in Syria is an armed insurrection supported covertly by foreign powers including the US, Turkey and Israel. Below: Syrian antigovernment protestors are given big play in the Western media. Here, Syrians who have [...]
By Kourosh Ziabari You might have frequently heard of the Western mainstream media’s claims that Iran is pursuing a military nuclear program which is aimed at developing atomic weapons. Actually, spreading falsehood and untruth about the nature of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program has been a constant, unchanging and recurring theme of the Western corporate media’s [...]
by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… While the Justice Department is criminally inept, or worse, when it comes to prosecuting corporate thieves who looted, and continue to loot, trillions of dollars as capitalism’s economic crisis accelerates, they are extremely adept at waging war on dissent. Share on Facebook
By Ramzy Baroud For most Palestinians, leaving Gaza through Egypt is as exasperating a process as entering it. Governed by political and cultural sensitivities, most Palestinian officials and public figures refrain from criticizing the way Palestinians are treated at the Rafah border. However, there is really no diplomatic language to describe the relationship between desperate [...]
by Phil Rockstroh Late last month, poet, musician, and self-termed “bluesologist,” Gil Scott-Heron exited the hologram and returned to the source…to begin chanting, eternity will not be televised. In an earlier era, Stephen Spender feted the following tribute to those who fell resisting Francisco Franco’s fascist forces during the Spanish Civil War. His lines of [...]
By Joel S. Hirschhorn What is the main lesson from the recent fiascos of former Senator John Edwards and Representative Anthony Weiner? If you follow the news shows you saw a number of video clips where each of them had lied many times about what eventually they confessed to, their stupid, sleazy sexual misconduct. As [...]
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ROWAN WOLF Editor
in Chief
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ED DUVIN
Editor-at-Large
• GAITHER STEWART
Senior Editor / European Correspondent (Rome)
• ANTHONY MARR Science
Ecoanimal Issues Editor
• STEVEN JONAS Contributing Editor
• STEPHEN LENDMAN
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ANWAAR HUSSAIN
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TOM BURGHARDT
Contributing Editor
BINOY KAMPMARK
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PHIL ROCKSTROH
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WILLIAM BLUM
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• JOE BAGEANT
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