by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… Over the decades, the maintenance of power and class privileges by corporate, financial and political elites have relied on covert and overt forms of violence, oftentimes in unspoken arrangements with transnational criminal networks (the global drug trade) or intelligence-connected far-right terrorists: the minions who staffed and profited from Operations Condor [...]
By Phil Rockstroh Graphic from Stand Up for America Although I have resided in New York City for many years, I was born in the Deep South. On a daily basis, I negotiate Manhattan’s gridded streets and avenues, yet, in many ways, the terrain of my heart still winds like an Indian trail through a [...]
By SKF – Student Author Winter 2012 All African American work crew cleaning up oil in the Gulf For many residents of the United States the legacy of Columbus is an annual holiday held on October 12th of every year–the celebration of his landing in the Americas. Unfortunately, Columbus’ legacy is far more pervasive in [...]
by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… How many memes does it take to stitch-up a war? As Israel, the United States and their NATO allies set their sights on the “prize,” Iran’s vast petrochemical wealth, multiple themes have been floated by corporate media to make the case for war. Since the 1980s, nuclear proliferation, terrorism and [...]
by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… Although all 16 U.S. secret state intelligence agencies confirmed, again, that “Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program years earlier,” reaffirming the “consensus view” of not one, but two National Intelligence Estimates The New York Times reported last week, the march towards war continues.
By Phil Rockstroh The course of action taken by the present day U.S. political class in addressing the era’s rising tide of economic hardship and ecological peril has proven as helpful as tossing an anvil to a drowning man. The following two, axiomatic headlines reveal much about the dovetailing mindsets manifested by members of both [...]
by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… Despite, though likely because, Iran is ready to restart negotiations with the so-called P5+1 group (the five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) over its civilian nuclear program, belligerent rhetoric and sharply-worded political attacks from Israel and the United States have escalated. Indeed, as investigative journalist Robert Parry [...]
by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… With all the bluster of late in Western media that President Obama is assiduously working to “restrain” Israel from launching a preemptive attack on Iran, recent developments should put paid the lies of this dog-and-pony show. Last Sunday during an interview with NBC News, the president made it clear that [...]