By Ramzy Baroud It is an event “of cosmic proportions”, said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description regarding Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated on May 8 by Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor. Did you like [...]
By Gary Corseri [Photo: Robinson Jeffers.] My “bridge over troubled water” is Literature and the Arts. But, these days, with the exception of a few cherished authors and websites, I am apt to get more sustenance from re-reading the Classics—even 20th Century Classics–than from reading the frothy outpourings of identity-poets and lauded, establishmentarian shills. A [...]
Review by Gary Corseri. A review of “America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy” by William Blum (Zed Books, London/New York, 2013.) [Graphic from Iran Review] In activist-author-publisher William Blum’s new book, America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy, he tells the story of how he got his 15 minutes of fame back in 2006. Osama bin Laden had released an [...]
By Phil Rockstroh “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”―Søren Kierkegaard Life, as lived, moment to moment, in the corporate/consumer state, involves moving between states of tedium, stress, and swoons of mass media and consumer distraction. Therein, one spends a large portion of one’s economically beleaguered life attempting to make ends meet and not go mad [...]
By Greg Palast. Republished from GregPalast.com for Vice Magazine – Leer el artículo en español aquí. [Photo: Maduro at Palast's office.] The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver. Nicolas Maduro, elected President of Venezuela last Sunday, did indeed drive [...]
By Grace Walker-Stevenson As our society becomes more aware and educated about systems of oppression and civil rights, a terrifying trend has started to emerge. This trend is cloaked in language that would have us believe that the revolution is over, that equality has been won and that we are now beating a dead horse [...]
By Gary Corseri It was April, 1963, and Martin Luther King, age 34, had five more years to live. And we have now had fifty years to answer his letter. Seven to eight years before, he had come to national prominence as leader of the bus boycott staged by the black citizens of Montgomery, Alabama. [...]
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