In the case of Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution, the mainstream media and politicians in the United States have elevated their game of demonizing all who oppose US foreign policy and business interests to a higher level of absurdity than usual. According to the mainstream media, the only newsworthy stories in Venezuela are [...]

Venezuela’s Constitutional Reform: An Article-by-Article Summary [Note the simultaneous devolution of practical political decision-making to regional and local bodies, the political recognition of women and oppressed minorities, the reduction of the work-week, the de-sanctific ation of private property, the explicit anti-imperial language, and the incorporation of increased tactical agility for the nation's armed forces, central [...]

From Liam Madden, Iraq Veterans Against the War [Please pass this alog to assist IVAW in gaining the signatures they need. -SG] In 1969, the My Lai massacre helped fuel popular opposition to the Vietnam War. U.S. political and military leaders insisted that such crimes were isolated exceptions. Members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War [...]

In the words of Archdeacon R.H.Charles in 1931, science may have ‘exposed many superstitions of the dark ages and laid bare the falsity of the religious and secular magic of the past and present, yet in their stead it has introduced legions of new alarms that beset our lives from the cradle to the grave. [...]

Not having the time or energy this late in the day to apply the appropriate research and rigor to this question, I’ll jot some impressions. I note that Saudi Arabia and Syria are suddenly sipping tea with our tinpot comandante at the Naval Academy. Of course, the designated Palestinian sellout is along, as is the [...]

Thoughts on Ishmael Reed’s suggestion that African Americans should abandon the Democrats for the Greens Idea. Idealism. Ideology. A friend of mine recently emailed me that when you ask people what their hands have done, as opposed to asking them, “What have you done?”, the answers are very different… more concrete in response to the [...]

It seems more likely each day that Cynthia McKinney is about to make a run for the presidency. This will alarm all the “realists” who consistently cling to the pantlegs of the Democratic Party through betrayal and capitulaiton after betrayal and capitulation. This should mobilize the rest of us. Not because the often symbolic politics [...]

Today is supposed to be the busiest shopping day of the year in the US of A. Stagflation is howling around our campfire. The dollar we shop with is falling to earth with all the glide characteristics of a set of car keys. But shop we must, because that is the cul-de-sac in which we [...]

The superlative media critic Ed Herman has teamed up with indy-journalist David Peterson to publish what I consider to be one of the most important series of the last decade over at Monthly Review. It is about Yugoslavia: its history, its break-up, the geopolitical forces involved in that break-up, and the highly successful propaganda effort [...]

MODERATOR’S NOTE: The author Audrey is an Army veteran, an artist, and a high school teacher. On November 13th, I abandoned my own classrooms to speak to our government classes as the school’s only veteran – a belated veteran’s day talk, since the government teacher was on a field trip that day. The night before, [...]