The last time I went public and travelled against the war — in some mass action — was during the third anniversary of the US invasionof Iraq, when we marched and caravanned from Mobile, Alabama to New Orleans on the Veterans and Survivors March for Peace and Justice.
Then we had the elections where the Democrats […]

Once again, with rare exceptions, that media have had a hand in erasing the catastrophe of Iraq from the American landscape, if not the collective consciousness of the public. What, it occurred to me recently, do my friends and acquaintances back in Iraq (where I covered the occupation for eight months during the years 2003-2005) […]

President George W. Bush and seven of his administration’s top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Nearly five years after the […]

While the equity markets are hanging on for dear life with the Fed’s help through stealth inflation, the bond markets have collapsed worldwide, with dollar bond issuance falling to a stand still, euro bonds by 66% and emerging market bonds by 75% in Q3 2007. Lenders are simply afraid to lend and borrowers are afraid […]

Please distribute widely.
…from Sister McKinney
We cannot be satisfied so long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and the Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. August 28, 1963
Dear Friend,
Are you:
* Incredulous at the fact that two […]

Wikileaks Press Release: “Big, bad and busted: Wikileaks vs. Northern Rock”
Mon Jan 21 07:41:22 GMT 2008
Today the transparency group Wikileaks released censorship demands it has received over a confidential briefing memo relating to the dramatic financial collapse of the UK’s Northern Rock bank.
The bank collapsed late last year under the weight of the US sub-prime […]

By promoting large-scale mechanized monocultures which require agrochemical inputs and machinery, and as carbon-capturing forests are felled to make way for biofuel crops, CO2 emissions will increase not decrease. The only way to stop global warming is to promote small-scale organic agriculture and decrease the use of all fuels, which requires major reductions in […]

The bottom line is that, in the United States and across the advanced capitalist world since 2000, we have witnessed the slowest growth in the real economy since World War II and the greatest expansion of the financial or paper economy in U.S. history. You don’t need a Marxist to tell you that this […]

[Hat tip to Amee Chew]
About time a mainstreamer said something…
If there was ever a story that deserved more coverage by the news media, it’s the dark persistence of misogyny in America. Sexism in its myriad destructive forms permeates nearly every aspect of American life. For many men, it’s the true national pastime, much bigger than […]

August 29, 2006
On August 27, an artillery round fired by the Pakistani military found its mark on a cave in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, bordering both Afghanistan and Iran, and killed an 80-year-old man with a magnificent white beard. His name was Nawab Akbar Bugti, and he was the leader of a popular political […]