Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

                                     The antidote to the poison of media misrepresentation.

War through fiction

                                                     Because the truth doesn't sell war.

Refuser Solidarity Network

                                                         The case of Shahar.

The Semiotics of the Turban and the Beard

                 A thoughtful piece by H. A. Hellyer on Taliban invocation of Islamic law.

The Prime Directive

                                         An alternative to garden variety imperialism.

I.W.W.

                                                                 One Big Union.

America's Merchants of Death

                                 War is big business in the USA. Violence is our number 1 export.

The Hidden Wages of Capitalism

                                                                         Loneliness.

World Beyond War

                                                                     Swag.

Who Runs Washington?

                                                 Why, the War Party of course.

Lebanon

Corrupt, feudal, and sectarian elites dancing on the grave of the country in a vain effort to sustain their privileged roles; and an armed militia functioning as a state within a state—willing to use force to maintain its position. Commentary by James Zogby.

Revolution & Ideology

                                                                         Podcast.

Debacle in Afghanistan

                                 

                                                                    Tariq Ali
 

Winners and Losers

                                                             Don't kid yourselves.

Remembering Edward

                                                 The world of Edward Said.

Afghanistan

 

How could anyone imagine that, after two decades of foreign military occupation, the Afghan people would be interested in pursuing a civil war? Hear Malalai Joya.
 

From the Archives: Noam Chomsky Interview

                                     War crimes and imperial fantasies...

Barack Obama: Had We Only Known...

 

"We wouldn’t expect Obama, a centrist, to become a convert to socialism in his late middle age (though as a young person he did attend the Socialist Scholars Conference). But as a liberal he’s been badly deficient, squandering his considerable public platform and influence, providing little leadership on any of the major issues of the day, like income inequality, voter suppression, and climate change. Instead, when he’s not actively agitating against social and environmental progress, he’s been lounging on the Vineyard and on Branson’s yacht." 

Read the full article here.

The Military Madness Continues

                                             Under Joe Biden.

The New Global Politics of Religion

                                 A view from the other side, by Noah Salomon.

Tolstoy on the Absence of Government

 

The Economic Costs of War

                                         The Watson Institute at Brown University.

Plebiscite or Placebo?

 

Journalism

 

Criminal Duplicity

                                                         August 6-9, 1945

Another Liberal Fantasy

 Can the big business of arms dealing be made "human rights compatible"? The "Liberal Imagination" is beyond redemption.

Dorothy Day on Anarchist philosophy

 

Noam Chomsky

 

On Andrew Cuomo's Latest Troubles

 

                                                Please see post dated March 12, 2021.

Yasmin Nair

                                             Smart, witty, provocative.

Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Is a Truth-Teller in a Time of Systemic Deceit and Lethal Secrecy

 

Hale should be pardoned and released, and the government should pay him restitution.

Op/Ed by Jeremy Scahill.

Stand with Daniel

Let us be clear about the case of Daniel Hale: He did not sell classified information to a foreign government. Instead, he published the immoral acts of his government to the world--and for that he is being punished. He had nothing to gain personally from doing what he did and everything to lose. He is a prisoner of conscience, not a victim of his own greed. 

Another Daniel (Ellsberg) followed his conscience and I don't think it a stretch to suggest that his revelations of the Pentagon's duplicitous history of the Vietnam war were instrumental in turning the tide of public opinion against that war. Given that our "free press" spends more time and energy courting the powerful than keeping them in check, the American public depends on whistleblowers like Hale and Ellsberg to inform us of our government's nefarious doings. People like Hale and Ellsberg are on the side of the angels. The very least that the rest of us can do is support them in their self-sacrificing acts of courage and not support the government in its reprisals against them. 

Stand with Daniel Hale.