Monday, April 22nd, 2013
By The Observer Editorial Commondreams.org In 2009, defending the promise he made to close Guantánamo Bay, President Barack Obama insisted: “The existence of Guantánamo likely created more terrorists around the world than it ever detained.” This weekend, the case for the closure of Guantánamo Bay, promised by Obama on his second day in office, has
Friday, April 5th, 2013
By MURTAZA HUSSAIN Al Jazeera / Alternet.org Scientific racism is a term seldom used today but which has a long and ignoble history in the modern world. In the late 18th century, the renowned scientist and philosopher...
Friday, April 5th, 2013
By the Prof. Jose Maria Sison Chairperson International League of Peoples’ Struggle We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, are in firm solidarity with the Korean people and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and support...
Friday, March 22nd, 2013
By YIFAT SUSSKIND and YANAR MOHAMMED Commondreams.org A decade after the US invasion of Iraq, only one of the straw-man arguments for going to war remains standing: “We did it for democracy and women’s rights.” And yet...
Friday, March 22nd, 2013
By PAUL SAVOY Commondreams.org Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, it is astonishing in a nation dedicated to the rule of law that every aspect of the war has been debated except the relevant law. To...
Friday, February 8th, 2013
By ANDRE VLTCHEK Counterpunch.org Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Libya are in shambles, crushed by the heavy boots of Western imperialism. But we are told to fear China. The entire nations of Indochina were bombed back to the...
Friday, February 8th, 2013
By ANDRE VLTCHEK Counterpunch.org It is all about barbed wire, warnings and checkpoints. And to make it worse, Futenma air force base is right in the middle of an extremely densely populated urban area. Several middle-aged Japanese...
Friday, January 25th, 2013
By RALPH NADER Commondreams.org Mike Duke CEO ?Walmart Corporation?Bentonville Arkansas Dear Mr. Duke, Walmart, your gigantic company, is increasingly being challenged by your workers, government prosecutors, civil lawsuits, communities (that do not want a Walmart), taxpayers learning...
Friday, January 11th, 2013
By Bill Ayers Truthout.org The landscape of “educational reform” is currently littered with rubble and ruin and wreckage on all sides. Sadly, your administration has contributed significantly to the mounting catastrophe. You’re not alone: The toxic materials...
Friday, January 11th, 2013
By ELEANOR J. BADER Truthout.org Although we know what works and what doesn’t in sexual education, the US fails its young adults and their families, providing inadequate, inconsistent, medically inaccurate and socially biased information. Depending on where...
Friday, September 7th, 2012
Why Desmond Tutu is Right About Bush & Blair by VIJAY PRASHAD Counterpunch Last week, Bishop Desmond Tutu was to sit beside former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair at the cringingly named Discovery Invest Leadership Summit in...