2016-03-19 18:53
It is the Fourth of July, that annual celebration of America’s birthday. The Declaration of Independence, a document largely crafted by Thomas Jefferson to formally sever ties with Gre… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Just returned from a pleasant four-day vacation in Barcelona. The Mediterranean city is certainly a hopping place, and attracts a generous quota of college students, eccentrics, grifters, m… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
To wake up in Central London one morning and do the plane, train and car routine to rural Bavaria by late night makes for a hectic day, especially when you throw in a series of job interview… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
America’s fourth estate has fallen so badly since the hay day of the Watergate era that all facts about the obscenity and atrocities of our War on Terrorism are ignored in favor of the… Read More
2005-06-04 04:50
George Orwell’s Emmanuel Goldstein, the enemy of the people in 1984, now haunts the United States government and its media pimps. As the U.S. demonizes figures from the Arab world in a… Read More
2005-05-31 16:30
To experience a sidewalk café on a Saturday afternoon in a German town is to enjoy the cheerful indifference of passing strangers with their many illusions and delusions, and know tha… Read More
2005-05-30 03:43
My name is M, and I am an internet junkie. I don’t struggle with junk sickness, like William Burroughs did. No track marks in my arms; no scores on the edge of a seedy, city park.I&rsq&hell…Read More
2005-05-30 03:32
Bill Moyers was host until recently of the weekly public affairs series "NOW with Bill Moyers" on PBS. This article is adapted from AlterNet, where it first appeared. The text is taken from… Read More
2005-05-30 03:31
In Wurzburg, when I hear the sound of an emergency siren, I’m reminded of Hollywood films of the early 1940s that depicted Nazi Storm Troopers arriving in the Jewish Ghettos of Central… Read More
2005-05-30 03:29
Today marks the passage of two compelling and original American figures, and the power of the word.First, Malcolm X was shot to death 40 years ago today at the Audubon Ballroom in New York C… Read More
2005-05-30 03:28
The Anti-Empire ReportWhat Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want?by William BlumAfter what was humorously designated an “election” in Iraq, there was a marked increase in calls for t… Read More
2005-05-30 03:26
Blogger Steve Gilliard writes “it is understood that the death of Hunter Thompson is a tragedy, but it comes at an odd time for journalism. Thompson and his peers like Lucian Truscott… Read More
2005-05-30 03:23
The recent Bush Coronation was nauseating, and the tone of Washington, D.C. purely fascist. When the U.S. Supreme Court sanctioned the Bush-Cheney junta in 2000, I was appalled. Now my regar… Read More
2005-05-30 03:21
Just because William Rivers Pitt, of truthout.org, writes great satire:just because the Supreme Court set a poison precedent and appointed Bush, who brought in his crowd of neocon yahoos tha… Read More
2005-05-30 03:21
MAINZ, Germany (Reuters) - About 12,000 protesters, many carrying banners reading "Bush go home," "No. 1 Terrorist" and "Warmonger," marched through the German city of Mainz on Wednesday, bu… Read More
2005-05-30 03:11
1 WILL THE REAL DUMMY PLEASE STAND UP?AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership. He received a $26 million severance package. Perhaps i… Read More
2005-05-30 03:08
What American has time to read fiction, when the culture produces an almost daily regimen of high-profile liars, celebrity convicts and fake news reports signed off by the Bush administratio… Read More
2005-05-30 03:07
Democracy at work in Saudi Arabia, our best friend in the Middle East:According to the London-based Al-Hayat , a Saudi academic has been sentenced to 200 lashes and time in jail for insultin… Read More
2005-05-30 03:06
Earlier this week, 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed nine members of his Red Lake tribe before taking his own life.In perfunctory manner, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday: "Our… Read More
2005-05-29 18:57
James Wolcott is a liberal with a regular column for Vanity Fair. He also maintains a blog at:http://jameswolcott.com/Both Wolcott’s writing style and insights appeal to me.If a countr… Read More
2005-05-29 18:54
The waiting is over and for progressive Roman Catholics – especially in the United States, the College of Cardinals just gave you the finger. Before his election as the 265th pontiff… Read More
2005-05-29 16:43
The talented American journalist Greg Palast has keen insights into events beyond the United States.The on-going parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom should be of interest to Americ… Read More
2005-05-29 16:41
When time allows, I begin each morning by perusing web sites of credible media. I’m a terminal news-junkie and I need a regular fix. Besides, we are all creatures of routine and this p… Read More
2005-05-29 16:36
The price of gas in America is expected to reach an all-time high of $3 a gallon by summer. The U.S. military cannot recruit enough soldiers for the Orwellian War on Terror, despite a huge s… Read More
2005-05-29 16:32
In 1963, historian Howard Zinn was fired from Spelman College, where he was chair of the History Department, because of his civil rights activities. This year, he was invited back to give th… Read More
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