Early in her career, Nancy Van de Vate, a celebrated modernist composer, would tell people about her work and sometimes be met with dismissive questions like “Do you write songs fo… Read More

August 19 is also recognized as the Traditional Day of the People’s Public Security, as well as the traditional day of the family of renowned songwriter Xuan Oanh. Within his family… Read More

DANIEL ELLSBERG: Vietnam-era whistleblower embodied the individual of conscience – who answered only to his sense of right and wrong, even if the price was his own freedom. PHOTO COURT… Read More

Touch upon this story Remark Sen. Kyrsten Sinema caught many abruptly earlier this month when she announced she was leaving the Democratic Get together and registering as an impa… Read More

This image was presented at moderndiplomacy.eu on Nov. 11 in conjunction with portions of an article featured in this blog post.Throughout the 1960s and following decades while I've been re… Read More

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis English | October 04, 2022 | ASIN: B09TX2XFGZ | MP3@64 kbps | 15h 6m | 414.97 MB Author: Adam Hochsc… Read More

By Mahalakshmi Pavani Gender equality is a basic human right, and it is also fundamental to having a peaceful, prosperous world. The last century witnessed movements and overall activis… Read More

Read Time:9 Minute, 36 Second While often at the center of many movements, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the… Read More

The Big Foundations Behind Pennsylvania’s “Green” Activists (full series)Pennsylvania’s Big Funders | PennFuturePEC and PennEnvironment | Pennsylvanians Against Frack… Read More

Dive into the background of the nine impeachment managers Speaker Nancy Pelosi chose to present the case to the Senate in the second impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump… Read More

With a host of developments surrounding the White House incumbent this past week -- the most recent being that Speaker Pelosi has at last decided to send the articles of impeachment to the S… Read More

Women's Day is over, but our appreciation for women doesn't end. There are so many women that deserve recognition, that have done so much for our world to be a better place. That's why Time… Read More

I recently saw the documentary They Shall Not Grow Old, an account by English soldiers of their experiences in the Great War of 1914-1918. Culled from hundreds of hours of colorized act… Read More

“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around- the music and the ideas” – Bob Dylan (1992)From 1964 to 1968, there… Read More

President Barack Obama44th President of the United States Assumed office: January 20, 2009 Born August 4, 1961 Birth name Barack Hussein Obama II Nationality American P… Read More

As I often do when likely to be off-line for a while, I dig out some stuff from my blogging archive. This post is from February 2008, from the fifth anniversary of the massive march against… Read More

Iraq by the Numbers: Surging Past the Gates of Hell By Tom Engelhardt/TomDispatch.com Sometimes, numbers can strip human beings of just about everything that makes us what we are. Numbers… Read More