By Jane Regan EDITOR’S NOTE: on October 2nd, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 2699 authorizing a security mission to Haiti. Military intervention into Haiti is in the air again. And the East Coast establishment…
Address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway By John Pilger In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at…
The media aren’t telling the whole story By Jonathan Cook The reality of the West’s trademark current foreign policy – marketed for the past two decades under the principle of a “Responsibility to Protect” –…
By Branko Marcetic The events in Niger over the past few months have been alarming to watch. What began as a military coup now risks spiraling into a wider war in West Africa, with a…
Commentary by Rev. J Mark Davidson This has been the worst summer in decades for the Palestinian refugees barely surviving in the Jenin refugee camp. In June and July, Israel unleashed devastating military strikes, terrorizing…
By Darrell Jackson To survive in prison, inmates usually accept a “convict code” that demands toughness and makes us wary of others. To thrive in prison, I learned to embrace organizing for social change and…
An Oppenheimer Review Through the Lens of an Anti-War Activist By Marcy Winograd The ground-breaking movie Oppenheimer, despite its unsympathetic protagonist, packs a powerful anti-nuclear punch that makes it hard, if not impossible, to sleep…
Commentary by Tapti Sen I am from a disappearing nation. My country, Bangladesh, is one of several at risk of becoming submerged partially or completely by rising sea levels caused by climate change in the…
Commentary by George Monbiot Round the cycle turns. As millions are driven from their homes by climate disasters, the extreme right exploits their misery to extend its reach. As the extreme right gains power, climate…
Land Defenders Arrested, Camp Raided After Blocking Excavator Ox Sam Camp press release OROVADA, NV — On June 6, a group of Native American water protectors and allies used their bodies to non-violently block construction…