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America the Blind: The Boston Marathon Bombing, Drones and the Meaning of Cowardice
April 22nd, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Strategic Implications of 12 Unasked Questions in Response to Disaster
April 22nd, 2013 ( No Comments »)
A Commentary on the Marathon Murders
April 22nd, 2013 ( 1 Comment »)
The Orwellian Warfare State of Carnage and Doublethink
April 22nd, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Mexican Workers Win Ownership of Tire Plant with Three-Year Strike
April 15th, 2013 ( 1 Comment »)
Can Worker-Owners Make a Big Factory Run?
April 15th, 2013 ( 1 Comment »)
Top Swedish Judge Defends WikiLeaks’ Assange
April 8th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
WikiLeaks Activist in New York to Protest US Whistleblowers Clampdown
April 8th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
28 Guantanamo Prisoners Now On Hunger Strike; 3 in Hospital for Dehydration
April 1st, 2013 ( No Comments »)
The Fun-Filled Ocean Resort at Guantánamo Bay
April 1st, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Guantanamo Exposes Reality of US Fascism
April 1st, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Gitmo Inmates Claim Being Denied Drinking Water as White House Breaks Silence
April 1st, 2013 ( No Comments »)
I’ll Miss Hugo
March 18th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Chávez and Nonviolence
March 18th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Hugo Chavez
March 18th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
President Chavez: A 21st Century Renaissance Man
March 18th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2013
March 11th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
The Dangerous Logic of the Bradley Manning Case
March 11th, 2013 ( 2 Comments »)
Bradley Manning: The Face of Heroism
March 4th, 2013 ( 2 Comments »)
Bradley Manning and the Appalling Silence of Gay, Inc.
March 4th, 2013 ( 3 Comments »)
Manning Plea Statement: Americans Had a Right to Know ‘True Cost of War’
March 4th, 2013 ( 1 Comment »)
U.S. Plans to Add Drone Base in West Africa
February 4th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Mali: Neo-Colonialism Meets Islamic Fundamentalism… And the People Suffer
February 4th, 2013 ( 1 Comment »)
Niger Gives Green Light to U.S. Drone Deployment
February 4th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Habits of French Colonialism
February 4th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Storm over the Sahara: US, France Creating another Osama?
January 28th, 2013 ( 1 Comment »)
War on Terror Forever
January 28th, 2013 ( 2 Comments »)
How Washington Helped Foster the Islamist Uprising in Mali
January 28th, 2013 ( 4 Comments »)
Aaron Swartz and the Freedom to Connect
January 21st, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Different Rules for Plutocrats
January 21st, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Net Worth of World’s Richest Rose by $241B In 2012
January 7th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
HSBC, Too Big To Jail, Is the New Poster Child for US Two-Tiered Justice System
December 17th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
HSBC to Pay $1.92 Billion to Settle Charges of Money Laundering
December 17th, 2012 ( 1 Comment »)
Gaza: People Need Far More Than a Ceasefire
December 3rd, 2012 ( No Comments »)
“It’s Mostly Punishment…” Testimonies by Veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces from Gaza and the Occupied Territories
December 3rd, 2012 ( No Comments »)
‘The Killing Has to Stop’: A Visit to the Home of Former Hostage Gilad Shalit
December 3rd, 2012 ( 1 Comment »)
The End of Jewish Power
December 3rd, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Sifting Through the Fallout – Death Hangs over the Gaza Strip after the Fighting
December 3rd, 2012 ( No Comments »)
The Latest War with Hamas Over Gaza Proves Benjamin Netanyahu Is Leading Israel into Isolation
December 3rd, 2012 ( 1 Comment »)
Bombing Gaza “Back to the Middle Ages”
November 26th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
As Israel and Hamas Open the ‘Gates of Hell’ in Gaza, All the Journalistic Clichés of War Are Here Again
November 26th, 2012 ( 1 Comment »)
Puppet State America
November 26th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
We Are All Israeli’s Now: Its Brutality, Unlike Syria’s, Is Fought in the Name of the West’s War on Terror
November 26th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
The Anguish of Being a Jew Now
November 26th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Is the Cat Out of the Bag on Israel?
November 26th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
We in the Gaza Strip Will Not Die in Silence
November 26th, 2012 ( 1 Comment »)
Devouring Jackals
November 26th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Jimmy Carter: ‘Israelis’ Policy Is to Confiscate Palestinian Territory’
November 26th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Gaza: Bombed, Wounded, and Celebrating
November 26th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Gaza and the Politics of “Greater Israel”
November 19th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Stop Pretending the US Is an Uninvolved, Helpless Party in the Israeli Assault on Gaza
November 19th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Wagging the Dog in Gaza: Netanyahu’s Skirmish of Fear
November 19th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Israel Would Have Us Believe That These People Are Terrorists
November 19th, 2012 ( 3 Comments »)
Israeli Offensive in Gaza – Netanyahu’s Extremely Risky Gamble
November 19th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
The Latest Gaza Catastrophe: Will They Ever Learn?
November 19th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Why Gaza Must Suffer Again
November 19th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Let’s Not Forget! Hurricane Sandy Ravaged the Caribbean First (PHOTOS)
November 5th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
UN Relief Agency Estimates 1.8 Million Haitians Have Been Affected By Hurricane Sandy
November 5th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Sandy Caribbean Death Toll Rises
November 5th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Tribalism, Racism and Projection (Part 1)
February 27th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Tribalism, Racism and Projection (Part 2)
February 27th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Who is Threatening Whom? 45 US Bases Surround Iran
February 20th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
SS = Scout Snipers: US Marines Adopt Nazi Goons Emblem
February 20th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Digging Deeper Into Who Controls the World
February 13th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview
January 23rd, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Blood on Whose Hands? Bradley Manning, Washington, and the Blood of Civilians
January 23rd, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Justice in a Global Age: Becoming Counselors to the World
January 16th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Bradley Manning – The Undisputed Person of the Year
January 16th, 2012 ( 2 Comments »)
Compassion Is Our New Currency: Notes on 2011’s Preoccupied Hearts and Minds
December 26th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The Eagle, the Bear and the Dragon
December 26th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Moving from a War Economy to a Peace Economy
December 26th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Bradley Manning Deserves a Medal
December 19th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Persecuted By the National Security State
December 19th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
December 19th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The Trial of Bradley Manning: Rule of Law or Rule of Intimidation, Retaliation & Retribution?
December 19th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Listen to the People, Not the Polluters
December 12th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Durban Climate Deal Struck After Tense All-Night Session
December 12th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
La Via Campesina Durban Declaration
December 12th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Draft Climate Deal Dubbed a “Death Sentence for Africa”
December 12th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The Folly of Sanctions
December 5th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Sanctions Are Only a Small Part of the History That Makes Iranians Hate the UK
December 5th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Sales & the Winter of Discontent
November 28th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Time Banking: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
November 21st, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Time as Money: Local Currencies for Healthy Communities
November 21st, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The West’s Tragedy of Capital
November 14th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The CIA’s Unaccountable Drone War Claims another Casualty
November 14th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
World Bank Partners With Nestlé to ‘Transform Water Sector’
November 14th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
The UNESCO Mess
November 7th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Palestine’s Time
November 7th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
UNESCO Membership and Palestinian Self-Determination
November 7th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Palestine Approved for Full UNESCO Membership
November 7th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
US Condemns UNESCO over Palestine Vote
November 7th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Don’t Diss the Drum Circles: Why Hippie Culture Is Still Important to Our Protests
October 31st, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Letter to a Dead Man about the Occupation of Hope
October 24th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Happy Genocide Day!
October 17th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
October 1-8, 2011: Keep Space for Peace Week
October 3rd, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
99 Percenters Occupy Wall Street
September 26th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The Call to Occupy Wall Street Resonates Around the World
September 26th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
In The Line of Fire: A Date with Despots at Britain’s Arms Fair
September 19th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Companies Ejected From London Arms Fair for ‘Promoting Cluster Bombs’
September 19th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Questioning 9/11: The Politician Turned Conspiracy Theorist
September 12th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Was War the Only Answer to 9/11?
September 12th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The Imperial Delusions of the United States
September 12th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
9/11′s Forgotten Victims
September 12th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
For 10 Years, We’ve Lied to Ourselves to Avoid Asking the One Real Question
September 12th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
‘In Defence of Anarchy’
August 15th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
From the Arab Spring to Liverpool?
August 15th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
A Rebellion against Racism and Poverty
August 15th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Questions the Media Are Not Asking about Norway
August 1st, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Europe’s Homegrown Terrorists
August 1st, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Reading the World in a Loaf of Bread: Soaring Food Prices, Wild Weather, Upheaval, and a Planetful of Trouble
July 25th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Crocodile Tears As Food Aid Blockade Continues in Horn of Africa
July 25th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The Silent Humanitarian Crises beyond East Africa
July 25th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Bradley Manning, American Hero
July 11th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Bradley Manning’s Army of One
July 11th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
The Flotilla Fascination
July 4th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
What’s at Stake in Greece?
June 27th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Greece Prepares to Sell Off State Assets to Get Loans
June 27th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Bahrain’s Dictatorship and the Pentagon
June 20th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Why the Pentagon Papers Matter Now
June 20th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
IMF Financial Terrorism
June 13th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Oxfam: Hunger Will Strike
June 6th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
World’s Food System Broken
June 6th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Towards the Eradication of Global Hunger and Undernutrition
June 6th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
‘Europe Worsening Hunger Worldwide’
June 6th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Welcome To the Violent World of Mr. Hopey Changey
May 30th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Worlds Collide in a Luxury Suite
May 23rd, 2011 ( 2 Comments »)
Pre-Judging an Institution’s Implicit Strategy by the Director’s Private Behaviour
May 23rd, 2011 ( No Comments »)
What about the Woman Strauss-Kahn Allegedly Raped?
May 23rd, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Is Pakistan Being Cast as the Next Plausible Evil Doer?
May 16th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
After Osama: China?
May 16th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Bin Laden Out, Gaddafi Next
May 16th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Guantanamo Doctors Fail to Document Torture: Independent Scrutiny Needed
May 9th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Applying the Law in Guantanamo: ‘The Government’s Narrative Was a Lie’
May 9th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Guantanamo’s Child Soldiers
May 2nd, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The Guantánamo Papers
May 2nd, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The Guantánamo Files: Leaks Lift Lid on World’s Most Controversial Prison
May 2nd, 2011 ( No Comments »)
WikiLeaks Revelations: A View Deep Inside Guantanamo
May 2nd, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Rights Groups Slam Bahraini Crackdown
April 25th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Fukushima: Openness Can Be the Only Policy
April 18th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Japan: Lives under Pressure
April 18th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Japan’s Nuclear Cover-Up
April 18th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Is Japan’s Elite Hiding a Weapons Program Inside Nuclear Plants?
April 18th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
A Hapless Fukushima Clean-Up Effort
April 11th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Fukushima: A ‘Nuclear Sacrifice Zone’
April 11th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Fukushima Reactors Catastrophe: Radiation Exposure, Lies and Cover-up
April 4th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Joint Statement on the Japanese Nuclear Disaster
April 4th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Let the Truth Be Known About the Fukushima Nuclear Plants
March 28th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Tsunami and Nuke Disaster: How Human Arrogance Intensifies Suffering
March 28th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Fumbling Toward Fukushima: Japanese Nuclear Plant Operator Plagued by Scandal
March 28th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
What They’re Covering Up at Fukushima
March 28th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
The Idiocy and Hubris of Engineers: Will GE Get Whacked for the Catastrophic Failure of its Nuke Plants in Fukushima?
March 21st, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Problematic Public Relations: Japanese Leaders Leave People in the Dark
March 21st, 2011 ( No Comments »)
This Shameful Abuse of Bradley Manning
March 14th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Torturing Bradley Manning
March 14th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Brazil’s ‘Lessons’ For Arab Rebels
March 7th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Lessons Learned from Nepal’s People’s Victory 2006
March 7th, 2011 ( 3 Comments »)
Democracy Is No Panacea
March 7th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
An Open Letter to the Peoples of Middle East and North Africa
March 7th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
We Take Risks, Others Pay the Price
February 28th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Why Pakistan Cannot Release the Man Who Calls Himself Raymond Davis
February 21st, 2011 ( No Comments »)
It’s Not Radical Islam That Worries the US – It’s Independence
February 14th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Egypt’s Joy as Mubarak Quits
February 14th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Egypt Crisis: The Young Revolutionaries Who Sparked the Protests
February 14th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The West and the Revolution
February 14th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
FAQ: The Palestine Papers
February 7th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Remembering Howard Zinn on the Anniversary of His Death and Germinating the Seeds of Truth
February 7th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Who Says There’re No Leaders?
January 31st, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Portugal’s Experiment With Drugs
January 24th, 2011 ( 2 Comments »)
Soldier’s Inhumane Imprisonment
January 17th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The Merger of Journalists and Government Officials
January 3rd, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Anarchists Are Bad People?
January 3rd, 2011 ( No Comments »)
2011: A Brave New Dystopia
January 3rd, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Help Stop Destruction of the Free Internet Now
December 27th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Ho’oponopono
December 20th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
WikiLeaks Backlash: The First Global Cyber War Has Begun, Claim Hackers
December 13th, 2010 ( 1 Comment »)
Don’t Shoot Messenger for Revealing Uncomfortable Truths
December 13th, 2010 ( 1 Comment »)
WikiLeaks and the Worldwide Information War: Power, Propaganda, and the Global Political Awakening
December 13th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Laughing our Way to Peace or War: Humour and Peacebuilding
December 6th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Rethinking the Global Economy: The Case for Sharing
November 29th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Cambodia’s National Day of Mourning
November 29th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
November 22nd, 2010 ( No Comments »)
The Hiroshima Peace Summit
November 22nd, 2010 ( No Comments »)
A Small Fraction of a Man
November 15th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Inciting Mob Anger Against Me
November 8th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
A Worse Record than Saddam’s
November 1st, 2010 ( 1 Comment »)
The Shaming of America
November 1st, 2010 ( 1 Comment »)
The WikiLeaks Iraq Logs: A Protocol of Barbarity
November 1st, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Nobel’s Pro-Military Agenda and the Future World Order
October 25th, 2010 ( 1 Comment »)
Wars Will Cease When We Refuse to Fight
October 25th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Chilean Miners Rescue: This is a Rare Moment of Global Joy
October 18th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Serbia: Gay Rights, Human Rights, Tolerance and Homophobia
October 18th, 2010 ( 1 Comment »)
On UN World Habitat Day, Oct 4: One Billion Slum Dwellers Cannot Be Ignored
October 4th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
U.S. Apologizes for ‘Abhorrent’ Guatemala Syphilis Study in 1940s
October 4th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
No Bull Prize Nominations
September 27th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Countdown to Sudan’s Referendum
September 20th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Preparing for South Sudan’s Crucial Referendum
September 20th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Sudan: Prospect and Lesson
September 20th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
9/11 Analysis: From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War to George W Bush and September 11, 2001
September 13th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
“The Militarization of Hollywood”: Unlocking “The Hurt Locker”
September 13th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
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