By Ramzy Baroud When seen from a distance, kites in Gaza may look quite ordinary. But while Gazan children, in many respects, are just children, their kites are hardly ordinary. Often adorned by the red, black, green and white of the Palestinian flag, Gazan children's kites are expressions of defiance, hope and t

By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power In Part 3 of this series, we spotlight Freeacre and Murph, two "anarchist farmers" living in rural Oregon. They share with us their journey of collapse preparation from a working class perspective. Pl

By Rowan Wolf The U.S. and the world have major crises to address. There is the economy, resources, environment, and global warming. Each of these intersect in complex ways to create other massive problems: loss of jobs, failed crops, and war. And these in turn create other crises: mass migration and xenophobic r

By Kip Sullivan. Republished from Physicians for a National Health Plan The people who brought us the "public option" began their campaign promising one thing but now promote somethi

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By Colleen Fuller. Simulposted with Cyrano's Journal Online The U.S. health care debate again sorts out for us the parasites and demagogues in our midst, while the despicable corporate media (how do these people get through the night?) does its be

By Rowan Wolf The Obama administration is continuing to actively pursue the Bush administration's assertion of immunity for those who crafted, approved, and engaged in torture. Yesterday, the Department of Justice and John Yoo were handed a stinging rebuke by Bush appointed Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern Dis

By N. Gutierrez. Editor's Note: This paper from one of my students offers some exceptional insight into whiteness in the United States. It is published here with permission. I had been thinking about the white ethnicity lately. Once upon a time they were all singled out too. Wasn't it the Irish immi

By Rowan Wolf The charge of "identity politics" has come up in relation to the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. It has been an ugly attack with claims of Sotomayor's racism, belonging to the Hispanic version of the KKK, and that she is more concerned about issues of race than issues of la

By Dahr Jamail. Republished from TruthOut Transgress The geo-strategic expansion of the American empire is an accepted fact of contemporary history. I have been writing in these columns about the impact of the US occupation on the people

By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Many years ago when I was a child, this holiday was not called Memorial Day, but rather, Decoration Day, owing to the standard practice of families visiting cemeteries to place flowers not o

By Joel S. Hirschhorn Americans need a civics lesson. And so do politicians. Of all the wrong and delusional thinking about the US Constitution the one that is most thoroughly incorrect and routinely used for political propaganda purposes is that there are three coequal branches of the federal government.

By Rowan Wolf As North Korea was preparing for its satellite launch using a long-range missile, there was a lot of debate about what the U.S. should do. Newt Gingrich sounded off with his opinion that the U.S should stop the launch, and that it threatened a potential nuclear missile attack on the U.S. (in the fut

By John Pilger. Originally published at Information Clearing House These are extraordinary times. With the United States and Britain on the verge of bankruptcy and committing to an endless colonial war, pressure is building for their crimes to be

By Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi. Originally published at Foreign Policy In Focus "I am the one, whom they will kill in the end, because he himself has never killed." Miklos Radnoti If as a tourist your son comes to my country my son wil

By Ramzy Baroud While various Western governments are struggling to define a possible relationship with the Palestinian movement Hamas, some progressive and leftist circles are also uneasy regarding their own perception of the Islamic movement.

By Ramzy Baroud When Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal declared before a cheering crowd in Doha, Qatar, on January 28, the need for a new leadership, his words generated panic amongst leaders of the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority as well as traditional Palestinian leadership elites stationed in various Arab capi

By Rowan Wolf Naomi Klein has an excellent article in the Nation "All of Them Must Go" (republished at CommonDreams) that points out the global protest

By Joel Hirschhorn By now most Americans have experienced extreme disgust upon hearing about the nearly $20 billion in bonuses given to people in New York City's financial sector at the end of 2008. After sending the nation into the current economic black hole there is no way of comprehending the audacity of fin

By Ramzy Baroud When former President George W. Bush departed for his final trip home, that very moment represented an end of a long and unbearable nightmare, one that Bush epitomized until his last day in office.

This in from The Peace Team The Best Way To Light A Fire For Federal Prosecutions of Bush And Cheney Is To Get Collateral State Actions Going After weeks and weeks of unbelievable work, we have completed compiling a database of the current contact i

By Rowan Wolf Congress approved the release of the remaining $350 billion in TARP funds to address the financial meltdown. One has to assume that much of the money will follow the same trip into the void that the rest has. Money going into the financial markets has to go somewhere else than where it is currently

by William Norman Grigg. Republished from Thomas Paine's Corner "What's happening in my country is also happening in your country.... You don't even know it, but you're the Indians of the 21st Century, and that's very sad." -Rus

Israel is continuing its bombing of Gaza which has already killed approximately 300 people, and is preparing ground forces. Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee has put out the Action Call below to call for an immediate sttop to the bombing. The UN is also calling for Israel to immediately cease bombing. A

By Rowan Wolf As the economic news continues to stream in, there is not a bright note to be found. The

By J. Miller of J. Miller Rampant!. Originally published at his site. When the Republican Party handed itself heart and soul to Big Business in the 1890s, it was the start of an epic battle to defend power and privilege in the United States at all

By Rowan Wolf {Readers, this article is kind of "in process" for a more in depth analysis, so your comments and feedback are appreciated.] The passage of the Final Agreement on the Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from Iraq has been

Studs Terkel has passed on after 96 years of exploration and insight. Studs helped us see ourselves in a different light. His focus was not on the rich and famous, the powerful, the elite. No is interest was the story of everyday lives

Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama on Meet the Press (MSNBC)