Mnar Muhawesh, Founder and Editor In Chief, MintPress News, talked about how the tightly controlled corporate media ignores reporting and good journalism to follow directives on creating enemies and promoting wars. Almost all of the media outlets in this country are owned by a few corporations. Thank you so much for having me, I’m honored to be More
Author of The Real Wealth of Nations [youtube=http://youtu.be/f9cMcTWWDkU] Uploaded on Sep 7, 2011 Riane Eisler is a social scientist, attorney, and author whose work on cultural transformation has inspired both scholars and social activists. Her research has impacted many fields, including history, economics, psychology, sociology, and education. She has been a leader in the movement More
Nov. 8 was Aaron Swartz Day—a time to honor the late champion of civil rights in the Internet age ... It was a day his surviving allies and admirers enlisted in an effort to form Swartz’s still-evolving legacy into a hammer that can be used to... build a society premised on political openness and the More
"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people." —Justice William O. Douglas By John Whitehead (about the author) OpEdNews.com October 22, 2014 With every passing day, it becomes more apparent that we live in an age of hollow justice, with government courts, largely lacking in More
A missile falls from the sky, killing a grandmother and almost killing her two grandchildren... [youtube=http://youtu.be/5OvhAFyeGk4?list=PLQ9B-p5Q-YOPndlCXf4NIjBnnuILgNGtN] Published on Oct 30, 2014 Since 2004 drone strikes have killed 2,379 human beings. Of those thousands killed, only 12% could be positively identified as “militants". Drone strike victims are overwhelmingly innocent civilians. SIGN THE PETITION & WATCH THE More
Across the globe, a new historical conjuncture is emerging in which the attacks on higher education as a democratic institution and on dissident public voices in general - whether journalists, whistleblowers or academics - are intensifying with sobering consequences. The attempts to punish prominent academics such as Ward Churchill, Steven Salaita and others are matched by an equally vicious assault on whistleblowers such as Chelsea Manning, Jeremy Hammond and Edward Snowden, and journalists such as James Risen.
In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country house in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest. A court in Sweden may drop rape charges against Julian Assange. (photo: AFP) By Julian Assange, Newsweek ReaderSupportedNews.org October 24, 2014 For More
In 1996, Mander and Edward Goldsmith brought together several prominent writers to contribute essays to the book titled The Case Against the Global Economy. ...Eighteen years ago, many wrote off this book as an exaggeration, when in fact it underestimated the damage to people of various economic statuses from both developing and developed countries caused More
In addition to hundreds of fighters reported killed in month of airstrikes, women and children among the many innocent bystanders left dead By Jon Queally, staff writer Common Dreams October 23, 2014 Thick smoke from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rises in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at More
...but when the country might be embarking on a new war (or just extending an old one), then you just have to bring on the TV generals. And those, it turns out, are mostly white guys. ... it's not hard to imagine a different kind of war coverage, one that speaks to regional experts, lawyers or More
The endless election cycles, he said, are an example of politics without politics, driven not by substantive issues but manufactured political personalities and opinion polls. There is no national institution in the United States “that can be described as democratic,” [Wolin] said. Protesters chant as they are arrested at the intersection of Wall Street and More
Henry Giroux discusses the increasingly negative impact of neoliberalism across the world, politically, socially, economically and in terms of education, and he offers some suggestions for what we must do now. By Michael Nevradakis Truthout.org | Interview 19 October 2014 (Image: Hand selects, world map via Shutterstock) Michael Nevradakis for Dialogics: Let's begin with a discussion More
