Threatened by David Remnick March 12, 2012 Edition The New Yorker Posted March 5, 2012 on WAMMToday Democracy is never fully achieved. At best, it’s an ambition, a state of becoming. In America, it took generations for blacks, women, and gays and lesbians to win the rights of citizenship—rights that, in many instances, More
An Interview With Jonathan Schell How Empires Fall (Including the American One) by ANDY KROLL March 1, 2012 Tom Dispatch When Jonathan Schell’s The Unconquerable World, a meditation on the history and power of nonviolent action, was published in 2003, the timing could not have been worse. Americans were at war — and More
Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview Under house arrest in England, the WikiLeaks founder opens up about his battle with the ‘Times,’ his stint in solitary and the future of journalism By MICHAEL HASTINGS January 18, 2012 8:00 AM ET Rolling Stone Assange poses for a portrait at his undisclosed location in the English countryside. Max More
Occupying the Occupy Movement Robin Morgan January 3, 2012 Women’s Media Center An Occupy movement for 2012 could gain strength and staying-power with strategies suggested by an emerging feminist critique. Mexico city collective, from Occuprint.org As women of the Arab Spring are rediscovering, being participants, even leaders, of the uprisings hasn’t led to women’s More
Tomgram> Nick Turse, Did the Pentagon Help Strangle the Arab Spring? Tom Engelhardt December 13, 2011 Tom Dispatch Of all American military training programs around the world, the most publicized in recent years has been the one building up a local security force to replace U.S. (and NATO) troops as they ever More
Making Repression Our Business The Pentagon’s Secret Training Missions in the Middle East Nick Turse December 13, 2011 Tom Dispatch As the Arab Spring blossomed and President Obama hesitated about whether to speak out in favor of protesters seeking democratic change in the Greater Middle East, the Pentagon acted decisively. It forged ever More
TIME names “The Protester” as “Person Of Year” Magazine honors Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street with its annual accolade ASSOCIATED PRESS WEDNESDAY, DEC 14, 2011 7:45 AM NEW YORK (AP) — “The Protester” has been named Time’s “Person of the Year” for 2011. The selection was announced Wednesday on NBC’s “Today” show. The magazine More
Arab Revolutions and the Power of Nonviolent Action Stephen Zunes Sunday 4 December 2011 Nation of Change “This has not come, in most cases, from a moral or spiritual commitment to nonviolence per se, but simply because it works.” While sitting in a Cairo café just a couple blocks from Tahrir Square a More
Protest Planet> How a Neoliberal Shell Game Created an Age of Activism By Juan Cole TomDispatch From Tunis to Tel Aviv, Madrid to Oakland, a new generation of youth activists is challenging the neoliberal state that has dominated the world ever since the Cold War ended. The massive popular protests that shook the globe this More
Letter to a Dead Man About the Occupation of Hope Posted by Rebecca Solnit at 10:13am, October 18, 2011. TomDispatch Dear young man who died on the fourth day of this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi, I want to write you about an astonishing year — with three months yet to run. I want to tell you about More
By Kase Wickman Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Raw Story A video combining footage of United States government leaders and clips of the grassroots Occupy Wall Street movement in downtown New York City has gone viral, reposted across several accounts on YouTube. The video opens with a statement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton More
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Press Passes John Grant Published: Sunday 9 October 2011 Nation of Change The First Amendment right to gather news is, as the Court has often noted, not one that inures solely to the benefit of the news media; rather, the public’s right of access to information is coextensive More
