Don’t Walk Away from War It’s Not the American Way By Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch.com June 10, 2014 The United States has been at war -- major boots-on-the-ground conflicts and minor interventions, firefights, air strikes, drone assassination campaigns, occupations, special ops raids, proxy conflicts, and covert actions -- nearly nonstop since the Vietnam War began. That’s more More
Bruce Gagnon Veteran, Organizer: b. 1952 "The role of the U.S. in the new world corporate order is going to be to export security. That means endless wars and weapons in space. The Pentagon will send our kids off to foreign lands to suppress opposition to corporate globalization. How will we ever end America’s addiction to More
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Everyone knows about the military-industrial complex, which, in his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned had the potential to “endanger our liberties or democratic process” but have you heard of the “Deep State?” Moyers & Company February 21, 2014 Mike Lofgren, a former GOP congressional staff member with the powerful House and Senate Budget Committees, More
Everyone knows about the military-industrial complex, which, in his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned had the potential to “endanger our liberties or democratic process” but have you heard of the “Deep State?” Moyers & Company February 21, 2014 Mike Lofgren, a former GOP congressional staff member with the powerful House and Senate Budget Committees, More
"The University is a critical institution or it is nothing." - Stuart Hall By Henry A Giroux Tuesday, 29 October 2013 Truthout | Op-Ed (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) I want to begin with the words of the late African-American poet, Audre Lourde, who was in her time a formidable writer, educator, feminist, gay rights activist and public intellectual who More
What does hope teach us at a time in which government lies and deception are exposed on a daily basis in the media and yet appear to have little effect on challenging the deeply authoritarian attacks on civil liberties initiated by President Obama? By Henry A Giroux Posted on Sep 6, 2013 truthdig.com This piece first appeared More
What does hope teach us at a time in which government lies and deception are exposed on a daily basis in the media and yet appear to have little effect on challenging the deeply authoritarian attacks on civil liberties initiated by President Obama? By Henry A Giroux Posted on Sep 6, 2013 truthdig.com This piece first appeared More
"The obsession with 'genocide' as the primary humanitarian issue in the world today relativizes war. It reverses the final judgment of the Nuremberg Trials that: 'War is essentially an evil thing.'" by Diana Johnstone April 2, 2013 PhilosophyforChange.org Opposing genocide has become a sort of cottage industry in the United States. Everywhere, “genocide studies” are cropping More
US Sells Three-Fourths of Worldwide Arms News of America's misadventures in foreign policy and defense. Robert Dreyfuss on August 27, 2012 - 9:52 AM ET The Nation Here’s the opening phrase of a scare story in the Washington Post from this weekend: China’s arms exports have surged over the past decade… And here’s the second paragraph from today's New York More
US Sells Three-Fourths of Worldwide Arms News of America's misadventures in foreign policy and defense. Robert Dreyfuss on August 27, 2012 - 9:52 AM ET The Nation Here’s the opening phrase of a scare story in the Washington Post from this weekend: China’s arms exports have surged over the past decade… And here’s the second paragraph from today's New York More
Noam Chomsky> Occupy Points to a “Different Way of Living” Thursday, 26 April 2012 14:11 By John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus | Book Review truthout Noam Chomsky. (Photo: Jean-Baptiste LABRUNE / Flickr) Noam Chomsky is uniquely skilled to provide context to the Occupy movement and encourage its growth into new stages of energetic initiatives. More
