Birmingham: What happened in Nahr Al Bared?23 Oct 2007Nahr Al Bared is a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of Lebanon which has been home to about 40,000 Palestinian people, most of whom are the children and grandchildren of those who left Palestine in 1948. Some like Abu Mohammad were born in Palestine.
Harmon Snow: THREE CHEERS FOR EVE ENSLER?23 Oct 2007 A major propaganda front has swept the Western media decrying the unprecedented sexual violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. As this story goes to press the war in Congo—claiming 1000 lives a day in the East and more than 7 million people since 1996—is escalating yet again.
Street: The Animal Farm At Home:22 Oct 2007If you want to know how dangerously narrow and rightward the dominant doctrinal spectrum is in the United States, look at what passes for that nation’s leftmost “mainstream” newspaper, The New York Times. Last Sunday’s Times was another typical, one might even say textbook [1], example.
Zirin: White Noise: Whitlock on NFL Color Lines22 Oct 2007Jason “Big Sexy” Whitlock has told me to “mind own damn business” when it comes to his mission to lead a new Civil Rights movement against “black idiots”. But whether you are talking about Whitlock or someone hanging a noose on a tree, there is a problem when you say, “Just ignore it and it will go away.
DeVoir: He might have a better chance at Guantanamo.22 Oct 2007Palestinians have fallen out of favor with Fatah. The election of Hamas, far from being a mandate for their political program, was a castigation of Fatah’s poor performance and pervasive corruption.
Ehrenreich: Happy Fascism Awareness Week!22 Oct 2007I’ve never been able to explain Halloween to the kids, with its odd thematic confluence of pumpkins, candy, and death. But Halloween is a piece of pumpkin cake compared to Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which commences today.
Feeney: The Big Red Songbook22 Oct 2007The Big Red Songbook THE BIG RED SONGBOOKArchie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, Salvatore Salerno (eds.) The 2007 publication of The Big Red Songbook is long overdue.
Hoodbhoy: It Is Our War22 Oct 2007The war in Pakistan’s tribal areas is being fought by Pakistan’s army under America’s gun and on its orders. Many innocents have tragically died from bombardment from the skies.
Gunn: Timor-Leste and Indonesia22 Oct 2007This article provides an overview of the difficulties confronting East Timor, the Asia Pacific’s newest and poorest nation, and an interview with Mari Alkatiri. It may on the surface appear odd that, recently out of office, the former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (DRTL) and Secretary-General of FRETILIN, Mari Bim Amude Alkatiri, would choose in September 2007 to visit Jakarta, the capital of the country that brutally invaded and occupied the half-island country in 1975-76, targeting especially FRETILIN (Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor) and.
Johnson: A Guide for the Perplexed22 Oct 2007[This essay is a review of The Matador’s Cape, America’s Reckless Response to Terror by Stephen Holmes (Cambridge University Press, 367 pp., $30).
Cumings: Kim Jong Il confronts Bush—and wins22 Oct 2007The leaders of South and North Korea have met. The meeting had been formally delayed since the summer because of serious flooding in the North—but in fact both sides had to wait six years for this opportunity.
Safty: Clouded Horizons for Palestine22 Oct 2007The Bush administration, anxious to create some legacy other than the unmitigated fiasco of the Iraq war, is preparing to host a Palestinian-Israeli peace meeting next month in Washington. But the Bush administration’s interest in peace in the Middle East has been to say the least lukewarm.
Ali: Beyond the explosive homecoming22 Oct 2007ONE can hardly disagree with Benazir Bhutto when she argues that militant Islamists must not be allowed to determine the political agenda in Pakistan. To a certain extent, however, they have already been doing so.
Lendman: UAW Sellout at GM and Chrysler22 Oct 2007The September and October United Auto Workers (UAW) GM and Chrysler agreements are just the latest examples of union leadership surrender and betrayal. It’s an ominous sign of labor’s plight and clear indication of what’s ahead – more for business, less for workers, and no relief in sight with union bosses out for themselves and more allied with business and imperial interests than their own rank and file.
Jensen: Masculinity: Where we are stuck22 Oct 2007Act I I am having dinner on a Thursday night in a restaurant in New York’s Greenwich Village with two friends I’m working with on a documentary on pornography. We’ve had a lon.
Jacobs: The FBI’s War on Black Liberation22 Oct 2007The history of relations between the Black liberation movement and law enforcement has always been adversarial, at its best. At its worst, it is a history of murder, beatings, lies and frame-ups.
Ali: A Massacre Foretold21 Oct 2007The massacre in Karachi had been widely predicted. Benazir Bhutto herself has stated that she was aware of the dangers.
Bybee: US media control in Iraq and elsewhere21 Oct 2007The practice of literally corrupting the free press -at home or abroad- is at odds with everything our nation stands for, but it has become a common practice. So we have examples like conservative columnist Armstrong Williams being paid to write pieces favorable about school choice (heavily promoted by the ultra-rightist, Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation as a means of undermining public education and undermining teacher unions.
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