Working Class Strategy in the Era of Capitalist Globalization
A qualitatively new form of transnational capital has clearly emerged. Its features include enormous new concentrations of finance capital, new forms of transnational monopoly, huge changes in the technology of mass production and manufacturing, a new global division of labor, and increasing poverty and decline for workers of the world in a global race to the bottom.
Mommy, What's Waterboarding?
Remember the great harm done to the moral core of our nation when, according to the excited news reports following Kenneth Starr's great work in life, children were asking their parents what oral sex was? Neither do I.
Diebold Added Secret Patch to Georgia E-Voting Systems in 2002, Whistleblowers Say
Top Diebold corporation officials ordered workers to install secret files to Georgia's electronic voting machines shortly before the 2002 Elections, at least two whistleblowers are now asserting, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
The Do-Nothing Congress
Even by recent standards, the Republican-run 109th Congress set some sort of dubious record for inaction. Remember that, now that they’re campaigning.
Treating Criminality As Daring Boldness: The Media on Bush
It's only when others in power and on the right criticize Bush that we are supposed to pay attention to the criticism. This is a deeply ingrained bias in our corporate media.
Bush Appointees Browbeat Senior Military Officers on Geneva Conventions
As a retired US Army Reserve colonel, I am aghast at the blatant browbeating by civilian political appointees of the Bush administration of another generation of senior US military officers. In late 2002 and 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld began the browbeating. He forced US Central Command commander General Tommy Franks into accepting a war plan for Iraq that Franks knew had too few military personnel for the job ahead - the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Risk of Misreading US-Iran Dispute
The ongoing war of words between US President George W. Bush and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, coupled with deluded western media misconceptions or intentional misrepresentations of the true nature of the escalating conflict, can be utterly misleading.
Rethinking the 'War on Terror'
Everyone agrees that the people who planned the attacks on September 11th 2001 ought to be brought to justice. But how should this be done, and who are these people really, asked Hussein Ibish, Executive Director of the Foundation for Arab-American Leadership.
Blueprint for Withdrawal from Iraq
In a wide-ranging article appearing in the October issue of “Harper’s” magazine, former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern spelled out a comprehensive “blueprint” for the withdrawal of Coalition troops.
Bush and Islam: Words versus Deeds
The wide gap between U.S. President George W. Bush’s words and deeds vis-à-vis Islam and Muslims doomed to failure his speech at the United nations on September 19, which could neither appease Muslims nor pacify the ever growing Islamophobia.
