When President Manual Zelaya of Honduras was brutally kidnapped from the presidential residence in Tegucigalpa in the early morning hours of Sunday, June 28, the president of the United States, Barack Obama, was enjoying the peace and tranquility of the countryside at Camp David, the vacation residence for the U.S.... » read this article

In this my first week back in North America, I was reminded that there are two Americas: a decent caring one and one of delusion.  This is as if there are two trains heading to different destinations.  The hypocrisy train has big PR budgets, has a huge lobby that managed... » read this article

25 June 2009 On Tuesday, an unmanned US Predator drone fired missiles into a funeral procession in the Pakistani region of South Waziristan, killing as many as 80 people and maiming dozens more. It was the deadliest US attack within Pakistan to date. The mourners had gathered for the funeral... » read this article

25 June 2009 President Obama’s declaration, in his June 23 press conference, that he was “appalled and outraged” by the Iranian government’s reaction to protests over Iran’s presidential election results represents an escalation of US pressure on the clerical regime in Tehran. This direct statement, which he suggested was motivated... » read this article

Having watched the situation in Iran now for several years through to the current protests by the dissident citizens of the country unsatisfied with the election results, I remain as perplexed as ever.  Not the perplexity of not understanding what is actually going on as there are enough news sources... » read this article

It's the 2009 presidential election in Iran and opposition leader Mir-Houssein Mousavi declares victory hours before the polls close, insuring that any result to the contrary will be called into question. Western media goes into overdrive, fighting with each other to see who can offer the most hyperbolic denunciation of... » read this article

Max Rameau stood at a lectern in one of Portland State University’s student centers on an April afternoon. “Being against oppression and exploitation in your mind is not enough,” he told a group of 70 activists. Rameau had been invited to Portland, Ore., to talk about Take Back the Land,... » read this article

1. These are just "lone wolf" psychos who are acting alone. You can't hold anybody else responsible for what crazy people decide to do. True and false. But mostly false. It's true that every one of the nine right-wing terrorists who've made the news since January 20 had a history... » read this article

A number of commentators have expressed their idealistic belief in the purity of Mousavi, Montazeri, and the westernized youth of Tehran. The CIA destabilization plan, announced two years ago (see below) has somehow not contaminated unfolding events. The claim is made that Ahmadinejad stole the election, because the outcome was... » read this article

Sunday, 21 June 2009 Iran Faces Greater Risks Than It Knows by Paul Craig Roberts Stephen Kinzer’s book, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, tells the story of the overthrow of Iran’s democratically-elected leader, Mohammed Mosaddeq, by the CIA and the British... » read this article

GOODBYE MOTO! GOODBYE APARTHEID! Summer in the Streets for Justice IN PALESTINE Don’t Miss: The NYCBI Summer Campaign’s First Street Action Saturday, June 27 1:00-3:00 pm Greeley Square Park, Manhattan (6th Ave & 32nd Street (1,2,3, A,B,C,D, to 34th St)   Participate in street theater, sing fun lyrics with us,... » read this article

Editor's Note: The corporate media's twenty-four-seven coverage of the rioting of the Iranian opposition in Teheran streets is telling. The media arm of the U.S. government, CNN, the networks, cable TV and the print media are feverishly backing this CIA/Mossad operation as though their very survival depended on it. What they... » read this article

This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency.  It marks the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States. And it signals the last gasp of the American imperium. That’s over. It is not coming back. And what... » read this article

YOU WOULD think that causing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression might have repercussions. You would think  being a major factor in the destruction of around 40 percent of the world's wealth might get you in trouble. You would think being the cause of the worst housing crisis... » read this article

At 7.30 in the morning on 3 June, a seven-month-old baby died in the intensive care unit of the European Gaza Hospital in the Gaza Strip. His name was Zein Ad-Din Mohammed Zu'rob, and he was suffering from a lung infection which was treatable. Denied basic equipment, the doctors in... » read this article

13 June 2009 Even as US unemployment rolls soar to their highest levels in post-war history, employed workers face the worst conditions since the Great Depression, according to a front-page article in Friday’s USA Today. Based on its analysis of employment data, the newspaper reports that pay cuts, reduced hours,... » read this article

The praise heaped on President Obama for his speech to the Muslim world by writers on the left, both here and abroad, is disturbing. I’m referring to people who I think should know better, who’ve taken Politics 101 and can easily see the many hypocrisies in Obama’s talk, as well... » read this article

Even as President Barrack Obama waxed eloquent in Cairo, Egypt, on the moral imperatives of the community of nations, public opinion polls released in the United States revealed that, by a substantial percentage, its citizens believe torture is an acceptable option for interrogation of suspects deemed terrorists by various US... » read this article

From time to time, events unfold that are so large in scope, so all-encompassing in their implications that one's initial response is muted by an inability to categorize it all within the realm of experience. Previous reference points prove of little service. One's image of oneself and one's place in... » read this article

Protectionism. Capitalists were all for it before they were against it. When manufacturing took place in America, when they paid workers enough to buy the products they produced, adding a tariff/tax/fee on to the cost of imported goods made by these same manufacturers’ competitors overseas, was fine. It just made... » read this article