NEWS RELEASE:   THE ACTORS' GANG CONTACT: ELIZABETH DORAN (310) 838-4264 (US - California)                       1984 Directed by Tim Robbins   The Actors’ Gang re-visits George Orwell’s Masterpiece to celebrate its 30th Anniversary Season  As a highlight of its 30th anniversary season, The Actors’ Gang will remount George Orwell’s 1984, directed... » read this article

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Without much fanfare, the Energy Information Agency of the US Department of Energy released a report on 2011 energy commodity prices yesterday. It confirmed that crude oil and key petroleum products set annually averaged price records last year. This largely snuck up on us, because it occurred without the kind... » read this article

"Despite warnings from the Obama administration that Latin America should not engage in relations with Iran, President Ahmadinejad held a successful four-country tour in the region forging commerce and trade and consolidating relations."  T/ COI P/ Presidential Press Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Caracas... » read this article

“Over earth and ocean with gentle motion This pilot is guiding me.” P.B. Shelley, The Cloud After the Haiti earthquake in 2010, which the US used as yet another excuse to militarise the tortured country’s aid relief, Hugo Chavez bravely quoted a Russian Northern Fleet document suggesting that America’s huge... » read this article

The dynamic of democratic, nationalist and class struggles throughout the Moslem world has set in motion a new constellation of alliances between the imperial West (US and European Union) and Islamist parties, leaders and regimes, dubbed “moderate” by US officials, propagandists and academics. This essay analyzes the changing contemporary context... » read this article

Update: On November 5 we published the video below of William Adams, a Texas Judge, cursing, berating and beating his daughter who has a disability for using the internet in 2004. She secretly recorded the beating and the video recently surfaced, receiving national attention. The report stated that Judge Adams "is unlikely... » read this article

#Mockupy: OWS Occupies "Law & Order" Zuccotti Set in Foley Square! Saturday December 10th Global Day of Action Human Rights Day #10 DECEMBER   Click Here to learn more    #Mockupy: OWS Occupies "Law & Order" Zuccotti Set in Foley Square! Posted 18 hours ago on Dec. 8, 2011, 11:50 p.m. EST... » read this article

Editorial comment: It's NOT CAPITALISM that's the source of our high standard of living, says Michael Parenti in this fabulous video from 2007. Time to drag it out once again and then again and again. The Capitalists have done EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER to stop the good life from spreading... » read this article

Editor's Note: This is Petras' grey matter and quill at their best. Nearly every day someone says something like this to me, "What a crazy world we live in." Well yes, insanity rules at the top, with fear, chaos and a sense of impotence trickling down fracture any order that... » read this article

Invited paper to be read at the “Symposium on Re-Publicness” Sponsored by the Chamber of Electrical Engineers Ankara Turkey, December 9 – 10, 2011 Introduction The relation of information technology (IT) and more specifically the internet, to politics is a central issue facing contemporary social movements. Like many previous scientific... » read this article

Editor's Comment: We have published many articles that explain the plans of Global Corporate Empire for a new world government, a world central bank, single world currency and one world military in the past. But in this video, David Icke breaks it down all down with exquisite clarity and provides... » read this article

Editor's Comment: We have read and published many of James Petras' analyses over the years which have been both, enlightening and prophetic. But this one is all the more exceptional. Anyone who seeks an understanding of the interplay between democracy and imperialism should read this essay. There are many writers... » read this article

THE GREEN BOOK MUAMMAR AL GADDAFI’S WEBSITE Muʿammar al-Gaddāfī June 1942 – 20 October 2011 Mu’tasim-Billah al-Gaddafi 1977 – 20 October 2011 Our beloved Brother Leader has fallen, along with his son, Mu’tassim. My heart grieves with the Gaddafi family who have withstood so much pain and loss. What they... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Back in the UK, after several months spent in Libya testifies on the criminal war carried out by the US and NATO against the government and people of Libya. In this testimony she provides a very moving report of the heroism of the Libyan people defending their country... » read this article

"While most recommendations were favorable, including a suggestion by Nicaragua that “the revolutionary policies of the Venezuelan government be strengthened so that all Venezuelans can fully enjoy their fundamental rights”, other countries such as the United States, France, and Israel criticized what they said were limitations of “freedom of expression”... » read this article

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Editor's comment: This is an excellent exposé of the foundations laid for the US/NATO war in Libya. Please note that the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), based in Washington DC was at the root of this international crime against the government and people of Libya. For years NED has also... » read this article

On October 15th people from all over the world will take to the streets and squares. From America to Asia, from Africa to Europe, people are rising up to claim their rights and demand a true democracy. Now it is time for all of us to join in a global... » read this article

. . . . The cork has popped, the cat is out of the bag, People are coming out of the woodwork, coming out of the closet, some are going out of their minds, some are fed up with going hungry being out of luck, out of touch, on the... » read this article