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Palestine: State of play
Our friend Tony Karon joins Rashid Khalidi, Peter Beinart and Ethan Bronner on Al Jazeera’s Empire. The dawn of a Palestinian state has been a long time coming. After 65 years of dispossession, 45...
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Cornel West on Obama and MLK’s Bible
Cornel West Explains Why It Bothers Him That Obama Will Be Taking The Oath With MLK’s Bible
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Obama’s torture policy
Al Jazeera’s excellent Fault Lines returns: As a candidate for president, Barack Obama promised a new direction. Just days after taking office, the new US president issued a series of executive orders...
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Archaeology of Revolutionary Knowledge
My review of Pankaj Mishra’s From the Ruins of Empire which first appeared in Guernica. As tsar Alexander III sat down for an evening’s entertainment at the St. Petersburg opera house in late 1887, he...
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Saturday Night Live does the Hagel Hearings
For some reason, SNL did not broadcast this.
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Wealth Inequality in America
The gap between reality and perception is even greater than the reality between perception and ideal.
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Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky in Conversation
Wonders of Youtube! A 1991 video of a conversation between the two greats surfaces.
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Look at the World from Behind the Wall
by William A. Cook “Put yourself in their shoes. Look at the world through their eyes. It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own. Living their entire lives with the...
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Foreign policy and Fuzzy Maths on the Scott Horton Show
I was on the Scott Horton Show yesterday to discuss my recent article on the dubious numbers that have been used to conceal the real scale of Iraq’s tragedy. Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, a sociologist and...
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Clive Stafford Smith on the Guantanamo hunger strikes
Clive Stafford Smith on the outrageous case of Shaker Aamer who has been detained for 12 years without charge and tortured systematically. Guantanamo, he argues, is in many ways worse than death row or...
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Tales in a Kabul Restaurant
by Kathy Kelly May 21, 2013 - Kabul–Since 2009, Voices for Creative Nonviolence has maintained a grim record we call the “The Afghan Atrocities Update” which gives the dates, locations, numbers and...
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Gore Vidal – American Presidency
This film presents Gore Vidal’s views on the American presidents.
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Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Malcolm X: Make It Plain is a 1994 documentary by PBS about the life of Malcolm X, or El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
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Geoffrey Wawro – Quicksand
The above is a presentation at the National Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel “Special Relationship” on March 7, 2014 at the National Press Club. Dr. Geoffrey Wawro is Professor of History and...
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Almost 200 Hollywood Celebrities Sign on to Israel’s Genocide of the...
Today, [Creative Community for Peace] say, there is not a single musical act, from Justin Timberlake to the Rolling Stones to Alicia Keys, that they have not approached and coached in advance of their...
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How ‘broken windows’ policing harms people of color
My friend Molly Crabapple uses her superb artwork to explain how “broken windows” policing harms people of color. Last summer, a New York city police officer choked a black grandfather named Eric...
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Russia, Trump and the New ‘McCarthyism in Reverse’
It is U.S. election season, 2016, and the extremely dumb baseline for presidential-year rhetoric has already been exceeded with gusto thanks to a fake-tanned reality TV blowhard now leading a white...
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The Gamble: The Left’s Bet on a Trump Loss
How leftists were blinded to Trump’s winning prospects The gamble was this, and many on the left were sure the odds were stacked: Hillary Clinton would overcome the sweeping forces of global reaction...
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Donald Trump’s Militarism in 400 Words
President-elect Donald J. Trump was often vague on the campaign trail, but he was clear about this: as commander-in-chief he would get back to the basics of the War on Terror, foregoing liberal...
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