Tag: Feature
Troubadour of 1960s New Left is Celebrated in New Exhibit At Woody Guthrie Museum
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 1
The Woody Guthrie Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma where I live has opened up a new exhibition about Phil Ochs, one of the most popular anti-war folk singers during the 1960s and early 1970s.
The exhibition includes videos of some of Ochs’s performances at anti-war rallies, along with memorabilia from his...
But It Will Widen the Conflict and Represents Another Escalation Directed Against Russia
On January 6, Denmark announced that it would be transferring 19 American-made F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine in the second quarter of 2024. Last August, the Biden administration approved sending F-16s—which are made by Lockheed Martin—to Ukraine...
Mohamed Hassan Tells Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism That the U.S. Encouraged the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) to Launch an Insurgency Against the Ethiopian Government in November 2020 and Gave Diplomatic and Media Cover for Their Aggression
The Motive Was to Use the TPLF to Control the Horn of...
Jewish Youth Are Indoctrinated From a Young Age in Jewish Day School to Blindly Support Israel and View Palestinians With Contempt
Kenny Cordasco - 5
But Now, More and More Young Jews Are Waking Up and Learning to Think for Themselves
If you talk to an ordinary American, or, in my experience, if you talk to an average Israeli, for that matter, they don’t know anything about who the Palestinians are. They don’t know where...
Joe Biden, amidst his mental confusion, must think he is John McCain reincarnated. I bet he is humming, “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb; Bomb, Bomb Iran.” You know how it is: Iranians, Yemenis, they all look alike. While the bombs are causing some damage in Yemen, Yemen has seen it before...
To Avoid Catastrophe, Israel Must Integrate Gazans Into Israel and Grant Them Equal Rights
Joshua Shoenfeld - 10
To date, there has been negligible attention given to what will be the ultimate fate of the approximately 2.3 million people living in the Gaza Strip enclave in Palestine. In response to the October 7 Hamas attacks, Israel, with the full backing of the United States, has undertaken a...
The Wall Street Journal reported on January 4 that talks were under way as the Biden administration was seeking to establish drone bases at airfields in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Benin following a coup in Niger over the summer that jeopardized the U.S. military position there.
Stars and Stripes magazine...
Laudatory Commemorations of Kissinger Reveal Systemic Bias in U.S. Media, Academia and Think Tanks
Dario Calvisi - 0
Huge Human Costs of Many of His Policies Go Ignored Along with Their Impact on the Global South
The passing of Henry Kissinger on November 29, 2023, has sparked an intense debate over the legacy of the controversial statesman, with the remarkable persistence of laudatory comments.
Echoing similar notes in mainstream...
U.S. Policy in Korea is Stuck in a Time Warp With Little Having Changed Since 1950
Dermot Hudson - 1
The DPRK Has Thwarted U.S. Designs to Control the Korean Peninsula in a Major Historical Accomplishment.
On August 15, 1945, Korea was liberated from Japanese imperialist colonial rule thanks to the arduous armed struggle waged by the anti-Japanese partisans led by the guerrilla leader Kim Il Sung.
Japanese imperialist rule, which...
In One of Last Interviews, John Pilger Calls For an “Insurrection of Banned Knowledge”
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 6
Since his death on December 30, tributes have been pouring in for John Pilger, an Australian journalist who gave voice to the voiceless and had a talent for putting human tragedies into a political context.
Starting his career in the late 1950s working for daily newspapers in his native Sydney,...