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a Quadrature du Net and Reporters Without Borders: Recommendations on the right to be forgotten
Published: 2014
On the problems for the protection of freedom of expression and the right to information posed by the right to be removed from search engine results and, more broadly, the right to be forgotten. Privacy and freedom of expression are fundamental rights of equal value. Whenever one conflicts with the other, a balance must be reached under a judge’s authority because, as a matter of principle, one cannot be given more importance than the other.
Aaronson, Trevor: Even the FBI Agrees: When Undercover Agents Pose as Journalists, It Hurts Real Journalists' Work
Published: 2018
The FBI doesn't want the public to know more about how its agents pose as journalists during undercover investigations.The government acknowledged in a court filing that FBI agents who pretend to be journalists create a chilling effect, making it harder for real journalists to gain trust and cooperation from sources.
Aaronson, Trevor: The Sting: How the FBI Created a Terrorist
Published: 2015
Informant-led sting operations are central to the FBI’s counterterrorism program. Of 508 defendants prosecuted in federal terrorism-related cases in the decade after 9/11, 243 were involved with an FBI informant, while 158 were the targets of sting operations.
Abbas, Ziad: Torturing and Jailing Palestinian Children
Nightmare in the Occupied Territories
Published: 2013
About 500-700 children are arrested by the Israeli occupation every year, according to Defense for Children International-Palestine. These children face a policy designed to kill their spirit and shut them down. It targets them physically and psychologically.
Abbdelhadi, Magdi: Some popular fallacies about Islamism
Published: 2015
Al-Qaeda and its most recent clone, the so-called "Islamic State" group, did not come about as a result of the invasion of Iraq or the civil war in Syria. It was born out of the unholy alliance between America and the Wahhabi zealots of Saudi Arabia to defeat communism and bring down the Soviet Union.
Abbott, Dr. Lyman; Dickenson, Asa Don et. al.: The Guide to Reading
Published: 1922
In every home there ought to be books that are friends. In every day, at least in every week, there ought to be some time which can be spent in cultivating their friendship.
Abbott, Jeff: Honduras: Garifuna communities resist eviction and theft of land
Published: 2015
Pristine beaches, clear Caribbean waters, coral reefs, fertile land ... such is the homeland of the Garifuna people, writes Jeff Abbott. It's so lovely that outsiders are desperate to seize ever more of their territory to develop for mass tourism, oil palm plantations, illicit drug production ... and the land grabs have the full support of Honduras military government, backed to the hilt by Uncle Sam.
Abbott, Jeff: Indigenous Communities in Guatemala Fight Against the Privatization of Sacred Sites
Published: 2016
In recent years, the popular tourist attraction of Semuc Champey in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz has become a point of social conflict for the indigenous Q'eqchi' Mayan communities surrounding the site. On February 8, tensions erupted and led to the occupation of the municipality building of Lanquín by over 200 members of the communities near the tourist attraction. Community members demanded the recuperation of the site. Since that day, residents have maintained management of the park.
Abbott, Jeff: Indigenous Community Wins Land Rights Victory in Guatemala After 200 Years of Struggle
Published: 2015
Success is rare among indigenous peoples' struggles for land rights in Guatemala. But the nearly 300 Poqomchi' Maya families that make up the Primavera communities in the department of Alta Verapaz have just won a significant victory.
Abelvik-Lawson, Helle: Batteries and renewables - believe the hype!
Published: 2015
Discusses one of the biggest technological developments of our climate-stressed times: the large-scale storage of renewable energy.
Abernethy, Richard: Rosa Luxemburg's Birds
Published: 2020
Abley, Mark: 'It's like bombing the Louvre'
Published: 2008
Marie Smith Jones was the world's last Eyak speaker - by the time she died last week, she could use her mother tongue only in her dreams. But the loss of a language is not just a personal tragedy, it is a cultural disaster
Abma, Sandra: Exhuming history: censored Jewish text brought to light by Library and Archives Canada
Published: 2016
Words that were once lost to history have been brought into the light by book conservationists at Library and Archives Canada. The 16th-century collection of sermons were by a rabbi and philosopher who sought to keep the faith alive during a dark era of persecution and censorship, when Jews were facing possible expulsion from their homes if they did not convert to Christianity.
Aboukhater, Hekmat: That's militainment! Big Hollywood succumbs to the Pentagon Borg
Published: 2024
Abraham: Here's What Shakespeare's Plays Sounded Like With Their Original English Accent
Published: 2011
In this short documentary, linguist David Crystal and his son, actor Ben Crystal, look at the differences between English pronunciation now and how it was spoken 400 years ago. They answer the most basic question you probably have right now — How do you know what it sounded like back then? — and they discuss the value of performing Shakespeare’s plays in the original accent…
Abraham, Nabeel: Crossing Lines for Justice
Against The Current vol. 107
Published: 2003
The dreaded knock on the door came at mid-day when a colleague brought the news -- Edward Said died last night. For those who knew him, we lived with his illness for a dozen years the way a family lives with a doomed relative. The day would arrive when Edward's inimitable and redoubtable voice would be heard no more. It was a shock all the same.
Abraham, Sara: Bhopal's Fight for Memory
Published: 2015
In December, 1984, unknown poisonous gases burst out from a Union Carbide pesticide plant located in a vicinity of the city of Bhopal in central India. The plant, scheduled for possible closure, was understaffed, not maintained adequately, and had already seen prior deaths from exposure to leaks.
Abraham, Sara: Global Justice, What We Eat, Who We Are
Against The Current vol. 92
Published: 2001
Sara Abraham interviews Harriet Friedmann, who has devoted more than two decades to understanding the international politics of food and agriculture and to building local food systems that can be sustainable, polycultural in all senses, and enhancing of democratic, participatory communities.
Abraham, Yuval: 'A mass assassination factory': Inside Israel's calculated bombing of Gaza
Published: 2023
Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation reveals.
Abrahms, Lindsay: Fracking company teams up with Susan G. Komen, introduces pink drill bits "for the cure"
Published: 2014
Abrams, DI: Integrating cannabis into clinical cancer care
Published: 2016
Literature review of contemporary (2016) understanding of the efficacy of cannabis and cannabis derived drugs in treating cancer symptoms.
Abrougui, Afef: Human Rights Protections Weaken as Tunisia Fights Terror
Published: 2015
The Tunisian government is cracking down on civil and political rights as it fights a rise in Islamist insurgency, in the aftermath of the deadliest terror attack in the country's history.
Abu Sneineh, Mustafa: Revealed: The Saudi death squad MBS uses to silence dissent
Published: 2018
The MEE reveals information from a Saudi source with intimate knowledge of the Saudi intelligence services, about a death squad that operates under the guidance and supervision of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Abu-Jamal, Mumia: Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
Published: 2016
If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever. In April, 2014, the state-appointed emergency manager, in order to save money, ordered that the city's water source be changed from Lake Huron to the notoriously polluted Flint River.
Abubacker, Ershad: Mainstream Media And The Propaganda Machine
Published: 2009
Mainstream media, especially the American media plays a vital role in shaping the world public opinion.
Abuimah, Ali: Censorship? Haaretz Deletes Amira Hass Article On Surging Settler Violence
Published: 2012
Israel’s Haaretz has mysteriously deleted a powerful article by Amira Hass headlined “The anti-Semitism that goes unreported,” about an unchecked upsurge in violence against Palestinians by Israeli settlers.
Abujbara, Amira: Why does the language of journalism fail indigenous people?
A journalist with indigenous roots reflects on the making of We Are Still Here: A Story from Native Alaska.
Published: 2018
A journalist with Indigenous roots reflects on the difficulty of doing justice to the community she is filming a documentary about. Historical misrepresentation due to lack of cross-cultural understanding has led to a distrust of the media.
Abulhawa , Susan: On Israel's colonial narrative
Published: 2015
Analysis: Palestinian novelist Susan Abulhawa deconstructs Israel's insidious language of power.
Abulhawa, Susan: Israel's 'nation-state law' parallels the Nazi Nuremberg Laws
Published: 2018
Israel's new 'nation-state' law follows in the footsteps of Jim Crow, the Indian Removal Act and the Nuremberg Laws.
Abulhawa, Susan: Marc Lamont Hill's Detractors are the True Anti-Semites
Published: 2018
Temple University's administration announced the unsurprising news that it has found no grounds to punish or investigate Professor Marc Lamont Hill for his speech on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Yet, the university's Board of Trustees felt compelled, nonetheless, to issue a statement further maligning Dr Hill, albeit indirectly this time.
Abunimah, Ali: "Gaza is a graveyard," sing joyful Israeli youths
Published: 2014
This video shows an Israeli mob actually singing in celebration of children’s deaths in the style of a soccer fans’ song: “In Gaza there’s no studying, No children are left there, Olé, olé, olé-olé-olé.”
Abunimah, Ali: Gaza medic killed by Israel as she rescued injured
Published: 2018
Israeli occupation forces shot dead a volunteer medic and injured dozens of people as they continued their indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians taking part in Great March of Return protests in Gaza for the 10th consecutive Friday. Razan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar, 21, was helping treat and evacuate wounded protesters east of Khan Younis when she was fatally shot on Friday evening. She was about 100 meters away from the boundary fence with Israel at the moment she was shot and was wearing clothing clearly identifying her as a medic.
Abunimah, Ali: Israeli minister threatens to destroy Gaza "once and for all"
Published: 2018
As Israel bombed it dozens of times in the past day, a senior Israeli minister has incited the total destruction of Gaza.
Abunimah, Ali: PayPal censors journalists who criticize Israel
Published: 2018
Under apparent influence from Benjamin Weinthal, PayPal chose to close down the account of the French online publication Agence Media Palestine. Such a move constitutes censorship as it denies journalists the means to raise money for their work and freedom to express ideas.
Abunimah, Ali: Video shows unprovoked, cold-blooded killing of Palestinian boys by Israeli forces
Published: 2014
This shocking video shows the unprovoked, cold-blooded killings of two Palestinian teenagers, 17-year-old Nadim Siam Nuwara, and 16-year-old Muhammad Mahmoud Odeh Abu al-Thahir on 15 May near Ofer military prison in the occupied West Bank city of Beitunia. Both boys were fatally shot with live ammunition.
Abunimah, Ali: Why Is Benjamin Netanyahu Trying To Whitewash Hitler?
Published: 2015
Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly asserted that Adolf Hitler had no intention of exterminating Europe's Jews until a Palestinian persuaded him to do it.
Abunimah, Ali; Nassar, Tamara: "Today we are Nazis," says member of Israeli Jewish extremist group
Published: 2021
Israeli Jewish extremists used instant messaging services to organize armed militias to attack Palestinian citizens of Israel. Voice messages, texts and other communications indicate they coordinated attacks in cities where Palestinians live in close proximity to Jews – including Haifa, Bat Yam and Tiberias in the north, and Ramla and Lydd – Lod in Hebrew – in the center, to Beersheba in southern Israel. In many cases, extremist organizers said they relied on either the active or passive support of Israeli authorities.
Abunimah, Ali; Sheen, David: Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says
Published: 2023
The Electronic Intifada is now able to publish the entire interview with Yasmin Porat, the Kibbutz Be'eri survivor who told Israeli radio that Israeli security forces 'undoubtedly' killed a large number of their own civilians following the Hamas assault on 7 October 2023.
Abusalama, Shahd: Watch: Al Jazeera’s "Massacre at Dawn" Gives Glimpse of Horror in Shujaiya
Published: 2014
Thinking that the footage contained in Massacre at Dawn is just a fraction of the horror makes it even worse. No wonder Israel prevented media from covering the brutality that our people endured there.
Abushama, Hashem: On Western media and the erasure of Palestine
Published: 2023
The Palestinian struggle brings to the forefront the colonial relations that underpin today's world, and that the West, and its media, work tirelessly to hide.
Achanta, Pushpa: India's Indigenous Peoples organise to protect forests, waters and commons
Published: 2015
India's neoliberal government is attempting the mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for corporate exploitation with mines, dams and plantations. But tribal communities are rising up to resist the takeover, which is not only morally reprehensible but violates India's own laws and international human rights obligations.
Acharya, Madhavi: Net's one place to go when you need to know
Published: 1998
Use the Internet to find information - but don't use it as your only source, and don't automatically trust everything you read.
Achebe, Chinua: Chinua Achebe Quotes
Ackerman, Seth: American Jacobins
Published: 2012
In a recent broadside against the Occupy movement, Alexander Cockburn assailed, among other things, “the enormous arrogance which prompted the Occupiers to claim that they were indeed the most important radical surge in living memory. Where was the knowledge of, let alone the respect for, the past?”
Ackerman, Seth: The Red and the Black
Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?
Published: 2012
In this essay, I start from the common socialist assumption that capitalism’s central defects arise from the conflict between the pursuit of private profit and the satisfaction of human needs. Then I sketch some of the considerations that would have to be taken into account in any attempt to remedy those defects.
Ackerman, Spencer; Ball, James: Optic Nerve
Millions of Yahoo Webcam Images Intercepted by GCHQ
Published: 2014
Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal.
Ackerman, Spencer; Roberts, Dan: Obama defiant over NSA revelations ahead of summit with Chinese premier
Published: 2013
President says oversight of NSA surveillance programme should be left to Congress in comments criticising media 'hype.'
Ackerman, Spencer; Stafford, Zach; Guarino, Mark;Laughland, Oliver: "Gestapo" tactics at US police 'black site' ring alarm from Chicago to Washington
Published: 2015
Politicians and rights groups call for inquiries into interrogations at Homan Square. Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces questions as top supporters examine abuse.
ACRES U.S.A.: GMOs, Glyphosate & Tomorrow
Published: 2011
Any time you have a single gene in so many different crops, especially a gene that impacts the normal resistance and defense mechanism in the plant, and you spread that same vulnerability across so many plants, you should anticipate a high level of vulnerability.
Acton, Lord: Lord Acton Quotes
Acuna, Rodolfo: Criticism: An Abandoned Process
Blame the Greeks!
Published: 2013
The art of criticism is yet another casualty of television, the Internet and individualism. The objective of criticism should be to improve something. That is the only way that changes and transformations take place. Formal and informal criticisms have been the centerpiece of every advanced society.
Acuna, Rodolfo: Lessons From the Working Class
Published: 2013
Acuna tries not to romanticize the working class, but he considers them his teachers.
Acuna, Rodolfo: Why History Makes Us Important
Back to Bachima
Published: 2014
History has been important to me for as long as I can remember. As a child I loved hearing my relatives tell stories about the past. However, it was not until I was older that I realized that the stories meant something; they were key to understanding the present; and why we are what we are. As my awareness increased, I became serious about the past so serious that it often got me into trouble.
Adam, Brad: Media Freedom
You will be harrassed and detained
Published: 2007
This report analyzes how the Chinese government is failing to fulfill its commitments to respect the reporting freedom of foreign correspondents during the period of the temporary regulations and is instead continuing to subject foreign reporters to detention, harassment, and intimidation. It also examines how the Chinese government maintains a stranglehold on the activities of domestic journalists.
Adams, Alexander: Creating a 'Brave New World': Rather than guarding Britain's national treasures, woke museum curators want to dispose of them
Published: 2021
Museum curators are no longer the devoted custodians and investigators of artefacts; they are more likely to be schooled in post-modernism and to loathe those artefacts, seeing them as tainted by a history of oppression. Rather than guarding Britains national treasures, curators are lobbying to dispose of them.
Adams, Nalisha: 'A Turtle is Worth More Alive Than Dead'
Published: 2018
Various participants at the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in Kenya discuss ways they can sustainably economically benefit from the local environment.
Adams, Tim: Collectors on the edge
The influence of Kew Gardens reaches far. In the heart of Botswana, meet the leaders of the Millenium Seed Bank Project
Published: 2009
The Millenium Seed Bank Project is an international botanical project to collect and study 10% of the world's plant species.
Adams, Tim: Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph
Published: 2013
An interview with the current head of Google Search, discussing some of the thought processes behind the current functionality of 'search' and some of its possibilites for the future.
Adams, Tim: Jamie Oliver: 'Tell me Mr Gove, Mr Lansley. How can we stop Britain being the most unhealthy country in Europe?'
In the 10 years since opening his Fifteen restaurant, Jamie Oliver's campaigns have gone global. But his passion to improve British schools
Published: 2012
Jaime Oliver continues in his challenge to the educate people on healthy eating, with or without the British government's aid.
Adams, Tim: Look back in joy: the power of nostalgia
Published: 2014
Long considered a disorder, nostalgia is now recognised as a powerful tool in the battle against anxiety and depression. Researchers prove that looking back can improve the outlook for today and tomorrow.
Adams, Tim: Why anger is all the rage
The internet has made critics of us all. But why do so many commenters exploit the anonymity of chatrooms to promote hatred.
Published: 2011
Anonymity in the online community has its proponents and detractors, the author interviews the founder of wikipedia and a facebook employee about the importance of moderation in social media. He comes to the conclusion that many of the extremist opinions espoused online would not be published if their authors had to attach them to their names.
Adetunji, Jo: The chemical dangers in food packaging
Published: 2014
The long-term effects of synthetic chemicals used in packaging, food storage and processing food could be damaging our health, scientists have warned.
Adil, Hafsa: 'Modi is God's gift to Pakistan security establishment'
Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif talks about shrinking freedoms, liberal voices and human rights in Balochistan.
Published: 2017
Mohammed Hanif is a Pakistani journalist and writer. In an interview with Al Jazeera he talks about the shrinking freedoms in mainstream and social media in Pakistan, the role of liberal voices and the state of human rights in Balochistan.
Adithya, M.K.: RIP Liu Xiaobo: Nobel Peace Awardee Who Supported All Wars Unleashed By US Imperialiasm
Published: 2017
Adler, Ben: What America can learn from Europe's high-speed trains
Published: 2015
Adler examines the lagging state of high-speed rail technology in America while analyzing Germany's approach to transit and urban planning as a model for improvement.
Adler-Bolton, Beatrice: "Right to Try" Is a Cruel Farce
Published: 2018
Drug companies want you to think they're providing glimmers of hope to terminally ill patients. Don't believe them.
Adorney, Julian: The Pseudoscience of Critical Race Theory
Published: 2023
Critical Race Theory is not a hard science. It's not even a soft science.
Adorno, Theodor: Theodor Adorno Quotes
Adriaensens, Dirk: 2013: Another Year Of Slaughter In Iraq Claims The Lives Of At Least 21 Media Professionals
Published: 2014
In Iraq , at least 404 media professionals have been killed since the US invasion in 2003, among them 374 Iraqis, according to The B Russell Tribunal statistics. The impunity in Iraq is far worse than anywhere else in the world.
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Aga, Aniket; Choudhury, Chitrangada: 'Cotton has now become a headache'
A chemical-intensive Bt cotton monoculture is spreading through Odisha’s Rayagada district – harming health, deepening debt, irreversibly er
Published: 2019
Kunari's account reflects a dependence brought about by cotton cultivation that is taking root across the ecologically sensitive highland tracts of Odisha's Rayagada district, with deep implications for its rich store of biodiversity, farmers' distress and food security (See Sowing the seeds of climate crisis in Odisha).
Aga, Aniket; Choudhury, Chitrangada: Sowing the seeds of climate crisis in Odisha
Published: 2019
In Rayagada, Bt cotton acreage has risen by 5,200 per cent in 16 years. The result: this biodiversity hotspot, rich in indigenous millets, rice varieties and forest foods, is seeing an alarming ecological shift.
Agence France-Presse: Outrage as plant bosses acquitted over fatal toxic spill in Hungary
Published: 2016
Prosecutors had demanded prison terms for those on trial after alumina works disaster killed 10 and wrecked villages.
Agorist, Matt: Police Taser and Beat Innocent Disabled Vet, Hold Quadriplegic Wife at Gunpoint, Demand She Stand
Published: 2015
Mr. and Mrs. Hayes filed a lawsuit against the Delaware state police for raiding their home. Officers were looking for their nephews, who faced a charge for possession of the drug paraphernalia.
Agren, David: In Mexico, reporters struggle to cover unrest over missing students
Published: 2015
Students have been kidnapped and mass graves have been uncovered but, with all the self-censorship of domestic journalists, Mexico will soon forget.
Aguirre, Carmen: Steven Galloway is Innocent Until Proven Guilty
Everyone is owed due process
Published: 2015
Yes, far too often women who are sexually assaulted are disbelieved. Which is why I understand and see the reasoning behind the "I Believe Women" slogan. It is a powerful statement. It is a strong political position. It is a rhetorical tool, but is not an actual, automatic truth. If we see it as such, it is an inherently tyrannical position that has historically been used to imprison and murder poor men of colour and Indigenous men. For these reasons I much prefer "I Listen to Women."
Ahmed, Nafeez: Armed robbery in Gaza - Israel, US, UK carve up the spoils of Palestine's stolen gas
Published: 2014
Israel desperately covets Gaza's gas as a 'cheap stop-gap' yielding revenues of $6-7 billion a year, writes Nafeez Ahmed. But first Hamas must be 'uprooted' from Gaza, and Fatah bullied into cutting off its talks with Russia's Gazprom.
Ahmed, Nafeez: Gaza: Israel's $4 billion gas grab
Published: 2014
The purpose of Israel's escalating assault on Gaza is to control the Territory's 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas - and so keep Palestine poor and weak, gain massive export revenues, and avert its own domestic energy crisis. If Palestinians develop their own gas resources, the resulting economic transformation could in turn fundamentally increase Palestinian clout.
Ahmed, Nafeez: Global water crisis causing failed harvests, hunger, war and terrorism
Published: 2015
The world is already experiencing water scarcity driven by over-use, poor land management and climate change. If we fail to respond to the warnings before us, major food and power shortages will soon afflict large parts of the globe.
Ahmed, Nafeez: How the CIA made Google
Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet - Part 1
Published: 2015
How the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain "information superiority.'
Ahmed, Nafeez: nerve agent case for 'action' on Russia
Official claim that 'Novichok' points solely to Russia discredited
Published: 2018
The case against Russia using the nerve agent Novichok is undermined by earlier reports by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which previously declared that they have no evidence for the existence of a Russian Novichok programme.
Ahmed, Nafeez: Palestine is not an environment story
How I was censored by The Guardian for writing about Israel's war for Gaza's gas
Published: 2014
After writing for The Guardian for over a year, my contract was unilaterally terminated because I wrote a piece on Gaza that was beyond the pale.
Ahmed, Nafeez: Up to Six Million People
The Unrecorded Fatalities of the 'War on Terror'
Published: 2021
Nafeez Ahmed examines the direct and indirect deaths of the post 9/11 era, as a new kind of state-sanctioned mass violence became globalised and normalised.
Ahmed, Nafeez: War crime: NATO deliberately destroyed Libya's water infrastructure
Published: 2015
The military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Yet this is precisely what NATO did in Libya. Since then, the country's water infrastructure has only deteriorated further.
Aima, Khosa: Women and the Pakistani Left: Can the Awami Workers' Party imagine a new basis for struggle in the cause of women's liberation?
Can the Awami Workers' Party imagine a new and more concrete basis for struggle in the cause of women's liberation?
Published: 2014
We condemn the co-option of the question of women’s emancipation by neo-liberal forces through the de-contextualized celebration of Women’s Day as another opportunity to further the neo-liberal development agenda.
Ainger, Katharine: In Spain they are all indignados nowadays
Published: 2013
The indignado protests that flared up two years ago have become a Spanish state of mind.
Aitchison,John: Connecting with nature through wildlife, place and memory
Published: 2016
Some of us are fortunate enough to have close relationships with the nature around us. But what about everyone else? We must find ways to make people feel like old friends with wildife near and far, and feel that their wild homes and habitats are extensions of our own. And hence, that they are as deserving of our care as human neighbours - if not more so.
Akkeila, Sami A.: Three phones go silent
Published: 2024
When the Israeli genocide in Gaza began more than a year ago, the three elderly al-Ghalayini sisters — Maysoun, 80, Rofida, 65, and Arwa, 61, decided they would not leave their house in al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City. In January, Israeli soldiers surrounded their home and ordered them to move to southern Gaza. When they did not comply, the soldiers threw a firebomb.
Al Ali, Sondos; Awad, Nazik: Women's stories from the frontline of Sudan's revolution must be told
Published: 2019
Women are leading Sudan's revolt against religious fundamentalism. As in Egypt and Saudi Arabia they face a violent backlash.
Al Hussaini, Amira: Bahrain Court Upholds Six Month Sentence Against Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab Over Tweet
Published: 2015
Nabeel Rajaba has been sentenced to prison for a tweet accusing the Bahrain security agencies for incubating ISIS combatants.
Al Jazeera: Why Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel
Published: 2017
No country in the world recognises Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, with the exception of Russia.
Al Musawi, Batool: Bahrain's Government Continues to Strangle Dissent Five Years After Uprising Began
Published: 2016
Five years after the eruption of what came to be known as the "Arab Spring" protests that spilled over from Tunisia, Bahrain's regime continues to lock up opposition leaders, sending a message of its refusal to reform or change.
al-Gharbi, Musa; McNeil, St: 'Flooding the Zone' with Bullshit on Syria
Published: 2013
In recent weeks, the Obama Administration has been embarked on a massive propaganda campaign they call “flooding the zone.” We hope to provide the most direct and systematic refutation of the Administration’s case for war in Syria.
Al-Jurf, Soha: The Semantics of Terrorism
Published: 2010
A mental construct has been created in which the State of Israel is an entity that is under constant attack. By terrorists. Who, irrefutably, must be eradicated. Their actions are somewhat irrelevant. Whether they are school children, passing through checkpoints, or citizens from other countries bringing medicine and food to Gaza, Israel will garner an astonishing degree of unconditional national and international support for harming them if they call them terrorists.
Al-Khalili, Jim: Remember what we owe to Arab science
It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton
Published: 2008
In an era of intolerance, the West needs to appreciate the fertile scholarship that flowered with Islam.
al-Qedra, Fedaa: Palestinian 'geeks' code their way to a better future in Gaza
Published: 2018
Coding is empowering a new generation of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and helping many find work.
al-Saftawi, Jehad: The Gaza I Grew Up In
Published: 2020
Palestinian journalist Jehad al-Saftawi speaks on his experience working in Gaza; walking a tightrope, seen as suspect by the rulers and residents of Gaza and the Israeli army.
Alam, Shahidul: Dearest Arundhati Roy: Shahidul Alam reflects on his time in prison
Published: 2019
The Bangladeshi photographer was charged with criticising his country on Facebook and spent more than 100 days behind bars. Now freed, he replies to the Indian novelist who wrote to him in jail.
Albanese, Francesca: The deafening silence around the Hamas proposal for a 10-year truce
Published: 2014
The Western media have ignored the proposal from Hamas and Islamic Jihad for a 10-year-truce on the basis of 10 - very reasonable - conditions.
Alberro, Ana; Montero, Gloria: The immigrant Woman
Published: 1976
Published in Women in the Canadian Mosaic, edited by Gwen Matheson.
Albert, Michael: What Makes Alternative Media Alternative?
Published: 1997
Having avidly consumed and helped conceive and produce alternative media for decades, I
am tired of how vague we are on these issues.
Alberts, Rev. William: The Militarization of Empathy
Published: 2019
Surprise reunions between returning soldiers and their families are a major spectacle in US media. But these heartwarming scenes serve as a distraction from the activities of the soldiers while they are overseas.
ALBERTS, Rev. Williams: Evil Takes the High Road
Wrapping a Policy of Global Domination in the American Flag
Published: 2013
No heavens for those who live in one of the Muslim countries in which the United States is waging its preemptive global “war on terrorism.”
Alcenat, Westenley: The Case for Haitian Reparations
Published: 2017
A history of France's exploitation of colonial Haiti, the aftermath of Haiti's independence, and the lasting social and environmental impacts, arguing for Haiti's recent demands of reparations from the French government.
Aldabbour, Belal: Israel spraying toxins over Palestinian crops in Gaza
Published: 2016
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - On January 7, 2016, a low-flying agricultural aircraft sprayed herbicides on to Palestinian farmlands along the eastern border, eradicating or damaging up to 162 hectares of crops and farmland along the Israeli border fence. The sprayed areas belong to Israel's unilaterally imposed and poorly delineated "buffer" or "no-go zone".
Aleaziz, Hamed: Families "Are Scared To Death" After A Massive ICE Operation Swept Up Hundreds Of People
About 680 suspected undocumented workers were arrested in Mississippi in one of the largest worksite operations ever conducted by ICE agents
Published: 2019
A massive arrest of undocumented workers in Mississippi had people scrambling to care for kids whose parents were detained and traumatized the community.
Alexander, Anne: ISIS and counter-revolution: towards a Marxist analysis
Published: 2015
The article analyzes ISIS from a Marxist perspective and explores the Iraqi context in which ISIS first set down roots. Alexander further examines the interaction between the defeat of the Syrian Revolution and the consolidation of Nouri al-Maliki's authoritarian rule in Iraq.
Alexander, Samuel: Radical Simplicity And The Middle Class
Published: 2012
A description of what a life of radical simplicity might look like suggesting radical simplicity is appealing, provided that the transition was anticipated and widely negotiated.
Alexandrov, Nick: Honduras and Mexico: Open Season for Journalists
Published: 2014
Washington has long been at the forefront of an effort to promote cultural devastation, targeting journalists, artists, and independent thinkers more generally. This cultural ruin is a predictable consequence of U.S. support for repressive regimes.
Alexandrov, Nick: The Pentagon's New Plan to Confront Latin America's Pink Tide
Panetta Down South
Published: 2012
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was in Uruguay recently, where he spoke of the need to strengthen the southern hemisphere’s police forces. This proposed policy has a precedent, almost unknown in this country, but potentially indicative of what awaits Latin American governments willing to cooperate with their northern neighbor’s defense establishment.
Alexandrov, Nick: Should Russia Attack Colombia?
Another Case for Military Action
Published: 2013
Debating the case on whether Putin should or should not attack Columbia. Will Russia follow the example of the US?
Alexandrov, Nick: U.S. Elites
The Original Gangsters
Published: 2016
Donald Trump is at home in the underworld. Tom Robbins writes that the de facto GOP nominee "has encountered a steady stream of mob-tainted offers that he apparently couldn't refuse" in his decades in business. He "worked with mob-controlled companies and unions" while building his empire, the Washington Post reports. So the man has presidential cred. U.S. elites, since the colonial era, have shown contempt for the law: if they weren't ignoring their own codes, they were violating those of other nations or international statutes, or partnering with avowed outlaws. It's not clear, in other words, what distinguishes politicians and businessmen from career criminals.
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi: Critical Race Theory's new disguise
Published: 2021
Implementing a grievance model into our youth education curriculum will not fix the problems it purports to solve. There is, after all, a dearth of evidence suggesting that DEI programmes advance diversity, equity or inclusion.
Ali, Marium; Duggal, Hanna; Salhani, Justin: Are you chatting with a pro-Israeli AI-powered superbot?
Published: 2024
Smart bots have emerged as an unexpected weapon in Israel's war on Gaza.
Ali, Muhammed: Muhammed Ali Quotes
Ali, Tariq: Hugo Chávez and me
Published: 2013
Tariq Ali's thoughts on how Hugo Chavez, the late president of Venezuela, will be remembered by his supporters as a lover of literature, a fiery speaker and a man who fought for his people and won.
Ali, Tariq: Maximum Horror
Where One Feeds on the Other
Published: 2015
It was a horrific event. It was condemned in most parts of the world and most poignantly by many cartoonists. Those who planned the atrocity chose their target carefully. They knew that such an act would create the maximum horror. It was quality, not quantity they were after. The response will not have surprised or displeased them.
Ali, Tariq: On Buddhist Fundamentalism
Hollywood, Please Take Note
Published: 2013
Four years after the brutal assault on the Tamil population and the killing of between 8—10,000 Tamils by the Sri Lankan army, there is trouble again. The saffron-robed fanatics, led by the BBS — Bodu Bala Sena: the most active and pernicious of Buddhist fundamentalist groups that have sprouted in Sinhala strongholds throughout the island— are on the rampage again.
Ali, Tariq: Where has all the rage gone?
Published: 2008
In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico. Tariq Ali considers the legacy 40 years on.
Ali, Tariq; Creston, Davis: Greece and the Future of European Democracy
Disfunction in the Eurozone
Published: 2015
Interview with Tariq Ali, author of "The Extreme Center: A Warning". Discussion addresses the current economic situation in Greece and the European Union's role in it.
Alighieri, Dante: Dante Alighieri Quotes
Alimardani, Mahsa: Iranians Coordinate a Global Event to Support the Iranian Nuclear Deal
Published: 2015
A group of ten to fifteen people dressed in Israeli Defence Force (IDF) t-shirts and waving Canadian, Israeli and IDF flags slowly encircled a large group of Iranians holding posters reading "#SupportIranDeal" and "we choose peace".
Alimardani, Mahsa: Stuxnet-Like Digital Attack on Iran Nuclear Talks May Have Come from Israel, Security Researchers Say
Published: 2015
Moscow-based technical security company Kaspersky Lab last week revealed evidence of a new cyber attack on both its own network and those of several European hotels that hosted nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 (US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany) last year.
Allam, Hisham: Why I quit my job as an investigations editor in Egypt
Published: 2013
Hisham Allam is an award-winning investigative reporter based in Cairo. He was an investigative editor for the El-Watan newspaper, but the recent crackdown on the Egyptian press has taken a toll on his freedom to report the truth. In this Secrets of the Masters interview, he describes his groundbreaking coverage of the Egyptian revolution and explains why he recently quit his job.
Allam, Zaheer: Fighting King Coal in Indian Ocean paradise
Published: 2014
A $395 million coal fired power station is planned for Mauritius - bulldozed aver the wishes of the population, official advice and the environment ministry.
Allan , Susan: Utopia: A confronting but politically flawed documentary
Published: 2014
Utopia, the latest documentary by veteran journalist and filmmaker John Pilger has shown at selected venues across Australia with a television screening on SBS. The feature-length work, which exposes shocking social conditions in Australia’s remote indigenous communities, opened last November in Britain to mostly praiseworthy reviews.
Allardice, Lisa: A reputation built on quiet regret
A rare interview with William Trevor
Published: 2009
Interview with the short story writer William Trever on the themes of guilt, regret, sadness and faith in his oeuvre.
Allen, Gene: Ribbon of Type
Making National News: A History of Canadian Press
Published: 2013
Thanks to the books of Pierre Berton, the nineteenth-century struggle to build a railway to the Pacific and unite a new nation is well-known. Making National News explores a nation-building exercise that was perhaps even more crucial -- the establishment of a wire service to deliver news from coast to coast.
Allington, Jenny: Grenfell Tower fire: anger rising
Published: 2017
Four days after the raging inferno that criminally took the innocent lives of so many, survivors and friends and families of the missing are still not only without the support from the authorities that they need, but are suffering an unacceptable lack of information and coordination. It is fair to say, that despite the Tory insistence that all is hand and all that can be done is being done, in reality, all that is being done, is being done by community brothers and sisters and a wider volunteer force. Lacking a central command, people are being fed, clothed and comforted from within the community, organised by those of the community. And while the community has so far largely remained peaceful, united by loss and grief, anger is bubbling.
Allsup, Kim: Share if You Think Every School Should Have a Year-Round Organic Gardening Program!
Published: 2016
A few years ago the children at our school grew, harvested and, ultimately, ate a giant, two-pound carrot. Our organic gardening program at the Waldorf School of Cape Cod has come a long way since then. We now have a unheated hoop house and a program where middle school gardeners lead first through fifth graders as they learn to build soil, plant, transplant, tend, water and harvest food year round. Our harvests are transformed by our school chef into amazing meals served at lunch.
Almeyra, Guillermo: Hugo Chávez and the Crisis of the Dependent Countries: Nationalism, Populism & Democracy
Published: 1999
THE SMASHING ELECTORAL triumph of Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chávez, previously imprisoned because of his participation in a failed military coup against the government of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez provoked diverse reactions and much confusion.
Alpervitz, Gar; Flanders, Laura: Laura Flanders talks to Gar Alperovitz about What Then Must We Do?
Published: 2013
Alperovitz says we may be witnessing the prehistory of the next American Revolution.
Alsaafin, Linah: The colour-coded Israeli ID system for Palestinians
Israel's control over the Palestinian population is based on a system of colour-coded IDs in the occupied territories
Published: 2017
A look at the colour-coded system of Palestinian population control that has remained in place in Israel for five decades; it still affects everything from freedom of movement to family unity.
Alsaafin, Linah: Digital occupation: What's behind Israel's social media in Arabic
Published: 2018
Israeli social media accounts in Arabic aim to normalise Israel's occupation and whitewash its image, Palestinians say.
Alsaafin, Linah: Gaza girl awaiting surgery reunited with her mother in West Bank
Published: 2018
After getting an Israeli-issued medical permit, Inam al-Attar traveled without her parents from Gaza Strip to West Bank.
Alsaafin, Linah: Musta'ribeen, Israel's agents who pose as Palestinians
Published: 2017
Musta'ribeen, or mista'arvim in Hebrew, is a word that is derived from the Arabic "musta'rib", or one that is specialised in Arabic language and culture. In Israeli security terms, the word denotes security forces who disguise themselves as Arabs and carry out missions in the heart of Palestinian societies or other Arab countries.
Altalebi, Lamees: Google's upcoming Allo messaging app is 'dangerous', Edward Snowden claims
Published: 2016
Using Google's upcoming messaging app is "dangerous", according to Edward Snowden. In a tweet, the whistleblower advised against using Allo, the search giant’s latest app, saying: "Google's decision to disable end-to-end encryption by default in its new Allo chat app is dangerous, and makes it unsafe. Avoid it for now."
Alter, Alexandra: An Addict, a Confessed Killer and Now a Debut Author
Published: 2017
Despite the voluminous literature produced in prisons very little contemporary prison literature is released by major publishing houses, which are wary of the controversial and ethical pitfalls associated with publishing works by convicts.
Alter, Alexandra: An Addict, a Confessed Killer and Now a Debut Author
Published: 2017
The novel "The Graybar Hotel" has received significant praise, yet its release has also raised difficult questions and challenges for the publisher as it tries to win over booksellers and critics to support a work written by a convicted murderer.
Alternative Information Center (AIC): Palestinians' access to water in 2015
Published: 2016
Thirsting for Justice finds that Palestinians' access to water was worse in 2015 than in 1995 due to Israel’s discriminatory water regime.
Altman, Sam: 100 Trump voters explain why they voted for him even though they think he 'could destroy the whole world'
Published: 2017
After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country. I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online.
Alumni for Responsible Speech (Ulli Diemer): Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
Published: 2008
While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
Alvarez, Max, Walsh, David: A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez
How the #MeToo campaign echoes the McCarthyite witch hunt of the 1940s and 1950s
Published: 2018
Clearly, this is not as organized a political campaign as the one that took place in the 1940s and 1950s, but the climate is chillingly similar in terms of the massive capitulation and conformity in the entertainment industry.
Amandla!: Nelson Mandela
Published: 2013
Mandela was not alone. The struggle to liberate South Africa was a collective effort. Moreover it was the power of the most downtrodden, the workers in the factories, the poor in the community, working class women and youth that brought the Apartheid government, if not completely to its knees – at least to negotiate the terms of the end of their racist system.
Amer, Ruwaida: The olive tree, symbol of Palestine and mute victim of Israel’s war on Gaza
Published: 2024
The loss of these steadfast companions has left deep scars on the hearts of many Palestinians in Gaza.
Ames, Michael: The Awakening
Ron Paul's generational movement
Published: 2013
Article on the upsurge of THE movement that Ron Paul (from the Republican Party) initiated. This 'Awakening' is characterized for its emphasis on peace and liberty.
Ames, Michael: Captive Market
Why we won't get prison reform
Published: 2015
The American prison system isn't broken; it's working exactly as designed. Seven million people may find their lives constrained, but according to the metrics that make America hum, their time served is also value added. Critics who mistake mass incarceration for a failure of social justice are oblivious to a stronger governing principle: Criminal justice is a business, and business is good.
Amir, Hussain: Pakistan / Gilgit-Baltistan: Advocate Ehsan Ali, a symbol of political sanity
Published: 2018
In Gilgit-Baltistan, one of the most politically sensitive regions of Pakistan, the author explains why it is important to recognize and support people like Ehsan Ali, who is a vocal human rights activist and a symbol of interfaith harmony.
Amireh, Amal: Arab Women Writers' Problems and Prospects
Published: 1997
Arab critics, particularly those situated in the Arab world, are viewed with suspicion, especially when they are men writing about women. If they don't write about Arab women writers, they are chastised for ignoring them. If they do, they are accused of attempting to "contain" and "marginalize" them.
Amnesty International: Iran: Compulsory veiling is abusive, discriminatory and humiliating; end the persecution of women for peacefully protesting against it
Published: 2018
Amnesty International criticizes Iran's compulsory veiling laws, arguing that they are not only harmful to women, but fundamentally unconstitutional.
Anangwa, Eugene: Media freedom must include access to information
Published: 2009
Journalists can't do their work if they are prevented from accessing information, including attending public events involving important officials, writes Eugene Anagwa in The New Times. Government officials are too quick to censor the information by refusing to co-operate with journalists.
Andersen, Kip; Kuhn, Keegan: Cowspiracy
Published: 2014
An examination of the livestock industry and how it contributes to animal extinctions, greenhouse gasses, and deforestation.
Anderson, Drew: Irregular votes, panicked moves, kiosks
Insiders detail the last days of Jason Kenney's campaign to be leader of Alberta's United Conservative Party
Published: 2019
A CBC News investigation lifts the veil on what happened inside voting kiosks set up by the Kenney campaign. It’s part of a larger story about allegations of wrongdoing by the team behind Alberta's current premier that one longtime conservative operative says is the focus of an ongoing RCMP investigation and an expert says undermines the credibility of Canada’s democratic system.
Anderson, Elizabeth: Studio D's Imagined Community
From Development (1974) to Realignment (1986-1990)
Published: 1999
Published in In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, Kay Armitage et al., eds. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1999
Anderson, Kevin: Conspiracy Theories and the Canadians who Love Them
Published: 2020
Anderson explores Canada's conspiratorial heritage, a heritage that continues to engage with transnational currents attempting to explain the modern world. He focuses on two Canadian figures, Social Credit MP John Blackmore and writer William Guy Carr, to argue that they are not isolated fringe figures in Canadian history, but that they exist within widespread national and transnational networks.
Anderson, Kevin: Talks in the city of light generate more heat
Published: 2015
Rather than relying on far-off negative-emissions technologies, Paris needed to deliver a low-carbon road map for today.
Anderson, Mitchell: Harper's Worst Offense against Refugees May Be His Climate Record
Published: 2015
The Middle East drought between 2006 and 2011 was without precedent since modern record keeping, killing over 80 per cent of livestock and driving up local food prices. Already poor populations had to contend with higher temperatures that dried soil and failed rains during the normally wet season due to weaker winds from the Mediterranean. A key long-term driver of this unfolding humanitarian catastrophe is climate change. And on that front, Canada’s record of contributing to this crisis is far more significant than our wretched record so far in resettling Syrian refugees.
Anderson, Mitchell: Wildly Underestimated Oilsands Emissions Latest Blow to Alberta's Dubious Climate Claims
As disaster looms, petro province lets industry call the shots.
Published: 2019
The oilsand industry's own measurements of their carbon output fall far short of that reported by Environment Canada's and others' research. This could deal a blow to the industry's PR efforts.
Anderson, Sarah: On the First Workday of the New Year, the Average CEO Will Make More Than an Average Workers Earns in an Entire Year
Published: 2022
If the typical CEO of a large U.S. corporation clocks in at 9 am on January 2, by 3:37 pm that afternoon he'll have earned $58,260 - the average annual salary for all U.S. occupations.In other words, in less than seven hours on the first workday of the New Year, that CEO will have made as much as the average U.S. worker will make all year.
Anderson, Tim: Hypocrisy over Cuba's 'political prisoners'
Published: 2009
Political prisoners and Cuba can be a confusing mix, in our time of mass propaganda. Three groups have attracted international attention over the past decade.
Anderson, William L.: The Railroading of Tonya Craft
A New Wave of Prosecutorial Hysteria
Published: 2010
As we have seen countless times before, the media always is ready to run over the cliff with the prosecutors, and no matter how many times the prosecution is discredited, there always is another reporter ready to serve as a PR mouthpiece for a dishonest state official. And it always will be that way, for like the Bourbons, the media learn nothing, and they forget nothing.
Andersson, Hilary: Uganda's lost innocents
Published: 2003
Andersson, Ruben: Time to Unfence our view of Migration
Published: 2014
Instead of pretending that fence-building will solve anything, it is high time that we 'unfence' our views of migration. On the one hand, this means seeking other, more humane responses to human movement, including orderly refugee resettlement. On the other, it means not seeing migration as a self-contained 'problem' in need of a security response - but rather as an intrinsic part of a world inexorably on the move.
Andre, Aletta: Being African in India: 'We are seen as demons'
Published: 2016
After a year in India, Zaharaddeen Muhammed, 27, knows enough Hindi to understand what bander means. Monkey. But it isn't even the daily derogatory comments that make him doubt his decision to swap his university in Nigeria for a two-year master's degree programme in chemistry at Noida International University. Nor is it the questions about personal hygiene, the unsolicited touching of his hair or the endless staring. It is his failure to interact with Indian people on a deeper level.
Anfinson, Graeme: A Short History of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
Challenging the Two Parties of Capital
Published: 2014
Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party was the most successful labor party in United States history. The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Association, a grouping of associated unions and farmers, provided the organic connection between labor and the party.
angela_b117: Linoleum Block Printing
In this Instructable I will be going step-by-step through the process of printmaking using a linoleum block. I will tell you what tools you need, and for what purpose and I will go through the process of designing the print in which you will be carving, transferring the design onto the block, carving the block, proofing the block and finally, printing the block.
Angiwn, Julia; McGinty, Tom: Sites Feed Personal Details To New Tracking Industry
Published: 2010
The largest U.S. websites are installing new and intrusive consumer-tracking technologies on the computers of people visiting their sites—in some cases, more than 100 tracking tools at a time. The tracking files are the leading edge of a new industry of data-gatherers who are in effect establishing a new business model for the Internet: one based on intensive surveillance of people to sell data about, and predictions of, their interests and activities, in real time.
Angola 3 News: Razor Wire, Prison Cells, And Black Panther Robert H. King's Life of Resistance
Published: 2014
An interview with filmmaker Ron Harpelle.
Angola 3 News: Terrorism, COINTELPRO, And The Black Panther Party
Published: 2014
Angus, Ian: Fantasy technology won't stop climate change
Published: 2015
Climate negotiators are promising 'negative emissions' using a risky and unproven technology called BECSS. It's the wrong way to go.
Angus, Ian: Five Challenges for Ecosocialists in 2008
Published: 2007
Ecosocialism is not separate from the existing left and green movements, and it is not a structured movement on its own. Rather, it is a current of thought within existing socialist and green-left movements, seeking to win ecology activists to socialism and to convince socialists of the vital importance of ecological issues and struggles.
Angus, Ian: Global inequality, illustrated, described, explained
Published: 2014
Global inequality depitcted through images and quotes.
Angus, Ian: Global Wealth Inequality, Illustrated
Published: 2013
A video for those who think capitalism is the way to end poverty.
Angus, Ian: Heatwave frequency rises twice as fast in the poorest countries
New research proves that the countries least responsible for global warming, those least able to adapt, have already been hit much harder by
Published: 2017
A feature of most statements about climate change is the use of the future tense: the poorest countries will be worse-hit than the rich ones. But new research shows that the predicted unequal climate future has actually been with us for decades. The poorest countries have already experienced twice as great an increase in extreme temperatures as the rich ones, and the gap has been widening for more than thirty years.
Angus, Ian: Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 1
Commodity cod & factory ships
Published: 2021
Beginning a series on the role of fishing in the birth and spread of capitalism, and the role of capitalism in today’s mass extinction of ocean life.
Angus, Ian: Nitrogen Crisis: A neglected threat to Earth's life support systems
Part One of a discussion of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.
Published: 2019
The rift in the nitrogen cycle is a major threat to the stability of the Earth System. This and subsequent articles will discuss how the natural cycle works and how it has been disrupted in the Anthropocene.
Angus, Ian: The Omega Principle: A vicious circle of fish, cattle and capitalism (Book review)
Published: 2018
A review of Paul Greenberg's book "The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet", which examines how the fishing industry that plunders the seas for tiny fish is supporting unsustainable industrial agriculture.
Angus, Ian: Planetary Crisis: We are not all in this together
Published: 2016
Liberal environmentalists insist that we are all passengers on Spaceship Earth, sharing a common fate and a common responsibility for the ship's safety. In reality, a handful of Spaceship Earth's passengers travel first-class, in plush air-conditioned cabins with every safety feature, including reserved seats in the very best lifeboats. The majority are herded into steerage, exposed to the elements, with no lifeboats at all. Armed guards keep them in their place.
Angus, Ian: Recovering our history: 'Eco-Socialism in a Nutshell'
Published: 2013
A pamphlet that introduced the coming together of greens and reds in comic strip form.
Angus, Ian: Will climate chaos reign in the Anthropocene?
Published: 2015
To judge by many accounts of climate change, the twenty-first century will gradually become a warmer, stormier, and less biodiverse version of the twentieth. There's an unspoken assumption that the Anthropocene will be less pleasant than the Holocene, but not fundamentally different, and that the transition will be smooth.
Angus, Ian; Riddell, John: Key to the Leap: Leave the oil in the soil
Movement Building
Published: 2016
Ian Angus and John Riddell argue that using the Leap Manifesto as the basis for building a new socialist movement in Canada must include confronting the climate crisis and the power of Big Oil.
Angwin, Julia: An Online Tracking Device That’s Virtually Impossible to Block
Published: 2014
A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.
Angwin,Julia; Tigas,Mike: Zombie Cookie: The Tracking Cookie That You Can’t Kill
Published: 2015
An online ad company called Turn is using tracking cookies that come back to life after Verizon users have deleted them. The information retrieved contains customers' habits on their smartphones and tablets.
Annis, Rogber: Shedding Light on Who, Exactly, is Responsible for the War in Ukraine
Published: 2022
It is necessary to understand not only what Russia is doing with its intervention in Ukraine but also what alternative existed to stop Ukrainian aggression against Donbas and to assure Russia's national security.
Annis, Roger: Calls By Western Socialists For A Russian Retreat From Ukraine Amount To De Facto Support For NATO Aggression
Published: 2022
NATO socialists dismiss or ignore altogether the concerns of Russia over the expansionism, militarism and sanctions of the NATO alliance. In reality, Russian diplomatic efforts to push back against NATO's aggression - and NATO's use of Ukraine for its aggression - have gone on for several decades.
Annis, Roger: The Canadian Election and the Global Climate Crisis
Published: 2015
The environmental stands of all the main parties in this election amount to climate change denial.
Annis, Roger: Federal police and New Brunswick government assault First Nations anti-fracking protest
Published: 2013
The RCMP launched a violent assault on a blockade protest against shale gas fracking in New Brunswick.
Annis, Roger: Letter to editors of FAIR.org on 'annexationists' and 'secessionists' in Crimea and Donbass
Published: 2022
The duly elected government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea staged a democratic referendum on March 16, 2014 to secede from the new, right-wing Ukraine referendum and rejoin the Russian Federation.
Annis, Roger: New headaches for tar sands pipeline proponents as oil fouls Vancouver harbour
Published: 2015
A bad turn of events for the local environment and for some of the oil barons targeting their entire planet in their climate-wrecking plans. That's an apt summary of the oil spill that has fouled the beaches and harbour of Vancouver BC beginning on April 8, 2015.
Annis, Roger: State of Emergency in Crimea
Published: 2015
Late on November 21, 2015, right-wing extremists in Ukraine severed the four electricity lines which transmit electricity from Ukraine to Crimea. The terrorist attacks, using explosives, cut domestic electricity service to much of Crimea's population of 2.3 million.
Annis, Roger: Toronto Star Supports the Perpetrators of War Crimes in Ukraine
Crazed Warmongers
Published: 2015
Toronto Star has distinguished itself for supporting the fundraising projects of Ukraine's extreme-right parties and militias.
Annis, Roger: Western Media Responds to Latest Ukrainian Sabotage of Crimea
Published: 2016
Western governments and media have a problem with the right-wing regime that is governing Ukraine. The country's economy is a shambles. Even the regime's own backers in the West acknowledge the country and its economy are hopelessly mired in corruption.
Anonymous: Anonymous Quotes
Anonymous: Decision from an Unknown Body: On blocking websites in Egypt
Published: 2017
Report by AFTE on state censorship and the monitoring and blocking of websites in Egypt.
Anonymous: Rallying to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
Despite uncomfortably cold weather in Washington, DC the February 17 mobilization to stop the Keystone XL Alberta-U.S. tar sands pipeline drew a crowd conservatively estimated at over 20,000.
Anthony, Leslie; phnotos by Walter Portrebka: Snakes on a Plain
Article in the Marc-April 2024 issue of Canadian Geographic - Vol. 144, No. 2
Published: 2024
About the garter snakes of Narcisse in Manitoba.
Antoaneta Bezlova: CHINA: News of Ethnic Strife Skirts Chinese Censors
Published: 2009
The story of ethnic strife engulfing Xinjiang may have been relegated to the inner pages of the country#s state-controlled newspapers, but this time, the government could barely suppress the outflow of information.
Anwar, Yasmin: Lower classes quicker to show compassion in the face of suffering
Published: 2011
Researchers have found that people in the lower socio-economic classes are more physiologically attuned to suffering, and quicker to express compassion than their more affluent counterparts. By comparison, individuals in the upper middle and upper classes were less able to detect and respond to the distress signals of others.
Appelbaum, Eileen: The PR Campaign to Hide the Real Cause of those Sky-High Surprise Medical Bills
Published: 2019
Since 2010, an increasing number of hospitals have outsourced their emergency rooms, radiology, anesthesiology, and other specialized services to physician staffing firms. Patients who need these critical services may inadvertently receive care from a doctor outside of their insurance network and find that they owe thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in surprise medical bills.
Appleton, Josie: Freedom of speech, assembly, protest? All are nixed by new police powers
Published: 2015
UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal zones' in public places, writes Josie Appleton. This allows them to exclude people for anything from street drinking to looking suspicious, being homeless, protesting, or merely 'congregating'. This represents a serious breach of our Common Law and Magna Carta rights.
Appleton, Josie: Public space - we must defend our freedoms!
Published: 2014
Laws handing sweeping new powers to police and private security to restrict access to Britain's public space will extinguish the diversity of civic life. Time for us to rediscover and defend our freedoms.
Araby,Al: Netanyahu goes nuclear ... now wait for the fallout
Published: 2015
Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has spent years trying to convince the international community and Israelis that Tehran is racing towards building a nuclear bomb, when evidence presented by his own spies show the opposite.
Araujo, Rui: There are no bad sources, only incompetent reporters
Published: 2012
There is no democracy without efficient institutions and too many journalists passively accept this state, says Portuguese investigative journalist and "troublemaker" Rui Araujo.
Arbuckle, Alex Q: 1904-1924: 'The North American Indian'
One man's vision of a continent of cultures
Published: 2015
With J. P. Morgan's funding, Edward Sheriff Curtis spent more than 20 years crisscrossing North America, creating over 40,000 images of more than 80 different tribes. They conceived a 20-volume series, called The North American Indian.
Arbuckle, Alex Q.: 1965-1975 Another Vietnam
Unseen images of the war from the winning side
Published: 2016
Many famous images of the war were taken by Western photographers and news agencies, working alongside American or South Vietnamese troops.But the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong had hundreds of photographers of their own, who documented every facet of the war under the most dangerous conditions.
Arbuthnot, Felicity: The Hijacking of the Marianne by "The Pirates of the Mediterranean"
Published: 2015
In the early hours of the morning (local time) of June 29th, three Israeli Navy ships intercepted and hijacked a Swedish flagged ship, the Marianne av Göteborg on route to Gaza in the State of Palestine.
Arbuthnot, Felicity: Iraq's greatest danger yet: collapse of 'world's most dangerous dam'
Published: 2016
As if Iraq has not suffered enough under Saddam Hussein, the vicious UN sanctions regime, the US-UK occupation and the depradations of Daesh, a new threat looms that could kill a million people or more, and destroy Baghdad and a string of other cities along the Tigris river. The porous rocks beneath the Mosul dam are dissolving away and the entire edifice could collapse at any moment, releasing 11 cubic kilometres of water.
Arbuthnot, Felicity: Russia's Fantasy "Stray Missiles," America's Real Ones
Published: 2015
Even to those who do not watch closely it has to be apparent that Washington's vast disinformation machine is finally out of control, seriously awry, or desperate.
Archer, Mike: Ordering the vegetarian meal? There's more animal blood on your hands
Published: 2011
The author contends that published figures suggest that, in Australia, producing wheat and other grains results in: at least 25 times more sentient animals being killed per kilogram of useable protein, more environmental damage, and a great deal more animal cruelty than does farming red meat.
Arewa, Olufunmilayo: Africa: Cultural Appropriation - When 'Borrowing' Becomes Exploitation
Published: 2016
The idea of "cultural appropriation" has recently entered mainstream debates about the ways in which African cultural creations are used, borrowed and imitated by others. In fashion, art, music and beyond, some people now argue that certain African cultural symbols and products are off-limits to non-Africans.
Arguedas Ortiz, Diego: Costa Rica's Energy Nearly 100 Percent Clean
Published: 2015
Arguedas Ortiz describes how Cost Rica's energy supply is based almost totally on clean sources.
Arkin, M. William: Loitering With Intent
Published: 2015
Government propaganda, the news media, and Hollywood movies characterize drones almost exclusively as high-flying hunter-killers and all-seeing information machines. In fact, more than 90 percent of the world's drones are small, short-range, and unarmed. Only about 5 percent of the drones operated by the U.S. government are as large as manned airplanes. Predators, which garner so much of the public’s attention, make up an even smaller subset -- there are just a few hundred worldwide.
Arkin, William M.: Inside The Military's Top Secret Plans If Coronavirus Cripples the Government
Published: 2020
Even as President Trump says he tested negative for coronavirus, the COVID-19 pandemic raises the fear that huge swaths of the executive branch or even Congress and the Supreme Court could also be disabled, forcing the implementation of "continuity of government" plans that include evacuating Washington and "devolving" leadership to second-tier officials in remote and quarantined locations.
Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph: Labor Organizing in a Lean World: Workers of the World Unite? - Book Review
Published: 1999
Workers in A Lean World. Unions in the International Economy by Kim Moody (Verso, 1997). Paperback $20.
Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph: A Rejoinder
Published: 1999
I ENJOYED READING Kim Moody's reply and hope that other folks get involved in this crucial debate. My own viewpoint is that "globalization" has dramatically undermined the leverage and bargaining position of workers and labor unions in developed and developing nations.
Armentano, Paul: 5 Things the Corporate Media Don't Want You to Know About Cannabis
Published: 2009
Recent scientific reports suggest that pot doesn't destroy your brain, that it doesn't cause lung damage like tobacco -- but you won't hear it in the corporate media.
Armstrong, Karen: The spread of Wahhabism, and the West's responsibility to the world
Published: 2015
In 2013, the European Union declared Wahhabism the main source of global terrorism. But it's not just a "Middle East problem"; it is our problem, too.
Aronoff, Kate: Making Green Jobs Good Jobs
Unions organize the clean energy sector
Published: 2016
Jobs versus the environment -- it's an old dilemma that pits unions seeking work for their members against activists rallying against projects like the Keystone XL. An expanding renewable energy sector might provide a way out of this quandary. Solar and wind energy projects can put people to work without imperiling the planet. But will these jobs be friendly to workers, as well as the environment?
Arraf, Jane: Young Iraqis hope the Written Word can Reinvigorate a New Generation
Published: 2014
An informal lending library uses literary heritage to remind young Baghdadis they don't need to emigrate to escape daily travails.
Arria, Michael: 21 States Will Take Away Your Driver's License If You Can't Pay Your College Loans, But Activists Are Fighting Back
A grassroots project in Montana is a blueprint for activism across the country
Published: 2015
Thanks to the work of local organizers pressuring lawmakers, Montana residents will no longer have their drivers licenses suspended if they fall behind on their student loan payments. This April, a Montana law that allowed the state to revoke licenses for that infraction was scrapped. However, in at least 21 states, similar laws remain on the books.
Artema, Ahmed Abu: Letter From the Gazan Prison
Gaza Is a Prison Under Siege. This Is My Letter to the World Outside.
Published: 2023
Ahmed Abu Artema, a founder of the Great March of Return, on facing Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza.
Arthur, Charles: Facebook forces Instagram users to allow it to sell their uploaded photos
Published: 2012
Move means pictures could be used in advertising, with all payments going to social media giant.
Arthur, Charles: Hackers stole personal information of up to 70 million people, says Target
Published: 2014
Theives may have stolen customers' credit and debit card information and made unauthorized charges over the holiday season.
Arthur, Charles: Why do the Tories want to hide who owns British land?
Selling off the Land Registry could lead to an increase in house prices as a private monopoly hoards information on property sales
Published: 2016
Like an embarrassed child trying to hide a broken lamp behind a curtain, Sajid Javid last Thursday, hours before the Easter break, sneaked out the news that the government wants to privatise the Land Registry. Perhaps he hoped nobody would notice.
Article 19: ARTICLE 19 to UN Watchdog: Whistleblowers and Journalists' Sources must be protected
Published: 2015
ARTICLE 19 has responded to the call for comment on the protection of journalists' sources and whistleblowers, made by the UN special rapporteur on the right to freedom of expression.
Article 19: On Atena Farghadani and the longstanding repression of artistic expression in Iran
Published: 2015
It all started with a harmless political cartoon posted on Facebook. What followed was extreme retaliation to say the least; imprisonment, and physical abuse. Unfortunately, this is not an extraordinary story for artists in Iran.
Artists for Palestine UK: Chomsky clarifies position on the cultural boycott of Israel
Published: 2017
Prof. Noam Chomsky makes the essential point: the presence of international artists in Israel is used by the government to cover up its occupation and human rights abuses.
Ash, Timothy Garton: The Stasi could only dream of such data
Britain, the birthplace of liberalism, has become the database state
Published: 2008
As technology increases the flow of stored data about individual actions, assurances of the "right to informational self-determination" must be hard won from governments. Government surveillance of citizens has become an accepted 'counter-terrorism' measure.
Ashly, Jaclynn: Drowning in the waste of Israeli settlers
Published: 2017
Several decades ago, the al-Matwa spring in Salfit city would often be crowded with Palestinians hiking in the valley and families picnicking alongside the clear, flowing stream. Now, however, the sewage flowing through the spring, the rancid smell that engulfs the valley, and the mosquitoes swarming the area have left the valley largely deserted.
Asosiasaun Jornalista Timor Lorosa’e: Media freedom and regulation in Timor Leste
Published: 2015
While free speech and press is legally free in East-Timor, every journalist knows that true freedom is nowhere to be seen. Journalists are regularly beaten, intimidated and regulated by the upper class.
Aspden, Rachel: Generation Revolution
How Egypt's military state betrayed its youth
Published: 2016
An account of the violent end of the Islamic youth uprising in Cairo and the treatment of the movement by the military and populace in its aftermath.
Assange, Julian: The CIA director is waging war on truth-tellers like WikiLeaks
Published: 2017
Mike Pompeo, in his first speech as director of the CIA, chose to declare war on free speech rather than on the United States’ actual adversaries.
Assange, Julian: The Truth Will Always Win
Published: 2010
In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government". The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth.
Associated Press: Louisiana prisoner released after 41 years in solitary
Published: 2013
Herman Wallace, who is dying of cancer, endured long legal battles after his 1972 murder conviction.
Associated Press: 1965-1966: Files Reveal US had Detailed Knowledge of Indonesia's Anti-Communist Purge
Published: 2017
Declassified files have revealed new details of US government knowledge of and support for an Indonesian army extermination campaign that killed several hundred thousand civilians during anti-communist hysteria in the mid-1960s.
Asséo, Henriette: Gypsies who went nowhere
Published: 2012
The EU misclassification of Roma as inherently itinerant has done considerable, and continuing, damage to groups of often deeply rooted people.
Astephen,Lynaya: How do you stop a pipeline when one family owns both the oil and the media?
Published: 2015
Pipeline opponent’s op-ed rejected by Irving-owned newspaper in New Brunswick.
Astley, Rick; Kolomor, Emil; Marshall, John: Free Bleecker
Published: 1974
A documentary on the "redevelopment" of the South St. Jamestown neighbourhood in Toronto.
Astore, William: America's Forever Wars Have Come Home
Published: 2020
Talk about America’s wars coming home! George Floyd’s recent killing is both a long way, and yet not far at all, from the police shooting of the unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.
Astore, William: War as an 'Investment': The Bizarre Business-Speak of Mass Killing
Published: 2023
Did you know the Russia-Ukraine War is a great 'investment' for the United States? A terrific opportunity to kill lots of Russians and to destroy lots of their military equipment at a relatively cheap cost to us? War as an 'investment' truly symbolizes the moral bankruptcy of conventional discourse in the U.S. political mainstream. Instead of war being a calamity, a catastrophe, a realm of death and destruction, dare I say even a mortal sin of grievous evil, we're told that instead it's an investment that's paying dividends, especially in that growth stock known as Ukraine.
Atkin, Emily: Enbridge is "funding and incentivizing" Minnesota police
Published: 2021
Line 3's mostly female, indigenous opponents say they're being harassed by local cops bankrolled by the Canadian oil giant.
Atkin, Ross: Stop replacing London's phone boxes with corporate surveillance
New connected kiosks are replacing London's payphones. Every time you use them, you're allowing Google, BT and Primesight to track you
Published: 2018
Concerns over privacy in London, UK, as Google, BT and Primesight provide free wifi and phone charging in exchange for allowing the consortium to identify users and track their movements through the city.
Attenborough, David; Hughes, Jonnie: Life on Our Planet
Published: 2020
David Attenborough shares his predictions for the planet's future, and methods to prevent the worst outcomes.
Atwood, Margaret: Am I a bad feminist?
Published: 2018
My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. Nor do I believe that women are children, incapable of agency or of making moral decisions.
Auerbach, Daniel; Clark, Brett: The Internet and Monopoly Capitalism
Published: 2016
A review of Robert W. McChesney's Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet against Democracy.
Auger, Martin: The HARIKARI Club: German Prisoners of Warand the Mass Escape Scare of 1944-45 atInternment Camp Grande Ligne, Quebec
Published: 2004
Aurelian: France Saves Europe
Published: 2024
We are now in the degenerate phase of the Ukrainian crisis, and more especially in the sorry and pathetic story of the West's collective attempts to manage it. Western political leaders are in zombie mode, staggering forward in various states of disrepair, blundering on because they have no real idea what to do, completely overmatched by events that they did not see coming, and cannot now understand.
Aurelian: The Revolt of the Outer Party
Published: 2024
We never bother with the question "why educate people?" today. The need is tacitly taken for granted, and if a justification were ever needed it would be that a complex society like ours would collapse if people were not educated to help run it. That's true as far as it goes, but it doesn't explain why education was necessary in the first place. To call it a "human right" is meaningless, since anything can be called a human right if enough powerful actors are able to force its acceptance as such. You can also argue that education is necessary for economic growth, but, as Ha-Joon Chang points out, that relationship is not a simple one: more education does not necessarily mean higher economic growth.
Aurelian: Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
Published: 2024
Austin, Helen E.: Canadian Lies
Published: 2015
A parody song aimed at Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Austin, Martin: How to spot hazardous 'rip currents' at the beach -- before you get in the water
Published: 2016
Five men tragically died this week at Camber Sands in East Sussex, making holiday makers are increasingly fearful of the dangers of sea bathing. One of the biggest dangers comes from so-called 'rip tides' which carry swimmers out to sea on fast-moving 'rivers' of water, writes MARTIN AUSTIN. So here's how to recognise the dangers - before you even get in the water.
Austin, Susan: Carbon trading: privatising the world's forests
Published: 2009
The World Bank sponsored carbon offset program has faced widespread criticism for, in effect, privatising forests and allowing rich nations to evade responsibility for cutting emissions themselves.
Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network: Venezuela Threatened by Far-right Violence
Published: 2014
A statement by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network condemning the recent violent actions instigated by far-right sections of the opposition in various cities across Venezuela.
Averny, Uri: There is No Such Thing as International Terrorism
Published: 2015
To declare war on "international terrorism" is nonsense. Politicians who do so are either fools or cynics, and probably both.
Avery, John Scales: Are We Being Driven Like Cattle?
Published: 2014
As we stand in line for security checks at airports, we may have the distinct feeling that we are being herded like cattle. The purpose of the charade is not so much to prevent airliners from being sabotaged as it is to keep the idea of terrorism fresh in our minds.
Avila, Eduardo: A Network of Indigenous Language Digital Activists in Mexico
Published: 2014
The Internet has emerged as a space where many in Mexico can communicate online using indigenous languages, as well as to create new digital content instead of being just consumers of content.
Avnery, Uri: Eyeless in Gaza
Locked in an Embrace
Published: 2014
The trouble with war is that it has two sides. Everything would be so much easier if war had only one side. Ours, of course.
Avnery, Uri: How Did It Start?
Published: 2017
Every serious debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raises the question: "When did it start?" Each side has its own date, proving that the other side started it.
Avnery, Uri: Israeli War Crimes? Who, Us??
Published: 2015
The concept of "war crimes" is dubious. The biggest crime is starting the war in the first place. This is not the business of soldiers, but of political leaders. Yet they are rarely indicted.These philosophical musings came to me in the wake of the recent UN report on the last Gaza war.
Avnery, Uri: Israelis Just Keep Killing People, Stealing Land
Published: 2018
The recent killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by Israeli sharpshooters following the "The Great March of Return" is outlined, as well as the ongoing futility of Israel's policy and actions against the self-governing Palestinian territory whose population are forced to live under dire conditions.
Avnery, Uri: The Most Moral Army?
Published: 2017
War is the realm of killing and destroying. How is it possible to talk about a law of war when war itself breaks all laws? An army that trains its soldiers to kill, how can it demand from them to show mercy?
Avnery, Uri: The myth of one Jewish nation
Published: 2017
Zionism is an anti-Semitic creed. It was so right from the beginning. Already the founding father, Theodor Herzl, a Viennese writer, penned some pieces with a clear anti-Semitic slant. For him, Zionism was not just a geographical transplantation, but also a means of turning the despicable commercial Jew of the diaspora into an upright, industrious human being.
Avnery, Uri: Netanyahu's Operation Stupidity
Who is Winning in Gaza?
Published: 2014
Who is Winning in Gaza? Which must be answered, the Jewish way, with another question: how to judge?
Avnery, Uri: The Pope at Herzl's Grave
Patagonian Dreams
Published: 2014
During his short visit to Israel, Pope Francis laid a wreath on the grave of Theodor Herzl.
That was not a usual gesture. Foreign heads of state are obliged to visit Yad Vashem, as did the pope, but not the grave of Herzl.
Avnery, Uri: When the Unimaginable Happened
Mandela: the Movie
Published: 2013
Mandela: the Movie is a very accurate film, depicting what actually happened in South Africa, and one cannot help thinking about it again and again.
Avnery, Uri: Without Fear, Without Favor
The Future of Journalism
Published: 2013
The Words “lifetime achievement” have a certain undertone. There is a hint that the work is finished.
Awan Family Support Committee: In refuge on Refugee Rights Day: The Awan family story
Published: 2014
On a day where we remember migrant and refugee struggles for freedom, dignity and security and recommit to fighting ongoing injustice, we highlight the struggle of the Awan family.
Axe, David: The U.S. Army Lost Track of 27 Ballistic Missiles
Military didn't know old Lance rockets were in storage igloos in Alabama
Published: 2015
For 30 years starting in 1962, the U.S. Army deployed Lance ballistic missiles in Europe. Twenty feet long and weighing a ton and a half, an atomic-tipped Lance could zoom 75 miles at Mach 3 and explode with a force of up to 100 kilotons of TNT. The Army retired its last Lances in 1992 … and ultimately lost track of 27 of them at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
Ayed, Nahlah; Wolfe-Wylie, William: Unprecedented data trove maps China's growing global reach and self-interest of its aid
China and U.S. 'neck and neck' in foreign assistance spending
Published: 2017
The new data on more than 4,300 projects of China in 150 countries indicate those contributions -- if not the means -- have in total, almost matched those of the world's largest foreign aid donor, the United States.
Aziz, Barbara Nimri: Beware Liberals: Ridicule Will Backfire
Published: 2016
What a year for political satire. It's nourishing; it lowers our stress level; it breaks taboos. Every democracy needs satire but one wonders how much it will count when it comes to votes on November 8th.

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B'Tselem: War crime? Israel destroys Gaza crops with aerial herbicide spraying
Published: 2016
Gaza farmers have lost 187 hectares of crops to aerial spraying of herbicides by Israel hundreds of meters within the territory's borders. The action, carried out in the name of 'security', further undermines Gaza's ability to feed itself and may permanently deprive farmers of their livelihoods. It may also represent a war crime under the 1977 Protocol to the Geneva Conventions.
Babcock, Charles R.: Prying Eyes? Sovereign Has You Covered
Published: 2015
Got a few million bucks you want to protect from the tax man, a nosey spouse or a greedy business acquaintance? Sovereign Management & Legal Ltd. says it has the answers.
Bacevich, Andrew and Turse, Nick: What Obsessing About Trump Causes Us To Miss
Published: 2017
Since the late eighteenth century, the United States has been involved in an almost ceaseless string of wars, interventions, punitive expeditions, and other types of military ventures abroad – from fighting the British and Mexicans to the Filipinos and Koreans to the Vietnamese and Laotians to the Afghans and Iraqis. The country has formally declared war 11 times and has often engaged in undeclared conflicts with some form of congressional authorization, as with the post-9/11 "wars" that rage on today.
Bacevich, Andrew J.: The American Imperium
Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war
Published: 2016
With the present-day US military overextended throughout the globe, this essay takes a look at past American military policy and actions in overseas conflicts, and how these events of the past century affect public perceptions and ultimately how the military continues to be used.
Bacevich, Andrew J.: Sound & Fury
Just What Does Brexit Signify?
Published: 2016
Not since Y2K thretened to plunge the planet into chaos has a story provoked overwrought handwringing comparable to that triggered by Britons voting to withdraw from the European Union. By common assessment, Brexit signifies something profound. History itself has seemingly gone off the rails. Darkness threatens to cover the earth.
Bacher, K.: 205 Arguments and Observations in Support of Naturism
Published: 2001
Arguments in favour of naturism backed up by research and writings from various sources.
Badger, Emily: Justifying What You Know Can't Be True
Published: 2009
Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.
Bageant, Joe: Ignorance and Courage in the Age of Lady Gaga
Published: 2010
It can be safely said that cultural ignorance consists of the rational, sensible questions that never get asked. But it also includes the weird ones that are. For instance, one of the questions asked regarding tasering school kids is: What is the allowable weight range of a child to be tased? (Taser manufacturers say 60 pounds.) Somehow, by this geezer’s prehistoric reasoning, that sounds like the wrong question.
Bah, Abdoulaye: A Century Later, Namibia Demands Justice From Germany for Its First Holocaust
Published: 2017
Between 1904 and 1908, German colonialists committed a holocaust against the Herero and the Nama, exterminating as many as 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama. Now Namibia is demanding reparations.
Bahour, Sam: America's Intifada Must Dig Deeper
Published: 2020
Palestinians’ sustained struggle for freedom and independence offers many lessons
Bahour, Sam: Diaspora Jews Must Speak Out
Law in the Service of Discrimination
Published: 2013
No democracy, in today’s world, should have the “right” to speak for persons who are not its citizens, live thousands of miles away, and have not given their direct consent to be spoken for or “represented.”
Bahseer, Zainab Wael: Gaza City, an unusual beauty
To see the beauty in Gaza, all one has to do is see and appreciate the small details. They reveal it to be the most wonderful city in the world. Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.
Baig, Anila: Uk needs modern mosques
The third generation of British Muslims still don't have mosques that teach compassion and citizenship
Published: 2011
An Islamic woman's opinion column mourns the lack of modern mosques in England. She discusses her search for a place where her children could learn Arabic and how to read the Qu'ran without facing violence or being forced to cover their faces or change their hair.
Bailes, Jon: Catherine Rottenberg's Neoliberal Feminism
Book Review
Published: 2019
An interview with Catherine Rottenberg, author of The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018).
Bailey, Cameron: A Cinema of Duty
The Films of Jennifer Hodge de Silva
Published: 1999
Published in In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, edited by Kay Armatage, et al. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Tronto Press, 1999
Bailey, Eric: An Interview With Noam Chomsky on Obama's Human Rights Record
Nothing Can Justify Torture
Published: 2012
America's human rights record under the administration of President Obama and the military intervention policies that have seen increased use during the Arab Spring.
Bains, Hardial: Thinking about the Sixties
1960-1967
Published: 2006
Baker, Catherine; Rothchild, Alice: Writing while expecting to die
Published: 2023
"Can you kindly publish the attached stories if I die?" This is what we have been hearing from the young writers we work with from Gaza in the We Are Not Numbers project.
Baker, Dean: Can Coronavirus Force Policy Types to Think Clearly About Intellectual Property?
Published: 2020
While there are researchers all over the world working on developing a COVID-19 vaccine, they are to a large extent working in competition. Each team wants to be the first to develop a vaccine so that they can secure a patent and get immensely rich.
Baker, Dean: Diverting Class War Into Generational War, Again
Published: 2018
Dean Baker provieds a counter argument to a New York Times article titled "65 or Older? Here's What We Owe Our Kids" by Glenn Kramon, which directs blame at Social Security and Medicare for the current struggles of the younger generation.
Baker, Dean: For NYT, US Labor Abuses Abroad Are a Thing of Decades Past
Published: 2015
Does foreign investment make the US economy more vulnerable? Apparently the New York Times believes it does.
Baker, Dean: The Great Spreadsheet Blunder
Reinhart and Rogoff: One Year Later
Published: 2014
It has been a bit more than a year since the Excel Spreadsheet error that shook the world. For those who may have missed it, in April of 2013, Thomas Herndon, a University of Massachusetts graduate student in economics, found an error in the calculations of Harvard Professors Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff on the relationship between government debt and economic growth.
Baker, Dean: How Financial Transaction Taxes Make the Economy More Efficient
Published: 2017
The efforts to implement a financial transactions tax (FTT) within the European Union (EU) seem to be finally coming to a head. While the EU is far from unanimous in support of a FTT, an effort to implement a joint FTT has been moving forward for the last six years under a provision that allows ten or more countries to act collectively.
Baker, Dean: Jeff Bezos' Quest to Find America's Dumbest Mayor
Published: 2018
Baker questions the wisdom of cities offering online-retailer Amazon tax and infrastructure incentives to host the company's second head quarters.
Baker, Dean: Media Panic Over the Stock Market Plunge
Published: 2018
The media continue to be in a panic over the drop in the stock market over the last few weeks. Fortunately for political pundits, there is no expectation that they have any clue about the subjects on which they opine. For those more interested in economics than hysterics, the drop in the market is not a big deal.
Baker, Dean: The Solution to the Country's Debt and Deficit Problem
Published: 2019
For most people, the country's national debt and annual deficit are not major concerns. However, for a substantial portion of the policy types who make, write, and talk about economic and budget policy, debt and deficits are really big deals. And, the fact that our budget deficit and debt are both large by historic standards, and growing rapidly, is an especially big deal.
Baker, Dean: Taxing Financial Transactions Is More Strategic Than Taxing High Wealth
Published: 2019
Baker, Dean: To Readers, $X Billion Just Means 'a Whole Lot of Money'
Published: 2019
A call for media to put numbers in context, e.g., food stamps cost of $70 billion a year is just 0.4 percent of the budget.
Baker, Dean: Trade Deals Are About Increasing Protectionist Barriers
Published: 2019
Past trade deals were about making it easier to trade manufactured goods, making it as easy as possible for corporations to take advantage of low-cost labor in the developing world. This has the predicted and actual effect of putting downward pressure on the wages of less-educated workers.
Baker, Dean: Why Aren't the Democrats Talking About Ending Patent Financed Drug Research?
Published: 2019
Presenting a case for replacing government-granted patent monopoly financing of pharmaceutical research to make drugs available at free market prices.
Baker, Kevin: The Death of a Once Great City
The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence
Published: 2018
Kevin Baker takes a close look at the changes to his home city of New York over the past forty years. He notes that while some of the more undesirable aspects of New York in the 1970's have improved, such as crime, dirt, garbage- the new and more gentrified city masks significant problems, the most notable being a growing housing crisis.
Baker, Kevin: 21st Century Limited
The lost glory of America's railroads
Published: 201
An essay on Armtrak's railroads gradual decline due to the Republican politicization of train travel.
Baker, Kevin: Where Our New World Begins
Politics, power, and the Green New Deal
Published: 2019
We find ourselves today in much the same place, confronted by an array of emergencies -- seemingly disparate, but in fact closely connected - that threatens to destroy us. Braced against them is a set of ideas put forward in a congressional resolution by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (the notorious AOC), a twenty-nine-year-old freshman congresswoman, and her young, ad hoc brain trust.
Baker, Nicholson: Wrong Answer
The case against Algebra II
Published: 2013
Why force all students to take algebra, which most of them will never use in their future lives? Why not let those students who like math, take math?
Bakunin, Mikhail: Confession to Tsar Nicholas I
An excerpt from the 'confession' Mikhail Bakunin wrote in prison to explain his revolutionary goals and his ideas about how to organize a revolution. He writes: "I wanted to transform all Bohemia into a revolutionary camp, to create a force there capable not only of defending the revolution within the country, but also of taking the offensive outside Bohemia....

All clubs, newspapers, and all manifestations of an anarchy of mere talk were to be abolished, all submitted to one dictatorial power; the young people and all able-bodied men divided into categories according to their character, ability, and inclination were to be sent throughout the country to provide a provisional revolutionary and military organization. The secret society directing the revolution was to consist of three groups, independent of and unknown to each other: one for the townspeople, another for the youth, and a third for the peasants.

Each of these societies was to adapt its action to the social character of the locality to which it was assigned. Each was to be organized on strict hierarchical lines, and under absolute discipline, These three societies were to be directed by a secret central committee composed of three or, at the most, five persons. In case the revolution was successful, the secret societies were not to be liquidated; on the contrary, they were to be strengthened and expanded, to take their place in the ranks of the revolutionary hierarchy."
Bakx, Kyle; Normand, Geneviève: More than 100 First Nations could purchase the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline
Published: 2019
Dozens of First Nations leaders are meeting to discuss a plan that could make them the next owners of the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline. Indigenous leaders will debate which financial model is ideal if they are able to purchase the pipeline project, which would boost the amount of oilsands bitumen shipped from Alberta to the B.C. coast. The Indian Resource Council (IRC) is optimistic it will be able to present a proposal to Ottawa to acquire the pipeline project in the coming months. The IRC represents 134 First Nations that have oil and gas resources on their land.
Balderson, Bill; Begin, Claudette: Campaigning for A Millionaires Tax
Against The Current vol. 158
Published: 2012
In February 2012, the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) launched a simple, clear initiative to raise taxes on Californians with incomes greater than $1,000,000 per year. The folding of this campaign for the Millionaires Tax (MT), following a compromise with the governor, has been felt as a seismic shock for many activists in California.
Bale, Rachael; Knudson, Tom: Shot and gassed: Thousands of protected birds killed annually
Published: 2015
Reveal has obtained never-before-released data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service showing more than 300 species of migratory birds -- from red-tailed hawks to American kestrels, turkey vultures to mallard ducks -- have been killed legally across the United States since 2011 to protect a wide range of business activities and public facilities under what’s called the "depredation permit" program.
Balkwill, Jack: America's Capitalist Religion has Little Room for Science
Published: 2015
The US mainstream press accuse the Pope of being leftist. Evidence? Well, they make the claim that he is leftist because he supports the theory of global warming. My guess is that the Pope also supports the theory of gravity, which, like global warming, has a great body of scientific evidence to support it. But is science now a part of the leftist realm of influence?
Balkwill, Jack: My Journey from Racism
And how we can best end it
Published: 2015
A white individual's experience of racism growing up in America in the 1940's and 1950's.
Ball, James: Richard O'Dwyer: living with the threat of extradition
Student who set up website posting links to TV and film content fears being used as a guinea pig by Hollywood giants
Published: 2012
Richard O'Dwyer's web-linking site would place him at the heart of the titanic running battle between the Hollywood giants – struggling to keep their beleaguered business model intact in the online era – and a new digital generation unwilling to play by the old rules.
Ball, James; Schneier, Bruce; Greenwald, Glenn: NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
Published: 2013
The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself.
Balles, Paul J.: The not-so-hidden persuaders
The Israel lobby's global propaganda manual
Published: 2009
A major public relations manual for Israel lobbyists teaches pro-Israel propagandists how to hoodwink people about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how to silence critics and how to avoid making statements that produce negative reactions.
Balthaser, Benjamin: Labor Organizing Across Israel's Apartheid Line: An Interview with Israeli Labor Activist Yoav Tamir
Published: 2016
Yoav Tamir is an organizer with the new Israeli labour union, Workers Advice Center, or WAC-MANN. WAC-MAAN was founded in the late 1990s as (as its name might suggest) a workers' advice center, and began organizing unions and negotiating contracts in 2010. A product of both deepening austerity within Israel as well as the wave of uprisings in the Arab world in 2011, WAC-MAAN organizes both across the racial line and across the Green Line, doing what no other labor organization in Israel or Palestine's history has done: create a multi-ethnic, bi-national workers' movement.
Balule, Dr. Badala Tachilsa; Louw, Raymond;Kandjii, Kaitira: Undue Restriction
Laws Impacting on Media Freedom in SADC
Published: 2004
Banerjee, Subhankar: An Ode To Seasons For Peter Matthiessen
Published: 2014
When human survival is continuously being threatened by varieties of anthropogenic injuries (ecological, economic, social), our capacity to think about the non-human animal become very limited indeed. Nevertheless, it is our ethical obligation to also consider their survival as well.
Banerjee, Subhankar: One of the Best Ways to Protect Biodiversity is to Preserve Indigenous Languages
Published: 2020
Is there a connection between loss of biodiversity and loss of Indigenous languages? Or, to put another way, what significance protecting Indigenous languages might have for protecting biodiversity?
Bangash, Jimmy: Islamic Homophobia is Empowered by Leftist Silence
Published: 2021
This piece scrutinizes homophobia in the Muslim community and explores the left's reluctance to criticize it in a consistent and productive manner.It argues that the word Islamophobia is a deliberate conflation that blends criticism of an ideology (Islam) with criticism of a people (Muslims). This allows the silencing of any critics of Islam through the accusation of Islamophobia, which carries an inferred accusation of hatred against Muslims – something which would be far better described as Muslimophobia or anti-Muslim bigotry. Due to this conflation, the fear of being accused of Islamophobia makes individuals hesitant to highlight the abhorrent nature of Islamic homophobia, its theological roots, and the corresponding Islamic jurisprudence that results in the ongoing persecution of LGBT people.
Banks-Smith, Nancy: Nancy Banks-Smith Quotes
Bankston, Kevin: CDT and Allies Take Aim at Government's Secret Protocol For Wireless Shutdowns
Published: 2012
The U.S. government has a secret emergency protocol for initiating citywide shutdowns of cell phone networks? The CDT states that "The government should not have the secret, unchecked authority to turn off the networks through which we all communicate every day."
Banning, Kass: Conjugating Three Moments in Black Canadian Cinema
Published: 2002
Published in In North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980, edited by William Beard and Jerry White. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002
Bannoura, Saed: Army Detonates Two Homes In Hebron, Seals One With Concrete Blocs
Published: 2014
Israeli soldiers wired and detonated two Palestinian homes in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and sealed the home of a third Palestinian with concrete. A Palestinian home was also demolished in occupied East Jerusalem.
Bannoura, Saed: Israeli airline pilots and crews trained to give talks promoting Israel in US cities
Published: 2011
The main Israeli-owned airline, El Al, in collaboration with the Jewish Agency, the group 'Stand With Us', and the Israeli Foreign Ministry, has launched a campaign to send Israeli pilots and flight crews to speak in US cities promoting Israel.
Baraka, Ajamu: Israel Commemorates Nakba with Mass Murder at the Gaza Fence
Published: 2018
On the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" that resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and the theft of their lands, homes, and even their household possessions, the message today was clear: the Israeli state is prepared to maintain its apartheid state by any means necessary. The catastrophe for the Palestinians was the birth of Israel and was celebrated by the Israeli state with tear gas, bullets and the blood of Palestinians.
Baraka, Ajamu: Liberal Totalitarianism and the Trump Diversion
Published: 2018
Baraka warns against enthusiastic embrace of the FBI as a "neutral political force populated by people of unreproachable character" in light of their well documented history of politically motivated targetting of civil rights activists.
Baraka, Amaju: The U.S. Press and Repression in the Obama Era
A New Awakening or Political Theater?
Published: 2013
The Obama administration’s is expanding its use of executive powers to intimidate and crush dissent had turned its focus on the U.S. press.
Barbagallo, Camille: How Greens and Labor can Win ... Together
Published: 2014
A review of Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activists and the New South Wales Labourers Federation by Meredith and Verity Burgmann (UNSW Press, 1998).
Barber, David: A Hard Rain Fell
SDS and Why it failed
Published: 2008
Barber, Johnny: Crossing Rafah
Heading to Gaza
Published: 2015
Barcan, Ruth: Nudity & Nudism -- Two Essays
Published: 2013
Nudity is paradoxical - a bodily state that is seen as so banal or matter of fact that it is rarely given sustained conceptual or academic treatment, while all the while most societies subject it to intense regulation via customs, taboos, and laws. Nudity is customarily imagined as a “natural” state - since we are all born naked-and yet its powerful social and cultural regulation means that it is anything but simple or natural.
Bardosh, Kevin et. al.: The Unintended Consequences of COVID-19 Vaccine Policy
Why Mandates, Passports, and Segregated Lockdowns May Cause more Harm than Good
Published: 2022
Barker, Michael: Why the CIA Cares About Marxism
Published: 2017
Abundant evidence of course exists of the CIA's complex cultural interventions into French intellectual affairs -- but it is critical to recognise that it was the political shortcomings of communist organizations themselves (i.e., Stalinists) that had the determinant impact on the obscurantist trajectory of left-wing academic ideas.
Barker, Micheal: Silence in NGO Discourse
Published: 2017
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) maintain a ubiquitous presence in most peoples lives (whether they realize it or not). It therefore should be a commonsense act that we scrutinize NGO activities to ascertain their exact political function within the "our" neoliberal world order.
Barkham, Patrick: Tasers: 'If officers have a new toy, they like using it'
Tasers in the Line of Fire
Published: 2011
Tasers are part of the modern police's arsenal. But how safe are they and why are the guidelines for their use so vague? By 2011, Amnesty International had recorded 450 deaths after a Taser firing.
Barlovac,Bojana: Major powers tailored Serbian media legislation for 'Balkan CNN'
Published: 2014
Regardless of different EU policies on the issue among different EU member states, the Serbian media practice to date does not leave room for optimism.
Barlow, Maude: Blue Betrayal
The Harper government's assault on Canada's freshwater
Published: 2015
Canadians have long taken their water heritage for granted. This is largely due to the myth that there is an abundance of water. While it is true that compared to many other parts of the world Canada is blessed with water, it is false that there is water to waste or sell.
Barlow, Maude: EU-Canada CETA trade deal is a back door for US to sue EU - even if TTIP fails
Published: 2015
There's been a big fuss about the 'ISDS' clauses in the TTIP trade deal that would allow US corporations to sue the EU and its member states for 'lost profits', writes Maude Barlow. But ISDS is already in CETA, the already negotiated EU-Canada trade deal - and nothing would be easier than for US companies to use it as their 'back door'. We must make sure CETA is rejected at its final hurdle.
Barlow, Maude: Millions of people yearning for a "Brexit" from destructive trade deals
Published: 2016
While the votes for Brexit, and the support for Trump, may not always choose the best political framing, politicians and elites would be arrogant to dismiss the widespread discontent with the status quo.
Barlow, Maude: Nestlé: Malevolent Corporation Capitalizes on Global Water Crisis
Published: 2012
Demand for water is outstripping supply at an accelerating rate. Nestlé’s goal is to shift government policy away from providing public municipal water supplies to people, and toward a dependency on bottled water to provide basic drinking water.
Barmak, Sarah: A picture and a thousand words
Published: 2007
The approximately 27-metre-tall Humewood elm is among perhaps only 30 big elms in Toronto that remain unscathed by Dutch elm disease, the deadly fungus that has almost wiped out North America's elm trees.Over the roughly seven decades since the disease arrived on the continent, the Humewood elm has, inexplicably, stayed standing.How it escaped the scourge, no one knows. Maybe that's why many in its heritage-conscious St. Clair and Bathurst neighbourhood see it as something of a miracle.
Barnes, Julian: My life as a bibliophile
Published: 2012
From school prizes to writing his own novels, the author reflects on his lifelong bibliomania and explains why, despite e-readers and Amazon, he believes the physical book and bookshops will survive.
Barnett, David: Draw and you'll go to jail': the fight to save comics from the censor
Published: 2016
From worried parents to policemen with built-in 'Satan detectors', underground comics have never lacked enemies. And for 30 years Neil Gaiman and his friends have fought back in the name of free speech.
Barnett, Jerry: Porn, Women's Rights and the Left
A Response to Gail Dines
Published: 2014
I believe that government belongs in health, education, welfare, social services, environmental protection and transport; but I do not believe that it belongs in our bedrooms.
Barnett, Katherine: Are Israel's spies stealing your data?
Published: 2019
Many Israeli spies go into careers in surveillance software bringing techniques that are used to violate the privacy of Palestinians into everyday commercial software.
Baron, Sherry Dr.: Claudia Clark's "Radium Girls" - Book Review
Published: 1999
Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935. by Claudia Clark. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 289 pp, notes and bibliography. $17.95 paper.
AT THE BEGINNING of this century a group of young women workers who, while licking their brushes to make a fine point, applied radium-laden paint to the faces of watches and instruments, began to sicken, and in many cases to die.
Baroud, Ramzy: Arab Media on the Brink
The Age of TV Jokers
Published: 2014
In the last year or so in Egypt, much of what has been achieved in terms of carving space for alternative voices in the Egyptian media was quickly and decisively reversed.
Baroud, Ramzy: Beyond Awards and Accolades: Why Gaza Journalists are the Best in the World
Why Gaza Journalists are the Best in the World
Published: 2024
By granting its 2024 World Press Freedom Prize to Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli war on Gaza, UNESCO has acknowledged a historic truth.
Baroud, Ramzy: The Boomerang Effect: How Netanyahu Made Israel an American Issue, and Lost
Published: 2018
Trends in US opinion polls indicate that Israel is not just losing support and overall appeal among large sections of American society but also among the newer generation of American Jews, a worrying change in US public opinion for the Israeli government.
Baroud, Ramzy: Cruelty of Language -- the NYT's Leaked Gaza Memo
Published: 2024
Ramzy Baroud responds to revelations about The New York Times "guidance" on language about the Israeli mass slaughter in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
Baroud, Ramzy: How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
Published: 2016
Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. This alarming development has been taking place for weeks, since Israel’s national water company, "Mekorot", decided to cut off – or significantly reduce – its water supply to Jenin, Salfit and many villages around Nablus, among other regions. Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians.
Baroud, Ramzy: Journalism, History and War: Sit, Type and Bleed
Published: 2017
There are millions of victims throughout the Middle East region, that cannot be understood or expressed through typical media narration: a gripping headline, couple of quotes and a paragraph or two by way of providing context.The price is too high for this kind of lazy journalism.
Baroud, Ramzy: The Logic of Murder in Israel: A Culture of Impunity in Full View of the Entire World
Published: 2016
"Whether he made a mistake or not, is a trivial question," said an Israeli Jewish man who joined large protests throughout Israel in support of a soldier who calmly, and with precision, killed a wounded Palestinian man in al-Khalil (Hebron). The protesting Jewish man described Palestinians as 'barbaric', 'bestial', who should not be perceived as people.
Baroud, Ramzy: Money, Power and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost
Published: 2019
It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the press. But equally alarming is the complete polarization of public opinion as a result of self-serving media and, bankrolled by rich Arab countries, whose only goal is to serve their specific, often sinister, agendas.
Baroud, Ramzy: Omar and the Checkpoint
The Essential Story that is Rarely Told
Published: 2014
Omar is a 7-year-old boy from Gaza. His family managed to obtain the necessary permits that allowed him to cross the Erez checkpoint to Jerusalem, through the West Bank, in order to undergo surgery. He was accompanied by his father. On the way back, the boy and his father were stopped at the Qalanidya checkpoint, separating occupied East Jerusalem from the West Bank. The father needed another permit from the Israeli military to take his son, whose wounds were still fresh hours after the surgery, back to the strip. But the soldiers were in no obliging mood.
Baroud, Ramzy: Palestine's 'Prayer for Rain': How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
Published: 2016
Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians, according to Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah. The irony is that the water provided by "Mekorot' is actually Palestinian water, usurped from West Bank aquifers. While Israelis, including illegal West Bank settlements, use the vast majority of it, Palestinians are sold their own water back at high prices.
Baroud, Ramzy: Palestinian, Jewish Voices Music Jointly Challenge Israel's Past
Published: 2017
Baroud analyzes how Israel has appropriated the Palestinian narrative of Al-Nakba to rewrite history and place the occupation of Palestine in a positive light.
Baroud, Ramzy: Perpetuating the Abu Ghraib Culture
The Harrowing Abuse of Iraqi Women
Published: 2014
The phenomenon of kidnapping, torturing, raping, and executing women is shockingly widespread within the Iraqi criminal justice systm, which continues the policies of the US miliary administration. If such a reality were to exist in a different political context, the global outrage would have been profound.
Baroud, Ramzy: Photographing Tragedy
What Victims Actually Want
Published: 2013
What is the use of a photo when the human conscience has grown numb, and barely appreciates the artistic expression of the photo, not the moral and political crisis it represents?
Baroud, Ramzy: The Prisoners' Revolt: The Real Reasons behind the Palestinian Hunger Strike
Published: 2017
Gaza is the world’s largest open air prison. The West Bank is a prison, too, segmented into various wards, known as areas A, B and C. In fact, all Palestinians are subjected to varied degrees of military restrictions. At some level, they are all prisoners.
Baroud, Ramzy: Recruiting To Kill - It Is Not Just An Israeli War On Gaza
Published: 2014
To some, US secretary of state John Kerry may have appeared to be a genuine peacemaker as he floated around ideas during a Cairo visit on 25 July about a ceasefire between Israel and resisting Palestinian fighters in Gaza. But behind his measured diplomatic language, there is a truth not even America's top diplomat can easily hide. His country is very much involved in fighting this dirty war on Gaza that has killed over 1,050, injured thousands more, and destroyed much of an already poor, dilapidated space that is barely inhabitable to begin with.
Baroud, Ramzy: Seven Points Not on the Arab Media Agenda – What Is There to Celebrate?
Published: 2015
As media experts plan to establish an 'Arab Media Day', Baroud criticizes in seven points the censorship and repression of Arab journalism and media.
Baroud, Ramzy: Time to End the 'Hasbara': Palestinian Media and the Search for a Common Story
Published: 2016
Merely being in the company of hundreds of Palestinian journalists and other media professionals from all over the world has been an uplifting experience. For many years, Palestinian media has been on the defensive, unable to articulate a coherent message, torn between factions and desperately trying to fend off the Israeli media campaign, along with its falsifications and unending propaganda or 'hasbara'.
Baroud, Ramzy: The Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to Forget
Published: 2018
A look at some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s views beyond those emphasized by the mainstream media, where he pushed beyond 'liberal' America and his strong anti-war and global solidarity values were unapologetically linked to the fight against racism and poverty.
Baroud, Ramzy: Whatever Happened to Al Jazeera?
All the News That's Fit to Slant
Published: 2012
In Al Jazeera’s early days in the mid and late 1990s, the channel took on taboo subjects and proudly challenged the status quo. In recent months, however, Al Jazeera has begun to change course. It has deviated from its journalistic responsibilities in Libya, and is now completely losing the plot with Syria. The channel is in urgent need to revisit its own code of ethics.
Baroud, Ramzy: Why do Palestinian children throw stones?
Published: 2022
Children of my Gaza refugee camp were rarely afraid of monsters but of Israeli soldiers. This is all that we talked about before going to bed. Unlike imaginary monsters in the closet or under the bed, Israeli soldiers are real, and they could show up any minute – at the door, on the roof or, as was often the case, right in the middle of the house.
Baroud, Rmazy: The Genocidal Language Behind Israel's Intent in Gaza
Published: 2023
Long before October 7, 2023, the Zionist-Israeli discourse was always that of racism, dehumanization, erasure and, at times, outright genocide.
Barrera, Jorge: Indigenous population growing rapidly, languages surging: census
Data also reveals on-reserve First Nation housing getting worse
Published: 2017
The Indigenous population in Canada continues to rapidly outpace the growth of the rest of the country while Indigenous languages are showing a strong resurgence, according to census data released Wednesday by Statistics Canada.
Barrera, Jorge: Lost Children
Published: 2021
The threat of death was part of life at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. So why is it so hard to determine how many children died there?
Barrett, Paul: Why Everyone Is Wrong about the Censorship Fight at Universities
Published: 2018
The silencing of part-time instructors is the real free speech crisis
Barrickman, Nick: Lack of regulation behind West Virginia water disaster
Published: 2014
A chemical spill at the Etowah River Terminal, near Charleston, West Virginia, resulted in nearly 300,000 people in the state losing access to drinkable water. Since then, several reports have been released detailing the decades-long lack of regulation by state or federal agencies of the site responsible.
Barrickman, Nick: Ryan Coogler's Black Panther: A hollow "defining moment" cloaked in identity politics
A review of the film 'Black Panther'
Published: 2018
A conventional Hollywood "blockbuster," chock full of action sequences, explosions and the rest.
Barrickman, Nick: Thousands imprisoned, some executed, based on false FBI lab reports
Published: 2014
A major inquiry conducted by the US Justice Department (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has found hundreds instances in which FBI forensic units charged with gathering data on cases involving violent crimes provided false information. The doctored FBI lab reports led to the imprisonment of thousands of innocent people, some of whom were executed, according to a report in the Washington Post.
Barron, Simon: Google can't be trusted to look after our books
Published: 2011
The author warns that Google's lack of accountability to the public could put its digital collection in jeopardy should it become too expensive to maintain. He argues that the protection of cultural resources should be in the hands of the public sector.
Barrows-Friedman, Nora: Israel's first trans officer helps with ethnic cleansing
Published: 2017
Queer and transgender activists protested an event featuring an Israeli soldier in Seattle on 5 April.The event was supported by the LGBTQ Commission, a body that advises city leaders on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.Two commissioners resigned in protest just days earlier, criticizing the group’s participation as an act of pinkwashing. Pinkwashing is a public relations strategy that deploys Israel's supposed enlightenment toward LGBTQ issues to deflect criticism from its human rights abuses and war crimes and as a means to build up support for Israel among Western liberals and progressives.
Barry, Tom: America is a Smuggler Nation
Why Legal Trade is a Greater Threat to National Security
Published: 2013
Smuggler Nation is not the oft told, routinely taught story of America’s emergence as a major nation and a global power, rather we come to see U.S. history as “the story of how smuggling – and the attempts to police it – have made and remade America, from the illicit molasses trade in colonial times to drug trafficking today,” as Peter Andreas observes in the book’s introduction.
Barrymore, John: John Barrymore Quotes
Barsocchini, Robert J.: American Rape of Vietnamese Women was Considered "Standard Operating Procedure"
Published: 2017
Comparing testimony from Vietnamese women and American soldiers, Gina Marie Weaver, in her book Ideologies of Forgetting: Rape in The Vietnam War, finds that rape of Vietnamese women by American troops during the US invasion of Vietnam was a "widespread", "everyday occurrence" that was essentially "condoned", even encouraged, by the military, and had its foundation in military training and US culture.
Barth, Brian: Curitiba: the Greenest city on Earth
Published: 2014
Eco-savvy urban planners have been studying Brazil's seventh largest city for decades.
Bartlett, Eva: Actual reality is infinitely preferable to the dystopian augmented reality of the Metaverse
Published: 2022
After isolating lockdowns and other absurd anti-science measures that have made life hell for many for the past year-and-a-half, people are thirsty for real life interactions, not Zoom calls or other digital meet-ups.
Bartlett, Eva: Bolton calls on Al-Qaeda to stage more chemical attacks in Syria
Published: 2018
The latest statements from the US, France and UK warning against the use of chemical weapons in Syria leave many skeptical and disbelieving of the alarm cries, having seen this song and dance before. Chemical weapons accusations are among the most overused war propaganda tactic used by the West during the war on Syria.
Bartlett, Eva: Maligned in Western Media, Donbass Forces are Defending their Future from Ukrainian Shelling and Fascism
Published: 2022
Bartlett, Eva: Organ theft, staged attacks: UN panel details White Helmets' criminal activities, media yawns
Published: 2018
Bartlett, Rob: Chicago Teachers Strike Back
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
Chicago Teachers Union stage a walkout that leads to an improved contract.
Bartlett, Rob: Chicago Teachers' Strike Looms
Against The Current vol. 160
Published: 2012
Whether or not the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) will strike this September is an open question. But the issues they raise are gaining national attention.
Bartlett, Rob: Update: Chicago's School War
Published: 2013
Chicago Public Schools took a hit on May 22, 2013 as the appointed Board of Education of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) voted to close 50 schools, of the 54 originally targeted for shutdown -- in the largest closing of public schools in U.S. history. This was done despite an outpouring of opposition, expressed by thousands of parents in more than 100 meetings mandated by state law to allow parental and community input into the process.
Bartosiewicz, Petra: Before the Deluge
How Washington sealed Puerto Rico's fate
Published: 2018
A look at the problems facing Puerto Rico prior to Hurricane Maria, which was already a plundered and mis-managed society with crumbling infrastructure long before the hurricane struck.
Bassey, Nnimmo; Shiva, Vandana: Stemming the tide together: Soil, not oil
Published: 2015
We are living in a rapidly changing world. The changes that we are witnessing have not come about by accident; they have been carefully orchestrated and the price has been dire. Today, a handful of corporations and entities control the global supply of food, water and other resources. They operate without any sense of responsibility and the space for people to seek redress is becoming continually more constricted.
Basso, Gustavo: In Brazil, thousands of people are still living under the threat of bursting mining dams
Published: 2019
The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is home to several large dams many of which have burst causing death and environment damage. There is evidence that some of these disasters were predictable.
Basu, Brishti: Ontario doctor suspended, his address published after pro-Palestinian social media posts
Published: 2023
An Ontario doctor has been suspended from his job, threatened and had his address shared online after he posted pro-Palestinian views on social media.
Bateman, Milford: The Microfinance Delusion
Marred by Wall Street-Style Greed, Profiteering, Client Abuse, and Market Chaos
Published: 2012
By celebrating self-help and individual entrepreneurship, and by implicitly discrediting all forms of collective effort, such as trade unions, social movements, cooperatives, public spending, a pro-poor ‘developmental state’ and – most of all – collective moves to ensure a more equitable redistribution of wealth and power, microfinance fits in well with the ideology of neoliberal policy-makers.
Bateman, Milford: The Power of a Dollar
Published: 2015
Microcredit is nothing more than a socially validated way for financial elites to exploit the poor.
Batou, Jean: Amnesia and the Armenian Genocide
Published: 2015
A century after the methodically planned, organized, and executed destruction of the Anatolian Armenians, this article revisits the causes of this genocide and recognizes its importance for understanding the present.
Baud, Jacques: Ukraine between war and peace
Published: 2024
Interview with Ret. Col. Jacques Baud.
Baum, Dan: Legalize it All
How to win the war on drugs
Published: 2016
Arguing for complete legalization as a means of dealing with substance problems in America.
Baur, Estar: A Farewell and Tribute: Rose Lesnik, 1924-1998
Published: 1999
ROSE LESNIK, LIFELONG socialist, activist and humanist, died of pancreatic cancer on August 1, 1998. Rose, born in 1924, grew up in a socialist household.
Her father, Harry Gold, and her brother joined the Trotskyist movement in 1938. Rose followed their example and at the age of 17 joined the Socialist Workers Party. Then in 1953 she became a member of the Socialist Union (publishers of American Socialist).
Bayer, Fern: The Search for the Spirit
General Idea 1968-1975
Published: 1997
Bayley, Ed: The Clicks That Bind: Ways Users "Agree" to Online Terms of Service
Published: 2009
“I Agree.” We have all, at some point while online, clicked on a button bearing these words. Whether it is registering for a new social media account or just trying to get to our bank statements, one almost cannot visit a website today without eventually being asked to agree a listed set of "Terms and Conditions." But by clicking on such boxes, or even in some cases just by using the website, we as online users may be binding ourselves to legally enforceable contracts with the online service provider.
Beachy, Ben: Let's Just Pretend
We Didn’t Offshore Manufacturing?
Published: 2014
Is an iPhone made in China and exported to Europe a U.S. export? Is an Apple executive a manufacturing worker? Yes, and yes. At least those could become the answers if a new proposal afoot among some in the administration is allowed to take effect. Federal agencies grouped under the bland-sounding Economic Classification Policy Committee (ECPC) are proposing to radically redefine U.S. manufacturing and trade statistics. The proposal would deceptively deflate the size of reported, but not actual, U.S. manufacturing trade deficits, while artificially inflating the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs overnight.
Beattie, Samantha ; Hristova, Bobby: Ontario NDP kicks Hamilton MPP Sarah Jama from caucus after controversial Gaza comments
Published: 2023
Ontario New Democrats have kicked Hamilton Centre MPP Sarah Jama out of caucus, nearly two weeks after she posted a controversial statement in support of Palestinians. NDP Leader Marit Stiles said in a statement Monday that while the caucus allows different viewpoints, some of Jama's actions since making her comments "have contributed to unsafe work environments for staff."
Beaumont, Hilary: Inside the US push to uncover Indigenous boarding school graves
Published: 2021
Researchers say unmarked graves likely will be found at majority of boarding schools for Indigenous children across US.
Beaumont, Peter; Hopkins, Peter: US was 'key player in cyber-attacks on Iran's nuclear programme'
Obama reported to have approved bid to target Tehran's nuclear efforts
Published: 2012
Fresh light is shed on the rapid development of US cyberwarfare capability and reveal its willingness to use cyber weapons offensively to achieve policies.
Beaumont, Peter; Kingsley, Patrick: Devil and the deep blue sea: how Mediterranean migrant disaster unfolded
Published: 2014
Desperate migrants from Gaza and Syria tell how they put themselves at the mercy of people smugglers in their voyage to cross the Mediterranean.
Bebout, Rick: Blight and the Brave New World
Rural estates to urban renewal: Moss Park, Trefann Court and Corktown
Published: 2001
A history of, and observations and reflections on the Moss Park, Trefann Court and Corktown areas of Toronto.
Bebout, Rick: Government's house and housing the governed
Parliament Street: Regent Park, Cabbagetown (old and "Old") and St James Town
Published: 2001
A recent history of the neighborhoods around Parliament Street in Toronto, with a focus on the planning challenges and the function of mixed-income communities.
Bebout, Rick: Landscapes lost, and found
Garrison Creek; downtown's other streams & ravines: reclaiming the life beneath our feet
Published: 2002
A history of the Garrison Creek path in Toronto and how the creek shapes the surrounding landscape and environment, reflecting on the cities relationship with public natural spaces and parks.
Bebout, Rick: Master builders meet citizen activists
Trefann Court and beyond: from "urban renewal" to true civic life
Published: 2001
Examining former Toronto Mayor John Sewell's role as a community organizer and advocate during the urban renewal of the Trefann Court neighborhood and the importance of community self-determination in urban planning.
Bebout, Rick: Not at liberty
Jails (and gaols), Central Prison, the Mercer Reformatory, and the Asylum
Published: 2002
A history of prisons, reformatories, asylums and mental health facilities in Toronto and their relationship with the populace, detailing and criticizing the implications of attitudes and approaches to mental health by the cities institutions.
Bebout, Rick: Of time and the river
The Don: salmon to sludge to concrete; in time, to life revived
Published: 2001
A history of the Don River in Toronto and reflections on its relationship with the city and citizenship as a natural space, and its decline and renewal.
Bebout, Rick: Passing Stories
Tales from a wander so far without end
Published: 2002
A collection of stories based around experiences and observations from walking Toronto's Queen Street, considering the requirements and rewards of urban citizenship.
Bebout, Rick: Private property; public life
The city indoors: The Eaton Centre and "Toronto's Downtown Walkway"
Published: 2001
A history of, and observations on, Toronto's Eaton Centre mall and PATH walkway and preceding indoor private-owned and publically accessible spaces.
Bebout, Rick: Roncesvalles
Spanish name, Polish downtown; one avenue, many stories
Published: 2002
A history of the immigrant populations in the Roncesvalles area of Toronto, with observations on the communities who have lived there told through monuments and landmarks.
Bebout, Rick: Text crimes
The very long & contentious career of "Men loving boy loving men"
Published: 2003
Rick Bebout on journalism and freedom and the Body Politic newspaper.
Bebout, Rick: Urban amenities; erotic anxieties
Baths, lavatories, and the YMCA: The politics of bodies in civic space
Published: 2002
A history of public baths, in particular public baths and similar spaces in Toronto in the last century, and the changing perceptions and uses of such spaces by the public, in particular the treatment of private acts within public spaces.
Beccaria, Laurent; de Saint-Exupéry, Patrick; Cullen, John (trans.): Content and Its Discontents
Published: 2013
On the negatively changing nature of journalism and the press in the digital age, including four potential pillars of a reformed press that will restore the exchange value between news publications and their readers.
Becerra, Diana C. Sierra: Colombian Workers Injured and Fired
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
The General Motors subsidiary in Colombia, Colmotores, fired over 200 workers who were injured on the job, ranging from spinal fractures to cancer.
Becker, Mark: Ecuador's New Indigenous Uprising
Published: 2015
Ecuador's Indigenous movements have launched an uprising to challenge the government's opposition to bilingual education and its support for an extractive-based economy.
Becker, Markus: Factory and Lab: Israel's War Business
Published: 2014
Israel invests more money in research than most other countries -- and in no other place are research institutes, the defense industry, the army and politics as interwoven. The result is a high-tech weapons factory that successfully exports its goods globally.
Beckett, Andy: The dark side of the internet
Published: 2009
Search engines access only a very small fraction of the deep web, which is estimated to be five hundred times as big as the surface web.
Beckett, Andy: A user's guide to artspeak
Published: 2013
There is now a name for the pompous prose used by art galleries: International Art Speak. You need to speak it to be a part of art culture.
Beder, Sharon: Turning Children Into Consumers
Published: 2009
Children are naïve about advertising and can easily be manipulated and exploited by marketers to want and demand their products. Corporate marketers believe that over time they can be shaped into lifelong consumers with brand loyalties and that can be profitable for decades to come.
Beeby, Dean: Before Parliament Hill attack, RCMP got 3 warnings, reduced patrols
Documents show Mounties reduced patrols prior to shootings, despite 3 separate warnings
Published: 2015
Mounties received at least three warnings of potential terrorist attacks on uniformed officers before last year's shootings on Parliament Hill, yet the RCMP wound down extra patrols around the parliamentary precinct just days before the tragedy, newly disclosed documents show.
Beeley, Vanessa: 'Reporters Without Scruples' fails to derail revelatory conference on White Helmets
Published: 2017
The Geneva Press Club (GPC) announced an event that would present the darker side of the Oscar-winning, multi-million-dollar internationally funded White Helmets, operating in Syria alongside Jabhat al-Nusra (Al-Nusra Front) and other US Coalition-armed & financed terrorist groups.The event was entitled "They Don't Care About Us – White Helmets True Agenda."
Beelman, Maud: Be careful of the "master narrative"
Published: 2012
Maud Beelman, founding director of ICIJ and now deputy managing editor for investigations and enterprise at The Dallas Morning News, has a strategic four-part checklist which helps her prioritize which stories to go after. She shares them here, as well as the most important lessons learned over the years, and how to make the most of the limited time and resources you are given.
Beeman, Angie: Gig Economy or Odd Jobs: What May Seem Trendy to Privileged City Dwellers and Suburbanites is as Old as Poverty
Published: 2017
The rise of precarious employment is not a stimulus to "creativity" but a long-established way of explloiting the poor.
Beers, David; and Tyee Staff and Contributors: Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled
The Tyee's full, updated list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law.
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper and his Conservatives have racked up dozens of serious abuses of power since forming government in 2006. From scams to smears, monkey-wrenching opponents to intimidating public servants like an Orwellian gorilla, some offences are criminal, others just offend human decency. Here are 70 instances of abuse of power by the Stephen Harper government.
Beggs, Mike: Debt: The First 500 Pages
Published: 2012
We need more grand histories, but 5,000 years of anecdotes is no substitute for real political economy.
Begley, Josh: A Visual Glossary
Decoding the language of covert warfare
Published: 2015
Along with illustrations, Begley explains some of the terminology employed in the drone warfare.
Behnam, Ali: Six Key Digital Marketing Resolutions for 2014: Unified Marketing, Data Activism, More...
Published: 2014
This is a short guide (6 aspects) to digital marketing. The article puts heavy emphasis on the use of digital analytic tools and big data management.
Behrens, Matthew: The God that fails: C-51, review committees and the dangers of window dressing
Published: 2016
Among the Harper era's most destructive legacies is a toxic stew of repressive "anti-terror" laws that, in building on similarly repressive measures brought in under Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, extended major new powers to Canadian state security agencies Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS), Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the RCMP, among numerous others.
Behrens, Matthew: Reflections on a violent day in Ottawa
Published: 2014
After a long day focused on these gripping events in the nation's capital, I have to wonder if this direct experience of fear and trauma will force us to examine our own addiction to violence as the solution to conflict. Last week's events provide us with an opportunity to reflect on our insidious contribution to the climate of hate, and the chance to disengage from our increasingly militarized culture.
Behrens, Matthew: Rest in Power, Frank
Published: 2022
Short biography of Frank Showler, an anti-capitalist and pacifist who died at the age of 102.
Behrens, Matthew: Taking liberties: When elite representatives define 'national security'
Published: 2011
Most reporters assigned to the national security beat are not physically embedded within the RCMP and CSIS in the way those covering the occupation of Afghanistan seem to become stenographers for the Canadian military. But they tend to write as if they were, buying the assumptions created and sustained by those who benefit most from them while generally ignoring the fact that these agencies have a historical profile that reads "pathological liar."
Behrent, Megan: The enduring relevance of Victor Hugo
Published: 2013
To understand the significance of Victor Hugo, one must begin at the end, with his death on May 22, 1885. His funeral attracted more than two million people, one of the largest mass mobilizations ever seen in Paris and more than the city's total population at the time.
Beiler, Ryan Roderick: Hebron Activist Who Died of Tear Gas Showed Israel's Crimes to the World
Published: 2015
Hebron resident and anti-occupation activist Hashem al-Azzeh died Wednesday after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces.
Beinart, Peter: Debunking The Myth That Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic
Published: 2019
Looks at some of the cases of Anti-Semitism and Zionism as mutually held beliefs, as well as other contradictions, to argue that Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are not the same.
Beiser, Elana: Syria, Iraq, Egypt most deadly nations for journalists
Published: 2013
The conflict in Syria, a spike in Iraqi bloodshed, and political violence in Egypt accounted for the high number of journalists killed on the job in 2013.
Bell, Beverly: Agroecology as a Tool for Liberation: Transforming Industrial Agribusiness in El Salvador
Published: 2015
"We say that every square meter of land that is worked with agro-ecology is a liberated square meter. We see it as a tool to transform farmers''social and economic conditions. We see it as a tool of liberation from the unsustainable capitalist agricultural model that oppresses farmers."
Bello, Judy: Prisoners of the War on Terror
Time to Give up "Hope" and Think About Active Change
Published: 2013
Status of prisoners of war in Guantanamo.
Bello, Muhammed: The 'hanging libraries' of Nigeria: How a book drive is exciting pupils
Published: 2023
The quality of basic education is on a decline in Nigerian public schools. One volunteer book drive wants to halt that.
Bello, Walden: Slavery, Genocide, Abuse: The Dark Side of Asia's 'Tiger Economies'
Published: 2015
From declining worker protections to violent labour trafficking and ethnic cleansing, the dark underbelly of Southeast Asia's "tiger economies" is on full display this year.
Bello, Walden: Trump: the Ultimate Blowback for American Foreign Policy?
Published: 2016
When the late Chalmers Johnson introduced the word "blowback" to describe the adverse consequences of Washington’s actions in the world, he wasn't referring simply to the victims of U.S. imperial interventions striking back on American soil. More importantly, he saw the resulting destabilization of the American democratic process as the most dangerous blowback of all.
Bellware, Kim: Grace Lee Boggs, Legendary Activist, Dead At 100
Published: 2015
Boggs spent her life actively supporting causes ranging from civil rights and labour to the Black Power and feminist movements.
Ben Fogel: Book Review: African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions
Published: 2012
Conspicuously absent from the renewed and resurgent discourse amongst anti-capitalist forces and the popular imagination was sub-Saharan Africa, “black Africa,” the Africa of the eternal cycle of dictators, corruption, famine, “bad governance” and debt. African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions ambitiously sets out to remedy this and place the host of new movements arising across the continent in a singular socio-political context.
Ben-Zeev, Aaron: The Look of Love
Published: 2011
Bender, Peter Urs: Don't neglect your presentation skills
Published: 1999
Do not wait until you are about to present. It's not worth the stress, or to risk looking like a fool. Take time to prepare.
Bender, Peter Urs: Secrets of a worthwhile presentation
Published: 1998
Preparation is the key to a successful presentation.
Bender, Peter Urs: Seven golden rules for more effective speaking
Published: 2001
Tips to be a more powerful, memorable and successful speaker.
Bender, Peter Urs: 7 Tips for Effective Speeches
Published: 1996
How to make your speeches more effective.
Benedict, Kennette: Stuxnet and the Bomb
Published: 2012
Over the past decade, US experts have strenuously warned about the ominous possibility of other nations, rogue states, or even terrorist groups attacking US infrastructure through the Internet. As it happens, however, it is the United States itself that has developed malicious software in secrecy and launched it against another country.
Benger, Robin: The Great Canadian Tax Dodge
Published: 2015
It is estimated that between 100 and 170 billion dollars leaves Canada every year, untaxed. Much of it is siphoned off to Canadian-made offshore tax havens. "The Great Canadian Tax Dodge" documents the birth of the Canadian Tax Fairness movement and examines the issue of tax avoidance, exposing the sophisticated corporate strategies and tax loopholes commonly used to legally avoid tax.
Bengtsson, Verenice: Berta Cáceres: her fight for human rights in Honduras continues
Published: 2016
Last week the environmental and human rights activist Berta Cáceres was murdered by gunmen in an early morning attack on her home which may have been carried out by or in collusion with state agents. Now her friend and colleague Gustavo Castro, himself wounded in the attack and the only witness to Berta's murder, has been detained for questioning.
Benilde, Marie: Ads are coming to get you
Billions of pieces of data crunched to target your screen.
Published: 2013
The amount of personal information we donate to the Internet giants, and their ability to monitor our every move, are now being fed to ad exchange sites that bid within milliseconds for the space on our screens.
Benjamin, Medea: Is Saudi Women's Vote a Step Forward?
Published: 2015
The global press has been heralding the December 13, 2015, vote in Saudi Arabia as a breakthrough for women, since it's the first time in history that Saudi women have been allowed to vote. But is this vote really a significant step forward?
Benjamin, Medea: Putting the Fox in Charge: What's Fair About the Fair Labor Association?
Published: 1999
AFTER THE EXPOSÉS in the early 1990s of horrendous conditions in sweatshops producing clothing and shoes for some of the largest U.S. companies, the fight against sweatshops has come a long way. Companies that once refused to acknowledge responsibility for factory conditions by alleging they were “only the buyers” now have codes of conduct, undertake more serious internal monitoring of the factories they buy from, and several companies have begun experimenting with different forms...
Benjamin, Medea: RE/MAX Cashes in on Israel's Illegal Settlements
End the sale of Settlement Properties
Published: 2014
The Israeli government’s recent announcement that it had authorized the building of another 1,000 settlement homes in East Jerusalem left the US government seeing red, with State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki calling the settlement activity 'illegitimate' and 'incompatible with the pursuit of peace.' But the announcement must have left the US-based real estate giant RE/MAX “seeing green,” ready to cash in on the sale and rental of more illegal settlement homes.
Benjamin, Medea: South Korean Activists' Extraordinary Struggle to Save Jeju Island
Published: 2015
South Korea's Jeju Island is a popular tourist destination full of spas, resorts, golf courses, sandy beaches, waterfalls and hiking trails. But if you really want to get rejuvenated, skip the tourist hotspots and go directly to the village of Gangjeong to support the extraordinary community that has been opposing the building of a naval base since 2007.
Benjamin, Medea: Ten Reasons to Oppose the Saudi Monarchy
Published: 2015
During the discussion on the Iran nuclear deal, it has been strange to hear US politicians fiercely condemn Iranian human rights abuses while remaining silent about worse abuses by US ally Saudi Arabia. Not only is the Saudi regime repressive at home and abroad, but US weapons and US support for the regime make Americans complicit. So let's look at the regime the US government counts as its close friend.
Benjamin, Medea and Pam Bailey: It's Time to Put an End to Israel's "Don't ask-don't tell" Nuclear Policy
Published: 2013
Israel and its allies in the U.S. Congress continue to lobby against a deal that would meet Iran in the middle, insisting on a “zero-enrichment” policy that is a deal-breaker for Iran.
Benjamin, Medea; Davies, Nicolas J. S.: Venezuela: The U.S.'s 68th Regime Change Disaster
Published: 2019
The US's sanctions and political interference in Venezuela are part of a long history of foreign meddling that brings strife to the affected country.
Bennett, Steve: How Embarassing when your messages unravel
The Emperor's New Speak
Published: 2001
Analyze your messages to make sure their will hold up to critical scrutiny.
Bennett, Steve: Oh, the Mistakes Spokespeople Make: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Blow an Interview
Published: 2000
Mistakes to avoid when being interviewed by the media.
Bennett, Steve: When Bad Things Happen to Good Spokespeople: Handling Tough Interviews
Published: 2000
How to handle problems that arise in a media interview.
Bennis, Phyllis: Obama Launches an Illegal War in Syria
Published: 2014
President Obama’s decision to bomb Syria stands in stark violation of international law, the UN Charter, as well as the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.
Bentley, Paul: A Little Crooked House: Trudeau, Morneau, BMO & KPMG Inc
Published: 2017
Canada's Finance Minister Bill Morneau has recently reinvigorated his promise to crack down on tax evasion schemes, but how can we trust him when he is himself named in the Panama Papers?
Benvenuto, Francesca M.: Fighting impunity, but only in some cases
Is the International Criminal Court too Politicized?
Published: 2013
So far all the 20 prosecutions in the 11 years of the ICC’s existence have been brought over African conflicts. The US, China, Russia and Israel haven’t even signed up to the court, and actively seek exemption from it.
Berezovsky, Georgiy: 'Africa is fighting, Africa will win': How Soviet art supported the decolonization of the 'Dark Continent'
Published: 2023
The liberation of Africa from the oppression of Western colonizers in the 1960s became one of the main themes of Soviet propaganda posters.
Berg, Jeff: A Grim Very Tale: The Kehoe Paradigm
Published: 2015
In the 1920s two employees of GM working in the research lab discovered that the addition of tetraethyllead - TEL - to gasoline would reduce engine 'knock'. It would take sixty years to stop industry from adding TEL to gasoline. During that time the lead contamination in the environment - globally - was raised by hundreds of times. Billions of tons of lead was dispersed into the environment.
Bergareche,Borja: Why Spain's new gag law is threat to free flow of information
Published: 2015
Spain plans to ban demonstrations in front of government buildings on the basis of 'disturbing public safety'. The people of Spain refuse to accept this censorship and move to repeal the law by the end of the year.
Berger, Greg; Olivera, Oscar: Community Police in Guerrero's Costa Chica Region to Celebrate 19 Years of a Better Way to Combat Crime and Corruption
Published: 2014
The same southern Mexican state where 43 students were disappeared is also home to a grassroots movement that shows how people can police themselves when the state becomes criminal.
Berger, Gregory: How I Became a "Recovering Documentary Filmmaker" and Learned to Reach a Wider Public
The School of Authentic Journalism Saved My Life: Your Donations Make It Possible
Published: 2012
A look into the way that the The School of Authentic Journalism guides journalists and organizers to reach wider audiences.
Berger, John: The Nature of Mass Demonstrations
Published: 2017
John Berger analyses the social dynamics and strengths of mass demonstrations.
Berggren, David: Time to Call US Aid to Africa by Its True Name: Bribery
Published: 2016
Aid, what is it good for? While many Bono-loving, bleeding heart liberals would be appalled at the very thought of questioning the importance of giving money to charity or to the less fortunate, such a belief is rooted in pure fiction. In fact, the seemingly innocuous act of transferring money abroad in voluntary Robin Hood fashion is at the root of most political problems wreaking havoc across the developing world.
Berglund, Birgitta; Lindvall, Thomas: Community Noise
Published: 1995
Critically reviews the adverse effects of community noise, including interference with communication, noise-induced hearing loss, annoyance responses, and effects on sleep, the cardiovascular and psychophysiological systems, performance, productivity, and social behaviour.
Berkowitz, Edwars D: Something Happened
A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies
Published: 2006
Berlatsky, Noah: Hashtag Activism Isn't a Cop-Out
Published: 2015
Using twitter is not just 'lazy activism'. It projects the voices of the small and it shows governments what the people truely support.
Berlet, Chip: Why Right-Wing Demagogues Are Trying to Peddle Ludicrous Conspiracy Theories
Published: 2009
Even before Obama was sworn in as the 44th President, the internet was seething with lurid theories exposing his alleged subversion and treachery.
Berman, Paul: A Tale of Two Utopias
The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968
Published: 1997
Bernick, Thomas: Violence and the Newspaper Strike
Published: 1997
To those who still allow their anti-union biases and their exposure to employer misinformation to cloud their perception of reality, I would pose the following question: If the employer and its supporters are really the victimized peace-loving martyrs that they pretend to be, why are the union members the ones who always end up in the hospital?
Bernish, Claire: Land of the Free? Harvard Study Ranks America Worst in the West for Fair Elections
Published: 2016
According to the EIP, U.S. elections scored lower than Argentina, South Africa, Tunisia, and Rwanda -- and strikingly lower than even Brazil. Specifically compared to Western democracies, U.S. elections scored the lowest, slightly worse than the U.K., while Denmark and Finland topped the list.
Bernstein, Carl: THE CIA AND THE MEDIA
How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up
Published: 1977
Bernstein's 1977 Rolling Stone story covering the CIA and it's relationship to the press.
Bernstein, Dennis: The Destabilization of Haiti
Published: 2004
A short summary of the illegal and suppressed details of American intervention in Haiti during the 1990's and early 2000's.
Bernstein, Dennis: Fighting Secrecy and the National Security State
An Interview With Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Co-Producer of WikiLeaks's "Collateral Murder" Video
Published: 2013
An interview with Iceland Member of Parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir of the Pirate Party on the status of the international struggle against government secrecy and surveillance.
Berra, Yogi: Yogi Berra Quotes
Berry, Lorraine: For bibliomaniacs, there is no cure
Literary hoarders were once seen as antiscocial but historians thank them now
Published: 2017
An essayist looks into the curious pastime of book collecting, as well as her own lifelong passion to grow her collection.
Berry, Lorraine: 'I really want to find it before I die': why are we so fascinated by lost books?
From the Book of Kells to Walter Benjamin, literary history is marked with tantalising absences – which two bibliophiles have made it their
Published: 2018
Essay on the allure of rare and lost books, inspired by Giorgio van Straten's recent work, " In Search of Lost Books".
Berry, Wendell: Wendell Berry Quotes
Bertelli, Michele; Lil, Felix; Pedriel, Genciano; Saurus, Javier: Mothers and Children First
Published: 2017
An interactive report on mothers and child bearing in Bolivia where deaths are highest among indigenous populations. This report looks at the efforts by doctors, indigenous midwives and healers who are collaborating in what is being called 'intercultural health care'.
Berton, Pierre: Cuts, Canadian Culture and the CBC
Published: 1986
Canadian drams gives us a sense of community.
Berwick, Carly: Zeroing out Zero Tolerance
Published: 2015
Urban districts are increasingly doing away with harsh, no-excuses discipline -- a tactic that was once seen as the only way to address misconduct at big, high-poverty schools.
Beslav, Lina: Five Revealing Facts About Homeless Youth
Published: 2016
The federal government has set a goal of ending youth homelessness by 2020 with Opening Doors, a strategic plan released in 2010. But as the plan acknowledges, figuring out how many youth are homeless is no easy task.
Besliu, Raluca: Romania's 'occupy forests' movement demands clampdown on corporate crime
Published: 2015
A growing protest movement is demanding strong controls on international investors and logging companies buying up Romania's forests. In its sights is Austria-based Schweighofer, which stands accused of criminal malpractice and accepting illegal timber shipments. The popular outrage stirred up by corporate misdeeds is now stimulating a wider democratic revival.
Best, Xavier: Crimea, El Salvador & the Fight Against Public Participation
Policing "Irresponsibility"
Published: 2014
On the Obama administration's disregard for democracy and public participation. Examples include the administration's silence on the coup against democratically-elected Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych and its threats to withhold development aid from El Salvador unless the winner of its presidential elections, the FMLN’s Sánchez Cerén, adopts right-wing economic and social policies.
Beurq, Julia: Bucharest's housing crisis: post-Communist restitution victimises Roma
Published: 2016
Twenty-five Roma families were evicted from an apartment block in Vulturilor Street, Bucharest, in 2014, turned out of homes they had rented from the state for nearly 20 years. The entrance to their alleyway was sealed off with a metal sheet.
Bey, Daniel: How The Guardian Undermines Jeremy Corbyn and the Left
Published: 2016
teleSUR spoke to David Cromwell and David Edwards, co-editors of Media Lens, about The Guardian and corporate media's bias against Labour party leader Jeremy Cobyn.
Beyerstein, Barry: Why Bogus Therapies Seem to Work
At least ten kinds of errors and biases can convince intelligent, honest people
Published: 1997
At least ten kinds of errors and biases can convince intelligent, honest people that cures have been achieved when they have not.
Bhasin, Anuradha: Bringing the Israeli model to Kashmir
Published: 2020
Bhatti, Saqib: "The Children," James Baldwin Wrote, "Are Always Ours, Every Single One of Them"
Published: 2024
Saqib Bhatti laments the unbearable task of parenting during genocide -- from the United States to Gaza.
Bialystok, Franklin: Neo-Nazis in Toronto
The Allan Gardens Riot
Published: 1996
Published in Canadian Jewish Studies, 4.5 (1996-7)
Bianco, Marcie: One Group Has a Higher Domestic Violence Rate Than Everyone Else - And It's Not the NFL
Published: 2014
In families of police officers, domestic violence is two-to-four times more likely than in the general population -- from stalking and harassment to sexual assault and even homicide.
Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Johnathan: Profit by Fiat
Published: 2012
The current bond rigging scandal, in which banks colluded to rig bids on municipal bonds, was a scam that the banks learned from the mafia, who in turn learned it from the Rockfellers and tehri partners in crime.
Bick, Carolyn: America's hidden homeless: Life in the Starlight Motel
Published: 2016
A motel in Massachusetts reveals the extent of the US' hidden homelessness problem. Residents share their stories.
Biddle, Sam: Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built on Facial Recognition
Published: 2019
Amazon's plan to create proactive "watch lists" based on supposed suspicious activity - including facial recognition software - seen by their Ring cameras should alarm anyone who cares about privacy.
Biddle, Sam: Apple Logs Your iMessage Contacts - and May Share Them With Police
Published: 2016
Apple promises that your iMessage conversations are safe and out of reach from anyone other than you and your friends. But according to a document obtained by The Intercept, your blue-bubbled texts do leave behind a log of which phone numbers you are poised to contact and shares this (and other potentially sensitive metadata) with law enforcement when compelled by court order.
Biddle, Sam: Long-Secret Stingray Manuals Detail How Police Can Spy on Phones
Published: 2016
Harris Corp.'s Stingray surveillance device has been one of the most closely guarded secrets in law enforcement for more than 15 years. The company and its police clients across the United States have fought to keep information about the mobile phone-monitoring boxes from the public against which they are used. The Intercept has obtained several Harris instruction manuals spanning roughly 200 pages and meticulously detailing how to create a cellular surveillance dragnet.
Biddle, Sam: Privacy Experts Say Responsible Coronavirus Surveillance Is Possible
Published: 2020
Data collected to fight the pandemic should not be used for other purposes and should only be requested from health officials.
Biddle, Sam: This Israeli Presentation on How to Make Drone Strikes More "Efficient" Disturbed Its Audience
Published: 2017
Research backed by the U.S. and Israeli military scandalized a conference near Tel Aviv earlier this year after a presentation showed how the findings would help drone operators more easily locate people -- including targets -- fleeing their strikes and better navigate areas rendered unrecognizable by prior destruction.
Biehl, Janet: The Flowers of Rojava: A Feminist Revolution in Northern Syria
Published: 2016
Janet Biehl speaks about her recent visit to Rojava, Kurdistan where Kurdish men and women have organized themselves into a democratic autonomous region.
Biel, Robert: Emulating the circle of life
We need to rethink efficiency in our food system.
Published: 2019
Developing food systems that simulate the processes found in nature can make food production more sustainable.
Bienkowski, Brian: Health experts question handling of songbird-killing Superfund site
Published: 2014
Health experts are questioning the Environmental Protection Agency and Michigan state officials for their decades-long delays in cleanup of a Superfund site that is killing songbirds in yards, possibly leaving people at risk, too.
Bienkowski, Brian: Mass murder by botulism: Surge in Great Lakes bird deaths driven by invaders
Published: 2014
The botulism bacterium "is the most toxic natural substance on Earth. Just one gram could kill off like two million people. And for these birds it's essentially just widespread food poisoning."
Bienkowski, Brian: Songbirds dying from DDT in Michigan yards; Superfund site blamed
Published: 2014
The neighbourhood's songbirds are being poisoned by DDT, a pesticide that was banned in the United States more than 40 years ago. Lethal concentrations were found in the birds' brains, as well as in the worms they eat.
Bienkowski, Brian: Toxic gulls: Quebec's contaminated bird colony offers clues about flame retardants
Published: 2014
Research on Deslauriers and in Canadian laboratories indicates that flame retardants are altering birds’ thyroid hormones, reducing their clutch sizes, damaging their eggs, changing their behavior, shifting their gender ratio toward males and weakening their bones.
Bierce, Ambrose: The Devil's Dictionary
Published: 1906
Bilton, Michael: Be sure this way of life is something you are keen on, because it will eat up your time
Published: 2012
The riches contained in this questionnaire with multi-award-winning investigative journalist Michael Bilton. Read on to learn details about his research methodology, and why a significant investment of time is the most critical component of each investigative report.
Bindel, Julie: Surrogacy: Human right, or just wrong?
Published: 2023
Whether it is altruistic or for-profit, surrogacy is exploitation -- it turns the female body into a commodity for hire. Those gushing about the joy surrogacy brings to the lives of commissioning parents, and claiming it is a 'human right' to have a biological child, should take some time to consider the many wrongs being done to the women used as surrogates.
Birch, Simon: Tree-top vigil highlights destruction of Tasmanian forest
Miranda Gibson hopes to bring international attention to the unprotected status of the ancient forests that are threatened by logging
Published: 2012
For more than three months, 30-year-old Gibson has been living high above the canopy floor that is the home to some of Australia's most threatened indigenous wildlife, including the Tasmanian devil and spotted-tail quolls.
Bird, John; Fortune, John: Bird and Fortune - Subprime Crisis
Published: 2008
The Subprime mortgage crisis explained. John Bird and John Fortune (the Long Johns) brilliantly, and accurately, describing the mindset of the investment banking community in this satirical interview.
Birkhold, Matthew: Living by the Clock of the World: Grace Lee Boggs' Call for Visionary Organizing
Published: 2012
Grace Lee Boggs recently argued that activists should spend less time on protest organizing because it "leads you more and more to defensive operations" and "Do visionary organizing" because it "gives you the opportunity to encourage the creative capacity in people and it’s very fulfilling."
Birnbauer, Bill: Be annoying, and don't give up
Published: 2012
Bill Birnbauer, Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Monash University in Australia, shares the methodology and techniques which have served him best as an investigative journalist.
Birney, Ewan; Raff, Jennifer; Rutherford, Adam; Scally, Aylwyn: Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer
Published: 2019
A small number of researchers, mostly well outside of the scientific mainstream, have seized upon some of the new findings and methods in human genetics, and are part of a social-media cottage-industry that disseminates and amplifies low-quality or distorted science, sometimes in the form of scientific papers, sometimes as internet memes – under the guise of euphemisms such as 'race realism' or ‘human biodiversity'. Their arguments, which focus on racial groupings and often on the alleged genetically-based intelligence differences between them, have the semblance of science, with technical-seeming tables, graphs, and charts.
Biron, Carey L.: Half of U.S. Farmland Being Eyed by Private Equity
Published: 2014
An estimated 400 million acres of farmland in the United States will likely change hands over the coming two decades as older farmers retire, even as new evidence indicates this land is being strongly pursued by private equity investors. In the long term, this dynamic could speed up the already fast-consolidating U.S. food industry, with broad ramifications for both human and environmental health.
Bisharat, George: 'The Forced Displacement of Palestinians Never Truly Ended
Published: 2018
As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary, a child and grandchild of exiled Palestinian reflects on the Nakba, where 750,000 were driven from their homes or fled in terror following massacres of Palestinian civilians by Jewish militias.
Bishop, Amanda: Archives donation paints picture of local union's rich community history
Published: 2023
A donation of historical materials from Unifor Local 199 to Brock’s Archives and Special Collections is now available for students and researchers to explore in the James A. Gibson Library. The fonds of Unifor Local 199, which was previously the Canadian Auto Workers Local 199 and, before that, the United Auto Workers Local 199, includes records and ephemera dating back to 1937.
Black, Bob: Anarchy After Leftism
Published: 1997
Black, Debra: Peace messages are wrapped in quilt
Published: 2001
Sima Elizabeth Shefrin wanted to do something to contribute to peace in the Middle East. And she wanted to do something that would draw the world's eyes to a just peace for both Arab and Jew.
Black, Ian: Saudi Arabia's foreign labour crackdown drives out 2m migrants
Published: 2013
Ethiopian workers face hostility amid 'Saudisation' campaign to control foreign labour and get more Saudi citizens into work.
Blades, Johnny: Who owns Papua New Guinea's Resources Boom?
Where tribes own the land
Published: 2011
Tribal people in Papua New Guinea fight to retain control of their communal lands in the face of 'development'.
Blair, Laurence: In Paraguay's remote north guerrillas are still at large, armed and dangerous
Published: 2015
In the heart of South America, a relative latecomer to armed struggle is running rings around the authorities – provoking dark mutterings that the state itself is complicit in the group's existence. The Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) have killed more than 50 people in the last two years but some wonder if the government is really trying to defeat them.
Blake, Debra: Chicano Art vs. Censorship
Against The Current vol. 157
Published: 2012
Chicana feminist artists have experienced protests, verbal attacks and even death threats for their reimaginings of the Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe since the 1970s.
Blake, Evan: California drought: agribusiness, fracking untouched by water rationing
Published: 2015
California has responded to the drought by rationing water, with $500 fines for domestic 'water wasters'. But agribusiness and water-intensive industries like fracking remain untouched by the restrictions, even though they consume over 90% of the state's water.
Blake, Morrison: Black Day for the Blue Pencil
Published: 2005
Once they were key figures in literary publishing, respected by writers who acknowledged their contribution to shaping books. But, argues Blake Morrison, editors are now an endangered species.The editorial tradition, first of all, is for self-effacement. As human beings, editors may be far from self-effacing, but as workers their contribution goes largely unacknowledged - a nod in the preface or a thank-you from the author at the launch party and that's it. They're the ghosts in the machine, the secret sharers, the anonymous power behind the throne.
Blake, William: William Blake Quotes
Blakemore, Erin: The U.S. Forcibly Detained Native Alaskans During World War II
In the name of safety, Aleuts were held against their will under intolerable conditions in internment camps
Published: 2017
A brief history of the internment of the Aleut people of Alaska during WWII.
Blako, Radley: Shedding light on the use of SWAT teams
Published: 2014
A new bill in Utah that would require the state's police agencies to report statistics about how and how often they use their SWAT and tactical teams has just unanimously passed a committee in the state's senate. The bill is part of a larger, fascinating police reform movement currently under way in Utah.
Blanch, Vanessa: History boxes bring national museum to life for rural N.B. students
Published: 2022
University students and Grade 1 class explore 'sacred stuff' together with help of Canadian Museum of History. As the school year wraps up, university and elementary students in the small town of Sackville, N.B., are reflecting on some important discoveries they have made with the help of one another, and a big black box filled with 25 Canadian artifacts.
Blatchfor, Christie: Thought police strike again as Wilfrid Laurier grad student is chastised for showing Jordan Peterson video
Published: 2017
A Wilfrid Laurier University teaching assistant has been identified as “transphobic” and sanctioned for last week showing her class an excerpt of a video debate involving the controversial University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson. In fact, her supervising professor, Nathan Rambukkana, told her that by showing the video to her “Canadian Communication in Context” class, “it basically was like … neutrally playing a speech by Hitler …”
Blatchford, Christie: If gender identity debate at U of T was about free speech, then the battle is truly lost
Published: 2016
A recounting and criticism of the public debate over Bill C-16 and the Ontario Human Rights code, held in response to the remarks of University of a University of Toronto professor about transgender pronouns.
Blatchford, Christie: Tearful Liberal MP should accept James Bezan's fifth apology and move on
Published: 2017
Comes a time to draw the line, to note that not all remarks of a sexual nature are actually sexual in nature, that not all talk that is debatably inappropriate must be censored, that sometimes a bad line is just a bad line and that the #metoo movement does not require every woman to recall and publicize every slight, real or imagined, ever inflicted upon her by every man in the world.
Blatchford, Christie: What happened to Brown is fundamentally wrong. Every man in the world is now vulnerable
Published: 2018
For all the other moments #MeToo has wrought, the Patrick Brown story is seminal: A political leader is cut down like a sapling in the forest in a matter of hours, and none of his colleagues, in and outside of the Ontario Conservative party, and including the Ontario premier and the prime minister of Canada, have one word to say in the defence of fair play or the presumption of innocence.
Blau, Uri: Israeli Company 'Doing Good' Using Luxembourg Outpost
Published: 2014
The international business and philanthropic group led by Israel's richest woman includes a Luxembourg subsidiary that shares its address with more than 1200 other companies, and uses complex financial structures like internal loans and hybrid tools, according to analysis of secret tax documents by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Blazak, Randy: Who the Hell is Supporting Donald Trump?
Published: 2016
Somehow the Trump shell game has gained followers. So the question is now, who the hell are these people voting for Trump?
Blejman, Mariano: Nine tips for talking with potential investors
Published: 2014
Tips on how journalists, or teams of journalists can generate interest from venture capital are provided.
Bliss, Laura: A Comprehensive Map of American Lynchings
Published: 2017
A look at the practice of lynching in the United States through to the 1960's, where thousands of non-white Americans, mostly black, were killed in public acts of terror. A new map project called 'Monroe Work Today', named after the pioneering sociologist, shows that lynching was not limited to the southern states.
Bliss, Michael: Writing History: A Professor's Life
Published: 2011
Block, Diana: No To Preventive Detention: From Palestine, to Guantanamo, to U.S. Jails!
Published: 2022
On administrative detention of 500 Palestinians when they announced a boycott of Israeli military courts.
Block, Elizabeth: If Canada were a Christian state
What would Canada be like if it were a Christian state in the same sense that Israel is a Jewish state?
Published: 2022
What apartheid looks like in Israel, and what it would like in Canada.
Block, Susan: Cucks, Cuckolding and Campaign Management
Published: 2018
Talk about a bunch of sad sacks that really stink in the sack. The Trumpocalypse is ruining sex for the rest of us.
Block, Susan: Deep Throat Does LA: 50 Years of Sex, Cinema, Politics & Controversy
Published: 2023
Block, Susan: Make 2015 the Year of the Bonobo!
Published: 2015
We humans have much to learn from our kissing cousins, the peaceful, empathic, playful, sensual and highly sexual Bonobo. Rather than play out the myth of ancestral 'killer apes', better follow the 'Bonobo Way', and extend our love to all living beings and Earth herself.
Block, Susan: RIP Betty Dodson, Sex Revolutionary
Published: 2020
The great sex revolutionary and Godmother of Masturbation, Dr. Betty Dodson (1929-2020), one of my most beloved mentors, died on the Blue Moon of Halloween night.
Block, Susan: Secret Sexual Fantasies
The Erotic Theater of the Mind
Published: 2013
Your fantasies are always with you, playing hide-and-seek with your perceived realities, whispering wild ideas into your inner ear, showing movies in your mind, stirring your passions mysteriously, yet so powerfully. If you are imprisoned in any way–by your work, your family, your education, your religion, your government–your fantasies become your freedom. Sometimes your ability to fantasize is the only freedom you have.
Blomberg, Les: Noise, Sovereignty, and Civility
Noise is caused by people and businesses claiming rights, usually property rights, to emit noise into the air, and by people who do not possess the civility to be good neighbors. While its effects are an environmental health issue, its causes are tied to the issues of sovereignty (who owns the air?) and civility (how should we treat our neighbors?).
Bloom, Steve: Movement Grows to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal
Published: 1999
IN OCTOBER, MUMIA Abu-Jamal-Black activist and award-winning journalist who has been on Pennsylvania's death row since 1982-had his appeal for a new trial turned down by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (see ATC 78).
Bloom, Steve: Mumia Abu-Jamal: Awaiting the Decision
Published: 1998
AT PRESS TIME internationally renowned author and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal still waits on Pennsylvania's death row for the state Supreme Court to issue a verdict on his appeal for a new trial. There are at least five ways the court can rule:
Bloom, Steve: PA Supreme Court Rejects New Trial for Mumia
Published: 1999
THE OCTOBER 29 ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, turning down Mumia Abu-Jamal's appeal for a new trial, is one more proof that the U.S. criminal court system has very little interest in justice. Justice demands, at the very least, a new trial in this case. The seven judges of Pennsylvania's highest court, however, have clearly demonstrated that they are simply one more cog in a government machine of death which is determined to take Mumia's life—not because he is guilty of any...
Bloomberg News: Racists and xenophobes find fertile ground in violent online world
Published: 2017
Spend enough time hunting terrorists or wandering dystopian wastelands in online games and you're bound to come across players hurling xenophobic and racist taunts at each other -- from the openly Islamophobic in Europe to Korean and Japanese gamers bickering over disputed islands.
Blue Pilgrimage: How Israel Abuses Africans
Published: 2012
Part 2 of 3 - interview with community activist Rami Gudovitch about state-sponsored Israeli racism towards non-Jewish Africah asylum-seekers.
Blue Pilgrimage: Israel's War on Africans
Published: 2014
72-minute slideshow about Israel's treatment of non-Jewish African asylum-seekers, given at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada on March 9, 2014.
Blum, Jordan: The Complete History of Nudism and Nudity
Published: 2014
One version of the history of nudism, combining a detailed account of the modern period (post-1900) with extremely dubious notions about ancient history.
Blum, William: Afghanistan 1979-1992
America's Jihad
Published: 1995
An account of CIA and American involvement in Afghanistan since 1979
Blum, William: AIPAC's Doomsday Conference
It's the End of the World Again
Published: 2013
Iran, Israel, and the improbability of nuclear attack.
Blum, William: American Exceptionalism: The Naked Truth
Published: 2018
A large number of Americans hold a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the US does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well. American leaders may make mistakes, they may blunder, they may lie, they may even on many occasions cause more harm than good, but they do mean well. Their intentions are always honorable, even noble. Of that the great majority of Americans are certain.And Americans genuinely wonder why the rest of the world can’t see how benevolent and self-sacrificing America has been. Even many people who take part in the anti-war movement have a hard time shaking off some of this mindset; they march to spur America -- the America they love and worship and trust -- they march to spur this noble America back onto its path of goodness.
Blum, William: The Anti-Empire Report #153
Cold War Number One: 70 years of daily national stupidity. Cold War Number Two: Still in its youth, but just as
Published: 2017
A comentary on current events in Russian and US relations which may be entering a new Cold War, as well as a look back at events through the Cold War period from 1948 to the 1980's.
Blum, William: The Berlin Wall: Another Cold War Myth
A Response to Economic Sabotage
Published: 2014
November 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. The extravagant hoopla began months ago in Berlin. In the United States we can expect all the Cold War clichés about The Free World vs. Communist Tyranny to be trotted out.
Blum, William: A Brief History of Superpowers
The Neck Irons of Empire
Published: 2012
From the Congress of Vienna of 1815 to the Congress of Berlin in 1878 to the “Allies” invasion of Russia in 1918 to the formation of what became the European Union in the 1950s, the great powers of Europe and the world have gotten together in grand meeting halls and on the field of battle to set the ground rules for imperialist exploitation of Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, to Christianize and ‘civilize’, to remake the maps, and to suppress revolutions and other threats to great-power hegemony.
Blum, William: Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991
Teaching Communists What Democracy is All About
Published: 1995
An account of American intervention in the Bulgarian and Albanian elections of 1990-1991
Blum, William: Cuba 1959 to 1980s
The Unforgivable Revolution
Published: 1995
An account of the CIA's continuing covert war against Cuba.
Blum, William: Eavesdropping on the Planet
The Inalienable Right to Snoop?
Published: 2013
Like a mammoth vacuum cleaner in the sky, the National Security Agency (NSA) sucks it all up: home phone, office phone, cellular phone, email, fax, telex … satellite transmissions, fiber-optic communications traffic, microwave links … voice, text, images … captured by satellites continuously orbiting the earth, then processed by high-powered computers … if it runs on electromagnetic energy, NSA is there, with high high tech. Twenty-four hours a day. Perhaps billions of messages sucked up each day. No one escapes. Not presidents, prime ministers, the UN Secretary-General, the pope, the Queen of England, embassies, transnational corporation CEOs, friend, foe, your Aunt Lena …
Blum, William: Ecuador 1960-1963
A Textbook of Dirty Tricks
Published: 1995
An account of the CIA-backed coups in Ecuador of 1960-1963.
Blum, William: From Portugal to Egypt: a Cautionary Tale
The Anti-Empire Report
Published: 2011
The events in Egypt cannot help but remind me of Portugal. Here, there, and everywhere, now and before, the United States of America, as always, is petrified of anything genuinely progressive or socialist, or even too democratic, for that carries the danger of allowing god-knows what kind of non-America-believer taking office.
Blum, William: Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
Published: 1995
An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
Blum, William: Haiti: An Example of Fake News by Omission
Published: 2018
The main problem with the mainstream media today, as in the past, is not 'fake news' but what is left out of articles dealing with controversial issues.
Blum, William: Hypocrisy Reigns
Don't Forsake the Struggle
Published: 2010
When Israel labels as "terrorists" the ship passengers who offered some resistance to the Israeli invaders, who points out that the passengers who resisted the 9-11 highjackers on the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania are called "heroes"?
Blum, William: Indonesia 1957-1958
War and Pornography
Published: 1995
An account of the CIA's failed 1958 attempt to overthrow president Sukarno of Indonesia
Blum, William: Iraq 1990-1991
Desert Holocaust
Published: 1995
An account of the American invasion of Iraq (Desert Shield) in 1990-91.
Blum, William: It Doesn't Matter to Them If It's Untrue. It's a Higher Truth.
The Anti-Empire Report
Published: 2011
The lies used to justify the US/NATO attack on Libya.
Blum, William: Killing Hope
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
Published: 2008
Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
Blum, William: Libya and the World We Live In
The Holy Triumvirate
Published: 2011
The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO and the European Union — recognizes no higher power and believes, literally, that it can do whatever it wants in the world, to whomever it wants, for as long as it wants, and call it whatever it wants, like “humanitarian”.
Blum, William: Osama Bin Laden, Bradley Manning and Me
Published: 2013
As far as can be deduced, the government believes that the documents and videos that Bradley Manning gave to Wikileaks, which Wikileaks then widely distributed to international media, aided the enemy because it put US foreign policy in a very bad light.
Blum, William: Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List
Published: 2013
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
Blum, William: Putting Syria Into Some Perspective
Published: 2012
The 19th- and 20th-century colonialist-imperialist mentality is alive and well in the West.
Blum, William: Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy
The NED, like the CIA before it, calls what it does supporting democracy. The governments and movements whom the NED targets call it destabilization.
Blum, William: The United States and Torture
We Tortured Some People and Probably Still Are....
Published: 2014
Two of the things that governments tend to cover-up or lie about the most are assassinations and torture, both of which are widely looked upon as exceedingly immoral and unlawful, even uncivilized. Since the end of the Second World War the United States has attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders and has led the world in torture; not only the torture performed directly by Americans upon foreigners, but providing torture equipment, torture manuals, lists of people to be tortured, and in-person guidance and encouragement by American instructors, particularly in Latin America.
Blum, William: Uruguay 1964-1970
Published: 1995
An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
Blum, William: The War on Terrorism ... or Whatever
Published: 2013
A brief survey of the War on Terrorism, a war that has become increasingly difficult to sell to the American public as one of pro-democracy "moderates" locked in a good-guy-versus-bad-guy struggle with an evil dictator, although in actuality the United States has fought on the same side as al Qaeda on repeated occasions before Syria.
Blum, William: What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want?
Published: 2003
Which is the more remarkable -- that the United States can openly announce to the world its determination to invade a sovereign nation and overthrow its government in the absence of any attack or threat of attack from the intended target? Or that for an entire year the world has been striving to figure out what the superpower's real intentions are?
Blum, William: Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
The Anti-Empire Report
Published: 2013
The double edged sword of declaring war and fighting "terrorism".
Blum, William: Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island
The Anti-Empire Report
Published: 2011
Blum, William: Would You Believe That the United States Tried to do Something That was Not Nice Against Hugo Chávez?
The Plan to Destabilize Venesuela
Published: 2013
Wikileaks releases documents on U.S. efforts to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Blum, Willian: Cold War, today, tomorrow, every day till the end of the world.
The Anti-Empire Report #145
Published: 2016
The first Cold War performed a lobotomy on Americans, replacing brain matter with anti-communist viral matter, producing more than 70 years of functional national stupidity. For all of you who missed this fun event there's good news: Cold War Two is here, as big and as stupid as ever. Russia and Vladimir Putin are repeatedly, and automatically, blamed for all manner of bad things.
Blum, Willian: From Wikileaks to TSA
Anti-Empire Report
Published: 2010
We have to remind the American people of what they once knew but seem to have forgotten: that they don't want BIG government, or SMALL government; they don't want MORE government, or LESS government; they want government ON THEIR SIDE.
Blum, Willian: U.S. Government Assassination Plots
An appendiex to Killing Hope, by William Blum
Published: 2011
A list of prominent foreign individuals whose assassination (or planning for same) the United States has been involved in since the end of the Second World War.
Blumberg, Andrew J.; Eckersley, Peter: On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever
Published: 2009
Over the next decade, systems which create and store digital records of people's movements through public space will be woven inextricably into the fabric of everyday life. We are already starting to see such systems now, and there will be many more in the near future.
Blumental, Max: Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
Published: 2013
About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as "infiltrators" by right-wing politicians and activists.
Blumenthal, Max: "Al Qaeda's MASH Unit": How the Syrian American Medical Society Is Selling Regime Change and Driving the US to War
Published: 2018
The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is not merely a group of Syrian doctors tending to the wounded in war torn areas, nor is it an objective and relaibale source on chemical attacks and other atrocities. This article explains that SAMS is actually a politically enaged organization that has for years been actively seeking to overthrow the Syrian government.
Blumenthal, Max: BBC correspondent-fixer shaping Ukraine war coverage is PR operative involved in 'war-messaging tool'
BBC reports on the suspicious destruction of a theatre in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol were co-authored by a Ukrainian PR agent tied to a firm at the forefront of her country's information warfare efforts.
Blumenthal, Max: British police detain journalist Kit Klarenberg, interrogate him about The Grayzone
Published: 2023
British 'counter-terror' police detained journalist Kit Klarenberg upon his arrival at London's Luton airport and subjected him to an extended interrogation about his political views and reporting for The Grayzone.
Blumenthal, Max: CIA helped shape ‘Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan' series into bigoted Venezuela regime change fantasy
Published: 2019
In a new video analysis of the show (embedded at the end of this article), researcher Tom Secker exposed the show as straightforward US imperial propaganda which was produced in direct collaboration with the CIA and Pentagon.
Blumenthal, Max: Germany criminalizes journalist for exposing Ukrainian war crimes
Published: 2022
Independent Donetsk-based journalist Alina Lipp of Germany details her prosecution by the German state for violating new speech codes through her reporting in the Donetsk People’s Republic. As the only German reporter on the ground in Donetsk, Lipp has exposed Ukrainian forces shelling civilians, attacking a maternity ward, mining harbors, and bombing a granary filled with corn for export. She faces three years in prison if she returns to her home country.
Blumenthal, Max: Gofundme freezes Grayzone fundraiser 'due to some external concerns'
Published: 2023
Another attack on left media.
Blumenthal, Max: Honored Nazi Exposes Canada's Longstanding Ukraine Policy
Published: 2023
By celebrating a Waffen-SS volunteer as a 'hero,' Canada's Liberal Party highlighted a longstanding policy that has seen Ottawa train fascist militants in Ukraine while welcoming in thousands of post-war Nazi SS veterans.
Blumenthal, Max: How NATO states sponsored ICC prosecutor's Putin arrest warrant
Published: 2023
ICC prosecutor general Karim Khan raised millions from NATO states by crafting an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin while freezing investigations into well-documented US and Israeli war crimes. Along the way, he won powerful friends in Washington, London, Kiev - and Hollywood.
Blumenthal, Max: How the White Helmets Became International Heroes While Pushing U.S. Military Intervention and Regime Change in Syria
Published: 2016
Created by Western governments and popularized by a top PR firm, the White Helmets are saving civilians while lobbying for airstrikes.
Blumenthal, Max: Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That's Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria
Published: 2016
Posing as a non-political solidarity organization, the Syria Campaign leverages local partners and media contacts to push the U.S. into toppling another Middle Eastern government.
Blumenthal, Max: "Killing Gaza" captures culture of resistance
Published: 2018
Watch Killing Gaza, absorb the atmosphere of siege and listen to the testimonies of the trapped. You might then understand why so many chose to rush the gates.
Blumenthal, Max: October 7 testimonies reveal Israel's military 'shelling' Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles
Published: 2023
Israel's military received orders to shell Israeli homes and even their own bases as they were overwhelmed by Hamas militants on October 7. How many Israeli citizens said to have been 'burned alive' were actually killed by friendly fire?
Blumenthal, Max: Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to "weaken Russia," leaked docs reveal
Published: 2021
New leaked documents show Reuters' and the BBC's involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect "attitudinal change" and “weaken the Russian state's influence," alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat.
Blumenthal, Max: US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as 'Watershed Event' for 'Galvanizing Public Unrest'
Published: 2019
A 2010 memo from Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) seems to be playing out as planned in 2019.
Blumenthal, Max: A window to hell in Gaza
Published: 2015
Spending the day of 17 August in Khuzaa was like peering through a window to hell. But what we witnessed in the landscape of apocalyptic oblivion paled in comparison to the experience described to me by two Palestine Red Crescent volunteers who had attempted to break through the Israeli military cordon during the siege of the town.
Blumenthal, Max, Krishnaswamy: "One less traitor": Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition
Published: 2022
While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals' arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country.
Blumenthal, Max; Cohen, Dan: The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader
Published: 2019
A detailed account of US-backed groups that positioned Juan Guaidó to declare himself president of Venezuela.
Blumenthal, Max; Krishnaswamy, Esha: Zelensky's Hardline Internal Purge
Published: 2022
Ukraine's 'pro-democracy' president has outlawed his opposition, ordered rivals arrested and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents.
Blunden, Bill: The FBI Can Bypass Encryption
Why Cyber Security is a Magic Act
Published: 2014
Blunden, Bill: Mass Surveillance is Driven by the Private Sector
The Lesson of Hacking Team's Malware
Published: 2015
A report published by Privacy International as well as an article posted by Vice Motherboard clearly show that both the DEA and the United States Army have long-standing relationships with Hacking Team, an Italian company that’s notorious for selling malware to any number of unsavory characters.
Blunden, Bill: The NSA's Corporate Collaborators
Willing Accomplices
Published: 2014
Emails published by Al Jazeera America, in addition to showing hi-tech executives and senior intelligence officials interacting on a casual first-name basis, reference a government program referred to as the Enduring Security Framework (ESF).
Blunden, Bill: Stuxnet on the Loose
Security for the One Percent
Published: 2012
Suspicions that the Stuxnet computer worm was indeed developed by the United States and Israel has once again exposed American exceptionalism. Espionage and sabotage are presented as intolerable criminal transgressions, normally causing our elected officials and military leaders to erupt in fits of righteous indignation. That is, unless the United States is doing the spying and the sabotaging.
Blunden, Bill: Volkswagen and the Quandary of Hidden Code
Published: 2015
After Volkswagen's emissions-rigging scandal, Blunden states that this company is not the only one engaging in the practice of secretly modifying technology. Rather, systematic hidden codes are embedded in society and promoted by both companies and governments.
Blunden, Bill: When Deep States Collide
Turkey's Hesitancy Exposes Its Agenda
Published: 2014
It's no secret that members of the so-called coalition against ISIS have been less than enthusiastic about substantive military action as the bulk of the airstrikes so far have been executed by the United States.
Blunden, Bill: The Zero-Sum Game of Perpetual War
Why the Deep State Always Wins
Published: 2014
Readers with a morbid sense of curiosity can visit a web site called NukeMap that allows visitors to witness the devastation caused by nuclear weapons of varying yields on a city of their choosing.
Blunden, William A: Darknet Sweep Casts Doubt on Tor
Published: 2014
When news broke of Silk Road 2.0’s seizure by law enforcement a lot of people probably wrote it off as an isolated incident. Silk Road 2.0 was the successor to the original Silk Road web site and like its predecessor it was an underground bazaar for narcotics, fueled by more than $8 million in Bitcoin transactions and operated as a hidden service on the Tor anonymity network.
Blunden, William A.: The Media's Emphasis on Russian Hacking is a Diversion
Published: 2016
It's highly likely that the flurry of reports on alleged Russian hacking has more to do with a rejection of the status quo than with the act of clandestine meddling.
Blythman, Joanna: Farmers in Palestine create amazing produce in adverse conditions - and are fighting to export them
Published: 2009
Palestine produces some of the finest olive oils in the world, not to mention dates, nuts, tomatoes - even wine. Now, despite the conflict, farmers are finding ways to export their produce - and show the world that their country is still the land of milk and honey.
BoardmAN, William: CIA Chief Declares War on Truth
Published: 2017
Mike Pompeo made it clear that he has little regard for truth, for personal decency, or for the Constitutional protections for free speech or for the free exercise of religion. It was an altogether chilling debut for a spy agency head in a country that still imagines itself enjoying some basic freedoms.
Boardman, William: Police Unions Sustain Police Violence Epidemic
Since when did we decide that police officers should be above the law?
Published: 2015
Two of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police violence across America (more than 900 killed by police so far in 2015).
Boarini, Silvia: Unrecognized in the Negev
The Plight of Israel's Bedouin Citizens
Published: 2014
At the break of dawn on 27th July 2010, the unrecognized village of Al Araqib was surrounded by 1,500 police officers clad in riot gear. Helicopters circled overhead as bulldozers razed homes and animal pens to the ground. It took 4 hours to demolish a village that was home to around 300 people, hundreds of sheep, dozens of goose, hens, pigeons and horses.
Bodine, Alison: The U.S.' Refusal of Entry to Arnold August Is a Dangerous Precedent for All Activists
Published: 2019
The US's refusal of entry to August is part of a long history of targeting people at the borders. This limits our democratic rights to organize and express political views peacefully.
Bodkin, Henry: Power naps and eating on the wing - how common swifts set 10-month flight record en route from Britain to southern Africa
Published: 2016
The common swift stays constantly airborne for up to ten months at a time, new research reveals. The bird, ubiquitous in the UK and Europe, conserves energy by riding currents of hot air and taking “power naps” as it slowly glides from high altitudes.
Boehlert, Eric: Right-Wing Media Send Their Mobs of Crazy Fans to Go After Private Citizens -- Including Kids
Published: 2009
The right-wing is igniting the crazies by pushing them to snoop on everyday people.
Boehm, Eric: This School District Threatened To Take Kids Away From Parents Over Lunch Debt. Then It Refused a Businessman's Offer to Pay Those Debts
Published: 2019
A Pennsylvania school district sent letters to parents who owed lunch money informing them that they could lose custody of their children due to their lunch money debt.
Boffey, Daniel: Tory right-to-buy plan threatens mass selloff of council homes
Published: 2015
Speculators circle as London councils could be forced to sell every new house they build, warns housing expert.
Bogado, Aura: The Disappeared
Published: 2020
On the fifth floor of the tall glass federal building in Portland, Oregon, the immigration court hums in hushed tones, an air of reverence coming from a dozen or so fidgety children and teenagers. They sit in two long pews that line the back of the room, facing the elevated bench of the immigration judge.
Bogado, David; Rodriguez, Katitza: The Peruvian "Stalker Law" Will Be Reviewed By Congress, We Can Still Stop It
Published: 2015
Bogado and Rodriguez discuss the new decree in Peru known as "Ley Acosadora", or "the Stalker Law", allows warrantless access to Peruvians' location data and creates a new power for the government to track the movements of vulnerable mobile and Internet users.
Boggs, Carl: The Grand Illusion
Published: 2019
As the ecological crisis deepens, nearing the infamous Tipping Point – taking us closer to planetary catastrophe – we are being led to believe that an imminent "greening" of the world economy will deliver us from a very dark future. Somehow, against all logic, we have adopted a collective faith in the willingness of ruling governments and corporations to do the right thing.
Boggs, Carl: Russia and the War Party
Published: 2018
A critical look at the book "Russian Roulette", by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, which examines alleged Russian interference in the 2017 U.S. election.
Boggs, Carl: The Strange (and Tortured) Legacy of 'Free Speech'
Published: 2017
Despite a well-cultivated radical image, Antifa rarely focuses on the growing ultra-nationalism, militarism, and imperialism that lies at the very core of American politics – tendencies in fact more dangerous than the rhetoric of Yiannopoulos, Coulter, and Shapiro. Beneath its ultra-leftism is a modus operandi riddled with the worst of identity politics. And since its violent tactics are not aligned with any popular movement, its opposition to fascism (such as it is) turns hollow, empty. The irony is that while the FSM and its heirs did everything possible to expand the realm of free speech, new social forces – extreme identity groups, Antifa – want to restrict or deny freedoms.
Boggs, Carl: The War That Never Ends
Published: 2019
North Korean denuclearization is unlikely without concessions (such as sanctions relief) from the US side. How likely is the Trump administration to make such a deal?
Boghosian, Heidi; Fernandez, Johanna: Mumia on COINTELPRO Activists and Other Ordinary Heroes
The Linear Ancestors of Edward Snowden
Published: 2014
Mumia Abu-Jamal was one of hundreds of journalists who received in the mail a packet of covertly-copied COINTELPRO documents. They were sent by eight activists who broke into FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania in 1971—and whose identities just became known last week. The papers detailed names and activities of individuals he knew well for years, living and working closely together in communal spaces, who were FBI informants.
Bohannon, John: Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website
Published: 2016
Researchers are increasingly turning to Sci-Hub, the world's largest largest 'pirate' website for scholarly literature. Sci-Hub is becoming the world's de facto open-access research library.
Bohne, Luciana: America's Recruitment of Nazis -- Then and Now
Any bastard, so long as he's anti-communist
Published: 2014
The most prominent feature of the Nazi political philosophy was extreme anticommunism and particularly fanatic hatred of the USSR. That hatred set the world ablaze, and, yet, after the war, the Nazi administrators, chief intelligence officers, generals, police chiefs, and intellectuals of that regime of hatred and war were recruited to continue their work in the bosom of our secret National Security State, advising, influencing, and promoting our foreign policy in the Cold War. Did that policy change with the fall of the Berlin Wall? No, it intensified -- still absolutist, still aggressive, still dedicated to political warfare. Russia is still in our crosshairs.
Bohne, Luciana: The Cowards' Wars
Published: 2016
The condemnation of Radovan Karadzic to forty years of imprisonment by the International Crime Tribunal-Yugoslavia occasions these reflections.
Bohr, Niels: Niels Bohr Quotes
Bois, Marcel: Hitler Wasn't Inevitable
Published: 2015
The 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials is cause to reflect on the forces that failed to halt Nazism’s rise.
Boisvert, Nick: When a hurricane swept through Toronto, this firefighter made the heartbreaking first rescue attempt
Hurricane Hazel caused 81 deaths and more than $1B in damages in 2017 dollars
Published: 2017
On the wet and windy evening of Oct. 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel was bearing down on the city. The fire department was to take no unnecessary risks in the storm, which had already claimed more than 400 lives in Haiti and close to 100 in the United States. As it spiralled towards Canada, Hazel merged with a cold front, intensifying the system.
Boklage, Evgeniya: Journalistic Autonomy in Denmark. A Study
Published: 2014
A new study that looks at the subject of autonomy in the Danish media found that journalists in Denmark feel they have nearly complete freedom to make important choices concerning their work and the content they produce.
Boland, Barbara: The Chilling Censorship of the Christchurch Shooting
Rather than expunging information about the killer, we should be confronting evil head on.
Published: 2019
Attempts to censor details of the Christchurch shooting may have the opposite of the intended effect by enabling denial and conspiracy theories.
Bolender, Keith: Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba
Published: 2019
Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban revolution. Using extensive examples, including pre-revolutionary historic coverage, journalist Keith Bolender reveals how the national press has established an anti-Cuba chronicle in adherence to Washington's unrelenting regime change policies.
Bollier, David: Why The Language of the Commons Matters
Published: 2012
Our very language for identifying problems and imagining solutions has been compromised. We may have many unattractive human traits fueled by individual fears and ego, but we are also creatures entirely capable of self-organization, cooperation, a concern for fairness and social justice, and sacrifice for the larger good and future generations.
Bollinger, Michelle: Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison?
Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner
Published: 2009
Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
Bond, Monica: Why Logging Forests After Wildfires is Ecologically Destructive
Published: 2015
Bond exposes three prevailing falsehoods about logging that the U.S. Forest Service disseminates.
Bond, Patrick: Africa: New evidence of ongoing corporate looting
Published: 2018
A World Bank report indicates a massive depletion of Africa's natural wealth by transnational corporations (TNC). There are two ways to address TNC capture of African wealth: bottom-up through direct action that blocks extraction, or top-down through significant reform.
Bond, Patrick: Beckoning Committed Climate Activists
Extreme Weather and Even More Extreme Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Published: 2013
It is evident the climate crisis is far more severe than most scientists had anticipated.
Bond, Patrick: The Mandela Years in Power
Did He Jump or Was He Pushed?
Published: 2013
South Africa's democratization was profoundly compromised by an intra-elite economic deal that, for most people, worsened poverty, unemployment, inequality and ecological degradation, while also exacerbating many racial, gender and geographical differences.
BondGraham, Darwin: Israeli Company Targeted by Oakland Blockade Imports Ammunition Into US
Published: 2014
Israeli-owned shipping company Zim, the target of recent port blockades organized by Palestinian solidarity activists in California, is importing millions of rounds of small arms ammunition into the United States each year.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
Boni, Stephen: Making Money Off of Green Debt: Cory Morningstar Finds Corporate Wolves Behind Environmental Sheep
Published: 2019
Building through the privatization-friendly Reagan-Bush era of the 1980s, ramping up significantly with Bill Clinton's signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the 1990s, and solidified through the de facto repeal of the post-Great Depression separation between investment and commercial banks at the end of Clinton’s scandal-plagued final term in office at the turn of the millenium, the United States went through a very noticeable shift in how its economy functioned.
Bonilla, Isadora; Giordano, Al: In Mexico, Finally, a Revolt Against the Media
Published: 2012
The summer will determine if the “I Am 132” moment becomes a movement and that’s why “Mexican Spring” is a poor choice of words for it.
Bonilla, Mayte G.: The work of authentic journalists is the most important thing for social movements
How Mercedes Osuna became a rebel with a cause
Published: 2013
Not an activist, social organizer nor a defender: Mercedes Osuna would rather define her work as human labor, something that she has dedicated an entire life to. She was born in a place were true words are heard with the heart and she lived out her convictions at a young age.
Bonneau, Joseph: A Technical Perspective on the Apple iPhone Case
Published: 2016
The legal dispute between Apple and the FBI might prove pivotal in the long-running battle to protect users' privacy and right to use uncompromised encryption. The case has captured the public imagination. Of course, EFF supports Apple's efforts to protect its users. The case is complicated technically, and there is a lot of misinformation and speculation. This post will offer a technical overview, based on information gleaned from the FBI's court motion and Apple's security documentation.
Bonnefoy, Pascale: A Chilean Ex-Soldier Guiltily Recalls His Unit's Atrocities
Published: 2016
Guillermo Padilla was part of a commando unit that spent months combing towns and remote outposts in southern Chile in late 1973, searching for suspected opponents of the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and for weapons. The unit raided homes, arrested and tortured suspects, and killed at least 30 people, he said. He admitted to participating in several executions as part of a firing squad.
Bonner, Allan: Keeping Current
Published: 2006
With a blog, a piece in the Globe or an appearance on a cable show that only two percent of the population watches, you can get a bounce or multiplier effect. Mainstream networks and cable news shows are reading blogs on the air to viewers, thus giving them legs.
Bonner, Allan: Meeting the Media Face-to-Face
Published: 2004
What to do when a reporter calls or when meeting the media face to face.
Bonner, Allan: Top Ten Positive Gestures
Published: 2008
Bonner, Allan: Top Ten Questions to Ask When a Reporter Calls You
Published: 2006
When you're respoding to a reporter's call, take time to think and ask yourself these questions.
Bonner, Allan: Top Ten Strategies for Appearing on a TV Talk Show
Published: 2006
Prepare yourself to appear on a TV talk show.
Bonner, Allan: Top Ten Things to do Before a Radio Talk Show
Published: 2006
Be prepared when you go on a talk show.
Bonner, Dr. Allan: Top Ten Misconceptions About the Media
Published: 2006
Bonner, Dr. Allan: Top Ten Rules of Crisis Management
Published: 2006
Bonner, Dr. Allan: Top Ten Rules of Risk Communication
Published: 2006
Bonner, Dr. Allan: Top Ten Strategies for an Appearance in Front of an Editorial Board
Published: 2006
Bonner, Dr. Allan: Top Ten Things to do Before a Presentation or Speech
Published: 2006
Bonner, Dr. Allan: Top Ten Ways to Calm Down During Tense Negotiations or Mediations
Published: 2006
Bonogofsky, Alexis: I Was Sick for a Year After an Oil Spill. Five Years Later, Pipeline Accidents Are Worsening
Published: 2016
Early in the morning on July 2, 2011, I walked down the gravel road on our Montana farm to let the goats out to graze for the day. I found an oily rainbow sheen on the Yellowstone River flowing through our hay fields and pasture, plus large clumps of crude oil sticking to trees, cattails and brush. The oily water was in our sloughs, our pond and the creek that runs along the eastern edge of the farm. I checked the local news on my phone and found that an Exxon oil pipeline had ruptured underneath the Yellowstone River upstream. More than 300 people upstream from us were evacuated, but no one had thought to notify those of us further from the spill. The smell of hydrocarbons was overwhelming. In the end, more than 63,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the Yellowstone River from what we later learned was a "guillotine cut" in Exxon's Silvertip pipeline, which lay in a trench only four to five feet under the Yellowstone River.
Bonomo, Robert: What If the Children Dying in Gaza Were Jews?
They Made Them Do It....
Published: 2014
Let’s do a thought experiment and imagine that the Arabs had gotten the better of the Israelis in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and after years of conflict, all that was left of Israel was the Gaza strip. Assume for a moment that instead of Palestinians, over 1.8 million Jews were crammed into the 11 mile Gaza strip and the state of Palestine, subsidized and supported by a superpower, was administering the calories to the Jews in Gaza, keeping them to a limit of 2,300 a day.
Boone, Barri: California Burning, PG&E Bankrupt
Published: 2019
A synopsis of PG&E's history of negligence and corruption which has caused wildfire disasters. The company tries to escape consequences but others are demanding change.
Boone, Barri: Left Out History - review
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
A review of 'Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power' by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy.
Boone, Barri: Joyce Maupin, 1914-1998
Published: 1999
JOYCE MAUPIN, A long-time revolutionary activist and writer and a founder of Union WAGE (Women's Alliance to Gain Equality), died last September 14. Joyce loved to recount the story about “women in line to pee” leading to the formation of Union WAGE, the organization they spent a decade building. Her friend, Jean Maddox (ex-Communist Party) attended a March, 1971 conference on Women's Day at UCB (Berkeley) called by NOW. Standing in line for the bathroom, Jean chatted with Anne...
Boone, Barri: PG&E Bankruptcy
Published: 2019
A short news item about Pacific Gas & Electric's bankruptcy case.
Boone, Jon: The Saints Go Marching Out as the Face of Islam Hardens in Pakistan
Published: 2014
The Sufi-influenced tradition of Barelvism, with its shrines, music and meditation, is reeling under an ideological assault from severe, Saudi-funded Wahhabism, religious leaders warn.
booooooom staff: Good News of the Day: Army of 1,000 Ducks Used as Brilliant Pesticide Alternative
Published: 2016
South Africa's Vergenoegd vineyard in Stellenbosch keeps a flock of over 800 Indian Runner ducks to help combat tiny white dune snails that would otherwise destroy the budding vines. The ducks' upright and slender posture allow them to navigate the rows of plants, clearing up to a hectare a day.
Booth, Katie: Wellness Cures
Can hospitals learn to better treat Deaf patients?
Published: 2018
The Deaf regularly move through the medical system without agency or dignity -- not because they cannot hear but because they are not given the opportunity to communicate. The onus for change is put on the Deaf themselves, often in terms of changing their own bodies to accommodate the hearing majority. What if, instead, the Deaf were consulted about what changes they would like, or how they would like for them to happen? What if they were invited to take part in shaping the next generation of doctors?
Boots, Joey: Arrested For Being Legally Topless in NYC
Published: 2012
In New York City it is completely legal for women to be topless. Meet Moira Johnston - she walks around the Union Square area topless to exercise her legal right to be equal.
Borger, Julian: GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance
Published: 2013
Edward Snowden papers unmask close technical cooperation and loose alliance between British, German, French, Spanish and Swedish spy agencies.
Borger, Julian: NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files
Published: 2013
A threat of legal action by the government that could have stopped reporting on the files leaked by Edward Snowden led to a symbolic act at the Guardian's offices in London.
Borger, Julian: War is Over - Now Serbs and Bosniaks Fight to Win Control of a Brutal History
Published: 2014
Serb nationalists are striving to suppress reminders of atrocities committed in the name of separatism, mostly against the country's Muslims (known as Bosniaks) and to construct an alternative history in which Serbs were the principal victims. Many Bosniaks and outside observers fear that this refusal to come to terms with the past means there are few guarantees that such acts will not be repeated.
Borgstrom, Daniel: Remembering a Vietnam Veteran
The Death of Sgt. Van Dale Todd
Published: 2013
Borgstrom, Daniel: Report from the Pvt. Manning Contingent at SF Pride, June 2015
Published: 2015
Sunday, June 28th started out cloudy, as one might expect in San Francisco, but the sun eventually came out, making it a good day for the Gay Pride event -- and a good day to honor Whistleblower Chelsea Manning. There was to be a parade, and one of the units would be the Pvt. Manning Contingent.
Borrell, Rachel: Land Day 2017: Israel's relentless land grab continues
Published: 2017
As Israel resumes its settlement expansion with impunity, Palestinians have plenty to protest at this year's Land Day.
Bose, Purnima: Inside the Corporate University
Published: 2013
Recent corporate transformation of the university, the profit-driven research orientation and the direction of instruction to the requirements of the private sector discourages faculty from finding common cause with other constituencies. The article looks into problems of neoliberal university and how to help create a genuine university community.
Bossin, Bob: Only one bear in a hundred bites, but they don't come in order
Published: 2017
Bob Bossin talked about oil tanks in a Youtube video
Bottari, Mary: GOP Creates Perverse Online Voter Registration, Making It Harder for People to Vote
Published: 2015
The bill will ultimately reduce voting by senior citizens, people with disabilities and minorities.
Bouguerra, Mohamed Larbi: Toxic spills threaten marine ecosystem
Published: 2023
The X-Press Pearl sank off Sri Lanka two years ago, releasing a toxic cocktail of chemicals and plastics into the sea, the biggest disaster. Only tough regulations can prevent a repeat.
Bouk, Dan: Insurance and the orgin of big data
Between the ledger and the computer was the card index - the basis of the mass commodification of personal insurance
Published: 2015
A historical look at the origins of 'Big Data' and the collection of personal information by corporate America in the early 20th century.
Boura, Malcolm: Big business censorship
Published: 2011
Big business is almost entirely unaccountable. Some of the worst offenders are US corporations exporting harmful attitudes from the USA to the rest of the world. We suspect that some of them are driven by religious prejudices largely alien to Europe.
Bovard, James: Bill Clinton's Most Abominable Freedom Fighters Uncloaked
Return to Kosovo
Published: 2014
Unfortunately, Bill Clinton will never be held liable for killing innocent Serbs or for helping body-snatchers take over a nation the size of Connecticut. Clinton is reportedly being paid up to $500,000 for each speech he gives nowadays. Perhaps some of the well-heeled attendees could flourish artificial arms and legs in the air to showcase Clinton’s actual legacy.
Bovard, James: The FBI's Forgotten Criminal History
Published: 2017
The FBI has a long record of both deceit and incompetence. Five years ago, Americans learned that the FBI was teaching its agents that "the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedom of others." This has practically been the Bureau's motif since its creation in 1908.
Bovard, James: How Drug Courier Profiles Begot Terrorism Watch Lists
The Drug War and the Fourth Amendment
Published: 2013
More than a million names are now included on the catch-all terrorist watch list maintained by U.S. government agencies.
Bovard, James: Obama food aid ravages Third World farmers
Despite uplifting rhetoric, Obama is perpetuating a program that sabotages foreigners' self-sufficiency
Published: 2014
The US taxpayers who finance foreign food aid surely believe they are feeding starving people. But the truth is the reverse - it is undermining indigenous agriculture in recipient countries - creating famine and chronic malnutrition, while sabotaging self-sufficiency.
Bovard, James: Obamas Sordid Record on Censorship and Secrecy
Blindfolding the Republic
Published: 2015
Obama’s failure to attend the Charlie Hebdo march in Paris and the condemnations of this press freedom omission.
Bovard, James: Washington's Biggest Fairy Tale: 'Truth Will Out'
Published: 2019
The idea that the truth will eventually be exposed may be comforting to people that think we live in a transparent democracy. But this investigative journalist discusses how hard it is to get information from the government.
Bovard, James: Where's the Body Count from Shootings by the Police?
Protecting Killer Cops
Published: 2013
It estimated that in the United States in 2011 police shot more than 1,100 people, killing 607. However, the government refuses to keep track of the killings, so the exact number is unknown, and may well be higher.
Bovard, Jim: The Most Massive Attack Against Free Speech in United States History
Published: 2023
Sometime since January 2021, Biden administration policymakers decided that they were infallible -- or a 'close enough for government work' level of infallible. They claimed a divine right to suppress the online posts and comments of conservatives and anyone else who had a bad attitude towards federal power.
Bow, James: The Parliament Streetcar (Deceased)
Published: 2015
A history of the Parliament streetcar route in Toronto, including the eventual closure of the route.
Bowcott, Owen: Hundreds of Scottish Orphanage Children Allegedly Buried in Mass Grave
High infant mortality rate and allegations of abuse raise suspicions of Smyllum Park in Lanark, once run by Catholic nuns
Published: 2017
The Scottish child abuse inquiry is to investigate claims that the bodies of at least 400 children from an orphanage once run by Catholic nuns are buried in an unmarked mass grave.The Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark operated from 1864 to 1981.
Bower, Bruce: One of the oldest known cave paintings has been found in Indonesia
Published: 2021
Pig art on the island of Sulawesi dates to at least 45,500 years ago.
Bowerman, Glyn: The Countdown Clock Law is Ridiculous, and so is the Police Pedestrian Blitz
The pedestrian countdown clock law shows what's wrong with Toronto's approach to road issues.
Published: 2016
The Highway Traffic Act is a foolish law, and this crackdown is antithetical to council’s stated goals. Rather than wasting police resources on enforcing it, we should be appealing to the province to scrap it altogether, as they did in New York City.
Bowes, Clay: Zelensky's terror team: Why the West looks the other way when Ukraine's secret murder squad kills journalists and activists
Published: 2023
Threats and tactics that would be instantly labeled unacceptable against any other country get a pass when applied to Russians.
Boxely, Simon: The meaning of the school testing obsession
Published: 2016
This article focuses on the new frontiers for the calculation of human productivity in its earliest forms, in early years education in Britain; but the general points are applicable across continents and educational age-phases. It will be argued that the English baseline test is just one example of the policing of capital's interests in our classrooms, but a particularly pernicious one for the way it reaches deep into the experience of the youngest children.
Boyd-Barrett, Oliver: The Crisis in Ukraine is a Planetary Crisis Provoked by the U.S. that Threatens Nuclear War
Published: 2022
Boyer, Pascal: Why is Religion Natural?
Published: 2003
Is religious belief a mere leap into irrationality as many skeptics assume? Psychology suggests that there may be more to belief than the suspension of reason.
Boyle, Kevin et al.: Unveiled
Art and Censorship in Iran
Published: 2006
This report seeks to illustrate the manner in which artistic censorship in Iran is both shaped and shapes; to demonstrate where the focus of the conflict lies between the Islamic Republic of Iran and individual expression.
Bradbeer, Janice: Sci-fi author Judith Merril and the very real story of Toronto's Spaced Out Library
A prolific author and pioneer Merril's donation of 5,000 items started the Toronto Public Library's massive speculative fiction collection.
Published: 2018
The story of Judith Merril's work promoting and developing Science-fiction writing in Canada, and the founding of the Rochdale Library, which later became the Spaced Out Library.
Bradburn, Jamie: A Village Grows on Markham Street
Published: 2010
Braga, Matthew: If you're going to blame a cyberattack on North Korea, you'd better show your work
Published: 2018
Transit operator Metrolinx says it was hit by North Korean hackers. Experts want evidence
Bragg, Melvyn: Readings from the Peasants' Revolt
Published: 2002
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at six critical moments across the last 1,000 years.
Bragman, Bob: Turn on tune in - hippie photos unseen for decades
Published: 2016
A recent visit to the Chronicle's basement archives to look for hippie-related photos paid off with some wonderful images that have not been seen in several decades. Many of them were taken in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Bramhall, Stuart Jeanne: Farming Without Machines: A Revolutionary Agricultural Technology
Published: 2012
Originally published in 1974, How to Grow More Vegetables, Eighth Edition: (And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land than You Can Imagine1 remains a vital resource for farmers, agricultural researchers and planners, sustainability activists and home gardeners.
Bramhall, Stuart Jeanne: Private Banks: Creating Money Out of Thin Air
Published: 2016
In his book The Joy of Tax: How a Fair Tax System Can Create a Better Society, Richard Murphy, UK Tax Justice Network co-founder, offers a radically pioneering approach to tax and fiscal policy. Murphy is one of the first economists to link tax policy to the 400- year-old reality that nearly all money is created by private banks out of thin air.
Branfman, Fred: When Chomsky Wept
Published: 2012
A portrait of Noam Chomsky.
Branigan, Tania: Champion of Chinese Farmers' Rights Jailed for Forging Official Documents
Published: 2014
Villagers pack the court to applaud woman given two years in prison for trying to prevent land grabs and illegal demolition.
Branigan, Tania: Chinese shrine seeks stock-market path to financial nirvana
Zhejiang's Mount Putuo is latest sacred site to contemplate listing, prompting alarm over commercialisation of Chinese culture
Published: 2012
Mount Putuo in Zhejiang is the latest of several religious sites whose administrators have announced plans for a multimillion-pound stock-market flotation.
Brasch, Walter: Arsenic-Laced Coffee is Good for You
Would You Like Sugar With That?
Published: 2014
The Environmental Protection Agency, in 2013, identified about 1,000 chemicals that the oil and gas industry uses in fracking operations, most of them carcinogens at the strengths they shove into the earth.
Brasch, Walter: Citizen-Journalist Fined for Telling the Truth
Published: 2015
The story of an injunction against against a journalist who dared to tell the truth.
Brasch, Walter: A Nation of Millennial Entitlements
Published: 2015
A student twice sued Misericordia College because she failed a nursing class. Why do significant numbers of people believe they are entitled to get the credentials they want even if they don't have the qualifications required?
Bratich, Jack Z.: The Twitterest Pill
Policing Dissent in the Information Age
Published: 2009
Who judges the legitimate and illegitimate uses of communications technology in social movements? Which networked alliances have State-sponsorship, and which ones face criminalization and State-crackdown? Social media are relying on open network access, but this openness too easily sugarcoats itself in democratic notions (participation, interactivity, freedom). At the same historic moment, we are also witnessing an expansion, integration, and refinement of sovereign police power. When the two converge we begin to see an increase in repressive intervention into, and pre-emption of, information use.
BRAUCHLI , Christopher: And the Secret Word Is
The Deep Meaning of "Relevant"
Published: 2013
Senators Mark Udall and Tom Wyden's secret about the operations of the N.S.A. was an interpretation of one word "relevant" in the Patriot Act by the FISA Court.
Brauchli, Christopher: Criminalizing First-Graders
Arrested and Handcuffed for Tantrums
Published: 2010
All across the nation, schools have adopted draconian zero-tolerance policies that treat children like criminals and turn schools into prison-like environments.
Brauchli, Christopher: Intolerance, Saudi-Style
With Friends Like These...
Published: 2015
What all of those victims of the Saudi criminal justice system have in common is that their offenses related strictly to intellectual activities and not physical violence.
Brauchli, Christopher: Invitation to a Hanging
Pity the Executioner
Published: 2013
A recently filed lawsuit suggests Texas execution officials were forced to engage in illegal activities in order to obtain a death dealing drug.
Brauchli, Christopher: Privatizing the IRS
Published: 2018
The headline in the New York Times on January 10, 2018, a few short days before Congress decided it was easier to shut down the government than to legislate, announced that the I.R.S. "paid $20 million to collect $6.7 million in Tax Debts." At first blush the reader assumed this was a story that had somehow crept into the newspaper by mistake and escaped the attention of the articles editor. The reader who thought that could be forgiven for being surprised at seeing the story. That is because that story had appeared in the New York Times and other publications on two earlier occasions.
Braun, Constantin; Klatt, Jöran: Karriere mit links
Warum die Krise der Linkspartei auch eine Krise des Parteiensystems ist
Published: 2023
Breaon, Robin: Black Theatre Canada
A Short History
Published: 2004
Published in Canadian Theatre Review# (Spring 2004)
Brecher, Gary: How many dead Yemenis does it take to equal one Washington Post contributor?
Published: 2020
The War Nerd dissects reporting on Saudi Arabia to show how the corporate media cares more about a dead Washington Post columnist than a quarter of a million Yemenis killed in a Western-backed war.
Brecher, Jeremy: Dakota Access Pipeline and the Future of American Labor
Published: 2016
As United States Energy Transfers Partners began building the Dakota Access Pipeline through territory sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, the tribe began an escalating campaign against the pipeline.
Brecher, Jeremy: How to Promote a Just Transition and Break out of the jobs vs. environment trap
A Superfund for Workers
Published: 2015
A strategy has been emerging to protect workers and communities whose livelihoods may be threatened by climate protection policies. Protecting those who lose their jobs due to necessary environmental policies has often been referred to as a "just transition."
Brecher, Jeremy: Jobs for Climate and Justice: A Worker Alternative to the Trump Agenda
A working paper from the Labor Network for Sustainability
Published: 2017
Jobs for Climate and Justice exposes and challenges the Trump agenda and proposes the kind of economic program we must fight for. It also offers examples of the great organizing efforts around the country – led by working people – that provide the foundation for the a transition to a just and climate-safe economy.
Brecher, Jeremy: Making the Promises Real: Labor and the Paris Climate Agreement
Published: 2016
As nearly 200 nations gathered in Paris approved the UN Climate Change Agreement, the AFL-CIO issued a statement that broke new ground on climate. While the AFL-CIO opposed the Kyoto climate agreement and never supported the failed Copenhagen agreement, it applauded the Paris climate change agreement as "a landmark achievement in international cooperation" and called on America "to make the promises real."
Brecher, Jeremy: A New Wave of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself as Law-Enforcers
Published: 2016
Grassroots movement organizations from every continent will hold a global week of action called Break Free From Fossil Fuels in May 2016. They envision tens of thousands of people mobilizing worldwide to demand a rapid transition to renewable energy. Events will include nonviolent direct actions targeting extraction sites or infrastructure; pressure on political targets to shift policies around fossil fuel development; and support for clean energy alternatives.
Brecher, Jeremy: This is What Insurgency Looks Like
Published: 2016
The call to Break Free from Fossil Fuels envisioned "tens of thousands of people around the world rising up" to take back control of their own destiny; "sitting down" to "block the business of government and industry that threaten our future"; conducting "peaceful defense of our right to clean energy." That's just what happened.
Breeze, Nick: Climate litigation looms
Interview
Published: 2018
Nick Breeze interviews Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), who explains why we must stay below 1.5C, and why loss and damage compensation, and litigation, are the next big agenda items at COP24.
Brenner, Johanna: Feminism's March from Nation to Home - interview
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
Johanna Brenner interviews Ninotchka Rosca.
Brenner, Michael: Crime or Punishment Why Wall Street Elites Don't Do Time
Published: 2016
Illicit financial behavior has been decriminalized in the United States -- for all practical purposes. Despite the revelations of massive misconduct by banks and other financial services businesses, criminal investigations are rare, indictments exceptional and guilty judgments extraordinary. Most potentially culpable actions are overlooked by authorities, slighted, reduced from criminal to civil status when pursued, individuals evade penalties much less punishment, and the appeals courts take extreme liberties in exonerating culprits when and if the odd conviction reaches them. The last mentioned are establishing new frontiers in the formulation of ingeniously sophistic arguments to justify letting financial malefactors off the hook.
Brenner, Michael: Plutocracy in America
Runaway Exploitation
Published: 2013
Arguments for categorizing America as a plutocracy (a government of the rich and for the rich).
Brenner, Michael: War, Conflict & Enemies of Truth
Published: 2022
The frenzy engendered by the Ukraine conflict reinforces a herd mentality that cries out for critical thinking.
Brenner, Robert: The Looming Crisis of World Capitalism
Published: 1998
MARXIST ECONOMISTS ARE famous for having accurately predicted seven out of the last one international economic crisis. Perhaps for that reason, many in recent times have been unusually cautious about once again "crying wolf," even as the evidence of international economic dislocation has mounted around them. Today, however, prediction is no longer necessary. The international economy, outside of the United States and Europe—perhaps 50% of the world—is already experiencing...
Breville, Benoit: Mobile homes can't move on
Trailers are the cheapest available homes in the US, but thire owner - tenants are always at risk
Published: 2015
The challenges and vulnerabilities facing mobile home owners and tenants is examined.
Brewer, Helen: Here's how we stopped a brutal, inhumane and barely legal charter flight
Published: 2018
Helen Brewer describes how she, and 14 other activists, broke into Stansted Airport on the 28th of March 2017, and blocked a mass deportation charter flight due to send 60 people to Nigeria and Ghana -- a forced removal which threatened to place migrants in extreme danger.
Brewer, Joe; Lakoff, George: Why Voters Aren't Motivated by a Laundry List of Positions on Issues
An introduction to cognitive policy – the values, frames, and arguments that make sense of the political process.
Bricker, Kristin: Chiapas Anti-Mining Organizer Murdered
Mariano Abarca Led a Growing Movement to Kick Canadian Mining Companies Out of Mexican Communities
Published: 2009
Mariano Abarca Roblero, one of Mexico's most prominent anti-mining organizers, was shot to death on the evening of November 27, 2009, in front of his house in Chicomuselo, Chiapas. The incident comes just days after Abarca filed charges against two Blackfire employees, Ciro Roblero Perez and Luis Antonio Flores Villatoro, for threatening to shoot him if he didn't stop organizing against Canadian mining company Blackfire's barium mine in Chicomuselo.
Brickhill, Daisy: 'Women are the strongest pillar'
Meet the female fishmongers in Liberia fighting for healthy fisheries.
Published: 2020
On the landing beaches of Liberia fishing canoes crowd the shallows, the bright colour schemes and fluttering flags showing the pride the fishermen take in their work. But although the men haul the nets this is an industry underpinned by women.
Bricmont, Jean: Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left
Why Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End
Published: 2012
Ever since the 1990s, and especially since the Kosovo war in 1999, anyone who opposes armed interventions by Western powers and NATO has to confront what may be called an anti-anti-war left (including its far left segment).
Bricmont, Jean: Trump and the Liberal Intelligentsia: a View from Europe
Published: 2016
A new specter haunts the American elites: the candidacy of Donald Trump in the US President election and his success so far in the Republican primaries. The Republican establishment itself hopes to block his rise, even as he is drawing huge crowds into the party. As for the Democrats, they are hoping that his repugnant image will make the election of Hillary Clinton that much easier.
Bricmont, Jean: The Trump Phenomenon, as Seen From Europe
Published: 2016
Trump is berated as the latest incarnation of Evil (after Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, the Brexiters): racist, sexist, Islamophobe, a friend of dictators, etc., in short the embodiment of all that arouses the righteous indignation of the human rights defenders. I would like to suggest a different way of seeing Trump. He is above all a capitalist, almost a caricature of the sort of man capitalism produces, encourages and celebrates. He makes money and is proud of it. For him, the bottom line is cost-benefit. Everything comes down to that ratio. Defend the Baltic States? What does it cost, what do we gain? Defend Japan? What does it cost, what do we gain?
Bridge, Robert: Aleppo boy versus ‘Mosul girl’: How the Western MSM peddles war propaganda
Published: 2017
While much of the developed world knows of 'Aleppo boy' Omran Daqneesh, how many have heard of an equally tragic story involving a five-year-old girl named Hawraa, the sole survivor of a US-coordinated airstrike on her home in Mosul?
Bridge, Robert: Assange revolutionized journalism, and the elite will never forgive him
Published: 2019
Julian Assange's treatment by governments and mainstream media shows how he is a threat to the former and shames the latter.
Bridge, Robert: Democracy denied: A sinister force controls the US presidential debates
Published: 2023
A commission run by the Republicans and the Democrats gatekeeps third-party and independent runners from the public eye.
Bridge, Robert: How to steal a billion-dollar American election with a pocketful of rubles
Published: 2017
On the absurdity of the narrative that claims that nameless Russians stole the multi-billion-dollar American election with pocket change.
Bridge, Robert: Is Russiagate dead? Paul Manafort & Kiev caught up in FBI dragnet, Kremlin not mentioned
Published: 2017
Bridge, Robert: Welcome to 1984: Big Brother Google now watching your every political move
Published: 2017
Google has taken the unprecedented step of burying material, mostly from websites on the political right, that it has deemed to be inappropriate. The problem, however, is that the world's largest search engine is a left-leaning company with an ax to grind.
Briemberg, Mordecai: A Journey from Satire to Legal Suite to Defense of Democratic Rights
Published: 2008
An account of CanWest's lawsuit arising out of a parody satirizing the Vancouver Sun's biased reporting on Israel and Palestine.
Briggs, Laura: Digital Disconnect and its adverse impact on how (or whether) we engage with nature
Published: 2016
As the Digital Schoolhouse programme starts a national roll out to schools across the UK, scientists warn that digital disconnect can mean caring less - for each other and the environment.
Briski, Zana; Kauffman, Ross: Born into Brothels
Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Published: 2004
The chronicling of two documentary filmmakers and their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
Britell, Jim: "Zone Defense:" a New Way To Stop ATV’s in Wilderness Areas
Published: 2019
In 2002, a new method of organizing was used by 20 organizations in a rural area of southwest Oregon to successfully confront an ATV threat in an area where no national, regional or local group had enough members to do much by itself. The nature of the campaign required numbers of people to turn out on short notice to meetings in sparsely populated areas for which little advance notice could be expected.
Brittain, Victoria: The Jordan Valley: stolen land, stolen childhood
Published: 2014
The Jordan Valley in the Palestinian West Bank is under active annexation to Israel - in breach of the 4th Geneva Convention. Victoria Brittain went there to explore what this means for the people of the Valley.
Britton-Purdy, Jedediah: The Only Treatment for Coronavirus Is Solidarity
Published: 2020
We live in an interwoven, interconnected world where an injury to one is truly an injury to all. We must confront the coronavirus with solidarity and fight for a society where the health of all is more important than profits for a few.
Brockes, Emma: Susan Sarandon: 'I thought Hillary was very dangerous. If she'd won, we'd be at war'
Published: 2017
An article about actress Susan Sarandon who discusses politics, sexism in Hollywood, female empowerment and her career.
Brodkin, Jon: Huawei fires back, points to US' history of spying on phone networks
Huawei denies having secret access to phone networks, calls it "impossible."
Published: 2020
Chinese vendor Huawei has provided a longer response to US allegations of spying, claiming that it doesn't have the spying capability alleged by the US and pointing out that the US itself has a long history of spying on phone networks.
Brody, Richard: Why Does It Matter If Heidegger Was Anti-Semitic?
Published: 2014
The publication of the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s “Schwarzen Hefte” (“Black Notebooks”), written between 1931 and the early nineteen-seventies, is likely to cause an uproar.
Brodzinsky, Sibylla: Colombian farmers risk death to reclaim lost land
Published: 2013
The government wants to correct decades of 'land reform in reverse'. But powerful criminal, armed and business interests are ranged against the country's displaced peasants.
Bromwich, David: What Are We Allowed to Say?
Published: 2016
Free speech is an aberration -- it is best to begin by admitting that. In most societies throughout history and in all societies some of the time, censorship has been the means by which a ruling group or a visible majority cleanses the channels of communication to ensure that certain conventional practices will go on operating undisturbed. It is not only traditional cultures that see the point of taboos on speech and expressive action. Even in societies where faith in progress is part of a common creed, censorship is often taken to be a necessary means to effect improvements that will convey a better life to all. Meanwhile, since the fall of Soviet communism, liberal bureaucrats in the North Atlantic democracies have kept busy constructing speech codes and guidelines on civility to soften the impact of unpleasant ideas.
Bromwich, David; Greenwell, Garth; Abdurraqib, H.; Clancy, Kelly; Lalami, L.; Denzel Smith, M.: The Minds of Others
The art of persuasion in the age of Trump
Published: 2018
In a divided America, seven writers explore the ways that persuasion operates in our lives- from the intimate to the far-reaching, and ultimately how we can pursuade others to see things the way we do.
Bronskill, Jim: Library and Archives Canada service cuts hindering research, historians complain
Published: 2021
Researchers say recent service cuts at Canada's national archives are making their work - already hampered by COVID-19 - even more challenging.
Brooke, Bryan: Case study: a closer look at community partnerships
Published: 2012
Brooke, Heather: How the US government secretly reads your email
Published: 2011
Secret orders forcing Google and Sonic to release a WikiLeaks volunteer's email reveal the scale of US government snooping.
Brooks, Bonny: Buy Banned Books
Published: 2018
The article takes a look at 'banned books' in the social media era, where the 'imagination police' dominate and a form of 'fictional aparteid' is taking place, and moreover why we have a duty to buy them.
Brooks, Chris: After Barr Ordered FBI to "Identify Criminal Organizers," Activists Were Intimidated at Home and at Work
Published: 2020
Four people in Cookeville, Tennessee were questioned about antifa after posting about Black Lives Matter rallies on social media.
Brooks, Jeff: Yoda fundraising for Luke Skywalker donors
Published: 2012
Here's a wonderful TEDx talk by Nancy Duarte. It's about giving presentations, but you'll see how it applies to fundraising too. Early on, she makes a point that's so very important for presenters: You are not Luke Skywalker. You are Yoda.That is, you aren't the hero in the room. The people you're talking to are the heroes. You're the little wise-man who equips the hero to be a hero.
Brown, Alleen: A Coalition of Scientists Keeps Watch on the U.S. Government's Climate Data
Published: 2017
Via memos leaked to the press, rogue tweets, and unnamed agency sources, the public learned of growing pressure on federal employees to avoid sharing their scientific work. Meanwhile, small but significant changes to federal web pages hinted at the demise of former president Barack Obama’s efforts to manage climate change.
Brown, Alleen: How a Christian Nonprofit Helped a Controversial Minnesota Mining Company Buy Gear for Local Police
Published: 2019
A Christian non-profit called Shield616 that donates gear to police forces has received donations from mining companies. This sparks concerns of a conflict of interest among residents that are protesting these mines.
Brown, Alleen: Huge Pipeline Company Kinder Morgan Hired Off-Duty Cops to 'Deter Protests' in Pennsylvania
Published: 2015
Kinder Morgan, the self-proclaimed "largest energy infrastructure company in North America," paid $50,000 for off-duty police officers from a Pennsylvania department to patrol a controversial gas pipeline construction site. The hiring came after a request from the corporation for uniformed officers that could "deter protests and prevent delays."
Brown, Alleen; Parrish, Will; Speri, Alice: Dakota Access-Style Policing Moves to Pennsylvania's Mariner East 2 Pipeline
Published: 2017
Examination of the troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Brown, Alleen; Parrish, Will; Speri, Alice: Oil and Water
Published: 2017
A collection of articles charting how leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Brown, Barrett: This London Firm Helps the Wealthy Hide Assets - or Steal Them. Luckily We Have 15 Years of Their Client Communications
Published: 2019
A London firm that helps the rich hide or steal money has had 15 years' worth of communications leaked. These are being made available to hopefully help return stolen money.
Brown, Ellen: Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
Published: 2015
If you’re an ordinary saver with your money in the bank, you may soon be paying the bank to hold your funds rather than the reverse.
Brown, Ellen: If China Can Fund Infrastructure With Its Own Credit, So Can We
Published: 2017
What the US could learn from China about funding infrastructure initiatives.
Brown, Ellen: Monsanto, the TPP and Global Food Dominance
Putting Profits Before Populations
Published: 2013
Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, control over not just our food but our health, our environment and our financial system will be in the hands of transnational corporations.
Brown, Ellen: Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match In China
Published: 2019
Unless China starts playing by neoliberal rules Trump's economic war with them will lead the US to a race to the bottom or isolation from international markets.
Brown, Ellen: Richmond and Eminent Domaine
The Stone That Brings Down Goliath?
Published: 2014
In a nearly $13 billion settlement with the US Justice Department in November 2013, JPMorganChase admitted that it, along with every other large US bank, had engaged in mortgage fraud as a routine business practice, sowing the seeds of the mortgage meltdown.
Brown, Ellen: The War on Savings: the Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless
Published: 2016
The bombshell publication of the "Panama Papers," leaked from a Panama law firm specializing in shell companies, has triggered both outrage and skepticism. In an April 3, 2016 article titled "Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak," UK blogger Craig Murray writes that the whistleblower no doubt had good intentions; but he made the mistake of leaking his 11.5 million documents to the corporate-controlled Western media, which released only those few documents incriminating opponents of Western financial interests.
Brown, Ellen: Why Do Banks Really Want Our Deposits?
Hint: It's Not to Finance Loans
Published: 2014
Many authorities have said it: banks do not lend their deposits. They create the money they lend on their books.
Brown, Ellen: Why Qaddafi had to go: African gold, oil and the challenge to monetary imperialism
Published: 2016
What was NATO's violent intervention in Libya really all about? Now we know, writes Ellen Brown, thanks to Hillary Clinton's recently published emails. It was to prevent the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc, shaking off the last heavy chains of colonial exploitation.
Brown, J Pat; Maass, Dave: How California police are tracking your biometric data in the field
Agencies are using mobile fingerprint scanners, tattoo and facial recognition software
Published: 2015
EFF and MuckRock got together to reveal how state and local law enforcement agencies are using mobile biometric technology in the field by filing public records requests around the country. Thousands of pages of documents were obtained from more than 30 agencies.
Brown, Jeff J.: Flu Deaths: US 6,600 — China 25
Published: 2020
Western countries just let their people die. It's called "free markets" and the cold-blooded "cost of doing business".
Brown, Jeff J.: Huawei Sting Operation Exposed
Published: 2020
December 1, 2020 is the second anniversary of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s arrest — or kidnapping, depending on your point of view — in Vancouver, Canada. If you work for the U.S.’s Departments of Justice, Treasury and State, with the CIA/NSA cheering from the galleries, it is just a simple extradition request to "carry out the law." If, however, you are company executive Frédéric Pierucci, Meng was kidnapped by the U.S., just as he was in 2013, whereupon he was imprisoned for two years on similar — he would say trumped-up — charges. His seizure was used to extort France’s flagship Alstom Corporation to pay $772 million in fines (ransom according to Pierucci) and sell off its most valuable portfolios to General Electric (GE), its U.S. competitor — all to gain his release.
Brown, Jeffrey: Internet history is fragile. This archive is making sure it doesn't disappear
Published: 2017
A report on the Internet Archive (archive.org) including an interview with its founder, Brewster Kahle.
Brown, Jenny: Enough With the Just In Time Schedules, Say Retail Workers
Published: 2012
Employers increasingly use part-time scheduling to decrease costs and crush attempts at worker organizing. Scheduling software now cuts shifts into chunks as small as 15-minutes. Last-minute schedule changes result when the software predicts customer traffic based on the weather forecast or recent sales patterns. Most retail workers now don't know their schedules a week ahead of time, and often have shifts added or cancelled at the last minute. Erratic scheduling can also make it impossible for parttime workers to hold two jobs, because they never know when they will be available.
Brown, Jesse: The Sad Story of Canadian Geographic
Former employees say the nature magazine became a paid mouthpiece for oil companies and others.
Published: 2015
Staff at Canadian Geographic magazine report that it publishes articles financed and vetted by companies without disclosing it as sponsored content.
Brown, Lorne; Taylor, Doug: The Birth of Medicare
From Saskatchewan's breakthrough to Canada-wide coverage
Published: 2012
An account of the history of medicare in Canada, from its birth in Saskatchewan to its adoption nation-wide.
Brown, Mark: Google a great painting
Project allows users to get a close-up view of works from 17 museums
Published: 2011
Google's Art Project allows viewers to browse works from 17 museums including the Metropolitcan Museum, MoMA, The National Gallery, Tate Britain and others in super-high resolution.
Brown, Mark: Neighbors joining together to block Trump deportations
Published: 2017
In neighborhoods across Chicago with large immigrant populations, people are banding together to form rapid response networks to support their neighbors in the event of expected deportation raids by President Donald Trump's administration. In the 35th Ward on the city's Northwest Side, Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa has started what he calls the Community Defense Committee.
Brown, Valerie and Grossman, Elizabeth: Why the United States Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market
Published: 2015
Scientists are trained to express themselves rationally. They avoid personal attacks when they disagree. But some scientific arguments become so polarized that tempers fray.
Browne, Harry: 'Factivism' and Other Fairytales from Bono
The 'Inner Nerd' Gets It Wrong, Again
Published: 2013
A rebuttal to U2 singer Bono's claims regarding the 'imminent eradication of extreme poverty'.
Browne, Norman G.: Expressway would destroy 71 homes in Riverdale
Published: 1974
Proposed expressway would result in pollution, noise, destruction of homes and businesses.
Browne, Norman G.; Weitz, Grace: Who Killed Grace Bates...?
Published: 1976
Grace Bates, a long-time resident of Cabbagetown, was 63 years of age when she died in the early morning of July 19 [1976] at Nellie’s Hostel on Broadview. She had been taken to Nellie’s Hostel the previous night by a Hostel volunteer after an anonymous phone call stated that she had spent the three previous days and nights alone in wheel chair in Allan Gardens. As a result of the media publicity on her death, an inquest was held.
Brubaker, Rogers: The Uproar Over 'Transracialism'
Published: 2017
Discusses 'transracialism' in relation to gender identity and self identification.
Bruder, Jessica; Maharidge, Dale: Snowden's Box
The human network behind the biggest leak of all
Published: 2017
Edward Snowden's disclosure of NSA secrets to the press as reported by the two journalists who literally had Snowden material mailed to them in a cardboard box. The article describes their experiences with encryption, codewords, government surveillance and extreme paranoia. The journalists also reveal that they were not the only people to have received Snowden's files.
Bruenig, Elizabeth: Laura Ingraham's advertisers aren't really staging a boycott. It's a capital strike
Published: 2018
There are no regulations or laws preventing or even restricting capital strikes in the form of corporate activism, therefore social and political aspirations of capital always have an effective instrument on hand; yet the same cannot be said for labour.
Bruenig, Matt: Don't Believe the Hype: Paying for Medicare for All Is Simple
Published: 2019
Debunking recent arguments that Medicare for All will require reducing spending in other areas.
Brulliard, Karin: After the Arab spring, the struggle continues on a university campus
A dispute between a secular academic and conservative Islamists threatens the peace at a Tunisian university
Published: 2012
A university administrator takes a stand against religious extremism.
Brumback, Gary: Corporate America Unmasked
Published: 2017
While US public views seem generally favourable about American corporations, an extensive study by psychologist Dr. Gary Brumback concludes that leadership, particularly in large corporations, is found to be morally depraved and their organizations often dysfunctional.
Brunger, Karen: Public Speaking: Overcoming The Fear
Published: 2010
Tips for overcoming anxiety.
Brunhuber, Kim: This e-waste evangelist got into a battle involving Microsoft - and is going to prison for it
Published: 2018
Recycling entrepreneur pleaded guilty, sentenced for copyright infringement dealing with computer discs.
Brunner, Benny (director): The Great Book Robbery
Published: 2012
As Palestinians were expelled from their land in 1948, librarians from Israel’s National Library followed the militias as they forced their way into Palestinian homes. Their mission was to collect as many valuable books, manuscripts, photographs and artworks as possible – an estimated 70,000 books were seized.
Brunner, Keith: The Rise of Vermont's Fracked Gas Battle: Communities Organize Against Pipeline Plans
Published: 2014
Nate and Jane Palmer's farm sits in a clay plain basin adjacent to one of the many wetlands in Monkton, a rural Vermont community known for, among other things, its annual salamander migrations and amphibian road crossings.
Brunton, Finn: A Short History of Spam
Coming to an Inbox Near You
Published: 2014
Objects can talk in cartoons and fairy tales: toys tell their stories. Now our domestic appliances have begun to speak, and they would like to sell us pills and porn, and for us to give them our bank details.
Bryan, Kim: Wonderful Wonderful Carbon Haven!
Published: 2009
With the activists gearing up outside and developing countries in no mood for compromise - climate justice is definitely on the agenda this time round.
Bryant, Chris: How the aristocracy preserved their power
Published: 2017
After democracy finally shunted aside hereditary lords, they found new means to protect their extravagant riches. For all the modern tales of noble poverty and leaking ancestral homes, their private wealth and influence remain phenomenal.
Bryant, Lee: Ocean 'dead zones' are spreading - and that spells disaster for fish
Published: 2015
Oxygen levels in our oceans are falling, producing growing 'dead zones' where only the hardiest organisms can survive. The causes are simple: pollution with nutrient-rich wastes, and global warming. But the only solution is to stop it happening - or wait for 1,000 years.
Bryant, Nick: Ordeal of Australia's child migrants
Published: 2009
The story of the British child migrants sent to Australia has been described as a history of lies, deceit, cruelty and official disinterest and neglect.
Brygo, Julien: Filipino Maids for Export
'Always be Punctual and Don't Count the Work You are Doing'
Published: 2011
Twelve percent of the Philippines’ GDP comes as remittances from nationals abroad. Many of those are maids, sent all over the world into domestic service to support their children back home. The Philippines government is even training them in servitude.
Bréville,Benoît; Bulard,Martine: The injustice industry
Published: 2014
There is a major legal business in corporate lawsuits against governments, seeking either a change in proposed legislation to suit corporate demands, or compensation. Under TTIP, European governments could face the same claims.
Brümmer, Stefaans: I'm still waiting for my first car chase
Published: 2013
Stefaans Brümmer is the co-founder and managing partner of the M&G Centre for Investigative Journalism in South Africa. The M&G Centre, which is nicknamed amaBhungane, isiZulu for "the dung beetles,” is a nonprofit that produces public interest investigative reporting. In this interview, Brümmer discusses his groundbreaking corruption probe that culminated in the arrest of a national police commissioner, and the challenges he confronted in investigating a powerful law enforcement official.
Bucaro, Leanne: Creating your Key Messages - Part One
Published: 2010
Key messages are phrases of different lengths that provide a description of your company in very succinct understandable terms.
Bucaro, Leanne: Creating your Key Messages - Part Two
Published: 2010
Nobody knows your business better than you - so you, as the business owner or CEO, are in the best position to develop or lead the project to develop the key messages for your company.
Bucaro, Leanne: How To Get Personality Into Your Growing Business
Published: 2010
Most people associate the word personality with individuals. But businesses can have personalities too, and the image and feeling of a more distinctive business are likely to remain with customers.
Bucaro, Leanne: Managing your Brand in an Insecure World
Published: 2010
Brand value is determined in part by your brand and related company activities such as public relations, customer service experiences, as well as successes and failures in the market.
Bucaro, Leanne: Pitching the Media
Published: 2010
When pitching a story idea to a reporter, remember that they don't really care. Your job is to make them care. A well thought-out, concise pitch will ensure you don't strike out.
Bucaro, Leanne: So why PR?
Published: 2010
Public Relations (PR) includes on-going activities to ensure that a company has a strong public image. PR activities include helping the public to understand the company and its products.
Bucaro, Leanne: Starting your PR Plan
Published: 2010
It doesn't matter if you are "Joe's Bike Shop" or a multi-national conglomerate - almost every business has a story to tell. It is never too early to start a PR Plan.
Bucaro, Leanne: Using Social Media To Build Your Brand
Published: 2010
Social media is the fastest growing medium to market your product and communicate with your audience. And when it comes to branding your product it just might be the simplest and cheapest way to create awareness to potential clients.
Bucaro, Leanne: Using Trade Shows As A PR Opportunity
Published: 2010
Trade shows are a wonderful opportunity to enhance your brand. Every chance you get to be in front of your target audience and/or the media is a great opportunity.
Bucheit, Paul: Three Big Lies of the Super-Rich
Why Being in the Highest Class Doesn't Mean You're a High Class Person
Published: 2012
The conservative spin of the media is designed to protect the rich from challenge.
Buchheit, Paul: Five Reasons the Super-Rich Need Big Government
The Real Welfare Kings and Queens
Published: 2012
Taxes represent payment for society’s many benefits, which get bigger and better as people get richer.
Buczynski, Beth: Do Vegetarians Kill More Animals Than Meat Eaters?
Published: 2013
A recent article published by an Australian scientist, however, contends that those who choose to eat all-plant diets are actually responsible for the death of more animals than those who eat them.
Bufe, Chaz: Poles 'n holes: Working in the porn biz
Published: 1986
Pornography worker Chaz Bufe on work, sexuality and censorship in America.
Bulard, Martine: China's villages revive
A few migrants have begun to return from China's cities to its neglected countryside, and have been joined by artists and advocates of
Published: 2015
A look at a movement towards rural reconstruction in China, which has gained fresh impetus from an economic slowdown as well as poorer urban living conditions and pollution.
Bullough,Oliver: Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe
Published: 2015
While the conflict with Russia heats up in the east, life for most Ukrainians is marred by corruption so endemic that even hospitals appear to be infected.
Buncombe, Andrew: Israeli intervention in US elections overwhelms anything Russia has done, claims Chomsky
The 89-year-old said the media was largely ignoring vital issues such as climate change
Published: 2019
Chomsky on the brazen interference of Israel in US politics to which supposed Russian meddling in the US election pales in comparison.
Bunsha, Dionne: Modi in Canada
What Canadians Should Know About Harper's New Guest
Published: 2015
When Stephen Harper hosts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit to Canada this week, they will be greeted with both adoring fans and with protests. Modi, an extremist Hindu nationalist, has a strong support base within a section of the Indian community. But his past comes back to haunt him. A human rights organization called Sikhs for Justice has appealed to the Canadian government to prosecute Modi for the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat.
Bunting, Madeleine: Heeding nature to understand ourselves
A new genre of writing is putting centre stage the interconnectedness between human beings and the wilderness
Published: 2007
A new literary tendency in the nature writing genre is to point out the interconnectedness between humans and their environment. Rather than study nature as a thing apart from man, these books challenge their readers to engage with the other species in their immediate surroundings.
Burch, Mark: Voluntary Simplicity And The Steady-State Economy
Published: 2014
Voluntary simplicity is most basically characterized by the practices of mindfulness and material sufficiency. Through bringing mindfulness to our daily lives, we seek the maximum of well-being achievable through the minimum of material consumption. Well-being applies to all life forms on Earth, not just people.
Burgess, Anika: Vintage Photos of Traveling Libraries
Published: 2017
Photo essay.
Burgess, Anika: The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books
Published: 2017
They were known as the "book women." They would saddle up, usually at dawn, to pick their way along snowy hillsides and through muddy creeks with a simple goal: to deliver reading material to Kentucky's isolated mountain communities.
Burke, Jason; Sahariah, Sutirtha: India's acid attack victims unite against the horror of their past
Published: 2015
Last year, 349 people in India, mostly women, had acid thrown on them in deliberate assaults. A groundbreaking cafe allows some of them a new start. Sheroes (run by an NGO in the city of Agra, home of the Taj Mahal) is a rare beacon of hope where the aim is to help change perceptions of the survivors of acid attacks and to allow them to regain some confidence.
Burr, William: SAC Nuclear Planning for 1959
U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time
Published: 2015
The SAC [Strategic Air Command] Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959, produced in June 1956, published December 22, 2015. According to the Plan, H-Bombs were to be used against priority "Air Power" targets in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe
Major cities in Soviet Bloc, including East Berlin, were high priorities in "Systematic Destruction" for atomic bombings. Plans to target people (“Population”) violated international legal norms.
Burrowes, Robert J: Why Are All Those Racists So Terrified?
Published: 2017
Past efforts, whatever personnel, resources and strategies have been devoted to them, have done nothing to address the underlying cause of racism and so their impact must be superficial and temporary. As the record demonstrates.
Burrowes, Robert J.: A Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat the US Coup Attempt in Venezuela
To the People of Venezuela
Published: 2019
An open letter to the people of Venezuela regarding the US coup and with support for how they can resist.
Burrowes, Robert J.: Starving and Bombed Children of Yemen Seek Entrapment in Flooded Thai Cave
Published: 2018
While the world was gripped by media coverage of trapped Thai boys in a flooded cave, hundreds of thousands of children were killed and suffering in other parts of the world -- yet received little or no attention. This article examines what this tells us about ourselves and geopolitics.
Burrowes, Robert J.: Violence Against Women: Why The UN Secretary-General Got It Wrong
Published: 2017
Burrowes argues that efforts to resolve violence aganist women are futile unless the focus shifts to preventing emotional and physical violence against children, with particular emphasis on boys.
Burtch, Andrew Paul: Give Me Shelter
The Failure of Canada's Cold War Civil Defence
Published: 2012
Burtenshaw, Ronan: The Media Against Jeremy Corbyn
The British media has launched an unprecedented campaign of disinformation against Jeremy Corbyn
Published: 2016
The British media has never had much time for Jeremy Corbyn. Within a week of his election as Labour Party leader in September, it was engaging in a campaign the Media Reform Coalition characterized as an attempt to "systematically undermine" his position. In an avalanche of negative coverage 60 percent of all articles which appeared in the mainstream press about Corbyn were negative with only 13 percent positive. The newsroom, ostensibly the objective arm of the media, had an even worse record: 62 percent negative with only 9 percent positive.
Buruma, Ian: A Polite Coup
Why one of Asia's most open societies keeps turning to military rule
Published: 2015
As military coups go, Thailand's putsch on May 22, 2014, was rather polite -- no mass imprisonments, no stadiums full of students tortured and shot. The toppled prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, was detained for only three days. Before the coup, there had been months of street clashes between loyalist "red shirts" and opposition "yellow shirts," and now General Prayuth Chan-ocha's junta promised to "restore happiness to the people."
Bush, David: Debating Syria Productively
Published: 2016
A collection of remarks on how the debate, within the left, over the Syrian conflict has been lacking and could be made more productive.
Bustelo, Joaquin: Immigration Reform: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
The introduction of “immigration reform” legislation is a tribute first and foremost to the heroic activism of proud “Undocumented and Afraid” youth coming forward to demand their rights and refusing to live in the shadows.
Butler, Patrick: Privatise Child Protection Services, Department for Education Proposes
Published: 2014
Experts sound alarm over UK proposal to outsource children's services to private firms.
Butler, Shiuan: Should women have the right to go topless in public?
An Interview With NYC's Topless Activist
Published: 2012
Moira Johnston wants to "expand the vocabulary and definition" of breasts: "They can be non-sexual in any culture."
Butler, Simon: Climate politics must be as radical as the climate crisis
Published: 2013
If the climate action movement allows its goals to be shaped by what is permissible in a capitalist economy then it has already failed. To respond to the climate emergency, our politics must be as radical as our reality. Revolutionary changes needed for humankind to survive and thrive.
Butler, Simon: Corporations profiting out of food crisis
Published: 2012
The small group of food multinationals that monopolise the world food market are positioning themselves to take full advantage of the crisis: the latest food price hikes threaten to drive more people back into hunger.
Butler, Simon: Marxism as if the planet mattered
A Return to Marx's Ecological Critique
Published: 2013
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels held that capitalism inevitably tears apart the natural conditions that sustain life. They argued capitalism's exploitation of working people, and the unsustainable exploitation of nature, were linked and part of the same process.
Buttar, Shahid: The hubris of investigators
Published: 2016
A now-vacated hearing over whether to require Apple to undermine the security of its users prompted an ongoing controversy over government access to encrypted devices. While the court in San Bernardino may never rule on the flood of arguments supporting Apple's defense of user security, observers-- especially members of Congress-- should pay close attention to a few themes that have emerged in the public debate.
Button, Gregory: The Flint Water Crisis is Not Without Parallel in Michigan History
Published: 2016
In the days, weeks, and months following a disaster people feel uncertain about real and perceived risks. The parties directly involved a disaster as well as other organizations such as public agencies, governmental bodies, corporations, the media, and environmental groups release a cacophony of information and disputations that the affected population and the general public see as conflicting and confusing. In the process victims and the general public struggle to gain credible sources of information in an attempt to make sense of an event and unpack the truth in order to assign, meaning, blame, and responsibility as well as develop coping strategies and effective remedies. This informational uncertainty can also result in the lack of an effective response between responding governmental agencies on all levels as witnessed in the ongoing crisis in Flint, Michigan.
Buxbaum, Jessica: Censoring Palestine: Swarms of Israeli Bots Are Crippling Pro-Palestinian Twitter Account
Published: 2022
The Israeli government's targeting of Palestinian digital content is well-documented. According to 7amleh, The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, the Israeli Ministry of Justice Cyber Unit sends content-removal requests aimed at Palestinian content to social media companies such as Facebook, Google, and YouTube. The Justice Ministry has boasted these corporations comply with 95% of their requests. And Israeli governmental organizations and NGOs also encourage their citizens to flag Palestinian content for removal.
Buxbaum, Jessica: Israel's Latest Hasbara Scheme Enlists High School Students as Trolls Against Palestine
Published: 2023
In April, Israel's Foreign Affairs Ministry launched a program training high school students to boost the country’s image online. However, as global awareness grows of Israel’s human rights violations, the government is turning teenagers into its own personal troll army to combat the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s efforts on social media.
Buxton, Nick; Brennan, Brid; Tognoni, Andrea; Aguiar, Diana: Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim and El Salvador's struggle against corporate impunity
Published: 2014
The controversial legal case that Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim has launched against El Salvador has added fuel to the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and responsibilities and the need for new legal international frameworks to address corporate impunity.
Buyniski, Helen: Amazon Alexa wants to save you from uncomfortable Christmas dinner talk. Be careful what you wish for.
Published: 2019
Amazon has introduced a feature for Alexa to introduce conversation topics at Christmas family dinners. Given the history of privacy breaches people should wary.
Buyniski, Helen: Class war in the making? Coronavirus quarantines pit well-off hermits against serfs who supply them
Published: 2020
Coronavirus has exposed stark divides in US society as the wealthy hole up in their homes and the poor are reduced to delivering their supplies in often-unsafe conditions. With mass layoffs underway, is class war imminent?
Buyniski, Helen: Technology was supposed to make us more capable. Instead it has made us scarily dependent
Published: 2019
Technology has promised to make things easier and elevate the species. But much technology emerging today has only increased our dependence on technology by rendering obsolete many of the skills we once relied upon.
Byars, David Garrett: We The Power - The Future of Energy is Community Owned
Published: 2021
A journey into the citizen-led community-energy movement in Europe. An exploration of divesting power from large energy companies and placing that power of electricity in the hands of local communities. How can local activists create more financially empowering, environmentally beneficial, and healthier communities?
Byler, Eric; Park, Annabel: 9500 Liberty
Published: 2009
Prince William County, Virginia becomes ground zero in America's explosive battle over immigration policy when elected officials adopt a law requiring police officers to question people they have "probable cause" to suspect are undocumented immigrants.
Byron, Lord: Lord Byron Quotes
Bébout, Rick: On the Origins of The Body Politic
The Genealogy, Conception, Birth, Coming Out, Baby Steps (& Babies of Canada's most vital voice of gay liberation 1971 - 1987.
Bøhn, Thomas; Cuhra, Marek: How "Extreme Levels" of Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm
Roundup Contamination of GMO Soybeans
Published: 2014
Surprisingly, almost no data exist in the scientific literature on herbicide residues in herbicide tolerant genetically modified (GM) plants, even after nearly 20 years on the market. The authors' research, however, demonstrates that roundup Ready GM-soy accumulates herbicide ingredient residues and also differs markedly in nutritional composition compared to soybeans from other agricultural practices, while organic soybean samples show a more healthy nutritional profile than both industrial conventional and GM soybeans.

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Cabanes, Jason; Corpus Ong, Jonathan: Disinformation: In the Philippines, political trolling is an industry - this is how it works
Published: 2018
In the Philippines, influential personalities and online 'trolls' are credited with winning Rodrigo Duterte the presidency in 2016. This article examines the chief architects of disinformation who continue to vociferously share 'fake news' and silence dissenters.
Cabra, Mar: Getting the most out of Offshore Leaks data
Published: 2014
Baltimore became the world’s capital of data journalism in March 2014 as the National Institute of Computer Assisted Reporting (NICAR) convened its annual conference. A team from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) gave several presentations at the conference. In one of them, we explained how we analyzed the leaked 2.5 million files that resulted in the Offshore Leaks investigation. In this post, we describe how journalists and other researchers can best use this data to yield maximum results for investigations.
Caccioppoli, Mike: Kill a Black Kid and Get Rich
An American Disgrace
Published: 2014
This is America folks. Where you can kill a black kid and justified or not (NOT!) you will then become a millionaire through interviews and book deals and film rights. This is your capitalist system at work. No laws that make this illegal. A cop can actually kill someone on purpose if he wants, because cops get away with almost anything, with the knowledge that they can then quit their awful jobs and become rich.
Caccone, Sarah: This Artist Took 4,000 Portraits to Show the Range of Human Skin Color - and the Results Exceeded the Pantone Library
Published: 2018
"Using this scale, I am sure that nobody is 'black,' and absolutely nobody is 'white,'" says artist Angélica Dass.
Cadwalladr, Carole: Inside Avaaz - can online activism really change the world?
Published: 2013
With 30 million members, Avaaz is an organisation with ambitions to save us all through technology.
Cain, Patrick: Keystone Cops Sex Registry
Published: 1998
Washroom sex might show up on Ontario's new offender list, but real pedophiles will probably go free.
Cain, Susan; Mason, Mark: Rebel Without a Clue: Autonomy and Authority in the American Public School
Published: 2018
The high school dropout is a revolutionary without having recovered the sense of dignity of failure, in a system of authoritarian control. Blaming the dropout is to blame the victim of institutional abuse of power exercised within youth indoctrination centers carrying the misnomer, school. Is it possible that the problem is mainly systemic and not due to the personal faults of the dropout? Is it possible that the education system itself contributes to young people dropping out of high school? Is it possible that capitalism is the root cause?
CAJ: Concern regarding the brutality of Montréal police against journalists
Published: 2015
CJFE and the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) are deeply concerned by the brutal actions taken by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) to impede the work of journalists in the city over the last three years. The assault, detention, and arrest of reporters by the Montréal police is in violation of freedom of the press, as cited in Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as Section 3 of the Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. To address these issues, CJFE and CAJ would like to arrange a meeting with you and SPVM Chief Marc Parent to discuss police policy on journalists covering protests in order to come up with a solution to end the existing practices.
Callwood, June: The doctors who care
Published: 1985
An article about the Medical Reform Group of Ontario (MRG), a group of progressive doctors who are challenging the medical establishment and who take the position that their profession has a responsibility to be active in all matters which contribute to ill-health, whether or not it is politically popular. MRG members Michael Rachlis, Fran Scott, Debby Copes and Miriam Garfinkle are quoted.
Camara, Dom Helder: Dom Helder Camara Quotes
Camejo, Peter: The Great Bull Market vs. Looming Crisis: On Brenner's Theory of Crisis
Published: 1999
The United States is experiencing the greatest bull market in the stock market.
Cammaerts, Emile; Illustrated by Louis Raemaekers: Through the Iron Bars
Two years of German occupation in Belgium
Published: 1917
Camp, Lee: Amazon wants surveillance robots in every home
Published: 2022
Amazon's new home robot is charged with privacy violations in line with the Roomba and the Ring.
Camp, Lee: Connecting the Dates - US Media Used To Stop The 'Threat' of Peace
Published: 2020
This is not a column defending Donald Trump. Across my career I have said more positive words about the scolex family of intestinal tapeworms than I have said about Donald Trump. (Scolex have been shown to read more.)
Campanales, Sara; Rhoades, Hannibal: Undermining the watercycle
A critical appraisal of the mining industry's contributions to the global water crisis.
Published: 2019
The mining industry is often overlooked as a cause of the global water crisis. This article examines recent history of mining disasters and how the industry PR greenwashes its image.
Campbell, Beatrix: Stolen Lives
The 'sisters' who are challenging Australia to admit to its forced separation of Aboriginal families
Published: 2001
The issue of Austaralia's stolen children.
Campbell, Gordon: Gordon Campbell on the Vanuatu cyclone and media 'disaster porn'
Published: 2015
Campbell discusses the Vanuatu cyclone and how it has become a 'disaster porn,'a process that occurs when media exploits someone else's misery so that it look attractive as a form of entertainment.
Campbell, Horace G.: Counter-Terrorism and Imperial Hypocrisy
Lessons from the Kidnapping of Abu Anas al-Libi in Tripoli
Published: 2013
Western governments word closely with 'terrorists' when it suits them, and then turn on them when the wind shifts.
Campbell, Horace G.: The Menace of Boko Haram and Fundamentalism in Nigeria
Sexual Slavery, Sexual Terrorism and the Context of the Kidnapping
Published: 2014
‘I will sell your girls in the market.’ - Abubakar Shekau. From time to time in the life of a society, one episode or a series of episodes shock the social system and brings to the fore long festering sores that need resolution. The kidnapping of over 200 young girls and the depravity of those who proclaimed that these youths would be sold into sexual slavery are one of such episodes. The statement about selling the girls in the market brought out the deep contradictions of Nigerian society and called for firm and clear resolution of the questions of slavery, exploitation, sexual violence, male oppression and the manipulation of religion to serve the needs of particular sections of the looters and zealots of Nigeria.
Campbell, Monica: In Brad Will killing, report fuels questions, controversy
Published: 2009
Continuing questions about journalist's murder in Oaxaca in 2006.
Campbell, Scott: Mexico's Fake RCMP Report Backfires
Published: 2009
Murders committed by police are deemed not to have happened, or to have been justifiable force.
Camus, Jean-Yves: Not Your Father's Far Right
Populist Radical Versus Traditional Extremism
Published: 2014
All over Europe, the new, populist far-right parties have become part of the political scene. They're not defined, as the old far-righters used to be, by what they want, but by what they don't want.
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression: Quebecers' right to protest restricted after 2012 "Maple Spring" in Canada
Published: 2013
In 2012, a massive student strike over tuition fee increases rocked Quebec and thousands took to the streets, marching in protest. In the aftermath, Montreal residents find that their ability to protest has been restricted, as the police employ increased powers to arrest and fine demonstrators.
Canetti, Elias: Elias Canetti Quotes
Cantú, Aaron: How "Hate Crimes Against Police" Expose the Fatal Flaw Within Hate Crime Statutes
Published: 2015
Hate crime legislation lent legitimacy to a 40-year carceral program that has wrought immense damage on communities of colour. In an ironic twist, the police - who've been the main enforcers of this program - now want to invoke these laws for their protection.
Capablanca, Jose: Chess Fundamentals
Published: 1934
Caplan, Gerald: The hidden history of Bob Rae's government in Ontario
Published: 2010
Caplan-Bricker, Nora: Preservation Acts
Toward an ethical archive of the web
Published: 2018
But they began to wonder what it meant to take an ephemeral object -- destined, after days and weeks, to sink to the bottom of an ever-shifting pile -- and render it permanent. It wasn't hard to see how an archive of civil disobedience could become a tool of government surveillance.
Caprio, Charlene: Dirty Fossil Fuel 'Business-As-Usual' Tactics Spew Out Of The International Maritime Organization At COP22
Published: 2016
The shipping industry needs to clean up its CO2 emissions now. The IMO's own Third IMO Greenhouse Gas Study 2014 report stated that by 2050, CO2 emissions from international shipping could grow by between 50 percent and 250 percent, depending on future economic growth and energy developments.
Caramel, Laurence: Line in the sand: Africa's 'green wall' aims to stop desert's growth
Villagers will help establish 15km-wide swath of trees as a nature reserve
Published: 2011
The Great Green Wall is a pan-African plan to halt desertification through reforestation.
Carayol, Rémi: Mali disintegrates
‘People are rejecting injustice’
Published: 2018
Mali’s general election this month looks uncertain, with rebels -- partly inspired by Islamist jihadism -- offering an alternative source of law and order in the central regions.
Carbajosa, Ana: Fuck Hamas! Fuck Israel! Gaza youth offers up a cry of despair
Rapid global reaction to cyber-manifesto surprises its drafters
Published: 2011
A group of Palestinian youth put out a manifesto that calls for an end to divisive party politics in Gaza and the West Bank. The youth want peace and freedom.
Carden, James: Turkey's Double Game and the US's Double Standards
What the bombings in Ankara tell us about Turkey's true motives in Syria.
Published: 2015
On Saturday morning, in the Turkish capital of Ankara, two suicide bombers targeted a Kurdish-Turkish trade union peace march, killing over a hundred civilians and wounding hundreds more.
Cardona, Luis: A Journalist’s Death in Oaxaca
The Murder of Crime Reporter Alberto López Bello
Published: 2014
Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the Americas to practice journalism.
Cardozo, Nate: Beyond Implementation: Policy Considerations for Secure Messengers
Published: 2018
The importance of secure Messenger tools goes beyond just reliable technology, it must be developed and have its infrastructure maintained by a trustworthy group with a history of responsible stewardship.
Cardwell, Emma: Selling the Silver
The Enclosure of the UK's Fisheries
Published: 2014
Fishing quotas were meant to conserve stocks and support fishing communities. But they have achieved the reverse - rewarding the most rapacious fishing enterprises and leaving small scale fisherfolk with nothing.
Cariboni, Diana: Argentina: lack of ID leaves hundreds of thousands living in the shadows
Published: 2015
A survey conducted between October and December 2011 found that the births of 1.6% of children under 17 (168,000) were not registered. The survey was conducted by the Catholic University Social Debt Observatory and the Instituto abierto para el desarrollo y estudio de políticas públicas (Iadepp), a group dedicated to the analysis of public policies.
Birth registration is a hurdle for many families in marginalised communities even though documents are needed to access healthcare, justice and education.
Carletti, Fabiola: Know Your Digital Rights, Photographers
Published: 2010
Carlin, George: George Carlin Quotes
Carlin, George: George Carlin sums up class structure and the purpose media of divisiveness
Published: 2012
Carlin, George: Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be Manners
Carlin, Norah: The roots of gay oppression
Published: 2007
Marxists, since Marx and Engels themselves, have always believed that only a socialist revolution could open the way to sexual freedom and equality. The history of same-sex relations suggests that the most basic human activities, including sexuality, are collectively constructed in human society.
Carlisle, Vanessa: Police Violence and Media Coverup
Against The Current vol. 156
Published: 2012
Among many tactics used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD ) to disorient, dishearten, and divide members of Occupy Los Angeles during our detention at city jails, one of the more insidious was denying us access to the news.
Carlsen, Laura: How Private Prisons Profit From the Criminalization of Immigrants
Lobbying for Lock-Up
Published: 2012
How a nation uses its power to deny a person’s freedom has always been a critical measure of authoritarian rule. Massive incarceration based on race, ethnic origin or nationality, political beliefs, class, sexual orientation, age or other inherent characteristics is a form of tyranny. Yet few people realize that this is happening on an enormous scale in the United States.
Carlsen, Laura: How the NSA Infiltrated Mexico's Computers
A Cyber Invasion
Published: 2014
NSA internal information provided by former security consultant and whistleblower Edward Snowden once again shows that Mexico features prominently as a target for massive U.S. espionage.
Carlsen, Laura: The NSA's Spying Operation on Mexico
Systematic Eavesdropping on the Government
Published: 2013
The American NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. Three major programs constitute a massive espionage operation against Mexico.
Carmichael, Franklin: Franklin Carmichael Quotes
Carney, William Wray: Advice on Hiring a Media Trainer
Published: 2002
Media training is highly recommended for any media spokesperson, whether a novice or a veteran.
Carney, William Wray: In Times of Crisis
Published: 2003
As anyone facing a crowded room of reporters during an emergency will tell you, effective crisis communications is paramount in overcoming the predicament.
Carney, William Wray: Video News Releases
Published: 2003
Video News Releases (VNRs) are just that: broadcast-quality videos intended for release to television stations. They typically contain a "story" in television format, complete with reporter, just as a news release imitates a news story.
Carney, William Wray: What Makes a Good Story?
Published: 2002
What makes a story interesting is often a combination of the interests of the audience, the interests and abilities of the reporter, and a long history of journalistic tradition.
Carp, Jonathan: Cops Are Now Less Cautious Than Soldiers In Iraq
Shooting Mirian Carey
Published: 2013
Police militarization is a hot topic lately, but American police are beyond anything contemplated by the American military. American police today appear unwilling to accept any risk whatsoever and seem willing to kill anyone and anything that could possibly be seen as a threat.
Carp, Jonathan: Direct Action Gets Results
Taking on the Enemy Directly
Published: 2014
We are conditioned to think of "activism" as getting someone else to do something. We plead with elected officials and bureaucrats, prodding them to take action. But the best and most effective activism is when we take matters into our own hands and solve our problems -- or strike at our enemies -- ourselves.
Carpenter, Ted Galen: Will Ukraine's Western Apologists Finally Admit the Truth?
Published: 2023
Western political leaders and their media sycophants ignore mounting evidence about the corrupt, brutal, and authoritarian nature of Ukraine's government. Ukraine is now a 'democracy' in which the press is strictly censored, opposition media banned entirely, opposition political parties are outlawed, a longstanding major church is being harassed and silenced, and torture and assassinations have become routine.
Carpenter, Ted Galen: Yes, the Press Helps Start Wars
Published: 2018
History shows that a jingoistic media can whip up support for hardline policies, as Trump rightly pointed out.
Carr, David Matthew: Review of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Published: 2014
A book review of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. Vivek Chibber challenges the post-Marxist framework of the Subaltern Studies group.
Carrington, Damian: Neonicotinoids are Poisoning Entire Farmland Ecosystems
Published: 2014
The widespread use of neonicotinoid insecticides is causing a neurotoxic overload afflicting entire farm ecosystems from earthworms to bees, other pollinators and birds. A collapse in food production may inevitably follow.
Carrington,Damian: Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF
Published: 2015
Fossil fuel companies are benefitting from global subsidies of $5.3tn (£3.4tn) a year, equivalent to $10m a minute every day.
Carroll, Jim: Use Internet as public relations tool
Published: 1999
Establish an online presence to complement your other PR tools.
Carroll, Jim; Broadhead, Rick: Get a Digital Life
An Internet Reality Check
Published: 2001
Carroll, Robert: Pranks, Frauds, and Hoaxes from Around the World
Published: 2004
It's pretty easy to hoax people. We all want to be deceived, but only up to a point. Some hoaxes are fun and pleasant, others malicious and unpleasant. We'd like a way to tell the difference.
Carroll, Rory: Rumble in the jungle
Published: 2009
Could Peru's uncontacted Amazonian tribes be wiped out by oil giants? Not if they don't exist.
Carson, Kevin: Agri-Terrorists Accuse Seed Bank of Agri-Terrorism
The Terror of GMOs
Published: 2014
Since their beginnings, the USDA and state departments of agriculture have heavily subsidized, and acted as the enforcement arm of, the corporate agribusiness crime syndicate, terrorizing people who presume to feed themselves without paying tribute to their corporate crime lords.
Carson, Kevin: Attacking Gun Culture at Its Source
No Justice, No Peace
Published: 2012
When you rob people of their self-respect and sense of control over their own lives, use them as means to your own ends, and treat them like garbage, don’t be surprised if you don’t like the destructive methods they choose to assert their sense of self. By all means let’s feel sympathy for the innocent victims when the worm turns — but let’s also never forget who set things in motion.
Carson, Kevin: 15 Benefits of the War on Drugs
Training Your Kid to be a Snitch (Against You)
Published: 2013
Mocking the government's 'War on Drugs'.
Carson, Kevin: On Translating Securityspeak into English
In the Land of False Cognates
Published: 2012
The Security State has its own language: Securityspeak. Like Newspeak, the ideologically refashioned successor to English in Orwell’s “1984,” Securityspeak is designed to obscure meaning and conceal truth, rather than convey them.
Carson, Kevin: Public Enemy Number One: the Public
Keeping Us in the Dark and Under Watch
Published: 2013
Those in power use language to obscure meaning more often than to convey it. Their power depends on keeping us — the enemy — in the dark.
Carson, Kevin: State Law Breakers
Violating the Law While Enforcing the Law
Published: 2013
Police routinely break the law under the pretext of enforcing the law.
Carson, Neil: Harlequin in Hogtown
George Luscombe and Toronto Workshop Productions
Published: 1995
Carter, Adam: Hamilton anarchist space, The Tower, has been vandalized
Published: 2018
The city's local anarchist social centre, The Tower, has been vandalized. The damage comes days after a masked mob that dubbed itself "The Ungovernables" caused $100,000 in damage during a vandalism spree on Locke Street.
Carter, Adam: Ten of the best union songs of all time
Published: 2017
From Woodie Guthrie to Buce Springsteen, ten great songs written about workers or the union movement.
Carter, Lawrence; McClenaghan, Maeve: Climate 'academics for hire' conceal fossil fuel funding
Published: 2015
Investigative reporters working for Greenpeace UK's Energydesk have uncovered a nexus of senior academics willing to accept large sums of money from fossil fuel companies to write reports and newspaper articles published under their own names and university affiliations, without declaring the funding.
Casanova, Giacomo Girolamo: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt1725-1798
Published: 1894
The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, by Arthur Symons.
Case, Kristen: The Other Public Humanities
Published: 2014
Among the conclusions frequently drawn about the heavily reported "crisis in the humanities" is that humanities departments are woefully out of touch with today's students, with the new economy, with the public at large.
Casey, Liam: Peter Rosenthal’s passions for law and math make for a beautiful, if different, life
At 72, lawyer and professor is still in love with his two jobs and says he plans to work until he dies.
Published: 2014
Peter Rosenthal has died several times. Once he died in court when his heart stopped. Each time doctors brought him back. Now he is dying a different death in front of a University of Toronto math class.
Casey, Ruairi: Palestinian artists targeted in Germany ahead of major art event
Published: 2022
Exhibition space for Kassel's documenta 15 art festival vandalised, as threats to Palestinian artists in Germany escalate.
Casey, Ruairi: South Sudan: Volunteers Gather Names of South Sudan's Uncounted War Dead
Published: 2017
The names of 5,000 victims of violence appear in the "Remembering the Ones We Lost" project, a memorial to people who have died in seven decades of conflict.The project invites witnesses to submit details of killings or disappearances through an online form or by text message, the information is then collated by volunteers.
Cashman, Kevin: Cities Need More Public Transit, Not More Uber and Self-Driving Cars
Published: 2016
In the near future, it is likely that cities will come under intense pressure to sacrifice public transportation in favor of new, private, car-dependent alternatives, even at a time when city planners are suggesting reducing or even eliminating car use in cities.The article looks into the benefits of the new technologies, as well as benefits of public transit.
Cashore, Harvey: CRA signs secret settlement with wealthy KPMG clients involved in offshore tax scheme
Watchdog group accuses the Liberals of covering up the KPMG affair
Published: 2019
The Canada Revenue Agency has settled out of court and off the record with large tax avoiders. This follows years of promises to crack down on tax evasion and have more transparency at the CRA.
Cassel, Elaine: What's Driving Got to Do With It? How the DMV is Conscripted to Do the Dirty Work of the Criminal Justice System
Published: 2016
In the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri protests of the death of Michael Brown in 2014, articles were written about the exorbitant fines assessed against residents of Ferguson, mostly minorities, and how these fines both led to and exacerbated a cycle of incarceration and poverty.
Castro, Daniel: The Truce
How the United States helped spoil a plan to end gang violence in El Salvador
Published: 2019
For over twenty years, Mijango argues, the overwhelming influence of the United States on Salvadoran law enforcement has led to tremendous mistakes in security policy. Mijango believes that the United States pressured the Salvadoran attorney general’s office to prosecute him because it had opposed the negotiations from the beginning.
Catterall, Peter Paul: Green nationalism? How the far right could learn to love the environment
Published: 2017
Myths of a pagan past in harmony with nature have been a feature of green nationalism, from its beginnings through to the Anastasia ecovillages in contemporary Russia where - unlike their equivalent hippy communes found in the West - sustainable living is combined with a 'reactionary eco-nationalism'. Could it happen here too?
Cayley, David: Concerning Life
An Open Letter to Jean- Pierre Dupuy and Wolfgang Palaver
Published: 2021
"Saving lives" has justified every policy adopted to counteract the pandemic during the last year, and life is likely to continue as the sacred sign in which the revised social order that emerges from the pandemic will root its legitimacy. Accordingly, it seems important to seek some clarity on what is now meant by this word.
Cayley, David: The Prognosis
Looking the consequences in the eye
Published: 2020
What has impressed me about the coronavirus is the extent to which its fearsome reputation has eclipsed and occasionally exceeded its actual effects. This is not to deny that some of these effects have been, in places, quite terrible. It is only to point out that the myth of the pandemic -- the story that already clothed it upon arrival -- has sometimes had more influence on policy than the facts of the matter, which are more difficult to ascertain.
CBC News: Banks got $114B from governments during recession
Published: 2012
Canada's biggest banks accepted tens of billions in government funds during the recession, according to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
CBC News: Delta says 740 flights cancelled after worldwide system outage
Flights already en route operating normally, U.S. airline says
Published: 2016
Delta Air Lines says it has cancelled 740 flights after a power outage that began overnight knocked out its computer systems and operations worldwide.
CBC News: Hackers can record everything you type on certain wireless keyboards
Some low-end wireless keyboards send keystrokes to your computer completely unencrypted, say researchers
Published: 2016
A computer security research team has identified a weakness in several brands of low-cost wireless keyboards that could allow hackers to view and record every word, number and password typed by a user from up to about 75 metres away. According to Bastille, an Atlanta-based research team, eight wireless keyboards made by companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Radio Shack and Toshiba send keystroke data from the board to the USB dongle that connects to your computer without the encryption needed to mask what someone is typing.
Ceccarelli, Salvatore: The Centrality of Seed: Building Agricultural Resilience Through Plant Breeding
Published: 2016
Five of the global issues most frequently debated today are the decline of biodiversity in general and of agrobiodiversity in particular, climate change, hunger and malnutrition, poverty and water. Seed is central to all five issues. The way in which seed is produced has been arguably their major cause. But it can also be the solution to all these issues.
Celikates, Robin: Heidegger and National Socialism
New Contributions to an Old Debate - Reviewed by Robin Celikates
Published: 2006
Centeno, Jimmy: Death of an Activist in Venezuela: In Memory of Orlando Figueroa
Published: 2017
Highlighting the death of a political activist in Venezuala by the utra-right, which uses brutality, murder and ecological destruction to pursue their goal of recuperating control over the oil producing nation.
Certo, Peter: Trump's Worst Collusion Isn't With Russia -- It's With Corporations
Published: 2017
Many leading liberals suspect that Trump worked with Russia to win his election, but we've long known that huge corporations and wealthy individuals threw their weight behind the billionaire.
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Chaballa, Jeanette: South Africa: Former Pharmacist Runs Children's Library Out of Shipping Container
Published: 2017
Reporting on the work of Muzi Nkosi, a South African former pharmacist who runs a library for children.
Chacos, Brad: Microsoft accuses Microsoft of copyright infringement, asks Google to scrub search links
Published: 2013
Over the past year, copyright holders such as Microsoft, the Recording Industry Association of America, NBC, Walt Disney, and others have started blasting Google with vast numbers of takedown requests. Copyright holders hit the search engine with 3.5 to 4.5 million takedown requests each and every week. Between January and July 2013, Google erased more than 100 million links from the web as a result of DMCA takedown requests.
Chacón, Justin Akers: ICE: The making of an American Gestapo
Published: 2018
Justin Akers Chacón, author of Radicals in the Barrio and co-author with Mike Davis of No One Is Illegal, takes an in-depth look at the troubling history and practices of a government agency that more and more people are calling to be abolished.
Chai, Jing: Under the Dome
Published: 2015
A self-financed Chinese documentary film by Chai Jing, a former China Central Television journalist, concerning air pollution in China. It is narrated by Chai, who presents the results of her year-long research mostly in the form of a lecture.
Chait, Jonathan: How Hitler's Rise to Power Explains Why Republications Accept Donald Trump
Published: 2016
To watch Donald Trump rant and rave uncontrollably on the stump and on Twitter -- praising Saddam Hussein for his disregard for civil liberties, insisting the anti-Semitic propaganda he inadvertently borrowed from neo-Nazis is as innocent as a Disney poster -- is to ponder the psychology of a party that would entrust supreme executive authority to a racist, nationalistic, power-worshiping demagogue.

To be perfectly clear, Trump is not Hitler or a Nazi. Trump’s racism is not of the genocidal variety, and he is committed neither to a program of Darwinian racial conquest nor the principled imposition of one-party rule. If President Trump does start a world war, it would probably be as a result of blundering rather than a long-term master plan. But the two figures do have certain traits in common relative to the political environments they inhabit.
Chakrabortty, Aditya: I'm Bengali and I'm black - in the same way that my parents were
Published: 2014
Asians may be seen as a distinct today but in the 1980s they and other immigrants identified as Black due to common struggles with racism and discrimination.
Chandler, Bill: Voter Suppression Hits Mississippi
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
Concerns regarding the polarization of voting in Mississippi between classses and actions taken with the apparent goal of suppressing the non-white opposition.
Chandler, David; Landrigan, India: Journalist's Guide to Covering Bioterrorism
Second Edition
Published: 2004
The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation has published "A Journalist's Guide to Covering Bioterrorism" to help reporters and producers tackle these stories. Among this guide's features:
- Specific information on biological weapons, including when they've been used in the past, how an attack might unfold and what countries have them
- Details about possible bioweapons, including information about infection, prevalence and treatment
- A list of national and local contacts
- A glossary of terms
Chang, Mayu: Chevron Wins Ecuador Arbitration But Money May Go To Amazon Communities
Published: 2014
The Dutch Supreme Court recently upheld an arbitration tribunal judgment requiring the Ecuadorean government to pay Chevron $106 million for breach of contract. Ironically, activists say Ecuador is now free to hand this money to indigenous communities who have sued the oil giant for pollution in an unrelated case.
Chapman, Dave: The Hydroponic Threat to Organic Food
Published: 2019
The US Department of Agriculture is approving methods as "Certified Organic" which are contrary to the principles of organic, sustainable agriculture. This is done mostly to comply with the demands of large agribusiness companies.
Charumbria, Ruramisai: I Am Definitely Not Leaving without A Degree
A View from the Crossroads of Informal and Formal Learning - The Transitional Year Program at the University of Toronto
Published: 2001
Published in Toronto: OISE Research Report, 2001
Charvet, Shelle Rose: Words That Work
Published: 2010
Despite sea change in customer attitudes, companies are still talking down to their clientele. All it takes is a subtle shift in your marketing language to produce noticeable results.
Chatterjee, Pratap: Bangladeshi Tribals Evicted For Tea Plantation Expansion
Published: 2015
A Bangladeshi company has been accused of using armed men to evict ethnic minority communities in order to expand a tea plantation in Sreemangal in northeastern Bangladesh.
Chatterjee, Pratap: Data Secrecy Company Accused of Sharing Information with Media and Military
Published: 2014
Whisper -- a new social network that claims to provide anonymity -- has been accused of secretly tracking users. The allegations were made by the Guardian newspaper, provoking renewed scrutiny of a multitude of data privacy claims made by software companies.
Chatterjee, Pratap: Ernst & Young Pays $10 Million To Settle Lehman Brothers Audit Failure Lawsuit
Published: 2015
Ernst & Young, one of the Big Four auditing firms, has agreed to pay a $10 million to New York state to settle a lawsuit for overlooking accounting gimmicks by Lehman Brothers, the defunct Wall Street bank. The scheme allowed Lehman to hide billions of dollars in bad deals.
Chatterjee, Pratap: EuroZone Profiteers: How German and French Banks Helped Bankrupt Greece
Published: 2015
We should be clear: almost none of the huge amount of money loaned to Greece has actually gone there, says Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and a Nobel Prize winner in economics. It has gone to pay out private-sector creditors – including German and French banks.
Chatterjee, Pratap: Failed Cuban "Twitter" Project Designed By U.S. Government Contractors
Published: 2014
ZunZuneo - a now defunct social media platform similar to Twitter – was designed to undermine the Cuban government by two private contractors: Creative Associates International (CAI) from Washington DC and Mobile Accord, a Denver based company.
Chatterjee, Pratap: G4S To End Israel Prison Contracts Following Protests
Published: 2014
G4S, the Anglo-Danish security contractor, has agreed to withdraw from prison work in Israel after activists disrupted the company annual general meeting for the second year in a row. The company is also under fire for ill-treatment of detainees in the UK, including the death of an Angolan man.
Chatterjee, Pratap: Navajo Diné Fight Uranium Resources Inc. Mining Permits In New Mexico
Published: 2016
The Navajo Diné community have notched up a victory over Uranium Resources Inc. decades old plan to dig for uranium at Crownpoint and Churchrock, New Mexico, by successfully appealing a state permit for the Colorado company to dump waste into the Westwater Canyon aquifer.
Chatterjee, Pratap: Outsourcing the Kill Chain: Eleven Drone Contractors Revealed
Published: 2015
Reporters have named eleven companies that have won millions of dollars in contracts to plug a shortage in personnel needed to analyze the thousands of hours of streaming video gathered daily from the remotely piloted aircraft that hover over war zones around the world.
Chatterjee, Pratap: Selling your Secrets
The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters
Published: 2014
The documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that the world of NSA mass surveillance involves close partnerships with a series of companies most of us have never heard of that design or probe the software we all take for granted to help keep our digital lives humming along.
Chatterjee, Pratap: Smartphone Game Data Targeted by NSA
Angry Birds Cited
Published: 2014
Millennial Media, a Baltimore based ad company, creates “intrusive” profiles of users of smartphone applications and games like Angry Birds, according to documents leaked to the media by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Such profiles have been exploited by intelligence authorities like the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), say investigative journalists.
Chatterjee, Pratap: Uber Plans to Track Users Should Not Be Allowed, Says Privacy Group
Published: 2015
A formal complaint has been filed against Uber, the car ride company, by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a non-profit advocacy group. The NGO says Uber plans to use their smart phone app to access user's locations at all times, and to send advertisements to user's contact lists.
Chatterjee, Pratap: Uber Used Clandestine Technology Tool To Thwart Police Raids
Published: 2018
Uber uses a number of technological tools for tax evasion, undermining competition and monitoring customers and drivers.
Chatterjee, Pratap: U.S. Government Buys Surveillance Technology To Track Drivers in Real Time
Published: 2015
Local government officials have the ability to track individual drivers in the U.S. in real time and take pictures of the occupants of their vehicles, with new "truly Orwellian" technology purchased from companies like Vigilant Solutions, according to new documents uncovered by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Chatterjee, Pratap: World Bank Orders Venezuela To Pay Crystallex $1.4 Billion For Gold Mine
Published: 2016
The World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has ordered the government of Venezuela to pay $1.386 billion to Crystallex, a bankrupt Canadian gold mining company, for canceling a 2002 permit to mine for gold in the Imataca Forest Reserve.
Chatterjee,Pratap: Deutsche Bank Pays $2.5 Billion Fine For Interest Rate Rigging
Published: 2015
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay out $2.5 billion fine to settle U.K. and U.S. government investigations into allegations of fixing global interest rates, months after 6 other banks paid out $4.3 billion on similar charges. Activists say that the banks should have faced criminal charges.
Chatterji, Angana: For Dissent Against Hindu Extremism
Published: 2002
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the Bajrang Dal, and other Hindu extremist organisations, collectively known as the Sangh Parivar (Hindu fundamentalist family of organisations), are utilising religion to foment communal violence toward organising ultra right, non-secular and undemocratic nationalism in India.
Chaudhury, Aadita: Why white supremacists and Hindu nationalists are so alike
White supremacy and Hindu nationalism have common roots going back to the 19th-century idea of the 'Aryan race'.
Published: 2018
Many members of the so-called "alt-right" - a loosely knit coalition of populists, white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazis - turned to India to find historic and current justifications for their racist, xenophobic and divisive views.
Chaufan, Claudia: Why U.S.-Style Health Reform Does Not Work and What to Do about It
Published: 2015
Ending the corporate domination of healthcare is part of breaking the domination of the corporate class over our government and our lives. The task is to organize a mass movement that refuses to treat healthcare as a commodity.
Chauvier, Jean-Marie: Russia's other October revolution
How did we get from perestroika to Putin?
Published: 2014
Explaining contemporary Russia as the product of Boris Yeltsin's insistence to enforce a neoliberal economy.
Chaver, Yael: Anti-Yiddish Riots: September 27, 1930
Published: 2012
A mob of several thousand Jews protested outside the Mograbi Theater in Tel Aviv on this date in 1930 against the screening of one of the first feature-length Yiddish-language talkie movies,“My Jewish Mother”.
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Chavkin, Sasha: How to unearth public records: a global guide
Published: 2013
Among the most basic building blocks of powerful investigative reporting are public records – government documents that provide bulletproof evidence of anything from a change in water quality to the ownership of a company or tract of land. In the United States, Freedom of Information laws date back nearly half a century, and although there are growing obstacles, journalists generally operate under a presumption of the right to access. In most of the world, however, Freedom of Information laws are less than two decades old.
Chavkin, Sasha: Lobbyists for the havens: ICIJ's guide to the offshore system's defenders
Published: 2013
Across the world, tax havens are under attack. Leading global organizations like the G20 and OECD have put cracking down on offshore tax avoidance at the top of their agendas. Ambitious plans for automatic sharing of tax data between countries are in the works.
Chavkin, Sasha: Tax havens face crisis in wake of Offshore Leaks, report says
Published: 2013
ICIJ’s “Offshore Leaks” investigation has created a “crisis of confidence” for tax havens, damaging the offshore industry’s bottom line and its prospects for growth, a new report by a leading offshore services firm says.
Chavkin, Sasha; Greene, Ronnie; ICIJ: Island of the Widows
Published: 2011
Mysterious kidney disease in Central America.
Chavkin, Sasha; Hallman, Ben; Hudson, Michael, Schilis-Gallego, Cecile; Shifflett, Shane: How the World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor
Published: 2015
The World Bank has broken its promise. Over the past decade, the bank has regularly failed to enforce its rules, with devastating consequences for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet, an investigation has found.
Checker, Melissa: Double Jeopardy: Carbon Offsets and Human Rights Abuses
Published: 2009
Whether you're a climate change denier or doomsayer, an avid recycler or rabid consumer of plastic bottles, there is one very good but little-known reason to oppose carbon offsets: their immediate and dire human costs.
Chediac, Joyce: The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on "The Highway of Death"
Excerpted from the book War Crimes: A report on United States war crimes against Iraq
Published: 1992
I want to give testimony on what are called the "highways of death." These are the two Kuwaiti roadways, littered with remains of 2,000 mangled Iraqi military vehicles, and the charred and dismembered bodies of tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, who were withdrawing from Kuwait on February 26th and 27th 1991 in compliance with UN resolutions. U.S. planes trapped the long convoys by disabling vehicles in the front, and at the rear, and then pounded the resulting traffic jams for hours. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. pilot. The horror is still there to see.
Chekhov, Anton: Anton Chekhov Quotes
Chelala, Cesar: Bringing Books and Seeking Peace in Colombia
Bringing Peace to a Beleaguered Country
Published: 2014
A teacher, two donkeys, and a big pile of books are working to enrich the lives of the children in a small community in Colombia.
Chelala, Cesar: Destruction of Palestinian olive trees is a monstrous crime
Published: 2015
The uprooting and cutting down of over a million olive and fruit trees in occupied Palestine since 1967 is an attack on a symbol of life, and on Palestinian culture and survival. A grave crime under international humantarian law, the arboricide is also contrary to Jewish religious teachings.
Chelala, Cesar: The Drug Companies' Expansion Into Emerging Markets
Profit, Drugs, and International Markets
Published: 2013
Faced with declining prescription drug sales in the U.S., and having lost patent protection for many profitable drugs, the drug industry is relying increasingly in new markets such as China and other fast developing countries, such as those in Africa. That expansion, however, is oftentimes tainted by unsavory commercial practices.
Chelala, Cesar: Gideon Levy: A Voice of Sanity from Israel
Published: 2018
In spite of a systemic policy of demonization, Israeli journalist and human rights activist Gideon Levy continues denouncing the Israeli government and the crimes against Palestinians.
Chemin, Anne: France Remains Faithful to Food as Meals Continue to be a Collective Affair
Published: 2014
In France, life is dominated by three shared meals, and it's taboo to break the ritual, writes Anne Chemin.
Chemin, Anne: Norway lets fathers do their share
Paternity leave law has helped to create a quiet revolution in childcare
Published: 2011
In Norway, twelve weeks of the forty six weeks of paid parental leave is reserved for the father. If he chooses not to take the leave the time and money is forfeit. The legislation is designed to promote equality in the household as well as the job market and has been adopted in Iceland, Germany and Portugal.
Cheney, Glenn: Promised Land
Will Brazil's rural poor ever inherit the earth?
Published: 2013
Article on the historical rural poverty of the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Cheong, Ian Miles: Archaeology is under attack from wokeness
Published: 2022
Identifying the sex of ancient remains must stop, woke academics are demanding. If they have their way, it will be a scientific disaster.
Chery, Dady: Antarctica's Accelerating Ice Collapse
Massive Sea Level Rise in Decades
Published: 2014
Imagine Antarctica. Imagine an island, with mountains, peaks, ridges, and valleys. Imagine further that a thick layer of ice covers, not only the surface of the island that lies above the sea but also an extensive portion of the perimeter that is beneath the sea. The peaks are higher above sea level than on any continent. In winter, the sea freezes because temperatures drop to less than -80 degrees Celsius (-112 degrees Farenheight), and the island’s area grows to about 10 million square miles. In summer when some of the ice melts, the ice cover remains on average more than a mile thick, although the overall surface area of the island shrinks to about five million square miles. Even in summer, however, the island is still larger than Europe or Australia. It is Antarctica, and it is impossible to imagine.
Chesnaux, Romain: In northeastern BC, over 10% of oil and gas wells are leaking methane
There is no monitoring program for abandoned wells, so they can leak for a long time before emissions are detected and repaired.
Published: 2020
Northeastern British Columbia has been a major centre of conventional oil and gas production since the 1960s. More recently, the shale gas sector has also targeted the region.
Chester,Jeffrey: Under the Radar, Big Media Internet Giants Get Massive Access to Everything About You
Published: 2015
The Internet and digital media are becoming a pervasive and manipulative interactive surveillance system. U.S. online companies, while claiming to be supporters of a democratic Internet, are working to have an unlimited and unchecked power to "shadow" us online.
Chibber, Vivek: Postcolonial Thought's Blind Alley
Published: 2014
Throughout the 20th century, the anchor for anti-colonial movements was, at least for the left, a belief that oppression was wrong wherever it was practised, because it was an affront to basic human needs for dignity, liberty, wellbeing. But now, in the name of anti-Eurocentrism, postcolonial theory has resurrected the cultural essentialism that progressives rightly viewed as the ideological justification for imperial domination. What better excuse to deny peoples their rights than to impugn the idea of rights, and universal interests, as culturally biased? No revival of an international and democratic left is possible unless we clear away these ideas, affirming the universalism of our common humanity, and of the threat to it from a universalising capitalism.
Chibber, Vivek; Kalek, Rania; Gosztola, Kevin: Clinton Manipulates Language of Intersectionality to Preserve Support from Minority Voters
Published: 2016
The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton has been a master class in how to divorce economic issues from issues of race and gender by pushing the language of "intersectionality," which enables the political class to head off threats to their power and protect the status quo.
Chicherio, Barbara: Transpacific Partnership and Monsanto
Published: 2013
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has the potential to become the biggest regional Free Trade Agreement in history, both in economic size and the ability to quietly add more countries in addition to those originally included.
Chideya, Farai: The Devil Is In the Details: How Patients' Mental Health Data Is At Risk
Published: 2015
It seems like "Patient doctor confidentiality" doesn’t apply to other doctors. Overly diligent doctors are free to snoop around in the psychiatric medical records of their patients. As if that weren't bad enough, non-psychiatric doctors can highlight this psychiatric history on their patient's medical records. For Julia, doctors will only ever know her as the "woman with bipolar disorder". Not the "mother with a master’s degree".
Chideya, Farai: Medical Privacy Under Threat in the Age of Big Data
Published: 2015
Medical privacy is a high-stakes game, in both human and financial terms, given the growing multibillion-dollar legal market for anonymized medical data. The threats to individuals seeking to protect their medical data can come externally, from data breaches; internally, from "rogue employees" and others with access; or through loopholes in regulations.
Chideya, Farai: No Child Left Un-Mined? Student Privacy at Risk in the Age of Big Data
Published: 2015
Chideya discusses the implications of the compilation of big data trails containing information about children's performance in school.
Chilvers, Simon: Why the penis is having a moment in men's fashion
Published: 2015
Fashion has found a new obsession: nude men, specifically men with their penises out.
Chimienti, Adam: Rafael Correa, the Press, and Whistleblowers
Corporate Control and Double Standards
Published: 2013
There are claims of hypocrisy because of Correa providing asylum to whistleblowers however also passing a Communications Bill that detractors claim is a major blow to a free press.
Chipman, John: Corporate Canada pays low taxes but contributes in 'lots of other ways'
Canada's corporate tax rate has been repeatedly cut for more than a decade
Published: 2014
Canadians for Tax Fairness did an analysis of the top 60 companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and found only four companies paid the full corporate rate. More than half paid less than 10 per cent, and 13 firms paid less than five per cent. Corporate shills claim that's OK because they contribute in 'other ways.'
Chis, Alex: Recording the Face of Daily Life - Book Review
Published: 1998
Humble Work and Mad Wanderings, Street Life in the Machine Age by Ken Appollo (Carl Mautz Publishing, Nevada City, CA, 1997) 108 pages, 61 duotone images, $34.95. Order from Carl Mautz Publishing, 228 Commercial Street, Suite 522, Nevada City, CA, 95959. Shipping $3.50 first book, $1.00 each additional, CA residents add sales tax.
Chittum, Ryan: Diamond Dealers in Deep Trouble as Bank Documents Shine Light on Secret Ways
Published: 2015
Belgium, centre of the world diamond trade, charges HSBC's Swiss Private Bank with fraud; many dealers under investigation around the world.
Chivers, Danny: Tools That Might Help Us
Published: 2012
A list of ideas that different groups and social movements have suggested for inclusion in the Rio+20 Final Declaration. At the time of writing, only two -- Planetary Boundaries and the Ombudsperson for Future Generations -- appear to have much chance of getting into the official text.
Cho, Jan: Why It’s Ethical to Eat Meat
Published: 2012
Eating meat in specific circumstances is ethical; eating meat raised in other circumstances is unethical.
Chomsky, Noam: Ceasefires in Which Violations Never Cease
What's Next for Israel, Hamas, and Gaza?
Published: 2014
On August 26th, 2014, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) both accepted a ceasefire agreement after a 50-day Israeli assault on Gaza that left 2,100 Palestinians dead and vast landscapes of destruction behind. The agreement calls for an end to military action by both Israel and Hamas, as well as an easing of the Israeli siege that has strangled Gaza for many years.
Chomsky, Noam: Chomsky and His Critics
Published: 2015
Noam Chomsky on ISIS, his foreign policy critics, and why socialist ideas are "never far below the surface."
Chomsky, Noam: Noam Chomsky Quotes
Chomsky, Noam: Chomsky on Post-Modernism
Published: 1995
What I find in the writings of the post-modernists is extremely pretentious, but on examination, a lot of it is simply illiterate, based on extraordinary misreading of texts that I know well (sometimes, that I have written), argument that is appalling in its casual lack of elementary self-criticism, lots of statements that are trivial (though dressed up in complicated verbiage) or false; and a good deal of plain gibberish.
Chomsky, Noam: Destroying the Commons
How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
Published: 2012
Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack.
Chomsky, Noam: Gaza's Torment, Israel's Crimes, Our Responsibilities
Published: 2014
It is important to understand what life is like in Gaza when Israel’s behavior is “restrained,” in between the regular manufactured crises like this one. When Israel is on “good behavior,” more than two Palestinian children are killed every week, a pattern that goes back over 14 years. The underlying cause is the criminal occupation and the programs to reduce Palestinian life to bare survival in Gaza, while Palestinians are restricted to unviable cantons in the West Bank and Israel takes over what it wants, all in gross violation of international law and explicit Security Council resolutions, not to speak of minimal decency.
Chomsky, Noam: His Right to Say It
Published: 1981
Chomsky takes the opportunity to clarify the details of the so-called Faurisson Affair in which he played a catalytic role by signing a controversial petition. He defends his involvement by reiterating and exploring the principle of self-expression irrespective of content.
Chomsky, Noam: Human Rights Week 2002
Published: 2003
Chomsky details the meaning behind Human Rights Week, despite the lack of enthusiasm in North America. He highlights, in particular, the achievements of the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP).
Chomsky, Noam: Humanity Imperiled: The Path To Disaster
Published: 2013
For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That's been true since 1945. It's now being finally recognized that there are more long-term processes like environmental destruction leading in the same direction, maybe not to total destruction, but at least to the destruction of the capacity for a decent existence.
Chomsky, Noam: Humanity Once Came to the Cliff's Edge of Total Self-Annihilation -- Let's Make Sure It Never Happens Again
Revisiting the catastrophe that almost was
Published: 2012
The world stood still 50 years ago during the last week of October, from the moment when it learned that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba until the crisis was officially ended -- though unknown to the public, only officially.
Chomsky, Noam: Impressions of Gaza
Published: 2012
Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world's largest open-air prison, where a million and a half people, in the most densely populated area of the world, are constantly subject to random and often savage terror and arbitrary punishment.
Chomsky, Noam: Introduction: Project Censored 25th Anniversary
In Peter Phillips (ed.), Project Censored 2001
Published: 2001
Chomsky examines "Project Censored" and its contents, revealing a telling pattern: the stories all appeal to public rather corporate-state interests. Such an observation poses questions of media ownership and censorship in relationship to democracy.
Chomsky, Noam: Issues that Obama and Romney Avoid
Published: 2012
With the quadrennial presidential election extravaganza reaching its peak, it’s useful to ask how the political campaigns are dealing with the most crucial issues we face. The simple answer is: badly, or not at all. If so, some important questions arise: why, and what can we do about it?
Chomsky, Noam: The Leading Terrorist State
Published: 2014
"It's official: The U.S. is the world's leading terrorist state, and proud of it." That should have been the headline for the lead story in The New York Times on Oct. 15, which was more politely titled "CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels."
Chomsky, Noam: The Manipulation of Fear
Resort to Fear
Published: 2005
Chomsky discusses the effects of using fear as a control mechanism to manipulate the population.
Chomsky, Noam: Media Control and Indoctrination in the United States
An Interview With Catherine Komp
Published: 2013
An excerpt from the just released 2nd edition of Noam Chomsky’s OCCUPY: Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity.
Chomsky, Noam: The Menace of Liberal Scholarship
Published: 1969
Noam Chomsky builds upon Senator Fullbright's criticism of social science scholars which suggests that they have failed to act as independent critics of government policies and having instead become agents. Chomsky agrees with Fullbright that this phenomena betrays public trust and states that the subversion of scholarship is a threat to society as a whole. He reveals several causes of this subversion, for example the access to power, shared ideology, and professionalization. Through the presentation of the positions of numerous scholars, he explores this malady and points to the potential of the intellectual community to revolutionize this tradition of scholarship though a more humane, objective, and independent movement.
Chomsky, Noam: Noam Chomsky: Palestine 2012 - Gaza and the UN resolution
Published: 2012
An analysis of the political context of Gaza since the first free elections in the Middle East were held.
Chomsky, Noam: On Academic Labor
How Higher Education Ought to Be
Published: 2014
An edited transcript of remarks given by Noam Chomsky on 4 February 2014 to a gathering of members and allies of the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, PA.
Chomsky, Noam: The Paranoia of The Superrich And Superpowerful
Published: 2013
The United States is in favor of stability. But you have to remember what stability means. Stability means conformity to U.S. orders. We “stabilize” countries when we invade them and destroy them.
Chomsky, Noam: Rationality/Science
Published: 1995
Chomsky writes: "It strikes me as remarkable that the left today should seek to deprive oppressed people not only of the joys of understanding and insight, but also of tools of emancipation, informing us that the "project of the Enlightenment" is dead, that we must abandon the "illusions" of science and rationality--a message that will gladden the hearts of the powerful, delighted to monopolize these instruments for their own use."
Chomsky, Noam: A Review of NATO's War over Kosovo
Published: 2001
In wake of the end of the Kosovo conflict, Chomsky attempts a dispassionate analysis of the crisis, differentiating between two approaches available to the international community in such situations.
Chomsky, Noam: The Sledgehammer Worldview
Published: 2014
The U.S.-U.K. invasion of Iraq was a textbook example of aggression. Apologists invoke noble intentions, which would be irrelevant even if the pleas were sustainable. The destructive consequences of such aggression are clear, as evidenced in numerous historical examples of violent imperialism.
Chomsky, Noam: Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression
Published: 1980
It is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.
Chomsky, Noam: Somebody Else's Atrocities
Published: 2012
Atrocities commited by official enemies are routinely condemned, but atrocities for which our own country is responsible are rarely mentioned.
Chomsky, Noam: US Approach to Ukraine and Russia Has Left the Domain of Rational Discourse
Published: 2022
Chomsky, Noam: US-Haiti
Published: 2004
By examining the role of the USA in the tragedy of Haiti, Chomsky highlights the democracy deficit and failure of the American state. He calls for those concerned to take on the task at home of paying reparations and restoring the substance of democracy.
Chomsky, Noam: We Are All – Fill in the Blank
Published: 2015
We should condemn violence and terror, and defend freedom of the press. We should do so on the basis of consistent principles -- in contrast to the mainstream media and politicians, who condemn acts directed at 'us' but condone or ignore crimes committed by 'our side'.
Chomsky, Noam: We're facing a new Cold War
Published: 2015
The linguist and philosopher on the warped coverage of Putin's Russia and the ways we whitewash our war crimes.
Chomsky, Noam: What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?
Published: 2007
Noam Chomsky reverses roles and questions how America would respond if a threatening invader took over Canada or Mexico in a "liberation" attempt. Would America stand by quietly?
Chomsky, Noam: What Is the Common Good?
Published: 2014
Humans are social beings, and the kind of creature that a person becomes depends crucially on the social, cultural and institutional circumstances of his life. We are therefore led to inquire into the social arrangements that are conducive to people's rights and welfare, and to fulfilling their just aspirations - in brief, the common good.
Chomsky, Noam: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
Published: 1997
Noam Chomsky shares his approach to analyzing media and reveals the meaning and consequence of the strategic design of communication.
Chomsky, Noam: What the American Media Won't Tell You About Israel
The savage punishment of Gaza traces back to decades ago.
Published: 2012
An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.”
Chomsky, Noam; Goodman, Amy: Chomsky on Trump's Climate Denialism
He wants us to march toward the destruction of the species
Published: 2016
Transcript of an interview with Noam Chomsky discussing Donald Trump's denial of climate change and the dangers it poses.
Chomsky, Noam; Goodman, Amy; Mate, Aaron: Why Israel's Netanyahu Is So Desperate to Prevent Peace with Iran
The distinguished professor lays bare Israel's motives
Published: 2015
For both Prime Minister Netanyahu and the hawks in Congress, the primary goal is to undermine any potential negotiation that might settle whatever issue there is with Iran, says Noam Chomsky.
Chomsky, Noam; Herman, Edward S.: Distortions at Fourth Hand
Published: 1977
Chomsky addresses the issue of "freedom of the press". He points out that while publications that shun eyewitness accounts of the situation in post-war Vietnam have a daily circulation of approx. 250 000, smaller publications which rely on these firsthand testimonies reach a limited audience. In this fashion, Chomsky warns of the dangers of accepting only what filters through to the American public, as it is "a seriously distorted version of the evidence available".
Chomsky, Noam; Polychroniou, C.J.: Horror Beyond Description: Noam Chomsky on the Latest Phase of the War on Terror
An interview with Noam Chomsky
Published: 2015
Does the "war on terror" make sense? Is it an effective policy? And how different is the current phase of the "war on terror" from the two previous phases that occurred under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush's administrations, respectively? Moreover, who really benefits from the "war on terror"? And what's the link between the US military-industrial complex and war making?
Chonghaile, Clar Ni: Kenyan grafitti artists target vulture politicians
Published: 2012
A crew of Kenyan grafitti artists are making murals that urge citizens not to re-elect corrupt politicians who have a legacy of exploiting tribal differences to gain power.
Chossudovsky, Michel: Regime Change in Ukraine and the IMF's Bitter "Economic Medicine"
Published: 2014
In the days following the Ukraine coup d’Etat of February 23, 2014, leading to the ousting of a duly elected president, Wall Street and the IMF -- in liaison with the US Treasury and the European Commission in Brussels -- had already set the stage for the outright takeover of Ukraine's monetary system.
Chouinard, Vera: Challenging Law's Empire
Rebellion, Incorporation, and Changing Geographies of Power in Ontario's Legal Clinic System
Published: 1998
Published in Studies in Political Economy 55 (Spring 1998)
Chouinard, Vera: State Formation and the Politics of Place
The Case of Community Legal Aid Clinics
Published: 1990
Published in Political Geography Quarterly 9.1 (January 1990)
Chow,Heidi: Ghana's women farmers resist the G7 plan to grab Africa's seeds
Published: 2015
Sharing and saving seed is a crucial part of traditional farming all over Africa. Governments, backed by multinational seed companies, are imposing oppressive seed laws that attack the continent's main food producers and open the way to industrial agribusiness.
Chowdhury, Anis; Sundaram, Jomo Kwame: COVID-19: Vietnam Winning New War Against Invisible Enemy
Published: 2020
The World Economic Forum, the Financial Times and others laud Vietnam as a low cost Covid-19 success story to be emulated by poor countries with limited resources, say Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
Chowdhury, Farooque: Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom
Published: 2013
Christensen, Christian: Why Opposing Islamophobia is not a Defense of Extremism
Standing Up Against Knee-Jerk Discrimination and Xenophobia
Published: 2012
Recent events have generated a lot of debate about Islam, Muslims, free speech and Islamophobia. Unfortunately, much of that debate has fallen back upon rather tired arguments about not only what "Muslims are like" but also how those who oppose Islamophobia are somehow defending repression or appeasing extremists.
Christian Peacemaker Teams: Occupation captured
Published: 2017
Photos of Palestinian life and Israeli occupation in the West Bank city of Hebron.
Christina, Greta: Jealousy, Friendship, and Bisexual Chopped Liver
Published: 2008
According to this theory, bisexuals could never, ever have any friends at all. We couldn't be friends with gay men, straight men, straight women, lesbians. And we definitely couldn't be friends with other bisexuals. According to this theory, the fact that we're attracted to both women and men makes us ineligible to be friends with anybody, of any gender, ever.
Christoff, Stefan: Canadian hands involved in Gaza bombings
Details on Canadian complicity in Israeli apartheid
Published: 2014
Aside from sustained Conservative diplomatic cheerleading for Israel, one key element of Canada's implication less in the public eye but very important, is the key role that many Canadian companies are playing in creating the military devices and technologies now involved in carrying out the deadly bombing raids in Gaza.
Christopher, Renny: Reading Red Women Writers
Published: 1996
Coiner makes a cogent case for class studies, decrying the way in which discussions of "race, class and gender" usually only actually deal with race and gender.
chuang: Dagong Diary, Part 1: Job Hunting
Published: 2015
Part 1 of a seven-part series recording a short excursion into the lives of dagongzai and dagongmei at the beginning of China’s working year.
chuang: Dagong Diary, Part 2: Proper Hiring Begins
Published: 2015
The following is part 2 of a seven part series recording a short excursion into the lives of dagongzai and dagongmei at the beginning of China’s working year.
Chuckman, John: This Is What War Does
Published: 2015
Modern war is mass killing of civilians, always and everywhere, a practice which evolved in World War II and has done nothing but progress in that direction since. Even when they aren’t the actual targets, as in America’s nightmarish assassination-by-drone project, large numbers of dead or mangled civilians are the unavoidable consequence.
Chughtai, Alia: Pakistan's Women's March: Shaking patriarchy 'to its core'
Young activists and their older counterparts explain why they are uniting to fight for women's rights in Pakistan.
Published: 2020
Thousands of women have marched across Pakistan's main urban centres to mark International Women's Day. 2020 is the third successive year that the Aurat March, women's march, has been held in the country.
Chung, Emily: Ancient bison fossils offer hints about 1st humans in southern Canada
Published: 2016
The fossils of bison that roamed near what is now Edmonton 13,000 years ago are helping solve the mystery of the earliest humans in southern Canada, including how and when they got there and where they came from.
Chung, Emily: Nest's move to stop supporting Revolv smart hub leaves customers with costly 'brick'
Internet of Things customers need to be aware what will and will not work without internet
Published: 2016
Here's a major downside to the so-called Internet of Things -- companies can potentially disconnect your smart devices and leave them essentially useless at any time.
Church, Elizabeth: If you're a new Canadian, 'you go to university'
Variety of social factors cause first-and second-generation Canadians to attend university far in excess of non-immigrant children
Published: 2009
An investigation into the factors that contribute to the very high university attendance rate for second generation immigrants and first generation immigrants who came to Canada as children as reported by Statistics Canada. The reporter found that strong family bonds and parental expectations are important factors.
Churchill, David S: Personal Ad Politics
Race, Sexuality and Power at The Body Politic
Published: 2003
Published in Labour/Le Travail 8.2 (2003)
Churchill, David S: SUPA, Selma, and Stevenson
The Politics of Solidarity in mid-1960s Toronto
Published: 2010
Published in Journal of Canadian Studies, 41 (Spring 2010)
Ciccarielle-Maher, George; King, Mike: American Blowback
Cop-on-Cop Crime in LA
Published: 2013
Ciccariello-Maher, George: The Ballot and the Bullet
Election Diary, Venezuela
Published: 2012
The 2012 Venezuelan election, like Chávez himself, is the result of something far more profound that has been developing for decades, and which has accelerated considerably in recent years.
Ciccariello-Maher, George: Preparing for a Post-Chávez Venezuela
Not One Step Backward, Ni Un Paso Atrás
Published: 2013
Hugo Chávez is no more, and yet the symbolic importance of the Venezuelan President that exceeded his physical persona in life, providing a condensation point around which popular struggles coalesced, will inevitably continue to function long after his death.
Clair, Jeffrey: Rage, Race and Violence on the Western Range
The Origins of the Rancher Insurrection
Published: 2014
Ranchers have openly defied federal environmental regulations, built private roads and water structures on public lands and used bellicose tactics to hold off enforcement actions by rangers from the Forest Service and the BLM.
Claire: Sex, Gender, and the New Essentialism
Published: 2017
A series of essays on sex, gender, and sexuality.
Clanchy, Kate: How sensitivity readers corrupt literature
Published: 2022
They sullied my memoir to suit their agenda
Clark, Andrew: Handcuffed and herded
My big Alpine adventure with Switzerland's police
Published: 2011
A journalist at the World Economic Forum Summit is detained and intimidated along with protestors by Swiss police.
Clark, Harry; Shahak, Israel: The CIA and the "Peace Process" - Interview
Published: 1999
A controversial feature of the torturously negotiated and implemented "Wye Plantation Agreement" is the direct, overt role assigned to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in monitoring Palestinian Authority (PA) implementation of the "security provisions."
Clark, Harry; Shahak, Israel: The Future of Israel and Palestine - Interview
Published: 1999
The first part of this interview with the Israeli human rights campaigner Professor Israel Shahak appeared in our previous issue ("The `Peace Process' and the CIA," ATC 78).
Clark, James: Occupy Everywhere
Against The Current vol. 158
Published: 2012
The decision by Time magazine to name “the protester” its Person of the Year was largely a response to the two major events that bookended 2011: the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement.
Clark, Jennifer: Aborigines & Activisim
Race, Aborigines & the Coming of the Sixties to Australia
Published: 2008
Clark, Katrina: My Father Was an Anonymous Sperm Donor
Published: 2006
Those of us in the first documented generation of donor babies -- conceived in the late 1980s and early '90s, when sperm banks became more common and donor insemination began to flourish -- are coming of age, and we have something to say. I'm here to tell you that emotionally, many of us are not keeping up. We didn't ask to be born into this situation, with its limitations and confusion. It's hypocritical of parents and medical professionals to assume that biological roots won't matter to the "products" of the cryobanks' service, when the longing for a biological relationship is what brings customers to the banks in the first place. We offspring are recognizing the right that was stripped from us at birth -- the right to know who both our parents are.
Clark, Matthew: On the bookshelf: A matter of style (book review)
Published: 2003
Clark, Neil: Banning The Conspiracist David Icke Is Wrong & Actually Strengthens His Case That We're Sleepwalking towards Dictatorship
Published: 2020
The banning of the former TV presenter from Facebook and YouTube is an assault on free speech and free expression which needs to be forcefully resisted, whatever your views are on Icke’s theories on world governance.
Clark, Neil: Don't watch RT!
Published: 2014
As RT UK launches, attacks on the channel in the British media have stepped up. The latest is a piece by Mr. Cyril Waugh-Monger, a very important newspaper columnist for the NeoCon Daily, a patron of the Senator Joe McCarthy Appreciation Society and author of 'Why the Iraq War was a Brilliant Idea' and 'The Humanitarian Case for Bombing Syria.'
Clark, Neil: 'Fake news' & 'post-truth' politics? What about those Iraqi WMDs?
Published: 2016
The people and the outlets warning of the dangers of 'fake news' and 'post-truth politics' have been the biggest peddlers of 'fake news' and 'post-truth politics' out there. It's like receiving lectures on the immorality of bootlegging from Al Capone.
Clark, Neil: Milosevic exonerated, as the NATO war machine moves on
Published: 2016
When Slobodan Milosevic, the former Present of Yugoslavia, was put on trial in 2002 for alleged war crimes, the Western mainstream media went into full hue-and-cry mode in denouncing the man they called "The Butcher of the Balkans." Milosevic's guilt was taken as a given. Anyone who dared to challenge the NATO line was labeled a Milosevic apologist, or a genocide denier, Now, fourteen years later, and ten years after Milosevic died in a prison cell in The Hague without ever having been convicted of anything, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has quietly issued a report which states that, er, well actually, Milosevic was not guilty. That piece of news has been met with complete silence in the same media that trumpted Milosevic's guilt.
Clark, Neil: Repeat after me, protests in Venezuela good, protests in France bad!
Published: 2019
Anti-government protests in Venezuela and France are treated differently because of the interests the respective presidents - and their opposition - represent.
Clark, Neil: Soros & the £400k Question: What constitutes 'foreign interference' in democracy?
Published: 2018
The news that US billionaire Soros donated £400k to an anti-Brexit group came on the day that YouTube said they found no evidence of Russian interference in Brexit.
Clark, Neil: What if the world started using US logic in its relations with America?
Published: 2018
You're sanctioned! You’re bombed! You're invaded! The US has plenty of punishments lined up for states which it claims are doing things wrong. But what if the rest of the world held the US to the same standards?
Clark, Nick: How 'dark fishing' sails below the radar to plunder the oceans
Billions of dollars in illegal and unregulated fish supplies are mixed with legal catches and smuggled into the market.
Published: 2020
In September 2019, the Greenpeace campaign ship Arctic Sunrise was scanning the mid-Atlantic ocean, thousands of kilometres from anywhere. On board, investigators were looking for vessels that were doing their best not to be found.
Clark, Warren: Goodbye Welfare, Hello Workfare
Published: 2012
The world’s richest countries are coercing their citizens to ‘donate’ their labour to big businesses and other organizations in return for welfare payments.
Clarke, Arthur C.: Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
Clarke, Ben: In new book, Ilan Pappé says settler colonialism and apartheid best explain Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Published: 2016
An analysis of Ilan Pappe's new book, Israel and South Africa - The Many Faces of Apartheid, and how Israel's settler colonization of Palestinians is similar to apartheid in South Africa.
Clarke, George Elliott: Odysseys Home
Mapping African - Canadian Literature
Published: 2002
Clarke, Joe Sandler: Scientists: protect vast Amazon peatland to avoid palm oil 'environmental disaster'
A recently discovered peatland in northeast Peru contains two years worth of US carbon emissions, writes Joe Sandler Clarke, but it's under
Published: 2017
The peatland in Pastaza-Marañón Foreland Basin in northeast Peru - discovered in 2009 by Finnish scientist Outi Lähteenoja - is said to contain 3.14 gigatons of carbon, roughly equivalent to two years of CO2 emissions from the United States. Scientists have said that economic development in the region, like road-building and the arrival of commercial agriculture threatens the important ecosystem.
Clarke, Joe Sandler; Howard, Emma: US plastic waste is causing global environmental crisis
Published: 2018
A recent ban in China, which normally takes in the largest proportion of US plastic waste, has left the US dumping plastic in other over-burdened countries, while waste still continues to pile up in the States. US plastic scrap exports dropped by almost a third in the first six months of 2018, as waste firms struggled to find a home for their plastic scrap.
Claser, April: Campus Activism Against NSA Spying is Growing Fast
Published: 2014
EFF has been on the road, traveling to cities and towns across the country to bring our message of digital rights and reform to community and student groups. And while we had the tremendous opportunity to talk about our work and our two lawsuits against the NSA, the best part of the trip was learning about all of the inspiring and transformative activism happening everyday on the local level to combat government surveillance and defend our digital rights.
Clastres, Genevieve: Memory as paying business
Getting a battlefield, the site of tragedy or a memorial museum onto Unesco's World Heritage List is now a shrewd way to increase tourist
Published: 2015
A look at how memorials and sites of great tragedy are now being exploited for financial gain as tourist destinations.
Claudio Laugeri: Bomb in hard disk sent to Italian newspaper journalist reporting on protests
Published: 2013
A bomb concealed as a hard disk could have killed someone: 120 grams of explosive powder were pressed inside a hard disk, which also had a small cable for connecting it to a computer. It was addressed to our colleague Massimo Numa, who has been reporting for some time on Susa Valley and No TAV [High Speed train] issues.
Clement, Dominique: The October Crisis of 1970
Human Rights Abuses Under the War Measures Act
Published: 2008
Published in Journal of Canadian studies, 42.2 (Spring 2008)
Clements, Nicholas: Tasmania's Black War: a tragic case of lest we remember
Published: 2017
Tasmania’s Black War (1824-31) was the most intense frontier conflict in Australia's history. It was a clash between the most culturally and technologically dissimilar humans to have ever come into contact. At stake was nothing less than control of the country, and the survival of a people.
Cleveland, John W: New Left, not New Liberal
1960s Movements in English Canada and Quebec
Published: 2004
Published in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 41 (February, 2004)
Clift, Elayne: War and Women's Rights
What Does the Future Hold for Afghan Women?
Published: 2014
A discussion of the history, current status, and future of women's rights in Afghanistan.
Clifton, Sarah-Jayne: Argentina is Right to Stand up to Greedy US Vultures
Published: 2014
Although in a precarious position after a US court ruling on debt repayments, Argentina must put its economy and people first.
Climate and Energy: The new conquistadors making their presence felt at COP20 in Peru
Published: 2014
A new report released at COP20 by CEO, the Democracy Center and Transnational Institute shows how corporations causing social and environmental destruction in the Andes and Amazon are driving climate change, whilst enjoying influential seats at the climate-negotiating table.
Climate Smart Agriculture Concerns: No to 'Climate Smart Agriculture', yes to agroecology
Published: 2015
Climate Smart Agriculture sounds like a great idea. But in truth it's a PR front for international agribusiness to promote corporate agriculture, pesticides and fertilisers at COP21, with a heavy dose of greenwash. Countries must resist the siren calls - and give their support to true agroecology that sustains soil, health, life and climate.
Climehaga, David: Welcome to the Orwellian world of Wildrose, where keeping your promises makes you a liar
Published: 2015
Notwithstanding the unexpected election of a New Democratic Party majority government in Alberta last May 5, 2015, it's pretty obvious a lot of Albertans -- especially the business crowd in Calgary -- still don’t really get this democracy thing.
Climenhaga, David J.: Alberta has only itself to blame for bitumen problems
Published: 2018
The article explains why Alberta has primarily itself to blame for the low price of its bitumen, a situation built on years of mismanagement in government and poor industry advice.
Climenhaga, David J.: The view from different planets
Connecting wildfires and climate change proscribed only on Planet Alberta
Published: 2017
The political discourse surrounding climate change and wildfires is almost nonexistent in Alberta.
Cloughe, Brian: Propaganda Feeds Fear and Loathing
Published: 2017
The disturbing and growing trend of misinformation in news reporting.
Cloughley, Brian: The Malevolent Hypocrisy of Selective Sanctions
Published: 2018
A look at why the US government is steadfast in its support of the Saudi dictatorship no matter what criminal excesses may be perpetrated by the Riyadh regime, while on the other hand it is determined to punish other countries like Cuba and Venezuela with severe economic sanctions.
Cloughley, Brian: NATO Prepares for War: Confrontation and Insanity
Published: 2016
The US-NATO military alliance is gearing up for war, and its meeting 8-9 July, 2016 is yet another step to nuclear confrontation and a gigantic leap backwards in world sanity. The gathering in Warsaw, capital of implacably anti-Russia Poland (NATO member since 1999, when the US-inspired military push towards Russia's borders gathered further momentum), is a symbol of Western determination to menace Moscow.
Cloughley, Brian: Russia Bashing: Hatred, Hysteria and Humbug
A Tale of Three Aircraft Tragedies
Published: 2014
It’s OK for the US to shoot down an Iranian airliner and kill 290 people — there’s never been an apology to the Iranian people for that war crime — but when there’s an opportunity to claim, to shriek, to propagandise at cyclone-level, that a disaster has occurred in which there just might be the tiniest chance to blame Russia, then there is clamour for investigation.
CNN/WKMG: Florida grandmother outraged after 6-year-old arrested for "tantrum"
Published: 2019
A Florida grandmother was shocked to find out her 6-year-old granddaughter had been arrested Thursday for throwing a tantrum.
Coalition for ethical psychology: Questions for the APA Board Regarding Claims in James Risen's Book "Pay Any Price"
Colluding With the CIA on Torture?
Published: 2014
In his new book Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, James Risen, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter, documents apparent collaboration between (American Psychological Association) APA leadership and the CIA to support psychologist participation in torture.
Cobain, Ian: CIA rendition: more than a quarter of countries 'offered covert support'
Published: 2013
Report finds at least 54 countries co-operated with global kidnap, detention and torture operation mounted after 9/11 attacks.
Cobain, Ian: Rendition ordeal raises new questions about secret trials
Fatima Bouchar's story reveals involvement of the British government
Published: 2012
Investigative reporting on the rendition (initiated by British intelligence officers) of Libyian Islamist militants who sought to oust Muammar Gaddafi.
Cobain, Ian; Norton-Taylor, Richard: Files that may shed light on colonial crimes still kept secret by UK
Published: 2013
Secret government files from the final years of the British empire are still being concealed despite a pledge by William Hague, the foreign secretary, that they would be declassified and opened to the public.
Cobain, Ian; Ross, Alice: Revealed: The British government's covert propaganda campaign in Syria
Published: 2020
The British government covertly established a network of citizen journalists across Syria during the early years of the country's civil war in an attempt to shape perceptions of the conflict, frequently recruiting people who were unaware that they were being directed from London.
Cobb, Kurt: Eternity, nature, society and the absurd fantasies of the rich
Published: 2018
The wealthier they are, the more they fear that others will try to take their wealth. No wonder the super-rich are building bunkers to escape the apocalypse.
Coblenz, Michael: Police and the American Mind
From "Broken Windows" to the "Thin Blue Line"
Published: 2015
Making sense of the events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York, by understanding two concepts. Firstly, the police believing themselves to be the thin blue line between civilization and chaos. Secondly, the "broken windows" theory of policing.
Coburn, Jean: Media Exposure
Published: 1997
Promoting your magazine on a shoestring.
Coburn, Jean: Review: Your Guide to Public Speaking
Published: 1997
A no-nonsense guide to public speaking.
Coburn, Jean: A Step-by-Step Guide to Being a Successful Consultant
Published: 1998
A practical guide to becoming a successful consultant.
Cochrane, Kira: Rise of the naked female warriors
Published: 2013
Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists' breasts obscuring the message?
Cockburn, Alexander: The Hate Crimes Bill: How Not to Remember Matthew Shepard
Published: 2009
The problem with the Hate Crimes Prevention Act is that it creates a thought crime and also categories of crime victims for disparate treatment. Goodbye to equality under the law.
Cockburn, Alexander: The Lies of Alan Dershowitz
Published: 1989
Cockburn, Alexander: Truth and Fiction in Elie Wiesel"s "Night"
Published: 2016
When in trouble, head for Auschwitz, preferably in the company of Elie Wiesel. It's as foolproof a character reference as is available today, at least within the Judeo-Christian sphere of moral influence.
Cockburn, Alexander ; St. Clair, Jeffrey: The American Way of Torture
The Rule of Law Went and Never Returned
Published: 2013
Torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal, vigorously applauded by prominent politicians.
Cockburn, Alexander; St. Clair, Jeffrey: The CIA and the Art of the "Un-Cover-Up"
Published: 2014
Down the decades the CIA has approached perfection in the art of the "un-cover-up". The "uncover-up" is a process whereby, with all due delay, the agency first denies with passion then concedes in profoundly muffled tones charges leveled against it. One familiar feature in the "uncover-up" paradigm is the frequently made statement by CIA-friendly journalists that "no smoking gun" has been detected in whatever probe is under review.
Cockburn, Alexander; St. Clair, Jeffrey: The Good War, Revisited
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor: What FDR Knew
Published: 2013
Each Pearl Harbor day offers a fresh opportunity for those who correctly believe that Franklin Roosevelt knew of an impending attack by the Japanese and welcomed it as a way of snookering the isolationists and getting America into the war.
cockburn, Alexander; St. Clair, Jeffrey: No-Fault Journalism at the New York Times
The Case of Wen Ho Lee
Published: 2014
The New York Times,?without whose agency Wen Ho Lee would never have spent a day in a prison cell,?perhaps not even have lost his job, is now, with consummate effrontery, urging?that an investigation of the bungled prosecution take place.
Cockburn, Alexander; St. Clair, Jeffrey: 100 Best Non-Fiction Books (in Translation) of the 20th Century... and Beyond
A CounterPunch Reading List
Published: 2014
As the clock clicked down on the arrival of the new millennium, Alex and I were bemused at the spate of “100 best of the century lists” pouring forth. The lists were predictable and not many of the entries remained on our groaning shelves. So we decided to compile our own catalogue of the best books written in English and, later translated into English, during the 20th Century. We spent weeks whittling it down to roughly 100 titles for each.
Cockburn, Alexander; St. Clair, Jeffrey: 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century (and Beyond) in English
A CounterPunch Reading List
Published: 2014
CounterPunch editors' list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the 20th century,originally compiled in 2004.
Cockburn, Alexander; St.clair, Jeffrey: Venezuela and the Imperial Script, 2004 Edition
The Coup Last Time
Published: 2014
The minute some halfway decent government in Latin America begins to reverse the order of things and give the have-nots a break from the grind of poverty and wretchedness, the usual suspects in El Norte rouse themselves from the slumber of indifference and start barking furiously about democratic norms. It happened in 1973 in Chile; we saw it again in Nicaragua in the 1980s; and here’s the same show on summer rerun in Venezuela, pending the August 15 recall referendum of President Hugo Chávez.
Cockburn, Andrew: Acceptable Losses
Aiding and abetting the Saudi slaughter in Yemen
Published: 2016
A close look at the crisis in Yemen, a country rife with povery and water shortages and further devastated by a prolonged campaign of bombing and military action.The military campaign, supported by the United States, is an effort by the Saudi governemnt to oust a tribal group in north Yemen who follow Zaidism, an off-shoot of Shia Islam.
Cockburn, Andrew: Agencies of Fear
Published: 2016
The article details an example of how little control the US administration can have over one of its agencies and the dangers and consequences of the situation.
Cockburn, Andrew: Assassination as Policy in Washington and How It Failed: 1990-2015
The Kingpin Strategy
Published: 2015
The "kingpin strategy" refers to the elimination of the kingpins dominating cartels. Cockburn analyzes how this method was used by the U.S. government, how it failed to work in the "drug war," and how its adoption, in the form of targeted assassinations in the "war on terror," has similarly been a failure.
Cockburn, Andrew: Down the Tube
Television, turnout, and the election-industrial complex
Published: 2016
Examining the election industry as comprised of media outlets and super PACs, and the diminishing effects of TV advertisements and coverage on voter turnout and engagement.
Cockburn, Andrew: Election Bias
The new playbook for voter suppression
Published: 2020
On the systemic/bureaucratic voter suppression of People of Color (POC) and working class communties in the United States.
Cockburn, Andrew: How to Start a Nuclear War
The increasingly direct road to ruin
Published: 2018
A chilling look at the security measures and processes behind the U.S. nuclear weapons system. The article examines how safeguards and procedures have evolved, including more recent efforts to curb the President's absolute authority to push the button.
Cockburn, Andrew: Mobbed Up
How America boosts the Afghan opium trade
Published: 2018
Touted by the US as fueling terrosism, the author takes a closer look at the opium trade in Afghanistan and reveals a situation far more complex; notably drug lords manipulating US commanders and Western involvement ironically creating explosive opium growth.
Cockburn, Andrew: The New Red Scare
Reviving the art of threat inflation
Published: 2016
An examination of miltary escalation through the Cold War, and how the United States continues to use 'threat inflation' as a means of increasing military spending by pointing towards China as well as renewing fears of Russia.
Cockburn, Andrew: Saving the Whale, Again
The catastrophic incompetence of Citigroup
Published: 2015
Cockburn discusses the financial recklessness of Citigroup bank and the repercussions.
Cockburn, Andrew: Swap Meet
Wall Street's war on the Volcker Rule
Published: 2018
A look at the opposition to the Volcker Rule, originally proposed by former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, which restricts US banks from making certain speculative investments that do not benefit customers.
Cockburn, Andrew: Tunnel Vision
Will the Air Force kill its most effective weapon?
Published: 2014
Should the U.S. Air Force A-10 attack planes should be eliminated?
Cockburn, Andrew: A Very Perfect Instrument
The ferocity and failure of America's sanctions apparatus
Published: 2013
Essay on the U.S. system of sanctions and its international negative repercussions.
Cockburn, Andrew: Victory Assured on the Military's Main Battlefield -- Washington
Published: 2016
When it comes to Pentagon weapons systems, have you ever heard of cost "underruns? I think not. Cost overruns? They turn out to be the unbreachable norm, as they seem to have been from time immemorial. In 1982, for example, the Pentagon announced that the cumulative cost of its 44 major weapons programs had experienced a "record" increase of $114.5 billion. Three decades later, in the spring of 2014, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the military’s major programs to develop new weapons systems -- by then 80 of them -- were a cumulative half-trillion dollars over their initial estimated price tags and on average more than two years delayed.
Cockburn, Andrew: Weed Whackers
Monsanto, glyphosate, and the war on invasive species
Published: 2015
On a Friday evening in January, a thousand people at the annual California Native Plant Society conference in San Jose settled down to a banquet and a keynote speech delivered by an environmental historian named Jared Farmer. His chosen topic was the eucalyptus tree and its role in California's ecology and history. The address did not go well.
Cockburn, Patirck: The Bankruptcy of the West's Syrian Policy
Factions on the Run
Published: 2013
The final bankruptcy of American and British policy in Syria came 10 days ago as Islamic Front, a Saudi-backed Sunni jihadi group, overran the headquarters of the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) at Bab al-Hawa on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey.
Cockburn, Patrick: Austerity Has Weakened Our Ability To Fight The COVID-19 Pandemic
Published: 2020
"I have delivered food parcels to four families this morning," says Paula Spencer, who runs the community centre in Thanington, a deprived district on the outskirts of Canterbury. Two of the families had called for help because they had symptoms of the coronavirus, and two simply needed food to eat.
Cockburn, Patrick: Britain is a Parasite on Other Countries
Published: 2021
Britain deliberately trains far fewer doctors and nurses than it needs. It makes up the difference by recruiting great numbers of trained medical staff from impoverished countries where they are already in critically short supply.
Cockburn, Patrick: Britain Refuses to Accept How Terrorists Really Work
Published: 2017
Self-interest is motive for the British government's portrayal of terrorism as essentially home-grown cancers within the Muslim community.
Cockburn, Patrick: Calling Assange a Narcissist Misses the Point
Published: 2019
Personal attacks on Assange are used to discredit his work publicizing war crimes and the truth behind pro-war propaganda.
Cockburn, Patrick: Capitol Riots Were a Dark Day for American Journalism
Published: 2021
An article critical of the news coverage surrounding the January 6, 2021 invasion of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. Cockburn argues that exaggerating the violence of the event threatens the credibility of the media and could justify repression by the government.
Cockburn, Patrick: Catastrophes on Camera
Why Media Coverage of Natural Disasters is Most So Bad
Published: 2010
The reporting of cataclysms or lesser disasters is often wildly misleading. Stereotyping is common: whichever the country involved, there are similar images of wrecked bridges, half-submerged houses and last-minute rescues. The scale of the disaster is difficult to assess from news coverage: are we seeing or reading about the worst examples of devastation, or are these the norm? Are victims in the hundreds or the millions?
Cockburn, Patrick: The Dangers of Embedded Journalism
A Distorted View of War
Published: 2010
Cockburn, Patrick: Despite Gaza Massacre, Israel Remains Immune From Criticism
Published: 2018
Imagine for a moment that it was not the two million Palestinian in Gaza, who are mostly refugees from 1948, but the six million Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan who had staged a march to return to the homes that they have lost in Syria since 2011. Suppose that, as they approach the Syrian border, they were fired on by the Syrian army and hundreds of them were killed or injured. The international outcry against the murderous Syrian regime in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin would have echoed around the world.
Cockburn, Patrick: The Easter Rising, My Grandfather and the Untold Story of Sir Roger Casement
Published: 2016
The 100th anniversary of the Easter uprising of 1916 saw the beginnings of a deeper appreciation of the achievements of Sir Roger Casement who was hanged as a traitor in Pentonville prison on 3 August 1916. Over the following century he has never lacked for notoriety, famous as an Irish patriotic martyr, but discussion of his life has frequently focused on his sexuality and revolved around the "Black Diaries" that were covertly used by the British government to blacken Casement's name and sabotage the campaign against his execution.
Cockburn, Patrick: Focusing Purely on Injustices in China and Russia with a Cold War Mindset Damages Human Rights Everywhere
Published: 2021
The essence of human rights propaganda is not lies or even exaggeration, but selectivity.
Cockburn, Patrick: Gangsterism as Foreign Policy: Assassinations are Becoming the New Norm
Published: 2020
State-sponsored assassinations employ the methods of gangsterism and discredit and delegitimise those who use them.
Cockburn, Patrick: Grenfell Tower: the Tragic Price of the Rolled-Back State
Published: 2017
The British state used to be better organised and effective, but self-interested denigration of the state over the past 30 years has helped erode these strengths, leaving authorities less equiped to handle emergencies such as Grenfell tower disaster.
Cockburn, Patrick: The Hate Preachers Fueling Sectarianism
Al Qaeda's Second Act
Published: 2014
On the public support systems, media presence, and propaganda of a second wave of fundamentalist jihadist organizations.
Cockburn, Patrick: How Israel Spins War Crimes
The Secret Report That Helps Israelis Cover Atrocities
Published: 2014
Israeli spokesmen have their work cut out explaining how they have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, compared with just three civilians killed in Israel by Hamas rocket and mortar fire. But on television and radio and in newspapers, Israeli government spokesmen such as Mark Regev appear slicker and less aggressive than their predecessors, who were often visibly indifferent to how many Palestinians were killed.
Cockburn, Patrick: How NGOs Failed Afghanistan
"They Killed Every Incentive to Farm"
Published: 2014
On the failures, opportunities, and complications of international aid with a particular focus on Afghanistan. Includes a discussion of a successful canal-building effort in Lower Shabelle province, Somalia -- a project run not by NGOs but a local al-Qa'ida affiliate.
Cockburn, Patrick: How Syria's Secular Uprising Was Hijacked by Jihadists
Al Qaeda's Second Act
Published: 2014
On Syria's descent into a sectarian civil war.
Cockburn, Patrick: How the West's Economic Sanctions are Inflicting Suffering on Ordinary Syrians
Published: 2016
The US and EU economic sanctions on Syria are causing huge suffering among ordinary Syrians and preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid, according to a leaked UN internal report.
Cockburn, Patrick: In Middle East Wars It Pays to be Skeptical
Published: 2018
In the context of Western air strikes on alleged Syrian biological weapons sites on 14 April, 2018, the history of the bombing of the Abu Ghraib baby milk factory in 1991 underscores the need for permanent scepticism towards claims by U.S. and Western governments that they know exactly what is happening on the ground in Syria.
Cockburn, Patrick: ISIS Thrives on the Disunity of Its Enemies
Published: 2015
The aftermath of terrorist attacks such as the massacre in Paris are a bad time to produce new policies, but they provide ideal political conditions for a government to take radical, if ill-thought-out, initiatives. Leaders are carried away by a heady sense of empowerment as a worried or frightened public demands that something be done in response to calamity and to prevent it happening again. The moment of greatest risk is not when the bombs explode or the guns fire, but when governments react to these atrocities.
Cockburn, Patrick: It's Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes
Published: 2018
Cockburn argues that economic sanctions impose collective punishment on the general population rather than targetting the people in power.
Cockburn, Patrick: Luring Doctors from Poorer Countries is the UK's Quiet Scandal
Published: 2022
The United Kingdom brings in medical professionals from poor and middle-income countries to make up for their shortage while disintergrating these countries' health systems.
Cockburn, Patrick: More Propaganda Than News Coming Out of Aleppo
Published: 2016
The dominance of propaganda over news in coverage of the war in Syria.
Cockburn, Patrick: The Nature of War Has Changed
The Vicious Forces of Sectarian Strife
Published: 2014
A new kind of war is developing. It is very different from the mass conflict of the First World War when governments mobilised millions of men and vast industrial resources. Wars have got smaller, but are equally and, on occasions, more vicious than in the past.
Cockburn, Patrick: The Newsfakers
Whose hands are behind those dramatic YouTube pictures?
Published: 2012
YouTube and blogs have made it easier than ever to fabricate events. The media are happy to run unsubstantiated reports and footage.
Cockburn, Patrick: A Plague of Rats: How Years of Austerity Prompted Many Britons to Vote for Brexit
Published: 2019
Many Britons in poor areas voted for Brexit even though they benefited financially from the EU. Though often blamed on fear of immigration it is also a result of discontent brought on by severe austerity and privatization.
Cockburn, Patrick: The Real Modi: Do the Killings of Muslims Represent India's Kristallnacht?
Published: 2020
On 23 February 2020 in Delhi, Hindu nationalist mobs roamed the streets burning and looting mosques together with Muslim homes, shops and businesses. They killed or burned alive Muslims who could not escape and the victims were largely unprotected by the police.
Cockburn, Patrick: Refugees Are in the Channel Thanks to the Actions of the West
Published: 2019
The outcome of Western military and economic interventions in the Middle East and North Africa have caused the outflow of refugees from zones of conflict.
Cockburn, Patrick: The Repression in Bahrain
Published: 2016
Bahrainis are calling their government's intensified repression of all opposition "the Egyptian strategy", believing that it is modelled on the ruthless campaign by the Egyptian security forces to crush even the smallest signs of dissent.
Cockburn, Patrick: Robert Fisk had True Independence of Mind, Which is Why He Angered Governments and Parts of the Media
Published: 2020
At the heart of Fisk's journalism was relentless and meticulous eyewitness reporting of events, a refusal to see complex conflicts in terms of black and white, while not surrendering to moral indifference and keeping a sense of outrage when confronted with real evil. Above all, perhaps, he showed an unbending refusal to back down when what he said was being denied, denounced or ignored by politicians and the media.
Cockburn, Patrick: Russia-Ukraine is an Information War, So Government Intelligence Needs More Scrutiny Than Ever
Published: 2022
Cockburn, Patrick: The Russian Dossier Reminds Me of the Row Over Saddam's WMDs
Published: 2017
The conclusions reached in the Trump dossier claim to be based on multiple sources of information where, in the nature of things, they are unlikely to exist.
Cockburn, Patrick: The Seizure of an Iranian Tanker and the Lethal Toll of Sanctions
Published: 2019
Sanctions against Syria are having a disastrous effect on the population. Comparisons to Iraq during the 1990s by someone who was there show the historic failure and potential further consequences of sanctions.
Cockburn, Patrick: A Shameful Silence: Where is the Outrage Over the Slaughter of Civilians in Mosul?
Published: 2017
The catastrophic number of civilian casualties in Mosul is receiving little attention internationally from politicians and journalists. This is in sharp contrast to the outrage expressed worldwide over the bombardment of east Aleppo by Syrian government and Russian forces at the end of 2016.
Cockburn, Patrick: Syrian Minority Fear the End of Fighting More Than War Itself
Persecution of the Christians
Published: 2012
If the opposition National Coalition, recognised by 130 countries as the legitimate government of Syria, does ultimately take power then its most effective fighting force will be Jadhat al-Nusra, with an ideology similar to al-Qa’ida. It is prospects like this that fill Syrian Christians with alarm.
Cockburn, Patrick: This is why everything you’ve read about the wars in Syria and Iraq could be wrong
Published: 2016
A description of how much of the coverage of the wars in Syria and Iraq is second-hand reporting, due to the dangers posed, and subject to political bias and propaganda.
Cockburn, Patrick: Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'
Published: 2010
The shocking rates of infant mortality and cancer in Iraqi city raise new questions about the battle.
Cockburn, Patrick: Treating Mental Health Patients as Criminals
Published: 2017
The criminalisation of the mentally ill is one of the cruellest and most easily avoidable tragedies of our era.
Cockburn, Patrick: Trump Is the Only One Losing Out by Refusing to Certify the Iran Deal
Published: 2017
As President Trump withdraws certification of the nuclear agreement with Iran, commentators across the world struggled for words to adequately convey their outrage and contempt. A favourite term to describe Trump is as "a wrecking ball", but the phrase suggests a sense of direction and capacity to strike a target which Trump does not possess.
Cockburn, Patrick: Trump v. the Media: a Fight to the Death
Published: 2017
At present, this is a golden era in American journalism, because established media outlets such as CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post find themselves under unprecedented and open attacks from the powers that be. Richard Nixon may have felt persecuted by press and television, but he never counter-attacked with the same vigour and venom as Trump.
Cockburn, Patrick: Trump's Muslim Ban Will Only Spark More Terrorist Attacks
Published: 2017
Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and visitors from seven Muslim countries entering the US makes a terrorist attack on Americans at home or abroad more rather than less likely. It does so because one of the main purposes of al-Qaeda and Isis in carrying out atrocities is to provoke an over-reaction directed against Muslim communities and states.
Cockburn, Patrick: A Turkey Divided by Erdogan Will Become Prey to Its Enemies
Published: 2017
What critics claim is the openly fraudulent Turkish referendum ends parliamentary democracy in the country and gives President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dictatorial powers. The most unexpected aspect of the poll on Sunday was not the declared outcome, but that the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) allegedly found it necessary to fix the vote quite so blatantly.
Cockburn, Patrick: US, UK and France 'Inflicted Worst Destruction in Decades on Raqqa'
Published: 2018
Amnesty International reports that air and artillery strikes by the US and allies inflicted devastating loss of life on civilians in the Isis-held city of Raqqa. It is a report that contradicts claims by the US, Britain and France, that they precisely targeted Isis fighters and positions during the four month siege.
Cockburn, Patrick: We Know What Inspired the Manchester Attack, We Just Won't Admit It
Published: 2017
Not blaming Muslims in general but targeting "radicalisation" or simply "evil" may appear sensible and moderate, but in practice it makes the motivation of the killers in Manchester or the Bataclan theatre in Paris in 2015 appear vaguer and less identifiable than it really is.
Cockburn, Patrick: The West Failed to Learn the Most Important Lessons From the Rise and Fall of ISIS
Published: 2019
The attempted coup in Venezuela today is an example of imperial overreach western governments displayed in the Middle East.
Cockburn, Patrick: Where War Reporting Goes Wrong
A Diary of Four Wars
Published: 2013
The four recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria have been propaganda wars in which newspaper, television and radio journalists played a central role. In all wars there is a difference between reported news and what really happened, but during these four campaigns the outside world has been left with misconceptions even about the identity of the victors and the defeated.
Cockburn, Patrick: Why Do They Hate George Galloway So Much?
Published: 2012
The ferocity of the attacks on George Galloway by the British commentariat is one of the most revealing outcomes of his victory in the Bradford West by-election.
Cockburn, Patrick: Why ISIS Fighters are Being Thrown Off Buildings in Mosul
Published: 2017
The suspicion by Iraqi soldiers and militiamen that their own government is too corrupt to keep captured Isis fighters in detention is one reason why prisoners are being killed.
Cockburn, Patrick: Why the US is Persecuting Assange
Published: 2019
Governments don't like it when reporters disclose secrets that impede their preferred narrative. This article draws parallels between Assange and the work of Yemeni reporter Maad al-Zikry.
Cockburn, Patrick: Why the Vikings Were Feared
Nazis of the North
Published: 2014
Journalism is said to be the first draft of history, but it is often disappointing to find that the second or third drafts, by historians, move little further in establishing the truth about what happened.
Cockburn, Patrick: Why the War on Terror Went Wrong
Al Qaeda's Second Act
Published: 2014
Al-Qa’ida-type organisations, with beliefs and methods of operating similar to those who carried out the 9/11 attacks, have become a lethally powerful force from the Tigris to the Mediterranean in the past three years.
Cody, Anthony: The Gates Foundation's Leveraged Philanthropy
Corporate Profit Versus Humanity on Three Fronts
Published: 2012
Gates' leveraged philanthropy model is a public-private partnership to improve the world, partly through targeted research support but principally through public advocacy and tax-free lobbying to influence government policy. The goal of these policies is often to explicitly support profitability for corporate investors, whose enterprises are seen by the Gates Foundation as advancing human good. However, maximum corporate profit and public good often clash when its projects are implemented.
Cohen, Abel: Thank Russia for Winning World War II
Published: 2019
Our Soviet allies barely held on alone for three years against Hitler, yet conventional wisdom is that we won the war because we equipped Soviets to die for us. This is propaganda – the USSR bore more than 90% of its own wartime industrial burden.
Cohen, Abel: Thank Russia for Winning World War II
Published: 2019
Cohen, Dan: These are the Israeli leaders who want to destroy al-Aqsa
Published: 2017
The recent violence at the al-Aqsa temple and subsequent response by Israeli leadership underscores the belief that the intent is to replace the Muslim holy site as part of the broader agenda of Israeli sovereignty.
Cohen, Dan; Blumenthal, Max: Killing Gaza
A documentary film about life under siege
Published: 2018
Independent journalists Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen documented Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza during the war, and chronicled its horrific aftermath. As they waded through the rubble of Gaza’s destroyed border regions, they turned a camera onto the survivors of the slaughter and let them speak for themselves. Dan returned, week after week, to capture on film the daily struggles of the people of Gaza as they suffered through one of the worst winters in recorded history, and then weathered the sweltering summer heat without electricity and -- in many cases -- without homes. While giving voice to the pain of a people under siege, Cohen and Blumenthal also highlighted Gazans’ inspiring acts of creative resistance, from painting to break-dancing to literature, that allow them maintain their humanity in the face of deprivation and war. Yet this film is much more than a documentary about Palestinian resilience and suffering. It is a chilling visual document of war crimes committed by the Israeli military, featuring direct testimony and evidence from the survivors.
Cohen, Jeff: If U.S. Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different?
Snowden Coverage
Published: 2013
The Edward Snowden leaks have revealed a U.S. corporate media system at war with independent journalism. Many of the same outlets that missed the Wall Street meltdown and cheer-led the Iraq invasion have come to resemble state-controlled media outlets in their near-total identification with the government.
Cohen, Jeff: Mainstream Media Bias on 2020 Democratic Race Already in High Gear
Published: 2019
Mainstream media pundits undermine the chances of progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders despite the defeat of centrist politicians by the right.
Cohen, Jeff: What George Carlin Taught Us about Media Propaganda by Omission
Published: 2019
In the old George Carlin joke, the TV sportscaster announces: "Here's a partial score from the West Coast – Los Angeles 6." For a brilliant comedian like Carlin -- who skewered corporate power, class structure and political/media propaganda – that's one of his more innocuous jokes. But it's sharply relevant today as corporate TV news outlets serve up a series of partial scores. Call it 'propaganda by omission.'
Cohen, Jeff: What Indy Media Heroes Can Teach Us
Published: 2008
Independent journalists should not go silent or soft because of an election result or a change of parties in power.
Cohen, Jeff: When CNN Introduces Bernie-Bashers Only as "Former," CNN is Lying to You
Published: 2020
On Wednesday night, CNN's Don Lemon hosted ubiquitous Bernie Sanders-basher Jim Messina – solo, without an opposing view – to slam Sanders and his Medicare for All proposal. Messina was introduced and repeatedly identified only by his former positions: "Former Obama Campaign Manager" and "Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Obama Administration."
Cohen, Mitchel: A Tale of Two Citations: Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and Michael Harrington's "The Other America"
Contrasting Lessons for Activists
Published: 2019
Looking at the forgotten, more radical aspects of Carson's "Silent Spring." Compares it with other, less radical works that were more easily co-opted by governments looking to appease new social and environmental movements.
Cohen, Noah: The Arrest and Detention of Amer Jubran
This is Not News
Published: 2014
Amer Jubran might sit indefinitely in detention without charges. Or he may be brought up at any time and charged with “terrorism” before the State Security Court, a rubber stamp court. If so, his lawyer might be told the charges a day or two before the sham trial, which then leads to inevitable conviction–a mere formality. Only a concerted political campaign that gets widespread international attention can make any difference. It’s up to us to create enough visibility to make that possible.
Cohen, Rachel M.; Dayen, David: Amazon HQ2 Will Cost Taxpayers at Least $4.6 Billion, More Than Twice What the Company Claimed, New Study Shows
Published: 2018
In addition to the billions in local government subsidies Amazon stands to gain from Federal Opportunity Zones. Researchers who have studied opportunity zones find that these tax schemes rarely ever help cities, and often financially cripple them.
Cohen, Ran Ha: The Flotilla In The Israeli Press
Published: 2010
An analysis of Israeli media propaganda in the wake of Israel's attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
Cohen, Robert: British MPs won't get to see 'WitchHunt' in the House of Commons - the very place it needs to be shown
Published: 2019
A screening of a documentary - made by Jewish Labour party members - about charges of anti-semitism in the British Labour Party has been cancelled.
Cohen, Robert A.H: As Jews, We'll Never Address Racism While Clinging To Zionism
Published: 2020
If you can't make the connections, it’s best to keep quiet. If you can’t see how your own views on related matters may defeat your credibility, then say nothing. If you think someone else is being racist but you’re only concerned about security, you need to do some serious study and a bit of self-reflection. Otherwise, you end up looking disingenuous, or foolish, or both.
Cohen, Sheila: Glaberman and Faber's Working for Wages - Book Review
Published: 1999
Working for Wages: The Roots of Insurgency by Martin Glaberman and Seymour Faber (Dix Hills, NY: General Hall, Inc., 1998) $26.95 paperback. OVER THE LAST few years I have been privileged to teach a number of basic economics courses to trade unionists-"privileged" because in every case the students' experience, their awareness and critical understanding of what goes on in their lives, has provided a rich fund of knowledge of which I have become in my turn a grateful student.
Cohen, Sheila: How British Labor Declined: Cowley from the Inside - Book Review
Published: 1998
Inside Cowley: Trade Union Struggle in the 1970s by Alan Thornett (London: Porcupine Press, 1998) 407 pages, $20 paperback.*
Cohen, Stanley: In the Matter of the International Community v Israel
Published: 2015
In its first full week of a "new" get tough policy, almost 500 young Palestinian demonstrators were injured, shot and maimed, and at least three teens murdered in response to what Israel sees as a rising tide of "militant" resistance against the illegally occupied and, by now, almost completely annexed West Bank.
Cohen, Stanley L: Israel and Academic Freedom: a Closed Book
Published: 2016
It’s not by accident that free speech and association is under attack from coast to coast in ways unseen since the academic purges that targeted largely "radical" Jews of the 1950's brought to us by a guy named McCarthy. He too had this notion that good thought must necessarily adhere to a checklist of sanitized ideas. That safe speech and association demanded a line of logic dictated by the powerful and pervasive.
Cohen, Stanley L.: The Attack on Al Jazeera
Published: 2017
Since its genesis, Al-Jazeera has served as much more than a mere signpost of speech or thought... popular or otherwise. Its existence, alone, stands as a safety valve against those closed societies that embrace repression as so much a check against the light of day of which they fear. Al-Jazeera's availability throughout the Middle East changed its information landscape ... introducing a level of freedom of speech, on TV, that was previously unheard of in the region.
Cohen, Stanley L.: Guilty as Charged
Published: 2024
This is a hallmark crossroad: a generational test of time and purpose and a profound challenge for all those yet to come. In the presence of indisputable overwhelming evidence of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity, we are painfully, perhaps predictably, witness to collective inaction by the United Nations and other international bodies and tribunals that preach from on high while perched as little more than silent witness to unspeakable Israeli crimes.
Cohen, Stanley L.: Israeli Justice... a Futile Chase
Published: 2020
Seventeen years ago, 23 year old Rachel Corrie (a Washington State volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement) was crushed to death by an armoured military bulldozer as she stood on top of a mound of dirt trying to prevent the dozer from destroying a civilian home in the Southern Gaza Strip village of Rafa.
Cohen, Stanley L.: On Resistance: BDS and Israel's Declining Support Among Diaspora Jews
Published: 2018
Like its predecessor movement decades ago in South Africa, assessing the success of BDS against Israel today necessarily rubs up against the tension between Israeli Hasbara (propaganda) and its reality as an effective organizing tool against it throughout the world.
Cohen, Stephen F.: Washington's Dr. Strangeloves: Is plunging Russia into darkness really a good idea
Published: 2019
US cyber attacks on Russia's power grid, reportedly done without the president's knowledge, are part of a historic pattern of US/Russian relations being sabotaged US defense and intelligence agencies.
Cohn, Cindy: Stronger Locks, Better Security
Published: 2015
What if, in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris, or cybersecurity attacks on companies and government agencies, the FBI had come to the American people and said: In order to keep you safe, we need you to remove all the locks on your doors and windows and replace them with weaker ones. It's because, if you were a terrorist and we needed to get to your house, your locks might slow us down or block us entirely. So Americans, remove your locks! And American companies: stop making good locks!
Cohn, Cindy; Newitz, Annalee: Noncommercial Email Lists: Collateral Damage in the Fight Against Spam
Published: 2004
In their zeal to stop spam, many organizations and companies are blocking the delivery of wanted messages, especially those sent through email lists. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that most blocking processes are not transparent to the email sender or recipient, and email users are generally given little or no control over which emails are blocked.
Cohn, Marjorie: Assange Is Free: Here's What He’s Given Us
Published: 2024
Contrary to U.S. government claims, WikiLeaks’ revelations actually saved lives -- and drove demand for accountability from Washington.
Cohn, Marjorie: Assange's Indictment Treats Journalism as a Crime
Published: 2019
The charges against Assange send a message to journalists that they are in danger for doing their jobs. The UK can and should deny extradition of Assange to the US.
Cohn, Marjorie: BDS: Non-Violent Resistance to Israeli Occupation
Is Israel Running Scared?
Published: 2014
An outline of the extent and support/opposition of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid, including a discussion of claims that the campaign is anti-Semitic.
Cohn, Marjorie; Moore, Jonathan: The Vietnam War is Not History for Victims of Agent Orange
Published: 2017
Nearly 58,000 Americans and 2 to 3 million Vietnamese, many of them civilians, were killed in the war. Untold numbers were wounded. Many US veterans of the war suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. More US Vietnam War vets have committed suicide than died in the war. However, those numbers do not begin to tell the complete story of the war.
Cohn, Martin Regg: Hudak's PCs play with fire by playing the 'foreign' card
Published: 2011
Tory Leader Tim Hudak has either tapped into a deep vein of voter resentment against recent immigrants, or taken a detour -- possibly a U-turn -- that has thrown his campaign off course after two years of meticulous preparations. I can't recall ever seeing the normally mild-mannered Hudak more impassioned than when he railed against "foreign workers' in stump speeches across Eastern Ontario. Speaking to relatively sparse crowds of predominantly white, rural, older Progressive Conservative supporters, he claimed they were being disadvantaged by a nefarious Liberal affirmative action scheme to help outsiders.... Yet after reaching out to cultural communities for two years, and boasting that he's translated his platform into 15 foreign languages, Hudak has changed his tune. He still extolls his own Slovak roots, but stresses that his grandfather arrived here without much English or money -- and never took handouts.
Colchester, Marcus: Palm Oil company plan to slow deforestation 'another land-grab'
Published: 2014
A palm oil company's 'forest conservation' programme in Indonesia has ended up being a second land grab, seizing resources from local communities' control.
Cole, Juan: IS and climate change - an inconvenient truth for Republicans
Published: 2015
US Democratic presidential contender Martin O’Malley sparked controversy last month by saying that the conditions for the rise of the so-called Islamic State (IS, also known as Isil, Isis or Da'esh) were set by the impact on Syria of climate change, which drove farmers from their land into slums around cities and created extreme poverty.
Cole, Teju: Unmournable Bodies
Published: 2015
More than a dozen people were killed by terrorists in Paris this week. The victims of these crimes are being mourned worldwide: they were human beings, beloved by their families and precious to their friends.
Coleen, Jose; Wall, Kim; Hinzel, Jan H.: This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste - and it's leaking
Published: 2015
The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is a hulking legacy of years of US nuclear testing. Now locals and scientists are warning that rising sea levels caused by climate change could cause 111,000 cubic yards of debris to spill into the ocean.
Coleman, Lara Montesinos: Big Oil's Ethical Violence
BP and the Armed Suppression of Dissent in Colombia
Published: 2015
To challenge impunity is not just to attempt to confine abuses to the past. It serves to expose crimes committed, to preserve memory of the past within the present, and to highlight contradictions between corporate recognition of rights and an economic model that has implied the systematic violation and dispossession of workers and populations around the oilfields. It is part of a process of re-building communities and social organisations wiped out by the violence.
Coleman, William: The Class Bases of Language Policy in Quebec, 1949 - 1975
Published: 1980
Published in Studies in Political Economy 3 (1980)
Coles, Nick: Climate Change as a Class Issue
Published: 2013
Protesting PNC Bank in Pittsburgh financing of mountain-top removal (MTR) coal mining across Appalachia. MTR causes increased cancer rates and birth defects, as well as massive environmental degradation.
Coles, T. J.: Infiltrating Antifa: the Feds and Their Long History of Subversion
Published: 2020
On May 31st, 2020, President Trump (or his people) tweeted: “The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.” Attorney General, William Barr, said: “The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly.”
Coles, T. J.: A new generation of US-trained extremists is fighting Russia. Are we prepared for the blowback?
Published: 2022
US agencies have directly and indirectly trained and empowered Nazis and ultra-nationalists at home and abroad to fight Russians in Ukraine. This program follows the blueprint established by Western intelligence agencies in Afghanistan and Syria.
Coles, T.J.: The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn
Published: 2018
A look at the reporting of 'fake news' by the BBC, which has no legal obligation to give its audience any information about its sources and seemingly has legal protection from scrutiny.
Coles, T.J.: How Much Do Humans Pollute? A Breakdown of Industrial, Vehicular and Household C02 Emissions
Published: 2019
Modified excerpt from author's new book, Privatized Planet: "Free Trade" as a Weapon Against Democracy, Healthcare and the Environment.
Coles, T.J.: Propaganda of omission: Britain's role in Rohingya genocide absent from UK reports
Published: 2019
The British military supports the Myanmar army with training. While coverage of Myanmar violence against innocent Rohingya is covered the media say little about British involvement and politicians find ways to excuse it.
Coles, T.J.: Robot Trolls on Amazon: How Fake Reviews Could Undermine Progressive Politics
Published: 2019
In the pursuit of profit, corporations appear to be using bots to undermine competitors on Amazon, as they do on Twitter and Facebook. This could have detrimental effects on progressive authors and filmmakers who, in the absence of major corporate backing, need the support of reviewers -- at least on Amazon -- in order to boost their marketability.
Collier, Victoria: Citizens Mobilize Against Corporate Water Grabs
A Human Right, Not a Commodity
Published: 2015
New Jersey became the latest state to subvert democracy by authorizing the fast-track sale or lease of water utilities without public notice, comment, or approval. The controversial decision highlights the intensifying struggle over who owns, controls, and profits from the most precious - and threatened - resource on Earth.
Collier, Victoria: Citizens worldwide mobilize against corporate water grabs
Published: 2015
The US and other governments are pushing a failed model of water privatization, but water is a human right, not just a commodity to be traded for profit or monopolized by corporations. Citizens and communities are fighting back to reclaim their water commons.
Collins, Craig: Overlooking the Obvious With Naomi Klein
Climate, Capitialism and the Left
Published: 2014
The lesson that Naomi Klein overlooks seems clear. Climate chaos is just one DEVASTATING symptom of our dysfunctional society. To survive catabolic capitalism and germinate an alternative, movement activists will have to anticipate and help people respond to multiple crises while organizing them to recognize and root out their source.
Collins, Michael: Radical chic' and the left's problem with race
White, middle-class left-wingers are still in thrall to age-old prejudices.
Published: 2022
"If you believe that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards", Thomas Sowell has said, "that would have gotten you labelled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today".
Collyns, Dan: Illegal loggers remain hidden in Peru's forest but timber finds global buyers
Published: 2014
State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum.
Comely Beattie, Missy: When Thoughtful People Think Illogically
Published: 2016
This man with whom I corresponded believes Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon were staged and that those involved, even the children, are "crisis actors" -- employed by a government whose aim is seizing guns, passing gun control laws, and creating a climate of fear. I asked about hospital staff, those who treat the injured and the spokesperson that provides information about a patient's condition. His answer, "Crisis actors."
Comittee to Protect Journalists: Al-Jazeera cameraman killed in shelling in Syria
Published: 2015
Al-Asfar was a 19 year old cameraman who was killed by artillery fire as he was covering the war in Syria. Whether or not he was deliberately targeted remains a mystery.
Comittee to Protect Journalists: Editor of Chinese website, missing for a month, arrested on anti-state charges
Published: 2015
An editor and secretary-general of a human rights group in China has been was abducted and charged with "inciting subversion of state power" by the Chinese government. The chinese government is infamous for using this charge to silence dissenting journalists.
Comittee to Protect Journalists: Hong Kong must identify, prosecute the mastermind of 2014 attack on journalist Kevin Lau
Published: 2015
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Hong Kong to work quickly and efficiently to identify the mastermind of the February 2014 attack on newspaper editor Kevin Lau Chun-to and ensure there is full justice in the case. Two men identified as Yip Kim-wah and Wong Chi-wah were found guilty today of "causing grievous bodily harm and stealing a motorcycle" in the assault, but have refused to say who ordered the attack, reports said.
Comley Beattie, Missy: Say 'I Love You'
Published: 2018
A commentary on the issue of gun violence in schools in the United States, and the current lack of leadership which narrowly places blame on the shooter rather than tackle the more complex issues and policies which could make a difference.
Commins, Karen: Authors, Can You Afford to Produce an Audiobook?
Published: 2016
Karen Commins, a professional audiobook narrator,gives tips to authors who want to produce audiobooks.
Committee to Protect Journalists: Mastermind behind murder of human rights lawyer, journalist, sentenced to life in prison
Published: 2015
The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the sentencing to life in prison today of a Russian nationalist leader in connection with the 2009 fatal attack on human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, in which Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasiya Baburova was also killed.
Committee to Protect Journalists: Tunisia charges editor with complicity in terrorist attack
Published: 2015
Tunisian authorities should drop charges against an editor accused of complicity in the June 27 terrorist attack on Sousse beach that killed at least 39 people.
Commoner, Barry: Barry Commoner Quotes
Commoner, Barry: Ecology and Social Action
Published: 1973
That there is an important connection between ecology and social action is now self-evident. There seems little reason to doubt that there is some connection between what ecology tells us about the degraded quality of life and the social action needed to improve it.
Commoner, Barry: The Illusion of Consumer Sovereignty
Published: 2010
I tend to see the issue as social, economic, and political. I simply refuse to blame us consumers.
Commonwealth Press Union Media Trust; Inter American Press Association; et al.: Letter to the Lithuanian Government on Banning Russian Government-Controlled TV Channels
Published: 2015
This is an open letter to the Lithuanian government. While broadcasts from Russian-controlled television channels may be propagandistic, banning them would be a violation of basic human rights and ultimately ineffective.
Communist Party of Canada: Canada's Party of Socialism
History of the Communist Party of Canada, 1921 - 1976
Published: 1982
Conant, Jeff: The Dark Side Of The "Green Economy"
Why some indigenous groups and environmentalists are saying no to the "green economy"
Published: 2012
Just a few years ago, the term "green economy" referred to economies that are locally based, climate friendly, and low-impact. But since the global economic meltdown began in 2007, the green economy has come to mean something more akin to the wholesale privatization of nature.
Confortini, Catia Cecilia: Intelligent Compassion
Feminist Critical Methodology in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Published: 2012
Confucius: Confucius Quotes
Conger, Kate; Cameron, Dell: Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
Published: 2018
Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firestorm among employees of the technology giant when they learned of Google's involvement.
Conley, Julia: Condemnation Grows for Bipartisan Attack on Free Speech Rights of BDS Supporters
Lawmakers urged to reject bill that would punish Americans for supporting boycotts of Israel
Published: 2017
A pair of bipartisan bills targeting boycotts of Israel and Israeli settlements appear to have widespread support in Congress, to the dismay of civil rights advocates who say the proposals are an attack on free speech.
Conley, Julia: 'Not a Good Answer': Privacy Advocates Reject Democratic Proposal for 'Technological Wall' With Expanded Border Surveillance
'More surveillance' has become the default answer to far too many difficult policy questions
Published: 2019
Digital rights advocates called on Democratic lawmakers to expand their fight against the wall into a fight for all human and constitutional rights-instead of suggesting alternative "border security" proposals that would infringe on civil liberties.
Connolly, Christopher N: Pesticide safety research shouldn't be left to the pesticide companies
If the research is to command public confidence, independent controls need to be maintained at every step.
Published: 2014
Pesticide companies are responsible for assessing the safety of their products - and this situation cannot continue. The research should be carried out independently, subjected to peer review, and published.
Connolly, James: James Connolly Quotes
Connolly, Kate: Berlin's oldest squatters in town defend threatened community centre
Pensioners take a stand against development of their comunity centre
Published: 2012
Dozen of pensioners took over a community centre in the east Berlin suburb of Pankow last month after the local council said the building they had used as a community centre for 15 years had to make way for real estate development.
Connolly, Kate: Naked hikers face fines in Switzerland
Canton aims to stop spread of 'indecent practice'
Published: 2009
The Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden aims to stop naturist walkers, also referred to as "boot-only hikers".
Conover, Ted: The Last Frontier
Homesteaders on the margins of America
Published: 2019
The San Luis Valley in southern Colorado still looks much as it did one hundred, or even two hundred, years ago. Blanca Peak, at 14,345 feet the fourth-highest summit in the Rockies, overlooks a vast openness.
Conroy, Bill: Banks Are "Where the Money Is" In The Drug War
Big Lenders Face Few Hard Consequences for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws
Published: 2012
Man of the largest banks in the world have been accused of failing to comply with anti-money laundering laws — thereby enabling, collectively, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of suspicious transactions to move through the banking system absent adequate monitoring or oversight.
Conroy, Bill: Gary Webb: Vindicated
Published: 2014
Family Members of the Intrepid Investigative Journalist — Soon To Be Immortalized By An Upcoming Hollywood Movie — Share Their Story With The World.
Conroy, Bill: Mexican President Calderón Hires US Propaganda Firm
Published: 2012
Los Pinos retains Las Vegas-based R&R Partners to promote government’s successes as the bloody drug war rages on.
Conroy, Bill: Millions Missing From DEA Money-Laundering Operation
Published: 2014
At least $20 million went missing from money seizures by law enforcers, critical evidence was destroyed by a federal agency, a key informant was outed by a US prosecutor — contributing to her being kidnapped and nearly killed — and at the end of the day not a single narco-trafficker was prosecuted in this four-year-long DEA undercover operation gone awry.
Conroy, Bill: Torture Report Reveals CIA's Manipulation of US Media
Agency Used Classified Information As Currency For Deception
Published: 2014
In essence, the CIA operated as a propaganda machine, utilizing classified information as part of a larger effort to deceive the American public about the shortcomings of its torture program.
Conroy, Bill: TSA Drug-Running Scandal Betrays Drug War’s Pretense
Published: 2012
The cost of bribing US border and airport security personnel is chump change in the narco-trafficking business.
Conroy, Bill: US Prosecutors Turned a Blind Eye to Drone Code Piracy
They Chose Instead to Strap Digital Visionary Aaron Swartz to Their Buzzsaw
Published: 2013
Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old Internet activist and the co-developer of popular web tools like RSS feeds and Reddit, ended his life earlier this year at the end of a long battle with federal prosecutors in Boston — who had accused him of engaging in digital piracy.
Conroy, Bill: US-Sponsored Drug-Plane Operation Had Global Reach
Published: 2014
The ongoing investigation into the Gulfstream II jet that crashed in Mexico in the fall of 2007 with a cargo of 3.7 tons of cocaine onboard points to a corruption problem within the US bureaucracy and US intelligence agency complicity in the drug trade.
Contenta, Sandro: John Sewell proud of a lifetime of ruffling feathers
Published: 2009
John Sewell isn't the kind of guy who comes out of a life-threatening experience promising to do things differently. The former mayor still plays the role of watchdog for neighbourhoods, justice and the public interest in Goliath Toronto.
Convery, Padraic: US bombs continue to kill in Laos 50 years after Vietnam War
US dropped two million tonnes of bombs on Laos at height of Vietnam War. Why are cluster munitions still killing?
Published: 2018
A look at the problem of unexploded US bombs in Laos which have killed tens of thousands of people since the end of the war, and continue to kill and maim dozens annually.
Cook, Johnathan: Antisemitism claims mask a reign of political and cultural terror across Europe
Published: 2020
Cook explores the "cultural, political and intellectual reign of terror" in European countries, primarily Germany, after the German parliament equated non-violent boycotts of Israel with antisemitism. He documents the hypocrisies of European countries who fight for free speech but outlaw criticism towards Israel, and the ways antisemitism has been weaponised.
Cook, Johnathan: The Disappearance of Palestine
Published: 2013
The idea that a financial lifeline – whether Kerry’s plan or Netanyahu’s economic peace – is going to smooth the path to the conflict’s end is an illusion. Peace, and prosperity, will come only when Palestinians are liberated from Israeli control.
Cook, Johnathan: The Evil of Humanitarian Wars
Iraq, Libya, Syria: We have no right to play God
Published: 2012
The West’s duty is not to intervene more but to intervene far less. We already massively arm tyrannies such as those in the Gulf so that they can protect the oil that we consider our birthright; we offer military, financial and diplomatic cover for Israel’s continuing oppression of millions of Palestinians, a major cause of political instability in the Middle East; and we quietly support the Egyptian military, which is currently trying to reverse last year’s revolutionary gains.
Cook, Johnathan: Israel continues to sow the seeds of discontent
Published: 2016
Israel, it seems, has found a new weapon against Palestinian attacks -- the humble cucumber seed. Soldiers have been handing out seeds at checkpoints with advice to Palestinians -- a nation of farmers until their lands were swallowed up by Jewish settlements -- to stop their recent knife attacks on Israelis and invest in a peaceful future.
Cook, Johnathan: The Liberal Hounding of Julian Assange: From Alex Gibney to The Guardian
Published: 2016
At what point do we cry foul when we witness the abuse of a political dissident, one who dares to take on mighty vested interests? When his own state, the local legal system and the media all turn on him? When he is forced to seek sanctuary in a foreign embassy for many years, surrounded by state security forces threatening to arrest him if he leaves? When the world’s highest arbiter on the matter of his confinement, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, supports his case? When the state, legal authorities and the media ignore the ruling and continue to demand his arrest?
Cook, Johnathan: Lies about Assange and UN human rights jurists imperil us all
Published: 2016
The defence secretary, 'comedians' on BBC Radio's News Quiz, and the entire media commentariat have ganged up this weekend up to pour mockery and poisonous lies over Julian Assange and the UN's human rights jurists. As they attempt to fight off the UN's 'guilty' verdict against the British state, they are putting dissidents at risk everywhere.
Cook, Johnathan: Those Angry at Rushdie's stabbing have been missing in action over a far greater threat to our freedom
Published: 2022
Both Julian Assange and Salman Rushdie have been victims of violence, but sympathy was only given to Rushdie. Cook argues that although both men are prominent proponents for the freedom of speech, Rushie questions the authority of clerics and governments in far-off lands, and Assange speaks out against the crimes committed by Western governments.
Cook, Jonathan: Academics Who Serve as Israel's Useful Idiots
Published: 2018
How derisively would we have treated an academic - an expert in human rights, no less - who argued back in the 1980s that those who supported a boycott of apartheid South Africa must have been secretly anti-white or anti-Christian because they did not equally prioritise a boycott of Israel?
Cook, Jonathan: Americal Liberals Unleashed the Trump Monster
Published: 2016
Cook argues that Trump's victory was due to liberals losing rather than Trump winning.
Cook, Jonathan: The anti-semitism paradox damaging Labour
Published: 2018
A look at the damaging effect of anti-semitism for the political left, which is being exploited in a tactic to stifle class solidarity and subvert a genuinely progressive Labour leadership.
Cook, Jonathan: Antisemitism Claims have One Goal: To Stop Jeremy Corbyn Winning Power
The Jewish community’s alienation from Labour has been years in the making
Published: 2019
A supposed antisemitism crisis in Britain's Labour party since Jeremy Corbyn became leader has erupted back into the headlines.
Cook, Jonathan: Apple and the Guardian: Partners in a Death Spiral
Published: 2018
This report on Apple CEO Tim Cook's visit to a UK school to promote the company's new coding curriculum for schoolchildren could hardly be a better illustration of the way the Guardian newspaper serves as a key propagandist for aggressive global corporate capitalism, helping to create for it a façade of humanitarianism.
Cook, Jonathan: Arab Jews vs. Palestinians: Israel's Refugee Pawns
Published: 2012
Israel's attempt to compare Arab Jews to Palestinian refugees.
Cook, Jonathan: 'Are we the baddies?'
Western support for genocide in Gaza means the answer is yes
Published: 2023
The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel's crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that's been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades.
Cook, Jonathan: The Authoritarians Who Silence Syria Questions
Published: 2018
A look at the unchallenged western media narrative on Syria and notably recent commentary by Brian Whitaker, the Guardian's former Middle East editor, who is opposed to experts in the study of propaganda setting up a panel - the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media - which aims to "provide a source of reliable, informed and timely analysis for journalists, publics and policymakers" on Syria.
Cook, Jonathan: Behind Israel's campaign to vilify peace groups
Published: 2016
Far-right activists spying on Israeli human rights community received hidden funds from Netanyahu government.
Cook, Jonathan: The Birth of Agro-Resistance in Palestine
Published: 2016
Canaan Fiar Trade, a co-operative farming project with a model of self-sufficiency and dignity, has grown rapidly, and now assists some 2000 small-hold farmers in the West Bank, but it still receives little more than ambivalent support from the compromised Palestinian national leadership.
Cook, Jonathan: The Blood of Gaza Is on the West's Hands as Much as Israel's
Published: 2023
Israel is on the rampage again and Gaza's population is facing a quiet, slow path to erasure. The ones funding it and enabling it are the US and its European allies.
Cook, Jonathan: Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media
Published: 2018
Jonathan Cook explains why the mainstream Western media prefer an extreme right-wing leader over one from the Left.
Cook, Jonathan: Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media
Published: 2018
Jonathan Cook explains why the plutocrats and the mainstream media spokespeople much prefer a far-right populist like Jair Bolsonaro, or Donald Trump, to a populist leader of the genuine left.
Cook, Jonathan: Britain's Chief Rabbi is Helping to Stoke antisemitism
Published: 2019
Chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has not only misrepresented the known facts about Labour and its supposed antisemitism crisis. He has not only interfered in an overtly, politically partisan manner in the December 12, 2019 election campaign by suggesting that Jeremy Corbyn -- against all evidence -- is an antisemite.
Cook, Jonathan: Britain's Witchfinders are Ready to Burn Jeremy Corbyn
Published: 2019
The suspension of MP Chris Williamson for alleged anti-semitism is part of a smear campaign against Corbyn. It is also a by-product of all criticism of Israel being labelled anti-semitism.
Cook, Jonathan: British 'Watchdog' Journalists Unmasked as Lap Dogs for the Security State
Published: 2022
The cases of Carol Cadwalladr and Paul Mason reveal how readily celebrated media figures are recruited to the intelligence services’ covert information war against other journalists.
Cook, Jonathan: Clinton's Defeat and the Fake News Conspiracy
Published: 2016
Debunking the scapegoating of 'fake news' by the corporate media following the 2016 US elections as a tactic by the media and Democratic party establishment to avoid blame for Hillary Clinton's election loss.
Cook, Jonathan: A Comparative Review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak
Published: 2009
A comparative review of two recent books about the media, one a mainstream view, the other using the propaganda model of media control.
Cook, Jonathan: Jonathan Cook Quotes
Cook, Jonathan: Corbyn's Labour Party is Being Made to Fail - By Design
Published: 2018
The embattled Labour party is reportedly soon to adopt the four additional working "examples" of anti-semitism drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The full adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism will be a victory for Israel and its apologists in Britain, who who have been seeking to curb all meaningful criticism of Israel.
Cook, Jonathan: The corporate media's world of illusions
Published: 2018
In fact, the Great Western Narrative has been developed and refined over centuries to preserve a tiny elite’s privileges and expand its power. The role of journalists like me was to keep feeding these illusions to readers so they would remain fearful, passive and deferential to this elite. It is not that journalists lie – or at least, not most of them – it is that they are as deeply wedded to the Great Western Narrative as everyone else.
Cook, Jonathan: Corporate power and the moulding of truth
Published: 2016
The corporate dominance of 'free' media in western democracies imposes deep structural constraints on what may be reported, and how. Syria is now the latest example of skewed reportage - and even journalists seeking to analyse the problem must carefully avoid the real reasons for it.
Cook, Jonathan: Craig Murray's jailing is the latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism
Published: 2021
Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over to the Scottish police on Sunday morning. He becomes the first person ever to be imprisoned on the obscure and vaguely defined charge of "jigsaw identification".
Cook, Jonathan: Crippling the Left
Published: 2022
Whenever it truly matters, from Assange to Corbyn, Guardian George Monbiot journalist aligns with the corporate media herd.
Cook, Jonathan: The Crisis in Corbyn's Labour Party is Over Israel, Not Anti-Semitism
Published: 2018
If there is indeed an anti-semitism problem in the UK's Labour party, it is not in the places where the British corporate media have been directing our attention. What can be said with even more certainty is that there is rampant hatred expressed towards Jews in the same British media that is currently decrying the supposed anti-semitism of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Cook, Jonathan: Criticising Monbiot isn't 'demonisation'. It’s a first step on the path to reclaiming our minds
Published: 2020
Cook, Jonathan: The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian
A Thought Police for the Internet Age
Published: 2011
The Guardian includes some fine reporting and occasionally insightful commentary. Possibly because it is farther from the heart of empire, it is able to provide a partial antidote to the craven coverage of the corporate-owned media in the US. Nonetheless, it would be unwise to believe that the Guardian is therefore a free market in progressive or dissident ideas on the left. In fact, quite the contrary: the paper strictly polices what can be said and who can say it in its pages, for cynical reasons we shall come to.
Cook, Jonathan: Don't Dismiss The Importance Of Toppling A Statue
Published: 2020
I did not expect to be returning to this issue so soon but I was surprised, to put it mildly, to discover that my last post on anti-racists toppling a statue of the notorious slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol proved to be the most polarising article I have ever written. Given the many controversial topics I have addressed over the years, that seems noteworthy in itself.
Cook, Jonathan: An Empire of Lies
Why Our Media Betray Us
Published: 2011
Contrary to its avowed aim, mainstream journalism invariably diminishes the impact of new events when they threaten powerful elites.
Cook, Jonathan: Establishment journalists are piling on to smear Robert Fisk now he cannot answer back
Published: 2020
Leading journalist in the corporate media have suddenly felt the urgent need not only to criticise the late, much-respected foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, but to pile in against him, using the most outrageous smears imaginable.
Cook, Jonathan: Every Israeli Missile Strike is a War Crime
The Experts' Verdict
Published: 2014
When are going to hear Human Rights Watch or the United Nation’s Navi Pillay stop talking about proportionality or Israel’s potential war crimes, and admit Israel is committing war crimes by definition – right now, as you read this?
Cook, Jonathan: Eyeless in Gaza
Israel's Deceptions
Published: 2014
A single incident at the weekend – the reported capture by Hamas on Friday of an Israeli soldier through a tunnel – illustrated in stark fashion the layers of deception Israel has successfully cast over its attack on Gaza.
Cook, Jonathan: Fathi Harb burnt himself to death in Gaza: Will the world notice?
Published: 2018
Self-immolation is more than suicide. That can be done quietly, out of sight, less gruesomely. In fact, figures suggest that suicide rates in Gaza have rocketed in recent years. But public self-immolation is associated with protest.
Cook, Jonathan: Fisk Puts to Test the Free-Press Myth in Douma
Published: 2018
Veteran Middle East corrrespondent Robert Fisk was the first western correspondent to arrive in Douma following the US, UK and French attacks on Syria. Based on first hand interviews Fisk's account is clearly honest about what he reported and certainly plausible, yet respected British newspapers like the Guardian gave his reports a cursory if not hostile treatment.
Cook, Jonathan: Forget liberating Ukraine - We first need to liberate our minds
Published: 2022
Because we in the West are the strongest tribe on the planet, we are also the most deluded, the most propagandized, and the most dangerous.
Cook, Jonathan: A 14-Year-Old Girl Forced Alone and at Night Into the Gaza Cage. Another Routine Mishap for Israel's Occupation
Published: 2018
How did a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who has never set foot in the open-air prison of Gaza find herself being dumped there by Israeli officials – alone, at night and without her parents being informed?The terrifying ordeal – a child realising she had not been taken home but discarded in a place where she knew no one – is hard to contemplate for any parent.And yet for Israel's gargantuan bureaucratic structure that has ruled over Palestinians for five decades, this was just another routine error. One mishap among many that day.
Cook, Jonathan: From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages
Published: 2017
Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content that threatens their rule. But in the "democratic" west, it is being done differently. The state does not have to interfere directly -- it outsources its dirty work to corporations.
Cook, Jonathan: Fury at Azaria Verdict is Israel's Trump Moment
Published: 2017
Examining the popular reaction to the conviction in military court of Elor Azaria for manslaughter as demonstrating a deep social divide in the vein of Trump's election in the US and the Brexit vote in the UK.
Cook, Jonathan: Fury at Israeli plan to build town on historic Muslim village
Published: 2016
Netanyahu government agrees to first new Palestinian community in 68 years -- exclusively for the Druze -- on refugees' land
Cook, Jonathan: Fury at Israeli plan to build town on historic Muslim village
Published: 2016
Netanyahu government agrees to first new Palestinian community in 68 years -- exclusively for the Druze -- on refugees' land.
Cook, Jonathan: Guardian front page channels Orwell's 1984
Published: 2016
Reading the "liberal" press has become a truly Orwellian experience. What was true yesterday is a lie today. What was black today will be white tomorrow. Two reports on today’s front page of the Guardian could easily be savage satire straight from the pages of the novel 1984.
Cook, Jonathan: Guardian Sells False Image of an Open Jerusalem
Published: 2017
A Guardian essay on a new Israeli open-rooftops project in Jerusalem, part of a Season of Culture, sadly falls into a standard trap for feelgood articles of this kind. It fails to provide the main context for Jerusalem: that the native Palestinians live under a belligerent Israeli occupation that is ultimately trying to evict them from the city.
Cook, Jonathan: Guardian sinks into gutter on Corbyn - again
Published: 2016
Jeremy Corbyn today launched a review into the Labour party's supposed "anti-semitism crisis" -- in fact, a crisis entirely confected by a toxic mix of the right, Israel supporters and the media. I have repeatedly pointed out that misleading claims of anti-semitism (along with much else) are being thrown at Corbyn to discredit him.
Cook, Jonathan: Guardian tries to silence Democrat Leak Scandal
Published: 2016
The Democratic National Convention had their emails leaked which proved their attempt at swinging the vote for Hillary Clinton. The Guardian newspaper seems to show bias for Hillary Clinton in their response.
Cook, Jonathan: The Guardian's 'Anti-Semitism' Incident
Published: 2023
With the row over its cartoon, the newspaper that helped oust Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party has briefly found that what you sow, you can reap.
Cook, Jonathan: Guilt of Anti-semitism Now Needs No Evidence
Published: 2019
Accusations of anti-Semitism against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party make an effective smear in a corporate-contolled media that focuses on individual personalities.
Cook, Jonathan: Hamas 'mass rape' claim lacks evidence. But it's being used to justify genocide
Published: 2023
Claims of systematic rape on October 7 appeal to a racist trope of the savage, predatory Arab. Which is why western politicians and media are so unconcerned by the dearth of evidence.
Cook, Jonathan: Hersh's New Syria Revelations Buried From View
Published: 2017
A look at veteran journalist Seymour Herst's latest investigation, which questions whether Syrian President Assad was responsible for another alleged gas attack at Khan Sheikhoun.
Cook, Jonathan: Hiding an Ugly Truth About Israel
Published: 2024
Jonathan Cook on Tony Greenstein's exposure of a glaring omission in a new biography of Rudolf Vrba, the first Jew to escape Auschwitz and an intense critic of the Zionist movement.
Cook, Jonathan: A History of Silencing Israeli Army Whistleblowers: From 1948 Until Today
Published: 2016
One might expect that only historians would care to revisit the 1948 war that created Israel. And yet the debate about what constitutes truth and myth from that period still provokes raw emotions.
Cook, Jonathan: The Hollow Ethics of Israel's Liberals
Published: 2018
Although sympathetic to the plight of African immigrants, when it comes to the Palestinians most liberal Israelis sound little different from Netanyahu's supporters, both concerned with maintaining Israel as a fortress Jewish state.
Cook, Jonathan: The Holocaust, the BBC and antisemitism smears
Published: 2020
Senior BBC news reporter Orla Guerin has found herself in hot water of an increasingly familiar kind. During a report on preparations for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, she made a brief reference to Israel and an even briefer reference to the Palestinians.
Cook, Jonathan: How the 'free' media dupe us on climate change
Published: 2018
Commentary on a segment of Al Jazeera's programme The Listening Post on why climate scepticism persists only in what it terms the "Anglosphere media", that is, those in the United States, UK, Australia and Canada.
Cook, Jonathan: How Israel aims to redefine 'ethnic cleansing'
Published: 2016
Netanyahu’s controversial comments have thrown another obstacle in the way of Palestinian statehood, analysts say.
Cook, Jonathan: How Israel uses an AI genocide program to obliterate Gaza
Published: 2023
It should already have been evident from the scale of death and destruction inflicted on Gaza over the past eight weeks that Israel was implementing a policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians in the besieged enclave.
Cook, Jonathan: How Israel wages its war on Palestinian history
Published: 2020
Israel’s archives are being hurriedly sealed up precisely to prevent any danger that records might confirm long-sidelined and discounted Palestinian history. Last month Israel’s state comptroller, a watchdog body, revealed that more than one million archived documents were still inaccessible, even though they had passed their declassification date. Nonetheless, some have slipped through the net.
Cook, Jonathan: How Israeli Apartheid is Coming Unstuck
Big Racists vs Little Racists
Published: 2013
Segregation is enforced in all the main spheres of life for Jews and Arabs: land allocation and housing, citizenship rights, education, and employment.
Cook, Jonathan: How many British MPs are working for Israel?
Published: 2017
Investigating the revelations that UK embassy staff in Israel are cooperating with Israeli political parties to influence UK policy making.
Cook, Jonathan: How Most Aid to the Palestinians Ends up in Israel's Coffers
Published: 2016
While Europe may think of itself as part of an enlightened West, using aid to defend Palestinians' rights, the reality is less reassuring. The aid may actually be making things significantly worse.
Cook, Jonathan: How the Guardian aided the anti-semites
Published: 2018
Who do you help when you censor a cartoon depicting Israel's well-documented war crimes against Palestinians – and do so on the grounds that the criticism of Israel is anti-semitic?
The answer is: you help anti-semites.
Cook, Jonathan: How the Guardian became the West's Pravda
Published: 2018
Cook says that the British newspaper The Guardian has become a mouthpiece for the establishment.
Cook, Jonathan: How the Hand of Israeli Spy Tech Reaches Deep into our Lives
Israeli software used on Palestinians is producing new cyber weapons that are rapidly being incorporated into global digital platforms
Published: 2019
Digital age weapons developed by Israel to oppress Palestinians are rapidly being repurposed for much wider applications – against Western populations who have long taken their freedoms for granted.
Cook, Jonathan: How We Stay Blind to the Story of Power
Published: 2020
If one thing drives me to write, especially these blog posts, it is the urgent need for us to start understanding power. Power is the force that shapes almost everything about our lives and our deaths. There is no more important issue. Understanding power and overcoming it through that understanding is the only path to liberation we can take as individuals, as societies, and as a species.
Cook, Jonathan: The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
Published: 2018
Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read? But here's a seditious idea. Would that be such a bad thing? Maybe it would better if we were far more wary of the corporate media and began to think of it chiefly as a sales platform – selling us an ideology harmful to our individual welfare and that of our societies.
Cook, Jonathan: The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
Published: 2018
Should the media include positive editorial content secretly paid for by major corporations, as London's Evening Standard newspaper has begun doing, according to new revelations?
Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read?
Cook, Jonathan: If the 'product' is wrong, a rebrand won't help Israel
Published: 2015
Cook discusses Israel's attempt to rebrand itself. Specifically, he addresses "hasbara", translated as "public diplomacy", a campaign that calls for Israelis to justify and defend any policy regarding occupied territories.
Cook, Jonathan: In an endless war on terror, we are all doomed to become Palestinians
Published: 2015
Jeff Halper's new book sheds light on the arms industry, arguing that Israel is now the go-to nation for armies and police forces around the world.
Cook, Jonathan: In the US, money talks when it comes to Israel
Published: 2016
Investigates the 2016 Democratic and Republican presidential candidates and their allegiance to Israel.
Cook, Jonathan: Indeed, there is no comparison: Israel's crimes are far worse than Hamas's
Published: 2024
Benjamin Netanyahu is right to dismiss as 'absurd and false' the suggestion that there is any equivalence in the atrocities committed by the two sides. Here's why.
Cook, Jonathan: Is it already too late to say goodbye?
Published: 2022
My blog posts once attracted tens of thousands of shares. Then, as the algorithms tightened, it became thousands. Now, as they throttle me further, shares can often be counted in the hundreds. "Going viral" is a distant memory.
Cook, Jonathan: Is this how western media would report Netanyahu's killing by Hezbollah?
Published: 2024
Western journalists claim to report the news objectively and fairly. If they really did, this is what coverage of Netanyahu’s assassination might look like…
Cook, Jonathan: Israel and its allies are repurposing the goals and lies of 1948 -- in Gaza in 2023
Published: 2023
Cook, Jonathan: Israel hopes 'lost tribes' can boost Jewish numbers
Published: 2015
Facing Palestinian majority, Israeli officials seek way to loosen legal definition of 'Jew' so millions more can qualify for immigration.
Cook, Jonathan: 'Israel is a terrorist state'
Published: 2015
The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned. A wave of unrest has swept Palestinian towns in Israel over recent days, with repeated clashes with Israeli police in Nazareth, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle, Taibeh, Sakhnin, Rahat, Kfar Qassem and elsewhere. Dozens of protesters have been arrested.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel is a Terrorist State
Published: 2015
The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel is caught lying time and again. And yet we never learn
Published: 2023
Disinformation over the blast at Gaza's al-Ahli hospital worked as planned, taking the focus off the victims and lifting pressure on Israel to stop its rampage.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel maintains robust arms trade with rogue regimes
Published: 2017
Israel's collusion with Myanmar's military is part of a pattern of military aid to rogue regimes that goes back decades, and reflects the importance of the arms trade to Israel's economy.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel Seeks 'Jewish' Non-Jews in Numbers Battle with Palestnians
Published: 2017
With a shortage of Jews to defeat the Palestinians demographically, the Netanyahu government is considering a revision to the traditional rabbinical injunction that a Jew must be born to a Jewish mother -- opening the doors to a new category of 'Jewish' non-Jews.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel Seeks Ways To Silence Human Rights Groups
Published: 2009
In a bid to staunch the flow of damaging evidence of war crimes committed during Israel's winter assault on Gaza, the Israeli government has launched a campaign to clamp down on human rights groups, both in Israel and abroad.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel Targets Ha'aretz
"A Shin Bet State"
Published: 2010
Israel uses police state tactics to crush journalists who expose crimes committed by the military.
Cook, Jonathan: The Israeli War Crime That Goes Unmentioned
Published: 2015
Here set out in black and white in the Israeli media is a moral conundrum that western politicians, diplomats and international human rights organisations are resolutely failing to address -- and one I have been highlighting since 2006.
Cook, Jonathan: Israelis have the Upper Hand when it Comes to Vengeance
Published: 2014
As Human Rights Watch warned, Israel’s recent actions – mass arrests; armed raids; the killing of Palestinians, including minors; lockdowns of cities, house demolitions; and air strikes – amounted to “collective punishment”, international law’s euphemism for revenge, against Palestinians. In the face of the enduring violence of Israel’s occupation, and the licence it provides soldiers to humiliate and oppress, ordinary Palestinians have a stark choice: to submit or resist. Ordinary Israelis, on the other hand, do not need to seek revenge on their own account. The Israeli state, military and courts are there every day doing it for them.
Cook, Jonathan: Israelis Shoot Motionless Arab Woman - Video
Published: 2015
In the age of phone cameras, we have become increasingly used to photos and videos of Palestinians in the West Bank being shot by soldiers in unjustifiable circumstances.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel's Bogus History Lesson
Published: 2016
It was presumably intended as an Israeli history lesson to the world. A video posted to social media by Israel's foreign ministry shows an everyday Jewish couple, Jacob and Rachel, in a home named the "Land of Israel". A series of knocks on the door brings 3,000 years of interruptions to their happiness. First it's the Assyrians, followed by the Babylonians, Hellenists, Arabs, Romans, Crusaders, Mamluks, and Ottomans – all straight out of Monty Python central casting. Jacob and Rachel are forced by the warring factions to relocate to ever smaller parts of their home until finally they have to pitch a tent in the garden. Their fortunes change only with the arrival of a servant of the British Empire, who returns the title deeds. A final knock disturbs their celebrations. On the doorstep are a penniless Palestinian couple, craning their necks to see what goodies await them inside.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel's crisis is about who gets to play tyrant: the generals or religious thugs
Published: 2023
Over the years, international human rights groups have slowly come to acknowledge this fundamental lack of democracy, too. They now describe Israel as what it always was: an apartheid state.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel’s cynical approach is feeding unrest
Published: 2015
Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel's education system peddles intolerance and lies
Published: 2014
John Kerry spent last week testing the waters with the Israelis and the Palestinians over his so-called framework agreement – designed to close the gaps between the two sides. But the issues he is trying to resolve appear more intractable by the day.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel's Efforts to Hide Palestinians From View No Longer Fools Young American Jews
Published: 2017
The denial of Palestinian history by Israel is no longer accepted by many young American Jews, a community that is increasingly polarized by the issue.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel's Ever-More Sadistic Reprisals Help Shore up a Sense of Victimhood
Published: 2017
Israel argues that a potential attacker can only be dissuaded by knowing his loved ones will suffer harsh retribution.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel's Gaza backlash targets Arab minority
Published: 2014
Israel's large Palestinian minority is facing an unprecedented backlash of incitement and violent reprisals as Israeli Jews rally behind the current military operations in Gaza, human rights groups and political activists have warned.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel's new 'attack on freedom of speech'
Published: 2010
The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a 'McCarthyite' campaign against human-rights groups.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel's New Land Law: Clearing the Path to Annexation
Published: 2017
The Israeli parliament passed the legalisation law on Monday night, widening the powers of Israeli officials to seize the final fragments of Palestinian land in the West Bank that were supposed to be off-limits.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel's new police chief emerges from shadowy world
Published: 2015
Palestinian minority in Israel worried by top cop's twin-track as interrogator for secret police and hardline settler.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel's starvation diet for Gaza
Published: 2012
Israel’s calculating of daily caloric needs shows how it manages the lives of Palestinians in Gaza in almost microscopic detail.
Cook, Jonathan: Israel’s cynical approach is feeding unrest
Published: 2015
Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media.
Cook, Jonathan: Jonathan Cook - Response to Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
Published: 2008
However grateful we should be to the tiny minority of dissident writers, their relegation to the margins of the commentary pages of Britain's 'leftwing' media serves a useful purpose for corporate interests. It helps define the 'character' of the British media as provocative, pluralistic and free-thinking - when in truth they are anything but. It is a vital component in maintaining the fiction that a professional media is a diverse media.
Cook, Jonathan: Latest Corbyn Hit-Piece: He earns MP's Salary
Published: 2016
If I hadn’t seen for myself that this article "exposing" Jeremy Corbyn was published on the Daily Telegraph’s website, I would have assumed it was a spoof from The Onion – an even more preposterous one than normal.
Cook, Jonathan: Lawless in Gaza: Why the West Backs Israel No Matter What
Published: 2023
As Western politicians line up to cheer on Israel as it starves and bombs Gaza's civilians, it's important to understand how we reached this point -- and what it means for the future.
Cook, Jonathan: The left's contempt for bodily autonomy during the pandemic is a gift to the right
Published: 2021
When did parts of the left get so contemptuous of the principle of "bodily autonomy"? Answer: Just about the time they started fetishising vaccines as the only route out of the current pandemic.
Cook, Jonathan: Letter from Nazareth
The forgotten Palestinians
Published: 2015
The city's Christians and Muslims continue to struggle against Israel's divide-and-rule policies
At 26 metres, Nazareth's artificial Christmas tree is the tallest in the Middle East, or so city officials boast. Its glinting red, silver and golden baubles have brought a temporary, but much-needed cheer to the city of Jesus' childhood. Despite the festive mood, friends and neighbours in what is Israel's largest Palestinian city struggle to sound hopeful about the future. Even the inflatable Father Christmases hanging from shop awnings look forlorn.
Cook, Jonathan: Letter from Nazareth: The forgotten Palestinians
Published: 2015
The city's Christians and Muslims continue to struggle against Israel's divide-and-rule policies.
Cook, Jonathan: A Liberal Elite Still Luring Us Towards the Abyss
Published: 2019
A recent manifesto decrying "populism and nationalism" see today's problems as coming from the abandonment of liberal ideals when they are in fact caused by extreme adherence to them.
Cook, Jonathan: Like the Diana story, Meghan’s fight with the Royals will ensure nothing really changes
Published: 2021
Oprah Winfrey's interview with Meghan and Harry is a perfect case study of how an important political debate about the corrupting role of the monarchy on British life gets shunted aside yet again, not just by the endless Royal soap opera but by supposedly progressive identity politics.
Cook, Jonathan: Mark Field and the Danger of Getting Sidetracked
Published: 2019
The media's focus on British government minister Mark Field's assault on a climate change activist, is a smokescreen to draw attention away from people with money and power that effect real issues such as climate change.
Cook, Jonathan: The Media Kept Assange Behind Bars
Published: 2024
The establishment press acted in concert to assassinate the character of the WikiLeaks founder, making it respectable to hate him.
Cook, Jonathan: Monbiot Is a Hypocrite and a Bully
Published: 2018
It is time for George Monbiot’s legion of supporters to call him out. Not only is he a hypocrite, but he is becoming an increasingly dangerous one. Turning a blind eye to his behaviour, or worse excusing it, as too often happens, has only encouraged him to intensify his attacks on dissident writers, those who – whether right or wrong on any specific issue – are slowly helping us all to develop more critical perspectives on western foreign policy goals than has ever been possible before.
Cook, Jonathan: Monbiot Still Can't Admit Media's Core Problem
Published: 2017
After more than two decades at the Guardian, George Monbiot has finally written a column in which he concedes that the entire British media has a problem, including its supposedly left-liberal elements like the Guardian.
Cook, Jonathan: Nelson Mandela: A Dissenting Opinion
Published: 2013
It is an indication of what Mandela was up against that the man who fought so hard and long against a brutal apartheid regime was so completely defeated when he took power in South Africa. That was because he was no longer struggling against a rogue regime but against the existing order. As I suspect Mandela realised only too well, one cannot lead a revolution when there are no followers.
Cook, Jonathan: New report details 'brutal' Israeli policies
Published: 2014
The first bullet struck 16-year-old Samir Awad in his left leg. He staggered away as fast as he could, but was too slow. A second round slammed into his left shoulder, exiting from the right side of his chest. Then, moments later, a third bullet penetrated the back of his skull and exited from his forehead.
Cook, Jonathan: The news media offers wall-to-wall propaganda every day. We only notice when a royal dies
Published: 2021
If the BBC makes its editorial decisions based on what rightwing and far-right newspaper tycoons think is good both for the country and for the world, then how is the BBC not equally rightwing?
Cook, Jonathan: The Occupation's Dark Underbelly Exposed
The Revelations of the Israeli Refuseniks
Published: 2014
A letter signed by 43 veterans of an elite Israeli military intelligence unit declaring their refusal to continue serving the occupation has sent shockwaves through Israeli society.
Cook, Jonathan: Our leaders are terrified. Not of the virus - of us
Published: 2020
Cook, Jonathan: Palestine is a loud echo of Britain's colonial past - and a warning of the future
Published: 2022
In moving from Nazareth back to the UK, I have stepped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Cook, Jonathan: Palestinians torn over contact with Israelis
Published: 2014
A Palestinian university’s decision to bar from its campus an Israeli journalist and outspoken critic of the occupation has exposed a growing rift among Palestinian activists about the merits of contact with Jewish Israelis.
Cook, Jonathan: Peterson unmasks stitch-up of TV interviews
Published: 2018
Jonathan Cook on Jordan Peterson’s recent interview with Channel 4’s Cathy Newman.
Cook, Jonathan: Professors for Israel try to Shut Down Lancet
Published: 2015
Some 400 medical professors are blackmailing Reed Elsevier, publishers of The Lancet, by threatening to boycott its publications unless the company sacks editor Richard Horton - or as they duplicitously phrase it, "enforce appropriate ethical standards of editorship".
Cook, Jonathan: Profiting from Loss: How Business in Illegal Israeli Settlements Continues Unchecked
Published: 2020
UN efforts to protect Palestinian land from economic exploitation are failing, and exposing the hypocrisy of western states.
Cook, Jonathan: Publish It Not!
Published: 2011
How Israel controls the way the international 'liberal' media portray its illegal and vicious occupation of Palestine and why the media allow them to get away with it.
Cook, Jonathan: Rabbis deny 1 in 10 Jews the right to marry in Israel
Published: 2016
Supreme religious body faces growing backlash as critics compare Israel's religious freedoms to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
Cook, Jonathan: Rabbis deny 1 in 10 Jews the right to marry in Israel
Published: 2016
Supreme religious body faces growing backlash as critics compare Israel's religious freedoms to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
Cook, Jonathan: The Real Link Between Israel's Forest Fires and Muezzin Bill
Published: 2016
Examines and contextualizes the discriminatory 'muezzin bill', which would ban the broadcasting of Muslim calls to prayer in Israel.
Cook, Jonathan: Religious Zealots Ready for Takeover of Israeli Army
Published: 2016
In a surprise move, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week forced out his long-serving defence minister, Moshe Yaalon. As he stepped down, Yaalon warned: "Extremist and dangerous elements have taken over Israel." He was referring partly to his expected successor: Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, whose trademark outbursts have included demands to bomb Egypt and behead disloyal Palestinian citizens.
Cook, Jonathan: Robert Fisk's Douma Report Rips Away Excuses for Air Strike on Syria
Published: 2018
A report by respected journalist Robert Fisk shows that there is a highly credible alternative explanation for the aftermath of the alleged gas attack in Douma, Syria. His report, including an eyewitness account by a senior doctor, counters the video evidence used by the US to justify the air strikes on the region. It was an attack that should never have taken place before inspectors were able to investigate and report their findings.
Cook, Jonathan: Rules of Production
A Critical Look at Two Recent Books on the British Media
Published: 2009
A review of two books: Flat Earth News, by Nick Davies, and Newspeak in the 21st Century, by David Edwards and David Cromwell.
Cook, Jonathan: Russia-Ukraine war: How the US paved the way to Moscow's invasion
Published: 2023
Nearly a year after Russia's invasion, the western narrative of an 'unprovoked' attack has become impossible to sustain.
Cook, Jonathan: Russia-Ukraine: Western media are acting as cheerleaders for war
Published: 2022
Journalists are cheering on the arming of militias and civilians making improvised explosives - acts they usually treat as terrorism
Cook, Jonathan: Second Nakba; Same Israeli Lies; Same Western Narrative
Published: 2023
Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing inside Gaza and yet, just as during the first 'Nakba,' Israel's lies and deceptions dominate the West's media and political narrative.
Cook, Jonathan: 7 easy steps to outlawing marches that call for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Published: 2024
The BBC and other media are willing co-conspirators in promoting the pro-genocide playbook of groups like the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
Cook, Jonathan: Shock and Awe in Gaza
How the Media and Human Rights Groups Cover for Israeli War Crimes
Published: 2014
This assualt on Gaza, like the earlier ones, will leave hundres of Palestinians dead, a majority of them civilians. It will end neither the siege nor the resistance to it. It will outrage public opinion around the globe. But our elities will carry on giving Israel financial, military and diplomatic cover, as they have now done for more than six decades.
Cook, Jonathan: The shocking story of Israel's disappeared babies
Published: 2016
New information has come to light about thousands of mostly Yemeni children believed to have been abducted in the 1950s.
Cook, Jonathan: Social media giants allow hate speech against Russia but silence Israel's critics
Published: 2022
Silicon Valley's decision to allow anti-Russia threats reveals it as little more than a propaganda arm of the West.
Cook, Jonathan: Social media's erasure of Palestinians is a grim warning for our future
Published: 2020
Nowhere are ties between tech and state officials more evident than in their dealings with Israel. This has led to starkly different treatment of digital rights for Israelis and Palestinians.
Cook, Jonathan: Stakes rising for Israel as rockets reach airport
Temporary air blockade of Israel reveals deeper issues to its citizens
Published: 2014
Israel’s effective loss of its only international airport for a couple of days last week — and the cloud of uncertainty that continues to hang over its operation in the future — has deeply unsettled Israelis.
Cook, Jonathan: Terror in a Christmas Tree
Israel Tries to Ban Non-Jewish Celebrations
Published: 2012
Who would imagine that Israeli Jews could be so intimidated by the innocuous Christmas tree?
Cook, Jonathan: Those angry at Rushdie's stabbing have been missing in action over a far bigger threat to our freedom
Published: 2022
The Satanic Verses novelist is championed by western liberals not because he has bravely articulated difficult truths but because of who his enemies are.
Cook, Jonathan: Three Lessons for the Left from the Mueller Inquiry
Published: 2019
Important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to uncover collusion between Donald Trump's camp and the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election.
Cook, Jonathan: Time to Confront the Media's Anti-Corbyn Bias
Published: 2017
Jeremy Corbyn has been subjected to unprecedented vilification by the British media. No one is surprised that the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Times have been relentless in their hatchet jobs on Corbyn. But it has been disconcerting for the left that the Guardian and BBC never gave him a chance either. He was in their gun-sights from day one.
Cook, Jonathan: Trump, fake news and the war on dissidents
Published: 2017
A rebuke to a recent Guardian article titled "If mainstream news wants to win back trust, it cannot silence dissident voices", where journalist Nick Robinson claims that the left and right are the peddlers of the same "fakery" in attacking the media.
Cook, Jonathan: Tucker Carlson's firing reveals how afraid the media is of independent journalists
Published: 2023
While the left is busy hating on Tucker Carlson, and not without reason, it is missing the bigger picture.
Cook, Jonathan: Twitterers Paid To Spread Israeli Propaganda
Published: 2009
Israel's foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel. Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the government's line on the Middle East conflict.
Cook, Jonathan: 2018: When Orwell's 1984 Stopped Being Fiction
Published: 2018
A commentary on The Guardian's news story "Revealed: UK's push to strengthen anti-Russia alliance". Cook questions facts and the terminology used in the Guardian article, a form of 'journalistic fraud', which promotes the UK government's policy towards Russia.
Cook, Jonathan: UK and Israel: Has the fightback against weaponised antisemitism begun?
Published: 2023
Jews in the Labour party and academics are finally exposing the UK establishment’s smear campaign to silence criticism of Israel and destroy the left.
Cook, Jonathan: UN Battle to 'Shame' Israel Over Abuse of Children
Published: 2015
Palestinian solidarity groups have taken to social media to step up the pressure on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to include Israel for the first time on a "shame list" of serious violators of children's rights.
Cook, Jonathan: US Democrats Cultivated the Barbarism of Isis
Published: 2019
There is something profoundly deceitful in the Democratic Party and corporate media's framing of Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria. One does not need to like Trump or ignore the dangers posed to the Kurds, at least in the short term, by the sudden departure of US forces from northern Syria to understand that the coverage is being crafted in such a way as to entirely overlook the bigger picture.
Cook, Jonathan: US Lies and Excuses for Bombing Hospital
Published: 2015
Here is the US changing its story for the FOURTH time of why it launched an air strike on the Doctors without Borders hospital in the Afghan town of Kunduz at the weekend, massacring at least 22 patients and hospital staff.
Cook, Jonathan: Videos Challenge Israeli Police Account of Shootings
Published: 2015
It has been called the "smartphone intifada". After a sharp escalation in violence between Palestinians and Israelis in recent weeks, shocking scenes captured on video have spread across social media.
Cook, Jonathan: The War Against "Fake News" is a War on Us
Published: 2018
Barely a day passes without a new development in the war on social media -- that is, the war on us. Today, it is a report that Twitter has emailed hundreds of thousands of its users, warning them that they shared "Russian propaganda".
Cook, Jonathan: The War Machine Wants You to Condemn Hamas
Published: 2023
The act of condemnation has been cynically weaponised, writes Jonathan Cook. The aim is not to show solidarity with Israelis. It's to fan the flames of hatred to rationalise crimes against Palestinians.
Cook, Jonathan: Was there a Wuhan lab leak?
An inquiry won’t dig out the truth. It will deepen the deception
Published: 2021
For many years, scientists at labs like Wuhan’s have conducted Frankenstein-type experiments on viruses. They have modified naturally occurring infective agents – often found in animals such as bats – to try to predict the worst-case scenarios for how viruses, especially coronaviruses, might evolve. The claimed purpose has been to ensure humankind gets a head start on any new pandemic, preparing strategies and vaccines in advance to cope.
Cook, Jonathan: We can defeat the corporate media’s war to snuff out independent journalism
Published: 2021
as journalists seek to liberate themselves from the strictures of the old corporate media, that same corporate media is working very hard to characterise the new technology as a threat to media freedoms. This self-serving argument should be treated with a great deal of scepticism. I want to use my own experiences to argue that quite the reverse is true. And that the real danger is allowing the corporate media to reassert its monopoly over narrating the world to us.
Cook, Jonathan: Welcome to Israel's version of apartheid
Published: 2016
Moments before an Aegean Airlines flight was due to take off, three Israeli passengers took security into their own hands and demanded that two fellow passengers, from Israel's Palestinian minority, be removed from the plane. By the end of a 90-minute stand-off, dozens more Israeli Jews had joined the protest, refusing to take their seats.
Cook, Jonathan: Welcome to Israel's version of apartheid
Published: 2016
A small scene from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict unfolded last week on a Greek airport runway. Moments before an Aegean Airlines flight was due to take off, three Israeli passengers took security into their own hands and demanded that two fellow passengers, from Israel’s Palestinian minority, be removed from the plane. By the end of a 90-minute stand-off, dozens more Israeli Jews had joined the protest, refusing to take their seats.
Like a parable illustrating Europe's bottomless indulgence of Israel, Aegean staff caved in to the pressure and persuaded the two Palestinian men to disembark.
Cook, Jonathan: The West agonises over an 'atrocity upsurge' while backing Israel's genocide in Gaza
Published: 2024
The problem isn't 'global inaction' to prevent mass atrocities, as the Guardian claims. It's intense US and UK support for atrocities so long as they bolster their global power
Cook, Jonathan: The Western Media is Key to Syria Deceptions
Published: 2019
An analysis of why western media has failed to practice any scepticism regarding claims that the Syrian government is using chemical weapons.
Cook, Jonathan: Western media's parroting of official lies is paving way to genocide in Gaza
Published: 2023
Disinformation campaigns are one of the chief battlefields in any war - something any serious journalist is only too aware of. And western powers and their allies have an appalling track record of lying to their own medias.
Cook, Jonathan: West's failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacre
Published: 2018
Jewish Israelis celebrate, and governments around the world stand by passively, as Israel massacres Palestinians in Gaza. Inaction by Western governments ensures that Israel will feel embolded to commit further massacres in the future.
Cook, Jonathan: The West's Hands in Ukraine as Bloody as Putin's
Published: 2022
There is a discursive nervous tic all over social media at the moment, including from prominent journalists such as Guardian columnist George Monbiot. The demand is that everyone not only "condemn" Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, but do so without qualification.
Cook, Jonathan: The West's Support for Israel's Genocide Is Destroying the World as We Know It
Published: 2024
The old world is dying once again, but the US-Israel axis is wrong to suggest it is slaying monsters. It is the monster.
Cook, Jonathan: What the BBC fails to tell you about October 7 [2023]
Published: 2023
It is journalistic malpractice for the media to still be repeating so credulously the Israeli military's account of that day.
Cook, Jonathan: What the media forgets to tell you about Israel and Gaza
Published: 2023
Ignore the fake news. Israel isn't defending itself. It's enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
Cook, Jonathan: Who is the biggest climate change villain?
Published: 2017
Here is an exclusive the Guardian has held back from its readers for 26 years. It is finally published on its pages today.
Cook, Jonathan: Why Corbyn so terrifies the liberal elite
Published: 2016
Most Labour MPs would rather destroy their own party than let Jeremy Corbyn and his backers make it fit for its 21st century purpose.
Cook, Jonathan: Why Israel has silenced the 1948 story of Nazareth's survival
Published: 2016
A rarely told story of the 1948 war that founded Israel concerns Nazareth's survival. It is the only Palestinian city in what is today Israel that was not ethnically cleansed during the year-long fighting. Other cities, such as Jaffa, Lydd, Ramleh, Haifa and Acre, now have small Palestinian populations that mostly live in ghetto-like conditions in what have become Jewish cities. Still others, like Tiberias and Safad, have no Palestinians left in them at all.
Nazareth was not only an anomaly; it was a mistake.
Cook, Jonathan: Why Israel has silenced the 1948 story of Nazareth’s survival
Published: 2016
A rarely told story of the 1948 war that founded Israel concerns Nazareth's survival. It is the only Palestinian city in what is today Israel that was not ethnically cleansed during the year-long fighting. Other cities, such as Jaffa, Lydd, Ramleh, Haifa and Acre, now have small Palestinian populations that mostly live in ghetto-like conditions in what have become Jewish cities. Still others, like Tiberias and Safad, have no Palestinians left in them at all.
Cook, Jonathan: Why Israel is blocking access to its archives
Published: 2016
Israel is concealing vital records to prevent darkest periods in its history from coming to light, academics say.
Cook, Jonathan: Why the Guardian axed Nafeez Ahmed's blog
Published: 2014
Nafeez Ahmed’s account of the sudden termination of his short-lived contract to write an environment blog for the Guardian is depressingly instructive – and accords with my own experiences as a journalist at the paper.
Cook, Jonathan: Why the media aren’t telling the whole story of Libya’s floods
Published: 2023
There are reasons for Libya's 'chaotic', 'dysfunctional' response to the disaster. And to identify them, we need to look closer to home.
Cook, Jonathan: Why the news media's job is to groom us
Published: 2024
Large numbers of Palestinians and Ukrainians were killed in missile strikes days apart. The media's differing treatment of these comparable events is the clue to what the media’s really there to do. As readers, we don't, as we imagine, 'consume' news. Rather, the news consumes us. Or put another way, the media uses the news to groom us, its audience. Properly understood, the relationship is one of abuser and abused.
Cook, Jonathan: Why the Washington Post Killed the Story of Murdoch’s Bid to Buy the US Presidency
Carl Bernstein Caught in the Matrix
Published: 2012
Cook, Jonathan: Why There are Few Christians Left in the Holy Town of Bethlehem
Published: 2018
This is the time of year when they have a chance to break out of an isolation enforced in concrete since Israel enclosed the town with a "separation wall" more than a decade ago.
Cook, Jonathan: Wonder Woman is a hero only the military-industrial complex could create
Published: 2017
The author peels back the layer of blockbuster comic book fun to reveal the film's disturbing and not-so-covert political and militaristic messages.
Cook, Jonathan: You Can’t Force-feed Occupation to those who Crave Freedom
Published: 2014
Israel wants to believe that through force of will it can keep the tide of accountability at bay in the occupied territories. But belligerent occupations – especially ones where no hope or end is in sight – engender evermore creative and costly forms of resistance. A physical act of resistance can be temporarily foiled. But the spirit behind it cannot be so easily subdued.
Cook, Jonathann: In Israel, an Ugly Tide sweeps over Palestinians
Published: 2016
In Israel's evermore tribal politics, there is no such thing as a "good" Arab -- and the worst failing in a Jew is to be unmasked as an "Arab lover". Or so was the message last week from Isaac Herzog, head of Israel's so-called peace camp.The shock waves of popular anger at the recent indictment of an Israeli army medic, Elor Azaria, on a charge of "negligent homicide" are being felt across Israel's political landscape.
Cook, Mark: Venezuela Coverage Takes Us Back to Golden Age of Lying About Latin America
Published: 2019
Corporate media has many stories about food and medicine shortages in Venezuela. These lies and others are debunked by someone who lives there.
Cook, William: Justice, Peace and the Israeli State
Rule by Ruthless Force
Published: 2012
International Law and the creation of a world body to aid in the direction of nation states to live in peace and justice under defined conditions such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charters of the UN suggests that Israel must change, it must recognize that it is not the sole determiner of world events, that it has lifted its beliefs beyond those that exist elsewhere in the world and it must, therefore, reverse its direction to become one with its neighbors and all the nations of the UN.
Cook, William: The Politics of the Exodus Myth
Pillar of Superstition
Published: 2012
Cook provides conclusions that would suggest that the Bible as the word of God is rather a fabrication created for the masses for political, religious and cultural reasons.
Cooke, Jennifer: How to Publish an E-Book: the Ultimate Guide
Published: 2013
Your definitive guide to formatting, uploading and publishing your long-form journalism as an e-book to the various digital marketplaces.
Coon Come, Matthew: Matthew Coon Come Quotes
Cooper, Ben: New map records sites of Australia's colonial massacres
Published: 2017
Map is the first to detail evidence of more than 150 massacres involving almost every aboriginal clan between 1788 and 1872.
Cooper, Marc: Remembering Pinochet's Coup: A Taste of Justice for Chile
Published: 1999
AS FORMER CHILEAN dictator Augusto Pinochet languished in British custody facing possible extradition to Spain, I have thought often of the democratically elected president he overthrew twenty-five years ago—Salvador Allende. At the time of the September 11, 1973 coup I was living in Chile and a translator for President Allende.
Cooper, Margaret: "We don't have films you can eat"
Talking to the D.E.C. Films Collective
Published: 1983
An interview with members of DEC Films, a distributor of progressive films in English-speaking Canada.
Cooper, Quintin: Are Your Devices Hardwired For Betrayal?
Published: 2015
Firmware-based attacks are real and their numbers will only increase. Cooper discusses the potential consequences if we don't address this issue now.
Cooper, Ryan: Democrats have a better option than court packing
Published: 2020
The easiest way to defeat right-wing judicial tyranny is to ignore it
Cope, Alec: Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To Overthrow Syria's President Assad
Published: 2015
Copland, Simon; Riley, Benjamin: A queer take on Safe Schools and identity politics
Published: 2016
In recent weeks, the debate over the Safe Schools Coalition anti-bullying program has intensified, taking what is in many ways a bizarre turn. The brief suspension of program architect Roz Ward from her position at La Trobe University has reopened the debate about whether Safe Schools is 'cultural Marxism' by stealth, the program once again coming under fire from conservatives across the country. Even trans advocate and member of the ADF Catherine McGregor has weighed in. One of the more interesting elements of this, however, has been the debate it has created about the role gender and sexual politics can and should play within Marxism. Here enters Guy Rundle. In the pages of Crikey, Rundle penned a treatise on the program and what he considers the failures of 'queer theory'. Rundle believes Safe Schools (via queer theory) presents the view that 'gender and sexuality are infinitely fluid'. He argues, however, that such a view denies the material realities of sexuality and gender, not to mention his view that 'almost no-one really believes it -- and they certainly do not let it shape their lives'.
Coppola, Gabrielle; Welch, David: The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data
Published: 2018
As "smarter" vehicles provide storehouses of personal information, carmakers are building databases of consumer preferences that could be sold to outside vendors for marketing purposes, much like Google and Facebook.
Corbett, Thom; Diemer, Ulli: Major confrontation looms over rent controls removal
Published: 1978
Support for an end to rent controls is growing among government officials who say that apartments aren't being built because developers no longer find it profitable enough. Critics of this line of thinking agree that apartment construction isn't keeping up with demand, but argue that rent controls are not the cause. They point to similar apartment shortages in cities without rent controls, and note that the construction slowdown began before the controls were introduced.
Corbett, Tom: The Clarion: Toronto's new community paper
Published: 1976
Launch of the Toronto Clarion in October 1976.
Corbley, Andy: How Does the War on Terror Stack Up to Some of History's Most Infamous Genocides?
Published: 2019
A look at whether the US War on Terror can be classified as genocide. Comparisons to historical precedents are complicated since the War on Terror is not a systematic effort directed at one location.
Corbyn, Jeremy: The Iraq War Was an Act of Military Aggression Launched on a False Pretext: Remarks on the Chilcot Inquiry Report
Published: 2016
The following is a transcript of Jeremy Corbyn's remarks in the House of Commons.
Corbyn, Jeremy: We Must Be Brave Enough to Admit the War on Terror Simply Not Working
Published: 2017
Amid sorrow of Manchester bombing, UK Labour Party leader explains why actively building peace is requisite for ending such horrific and inexcusable carnage in the future.
Corcelli, John: Are Canada's Archives for Sale?
Published: 1999
Cordall, Simon: Landmines still exacting a heavy toll on Vietnamese civilians
Published: 2012
37 years on, unexploded bombs continue to ruin lives in the former wartime frontline regions of Vietnam.
Cordozo, Nate: Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit
Published: 2015
In the age of information, companies are hungry for your data. They want it - even if it means resorting to trickery.
Corleone, Vito: Vito Corleone Quotes
Cormack, W.E.: Report of Mr. W. E. Cormack's journey in search of the Red Indians in Newfoundland
Published: 1828
Cormwell, David: The Illusion of Democracy
Liberal Journalism, Wikileaks And Climate Deceptions
Published: 2012
In an era of permanent war, economic meltdown and climate ‘weirding’, we need all the champions of truth and justice that we can find. But where are they? What happened to trade unions, the green movement, human rights groups, campaigning newspapers, peace activists, strong-minded academics, progressive voices?
Corn, David: When 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Go Bad
Published: 2002
Aren't these conspiracy theories too silly to address? That should be the case. But, sadly, they do attract people.
Cornell, Matt: The Torturer as Feminist: From Abu Ghraib to Zero Dark Thirty
Published: 2013
How “feminism” is used in service of the American empire.
Cornils, Ingo: The Struggle Continues
Rudi Dutschke's Long March
Published: 2014
Published in In Student Protest: The sixties and After, edited by Gerald J, Degroot. New York and London: Routledge, 2014
Cornwell, Tim: Arab photography archive releases 22,000 historic images online
Published: 2019
Arab Image Foundation completes $255,000 digitisation initiative and will reopen its Beirut building this summer.
Coronel, Sheila: Capture the popular imagination
Published: 2014
Sheila Coronel is the director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Last month, she was named as the next academic dean of the journalism school, a position she will assume in July. Prior to joining Columbia, Coronel founded the Phillippine Center for Investigative Journalism, where her reporting on corruption and graft by then-President Joseph Estrada helped bring about his impeachment and subsequent resignation. She recently spoke with ICIJ for its "Secrets of the Masters" series.
Coronel, Sheila: How To Track Looted Wealth
Published: 2012
The ICIJ’s Sheila Coronel shares how to investigate illicit money trails ahead of her Tracking Corruption Internationally presentation at the 2012 IRE conference.
Coronel, Sheila: Revealing the Secret World of Private Companies
Published: 2012
You’d think that getting the names of the shareholders of a company would be fairly easy. Such information should be routinely available.To be sure, there’s a wealth of information on listed companies. But good luck researching a private firm.
Corporal, Lynette Lee: Asia: Amid Big Players, Smaller Media Outfits Keep Afloat
Published: 2009
Surrounded by the Goliaths in the media industry, can smaller outfits - little Davids # take good aim with their slingshots and smite their stronger competitors?
Corporal, Lynette Lee: Asia: Media Need to go Back to Basics
Experts
Published: 2009
'Back to basics' in times of crisis is a message that the media should not only give out to the public but learn from as well. More cooperation, adaptability, learning from past mistakes, ethical practices and gaining public trust are just some of the messages journalists and media professionals heard...
Corporal, Lynette Lee: Media Still Struggling to Break Gender Barriers in Cambodia
Published: 2009
Cambodia's media organisations are a 'battleground' for old ways and new approaches when it comes to gender.
Corporal, Lynette Lee: New Media
Online Propaganda War Heats Up
Published: 2009
For the past several years, extremist groups such as the Taliban, have been arming themselves with a different kind of weapon # new media. The news is they are getting highly creative at it.
Corporate Europe Observatory: Key evidence in EU's risk assessment of glyphosate must not remain 'trade secret'
Published: 2016
The chemical industry and the European Food Safety Authority are refusing to disclose key scientific evidence about glyphosate's risks, citing 'trade secrets' protection, writes Corporate Europe Observatory. They must be compelled to publish the 'mysterious three' scientific studies EFSA used to assess glyphosate as 'unlikely' to cause cancer to humans - contradicting the IARC's view.
Corporate Watch: International arms companies make a killing in Turkey: a case study of the Roboski Massacre
Published: 2016
Today, Turkey continues its brutality in its war against its Kurdish population. The state is imposing new curfews daily in the south-east of the country. Hundreds of citizens have been killed so far, whilst the western mainstream media and politicians remain largely silent about the massacres. Anti-militarist activists in the UK, however, are taking action against atrocities carried out by states such as Turkey.
Corradi, Richard B.: Psychiatry Professor: 'Transgenderism' Is Mass Hysteria Similar To 1980s-Era Junk Science
Published: 2016
While fair-minded people can agree that gays or people with gender confusion should not be discriminated against, the general public doesn’t appear to be ready to accept gender as simply a social construct or that people can be whatever gender they choose. These contentions, the conceptual foundation of transgenderism, fly in the face of reality: the biological difference between the sexes.
Corrales, Javier et all: Undermining Democracy
21st Century Authoritarians
Published: 2009
Pivotal authoritarian regimes have adapted and modernized their repressive methods and are undermining democracy in updated, sophisticated, and well funded ways. The result is a disruptive and serious new challenge to the emergence of an international system based on the rule of law, human rights, and open expression.
Correia, David: Police Violence Against Native People
Published: 2015
In April 1974, three white high school students from Farmington, New Mexico murdered three Navajo men, Benjamin Benally, John Harvey, and David Ignacio. The brutal murders were nothing new in Farmington, where white high school students had been known to sever the fingers of inebriated Navajo men and display them proudly in their lockers at school.
Corrigan, Edward C.; Springmann, J. Michael: Google Bans Press TV
Published: 2019
Social media companies are banning media outlets in the name of alleged 'hate speech' but the companies' contacts and their targets make them instruments of government censorship.
Corry, Stephen: The myth of the 'brutal savage' and the mindset of conquest
Published: 2016
The 'brutal savage' meme has enjoyed a resurgence in popular culture and establishment narratives, despite abundant evidence that it's fundamentally wrong. But it suits today's dominant mindset of conquest, conflict and colonialism all too well, and serves to justify the ongoing genocide and expropriation of surviving Indigenous Peoples today.
Corry, Stephen: New Deal for Nature: Paying the Emperor to Fence the Wind
Published: 2020
The latest idea to be heavily promoted by big conservation NGOs is doubling the world's so-called "Protected Areas" (PAs) so that they cover thirty percent of the globe's lands and oceans. This is now their main rallying cry and response to two of the world's biggest problems -- climate chaos and loss of biodiversity. It sounds good: It's easy to grasp and has numbers that are supposed to be measurable, and advertisers do love numbers. What better answer to climate change and biodiversity loss than to ban human "interference" over huge areas? If, that is, you think "everybody" is guilty of causing both crises and that everything's solved by keeping them away. The idea's been around for years, but now governments and industries are promoting it to the tune of billions of dollars, so it'll be difficult to oppose. But it's actually dangerous nonsense which would have exactly the reverse effect to what we're told, and if we want to save our world, it must be stopped.
Cortright, Joe: The True Costs of Driving
Published: 2015
Cortright highlights the costs behind building and maintaining roads as well as what part of public taxes fund such an expensive venture.
Cosh, Alex: Why The 'Ok Boomer' phenomenon is short-sighted
Millennials and Generation Zers have more in common with struggling boomers than wealthy elites our own age
Published: 2019
The "Ok Boomer" meme, which many young people are using online as a rebuttal against supposedly out-of-touch baby boomers, taps into frustrations disproportionately experienced by millennials and Generation Zers -- particularly in Canada's most unaffordable cities. Unfortunately, however, the meme also represents a discourse that ignores the many older people experiencing poverty, discrimination and hardship.
Cossar-Gilbert, Sam: We're not having it! $15bn KXL lawsuit shows what's wrong with 'trade deals'
Published: 2016
TransCanada has just made a big mistake by bringing its $15 billion lawsuit against the US government for refusing the Keystone XL pipeline, writes Sam Cossar-Gilbert. The move has exposed the real nature of 'trade deals' like TTIP and TPP - and why all democrats must rally to defeat them.
Costa, Jorge Duarte: Forty years after the portuguese Carnation Revolution
Published: 2014
On the eve of April 25, 1974, Portuguese society was smouldering from contradictions accumulated in half a century of dictatorship. At the heart of these contradictions was a war that lasted thirteen years, to hold on to the African colonies of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe. This conflict conditioned the whole of national life, because of the social suffering caused by the mobilization of two hundred thousand men, a tenth of the working population (a human cost equivalent to twice that of Vietnam), because of the wave of migration driven by hunger and the war, and because of the impossibility of a military solution, the only one contemplated by the regime.
Costandi, Moheb: Against neurodiversity
Published: 2019
The neurodiversity movement has good intentions, but it favours the high-functioning and overlooks those who struggle with severe autism.
Cottle, Eddie: Will ANC government ever prosecute South Africans in Israeli Army?
Published: 2015
When South African security services prevented a Cape Town girl from boarding a plane allegedly to join ISIS, many South Africans were pleased but at the same time surprised at how swift the reaction of our security services were. How come the same reaction is not applied to South African Zionist Jews serving in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF)?
Countercurrents: Metadata Is More Intrusive Than Direct Listening Of Phone Calls Says Snowden
Published: 2014
Government monitoring of “metadata” is more intrusive than directly listening to phone calls or reading emails.
Courtice, Ben; Bunting, Andrea: Restoring a safe climate: Impossible dream or dangerous distraction?
Published: 2015
Green house gases are at a level where drastic and far-reaching measures need
to be implemented; however authors caution against invoking emergency measures
that involve geo-engineering.
Cousins, Farron: Flint drinks lead-laden water; Republicans attack Clean Water Act
Published: 2016
To save a small amount of money residents of Flint, Michigan, have been forced to consume hazardous levels of lead in their drinking water. Just the moment for the Republican House Speaker to attack the Clean Water Act.
Cowan, Kirsten: Caveat Surfer: Beware When Using Electronic Communication
Published: 2000
Points about electronic communication and online security.
Cowan, Kirsten: The challenges of diversity (book review)
Review of The Mass Media and Canadian Diversity
Published: 2001
Cowan, Kirsten: Duping the public (book reviews)
Reviews of Spin Wars and Easily Led
Published: 2000
Cowan, Kirsten: A historical look at a sad decline (book review)
Review of The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting
Published: 1998
Cowan, Kirsten: HotLink Resource Shelf: Going for Gold!
Published: 2000
Review of Going for Gold, a book on marketing strategies for speakers.
Cowan, Kirsten: The Princess and the Press
How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball
Published: 2005
Your relationship with the press might not be a fairy tale, but it definitely doesn't have to be horror story: How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball.
Cowan, Kirsten: Review: Leadership from within
Published: 1998
An outline of skills and leadership techniques.
Cowan, Kirsten: Review: Secrets of Power Marketing
Published: 1999
A lively book, with a streak of practicality that reveals itself in an impatience with hoity-toity notions of marketing that have little impact on the bottom line.
Cowan, Kirsten: Solid overview of media studies (book review)
Review of The Media Studies Reader
Published: 1999
Cowan, Kirsten: Using the divine for corporate power
Review of The Empire God Built
Published: 1998
Cowan, Kirsten: What Does a Reporter Want?
Published: 2001
What does a reporter what when they interview you?
Cowan, Reed; Greenstreet, Steven: 8
The Mormon Proposition
Published: 2010
A scorching indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California's Proposition 8 and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against LGBT human rights.
Cowperthwaite, Gabriela: Blackfish
An exploration of the mistreatment of marine life in captivity. Abuse and inexperience is highlighted through testimonials and archival footage.
Cox, Joseph: The FBI Blindly Hacked Computers in Russia, China, and Iran
Published: 2017
Recent court papers indicate that the FBI repeatedly broke into devices overseas as part of ordinary criminal investigations; in countries hostile to the U.S. this could have significant geopolitical fallout.
Cox, Stan: Fair Shares of Food
Agriculture in an Age of Gadgets
Published: 2013
Concern over lagging production has prompted a search for technological tricks that might revolutionize food production.
Cox, Stan: The Vertical Farming Scam
Wrong on So Many Levels
Published: 2012
Vertical farming would involve using the floorspace of tall urban buildings for growing food plants through largely hydroponic methods. This is envisioned as a way to integrate food production with dense human populations, increase production per unit of land area, protect crops against pests without the use of chemicals, and take vulnerable agricultural soils out of production by relocating crops to cities. It can, in fact, achieve none of these goals.
Coyne, Andrew: Sympathy for Stephen Harper: Imagine that everyone you trusted had lied to you
Published: 2015
You will be familiar with the picture we have created of him: suspicious, paranoid, controlling, a leader who trusts no one, leaves nothing to others, insists on taking a hand in even the smallest matter. Well, you'd be suspicious, paranoid and controlling, too, if everyone around you was lying to you all the time.
Crabtree, John; Condor-Vidal, Judith: Fair Trade gold mining in the highlands of Peru
Published: 2015
Most gold mining in Peru causes serious environmental damage, but there is one exception - a Fair Trade certified mine close to the world-famous Nazca Lines. Now it's up to us to demand Fair Trade gold from the jewellery trade, rewarding responsible producers and expanding the market for new Fair Trade gold miners.
Cram, Stephanie: Dark history of Canada's First Nations pass system uncovered in documentary
Published: 2016
Little known policy restricted people living on reserves, enforced for nearly 60 years.
Cramer, Mary Lynn: Why No Reporters in Suez?
The Real Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Published: 2011
What is happening in Tahrir Square Cairo has been built on the backs of millions of Egyptian workers who waged 3,000 strikes over the past eight years.
Cretella, Michelle: I'm a Pediatrician. How Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse.
Published: 2017
Professionals who question the unscientific party line of supporting gender transition therapy could find themselves out of a job.
Cribb, Robert: That rotten stench in the air? It’s the smell of deadly gas and secrecy
Published: 2017
Documents obtained through freedom-of-information requests and from whistleblowers, including internal correspondence and inspection reports, disclose serious infractions and failures in performance by oil and gas companies; yet regulatory standards remain largely unchanged and H2S incidents and risks remain hidden from the public.
Cribb, Robert: 'There's no sense in speaking up' despite deadly gas risks
Published: 2017
An investigation into oil industry in Saskatchewan reveals a culture of secrecy fuelled by oil industry money, the province's reliance on that money, and the threats and intimidation that have followed those who have spoken out.
Cribb, Robert; McIntosh, Emma; Jarvis, Carolyn: In Sarnia's Chemical Valley, is 'toxic soup' making people sick?
Published: 2017
Experts and documents cast doubts on whether industry and Ontario government are revealing levels of benzene in areas where residents live right near oil and gas facilities.
Crispin, Shawn: Widodo's lifting of ban on foreign media in Papua is step in right direction
Published: 2015
Journalists and citizens celebrate freedom of press and speech as a 50-year blackout of international media is lifted in Papua, Indonesia.
Crocker, Andrew: Oversight Report on FBI's Use of Patriot Act Highlights Need for Intelligence Reform at Crucial Moment
Published: 2015
We've all heard about the NSA mass surveillance scandal permitted by the Patriot Act but this is not the first time the NSA and other fedral agencies have violated our rights.
Crocker, Andrew; Mullin, Joe: The Open Letter from the Governments of US, UK, and Australia to Facebook is An All-Out Attack on Encryption
Published: 2019
Top law enforcement officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia told Facebook today that they want backdoor access to all encrypted messages sent on all its platforms. In an open letter, these governments called on Mark Zuckerberg to stop Facebook's plan to introduce end-to-end encryption on all of the company's messaging products and instead promise that it will "enable law enforcement to obtain lawful access to content in a readable and usable format."
Crocker, Diane: Newfoundland Emporium contains over 15,000 items as curious as its 'marvellous terrible' owner Dave LeDrew
Known for its unique assortment of antiques, crafts and giftware as much as it is for the man who runs it, the Newfoundland Emporium has been a fixture on Broadway in Corner Brook for 33 years.
Croidheain, Caoimhghin O: Remembering Ireland's Great Famine
A review of Black '47 a soon to be released film about the famine in Ireland
Published: 2018
The Irish film, Black 47 (Director Lance Daly) is about the worst year of the catastrophic Irish famine and is set in the west of Ireland in 1847. The story centers around an Irish soldier, Feeney (James Frecheville), returning from serving the British Army in Afghanistan only to find most of his family have perished in the Famine or An Gorta Mor (the Great Hunger) as it is known in Gaelic.
Cromwell, David: Bad Pharma, Bad Journalism
Published: 2012
‘The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal’, from Ben Goldacre's new book, Bad Pharma presents a disturbing picture emerges of corporate drug abuse.
Cromwell, David: Bias Towards Power *Is* Corporate Media 'Objectivity'
Journalism, Floods and Climate Silence
Published: 2014
Journalistic bias in favour of the orthodox Western-centric socio-economic perspective is often framed as "objectivity", and departures from the orthodox Western-centric socio-economic perspective are often dismissed as "ideological'. A review of the incidence and framing of climate change reporting illustrates this.
Cromwell, David: Cartoon Politics: Rupert Murdoch, The Pro-Israel Lobby And Israel’s Crimes
Published: 2013
Cromwell, David: Death of a Hero
The General, The Media Adulation And The Forgotten Victims
Published: 2013
If all this glorification of a military commander had happened in the North Korean or the Soviet-era press, lavishly praising an 'original' who'd given years of 'patriotic service' in wars abroad, it would have rightly elicited scorn and ridicule amongst commentators here.
Cromwell, David: 'The Planet Can't Keep Doing Us A Favour'
Published: 2013
With humanity's huge impact on the planet's climate becoming ever clearer, the claim of 'history in the making' is truly deserved.
Cromwell, David: Propaganda
'The Dominant Grand Narrative of Our Time'
Published: 2014
Today, it is clearer than ever to a growing number of people that there is something seriously wrong with 'the news'. The current system of planet-crushing propaganda relies on a mere façade of overall 'balance', 'reasonableness' and 'range of views'. In the UK, BBC News is the crucial foundation stone of this propaganda system, with the Guardian playing an accompanying role.
Cromwell, David; Edwards, David: Blair: Bombing Iraq Better. Again
Published: 2014
The authors critique the British media's coverage of a new essay by Tony Blair which attempts to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Cromwell, David; Edwards, David: David Cromwell & David Edwards Quotes
Cromwell, David; Edwards, David: The Ice Melts Into Water
Arctic Ice Melt, Psychopathic Capitalism And The Corporate Media
Published: 2012
Last month, climate scientists announced that Arctic sea ice had shrunk to its smallest surface area since satellite observations began in 1979. An ice-free summer in the Arctic, once projected to be more than a century away, now looks possible just a few decades from now. Some scientists say it may happen within the next few years.
Cromwell, David; Edwards, David: The 'Professorial President' And The 'Small, Strutting Hard Man'
Published: 2014
Exactly what is happening in Ukraine is not easy to disentangle from corporate news media reports. The current crisis began in November 2014 when the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, withdrew from a cooperation agreement with the European Union to forge closer ties with Russia.
Cromwell, David; Edwards, David: The Right Kind Of Terror
Published: 2012
When is an act of terrorism not terrorism? When the victims are officially sanctioned state enemies.
Cromwell, David; Edwards, David: Snowden, Surveillance And The Secret State
Published: 2013
There is plenty to be said about living under a giant system of government surveillance. Just don't expect the corporate media to explore the full extent of what it really all means.
Cromwell, David; Edwards, David: Thinking The Right Thoughts
Published: 2014
There are always convenient news-hooks on which corporate journalists can hang their power-friendly prejudices about the West being 'the good guys' in world affairs. The authors provide examples from the British media.
Cromwell, David; Edwards, David; Cook, Jonathan: Keeping the Media Safe for Big Business
Published: 2008
Cronin, David: The racist worldview of Arthur Balfour
Published: 2017
A look at British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, whose Declaration of 1917 led to the expulsion of Palestinians.
Crook, Matt: East Timor: Journalists Hold Out for Better Media Laws
Published: 2009
Journalists in East Timor are anxiously waiting for a set of media laws to be revised after a negative reaction to a draft that was circulated in March.
Crooks, Harold: The Price We Pay
Published: 2014
This documentary, inspired by Brigitte Alepin's book La Crise fiscale qui vient, shines a light on the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harbouring profits in offshore havens.
Crossen, Cathy: Pornography and the Sex Censors
A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen
Published: 1996
The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
Crowe, Kelly: What your government can't tell you about drug prices
Published: 2018
One of the best kept commercial secrets? The price governments pay for brand name drugs
Crowley, John: Works of Mercy
The power of pastoral care
Published: 2019
Health care organizations increasingly recognize that meeting the spiritual needs of their patients is part of their mandate, and hospitals must address these needs to receive national accreditation. The provision of care for the sick, disabled, and dying beyond the strictly medical or therapeutic is now a career possibility with many variant descriptions and categories.
Crucianelli, Sandra: Seeding Data Journalism in Panama
Published: 2014
Journalist talks about a need for data-driven journalists. She highlights her experience teaching teams how to do this in Panama in time for the Panama elections.
Cruickshank, Ainslie: Toronto music teacher sues after principal, VP call folk song racist
Published: 2017
A Toronto music teacher is suing her principal, vice-principal and the public school board for defamation after the administrators sent an email to the school community apologizing that a well-known folk song - "Land of the Silver Birch" - was performed at a school concert, calling it "inappropriate" and "racist."
Crum, Chris: Just How Bad Is Yelp's Fake Review Problem?
Published: 2014
You're probably aware of multiple controversial issues surrounding Yelp reviews. There are several to choose from. You have some businesses accusing the company of holding positive reviews hostage (with advertising being the ransom). You have a court ordering Yelp to turn over the identities of anonymous Yelp reviewers. You have people paying other people to write fake reviews, whether it's negative reviews for competitors or positive reviews for their own business.
Crum, Crhis: FAQ Pages Could Boost Your Google Rankings
Crumpler, J.: Why prairies matter and lawns don't
Published: 2013
Prairies matter because of their immense root systems; dense, sprawling, complex biological systems that store one third of the world’s carbon and subsequently clean our future water as it precipitates from moisture-laden clouds onto diverse plant communities, and filters down through the mass of litter, roots, soil organisms, and soil horizons. Water quality always follows soil carbon levels, and prairies are the best soil carbon factories in the world. Lawns do not compare and never will.
Crumpton, Neil: Lies, damned lies, and energy statistics - why nuclear is so much less than it claims to be
Published: 2015
It's odd how often the contribution of nuclear energy is overstated by mixing up 'energy' and 'electricity', while a similar trick understates the importance of renewables like wind and solar. Even odder is how the mistake always seems to go the same way, to make nuclear look bigger than it really is, and renewables smaller. Welcome to the nuclear 'X factor'!
Cruz Díaz, Miguel A.: Puerto Rico: a Junta By Any Other Name
Published: 2016
Empire is once again fashionable. The financial crisis that is presently gutting the island of Puerto Rico plays out like the world's worst case of botched assisted suicide. The sell of its municipal funds and its constitutionally guaranteed promise of repayment to investors has plunged the island into a very precarious situation for its millions of citizens and the opportunity of a lifetime for hedge fund vultures.
Cruz-Díaz, Miguel A.: Memento Mori: a Requiem for Puerto Rico
Published: 2017
Puerto Rico is dying. Let those words sink in.Three and a half million people are without power, water, fuel, food, and support. This isn’t some uninhabited atoll.
Cuddehe, Mary: A Matter of Life
The death penalty as a conservative conundrum
Published: 2017
A look at the Death Penalty in the United States and a Republican's campaign to have the practice abolished in the more Conservative areas of the country.
Cudmore, James: Canadian military explored plan to fully integrate forces with U.S.
Published: 2015
The Canadian military effort to formally create integrated forces with the US for expeditionary operations included a plan to fully integrate military forces.
Cullen, Don: The Bohemian Embassy
Memories and Poems
Published: 2007
Culp, Andrew; Bond-Graham Darwin: Left Gun Nuts
Opposition to Gun Control Comes from Many on the Left Also. Here's Why They're Wrong
Published: 2014
In the aftermath of the Isla Vista massacre, we can expect the far Right to vehemently oppose any renewed call for gun control. They will tout the supposedly Constitutional right of Americans to keep and bear arms.
Cummings, Clitora E.: Fantasy's Legal, Reality's Not
Published: 1986
A sex worker's take on prostitution and the sex industry.
Cummins, Ronnie: The Carbon Underground: reversing global warming
Published: 2014
As millions join in climate marches and other actions around the world, the mainstream focus on energy is missing the 55% of emissions that come from mismanaged land and destroyed forests. The key is to replace industrial agriculture worldwide with productive, regenerative organic farming that puts carbon back in the soil.
Cummins, Ronnie: The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
Published: 2019
They now warn us that we have to drastically reduce global emissions – by at least 45 percent – over the next decade. Otherwise, we'll pass the point of no return – defined as reaching 450 ppm or more of CO2 in the atmosphere sometime between 2030 and 2050 – when our climate crisis will morph into a climate catastrophe.
Cummins, Ronnie: Vegetarians, ranchers and conscious omnivores of the world, unite!
Published: 2015
Thinking people of all stripes are agreed in their opposition to cruel, exploitative animal farming. Cummins suggests moving beyond sterile 'meat-eater versus vegetarian' debates, and unite in their opposition to the daily atrocities of industrial agriculture.
Cunningham, Finian: Britain's Real Terror Apologists
Published: 2017
Despite a smear campaign to denigrate Britain's Labour leader as soft on terror, Jeremy Corbyn pulled of a remarkable achievement in the general election.
Cunningham, Finian: Facespook! Social Media Giant Becomes Arm of US Intel
Published: 2017
Facebook, the world's top social media platform, is reportedly seeking to hire hundreds of employees with US national security clearance licenses. Purportedly with the aim of weeding out "fake news" and "foreign meddling" in elections.
Cunningham, Finian: US & Europe's farcical hypocrisy over Russian foreign media law
Published: 2017
The US and the European Union rushed to condemn Russia's new media laws restricting foreign entities. At the same time, they assume the unilateral right to hound Russian news outlets as "foreign agents."
Cunningham, Finian: Washington using legal cover to conceal economic banditry
Published: 2018
The arrest of a Chinese telecom executive in Canada on behalf of the US is an abuse of the legal process and international law to pursue American economic interests. China's anger resonates with similar grievances against the US felt by Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and even American allies in Europe.
Curran, James: Shout out for peace and quiet
Green solutions to noise reduction could improve our mental and physical wellbeing.
Published: 2019
Noise is a cause of stress with physical and psychological effects on people and also harms the environment. Noise reductions needs to be made part of solutions such as industry standards and urban planning.
Currier, Cora: Al Jazeera Journalist Responds to U.S. Labeling Him Aa Qaeda
Published: 2015
A journalist is supposed to cover all sides of the story but when one does so with Al Qaeda, he is labelled a terrorist.
Currier, Cora: The Kill Chain
The lethal bureaucracy behind Obama's drone war
Published: 2015
Secret military documents offer documentary evidence of the process by which the Obama administration creates and acts on its kill lists in Yemen and Somalia.
Currier, Cora: Six Facts from Sudden Justice, A New History of the Drone War
Published: 2015
Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars, a new book by London-based investigative journalist Chris Woods, traces the intertwined technological, legal and political history of drones as they evolved on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the covert U.S. targeted killing campaign.
Currier, Cora: U.S. Firms Accused of Enabling Surveillance in Despotic Central Asian Regimes
Published: 2014
U.S. and Israeli companies have been selling surveillance systems to Central Asian countries with records of political repression and human rights abuse, according to a new report by Privacy International. The U.K.-based watchdog charges that the American firms Verint and Netronome enable surveillance in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Currier, Cora: A Walking Tour of New York's Massive Surveillance Network
Published: 2016
So it felt a bit risky to be climbing up a street pole on Wall Street to closely inspect a microwave radar sensor, or to be lingering under a police camera, pointing and gesturing at the wires and antenna connected to it. Yet it was also entirely appropriate to be doing just that, especially in the company of Ingrid Burrington, author of the new book "Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure," which points out that many of the city's communications and surveillance programs were conceived and funded in response to the attacks.
Currier, Cora; Maass, Peter: Firing Blind
Flawed Intelligence and the Limits of Drone Technology
Published: 2015
Classified Pentagon documents reveal that the U.S. military has faced "critical shortfalls" in the technology and intelligence it uses to find and kill suspected terrorists in Yemen and Somalia.
Currier, Cora; McLaughlin, Jenna; Aaronson, Trevor; Speri, Alice: The FBI's Secret Rules
President Trump has inherited a vast domestic intelligence agency with extraordinary secret powers.
Published: 2017
A collection of articles exploring the contents and implications of a cache of internal FBI manuals, offering a rare window into the FBI’s quiet expansion since 9/11.
Curtin, Edward: Let Me Be Frank: Francesco Serpico, A Genuine Actor
Published: 2018
When you see injustice and corruption, when you open your eyes and see lying and deceit everywhere, you must be your own hero; you must be courageous and act.
Curtis, Christopher: Young activist is on the front lines of First Nations' fight against pipelines
Published: 2016
Vanessa Gray’s hand shakes as she talks about the prison sentence dangling over her head. The 23-year-old activist says she's "a little scared," but also hopeful she won't be convicted of mischief endangering life when her case goes to trial next year. Crown prosecutors charged Gray and two others last December after they allegedly sabotaged a pipeline in Sarnia.
Curtis, Mark: The British establishment is putting our lives at risk: Our state's key ally is a major public threat
Published: 2017
Why is the British government allying itself with a country that promotes extremist ideology?
Curtis, Mark: Hilary Benn's speech The media's war footing on Corbyn and Syria
Published: 2015
Britain's media is on a double-war footing. The first war is against Jeremy Corbyn, and is countering the threat that Corbyn's more popular policies may gain even wider support. The second war is for Britain's ongoing right to bomb somewhere whenever elites want.
Cusak, John; Roy, Arundhati: John Cusack and Arundhati Roy: Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
Published: 2015
A conversation With Arundhati Roy.
Cushing, Lincoln: Cranking It Out, Old-School Style: Art of the Gestetner
Published: 2010
Before photocopiers took over the short-run end of copy making, messy and relatively inexpensive machines called dittos, mimeographs and Gestetners ruled the earth.
Cuthbert, Alka Sehgal: I've been cancelled for standing up to racial identity politics
Published: 2023
An education conference has disinvited me because my presence would make speakers feel 'unsafe'.
Cymbalist, Rivka: Undocumented Labour
Published: 2014
Pregnant refugee and non-status women are facing growing difficulties in accessing pre & post-natal care. Some doula's in Montreal are helping to fix that situation.
Cymbalist, Rivka: Undocumented Labour: Changes to refugee health care put women and babies at risk
Published: 2014
Pregnant refugee and non-status women are facing growing difficulties in accessing pre & post-natal care. Some doula's in Montreal are helping to fix that situation.
Cyran, Olivier: Bangladesh's exploitation economy
Published: 2013
Before the collapse of Rana Plaza, which killed over a thousand people, most of them textile workers, there was the fire that killed a hundred at the Tazreen factory. A major cause is western companies' greed for profits.
Czarnecki, Al: Business Continuity and Crisis Preparedness
Published: 2010
Czarnecki, Al: Crisis Communications
Published: 1997
Being prepared for a crisis is second best only to avoiding one altogether.
Czarnecki, Al: Going to the Public -- Ten public speaking tips
Published: 2000
Advice on effective public speaking.
Czarnecki, Al: Learning how to live with editors
Published: 1998
Pay attention to editorial fit, readership relevance, and good writing.
Cáceres, Berta; Lewis, Chris: They Want to Prohibit Us from Dreaming
Published: 2016
A 2014 interview with renowned Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated last week.

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D'Amato, David S.: The Corporate Welfare Bank of the United States
The Elites and the Ex-Im Bank
Published: 2014
Over the past few weeks, the American business lobby and in particular the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have come out in force to support the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. These groups and their puppets in Washington insist that the Ex-Im Bank is good for American small businesses and supports job growth, that failing to reauthorize will harm the overall economy. Conscious of the political atmosphere, the Bank’s supporters have carefully avoided some ugly facts about this vehicle for corporatist cooperation.
D'Archy, Stephen; Black, Toban; Weis, Tony; Russel, Joshua Kahn: Drawing a line in the tar sands
A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice
Published: 2014
The fight over the tar sands is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time. The very active tar sands struggle is no less than a life-and-death battle for the future of the planet. It is a battle that pits these peoples' movement against the largest and most destructive industrial project -- a project driven by the big the most profitable and powerful transnational energy corporations.
D'Eramo, Marco: Starless Sky
Published: 2022
As humanity conquered the dark with electricity, a new rhythm regulating daily life emerged. Making the night disappear has affected us in many ways, including the disregulation of our hormones, including Melatonin which regulates sleep, lowers cholesterol, boosts the immune system, and more.
D, Davey: The Copyright Police
First They Came for the Hip Hop Sites ...
Published: 2010
Understand this: the seizure of websites without due process, corporate interests lobbying and then writing laws that allow them to be the police and t personally enforce, the battle over net neutrality is all about concentrating power in the hands of a few. This is about controlling the flow of information and being a gate keeper in the communications arena. Its the first step in moving a democracy toward a dictatorship.
D. Yates, Michael: Teaching Workers
Education in the Name of Social Transformation
Published: 2014
Karl Marx’s famous dictum sums up my teaching philosophy: “The philosophers of the world have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” As I came to see it, Marx had uncovered the inner workings of our society, showing both how it functioned and why it had to be transcended if human beings were to gain control over their lives and labour.
da Silva, Issa Sikiti: West Africa's Fine Line Between Cultural Norms and Child Trafficking
Published: 2019
Human traficking in West Africa is difficult to deal with as it has become entrenched in the culture of people living in extreme poverty.
da Silva, Valter Israel; Martín, Facundo: Food sovereignty and climate change
Published: 2016
Climate change has become, in a short time, one of the "global affairs" of critical importance in our times. It has now penetrated every sphere of our social and political life to the point of acquiring a centrality that dangerously makes it seem natural.
da Vinci, Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Daalder, Marc: Israel's Occupation Continues Because Economic and Political Elites Around the World Benefit From It
Published: 2016
American-Israeli scholar and activist Jeff Halper, co-founder of The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, sought to discover the source of Israel's seeming immunity. He focused on Israel's arms trade, and argues that it was "parlaying its military prowess into political clout," as he writes in a book entitled War Against The People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification. Halper spoke with In These Times about the book.
Dabashi, Hamid: When the BBC did fake news
Published: 2018
The BBC recently aired a series on disinformation and fake news which made it seem like a problem reserved for non-British/non-European locales. The author looks at the BBC's role in the 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected government.
Dagen, Philippe: Death Train: the earliest art to expose horror of concentration camps
The Mexican art collective Taller de Gráfica Popular used lino prints to transmit an explicit, committed political message
Published: 2014
The Mexican art collective Taller de Gráfica Popular used lino prints to transmit an explicit, committed political message. A member of the collective, Leopoldo Mendez, working in 1943, was probably the first to depict the Holocaust.
Daher, Joseph: Marxism, the Arab Spring, and Islamic fundamentalism
Published: 2017
While Islamic fundamentalists are united by a reactionary worldview, the movements are not the same and must be approached differently. The Left must stake out an independent view based on democracy, social justice, equality, and liberation and freedom from oppression.
Daigle, Thomas: 'Completely unsustainable': How streaming and other data demands take a toll on the environment
Tech firms look for solutions as data centres use huge amounts of power to fuel streaming and social media
Published: 2020
"We are using an immense amount of energy to drive this data revolution," said Jane Kearns, an environment and technology expert at MaRS Discovery District, an innovation hub in Toronto. "It has real implications for our climate."
Dale, Daniel: Deconstructing Mayor Rob Ford's fiscal record
The Star examines the claims behind Mayor Rob Ford’s $1 billion-in-savings boasts
Published: 2013
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has repeatedly claimed to have saved taxpayers $1 billion - a figure that relies on creative definitions of "savings" and "taxpayers," exaggerations and omissions. Many of his other fiscal claims are also suspect.
Daley, Paul: The Bone Collectors
A Brutal Chapter in Australia's Past
Published: 2014
The remains of hundreds of Aboriginal people, dug up from sacred ground and once displayed in museums all over the world, are now stored in a Canberra warehouse. When will they be given a national resting place?
Daley,Paul: Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum's Indigenous Australian show
Published: 2015
Indigenous Australians are calling for the objects on show at the British Museum's new exhibition to be returned.
Dalglish, Lucy A. Dalglish; LaFleur, Jennifer LaFleur; Leslie, Gregg P.: Access to Electronic Records
A State by State Guide to Obtaining Government Data
Published: 2003
Reporters have a tool that allows them to report on entire populations and do original analysis on a subject for their stories, rather than relying solely on anecdotes. Computer-assisted reporting helps journalists do important stories that otherwise would not be covered.
Dalrymple, William: The East India Company: The Original Corporate Raiders
Published: 2015
For a century, the East India Company conquered, subjugated and plundered vast tracts of south Asia. The lessons of its brutal reign have never been more relevant.
Dalrymple, William: Mes Aynak: Afghanistan's Buddhist buried treasure faces destruction
Published: 2013
Mes Aynak, a magnificent Buddhist city, is the most important archaeological discovery in a generation. But it is sitting on a vast copper deposit and is about to be destroyed.
Dalton, Dennis: Fire Ants Are Being Laced with Homosexual Chemtrails to Bite Christians And Convert Them To Homosexuality
Published: 2015
The homosexual chemtrail concoction contains a high concentration of gay endorphins. Sources confirm that several exclusive gay clubs collected the spent sweats of late-night homosexuality, then sent them to a laboratory where in-vitro techniques were used to create this potent new form of biological homosexual chemtrail. Various Christian neighborhoods in Texas have been reporting a sharp increase in these chemtrail laced fire ants and the CDC is reporting a higher incidence of homosexuality in Texas. This is all likely part of Obama’s Jade Helm invasion, but the Texas Chaper of the Christian Defense League suggests homeowners spray all of their doorways with bug guard and be vigilant in not becoming victimized by one of these ants.
Daly, Herman: Open Borders and the Tragedy of Open Access Commons
Published: 2013
“Open borders” refers to a policy of unlimited or free immigration. I argue here that it is a bad policy. If you are poor and your country provides no social safety net, you move to one that does. If you are rich and your country makes you pay your taxes, you move (or at least move your money) to one that doesn’t. Thus safety nets, and public goods in general, disappear as they become both overloaded and underfunded. That is the “world without borders,” and without community. That is the tragedy of open access commons.
Daly, Herman: Wealth, Illth, And Net Welfare
Published: 2011
Wellbeing should be counted in net terms -- that is to say we should consider not only the accumulated stock of wealth but also that of "illth;" and not only the annual flow of goods but also that of "bads." The fact that we have to stretch English usage to find words like illth and bads with which to name the negative consequences of production that should be subtracted from the positive consequences, is indicative of our having ignored the realities for which these words are the necessary names.
Damn Bored: Disabled parking spot hologram
Published: 2016
If there's one thing drivers hate having to deal with, it';s parking. But there's one type of person that is a real ass, the type that isn't handicapped and will take up one of those spaces anyways. This problem is so bad in Russia, that 30% of all drivers will take up a handicap space. To combat this, a nifty little surprise has been added to some of the spaces, take a look down below and let us know what you think!
Damon, Andre: War, lies and censorship
Published: 2018
Damon cautions news consumers that there is precedent for dissemination of government propaganda in the Anglo-American mainstream media when leaders are preparing to take part in military action.
Damon, Andre; North, David: Google's new search protocol is restricting access to 13 leading socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites
Published: 2017
New data suggests that the implementation of changes in Google's search evaluation protocols resulted in a massive loss of readership of socialist, anti-war and progressive web sites.
Dangel, Benjamin: The Politics of Pachamama
Natural Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America
Published: 2014
While many economies and citizens have benefitted from the state’s larger involvement in the extraction of these resources, extractivism under progressive governments, as it had under neoliberalism, still displaces rural communities, poisons water sources, kills the soil, and undermines indigenous territorial autonomy.
Dangl, Benjamin: Chile's Student Movement Leads the Way
Progressive Prospects for Michelle Bachelet's Second Term
Published: 2014
“I want to pay special homage to my father and to all those who gave their lives in the fight to recover democracy,” an emotional Isabel Allende said upon taking office as the Senate President.
Dangl, Benjamin: Out of the Backyard: New Latin American and Caribbean Bloc Defies Washington
Published: 2011
The CELAC meeting comes a time when Washington’s presence in the region is waning. Following the nightmarish decades of the Cold War, in which Washington propped up dictators and waged wars on Latin American nations, a new era has opened up; in the past decade a wave of leftist presidents have taken office on socialist and anti-imperialist platforms.
Dangl, Benjamin: A Step Toward Justice in the Long "War on Terror": Uruguay Offers to Welcome Guantanamo Detainees
Published: 2014
Under the Presidency of José “Pepe” Mujica, Uruguay has made a number of international headlines in recent years for progressive moves such as legalizing same sex marriage, abortion and marijuana cultivation and trade, as well as withdrawing its troops from Haiti.
Dangl, Benjamin: Uruguay's legalization of marijuana leads the world
Published: 2014
Next year Uruguay will create a state marijuana monopoly. Supplying high quality product in limited per person quantities, and at controlled prices that undercut the black market, the initiative will safeguard public health, cut off funds from criminals, and finance social programs. So why don't we all do it?
Daniel, Smriti: Bogota's bibliophile trash collector who rescues books
Published: 2017
55-year-old Jose,who lives on a steeply sloping road in the La Nueva Gloria barrio in the southern reaches of Colombia's sprawling capital, created a community library and donates books to children, believing that education can break the cycle of poverty.
Daniels, Dan: Paranoia and Dirty Feet
Published: 1995
Darby, Megan: UN aviation body blocks critics online
The UN’s aviation body is blocking climate critics on Twitter, accusing them of 'fake news' and 'spam'.
Published: 2019
The International Civil Aviation Organization is blocking people who interact with them on Twitter. They claim their critics' arguments are not 'fact-based.'
Darby, Seyward: The Rise of the Valkyries
In the alt-right, women are the future, and the problem
Published: 2017
A look at strategies and recruiting practices of the extremist alt-right, particularly outreach efforts towards recruiting women into their ranks.
Dardar, T. Mayheart: The Persecuted
Published: 2019
Fundamentalist Christians maintaining that they are persecuted may not make sense given the prevalence of sympathetic and Christian-owned media and businesses. Listening to a sermon reveals they see the inability to impose their views in society as persecution.
Dare, Holly: Creating Holiday Banners
Published: 2010
It’s always nice if you can tie your shop banner and inventory together so that people get an idea of what you are selling. But for some shops, that may not be possible. So in this post, we’ll address creating a banner using holiday images available on the web.

The danger in using graphics from the web is that most free graphics are NOT free for commercial use. You must read the fine print and refine your Google searches. The best search I found that yielded the most results was “free commercial use graphics Halloween” but even some of those sites were non-commercial use only.
Dave VE7CNV: Dave VE7CNV's Truly Canadian Dictionary of Canadian Spelling
This is a dictionary with Canadian English spelling. By Canadian spelling I mean that which is used in Hansard (the official transcript of proceedings) by the Parliament of Canada (which represents Canadians), the laws of Canada, and the treaties of Canada.
Davenellos, Antonis: No surrender in Greece
Published: 2010
A member of International Workers Left (DEA), reports from Athens on the May 20 general strike and workers' growing radicalization.
Davenport, Nicholas: Debate: Two tactics in the fight against climate change
Should climate activists limit their demands to what's possible under capitalism?
Published: 2014
The question of what demands ecosocialists should put forward in response to the climate crisis is a pressing one. The climate justice movement should demand a cap-and-trade policy, abandoning its traditional stance against carbon trading.
Davenport, Nicholas: A Marxist Ecological Vision
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
The questions facing environmental activists, and socialists in particular, range from the sheer scale of the environmental disasters already underway to the problems of beginning a transition from a system organized around massive consumption of fossil fuels, vast megacities and global agribusiness.
David, Ben Lilach: Let's talk about Gaza, Sderot and the racist valuation of lives
Published: 2014
A frank discussion about everything we don’t mention when talking about rockets and bombs and Gaza. Let’s talk about fear, about poverty, about angst and about racism.
David, Madeleine: The Orgins of the British New left in 1968 in Europe
A History of Protest and Activisim, 1956 - 1977
Published: 2008
Davidson, Adam: Why Is Allergan Partnering with the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe?
Inside the bizarre world of patent law.
Published: 2018
The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has invested in a portfolio of patents, their status as a sovereign-entity allows the holder to circumvent the "inter partes review" if a patent dispute is raised, increasing the value of their holdings.
Davidson, Lawrence: America's Repugnant Republicans
Published: 2014
There is a qualitative difference between today’s Democrats and Republicans. That difference does not lie in the potential to pursue policies that negatively impact the world. The difference is in their attitude toward policy and action as such. While both parties are often dangerously wrong, the Republicans are wrong in a demented ideological fashion. As such, they really are more repugnant than the Democrats.
Davidson, Lawrence: In Defense of Amira Hass
Claiming the Right of Resistance
Published: 2013
Amira Hass is a reporter for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. She reports on Palestinian affairs in the occupied territories and, over the years, has come to understand the Palestinians’ plight from their own point of view.
Davidson, Lawrence: Israel divides the Jews
Reform Judaism vs Israel
Published: 2015
Something significant recently happened in the ongoing political-ethical drama that grips Israel. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism publicly broke with Israel's political and religious leadership.
Davidson, Lawrence: Muslims, Jews and Christians imposing an imagined past, with disastrous results
Published: 2015
The truth is that there are millions of people – Muslims, Jews and Christians and others – who not only still idealise a religiously imagined past, but want, in one way or another, to import that past into the present – and not only their present but everyone else's as well. Whatever one might think of the teachings of the Bible and Quran, this is a highly problematic desire. In fact, it is downright dangerous.
Davidson, Lawrence: Roadblocks to Climate Activism
The Problem of Natural Localism
Published: 2013
The consequences of global warming. The evidence for the evolving dire effects of building CO2 and other greenhouse gases is getting increasingly conclusive. We are a species influenced by natural localism, and therefore the majority of Americans, and others in the West as well, are not going to abandon a present full of profit and relative comfort as long as the sky is clear in their own local place and time. As to the future beyond their grandchildren, it simply does not seem real.
Davidson, Lawrence: Seven Forbidden Words: On the Uses of Censorship
Published: 2018
In December 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moved to take ideological control of the agency's budget-writing process. A Trump appointed official presented a directive to the agency's departments listing seven words that were not to be used in budget preparation.
Davidson, Steven: 'Death to Christians': Violence steps up under new Israeli government
Published: 2023
Christian leaders in Jerusalem say never have Israeli attackers felt more emboldened than under the far-right ruling coalition.
Davies, Nick: Marikana massacre: the untold story of the strike leader who died for workers’ rights
Published: 2015
In 2012 a strike at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa ended when police opened fire, killing 34 miners. Investigations have revealed one rebel leader died trying to broker a peaceful solution.
Davis, Chandler: From an Exile
Published: 1960
Ten distinguished members of my faculty convened and unanimously declared me guilty of "deviousness, artfulness, and indirection hardly to be expected of a University colleague." I had refused, first before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and then before these juries of professors, to answer yes or no to the question, was I a Communist. The juries could assume (with that background and in the year 1954) that their recommendation that I be fired would mean my complete expulsion from the profession.
Davis, Charles: Why Pro-War Pundits Are Always Wrong
Always Erasing the Victims
Published: 2014
There is no shortage of men and women – but mostly men, typically white – willing to write 800- to 1,000-word editorials on the need for Decisive Action or Continued Resolve in Whereverthehellistan. Some of these people are historians, some are journalists, but all have attained material success in the field of arguing about war without ever once having to go through the trouble of being right.
Davis, Daryl: I wanted to understand why racists hated me. So I befriended Klansmen
Published: 2017
Daryl Davis befriended Ku Klux Klan members in order to gain some understanding of the organization, their beliefs and hatred.
Davis, Johua Clark: The Forgotten World of Communist Bookstores
Published: 2017
Communist bookstores were one of the most important public spaces for radicals in twentieth century America.
Davis, Minerva: The Wretched of the Earth and Me
Published: 1992
Davis, Natalie Zemon: How the FBI Turned Me On to Rare Books
Published: 2013
I have wanted to be a historian of hope. We can take heart from the fact that no matter how dire the situation, some will find means to resist, some will find means to cope, and some will remember and tell stories about what happened.
Davis-Marks, Isis: Forgotten 20th-Century Photography Studio Found in New York Attic
Published: 2021
Dawson, Ryan: The CIA in Ukraine
Published: 2017
Edited excerpt from "The CIA as Organized Crime", by Douglas Valentine, detailing the CIA's activities in Ukraine and influence on political movements there.
Day, Elizabeth: How Sleeping Swifts Keep To Their Course At 10,000 Ft
Published: 2014
Swifts routinely fly to 10,000 ft at night-time, around 4,000 ft higher than previously thought. Swifts are also able to navigate through different wind speeds while sleeping, automatically adjusting their flight to stay on a specific course.
Day, Meagan: We Didn't Start the Fire
Class conflict isn't something we choose to engage in. It's just how capitalism works.
Published: 2017
Day urges the historically Liberal US Democratic party to turn to the left, embracing class conflict as an integral component of left-wing politics.
Day. Elizabeth: Cotton-pickin trade
US and European growers receive government subsidies while farmers in Mali struggle to survive on 300$ a year
Published: 2010
Inequity in the global tradiing system of cotton means that farmers in West Africa struggle to survive. International prices have been driven down by subsidies and disproportionately disadvantage the poorest producers. The author inteviews these farmers and investigates the benefits of fair trade cotton in West Africa to the producers and their communities.
Dayen, David: Foreclosure Fraud Is Supposed to Be a Thing of the Past, But It Happens Every Day 1
Published: 2016
Recruiters are hiring for a job that shouldn't exist: finding "missing" documents required to "complete" broken chains of title on mortgages entering foreclosure. Since all assignments of mortgage should have been prepared and recorded within days of the transfer or sale -- and the failure to do so irreparably ruptures chain of title -- the companies would seem to be looking for time travelers or magicians. Or maybe they want to manufacture false evidence to introduce into courts as a means to take away people's homes.
Dayen, David: Foreclosure Fraud Is Supposed to Be a Thing of the Past, But It Happens Every Day 2
Published: 2016
Every day in America, people continue to be kicked out of their homes based on false documents. The settlements over allegations of robosigning, faulty paperwork, and illegal mortgage servicing didn’t end the misconduct. And law enforcement, along with most judges and politicians, have looked away in the mistaken belief that they wrapped up a scandal that just goes on and on.
Dayen, David: Google Is So Big, It Is Now Shaping Policy to Combat the Opioid Epidemic. And It's Screwing It Up.
Published: 2017
A snap decision by Google has begun to reshape the drug treatment industry, tilting the playing field toward large conglomerates-- the precise opposite outcome Google had hoped to achieve.
Dayen, David: An Idiot's Guide to Prosecuting Corporate Fraud
Published: 2016
A new group called Bank Whistleblowers United have just pushed out a comprehensive plan they think would put the executive branch in the United States back in the business of enthusiastically identifying, indicting, and convicting financial fraudsters -- restoring accountability while protecting the public.
Dayen, David: Mnuchin Lied About His Bank's History of Robo-Signing Foreclosure Documents
Published: 2017
Treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin lied in his written responses to the Senate Finance Committee, claiming that "OneWest Bank did not 'robo-sign' documents," when ample evidence proves that they did.
Dayen, David: Mortgage Companies Seek Time Travelers to Find Missing Documents
Published: 2016
Recruiters are hiring for a job that shouldn’t exist: finding "missing" documents required to "complete" broken chains of title on mortgages entering foreclosure. Since all assignments of mortgage should have been prepared and recorded within days of the transfer or sale -- and the failure to do so irreparably ruptures chain of title -- the companies would seem to be looking for time travelers or magicians.
Dayen, David: SEC Admits It’s Not Monitoring Stock Buybacks to Prevent Market Manipulation
Published: 2015
Dayen, David: TPP Trade Pact Would Give Wall Street a Trump Card to Block Regulations
Published: 2015
Banks and other financial institutions would be able to use provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership to block new regulations that cut into their profits, according to the text of the trade pact released this week.
de Assis, Carolina: Argentine Newspapers Recuperated by Workers' Cooperatives
Published: 2018
An economic recession in Argentina that culminated in intense protests and the resignation of then-president Fernando de la Rua, also fostered the phenomenon of companies being recuperated by its workers as a cooperatives. In the last two years the majority of companies recuperated have been media outlets, which opens up new possibilities for journalism in the country.
de Beauvoir, Simone: Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
de Coning, Alexis: Why So Many White Supremacists Are into Veganism
Published: 2017
Not many realize that numerous white nationalists are vegan and vegetarian, a dietary decision with origins from one of the movement's bedrock beliefs: the concept of "blood and soil."
de Jong, Alex: The Forgotten Massacres
Published: 2015
Fifty years ago, in 1965, hundreds of thousands of Indonesian communists were slaughtered -- all with the support of the US. For decades, this version of the mass killings of 1965–66 has been reinforced by state propaganda and parroted by Western experts who saw the "spontaneous" eruption in murderous violence as confirmation of pre-existing racist ideas about fanatical and irrational "orientals."
De Jong, Alex: The Philipinnes: War Against the Poor
Published: 2017
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is responsible for a so-called "war on drugs" that is costing thousands of lives and is increasingly concentrating power in his own hands.
De Jong, Alex: Trump and Duterte
Published: 2017
Philippines President Duterte presents himself as a nationalist who is especially opposed to the continuing strong influence of the former colonial power, the United States.
De Lisio, Amanda: How Brazil's Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years
Published: 2017
Sex workers in Brazil have been organizing for 30 years and have influenced politics to the extent that the government recognizes sex-work as an official occupation. They are celebrating the anniversary in part with an exhibit of photographs taken by sex-workers.
De Lisio, Amanda: How Brazil’s Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years
Published: 2017
In Brazil, sex work remains politically and socially contentious. But thanks to a staunch sex worker movement in the country, the people who actually do the work have made themselves key contributors to the debate.
de Rooij, Paul: Amnesty International: Trumpeting for War… Again
Published: 2018
One would expect a human rights organisation to be intrinsically opposed to war, but AI is a cheerleader of so-called humanitarian intervention, and even "humanitarian bombing".
de Witte, Ludo: A Revolutionary Speech: Patrice Lumumba and the Birth of the Republic of Congo
Published: 2016
Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence leader and first democratically elected Prime Minister, was executed on 17th January, 1961. He had been beated and tortured in a culmination of two assassination plots by the Belgian government and the CIA, ordered directly by President Dwight Eisenhower to 'eliminate' the charismatic leader, with the cooperation of British intelligence and Katangan authorities.
Dear, John: A Dweller in Peace
The Life and Times of Daniel Berrigan
Published: 2016
Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the renowned anti-war activist, award-winning poet, author and Jesuit priest, who inspired religious opposition to the Vietnam war and later the U.S. nuclear weapons industry, died at age 94.
Deb, Debal: Valuing Folk Crop Varieties for Agroecology and Food Security
Published: 2009
Agricultural sustainability consists of long-term productivity, not short-term increase of yield. Ecological agriculture, which seeks to understand and apply ecological principles to farm ecosystems, is the future of modern agriculture.
Deboer, Fredrick: Syria and the Reemergence of McCarthyism
Published: 2016
Framing the rhetoric surrounding the Syrian conflict of 2016 as a reemergence of McCarthyism, with accusations of dictatorship being used to foster support for war.
deBoer, Fredrik: I think explicit consent laws are a mistake
Published: 2014
I want to talk a little bit about the burgeoning movement for explicit consent laws. These laws change the typical standard from "no means no" to "only yes means yes." As the article puts it, "Students are now required to have 'unambiguous communication and mutual agreement' -- that's verbal consent - before sexual acts, or risk consequences."
deBoer, Fredrik: Think the Left Won the Culture War? Think Again
Published: 2015
With the recent AshleyMadison leak and Gawker.com's notorious naming and shaming of an obscure, married publishing executive, deBoer questions who really won in this culture war.
DeCamp, Dave: Pentagon Asks Top 8 US Arms Makers to Meet on Ukraine
Published: 2022
According to a report from Reuters, the Pentagon will host leaders from the top eight US weapons makers to discuss the industry’s capacity to produce arms for Ukraine if the war lasts years. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the US has pledged over $1.7 billion in new military aid for Ukraine.
DeCamp, Dave: US Shared Location of Aid Groups With Israel. Israel Bombed Them Anyway.
Published: 2023
POLITICO reports that the US has been sharing with Israel the location of humanitarian groups in Gaza in an attempt to prevent strikes on the sites. But Israel has been bombing them anyway.
Decker, Kris De: Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s
Published: 2016
We are being told to eat local and seasonal food, either because other crops have been tranported over long distances, or because they are grown in energy-intensive greenhouses. But it wasn't always like that. From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.
Deer, Jessica: 120 years of Indian day schools leave a dark legacy in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory
'The damage from day schools was just as severe as residential schools,' says former student
Published: 2019
Day schools have not received as much attention as residential schools but they were attended by more children who experienced simliar abuses and loss of culture.
Defoe, Daniel: The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters
Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
Published: 1703
Daniel Defoe's satire of the religious establishment, originally published anonymously, which led to him being convicted of seditious libel and sentenced to prison.
Dekker, Stefanie: The other side of Gaza: Swimming, canoeing and 'trying' to be a child
Published: 2018
Here in Gaza, I want to tell this story. To show our audience a piece of a normal life, away from Hamas, or Israel's "terror" rhetoric, away from the diplomatic efforts, the political bargaining, away from the weekly Friday protests. Just show you something normal.
del Bene, Daniela; Deniau, Yannick; Saes, Beatriz: Brazilian dam disaster 'is part of a pattern'
Published: 2019
A team of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) academics is marking the international day of action for rivers by hanging out the dirty laundry of a very dirty company.
DeLaire, Megan: Putting The Don in Its Place
Toronto's billion-dollar project to heal a river destroyed by development
Published: 2022
Delaloye, Jean-Cosme: La Prenda
Published: 2015
Documentary. Every day, a child is abducted in Guatemala, a country with a rate of impunity of 98%. Female victims and survivors hope to stem the tide of forced emigration from Guatemala, a country where too many women are still seen as "prendas." Also Known As: The Pawn.
Della Valle, Ines: Carrying the load: The weight of women's work in the DRC
For one photojournalist, an image of women miners symbolises the struggles and strength of all the women she has met.
Published: 2020
With her arms raised above her head, she grips the rope and leans forward to keep the basket full of heavy stones tethered behind her back. Beside her, the other women do the same as they make their way from the bottom of the valley, up a steep and slippery pathway of mud and rocks, towards the top of the Kamituga mining site in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Delobel, Robin: Is renewable energy really environmentally friendly?
Published: 2016
Renewable energy sources may have low CO2 emissions at the point of use, but the mines that make the technology possible are often environmentally destructive.
Dembicki, Geoff: Oil Sands Workers Don't Cry
Published: 2010
Toughing it out in the cold, isolated, male world of mobile workers in Alberta's oil patch.
Demelle, Brendan: Edelman's TransCanada Astroturf Documents Expose Oil Industry's Broad Attack on Public Interest
Published: 2014
The Edelman strategy documents and work proposals outline a "grassroots advocacy" campaign plan to build support for TransCanada's Energy East pipeline as well as to undermine public opposition to oil and pipelines generally. Documents obtained by Greenpeace detail a desperate astroturf PR strategy designed by Edelman for TransCanada to win public support for its Energy East tar sands export pipeline. TransCanada has failed for years to win approval of the controversial border-crossing Keystone XL pipeline, so apparently the company has decided to "win ugly or lose pretty" with an aggressive public relations attack on its opponents.
Democratic Left Front: Beyond capitalist green economy: In defence of Mother Earth and the commons
Published: 2012
The Democratic Left Front calls for action against destructive corporate interests that are driving the commercialisation and commodification of the natural environment.
Demosthenes: Demosthenes Quotes
Dempsey,Jessica: The tragedy of liberal environmentalism
Published: 2017
The tragedy of liberal environmentalism is that it occupies the political discourse as the most pragmatic, the most possible way to a better future, but implementing this watered down, technical environmental politics is not at all smooth, or easy. It is rather Sisyphean. This is the tragic political circumstance of our times: What is framed as easy, as the most compatible with the status quo, is actually so very, very hard.
Denis, Jacques: A century of sugar and tears
Guadeloupe has bulit a slavery memorial centre on the site of a gigantic sugar refinery, believing it's necessary to acknowledge
Published: 2015
Present day Guadeloupei s coming to terms with a grim past through the Caribbean Centre of Expression and Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade (MACTe), a new museum and memorial built symbolically on a waterfront site associated with slavery, segregation and conflict.
Denning, Michael: The Cultural Front
The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century
Published: 1996
Denyer, Simon: China hopes to revive the Silk Road with bullet trains to Xinjiang
Published: 2014
China hopes high-speed rail link will help pacify Xinjiang province.
Denyer, Simon: In China's Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders
Published: 2015
China's relentless drive for minerals is wreaking havoc on pastoral lifestyles.
Department of Agricultural Education and Communication: Getting Out the News
A short guide on developing a media relations strategy.
DePaul, Amy: Evangelicals Divorce More Often Than "Godless" Europeans?
Exploring America's Strange Relationship With Marriage
Published: 2009
Americans who are very religious divorce divorce more than godless Europeans. A child in the U.S. has a greater chance of seeing his married parents break up than a child of unmarried parents in Sweden.
Deranger, Eriel: The fight again tar sands is about more than the environment
Published: 2015
Indigenous rights defender Eriel Deranger explains how the struggle against tar sands mining is about protecting her people's rights and culture.
Dericquebourg, Baptiste: Where Syriza stands
Published: 2013
Syriza leads the leftwing coalition in Greece, and the opposition to the external financial occupation of the country by the states and organisations that are at present keeping it from bankruptcy.
Dermansky, Julie: TransCanada Keystone 1 Pipeline Suffered Major Corrosion Only Two Years In Operation, 95% Worn In One Spot
Published: 2015
Documents obtained by DeSmogBlog reveal an alarming rate of corrosion to parts of TransCanada's Keystone 1 pipeline. A mandatory inspection test revealed a section of the pipeline's wall had corroded 95%, leaving it paper-thin in one area (one-third the thickness of a dime) and dangerously thin in three other places, leading TransCanada to immediately shut it down.
Desimone, Arturo: The War on Memory Begins in Argentina
Published: 2016
Within less than a month of the inauguration of the new Macri/Cambiemos government in Argentina, the new leadership, or gestión (management) as they prefer to be called, acted in a great sweeping hurry. Argentine congress, full of opposition parliamentarians from the Frente Para la Victoria Party that lost the presidential race by 2% of the vote, was closed for the summer holidays that take place in the ardent month of December, as much of the urban population of Argentina seeks to carelessly flock to the seaside.
Dettlinger, Madison: Detroit celebrates Grace Lee Boggs' 100th birthday
Published: 2015
About the weeklong celebration of the life of Grace Lee Boggs, radical activist, political theorist, and revolutionary.
Deutsch, Judith: Gaza: Who or What Has a Right to Exist?
Published: 2018
A look at Norman Finkelstein's book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom", which investigates the Israeli attacks on Gaza such as Operation Cast Lead (2008-09), the Mavi Marmara (2010), and Operation Protective Edge (2014).
Deutsch, Judith: Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on Children
Published: 2018
A discussion of Israel's tactics in its campaign against Palestinians, which includes the use of deliberate provocation to incite retaliation, and the disturbing reality that results in large numbers of children's deaths.
Develay, Arnaud: Donbass: The War on Remembrance
Published: 2023
The Ukrainian Army wants not only to annihilate pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine but also wipe out the region’s heroic history of resisting the Nazi onslaught in World War II.
Devereaux, Ryan: "Do Not Resist": The Police Militarization Documentary Everyone Should See
Published: 2016
On a sunny afternoon last summer, Craig Atkinson, a New York City-based filmmaker, stood in a front yard in South Carolina surrounded by several heavily armed police officers. Inside, they found a terrified family of four, including an infant. As the family members were pulled outside, Atkinson's camera captured a scene that plays out with startling regularity in cities and towns across the country, one of many included in his new documentary, "Do Not Resist," an examination of police militarization in the United States.
Devereaux, Ryan: Manhunting in the Hindu Kush
Civilian casualties and strategic failures in America's longest war
Published: 2015
U.S. military forces set out to destroy the Taliban and al Qaeda forces that remained hidden in Hindu Kush. Dubbed Operation Haymaker, the campaign has been described as a potential model for the future of American warfare. Devereaux explains how this looks.
Devereaux, Ryan: Surprise: U.S. Drug War In Afghanistan Not Going Well
Published: 2014
A new report has found the war on drugs in Afghanistan remains colossally expensive, largely ineffective and likely to get worse. This is particularly true in the case of opium production, says the U.S. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
Devereaux, Ryan; Shults, Robert: The Unclaimed Dead
In Texas, the Bodies of Migrants Who Perished in the Desert Provide Clues to the Living
Published: 2017
Operation Identification, a program began in 2013 amid a swirl of grassroots organizing, lead the exhumation of more than 50 unidentified human remains from a rural graveyard named Sacred Heart.
Devlin, Megan: Nazeeha Saeed - Raising her voice for journalists in Bahrain
Published: 2014
Nazeeha Saeed was detained and tortured for 13 hours while covering the 2011 uprisings in Bahrain along with her colleagues. She is now raising awareness for journalists in Bahrain.
DeWalt, Dan: Too Big to Jail
Not Too Big to Resist
Published: 2013
US rich evade punishment while the poor are criminalized in the two-tier justice system.
Dharmarajah, Sindhu: #KMFace photos mock Kinder Morgan claim that facial expressions are a form of "assault"
Published: 2014
Anti-pipeline protestors took to social media to post their best #KMFace, following Kinder Morgan's court case against residents this week, where the company's lawyer stated that the protestors' angry snarls are "not just intimidation," but "actually assault."
di Giovanni, Janine: The Vanishing
The plight of Christians in an age of intolerance
Published: 2018
In the summer of 2014, the Islamic State occupied Christian cities and villages across northern Iraq, appropriated Christian homes, and destroyed farms of Christian families. When Islamic State commanders separated men from women and imposed jizyah, or extortion taxes, their purpose was extreme: they meant to subjugate the Christians or drive them away from the land.
Di Maggio, Anthony: Confronting the Cult of Objectivity
Education in Crisis
Published: 2014
As the end of the semester draws near on campuses across the country, I thought I’d reflect on one of the largest threats to academic freedom in this country. I’ve long labeled this threat the “cult of objectivity,” represented in a variety of different pathologies that afflict students, faculty, and administrators.
Diamond, Norm: Occupy the Workplace - review
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
A review of 'Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present', edited by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini.
Diaz, Gloria: From Academic to Assembly Line Worker: My Life of Precarity in Middle America
Published: 2019
A non-tenured academic's story of trying to make ends meet in Indiana.
Diaz, Philippe: The End of Poverty?
Published: 2008
Today, global poverty has reached new levels because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies -- in other words, wealthy countries exploiting the weaknesses of poor, developing countries.
Diaz-Struck, Emilia: ICIJ Releases Paradise Papers Data From Appleby
Published: 2017
A look at data released from the Paradise Papers investigation, a global journalistic collaboration that exposed offshore deals of political players and corporate giants. A team of journalists explored a trove of 13.4 million records from two offshore firms and 19 secret jurisdictions.
Dick, Adam: Depraved Treatment of Drug War Captives on US Coast Guard Ships
Published: 2017
Wessler provides details in an interview transcript on how the United States Coast Guard routinely subjects individuals alleged to be involved in the transport of cocaine between South America and Central America to such conditions.
Dickens, Amy: Selling Modernity: How Global Greenwashing is Destroying Tribal People
Published: 2015
The Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (APECO) in Casiguran, the Philippines, is a 12,923 hectare area currently being developed into a self-sufficient commercial hub and special economic zone.If completed, APECO will strip 3,000 small farms and indigenous Agta households of their land.
Dickerson, Debra: Black Immigrants, 'Model' Minority? Plus: Don Imus
Published: 2008
'Black' is a label which obscures more than it illuminates.
Dickinson, Emily: Emily Dickinson Quotes
Dickinson, Pete: Why Can't Capitalism Go Green?
Published: 2015
It is more than a quarter of a century since the ruling classes of the world began serious discussions on global warming, in preparation for the 1992 UN-sponsored ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio. Yet no meaningful steps have been taken to tackle the problem, even though the majority of the capitalist establishment has come to understand that something needs to be done. The Paris summit looks very unlikely to break from this pattern. So how can the lack of action be explained?
Dickson, Janice: Landowner refuses to surrender property for Energy East pipeline
A landowner fights a big corporation for his forest
Published: 2014
Rick Verge was shocked when a TransCanada land agent knocked on his door in Titusville, N.B., last year and offered him $1000 to conduct a land survey in exchange for his signature. He refused. He said the land agent showed him a photo in a brochure of what his land would look like after TransCanada was finished with construction.
Diebel, Anne; Maroney, Tyler: Paper Terrorism
Anti-government vigilantes wield a subtle weapon
Published: 2018
Such tactics have become known as paper terrorism, defined by Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow with the Anti-Defamation League, as "the use of bogus legal documents and filings, or the misuse of legitimate ones, to intimidate, harass, threaten, or retaliate against public officials, law enforcement officers, or private citizens."
Diemer, Ulli: Abandoning the Public Interest
Published: 2001
The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
Diemer, Ulli: Abandoning the Public Interest - Bulgarian text
Diemer, Ulli: Adding up to Zero
Published: 2020
I just learned that Canada's biggest meat company is now proclaiming itself both "carbon neutral" and "carbon zero."
Diemer, Ulli: Afghanistan and the "experts"
Published: 2021
Tthe "experts" are never wrong. When each intervention turns into yet another predictable disaster -- predicted by others, of course, not by the "experts" -- the "experts" never acknowledge their mistakes, and the media never holds them to account.
Diemer, Ulli: After Typhoon Haiyan: The true face of the capitalist state
Published: 2013
In times of disaster, the capitalist state shows its true face.
Diemer, Ulli: Against Censorship
Published: 1995
Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
Diemer, Ulli: Alternative Media
Introduction to the November 27, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Published: 2016
It's no wonder that the mainstream media are widely distrusted, and even held in contempt, by many people. They are seen, rightly, as part of the neoliberal system people are increasingly rejecting. On the other hand, the Internet has made it possible to launch a vast number of alternative media projects.
Diemer, Ulli: An alternative media list
Getting the news - and getting behind the news
Published: 2017
A selective list of English-language alternative media.
Diemer, Ulli: Alternative Media: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Alternatives: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Architect fears Toronto may resemble New York
Published: 1972
Developer and citizen advocate debate the future of the city.
Diemer, Ulli: Bad news: Unemployment is down and wages are up
Normally, the corporate media are violently allergic to any suggestion that class conflict exists at all, let alone that it is fundamental to our capitalist economic system. However, in the business news one is more likely to encounter plain speaking. A case in point is the Globe and Mail’s report on the fears and upset that October's economic data have sparked among economic forecasters and currency traders. The reasons for their worries? A fall in the unemployment rate, and an increase in real wages.
Diemer, Ulli: The biggest threat to a free society is freedom of speech, says Canada’s Public Safety Minister
Published: 2015
Canada's "Public Safety" Minister Steven Blaney says that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only Germany hadn't suffered from an excess of freedom of speech.
Diemer, Ulli: Bookworm's goulash: A taster's choice of the good, bad and indifferent
Book reviews
Published: 1973
Diemer, Ulli: Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Introduction to the July 2, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Published: 2016
A constant theme in elite reaction to the Brexit referendum, expressed especially through the mainstream media, has been a visceral contempt for democracy. Ordinary working people are portrayed as stupid and reactionary, incapable of understanding how wonderful the European Union project is. Again and again, one hears the comment that the great unwashed should not be allowed to vote on issues which they are incapable of understanding. This reaction is not new: ruling classes for centuries have loathed democracy, which is seen as an existential threat to the wealth and privileges of the elite.
Diemer, Ulli: By the people, for the people?
Published: 1980
A tiny group of appointed politicians is ignoring the what the people have said they want.
Diemer, Ulli: The Canada Metals story: A chronology
Published: 1980
The ongoing struggle against lead pollution in South Riverdale.
Diemer, Ulli: Canada's Distorted Electoral System
Published: 2000
Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
Diemer, Ulli: The Capital Punishment Debate
Published: 1984
The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
Diemer, Ulli: Capitalism: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: The Case for Grassroots Archives
Published: 2012
Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
Diemer, Ulli: Chemicals in your water: A little is too much
Published: 1984
There is reason to be concerned about the increasing amounts of chemicals in our water.
Diemer, Ulli: Chess: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Circle in the Darkness Book Review
Review of Diana Johnstone's memoir Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher
Published: 2021
Johnstone says: "If I must claim a label, it owuld be that of an independent truth-seeker."
Diemer, Ulli: Civil Liberties - Human Rights: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Class - Class Struggle - Solidarity: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Collective Memory - Archives: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Commons - Community: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Communicating Effectively Through Your Association Newsletter
Published: 1997
An effective newsletter is one that meets your readers' needs and interests.
Diemer, Ulli: Communicating Effectively Through Your Newsletter
Published: 1990
Some pointers about how to produce a newsletter that communicates effectively with its readers
Diemer, Ulli: Comparing evils
Published: 2008
Al-Qaeda is willing to kill large numbers of innocent people, including children, in pursuit of its goals, and the U.S. is willing to kill large numbers of innocent people, including children, in pursuit of its goals. By what standard of morality are they not morally equivalent?
Diemer, Ulli: Consensus - Decision-Making: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Published: 2000
The story of Ontario's right-wing Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
Diemer, Ulli: Contest: Guess the date of Harper's next 'terrorist plot'
Published: 2015
What are the odds that a 'terrorist plot' will be 'uncovered' in the late stages of the election campaign, so that Harper can spend the final days of the campaign talking about terrorism, terrorism, and more terrorism?
Diemer, Ulli: The cost of software piracy
Published: 2005
The enormous dollar amounts the software industry throws around in its PR campaigns about software 'piracy' are purely imaginary.
Diemer, Ulli: Dances with Guilt: Looking at Men Looking at Violence
Published: 1991
Why are some men violent?
Diemer, Ulli: Day-care issue remains unsolved
Published: 1972
A look at the daycare issue at the University of Toronto in the fall of 1972.
Diemer, Ulli: Dear Al Gorithm
Published: 2022
A look at search engine optimization (SEO) spam and the algorithms behind them.
Diemer, Ulli: Death on Yonge Street
Published: 1977
This city, which usually seems far too cynical and hurried to care very much about anything any more, has been deeply shocked and violently angered by the murder of the little shoe-shine boy, Emmanuel Jaques, on Yonge Street.
Diemer, Ulli: Democracy - Democratization: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Ulli Diemer: Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
These snippets are from articles on the Radical Digressions website. They are intended as a starting point for exploring the content of the site. They are grouped by topic; some quotes may appear under more than one heading. Each item is followed by a link to the relevant article.
Diemer, Ulli: Ulli Diemer Quotes
Diemer, Ulli: Disobedience: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: 10 mythes des soins de sante
Comprendre le debat de l'Assistance Medicale Canadienne
Published: 1995
Un guide concis expliquant les 10 mythes regardant les Soins de Sant.
Diemer, Ulli: Does OHC care?
Published: 1984
Some Bleecker Street tenants who have been living in Ontario Housing (OHC) units for 10 or 15 years found themselves faced with the threat of eviction recently.
Diemer, Ulli: Don Vale Centre fights to survive
Published: 1976
The Don Vale Community Centre is trying to find a way to survive.
Diemer, Ulli: Don't forget to write
Published: 1997
Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
Diemer, Ulli: Don't Forget to Write
Published: 1997
Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
Diemer, Ulli: The end of carding?
Published: 2015
The Ontario government has announced that it intends to bring in regulations to stop the police practice of stopping people at random and demanding their information. Of course this form of harassment, known as "carding" in Ontario, is far from random: everyone knows who is likely to be stopped, and what the colour of their skin is likely to be.
Diemer, Ulli: Environment: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: "Fake News"
Introduction to the December 20, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Published: 2016
"Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentaries about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news."
Diemer, Ulli: Fallacies about free public transit
Published: 2019
Whenever the movement for free public transit shows signs of gaining public support, the media digs up 'experts' who furrow their brows and tell us what an impractical idea it is.
Diemer, Ulli: Farewell to the Guardian
Published: 2017
When a newspaper has arrived at the point of praising war criminals while deluding itself that it is holding the powerful to account, I know that it’s not a newspaper that I want to keep receiving.
Diemer, Ulli: Foggy fireworks don't flop
Published: 1982
A special evening watching fireworks in the fog.
Diemer, Ulli: Following the Science?
Published: 2021
"Following the science" has been the mantra of public officials from the very beginning of the pandemic. But what does "following the science" actually mean? When we as a society are faced with difficult policy choices, can science tell us what choices we should make?
Diemer, Ulli: 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Published: 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression: they are for it - in principle - but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e. who gets to censor who.
Diemer, Ulli: Free Speech - Censorship: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Free speech for me - you shut up
Published: 2008
The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
Diemer, Ulli: Freedom Convoy
Published: 2022
Diemer, Ulli: Frequently Asked Questions about the Sources Subject Index
Published: 1998
A careful choice of subject headings pays off in leading journalists to you when they need your expertise.
Diemer, Ulli: Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
Diemer, Ulli: Get the Internet working for you
Published: 1997
A Web site works best when it is integrated into a co-ordinated communications strategy.
Diemer, Ulli: Grand narratives
Published: 2011
Those who reject 'grand narratives' have simply bought into the hoariest grand narrative of all, the one which says that capitalism is all-powerful and eternal.
Diemer, Ulli: Grassroots media relations
A short introduction to media relations strategies for activist groups
Published: 2017
A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
Diemer, Ulli: Guidelines for police in dealing with mentally ill people
Published: 2018
An investigative report report by the CBC shows that more than 460 people in Canada have "died in encounters with police" since the year 2000.
Diemer, Ulli: Have you heard the one about the negligent official and the obtuse columnist?
Published: 2008
When people die as a consequence of your failures, joking about it just isn't on.
Diemer, Ulli: He who pays the piper...
Published: 1977
Community groups have become dependent on government money resulting in an erosion of their community base and their independence.
Diemer, Ulli: Health - Health Care: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Health News Briefs 1987 - 1991
Published: 1992
A round-up of health care in the news, 1987 - 1991.
Diemer, Ulli: Health News Briefs 1992- 1994
Published: 1994
A round-up of health care in the news, 1992 - 1994.
Diemer, Ulli: Heat Wave
Published: 2020
Like COVID-19 and much else, extreme heat disproportionately affects the poor and the elderly. They are the ones who often don’t have air conditioning, and often they live alone with no support networks.
Diemer, Ulli: History: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: A hot night in Riverdale
Published: 1978
Report on a meeting at Riverdale Collegiate about how cutbacks are damaging the quality of education.
Diemer, Ulli: How to get the answers you want
Published: 2012
The Ontario government appointed a high-profile banker, Don Drummond, to come up with recommendations about how the government should deal with difficult economic times. The results were predictable....
Diemer, Ulli: Identity Politics: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Imperialism - Militarism - War: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Inclusion or exclusion
Published: 2008
People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
Diemer, Ulli: The intelligence of ravens and the foolishness of (some) humans
Published: 2021
The problem with studies that continue to propagate the idea that intelligence is a single quantity, a thing that can be measured and quantified.
Diemer, Ulli: An Intelligent Guide to Intelligent Research
A review of The Oxford Guide to Library Research, by Thomas Mann
Published: 2000
Review of the Oxford Guide to Library Research, a first-rate guide to how to think about research and how to formulate strategies for answering research questions.
Diemer, Ulli: The Iraq Crisis in Context
Published: 2003
A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
Diemer, Ulli: Israel - Palestine: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Un journaliste du National Post traumatisé d'avoir à attendre son tour
Published: 2006
Jonathan Kay retourne à l'hôpital pour un traitement de suivi, et - horreur - il doit s'asseoir et attendre avant d'être vu. En fait, il nous dit « tous les cas sauf les plus graves » doivent s'asseoir et attendre leur tour. Il n'y a pas - c'est dur à croire mais c'est vrai - de file spéciale pour les nantis et les privilégiés, même s'ils sont journalistes au National Post.
Diemer, Ulli: Lady Martha's story
Published: 2008
Normally, I delete the spam that gets past the filter into my mailbox as quickly as anyone. Tempting though it might be to realize my innermost fantasies of losing weight and getting a degree in any field I choose while having my breasts augmented and my penis enlarged, it never quite seems like the right moment to go for it.
Diemer, Ulli: Left parties
Introduction to the November 11, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Published: 2017
"There is no alternative." That is capitalism's message in the neo-liberal era. The rich keep getting richer and richer, millions of people are unemployed, millions more are trying to survive on precarious, marginal, and part-time work, hundreds of millions are without health care, housing, education, or clean water. Environmental collapse is increasingly likely, masses of people are fleeing wars and economic disasters, nuclear war is a real danger. And all that the corporate elite, the corporate media, and the mainstream political parties have to offer is their insistence that there is nothing we can do about it: there is no alternative.
Diemer, Ulli: The Left: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Legal decisions threaten press freedom
Minus Five
Published: 1979
Diemer, Ulli: Liberals - Liberalism - Liberal Left: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: "Liberté de parole" - aussi longtemps que cela n'offense personne
Published: 2009
Diemer, Ulli: Life: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Local NDP Fights to Keep Waffle Movement in Party
Published: 1972
The NDP's St. David provincial riding association is working to find a way of keeping the Waffle movement in the party, challenging Stephen Lewis's move to expel the Waffle.
Diemer, Ulli: Local schools perpetuate social inequality says survey
Published: 1976
The more money your parents earn, the better you are likely to do in school. This is the conclusion of a massive study of the Toronto school population just released by the Board of Education.
Diemer, Ulli: Longing for freedom, and grieving loss
Reflections on watching swifts on a summer evening
Published: 2020
The chimney swifts lured me outside again this evening. I’d already been out for one walk, but my door was open, and hearing their calls pulled me out in search of them, as it so often does.
Diemer, Ulli: Lurching to War
Introduction to the October 15, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Published: 2016
Capitalism hates competition, and the U.S., the world's dominant capitalist power, has never tolerated competitors, rivals, or leaders who dare to put their own country ahead of U.S. interests.
Diemer, Ulli: The main enemy is at home
Published: 2022
The outbreak of war is always a human disaster with unforeseeable consequences. The 'fog of war,' incessant propaganda, rapidly changing events, our own confused thoughts and emotions, all make it exceedingly difficult to know how to react.
Diemer, Ulli: Margaret Somerville's yucky logic
Published: 2008
This past week, on the twentieth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Morgentaler decision invalidating the existing abortion law, Dr. Somerville has offered up her thoughts on abortion, which she also opposes. Dr. Somerville claims that the 'yuck reaction' some people feel when contemplating abortion is evidence that abortion violates our innate "moral instinct".
Diemer, Ulli: Marguerite has come a long way
Published: 1984
Literacy student writes her own story.
Diemer, Ulli: Marxism & Revolution: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Massacres and Morality
Published: 2018
What can one say about the morality of Israeli soldiers who shoot unarmed protestors, and then are caught on camera cheering their kills? And how do we judge the civilian population of Israel, many of whom openly support and cheer their soldiers as they go about their work of killing Palestinians? And what can we say about the political leaders of other countries, Canada say, who sit down and smile and make deals with officials of the Israeli government at the very moment that the killing is going on?
Diemer, Ulli: May 5, 1818: Birth of Karl Marx
Seeds of Fire
Published: 2013
Marx breathes dialectics and revolution. For Marx, radicalism means going to the root, and Marx's radicalism seeks to go to the root of capitalism, to comprehend its essence dialectically, to understand its inherent contradictions - and the seeds of revolution it contains.
Diemer, Ulli: Media: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Medicare Myths and Realities
Published: 2012
Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the health care system, with the goal of gradually undermining and dismantling it.
Diemer, Ulli: Men: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Mighty Moe book review
Published: 2021
Mighty Moe tells the story of Maureen Wilton, a youthful long-distance runner from Toronto who set a women’s world record in the marathon in 1967, when she was 13.
Diemer, Ulli: Misleading figures on greenhouse gas emissions
Letter to the editor
Published: 2018
A letter to the editor from an oil industry apologist (April 12) tries to excuse the Alberta oilsands’ growing carbon emissions with the argument that Canada accounts for “just” 1.6 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Even if that figure were accurate, it would mean that Canada is producing emissions which are more than three times as large as its proportion of the world’s population.
Diemer, Ulli: Moments
Published: 2022
'Moments' from Ulli Diemer's Radical Digressions website.
Diemer, Ulli: Morality in an Amoral World
Published: 2020
A crisis is a mirror. It shows us - if we have the courage to see - who we are as individuals and as a society. The self-congratulatory poses of governments, politicians, and state institutions are confronted with the harsh test of reality. Each of us - as individuals, friends, families, neighbours, communities - face new and sometimes difficult challenges. The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is such a crisis.
Diemer, Ulli: National Post columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn
Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
Published: 2012
Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor.
Diemer, Ulli: Nature: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Diemer, Ulli: Joyce Nelson
Obituary
Published: 2022
Diemer, Ulli: Neoliberalism: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Not guilty means not guilty
Published: 1980
The gay news magazine, The Body Politic, is organizing a public campaign to make Attorney General Roy McMurtry withdraw an appeal against the magazine's acquittal on obscenity charges.
Diemer, Ulli: Nothing personal, just business
Published: 2007
"A street entrepreneur or a life-destroying psychopath?" asks a review of the film American Gangster, which portrays the life of drug kingpin Frank Lucas.
How is that an either-or choice?
Diemer, Ulli: Notwithstanding clause
Published: 2021
The notwithstanding clause makes it possible for legislatures to overrule the courts. There are times when this is necessary, and a good thing. There are also times when it can be abused.
Diemer, Ulli: November 11
Remembrance Day
Published: 2020
Official remembrances are often about forgetting as much as they are about remembering.
Diemer, Ulli: Official Enemies
Introduction to the August 27, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Published: 2017
We are never left in any doubt about who our enemies are. The word goes out from the United States that a certain country is a dictatorship which abuses human rights, supports terrorism, and poses a terrible threat to the U.S. and to the world. The mainstream media then swing into action with military precision and flood us with stories, images, and commentary about how dreadful country 'X' is.
Diemer, Ulli: 150 years of dirty water
Published: 1984
Toronto's water has been polluted pretty much since the city was founded - but that doesn't mean we should put up with it.
Diemer, Ulli: One Vote for Democracy
Consensus vs. democracy
Published: 1986
Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
Diemer, Ulli: Only 100 cyclists...
Published: 2017
A news article reports that a woman riding her bicycle was seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver in Halton, a regional municipality west of Toronto. But, hey, no big deal.
Diemer, Ulli: Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Published: 2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
Diemer, Ulli: Patton campaign tactics come under fire
Published: 1978
George Patton’s campaign tactics created a great deal of anger among his opponents in the last few days of the Ward 7 aldermanic race, but they don’t seem to have done him any good: he got clobbered.
Diemer, Ulli: People vs expressways battle is on again
Published: 1976
The battle against expressways is on again. The plan for a grid of expressways that would rip into the city of Toronto, supposedly buried by the Davis government in 1971, has been resurrected. After being beaten back five years ago, the expressway proponents are crawling out of the woodwork with their old plans, with only the tactics and the terminology changed.
Diemer, Ulli: The people who are preparing for war, and the lies they tell
Published: 2020
The double standards, hypocrisy, and dishonesty of the media are absolutely breathtaking.
Diemer, Ulli: Pigeons and People
Published: 2022
Every self-respecting downtown has pigeons, and pigeons have mastered the sidewalk ballet quite as expertly as we humans have.
Diemer, Ulli: Police - Prisons: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Political doubletalk
Published: 1978
Perhaps the most striking thing about most politicians is that they seem completely incapable of giving a straight answer to anything, of talking in ordinary language, of communicating. Language for them isn’t a way of getting ideas across, but of confusing people so they won’t understand what’s really going on.
Diemer, Ulli: Politics of Illusion
Published: 1980
Elections have become a contest to determine who is the best actor.
Diemer, Ulli: Preston Manning sees an Inquisition in science's name
Published: 2007
Mr. Manning's demagogic suggestion that atheists seek to deny believers freedom of conscience and expression has no basis in reality. On the contrary: no atheist would wish to deny Mr. Manning his right to believe in the Easter Bunny, or Zeus, or Jehovah, or any other supernatural being that appeals to him. We simply ask for the right to express our dissent from those beliefs openly, without being threatened or censured.
Diemer, Ulli: Profits: now you see them, now you don't
Published: 1979
A private developer seems to be moving quickly into the non-profit housing field.
Diemer, Ulli: Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
Published: 1984
The last thing we need is to hand the police even more power to decide what we are allowed to see or read.
Diemer, Ulli: Protecting individual privacy -- with a large dose of hypocrisy
Published: 2017
In a prominent half-page article in Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, the Toronto Star, columnist Emma Teitel criticizes "the media" for invading the privacy of the daughter of a prominent politician.
Diemer, Ulli: Psychotherapist out of touch
Published: 1992
Touching and hugging are natural behaviour all over the world among people who like or love each other.
Diemer, Ulli: Public Interest - Public Safety - Public Services: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Public Transit - Arabic text
Introduction to the March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices - Arabic translation
Published: 2017
Diemer, Ulli: Questions about Israel's attack on Gaza
Published: 2014
Why do these terrible outbreaks of violence keep happening? Written during the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014.
Diemer, Ulli: A quick note on neoliberalism and state capitalism
Published: 2015
The key to understanding neo-liberalism, in my opinion, is power, not ideology.
Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions
Published: 2017
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions 10
Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions 7
Published: 2017
Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions 8
Published: 2017
Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions 9
Published: 2021
Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions RSS Feed
Published: 2016
New and interesting items from Radical Digressions, featuring progressive comment and analysis from a libertarian socialist perspective.
Diemer, Ulli: Reformism - Social Democracy: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Regent Park Sets up Youth Employment Service
Published: 1976
An employment referral service for unemployed teenagers is being set up in the Regent Park area, where the lack of jobs for young people is being felt very severely.
Diemer, Ulli: Religion - Secularism: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Remembering Lissa Donner
Published: 2017
Recollections of Lissa Donner, 1955 - 2017.
Diemer, Ulli: Resource bookshelf (book review)
Published: 1999
A review of five reference books published in 1998 and 1999.
Diemer, Ulli: Returning to Chess
Published: 2014
Rediscovering chess after years of not playing.
Diemer, Ulli: Review of the Press: Portugal 1974
Published: 1974
The subtext of mainstream media coverage of social upheavals in post-fascist Portugal is that a return to dictatorship is necessary and inevitable to preserve the social order.
Diemer, Ulli: The Right: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Riverdale resident protests bank addition
Published: 1976
"Health Before Wealth". That’s what one of Morris Silber's picket signs said as he walked back and forth in front of the Bank of Nova Scotia at the corner of Broadview and Gerrard.
Diemer, Ulli: Science and its enemies
Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Published: 2016
Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
Diemer, Ulli: Science: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Secrecy and Power
Introduction to the July 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Published: 2017
It is one of the essential attributes of power that it insists on secrecy. Or, more precisely, those who wield power over others routinely claim that the details of what they do, and why they do it, are far too sensitive to be revealed to the public.
Diemer, Ulli: Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Published: 2022
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
Diemer, Ulli: Self-Determination - Nationalism: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Sewell, Howard returned, Stamm loses decisively
Published: 1976
The difference between the campaigns of John Sewell and Janet Howard, on the one hand, and Garry Stamm, on the other, was apparent as soon as you walked across the street from the one headquarters to the other on election night.
Diemer, Ulli: Sex - Relationships: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: The shining beacon of democracy
Published: 2009
Busy though it is slaughtering Palestinians, the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ is still finding time to make its democratic structures even more perfect.
Diemer, Ulli: The single-state solution
Published: 2008
Bringing about a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians have equal rights will not be easy, but ultimately it is the only solution to the conflict. A state based on respect for the human rights of all its citizens is a better safeguard against anti-Semitism and racism than one based on ethnic nationalism and inequality.
Diemer, Ulli: Small countries, big crimes
Published: 2009
One of the stock phrases Israel’s apologists repeat, parrot-like, is that Israel is "a small country". The idea is to make us feel sympathy for Israel, the plucky little country standing up to dangerous foes. But what does it actually mean to say that Israel is "a small country?"
Diemer, Ulli: Smoke seen coming out of chimney!!
Published: 2017
The suspicious activities of those Russians never cease, and neither does the vigilance of the mainstream media in exposing them.
Diemer, Ulli: Socialism: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Soil removal a possibility
Published: 1984
The soil in the South Riverdale area is so contaminated with lead that it may be necessary to remove it.
Diemer, Ulli: Sole offender?
Published: 2008
When an Iraqi journalist throws his shoe at the commander-in-chief of the forces that invaded and continue to occupy his country, the Globe huffily calls the reporter a disgrace to his profession and says he should be fired.
Diemer, Ulli: Sources 45 - Resource Bookshelf
Published: 2000
Reviews of reference books.
Diemer, Ulli: Sources 52 Resource Bookshelf
Published: 2003
Reviews of reference books.
Diemer, Ulli: Spam: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Sports: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Spring sprung, grass riz, wonder where birdies is
Published: 1977
Some days, when you go outside, an icy wind sneaks up on you and quickly tears away your warm illusions about winter being over. This, you think, shivering, is supposed to be spring? Still, whether we're ready to believe it or not, spring is upon us, and if we go out and look for it, we'll come across signs that establish that fact much more firmly and decisively than the passing moods of the weather.
Diemer, Ulli: The State & Institutional Power: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: STOL lands again
Published: 1980
The proposal for a major commerical airport on the Toronto Islands appears to be back on the agenda.
Diemer, Ulli: Strange Sounds Up in the Trees
Published: 2020
I'm being distracted by the sounds coming from up in the trees above my head. Usually I have some idea of what I'm hearing from up above -- swifts, robins, cardinals, sparrows, squirrels, cicadas later in the summer -- but these sounds I can’t place. They're just weird: a combination of whistles, clacking sounds, chuckling, rattling, in no particular sequence that I can make out, and certainly not musical.
Diemer, Ulli: Students Mean Trouble for Business
Published: 1974
Students have negative views of business, and business leaders are worried.
Diemer, Ulli: Supremacy, oppression, and power
Published: 2015
It is the structures of domination and power, that create racism, sexism, etc., in order to justify the existence of unequal wealth, power and the oppression that goes with them. Racism didn't create slavery and the slave trade; racism was created to justify slavery. US/NATO aggression against the Middle East and the Islamic-majority countries aren't a result of Islamophobia; Islamophobia was born out of the need to justify imperialist aggression.
Diemer, Ulli: Survey shows varying prices at drug store
Published: 1976
It pays to shop around before you decide with which drug store to do business. This is the conclusion of a survey of Ward 7 drug stores carried out recently by Seven News staff.
Diemer, Ulli: Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
Published: 2009
The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
Diemer, Ulli: Tax Evasion
Introduction to the May 21, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Published: 2016
The essence of the capitalist economic system is the drive to accumulate as much as possible, by any means possible. It is almost inevitable, therefore, that those – individuals or corporations – whose existence revolves around accumulating capital will seek to avoid paying taxes.
Diemer, Ulli: Teaching adults to read
Published: 1984
Becoming literate is an important way for people to gain more control and power over their lives.
Diemer, Ulli: Ten Health Care Myths
Published: 1995
Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
Diemer, Ulli: Ten Lost Years discovery of superb social history
Book Review of Ten Lost Years by Barry Broadfoot
Published: 1974
Barry Broadfoot's book consists almost entirely of excerpts from interviews he conducted with people who remember the Depression. The people speak for themselves: Broadfoot has edited them and organised them under various headings, added brief explanatory paragraphs, and included a number of pictures. The approach is a success, without question. Ten Lost Years is a superb work, presenting a vivid and unforgettable picture of that unbelievable decade.
Diemer, Ulli: Ten Years of Seven News
Published: 1980
The idea that became 7 News was born in the course of the struggles being waged by local groups of residents in Toronto’s Ward 7 in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. At that time, many residents were actively involved in battling developers and City Hall in an attempt to preserve their neighbourhoods from re-development.
Diemer, Ulli: Terry Fox und der Marathon der Hoffnung
Published: 2022
Diemer, Ulli: Things are getting better and better and bettxrxr and bxzyxxx
Published: 2021
Diemer, Ulli: Thinking About Self-Determination
Published: 1994
Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
Diemer, Ulli: Thinking about Terry Fox and the Marathon of Hope
Published: 2022
Reflections on Terry Fox's legacy.
Diemer, Ulli: Thinking Clearly in a Time of Crisis
Published: 2020
A crisis like this pandemic is not a time to stop thinking. It is a time when critical thinking and public discussion are more important than ever. A small number of officials and politicians are taking decisions with enormous and far-reaching implications for the lives of many people, not just for the duration of this pandemic, but far into the future. The time to have serious discussions about what they are doing, and the direction we are heading in, is now, not some day in the future when it will be difficult, or too late, to change course.
Diemer, Ulli: This book explains how things don't work
Published: 1977
There a lots of guides explaining how things work. This one explains how they don't -- and why they don't.
Diemer, Ulli: Those devious foreigners
Published: 2015
The U.S. media (with help from the U.S. Navy PR department) has exposed another sneaky trick invented by wily Chinese. It seems that they may be hiding their submarines under the sea. "Why didn't we think of that?" appears to be the question the always-probing American media are asking.
Diemer, Ulli: TIFF's corporate mentality
Published: 2015
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) tries to prevent anyone from handing out flyers to people standing on the sidewalk waiting for a film.
Diemer, Ulli: Time for creative disruption?
Published: 2019
Diemer, Ulli: Toronto Ravines - Ours to Preserve
Published: 1982
Toronto's ravines are a treasure; it's up to us to preserve them.
Diemer, Ulli: Trade agreements and the corporate war on democracy
Introduction to the November 7, 2015 issue of Other Voices
Published: 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret, and now scheduled to be rubber-stamped by national governments on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy. It gives corporations the power to block any environmental protections or health and safety legislation that could be interpreted as interfering with a corporation's 'right' to make a profit by doing whatever it wants.
Diemer, Ulli: Trotskyism: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: Two justice systems?
Letter to the editor
Published: 2016
It seems that we have two justice systems: one for the police, and one for the rest of us.
Diemer, Ulli: U.S. academics dominate Canadian ivory towers
Published: 1973
Since Canada's economy is controlled by American interests, our universities have become geared to the production of trained technicians and professionals for a branch plant economy, in which capitalist and imperialist interests predominate.
Diemer, Ulli: Valuable Clues to Finding What You Need to Know
Published: 1997
Review of books about online research.
Diemer, Ulli: Ward 7 NDP campaigns
Published: 1978
After having avoided the civic arena since the 1969 municipal election, the Metro Toronto NDP is throwing itself into local politics in the 1978 municipal election.
Diemer, Ulli: "A warm reminder of humanity's less barbaric traits"
Published: 2016
Diemer, Ulli: Watching The News
Published: 2021
Watching "The National" on CBC, as well as some local news programs, is proving to be an interesting experience. I haven't lived in a house with TV for more than 15 years, and hadn't watched TV news for many more years before that, so I come to this experience as a more-or-less naive outsider.
Diemer, Ulli: Welcome to Sources - Sources 57
Published: 2006
Diemer, Ulli: Wellesley report sharply critical
Published: 1977
The Wellesley Hospital has come in for strong criticism in a brief written by a group of local residents, and presented to the hospital May 13 [1977]. The brief documents numerous complaints about the hospital, including Emergency Department staff attitudes, treatment of patients and their relatives and friends, follow-up and aftercare. It charges that although the hospital is a public institution, there is no visible or publicly known means of access to its policy makers, and no accountability to the community it is supposed to serve.
Diemer, Ulli: What are we eating? - Arabic text
Published: 2018
Diemer, Ulli: What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Published: 1989
We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
Diemer, Ulli: What is Libertarian Socialism?
Published: 1977
Revolution is a collective process of self-liberation: people and societies are transformed through their struggles for freedom and for a better world.
Diemer, Ulli: What Next?
Published: 2019
Diemer, Ulli: What's Wrong With Front Yard Parking?
Published: 1994
The negative effects of front yard parking are significant, and affect us all. The benefits are small, and go only to a few.
Diemer, Ulli: Why aren't we expelling Israel's diplomats?
Letter to the Editor
Published: 2018
Canada expelled Russian diplomats on the strength of unsubstantiated allegations that Russia was involved in the poisoning of a former spy in Britain. Will Canada now expel Israeli diplomats in condemnation of Israel's latest massacre in Gaza?
Diemer, Ulli: Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?
Published: 2008
History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the 'feminists' who seek to silence those who speak out about violence against Muslim women.
Diemer, Ulli: Workshop airs youth problems
Published: 1977
Representatives of various social agencies, as well as some residents of Regent Park, come together to discuss youth and agency problems in Regent Park.
Diemer, Ulli: Yes to life in spite of everything: Children and Israel's war on Gaza 2006 - 2024
Connexions Other Voices May 25, 2024
Published: 2024
For most of us our natural instinct is to protect children, nurture them, teach them, answer their questions, help them understand, help them find their way.
But sometimes we can't protect them.
And we have no answers to their questions.
We can’t explain why this is happening or why the world is letting it go on.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Connexions Quotations
Published: 2017
A selection of quotations about social change, resistance, solidarity, and many other topics. Compiled by Ulli Diemer. Each quote has been turned into an image file.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Expose Yourself!
Published: 2006
A booklet about effective media relations, providing practical advice about getting media coverage and relating to the media.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
Published: 2014
A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Israel/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2015
Corporate rights treaties
Published: 2015
Our focus is on the corporate rights treaties that are misleadingly sold as trade agreements. In particular, the spotlight is on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret, and now scheduled to be rubber-stamped by national governments on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. The TPP is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 15, 2016
Lurching to War
Published: 2016
The risk of nuclear war is as great now as it was at the height of the Cold War. From the time the Warsaw Pact dissolved itself and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States has single-mindedly pursued a hyper-aggressive strategy of surrounding Russia with hostile military forces and missiles aimed at the Russian heartland.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 4, 2023
Gaza: Dehumanization and humanity
Published: 2023
On Israel's genocidal attack on Gaza, October-November 2023.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 7, 2024
Bearing witness
Published: 2024
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 3, 2024
Published: 2024
Lies are the lifeblood of the world we live in. The American-dominated international order is rooted in violence and exploitation, but lies are its language, its public face, and its spiritual essence.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 5, 2024
Everything is Under Control. Until it Isn't.
Published: 2024
In the nuclear age, a miscalculation can result in unspeakable catastrophe, but nonetheless, decision-makers continue to take risky actions which they calculate will bring them an advantage. They assume that they can to push forward and ‘show strength’ and then push some more, while reserving the option of showing restraint if the other side pushes back too vigorously. The world now finds itself in probably the most dangerous situation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. All it will take is one misstep, one miscalculation, one reckless action by a mid-level military officer acting without orders – and the missiles will start flying. And it will be game over for the human race.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 9, 2024
This Moment
Published: 2024
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 2, 2023
Toward the light
Published: 2023
Most of us no longer celebrate the ancient festivals, but many of us - countless thousands - have been asserting our own desire and determination to create light in the darkness by going out into the streets and making our voices heard. This issue of Other Voices looks at challenges we face, asks questions about what we should do, and looks to the past, as well as what is happening now, for ideas about how to move forward.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 14, 2023
Fading to Silence?
Published: 2023
Fading to silence, as well as the more active and deliberate silencing of dissenting views, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 24, 2015
Whistleblowers and national security
Published: 2015
This issue sheds light whistleblowers and the murky world of national security. Governments may often pay lip service to the importance of protecting whistleblowers, but in reality they are almost always persecuted. Repercussions can range from being fired to being imprisoned.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015
Climate Change and Social Change
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come - everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles - while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible. A serious effort to address climate change therefore means social change and economic change.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015
Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 19, 2015
Utopia
Published: 2015
Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
Working class organizing
Published: 2016
Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 30, 2016
Conflict of interest
Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices shines a light on the murky world of conflict of interest, the hidden reality that often underlies appearances of neutrality, objectivity, and due process. Conflicts of interest are inherent in capitalism, a system founded on the premise that the state and society should be subordinated to economic self-interest and the accumulation of private wealth. Scientists who are supposed to be studying the effects of GMOs are funded by agribusiness corporations. Doctors who receive money from pharmaceutical companies write articles promoting the drugs produced by those companies. Decisions about pipelines are made by regulators who have spent years working in the oil industry, and who will be heading back to jobs in the industry after their stint 'regulating' it. Politicians receive campaign funds from corporate lobbyists.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 20, 2016
Connexions Enters Its Fifth Decade
Published: 2016
This issue of Connexions Other Voices falls on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the very first Connexions newsletter, which was published in February 1976. That first issue carried the title "Canadian Information Sharing Service", which was also the name of the collective which compiled it, from submissions from across Canada. Within a couple of years, the name of the publication became "Connexions" and then, a little later, "The Connexions Digest".
In addition to our own history, in this issue we spotlight black history as our topic of the week. We look at the Haitian revolution, when slaves confronted the French empire and won; black resistance against the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, and the meaning and limits of anti-racism. We also look at the Kurdish liberation movement in Rojava, the dangers posed by geoengineering, and we mark the publication of the Communist Manifesto on February 21, 1848.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016
International Women's Day
Published: 2016
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forward by Clara Zetkin at the 1910 International Conference of Working Women. A key focus at that time was winning the vote for women, with the slogan "The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism". The link between women's rights and socialism became even clearer a few years later, in 1917, when a Women's Day march in St. Petersburg turned into a revolutionary uprising which led to the overthrow of the Czar and the Russian Revolution.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016
Forests and trees
Published: 2016
For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-making, or obstacles in the way of 'development.' In this issue, we look at some of the threats to forests worldwide, and the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2016
Corporate Crime
Published: 2016
Corporations have increasingly become legally unaccountable for their behaviour. Yet all too often corporations break the law and engage in criminals acts which would be severely punished if they were committed by ordinary individuals. These illegal acts range from deliberate health and safety violations that cost lives, to land seizures, to environmental negligence that contaminates lands and waters. Most of these illegal acts are never prosecuted, and those that are, are usually dealt with by a fine that corporations can treat as a cost of doing business.
There are movements demanding that corporations be held accountable for their crimes in a serious way, and, specifically, that corporate executives should face jail time when the corporation they are in charge of engage in behaviour that causes death, injury, and illness. Our topic of the week for this issue of Other Voices is Corporate Crime, and a number articles, as well as a book, a film, and a website, explore aspects of the problem.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016
Science and its enemies
Published: 2016
Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Destabilization and Regime Change
Published: 2016
When governments get too far out of line -- the most outrageous offence, from the point of view of imperial power, is pursuing policies that help ordinary people at the expense of transnational corporations and local elites -- then they have to be overthrown. The preferred method is a destabilization campaign followed by a coup. This issue of Other Voices focuses destabilization and regime change.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Tax Evasion
Published: 2016
Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation they are subjected to.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Published: 2016
Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 23, 2016
Workers and Climate Change
Published: 2016
Working people -- and most of us are workers -- are affected by climate change in every aspect of our lives. As climate change worsens, our lives will worsen. If we are successful in bringing about the needed rapid change away from a fossil fuel based economy, working people are the ones who stand to bear most of the costs, including the cost, for millions of workers and their families, of losing their jobs.
Many elements of the environmental movement have been guilty of ignoring working people, while others actually blame ordinary working people for climate change and the injustices associated with it. Yet it is working people who are dying, in many places, even now, from excessive heat in factories, fields, construction sites, and homes. And million of working people stand to lose their jobs, homes, and communities in the transition to a low-carbon or no-carbon economy.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 13, 2016
Sports and Politics
Published: 2016
Sports and politics have always been intertwined, though perhaps never as much so as in the current era. In the modern sports era, survival and success depend largely on the favour of corporations, whose power to provide or withhold funding and sponsorships now shape every aspect of sport, including athletes' incomes and lifestyles. It is now difficult to remember that only a few decades ago, corporate logos were strictly forbidden at Olympic events, while athletes were prohibited from accepting any kind of payment for their involvement in sports. The corporate conquest of sports closely parallels the corporate colonization of nearly all aspects of modern life. Accompanying this in recent years has been the increasing injection of militaristic content into sports spectacles. In Canada, hockey games are now commonly preceded by rituals honouring militarism. In the United States, similar spectacles have been staged for years. In this issue, we feature resources which remind us that resistance to the commercialization, corporatization, and militarization of sports is also part of our heritage.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
Back to School
Published: 2016
Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
Depression and Joy
Published: 2016
It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2016
Alternative Media
Published: 2016
A special issue on alternative media.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
Fake News
Published: 2016
"Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017
Disobedience
Published: 2017
Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey. Disobedience is the theme of this issue.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
Race and Class
Published: 2017
Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
Public Transit
Published: 2017
Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many of these struggles is the idea that transit should be free, that is, paid for not by fares, but out of general revenues. This is how roads are normally funded: their construction and maintenance are paid for by taxes, rarely by user fees. Free public transit by itself would not be enough, however. We also need good transit, transit that runs frequently and goes where people want to go.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
April 1 issue
Published: 2017
Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
Published: 2017
What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
Resisting Injustice
Published: 2017
In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
Public Safety
Published: 2017
The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
Secrecy and Power
Published: 2017
Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
Official Enemies
Published: 2017
Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017
Meeting the Challenge of the Right
Published: 2017
Challenging the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision. This issue of Other Voices offers a number of articles, books, and films offering different perspectives on meeting the challenge of the right.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 11, 2017
Left Parties
Published: 2017
In recent years, there have been repeated attempts to build left political parties and coalitions, i.e. parties to the left of the established social democratic parties which have long become part of the neoliberal capitalist mainstream. Left parties have emerged out of mass movements in countries like Spain (Podemos), Germany (Die Linke), and Greece (Syriza). In Latin America, in the last two decades, left movements or parties have formed governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay. What these new left parties/movements have in common is a strategy of engaging in grassroots organizing and also running in elections. They all describe themselves as socialist, though in many cases their programs are more reminiscent of what social democrats used to advocate decades ago: reforms that would tame and manage capitalism rather than abolish it. Their ultimate vision may be a world without capitalism, but their immediate proposals are more modest and incremental, though still significantly to the left of the neo-liberal consensus.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating?
Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
Published: 2018
How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
Published: 2018
This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
Their Interent or Ours?
Published: 2018
The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
Massacres and Morality
Published: 2018
In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad. The issue also questions the morality of those who either support, or keep silent about, the violence of the oppressor.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 27, 2019
What Next?
Published: 2019
Millions of us, in many different countries, came out in late September to demand action on the climate crisis. Around the world, in diverse ways, we are working to keep up the pressure. Time is short, and the tasks are huge. In the midst of our activism and organizing, we need to keep asking ourselves some important questions: What are our goals? And what should we do to reach our goals?
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 19, 2020
Taking a Stand
Published: 2020
Psychologists call it cognitive dissonance. George Orwell called it double-think. Some of us might call it organized hypocrisy. Call it what you will, it surrounds us. The government proclaims its commitment to 'reconciliation' with indigenous people, and says that its relationship with them is its most important relationship. At the same time the RCMP, following an order by a colonial court, invades unceded indigenous land and arrests people for occupying their own land. Governments mouth platitudes about the importance they place on dealing with the climate emergency while at the same time they build new pipelines and approve massive new tarsands projects. The biggest polluter on the planet - the U.S. military - meanwhile receives constant increases in its budget, even while it pursues demented schemes to take us to the edge of war, mostly recently by deploying a new generation of "low-yield" thermonuclear weapons on submarines. All this is business as usual. Fortunately many people across the country, and around the world, are saying no to business as usual. They are taking a stand and disrupting business as usual.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 19, 2020
Morality in an Amoral World
Published: 2020
A crisis is a mirror. It shows us - if we have the courage to see - who we are as individuals and as a society. The self-congratulatory poses of governments, politicians, and state institutions are confronted with the harsh test of reality. Each of us - as individuals, friends, families, neighbours, communities - face new and sometimes difficult challenges. The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is such a crisis.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 14, 2021
Beyond the Walls
Published: 2021
From Gaza to Kashmir, people continue to meet life's challenges, and to love, laugh, and live.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 13, 2021
Light and darkness
Published: 2021
The more we learn, the more we realize how little we know. Each question we answer opens the door to more questions, because there are always more questions than answers. We are called upon to attempt to answer at least a few of the questions that seem important to us, but we do well to keep in mind that our answers are tentative and incomplete, always subject to revision in the light of further investigation. It can be difficult to remain critical, and self-critical, but self-righteousness and absolute certainty, no matter how emotionally satisfying they may be, only do harm, to ourselves, and to those we interact with. This issue of Other Voices offers some fragments of knowledge and insight, and it also raises questions.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2021
Following the science
Published: 2021
When we as a society are faced with difficult policy choices, can science tell us what choices we should make? We should be sceptical of anyone who says that it can, because that isn’t actually what science does. It can certainly provide information we need to take into account when making choices and trade-offs, but choices don’t automatically follow from science.
Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Speaking to the Media
A special report from Sources with articles from The Sources HotLink
Published: 2005
Being seen, heard, and quoted in the media is perhaps the quickest, best, and most lasting way for a speaker to become better known and more sought after. This booklet offers advice on handling media calls and interviews well.
Diemer, Ulli (editor): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 14, 2020
Published: 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our world. Many of us feel some degree of disorientation and uncertainty about when and how we will return to some kind of ‘normal’ and what that new normal will look like. Important choices lie ahead, so it is vital that we think clearly, ask questions, discuss with others, and make our voices heard.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2014
Surveillance
Published: 2014
The first issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter. Topic of the week is Surveillance. Articles on climate politics, 21st-century land grabs, and the destruction of Canada's science libraries. Plus items from the Connexions Calendar and Seeds of Fire.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 17, 2014
Gaza
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Gaza, which was under attack by Israel as this issue appeared. Articles on surveillance capitalism, the tactics and successes of the movement for same-sex marriage in the United States, and profiles of alternative archives. Website of the week is Democracy Now!
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 31, 2014
Truth, justice and reconciliation
Published: 2014
Articles on truth, justice and reconciliation efforts in countries affected by civil war or internal conflict; Bone Collectors: the fate of the remains of Australian aboriginal people stolen from their burial grounds and dispersed to museums; the Galway children's mass grave; and Which came first: Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence? The topic of the week is the Israeli military.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2014
Killings by Police
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Killings by Police. Articles on the way the Ebola crisis illuminates the moral bankruptcy of capitalism; Responding the capitalist crisis, in 1914 and 2014; Globaling Gaza: Israel's leading role in undemining international law; and Marinaleda, a town in Spain attempting to create alternatives based on democracy, co-operation, and mutual aid. Group of the Week is Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 4, 2014
Published: 2014
Information about the Connexions Alternative Media List and the Labor Film Archive. Articles on corporations spying on non-profits, workplace deaths, Monsanto and Ukraine, and liberal environmentalism. Topic of the week is Violence Against Journalists. Book of the week is Bold Scientists.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 19 2014
Spying, terrorism, and protest
Published: 2014
Coverage of spying, terrorism, and protest. Articles on how the ISIS (Islamic State group) comes to be using American weapons; the U.S. government's secret plans to spy for American corporations; the insidious power of propaganda; how to spot and defeat disruption on the Internet, and steps to sustainable livestock production. Topic of the week is War Crimes; book for the week is Berkeley: The New Student Revolt, and website of the week is LabourStart.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 2, 2014
Climate Change
Published: 2014
This issue of Other Voices looks at why so many people deny or ignore the very real and very near threat of climate change. We also look into the ways on how NGOs tame and undermine grassroots movements. Other Voices also shares an article detailing how a $182 billion bail-out of tax-payer money was not enough for one bank. Finally, in this issue, we look into the horrors of American slavery and how it shaped the United States into the economic power it is today.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 16, 2014
Arms Trade
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is the Arms Trade. Featured resources include The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, an article on Israel's War Business, and the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. A new feature in Other Voices is the Film of the Week: to start off, we spotlight The Corporation, an exploration of the dominant institution of our time. Plus: Lying to ourselves about the air war, Karl Marx's critique of modern agriculture, and a challenge to Montreal's anti-protest bylaw.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
Refugees
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
Libertarian Socialism
Published: 2014
The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2014
Climate Change
Published: 2014
The theme for this issue, and the topic of the week, is Climate Change. Groups and websites engaged in the fight for action on global warming and climate justice are featured. Book of the week is Magdoff and Foster's "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism." In addition to articles on climate change, there are articles on Ebola, corporate tax evasion, and state terrorism, as well as a 1971 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 18, 2014
The Commons
Published: 2014
From its beginnings, one of capitalism's prime imperatives has been an all-out and never-ceasing assault on the Commons in all its manifestations. Common land, common water, public ownership -- anything rooted in the ancient human traditions of sharing and cooperation is anathema to an economic system that seeks to turn everything that exists into private property that can be exploited for profit. This issue of the Connexions Newsletter focuses on the Commons.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 15, 2015
Workers' Health and Safety
Published: 2015
The topic of the week is Workers' Health and Safety. Articles on why environmentalists should support working class struggles; whistleblowers; the appalling death rate from U.S. drone strikes; the murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris; and what humanity could learn from Bonobos. The feature from the archives is Traces of Magma. The International Labor Rights Forum is the group of the week, and Silkwood is the film of the week.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015
Land seizures and land take-overs
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a Syrizia government. From the archives, there are interviews about the 1974 occupation of Anicinabe Park, an article about anti-dicrimination fighter Viola Desmond, and the publication, in 1929, of All Quiet on the Western Front.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
SYRIZA
Published: 2015
This week we're featuring the 40-point program which SYRIZA, the Greek coalition of the radical left, put forward to win the Greek election. Oliver Tickell writes about the mass media's latest campaign of pro-war propaganda, this time revolving around supposed "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, while Paul Edwards looks at another form of war propaganda, Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'. The Topic of the Week is Water Rights. Related items include the film "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," the featured website International Rivers, and articles on water-related struggles, past and present, including articles on the Walkerton water disaster and the Cochabamba water war.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
Ukraine
Published: 2015
Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
Organizing
Published: 2015
The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
Published: 2015
This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2015
Resisting Neoliberalism
Published: 2015
Resisting neoliberalism: "free markets" and "free trade" are an ideological cover for what is actually a form of state capitalism in which working people subsidize and bail out corporations and the rich. In this edition of Other Voices, and more extensively on the Connexions website, we look at both neoliberalism and the resistance to it. The version of capitalism which became dominant by the 1980s has been given the name neoliberalism. The term refers to the global economic restructuring which has taken place, and to the accompanying shifts in the structures of power under which local and national governments have seen their ability to act independently curtailed by international treaties and by institutions which owe their ultimate allegiance to corporate capital. The essence of neoliberalism has been an unending campaign of class struggle by the rich against the rest. Yet resistance continues, and indeed continues to grow.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Richwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2015
Corruption
Published: 2015
Corruption - or at least some types of corruption - are much in the news, with the ongoing scandals in the Canadian Senate and the recent U.S. targeting of the Swiss-based football federation FIFA for alleged bribery. In this issue, we look at these and other forms of corruption. Diana Johnstone writes about the double standards displayed by U.S. institutions, which happily target enemies and rivals, while ignoring the much greater corruption that underlies the power structures in Washington. We feature an article detailing how much money U.S. Senators received from corporations prior to their vote on the TPP negotiations, as well as materials on criminal conduct by some of the world's biggest banks, and an article on the work of investigative journalists in exposing corruption.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Richwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
Elections
Published: 2015
Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about change, and the neo-liberal attack on democracy. Articles look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the financial takeovers of Ukraine and Greece, and debt bondage. Also: a discussion of James Hansen's fossil fuel exit strategy, and a critique of Alinsky-style organizing.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
A Healthier Planet
Published: 2015
With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2015
Eduardo Galeano, Latin America, the Vietnam War
Published: 2015
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark the death of Eduardo Galeano by featuring two of his books, as well as an article about his life and work. Galeano once wrote that he was "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." In his writing, especially Open Veins of Latin America and the mesmerizing Memory of Fire trilogy, Galeano contributed enormously to bringing alive, and keeping alive, the memories of Latin America, and especially of those whom he called the "nobodies" -- the people "who do not appear in the history of the world." Next week also marks the 40th anniversary of the final victory of the Vietnamese war of resistance against the American invasion and occupation.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
Urban agriculture and local food production
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
Residential schools
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assimilate' Native children by taking them away from their parents and communities, and depriving them of their language, culture, history, and emotional supports. Based as they were on a system of arbitrary power and cruelty, it is not surprising that they also fostered physical and sexual abuse of the children forced into the schools. We spotlight the report and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as films, books, and survivor stories. Also in this issue: the Orwellian language and tactics being used to sell 'anti-terrorist' legislation, mind-boggling subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and, on the other side of the ledger, stories of courage and resistance.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2015
Greece and thd debt crisis
Published: 2015
Our spotlight this issue is on the debt crisis facing Greece. To understand the crisis, one has to look beyond the mainstream media to alternative sources of information. We've done that, with articles that set out to analyze the nature of the debt burden that has been imposed on the citizens of so many countries, not just Greece. Also: celebrating Grace Lee Bogg’s 100th birthday.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
Published: 2015
Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
Labour Day issue
Published: 2015
Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
Voter Suppression
Published: 2015
Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
Dietz, Bob: Pakistani journalist Muhammud Rasool Dawar under threat
Published: 2015
War correspondence has always been difficult. This is even more the case for journalists embedded with the Pakistani Army who are expected to do their job amidst heavy censorship and treats from criminals, militants and the government alike.
Dillard, Angela D.: Ernie Goodman's Long Struggle - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 157
Published: 2012
2011 marked the 50th anniversary of the Attica uprising, those four tense days of seizures and demands, negotiations and state violence that stunned the nation in September 1971. The rebellion involved over a thousand inmates who took control of the New York State facility and held 33 guards hostage in protest over inhumane living conditions and racial discrimination in the overcrowded prison.
DiMaggio, Anthony: Academic Fraud and the Ponzi Scheme of 'Higher Learning'
Higher Education in Crisis
Published: 2014
It’s sad to say, but U.S. higher education increasingly resembles a pyramid scheme. The schools at the top continue to compete for elite students, by appealing to prospective applicants via the creation of a slew of amenities (the "climbing wall" phenomenon) and offering a unique college "experience." Non-elite colleges and universities are the losers in this process, fighting with each other for a dwindling number of state tax dollars amidst huge increases in tuition costs.
DiMaggio, Anthony: Bias in the Eye of the Beholder
"Liberal Media" Misperceptions in the American Mind
Published: 2011
In a time of economic instability, growing poverty, and chronic income and financial insecurity, Americans are increasingly critical of a governing system that they feel has failed in providing for their basic needs. This general distrust, however, can at times manifest itself in ignorant and destructive ways. So it is with the “liberal bias” claims, which misdirect public attention away from the very real bi-partisan, official source bias of the media, and toward some mythic media conspiracy to marginalize conservatives in favor of an “elite liberal agenda.” We should be careful to acknowledge this reality next time we hear friends, family, or acquaintances lamenting the “liberal media elite.”
DiMaggio, Anthony: A Citizen's Guide to Combating Election Propaganda: Debunking Anti-Welfare Myths
Published: 2016
The goal moving forward must be to create a critical citizen consciousness, so the masses don't simply "accept what they're told" once every four years by the pretty faces running for office. What follows is a primer for readers to help in their conversations with friends, neighbors, acquaintances, and family, to fight back against the racist, classist propaganda so often employed against disadvantaged groups in the U.S.
DiMaggio, Anthony: Conspiracy, Inc.
Wild Tales From the Reactionary Right
Published: 2009
Increasingly, reactionary media pundits and much of the rank-and-file of the Republican Party are taking the American right down a dangerous path, marked most ominously by the abundance of conspiracy theories directed against the Democratic Party and mainstream liberals.
DiMaggio, Anthony: Free Speech for the Right? A Primer on Key Legal Questions and Principles
Published: 2017
The rise in national attention to the "alt-right" and fascist-white supremacist protesters has raised questions about the parameters of free speech in America. When can free speech be limited, if ever? What are the implications of attempting to limit controversial speech? And what precedents has the Supreme Court set regarding free speech?
Dimaggio, Anthony: On the Cowardice & Irrelevance of Social Science Scholars
Published: 2014
The stakes are too high for scholars to continue down this path of irrelevance.
Dimitrova, Alexenia: Be inventive and patient
Published: 2012
Bulgarian investigative journalist and author Alexenia Dimitrova reveals how she uses Freedom of Information laws in several countries to uncover hidden secrets of the Cold War, how the imprisonment of her father spurred her on, and the rewards of patience.
Dines, Shana: Interim Report on the Automated Targeting System: Documents Released through EFF's FOIA Efforts
Published: 2009
Automated Targeting System (ATS) is the program the DHS and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have been using to monitor international travelers and assign risk assessment scores to determine potential terrorist threats.
Dingani, Mavuso: Power and Pitfalls of Historical Fiction - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 158
Published: 2012
When James Kilgore’s We are all Zimbabweans now first came out in 2009, the world economy was facing a deep recession. My first impression was that the book’s title referred to the globalizing of Zimbabwe’s 10-year economic crisis. In fact, Kilgore’s novel was referring to Zimbabwe’s attempt at reconciliation between white and black Zimbabweans after a brutal liberation war that killed 30,000 people.
Dingwall, Robert: The precautionary principle
Published: 2022
Doing stuff 'just in case' is not precautionary. You need evidence.
Dinh, Linh: Deranging America
Drugged, Indebted, Armed-to-the-Teeth
Published: 2013
A question worth asking: Who benefit from a more compulsive, hence more violent, population? Well, if you’re pushing eternal warfare, which we are, you’ll need a pool of nutcases who are willing to shoot anyone for any reason, or none at all, and more deranged oafs at home to go “Rah! Rah!” over any bombing run or drone hit. Are we going into Mali next? Why not? Where is it, by the way? There has never been a country fighting so many wars without a serious debate about any of them. And if you want people to buy first, think later, to rack up life-wrecking debts to satiate all ephemeral cravings, then you ply them with poison, flickering television and thumping music. You don’t want a population capable of deliberating, reflecting, thinking clearly or even listening attentively, much less reading, but one that can be jerked around by any sexy come-on or dumbed down slogan.
Dinh, Linh: Eyes With Legs
Published: 2010
In the last decade, 11 journalists have been murdered by Israeli forces, including Cevdet Kiliclar, a Turkish who was shot in the head, last week, as he photographed Israeli commandos attacking peace activists on the Freedom Flotilla. The U.S. never condemns these crimes because it's Israel's biggest supporter, and also because it does the same.
Dion, Cyril; Laurent, Mélanie: Tomorrow (Demain)
Published: 2015
A French documentary film built on the premise of showcasing climate change solutions rather than a focus on problems and catastrophe.
Dirlik, Arif: Place-Based Imagination: Globalism and the Politics of Place
Published: 1999
Place-consciousness, according to Duke University historian Arif Dirlik, is the "radical other" of global capitalism.
DiSalvo, David; Simons, Daniel: Did You See the Gorilla? An Interview with Psychologist Daniel Simons
How our intuitions lead us astray
Published: 2010
If you've spent any time on YouTube over the last few years, you've likely seen the video of the invisible gorilla experiment. The researchers who conducted that study, Dan Simons and Chris Chabris, didn't realize that they were about to create an instant classic -- a psychology study mentioned alongside the greats, and known well outside the slim confines of psych wonks.
DiSilvestro, Amanda: How to Find Harmony with Power Bloggers
The presence and power of bloggers is growing exponentially. They already have a larger online presence than traditional media. This guide will teach readers how to capitalize on the new media platform.
Ditton, Hattie: Naturism booms in France as young eager to ditch clothes
Published: 2016
Why are more and more people, especially the young, opting to get naked in France?
Indeed, over the past three years, the phenomenon has begun to attract a younger audience according to the the FNN (French Federation of Naturism), seeing many more young families showing up to camps with their children.
Ditum, Sarah: What's the worst thing about being cancelled?
Published: 2021
It's impossible to talk about cancel culture without acknowledging how fiercely social humans are. As frightening as it is to experience threats of violence, as disturbing as it is to suffer abuse, what's truly dreadful is the feeling of being ostracised. There’s no "I" without a "we" to reflect it back to you. When the "I" in other people’s eyes is a gross, despicable caricature of who you think you are, that's an attack on your fundamental sense of yourself as human, broadcast on the inhuman scale of social media.
Ditz, Jason: Amid Censorship, Israel's Media Does Its Part
Published: 2010
Israel's media has once again chosen the low road, the one carefully couched in patriotism and praise for the right-far-right coalition government.
Ditz, Jason: In Blow to 'No Fly' List, US Judge Rules Air Travel Is a Right
Precedent Could Allow Fliers to Contest Travel Bans
Published: 2013
US District Judge Anna Brown ruled that the ability to travel internationally by airplane is a constitutionally protected right.
Ditz, Jason: Israeli Army Admits Tweeted Hezbollah Map Actually Fake
Published: 2016
The Israeli media has been forced to admit a map purported to contain information on Hezbollah positions, distributed to foreign diplomats and on twitter, is a fabrication.
Ditz, Jason: Israeli Military Censor Seeks to Expand Control to 'Prominent' Facebook Users
High-Profile Critic Ordered to Submit All Writing to Censors in Advance
Published: 2016
The Israeli military censor usually tries to stay out of the headlines. It's not always easy, as several times high-profile Israel-related stories have broken in the US media first, and aren’t "allowed" in Israeli papers for days after.
Ditz, Jason: Made in the USA: Report Shows ISIS Using US Arms from 'Syria Rebels'
Published: 2014
From the moment the US began sending lethal arms to Syrian rebel factions, there was a chorus of people expressing fears that those arms would end up in the “wrong hands,” and US officials insisted they were going to carefully vet everyone who got those weapons.
Ditz, Jason: Medic Who Killed Palestinian Being Portrayed as 'National Hero'
DM Slams Coalition Members for Backing Execution
Published: 2016
Tensions within Israel's extremely narrow right-far-right coalition continue to grow, as the military's investigation into an Israeli medic who shot and killed an already wounded and disarmed Palestinian has become a cause célèbre for the settler movement and for hawks in general.
Ditz, jason: Pentagon Hypes 'Surging Sales' for US Missile Makers
Published: 2015
The massive US military industrial complex is struggling to keep up, according to officials, with ever-escalating attacks on various targets across the planet, and growing demands from its various customers looking to build up their assorted missile arsenals for assorted wars.
Ditz, Jason: Pentagon Spent Over $500 Million Making Fake Al-Qaeda Videos
Troops Would Litter Videos Around Sites of Raids
Published: 2016
It has already been well-documented that the Pentagon spent a substantial amount of money on propaganda during the occupation of Iraq, running pro-occupation commercials and also covertly getting pro-occupation news stories into the media around the region. It turns out that was just the tip of the iceberg. It has now been revealed that there was a third program ongoing, in which a London-based PR agency was paid $540 million to make fake al-Qaeda propaganda videos for Pentagon use.
Ditz, Jason: Saudi Warplanes Destroy MSF Hospital in Yemen
At Least Two Staff Hurt in Attacks
Published: 2015
Adding to concerns about Saudi attacks on civilians in Yemen, an overnight air raid against the capital city of Sanaa pounded a residential district, hitting several homes, a girl's school, and destroying a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital. MSF reported the facility was struck multiple times and left in "wreckage."
Ditz, Jason: Senate Dem Seeks Investigation of RT for Being Russian-Funded
Published: 2017
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D – NH) is pushing a bill that would seek a Justice Department investigation of whether television station RT America is "coordinating with the Russian government."
Ditz, Jason: Senators 'Stunned' to Learn US Has 1,000 Troops in Niger
Published: 2017
U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee members recently confirmed they were "stunned" by the revelation that the US had upwards of 1,000 ground troops operating inside the country of Niger, sparking new questions about war authorization.
Ditz, Jason: Study: NSA Surveillance Has Chilling Effort on Internet Browsing
Users Feared Reading About 'Sensitive' Topics
Published: 2016
A new study in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal found that traffic on Wikipedia articles considered "sensitive" or terror-related plummeted drastically in the immediate wake of revelations about broad NSA surveillance of Internet use.
Ditz, Jason: UN Council: Israel Intentionally Shot Children and Journalists in Gaza
Officials say killings are part of Israel's 'obligation'
Published: 2019
A short piece on the UN Human Rights Council report on Israel's firing on unarmed protesters.
Ditz, Jason: UN Security Council Rejects Proposal for Investigation Into Syria Chemical Allegations
Russian envoy urges US, allies to refrain from attacking Syria
Published: 2018
A UN Security Council resolution proposed by Russia has been voted down, with Western nations fighting against it. The resolution would've called for a formal investigation into the alleged Syrian chemical weapons attack on Saturday.
Ditz, Jason: US-Funded NGO in Syria Uses Old Photo to Claim Civilian Death in Russian Airstrikes
Group Lashes Russian Official on Twitter for Noting Picture Wasn't Real
Published: 2015
The "White Helmets" organization, heavily funded by the US State Department, has claimed that Russia killed 33 civilians in its attacks. The NGO attached a photo to the story which was pointed out to be from an incident five days prior and not related to Russia.
Ditz, Jason: US Lost Track of Nearly a Million Guns in Iraq, Afghanistan
Officials: Records Remain for Only 48% of the Guns Sent to Warzones
Published: 2016
Early in the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, the go-to policy for the US in trying to prop up new allied security forces was to dump weapons, en masse, into the countries. It's only now that people are really starting to ask what happened to the 1.45 million guns shipped into those countries.
Ditz, Jason: US Spy Chief Presents Third-Party Debates as Proof RT Is Anti-US
Published: 2017
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s latest report on the alleged "election hacking" by Russia includes a substantial section focused around the idea that Russian government-funded channel RT is overtly anti-American.
Ditz, Jason: Yemen Doctors: Hundreds Will Die Within a Week to Saudi Blockade
Key Medicines Have Run Out in Yemeni Capital
Published: 2017
In the past month, Saudi Arabia's naval blockade of Yemen, has tightened dramatically, and even vital medications and food are virtually impossible to import.
Diwakar, Amar: In Myanmar, Anti-Terrorism Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing
Published: 2017
A brutal crackdown in Myanmar under the guise of anti-terrorism is really ethnic cleansing against a long-persecuted Rohingya minority.
Dixon, Cassandra: Homes Demolished in the South Hebron Hills
Published: 2016
Israeli authorities have destroyed 24 homes in the South Hebron Hills. The homes lie within an area which Israel claims as Firing Zone 918, in which approximately 1000 Palestinian civilians live in 8 villages.
Djurasovic, Milan: The Disneyfied Narrative of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Published: 2016
Pinocchio and Little Red Riding Hood still believe in the impartiality of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). I have yet to meet either a partial or an impartial Serb that shares their sentiments. Toward the political bazaar in Hague the Serbs feel what has been hurled at them by the institution’s creators since the early 1990s -- disdain, occasional profanity, and boiling resentment. Those are the only self-defense tools available to the tired citizens of a small, impoverished country.
Dmitry, Baxter: Iceland Jail Top Bankers For 46 Years, Europe 'Outraged'
Published: 2016
Iceland has differed from the rest of Europe and the US by allowing bankers to be prosecuted as criminals, rather than treating them as a protected species.
Dobbin, Murray: Big Oil's Chokehold on Canadian Democracy
Published: 2014
The fight against Big Oil corporatism may be the most important one you ever support.
Dobbin, Murray: Can You Say "Conflict of Interest"? Not at the UN
Published: 2017
Exposing the ways that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) allows oil giants to shape negotiations.
Dobbin, Murray: The Coming Humiliation of Stephen Harper?
A Political Psychopath
Published: 2014
The federal government, that is Stephen Harper, is expected to announce its long anticipated decision on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline sometime in June. The decision could well determine whether or not the Conservatives can win the 2015 election.
The momentum of opposition to the pipeline – and perhaps more importantly to the hundreds of supertankers that would move tar sands bitumen to Asia – is clearly growing in both B.C. and the rest of Canada.
Dobbin, Murray: From Israel to ISIS
Harper's 'Orwellian' Foreign Policy
Published: 2014
It’s getting difficult to remember a time when the Canadian Parliament actually tried to make principled decisions regarding foreign policy and our place in the community of nations.
Dobbin, Murray: Give Us Our Money Back!
How Harper Protects Canada's Tax Cheats
Published: 2012
There is a class of people and corporations in this country whose illicit financial practices have an enormous negative impact on the country and its citizens. Yet the law and order regime of Stephen Harper barely plays lip service to the issue of tax evasion through tax havens. While Harper cuts billions from government programs in the name of deficit reduction, he refuses to go after billions of dollars in revenue lost to tax evasion and avoidance every year.
Dobbin, Murray: Libya's Hell, Enabled by Canadian Humanitarians
Who Will Protect Libyans Now?
Published: 2013
One of the darkest and most shameful chapters in Western military intervention continues to play out in spades in Libya. Recent news from Benghazi revealed that one of the (literally hundreds) of murderous militias opened fire on peaceful, white-flag-bearing protesters (protesting militias), killing at least 20 and wounding over 130.
Dobbin, Murray: The most outrageous fraud ever perpetrated on the Canadian people
Can the Courts Liberate the Bank of Canada?
Published: 2015
You know the old aphorism -- "If a tree falls in the forest….?" Well, how about this one: if citizens win a significant victory in court against an autocratic government involving the fleecing of Canadians of billions of their hard-earned tax dollars and no one in the media actually covers it, did it really happen?
Dobbin, Murray: Neo-liberalism and the ongoing economic assault on ordinary Canadians
Published: 2012
Two recent stories out of Ottawa underline the ongoing political and economic assault on ordinary Canadians. More Canadians are now working for low wages than at any time in decades, continuing a trend that began in the early 1990s, and Stephen Harper has announced major changes to retirement benefits -- including delaying Old Age Security(OAS) eligibility to age 67. What kind of society beggars those of its citizens who worked all their lives and now want to retire in dignity while privileging the rich and super-rich?
Dobbin, Murray: Poisoning the Democratic Well
Published: 2015
Opponents of so-called free trade deals have always struggled with the question of why these international treaties don't generate more alarm and vocal opposition from Canadians. These treaties, after all, trump all other Canadian authority to make laws -- provincial legislatures, Parliament, the courts and even the Constitution.
Dobbin, Murray: The Power of Idle No More
A Resurgent Radicalism
Published: 2013
The remarkable Idle No More movement is the biggest and most important national outpouring of grass roots aboriginal anger ever seen in Canada.
Dobbin, Murray: Voter Suppression in Canada
Harper's (Un)Fair Elections Act Could Spark Voter Surge
Published: 2014
The Harper government seems intent on proving to its detractors that things can always get worse. They’ve one-upped themselves with the farce called the Fair Elections Act.
Dobie, Charlie: Ontariohistory.org: Local histories
Local History, Photos, Genealogy & Documents
Docker, John: Those Halcyon Days
The Moment of the New Left
Published: 1988
Published in Intellectual Movements and Australian Society, Brian Head and James Walter eds. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988
Doctorow, Cory: Adversarial Interoperability
Published: 2019
A round-up of the EFF's writing on 'adverserial interoperabillity' which is necessary for creating a decentralized internet free from corporate monopolies.
Doctorow, Cory: Automated book-culling software drives librarians to create fake patrons to "check out" endangered titles
Published: 2017
Two employees at the East Lake County Library created a fictional patron called Chuck Finley and then used the account to check out 2,361 books over nine months in 2016, rescuing the books from automated purges of low-popularity titles.
Doctorow, Cory: For 90 years, lightbulbs were designed to burn out. Now that's coming to LED bulbs
Published: 2016
In 1924, representatives of the world's leading lightbulb manufacturers formed Phoebus, a cartel that fixed the average life of an incandescent bulb at 1,000 hours, ensuring that people would have to regularly buy bulbs and keep the manufacturers in business. But hardware store LED bulbs have a typical duty-cycle of 25,000 hours -- meaning that the average American household will only have to buy new bulbs ever 42 years or so.
Doctorow, Cory: Yes Men punk TPP and US Trade Ambassador with fake "Corporate Power Tool Award"
Published: 2012
US Trade Ambassador Ron Kirk was in Dallas to kick off a corporate power-event to drum up support for the foundering, secretive Transpacific Partnership, a secret treaty that builds on the work of ACTA to establishing punishing copyright laws that include mandatory surveillance and censorship. The Yes Men crashed the gala, taking the podium to present Kirk with a "Corporate Power Tool Award."
Dodd, Vikram: Police retain DNA from thousands of children
Published: 2013
Some 120,000 gene samples have been taken in two years, as police forces argue they are acting within the law.
Dodd, Vikram: Police want right to see medical records without consent
Published: 2014
Police want new and expanded rights to access medical records and other confidential data without an individual's consent.
Doe, Phillip: Gassing the American People
Fracking Democracy
Published: 2014
Last year the World Health Organization said over 7 million people died from air pollution, making it the largest killer on the planet – killing almost 80 times more people in one year than died of poison gas over the 4 years of WWI.
Doebbler, Curtis FJ: Paris Climate Deal: How Could They Do This to Us?
Published: 2015
On Sunday morning, 13 December 2015, the 2015 Paris Climate Summit (COP21) finally wound to close as the last decisions were agreed. At almost 1 a.m. observers representing youth, women, labour unions, research centers, indigenous peoples, and business were asked their opinion. Most media had already left COP21. Cleaners were dismantling the massive structures that had been erected to house thousands of conference participants for two weeks plus two overrun days. The Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change had finished their work, late as usual and with an usual outcome.
Dojcsak, Dalma: New law further restricts freedom of speech and freedom of the press in Hungary
Published: 2013
The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU, or “TASZ” in Hungarian) has criticized a new law, enacted by the Hungarian Parliament. The new law punishes by up to three years in prison the creation and distribution of video or voice recordings made for the purpose of harming another person's dignity.
Dolack , Pete: Laws Unto Themselves
Published: 2014
A frequent criticism of “free trade” agreements is that corporations are elevated to the level of a country. It might be more accurate to say that corporations are elevated above countries.
Dolack, Pete: The Bait and Switch of Public-Private Partnerships
Published: 2017
This being the age of public relations, the genteel term "public-private partnership" is used instead of corporate plunder. A "partnership" such deals may be, but it isn't the public who gets the benefits.
Dolack, Pete: Claims that the 'NAFTA 2' Agreement is Better are a Macabre Joke
Published: 2020
Although Democrats and public pressure forced through some improvements, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), or NAFTA 2, isn't substantially different and remains a document of corporate domination. It would appear that appearances, not substance, drove Democrats in the House of Representatives to approve the deal.
Dolack, Pete: Goodbye to democracy if TTIP is passed
Published: 2016
The leaked chapters of the EU-US TTIP 'free trade' deal reveal a shredding of health, environmental and other protections for consumers and citizens. It's a wet dream for corporate monopolists and profiteers, and the elite bureaucrats that serve them. But for civil society it represents an irreversible destruction of democracy itself.
Dolack, Pete: Military Spending is the Capitalist World's Fuel
Published: 2016
It is common for activists to decry the enormous sums of money spent on the military. Any number of social programs, or schools, or other public benefits could instead be funded. Not least is this the case with the United States, which by far spends the most of any country on its military. The official Pentagon budget for 2015 was $596 billion, but actual spending is far higher. (Figures for 2015 will be used because that is the latest year for which data is available to make international comparisons.) If we add military spending parked in other portions of the U.S. federal government budget, we’re up to $786 billion, according to a study by the War Resisters League. Veterans benefits add another $157 billion. WRL also assigns 80 percent of the interest on the budget deficit, and that puts the grand total well above $1 trillion.
Dolack, Pete: Renewable Energy isn't a Shortcut to Reversing Global Warming
Published: 2015
Denmark has distinguished itself as the country moving the fastest toward the eventual replacement of fossil fuels. Its goal of 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 is laudable, but the assumption that this path will reverse global warming while otherwise continuing business as usual, is unrealistic.
Dolack, Pete: Revised NAFTA Shows Every Sign of Being Another Trump Scam
Published: 2018
A look at the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement between the US and Mexico, a deal intended to force Canada, which has the strongest regulations, into signing on disadvantageous terms. Dolack explains why any new NAFTA will undoubtedly be a windfall for multi-national corporations at public expense.
Dolack, Pete: Tar sands campaigners are Canada's new 'terrorists'
Published: 2015
Canada's Harper government has targeted as a new crime being a member of an 'anti-Canadian petroleum movement', and equating such a stance with terrorism.
Dolack, Pete: There's No Place for Clean Water Under 'Free Trade'
Published: 2016
Yet another standoff between clean drinking water and mining profits has taken shape in Colombia, where two corporations insist their right to pollute trumps human health and the environment. As is customary in these cases, it is clean water that is the underdog here.
Dolack, Pete: They Throw Us Out of Our Homes But We Get Ice Cream
Published: 2016
If there were any doubt that gentrification has come to my corner of Brooklyn, that was put to rest last weekend with the appearance of an ice cream truck. An ice cream truck painted with the logo and red color of The Economist. Yes, it was just as this reads. Free scoops of ice cream were being given out as a young woman with a clipboard was attempting to get people to sign up for subscriptions to The Economist.
Dolack, Pete: TISA 'free trade' deal to force draconian social, environmental, financial deregulation
Published: 2016
A leaked text from the 'Trade In Services Agreement' negotiations shows that TISA is set to unleash a massive wave of deregulation affecting social, environmental and financial standards, and force the privatisation of state-run enterprises. So it's not just TTIP, CETA and TPP we have to fight - TISA could be the biggest corporate power grab of them all.
Dolack, Pete: When Water is a Commodity Instead of a Human Right
The Agony of Detroit
Published: 2014
The shutoff of water to thousands of Detroit residents, the proposed privatization of the water system and the diversion of the system’s revenue to banks are possible because the most basic human requirement, water, is becoming nothing more than a commodity.
Dolack, Pete: Why Green Capitalism Will Fail
Staying in the Environmental Frying Pan Only Gets Us Hotter
Published: 2014
Green capitalism is destined to fail: You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results. We can’t shop our way out of global warming nor are there technological magic wands that will save us. There is no alternative to a dramatic change in the organization of the global economy and consumption patterns. Such a change will not come without costs — but the costs of doing nothing, of allowing global warming to precede is far greater.
Dolack, Pete: World Bank claims 'sovereign immunity' to escape liability for its crimes against humanity
Published: 2017
In arguing against the World Bank's attempt to declare itself a sovereign state that is above the law, Dolack brings attention to the large-scale crimes the World Bank has committed or been involved in over many decades.
Dolack, Peter: Earning a Profit from Global Warming
Published: 2015
As evidence mounts that a warming world is hurtling toward the point of no return, the plan of the world's governments is to make adjustments to the ability of corporations to profit from polluting. Short-term profits continue to be elevated above the long-term health of the environment.
Dolinar, Brian; Kilgore, James: Mass Incarceration for Profit
Published: 2015
In the face of growing public criticism and improved technologies, companies like Securus search for new ways to remain competitive while marketing themselves as providers of a quality service that keeps the public safe. Yet with the involvement of global financial houses in the prison industrial complex, the pressure mounts to produce value for shareholders. Ultimately, this systematically incentivizes mass incarceration. While we often hear about the activities of private prison providers like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, corporate interests are immersed in every aspect of criminal justice.
Domenech, Rocio Perez; Mulholland, Lindsey: Salvadoran Women Respond to Violence with Community Service, Music, and Individual Efforts
Published: 2016
Outside of the peace negotiations that resound in the media and governmental organizations, one of the strongest solutions to the scourge of gang violence in El Salvador has come from individual initiatives and groups dedicated to women. This work with female youth and ex-gang members, both in and outside of prison, is part of a movement that seeks to collaborate with peace processes in which women have rarely been taken into account. At the same time, it addresses the social structure that intensifies violence against women.
Domenico, Kim C.: Fallen Pan, Furious Women, and the Failure of Soulless Feminism
Published: 2018
The excited triumphal coverage of the Me Too Movement conveys the fatal devaluing of imagination - and the banning of thoughtful discourse as well as passionate enthusiasm - that defines and shackles the liberal mind during this excruciating Trumpian moment we’re sharing.
Domenico, Kim C.: Me Too's Misguided Pursuit of Equality: Drop the Spirit of Vengeance and Defend Dignity Instead
Published: 2018
With Me Too’s focus where it is, on man’s injury to woman, the capitalist for-profit system can wash its hands. Eyes glued to salacious details are off the oppressive economic order that has over time erased our cultures, communities and is set to destroy all life on the planet.
Domhoff, G. William: Wealth, Income, and Power
Published: 2005
This document presents details on the wealth and income distributions in the United States, and explains how we can use these two distributions as power indicators.
Dominguez, Francisco: Paraguay: A well-rehearsed coup
Published: 2012
The story behind the overthrow of Paraguayuan President Fernando Lugo.
Donley, Nathan: The ever-darkening shadow of Monsanto-fueled superweeds
Published: 2017
Investigating the agricultural impacts of use of Monsanto's herbicides, which has led to rapid development of herbicide-resistant weeds which pose difficulties for farmers and lead to further dependence on new herbicides.
Donnelly, Michael: The Cowliphate and Poisoned Kids: Twin Assaults on The Commons
Published: 2016
When I opened up my Facebook feed today, 90 percent on the items on my feed were equally divided between the Bundy Cowliphate here in Oregon and the poisoning of the water supply in Flint, my hometown. Given my decades of Public Lands’ Conservation activism, both topics are dear to me.
Donnelly, Michael: The Meltdown of the Careerist Greens
Published: 2020
The wildly, uniquely popular, documentary “Planet of the Humans” has been viewed over 2 million times in less that four days – likely 100s of thousands more by the time you read this.
Donovan, Kevin; Nyst, Carly: Privacy for the other five billion
Published: 2013
Aadhaar is but one example of the development sector's growing fascination with technologies for registering, identifying, and monitoring citizens
Dorfman, Ariel: Gina Haspel's CIA nomination demands the United States account for its history of torture
Published: 2018
President Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to head the CIA has stirred objections from many quarters. Dorfman recounts the impact of state sanctioned torture in Chile.
Dostoevsky, Fydor: Fydor Dostoevsky Quotes
Doughty, Arthur: Arthur Doughty Quotes
Douglas, Ann: Why I Am Listed in Sources
Published: 2001
Over the years, I have turned to Sources time and time again to track down experts to interview for whatever newspaper or magazine article I happened to be researching at the time. So when the time came for me to position myself as an expert it was immediately obvious to me what I had to do: take out a listing in Sources.
Douglas, Bruce: Anger rises as Brazilian mine disaster threatens river and sea with toxic mud
Published: 2015
Conservationists and engineers battle to reduce the ecological fallout as mud and iron-ore residue from the BHP Billiton-Vale dam collapse flows down the Rio Doce to the Atlantic.
Douglas, Lawrence; Mumford, Steve (drawings): A Kangaroo in Obama's Court
Will the Guantánamo Tribunal Execute a Man We Tortured?
Published: 2013
Can a tribunal born of an impatient contempt for due process prove itself a legitimate institution of American law? On trial by military commission at Guantánamo's courtroom.
Douglas, Susan J.: Killing Granny with the Laziness Bias
Published: 2009
While it is often the case that the majority of Americans do see the light "about the need for healthcare reform, a new energy policy or affordable, high-quality day care." The dominant journalistic practices, especially in broadcast and cable news, dim the light in favor of noise. Far-right Republicans understand, almost instinctively, this preference for noise. And they appreciate "and know how to cultivate" the greatest bias in electronic journalism right now: the laziness bias. The laziness bias means you feature sensation over substance, provocative sound bites over investigative reporting, misinformation over fact.
Douville, Bruce: Project La Macaza: A study of two Canadian peace protests in the 1960s
Published: 2015
Published in In Worth Fighting For: Canada's Tradtion of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror, Laura Campbell, Michaell Dawson and Catherine Gidney eds. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2015
Dowie, Mark: Food Among the Ruins
Published: 2009
Detroit, the country's most depressed metropolis, has zero produce-carrying grocery chains. It also has open land, fertile soil, ample water, and the ingredients to reinvent itself from Motor City to urban farm.
Downey, Greg: Plastics, tiny penises, and human evolution
Published: 2015
Setting aside the question of whether plastics (or obesity or carbonated corn syrup-laced beverages or the presence of step-dads or hormones in beef or any other factor) are behind changes in our patterns of sexual maturity, what about the possible future? Does evolutionary theory support the idea that xenoestrogens and other endocrine disruption could lead us limping to a kind of slow rolling human apocalypse?
Downie, Andrew: Brazil Puts the Arts in the Pockets of the Poor with New Cultural Coupon Scheme
Published: 2014
The government hopes $20 Vale Cultura voucher will encourage poorest Brazilians to sample wider range of cultural pursuits.
Downs, Georgina: Expert panel identifies unacceptable toll of food and farming systems on human health
Published: 2017
The UN Committee on World Food Security in Rome has today launched a new report examining the impact of chemical intensive, industrial food system on human health.
Downs, Georgina: From Hillsborough to pesticides
Establishment cover-ups, lies and corruption
Published: 2016
The British establishment does nothing quite so well as lies, cover-ups and high-level corruption - whether it's the Hillsborough disaster or permitting polluters to poison us. Georgina Downs won her own High Court legal victory protecting rural residents from pesticide exposure as long ago as 2008 - only to have it snatched away as Court of Appeal judges closed ranks.
Downs, Steve: The Nine Worst Lawfare Injustices in the US and What They Tell Us About Ourselves
Published: 2019
"Lawfare" is when the law is weoponized and directed against a group of people declared to be an enemy. This is a brief history with nine examples.
Doyle, Andrew: How I became a target in the gender-critical civil war
Published: 2024
A small faction of activists won't tolerate dissent.
Doyle, Andrew: How Stonewall turned against gay rights
Published: 2022
How is it that an organisation that was so instrumental in the struggle for equality has morphed into what many perceive to be a serious threat to gay rights?
Doyle, Andrew: How to stop children being indoctrinated
Woke textbooks should be laughed at - not censored
Published: 2022
I read recently of the "flame purification" ceremony conducted by the board in charge of elementary and secondary schools in southwestern Ontario. Almost 5,000 books judged to contain outdated racial stereotypes were removed from school libraries to be burnt or recycled. Some of the incinerated remains were used as a fertiliser to plant a tree - an uplifting, progressive and environmentally conscious gesture, if one ignores the overtones of Fahrenheit 451.
Doyle, Chris: The Marxist and the Gamers: Reading, Fortnite, and My Students' Identities
Published: 2018
A school teacher reflects on the differences he sees in his students from past generations, notably the many young people who are avid online gamers.
Draaisma, Muriel: Larger high school class sizes will make Ontario students more resilient, education minister says
Lisa Thompson defends education changes in Metro Morning interview
Published: 2019
Ontario Education Minister Lisa Thompson claims that larger class sizes are good for students based on consultations with employers and post-secondary teachers.
Draitser, Eric: Dark Humor: Western Media Makes Light of Political Repression in Ukraine
Published: 2015
Political repression and violence are allegedly incompatible with Western liberal democratic values. Respect for human rights, freedom of expression, and protection of the rights of minorities are all purportedly the hallmarks of "free societies," the goals toward which all nations should be striving. And yet, such standards of freedom and democracy are only selectively applied, and only when beneficial to the Western (US-UK-EU-NATO) agenda.
Draitser, Eric: The NSA and the Infrastructure of the Surveillance State
In Search of Real Liberty
Published: 2013
The NSA’s surveillance and data-gathering activities illustrate the extent to which US intelligence seeks “full-spectrum dominance” in cyberspace.
Draitser, Eric: Ukraine, Intervention, and America's Doublethink
High-Motor Propaganda
Published: 2014
With the deployment of Russian forces into Crimea and eastern Ukraine, the US-NATO propaganda machine has kicked into high gear. Putin has been portrayed as a tyrannical aggressor, while the Obama administration and its European allies have attempted to stake out the moral high ground, declaring that peace, respect for sovereignty and international law should be the guiding principles. Naturally, such rhetoric warrants closer analysis.
Draitser, Eric: Ukraine and the Rebirth of Fascism
The Menace Across the European Continent
Published: 2014
The violence on the streets of Ukraine is far more than an expression of popular anger against a government. Instead, it is merely the latest example of the rise of the most insidious form of fascism that Europe has seen since the fall of the Third Reich.
Draitser, Eric: Venezuela's Opposition: Attacking Its Own People
Published: 2016
The corporate media would have you believe that Venezuela is a dictatorship on the verge of political and economic collapse; a country where human rights crusaders and anti-government, democracy-seeking activists are routinely rounded up and thrown in jail. Indeed, the picture from both private media in Venezuela, as well as the mainstream press in the US, is one of a corrupt and tyrannical government desperately trying to maintain its grip on power while the opposition seeks much-needed reforms. In fact, the opposite is true.
Draitser, Eric; Funez, Ramiro S.: Honduras Bleeding
The Coup and Its Aftermath
Published: 2015
June 28 marked the six year anniversary of the military coup in Honduras -- the day that a democratically elected left wing government was ousted by a US-backed, US-trained cabal of generals and right wing politicians and landowners.
Draper, Hal: The Two Souls of Socialism
Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below
Published: 1970
It was Marx who finally brought the two ideas of socialism and democracy together, because he developed a theory which made the synthesis possible for the first time. The heart of the theory is this proposition: that there is a social majority which has the interest and motivation to change the system, and that the aim of socialism can be the education and mobilization of this mass-majority. This is the exploited class, the working class, from which comes the eventual motive-force of revolution. Hence, a socialism-from-below is possible, on the basis of a theory that sees the revolutionary potentialities in the broad masses, even if they seem backward at a given time and place. Marxism came into being in self-conscious struggle against the advocates of the Educational Dictatorship, the Savior-Dictators, the revolutionary elitists, the communist authoritarians, as well as the philanthropic dogooders and bourgeois liberals.
Drayden, Dave: WTO Ruling on Dolphin-Safe Tuna Labeling Illustrates Supremacy of Trade Agreements
Published: 2015
International trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) need to be carefully examined piece by piece because they can take precedence over a country's own laws.
Dreazen, Yochi: Here's what war with North Korea would look like
A full-blown war with North Korea wouldn't be as bad as you think. It would be much, much worse
Published: 2018
A look at the chilling logistics and devastating loss of life a full-blown war between the USA and North Korea would cause.
Dreier, Peter: Heroes But Not Saints: Why We Shouldn't 'Cancel' Flawed Progressive Icons
Published: 2021
Planned Parenthood need not reinforce the misconceptions about Sanger that the pro-life movement and right-wingers in general have been perpetuating for decades. These misleading views about Sanger hinge on two aspects of her life that have generated considerable controversy and debate.
Drimonis, Toula: Public transit is a women's issue
Published: 2016
Drimonis highlights the problem of sexual harrassment of female passengers and the failure of transit officials to address this problem.
Droeber, Julia: Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune (Book Review)
Published: 2013
Karima Bennoune, a US-based law scholar raised in Algeria, has written an account of the stories of numerous people whose lives have been scarred by Islamic fundamentalism and who decided, using a variety of means, to put up a fight.
Dronin, Matt: Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices
Published: 2009
Dronkers, Pete: What the Catastrophic Aliso Canyon Methane Leak Teaches Us About Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels
Published: 2016
It’s early December, and I'm sitting in a mega-church packed with more than 500 people. They're here to listen to an update on the efforts to contain an enormous natural gas blowout that occurred more than a month before. Gas from the leak is being blown by prevailing winds right into their community of Porter Ranch, in Los Angeles County, CA.
People are mad.
Druker, Steven M.: The GMO Dark Act Cannot Survive the Light
Published: 2015
An ardent attempt is afoot on Capitol Hill to prevent states from requiring the labeling of genetically engineered foods – made especially urgent by the fact that Vermont’s labeling bill is set to take effect July 1st.
Dryden, Joel; Rieger, Sarah: Inside the slaughterhouse
Published: 2020
North America’s largest single coronavirus outbreak started at this Alberta meat-packing plant.
Dubinski, Kate: Mom furious Grade 8 students at Woodstock, Ont., school must make posters for anti-abortion group's contest
Published: 2022
The posters being made at Woodstock school will be graded, entered in Right to Life Coalition contest.
Dubreuil, Laurent: Nonconforming
AGainst the erosion of academic freedom by identity politics
Published: 2020
Duffin, Jacayln: Doctors as Stewards of medicare, or not: CAMSI, MRG, CDM, DRHC and the thin alphabet soup of physician support
Published: 2018
Physicians are deeply involved in Canadian medicare because it is through medicare that they are paid. However, from its origins to the present physicians -- as a profession -- have not been strong supporters of medicare.
Dufresne, Michael: Let's Not Be Cremated Equal
The combined Universites Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1959 - 1967
Published: 2009
Published in The Sixties in Canada: A Turbulent and Creative Decade, M. Athena Palaeologu ed. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2009
Dummit, Christopher: The Canadian Historical Association's Fake 'Consensus' on Canadian Genocide
Published: 2021
Last month, the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) issued a public 'Canada Day Statement" -- described as having been "unanimously approved" by the group's governing council -- declaring that "existing historical scholarship" makes it "abundantly clear" that Canada's treatment of Indigenous peoples amounts to “genocide." The authors also claimed that there is a "broad consensus" among historians on the existence of Canadian "genocidal intent" (also described elsewhere in the statement as "genocidal policies" and "genocidal systems").
Duncan, Brad; Williams, Charles: The 1970s: Finally Got the News!
Charles Williams interviews Brad Duncan
Published: 2018
Interview with Brad Duncan, editor of Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979.
Duncan, Don: Shooting Back
Young Palestinians With Cameras
Published: 2010
For the past three years, Btselem, the Israeli human rights NGO, has provided cameras and training to young Palestinians as part of its camera distribution project, to collect video evidence of abuses and misconduct by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
Dunn, Ross: Dropped Search Engine Rankings Caused by Duplication
Published: 2010
Duplicate content can and will negatively affect search engine rankings.
Dunn, Ross: Is Your Website Search Engine Friendly?
Your Personal Checklist
Published: 2006
When I sit down with new clients and discuss the status of their new or existing site they are often shocked when I am forced to inform them that their site is not search engine friendly.
Dunn, Trevor: Thursday morning ping pong: The little sport doing big things at Toronto retirement home
Published: 2018
Patterson is one of many at the Salvation Army Meighen Retirement Residence who've become dedicated ping pong players, benefiting from the physical and cognitive exercise, according to staff at the home.
Dunt, Ian: The evidence that Israel deliberately targeted hospitals and ambulances
Published: 2014
Amnesty International has published evidence that Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) specifically targeted hospitals, health workers and ambulance personnel during the attack on Gaza.
Dupont, Gaelle: Dijon adapts its urban thinking to the needs of an ageing population
The French city is at the forefront of an urban network aiming to actively improve the lives of its older residents
Published: 2014
Dijon, a city in France is taking an innovative approach adressing the needs of it's ageing population. Research has suggested that movement, and minimizing isolation are the leading methods in the slowing of ageing, and are the forefront of thought while implementing novel changes to the city center.
Duschner, Bernd: Wer über die NATO-Kriege nicht reden will, sollte über zu hohe Flüchtlingszahlen schweigen
Published: 2024
Wie kann die hohe Zahl an Asylbewerbern reduziert werden? Dieses Thema beherrscht seit Wochen die politische Diskussion. Ein Blick auf die Herkunftsländer der Flüchtlinge zeigt die Hauptursache, warum diese Menschen sich gezwungen sehen, ihre Heimat zu verlassen: Es sind die Kriege und die Sanktionspolitik der NATO-Staaten, die die Existenzgrundlagen von Millionen Menschen in Ländern wie Afghanistan, Libyen, Irak und Syrien zerstört haben.
Dutton, Geoff: Cutting Cords to Kurds: Facebook's Foreign Policy
Published: 2017
The recent deletion and suspension of Facebook accounts of Kurdish supporters provides further troubling evidence that the popular social media company has been censoring the Kurdish resistance for the past five years.
Dutton, Geoff: Talking Trash: Unfortunate Truths About Recycling
Published: 2019
A deep dive into the mechanics of recycling and why it isn't a panacea for our environmental problems.
Dutton, William H.: Fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles: Underresearched and overhyped
Published: 2017
In the early years of the internet, it was revolutionary to have a world of information just a click away from anyone, anywhere, anytime. Many hoped this inherently democratic technology could lead to better-informed citizens more easily participating in debate, elections and public discourse.
Duval Smith, Alex: Life in Timbuktu: how the ancient city of gold is slowly turning to dust
Published: 2014
Mali's ancient city is disempowered, suffering the effects of desertification and slowly disappearing. Despite this, little is being done to ensure the city has a future.
Dyer, Herb: Florida Sheriff Tells Drivers to Run over Street Protesters
Published: 2015
Sheriff of Florida's Palm Beach County tells residents to use their vehicles as weapons against protesters who may be blocking their path.
Dyke, James; Watson, Robert; Knorr, Wolfgang: Climate Scientists: 'Net Zero' is a dangerous trap
Published: 2021
The only way to keep humanity safe is by immediately and radically cutting emissions in a socially just way.
Dziadosz, Alexander: The End of Eden
Climate change comes to the end of civilization
Published: 2018
A look at the devastating environmental outlook in Iraq, where climate change has led to rising temperatures and a dramatic drop in precipitation. Further exacerbating the environmental problems are decades of mismanagement, war, and regional politics.
Dérens, Jean-Arnault: Croatia's entry fee
Published: 2013
The country has a long coastline and history of sailors, fishermen and shipbuilders, but EU membership will probably put an end to one of its oldest industries. The yards had to be completely privatised before Croatia officially joined the EU on 1 July, 2013.

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Earhart, Amelia: Amelia Earhart Quotes
Eastwood, Joel: Mathematician Lee Lorch fought tirelessly against racism
Published: 2014
Civil rights activist Lee Lorch, who was barred from teaching mathematics in the U.S. for his battles against racism, has died at age 98.
Eaton, Renee: All the news that's fit to print (book review)
Review of Deadlines and Diversity: Journalism Ethics in a Changing World
Published: 2001
Eby, Travis: Pirating Creativity
The MPAA Is Going After Schoolchildren
Published: 2013
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) goes all-out enforce its “intellectual property” claims upon those who would dare share and distribute media.
Ecclesiastes: Ecclesiastes Quotes
Eckersley, Peter: 6 Ideas For Those Needing Defensive Technology to Protect Free Speech from Authoritarian Regimes
4 Ways the Rest of Us Can Help
Published: 2010
The Internet remains one of the most powerful means ever created to give voice to repressed people around the world. Unfortunately, new technologies have also given authoritarian regimes new means to identify and retaliate against those who speak out despite censorship and surveillance.
Eckersley, Peter; Schoen, Seth; Bankston, Kevin; Slater, Derek: Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy
Published: 2006
Google, MSN Search, Yahoo!, AOL, and most other search engines collect and store records of your search queries. If these records are revealed to others, they can be embarrassing or even cause great harm.
Eckersley,Peter; Toner,Alan: Adblockers and Innovative Ad Companies are Working Together to Build a More Privacy-Friendly Web
Published: 2015
Eckersley and Toner talk more about the coalition between tracker and ad-blocker companies that will respect a 'Do Not Track' policy.
Edelman, Marek: The Ghetto Fights
The Warsaw Ghetto: The 45th Anniversary of the Uprising
Published: 1989
On May 10th, 1943, the first period of our bloody history, the history of the Warsaw Jews, came to an end. The site where the buildings of the ghetto had once stood became a ragged heap of rubble reaching three storeys high. Those who were killed in action had done their duty to the end, to the last drop of blood that soaked into the pavements of the Warsaw ghetto. We, who did not perish, leave it up to you to keep the memory of them alive--forever.
Edemariam, Aida: Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone'
Published: 2013
Noam Chomsky is one of the world's most controversial thinkers. Now 84, he reflects on his life's work, on current events in Syria and Israel, and on the love of his life – his wife.
Editor: Charlie Hebdo And The War For Civilisation
Published: 2015
There is so much more that could be said about just how little passion the corporate media have for defending the right to offend. Anyone in doubt should try, as we have, to discuss their own record of failing to offend the powerful.
Editor: 'Let's Bring In Our Pentagon Spokesman' - Bombing Syria
Published: 2015
If you want to get close to the 'defence' establishment, you better be close to the 'defence' establishment: ideologically, sympathetically, 'patriotically'.
Editor: When Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence - The Israel Lobby And A Cowed Academia
Published: 2015
The sudden cancellation of an academic conference on Israel, as well as the lack of outcry from 'mainstream' media, demonstrates once again the skewed limits to 'free speech' in 'advanced' Western democracies.
Editors: Deranged and Deluded: The Media's Complicity In The Climate Crisis
Published: 2017
In an important recent book, the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh refers to the present era of corporate-driven climate crisis as 'The Great Derangement'. For almost 12,000 years, since the last Ice Age, humanity has lived through a period of relative climate stability known as the Holocene. When Homo sapiens shifted, for the most part, from a nomadic hunter-gatherer existence to an agriculture-based life, towns and cities grew, humans went into space and the global population shot up to over seven billion people.
Editors: How to Do Brick and Concrete Repairs
Loose or crumbling brick mortar joints can be very expensive to have fixed, but the repair work can be done by anyone with a strong arm. Because loose or crumbling mortar lets moisture through, it can result in damage to interior walls as well as hasten the deterioration of sound mortar. For both reasons, tuckpoint as soon as weather permits when you notice damaged mortar joints.
Editors: Keystone and Humanity's Fate
Published: 2013
With the desicion looming for the Keystone XL pipeline, what's really at stake for climate change, for human civilization, and for the environmental movement that's fighting to save the future? That tar sands development may determine "game over for the climate, in the phrase of NASA scientist and climate researcher James Hansen, is illustrated by data provided by environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben.
EDM: Godfrey High
Published: 2001
Former and current students of Bathurst Heights Secondary School are objecting to the decision to invite Tory backroom operator Paul Godfrey to be the keynote speaker at a ceremony to mark the school's closing, given that Godfrey is a key advisor to the Conservative government whose cutbacks are responsible for the school's being shut down.
Edwards, David: All Journalism Is 'Advocacy Journalism'
Published: 2013
The claim that journalism 'traditionally' involves 'the dispassionate reporting of facts', that journalists are typically not 'advocates', was advocated by a paid employee of a media corporation, the Washington Post.
Edwards, David: Fake News About 'Fake News' - The Media Performance Pyramid
Published: 2016
Following Brexit and Trump, mainstream media have focused on media bias and the implications of so-called fake news. The definition of fake news can be easily generalized to all corporate media, and applied to the recent focus on fake news itself.
Edwards, David: The Fateful Collision - Floods, Catastrophe And Climate Denial
Published: 2014
An epic struggle is currently taking place that will determine the fate, and perhaps the survival, of our species.
Edwards, David: Filtering The Election
Published: 2016
Examining the mainstream media's role in the 2016 US election of suppressing criticisms of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party establishment.
Edwards, David: 'Inappropriate Behaviour' - Michael Fallon, Yemen, And The 'Mainstream' That Is Anything But
Published: 2017
A look at 'mainstream' journalism, a product of corporate conformity and a deference to power that is anything but mainstream.
Edwards, David: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work
Published: 2012
The media response to Assange’s asylum request tells us much about the default brutality and reflexive herdthink of elite corporate journalism. The crucial importance of his achievements, of his cause, was deemed utterly irrelevant beside his allegedly unbearable personal failings.
Edwards, David: Jousting With Toothpicks - The Case For Challenging Corporate Journalism
Published: 2013
A critic responding to a recent alert objected to our use of the term 'corporate journalist'. In fact the meaning of 'corporate journalist' could hardly be clearer: it describes someone paid to write for a corporation.
Edwards, David: Killing Trend - The Cruise Missile Liberals
Published: 2014
News that 2015 might turn out to be the first year since 1914 when British troops will not be fighting a war somewhere in the world appeared to come as a shock to many.
Edwards, David: Massacres That Matter - Part 1 - 'Responsibility To Protect' In Egypt, Libya And Syria
Published: 2013
Where offending states fail to live up to this responsibility by inflicting genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity on their own people, the international community has a responsibility to act.
Edwards, David: 'This Madman Must Be Stopped'
Syrian Chemical Weapons
Published: 2013
The White House claims that US intelligence assessed 'with varying degrees of confidence' that 'the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin'.
Edwards, David: US Consulate Killings - Spontaneous Religious or Planned Political?
Published: 2012
On September 11, four Americans, including the US ambassador, were killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The following day, the BBC's Lunchtime News reported that the killings were part of 'disturbances' which were 'linked to an anti-Islamic video'. The BBC's News at Six explained that the US ambassador was killed 'in a protest'. This was mild language indeed given that the consulate had been attacked with assault rifles, hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars.
Edwards, David: What is Objective Journalism?
Published: 2017
Despite objectivity being widely accepted as a norm in journalism, Edwards discusses how opinion and bias are still an inherent part of 'reporting the facts.'
Edwards, David: Won't Get Fooled Again? Hyping Syria's WMD 'Threat'
Published: 2013
Reading about crimes of state over many years, it is tempting to try to fathom the mind-set of political leaders. What actually is going on in their heads when they order sanctions that kill hundreds of thousands of children? What is in their hearts when they wage needless wars that shatter literally millions of lives? Similar questions come to mind as the US and UK governments once again raise the spectre of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ to demonise a target for ‘regime change’, this time in Syria.
Edwards, David; Cromwell, David: 'A Load Of Tosh'– The BBC, 'Showbiz News' And State Propaganda
Published: 2018
BBC News reporting on international relations, with particular reference to 2017-2018 tensions with Russia, relies heavily on state propaganda.
Edwards, Maxim: How protesters are 'deanonymising' Russia's riot police
Online tools identify policemen who violently dispersed protesters in Moscow
Published: 2019
Tools such as reverse-image search are being used to identify police who violently broke up a protest in Moscow. The legality of releasing this information and the threats some people are making with it is discussed.
Edwards, Paul: The Sociopath as Hero
Clint Eastwood's War Prayer
Published: 2015
American movie audiences have long loved violent heroes. Edwards discusses the box office hit of the moment, 'American Sniper', and the implications of the Hollywood War Porn industry.
Edwards, Paul: When Worse is the Enemy of Bad
Published: 2018
The claim that all that is wrong with America is due to the malignant machinations of Putin is the most blatantly false, potentially disastrous bucket of bullshit ever inflicted by the matrix on this ignorant, credulous, propagandized people.
Edwards, Stassa: Barbara Ehrenreich Isn't Afraid to Die
Published: 2018
A look at Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, The Certainty of Dying, and Our Illusion of Control", where she questions current cultural practices, our sense of 'self', and advocates for a broader acceptance of death's inevitability.
Eede, Joanna: Kalahari Bushmen unite to end oppression
Published: 2013
Representatives of the Basarwa or Bushman peoples of Botswana step up their fight to end structural oppression of their communities.
EFU Film: Fracking Hell
The environmental costs of the new US gas drilling boom
Published: 2014
The gas stored in the Marcellus Shale formation is the subject of desperate drilling to secure US domestic energy supplies. But the process involved - hydraulic fracturing - is the focus of a bitter dispute over environmental damage and community rights.
Egan, Danielle: Lock-Up: Chastity Belts Are on the 'Incline'
Published: 2005
Today's belt-makers report increasing sales and lucrative spin-off accessories ranging from hypnosis tapes to 'education belts.'
Egbunike, Nwachukwu; Leigh Lichtenstein, Amanda; Roberts Biddle, Ellery: Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa's new internet paradigm
The costs of speaking out online are rising rapidly
Published: 2019
Many governments in Africa, threatened by the democracy of internet communication, are stifling it by imposing taxes and fees, throttling internet service itself and even arresting bloggers.
Egelko, Bob: Zoia Horn, librarian jailed for not testifying against protesters
Zoia Horn refused to testify against antiwar activists accused of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger.
Published: 2014
Zoia Horn refused to testify against antiwar activists accused of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger.
Ehrcke, Tara: Why I'm on the Picket Line
Published: 2014
Teacher Tara Ehrcke talks about why she voted to strike in Greater Victoria, British Columbia: The "public" in public school shouldn't mean just providing a building, with some tired teachers to deliver a curriculum, the success of which is measured by standardized tests. A good public school system should provide high quality opportunities to every single child. While our public schools have many wonderful programs and many dedicated teachers, the sad truth is that there are also overcrowded classrooms, children falling behind, and a workforce exhausted from trying to fill in the gaps.
Ehrenberg, Rachel: Penis size does matter
Published: 2013
Study suggests that penis length influences attractiveness about as much as height, a trait with a well-documented influence on male reproductive success.
Ehrenreich, Barbara: How we learned to stop having fun
Published: 2007
We used to know how to get together and really let our hair down. Then, in the early 1600s, a mass epidemic of depression broke out - and we've been living with it ever since. Something went wrong, but what?
Eidelson, Roy; Bond, Trudy: The Complicity of Psychologists in CIA Torture
What the APA Knew
Published: 2014
James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen are two psychologists who played central roles in designing and implementing the CIA’s torture program. Now we also know how lucrative that work was for Mitchell and Jessen: their company was paid over $80 million by the CIA.
Eidlin, Barry: The Metaphors of Movements - review
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
A review of 'Guerillas in the Industrial Jungle: Radicalism’s Primitive and Industrial Rhetoric' by Ursula McTaggart.
Eidson, Stewart: Workers' Memorial Day: North Dakota deadliest state in US
Published: 2016
Tyler Erickson was a floor hand with Heller Casing in Williston, North Dakota, from 2012 until 2014. He specialised in maintaining the casing, which would be lowered into drill holes in what back then were the state’s booming oil fields. Accidents, he says, were a regular occurrence.
Einsiedel, Orlando von: Virunga
Published: 2014
A story about the Congo's Virunga National Park in the midst of armed conflict and commercial oil interests in the region. The primary focal points are the conservation efforts led by the park rangers.
Einstein, Albert: Albert Einstein Quotes
Eisler, Mark; Lee, Michael; Tarlton, John; Martin, Graeme; Beddington, John; Dungait, Jennifer: Agriculture: Steps to sustainable livestock
Published: 2014
With improved breeding and cultivation, ruminant animals can yield food that is better for people and the planet.
Eisler, Mark; Martin, Graeme; Lee, Machael: Dairy - the case for greener, healthier, lower performing cows
Published: 2014
With supermarket milk cheaper than spring water, it's time to rethink the modern dairy industry. It's not just the milk that's become a throwaway product - the high-octane Holstein cows that produce it are also in the knackers yard after just two or three lactations, the living waste of a loss-making, environment-trashing industry.
Ekeland, Anders: A Fossil Fuel Exit Program
Published: 2014
A complete transition away from fossil fuels is necessary within a few decades. The question is how to construct an exit strategy that will accomplish this. James Hansen has provided a starting point for a realistic climate-change exit strategy.
El-Amin, Theresa: SNCC's 50-Year Legacy
Published: 2010
Celebrating SNCC's legacy.
El-Doufani, Mohamed: The niqab represents a pernicious ideology and its spread should worry us all
Published: 2018
A look at the controversial niqab and similar veils, and why they are so concerning.
El-Farra, Dr. Mona: From Gaza With Rage
Published: 2023
I have always signed my letters to supporters and friends from around the world with these words, "From Gaza with Love." But today I'm writing with a rage that no mother should know, a rage of desperation and disbelief about what is being allowed to happen. I still feel love for everyone in Palestine, and people who have stood in support and solidarity of our shared struggle. But please, take action. And then do more. We must stop this genocide.
El-Farra, Dr. Mona: Gaza: Whole Villages Have Been Wiped Off the Map
A VIsit to Khuza'a
Published: 2014
I’m writing now from my home, but I still feel dizzy from shock and nauseated by the sights and smells on my visit to Khan Younis and Khuza’a.
El-Farra, Dr. Mona: It's Raining Bombs and Shells
A Doctor's Notes From Gaza
Published: 2014
I’m still alive. I don’t know what this means, but I can say that most of the time I can still walk and do some work with people who need help. It all depends on my luck. And here, for people living in Gaza, luck means how close to you the bombs fall from Israel’s tanks, planes, or warships. Some hours it’s raining bombs. Americans say “It’s raining cats and dogs.” In the new Gaza idiom, we say “It’s raining bombs and shells.”
El-Farra, Mona: A View from Gaza
This Is a Brutal Attack, Not a "Military Operation"
Published: 2014
In Gaza, recent Israeli military attacks by sea, air and via artillery shells are not part of a war or a military operation though it may look so. It is collective punishment and it is a brutal attack against all Palestinian people, and mainly civilians are paying the price.
el-Namey, Isra Saleh: Trauma is constant for Gaza's children
Published: 2021
This article discusses the constant violence that children in Gaza are exposed to at the hands of Israel, and the long-term psychological effects that sustained trauma can have.
Elder, Miriam: Polishing Putin: hacked emails suggest dirty tricks by Russian youth group
Published: 2012
Nashi runs web of online trolls and bloggers paid to praise Vladimir Putin and denigrate enemies.
Electronic Frontier Foundation: COVID-19 and Digital Rights
Published: 2020
Many of our digital rights are impacted by COVID-19.
Elgin,Benjamin: Oil CEO Wanted University Quake Scientists Dismissed: Dean's E-Mail
Published: 2015
The billionaire CEO of Continental Resources told a dean at the University of Oklahoma that he wanted earthquake researchers dismissed.
Elia, Nada: Like Israeli settlers, white mass shooters are a manifestation of their society
Published: 2019
A caution against calls from the left to label white mass shooters as terrorists. Calling them terrorists does not address the fact that they carry out the objectives of their settler-colonial states.
Eliades, Angelo: Edge Effect
Published: 2014
'Edge Effect’ is a Permacultural design prinicipal which uses edge and natural patterns for best effect.
Elich, Gregory: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-1966
Book Review
Published: 2019
Review of a book of the Indonesian massacres contains lengthy excerpts and summary of the history.
Elich, Gregory: Who Supported the Khmer Rouge?
How the US Backed a Regime of Unrivaled Barbarism
Published: 2014
With the conviction of former Khmer Rouge officials Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea for crimes against humanity, the subject of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 received a small amount of attention in the Western mass media. What the media failed to mention was how the Khmer Rouge was maintained as a military and political force long after its fall from power.
Elizabeth: Ostula and Mexican Army Hold to Clashing Versions of Recent Attack
Published: 2015
In Mexico, the independent investigation agency SubVersiones has published a compilation video that chronologically shows what events that took place on July 19, 2015, in the indigenous Nahua community of Santa María de Ostula. That day ended with a child dead and four people wounded.
Ellerton, Peter: How to Use Critical Thinking to Spot False Climate Claims
Published: 2018
This article outlines ways to address common climate-contrarian arguments, all of which contain errors in reasoning that are independent of the science itself.
Elliot, Larry: Free trade is fine in a world of equals
Developing countries should be wary of liberalisation
Published: 2003
A discussion of how the theory behind free trade is not real-world viable and in fact penalizes the developing countries.
Elliott, Larry: Capitalism is still in dreamland
Despite the markets' excesses, policymakers think they are in control
Published: 2008
Reporting on the World Economic Forum 2008, the author finds the IMF's suggestion to cut taxes and interest to be perpetuating the myth that the crises is one of liquidity rather than solvency.
Ellis, Gavin: The great Hallowe'en pumpkin rescue
Published: 2014
Every Hallowe'en the UK throws away enough pumpkin to make 360 million portions of pumpkin pie, soup, or cake - a shocking waste in these hungry times. Hence a bold new initiative to rescue all those pumpkins from landfill, and turn them into delicious food we can all enjoy as part of our seasonal festivities.
Ellis, Richard: Temporary Closures Reduce Challenges to Publications and Policies in Canadian Public Libraries in 2020 and Early 2021
Published: 2021
Ellis, S. Ronald: The Ellis Archives - 1972 to 1981
An Early View from the Parkdale Trenches
Published: 1997
Published in Osgoode Hall Law Journal 35 - 3 (1997)
Ellis-Peteren, Hannah: Murder on the Mekong: why exiled Thai dissidents are abducted and killed
Published: 2019
In Thailand, people who violate lèse-majesté law - which prevents any criticism of the monarchy - can find themselves with a bounty on them and end up living in exile. Some dissidents have been murdered or disappeared.
Ellner, Steve: The Strategy of the Venezuelan Opposition
Published: 2014
The strategy and tactics of the Venezuelan opposition is a replay of events that took place leading up to the coup against Hugo Chávez on April 11, 2002 and is similar (although in some ways quite different) from the script that has been used in the Ukraine and elsewhere.
Ellsberg, Daniel: A Memory of Howard
Published: 2010
A recollection of the late Howard Zinn.
Elmi, Hamid: Rethinking Media in Conflict Zones
How can journalists minimize safety risks whilst reporting on conflicts?
Conflicts and wars are the everyday stuff of national, regional and world news. They are likely to intensify and give birth to permutations that make media coverage and analysis more difficult and complex. Journalists face professional and ethical issues as they seek out and interpret the political, economic and social environment in the throes of crisis. To what extent are they reporting the truth or half-truths? Are they concerned more with finding sob stories, grabbing headlines, than with atrocities and with correcting their mistakes? Are armed conflicts the new source of entertainment? Is it really as bad as the media make it out to be? How can journalists minimize safety risks in reporting conflicts and wars?
Elphicke, Conan: A Profile of East Timor's Jose Ramos-Horta
Published: 1999
JOSE RAMOS-HORTA DENIES he is a bitter man, claiming that he feels only disdain for the invaders of his country. But too much has been inflicted on East Timor, too many of his friends and relatives killed, the diplomatic war he has waged has carried on too long for him not to feel an abiding resentment.
Eltarabesh, Hamza Abu: The hidden treasures of Gaza
Published: 2016
A small room on a rooftop in the occupied Gaza Strip’s crowded Beach refugee camp resembles a miniature archaeological museum. It is the workshop of Nafez Abed, 55, who studies archaeological artifacts in order to replicate them in exquisite detail. Abed copies antiquities photographed in history books and ones he’s seen during visits to archaeological sites across Gaza, which many a civilization has passed through, as well as in other Arab countries and Europe.
Emanuele, Vincent: Liberal Antiwar Activism is the Problem
Published: 2016
Every election season, veterans and their families are used as political pawns. During the Democratic National Convention in Philly, the Khans, the mother and father of a Marine Captain who was killed in Iraq, conveniently filled the role for Hillary Clinton and the Neoliberals. At the Republican National Convention, Patricia Smith gladly took the stage for the Neofascists and talked about the death of her son and the non-scandal that is, Benghazi. In the meantime, anyone who opposes U.S. Empire is shit-out-of-luck when it comes to presidential elections and the two major parties. Here, we should commend Gary Johnson and Jill Stein for remaining principled in their views surrounding foreign policy, militarism, torture and surveillance. They’re the last of a dying breed.
Emersberger, Joe: Ecuadorean Villagers May Still Triumph Over Chevron
Published: 2018
Michael Krauss, a lawyer who teaches "ethics" at a law school named after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, recently posted a blog on the Forbes website entitled "The Ecuador Saga Continues: Steven Donziger now owes Chevron more than $800,000" (Forbes 3/14/2018). Kraus says that Chevron has basically triumphed over evil...
Emersberger, Joe: The World Must Learn From Cuba
Published: 2017
On the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, why has the small Caribbean nation outperformed many capitalist democracies in key ways despite fifty years of attack?
Emerson, John: Empire of the Comanche
The Passing of Comancheria
Published: 2013
The period of Comanche domination of Texas, New Mexico, Northern Mexico, and much of the American West between 1750 and 1850 is just a passing footnote in American and Mexican history, but it provides an interesting perspective on many important historical questions, notably the history of the Eurasian steppe and the role of violence in long-distance trade.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Emery, E. Eugene Jr.: Media Watch: When the Media Tell Half the Story
Published: 1997
Twenty-eight years after Chariots of the Gods? author Eric von Däniken brought pseudoscience to new lows by suggesting that our ancestors were too stupid to create the pyramids, Stonehenge, and other monuments without the help of space aliens, his ideas are alive and well.
Emmanuel, Adeshina: Why Black Lives Matters Is Taking on Police Unions
Published: 2016
Black Lives Matter argues that the police associations have to be challenged head-on because of their power in preventing change.
Emmons, Alex: ACLU Wants 23 Secret Surveillance Laws Made Public
Published: 2016
The ACLU has identified 23 legal opinions that contain new or significant interpretations of surveillance law -- affecting the government's use of malware, its attempts to compel technology companies to circumvent encryption, and the CIA's bulk collection of financial records under the Patriot Act -- all of which remain secret to this day, despite an ostensible push for greater transparency following Edward Snowden’s disclosures.
Emmons, Alex: Edward Snowden Has Some Advice for Donald Trump About Surveillance
Published: 2017
Emmons interviews NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden about Trump's skewed priorities.
Emmons, Alex: Evidence FBI Gathered While Running Porn Site Thrown Out Again
Published: 2016
For the third time, a federal judge has ruled that a mass hack by the FBI - which ensnared thousands of computers based on only one warrant - was illegal. Like the previous ones, the decision was based on a jurisdictional technicality: Rule 41 of criminal procedure holds that magistrate judges can only authorize searches inside their jurisdiction - meaning a judge in one district cannot authorize a search in a different geographical location. The hack in question was part of an investigation into a child pornography website called Playpen. Playpen was hosted on the dark web, meaning that users could only access it through a service that concealed their IP address, making it impossible for the FBI to tell who was accessing the site and downloading child pornography.
Emmons, Alex: Historic Settlement Reached on Behalf of CIA Torture Victims
Published: 2017
Details on the legal settlement between the U.S government and the victims of a CIA torture program in 2002.
Emmons, Alex: New York Police Have Used Stingrays Widely, New Documents Show
Published: 2016
The NYPD has used cell-site simulators, commonly known as Stingrays, more than 1,000 times since 2008, according to documents turned over to the New York Civil Liberties Union. The documents represent the first time the department has acknowledged using the devices.
Emmons, Alex: White Nights: Before Charlottesville Was in the Spotlight, Police Arrested Their Most Prominent Critic in the Middle of the Night
Published: 2017
Within two weeks of voters in Charlottesville going to the polls to decide on the city's next district attorney, the candidate vowing to rein in police abuse and roll back mass incarceration was arrested in the middle of the night and bound for a police station.
Empson, Martin: Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were
Published: 2017
Martin Empson reviews an important book (DEAD ZONE: Where the Wild Things Were
by Philip Lymber,Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) for activists, a frightening examination of the impact of industrial agriculture on the environment, and particularly biodiversity.
Empson, Martin: Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective - Book Review
Published: 2015
Essential reading for ecosocialists. Paul Burkett shows that humanity's relationship to nature is central to Marx’s critique of capitalism and vision of socialism.
Emspon, Martin: Why changing our diets won't save the Earth
Published: 2016
Received wisdom says that to save the planet we have to change our eating habits. Elaine Graham-Leigh explains why the received wisdom isn't just wrong, it blames working people for a crisis they didn’t cause.
Endalk: Ethiopia's Zone9 Bloggers Head Back to Court After 15 Months Behind Bars
Published: 2015
Five members of Ethiopia's Zone9 blogging collective expect to learn their fate this Wednesday, August 19, 2015, when a panel of three judges will meet at Addis Ababa's Lideta High Court to rule on whether the defendants will walk free or or face another round of trial.
Endicott, Stephen; James, G: Endicott
Rebel Out of China Toronto
Published: 1980
Engdahl, F. William: Scientific journal retracts study exposing GM cancer risk
Published: 2013
The Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology appears to have violated scientific standards by withdrawing a study which found that rats fed on a Monsanto GM corn were more likely to develop cancer than controls.
Engelfried, Nick: People power: how Montana stopped the biggest coal mine in North America
Published: 2016
Campaigners are celebrating after defeating plans to build America's largest open pit coal mine. In an epic 'David and Goliath' battle, Montana activists challenged the project, and all the politicians and businessmen that supported it, with fierce opposition, protests and demonstrations. The outcome spells hope for all in the fight against dirty energy.
Engelhardt, Tom: Climate Change As A Weapon Of Mass Destruction
The 95% Doctrine
Published: 2014
Engelhardt, Tom: Data Mining You
How the Intelligence Community Is Creating a New American World
Published: 2012
Joseph K., that icon of single-lettered anonymity from Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, would undoubtedly have felt right at home in Washington.
Engelhardt, Tom: How the U.S. Military Feeds at the Terror Trough
Published: 2019
A meandering take on the US's perpetual wars around the world.
Engelhardt, Tom: Mistaking Omniscience for Omnipotence
In a World Without Privacy, There Are No Exemptions for Our Spies
Published: 2013
Given how similar they sound and how easy it is to imagine one leading to the other, confusing omniscience (having total knowledge) with omnipotence (having total power) is easy enough. It’s a reasonable supposition that, before the Snowden revelations hit, America's spymasters had made just that mistake. If the drip-drip-drip of Snowden’s mother of all leaks -- which began in June and clearly won’t stop for months to come -- has taught us anything, however, it should be this: omniscience is not omnipotence. At least on the global political scene today, they may bear remarkably little relation to each other. In fact, at the moment Washington seems to be operating in a world in which the more you know about the secret lives of others, the less powerful you turn out to be.
Engelhardt, Tom: Overwrought Empire
Published: 2012
Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the twentieth century. You could say that they experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism -- think of it as the real “American Century” -- from World War I to the end of the Cold War, with time off for a destructive stalemate in Korea and a defeat in Vietnam too shocking to absorb or shake off.
Engelhardt, Tom: Suicide Watch on Planet Earth
Published: 2019
The burning of Notre Dame cathedral, while tragic, is nothing compared to the damage to our planet brought by climate change.
Engelhardt, Tom: Winners and Losers in Our New Media Moment
Donald Trump, Mass Shootings With an Islamic Terrorist Flavor, and the Rise of the "Spectaculection"
Published: 2015
Sometimes what matters most takes up every inch of space in the room and somehow we still don’t see it. That’s how I feel about our present media moment.
Engels, Friedrich: On the Critique of the Prussian Press Laws
Published: 1842
Two ways are open to the Prussian for the publication of his thoughts. He can either have them printed in his own country, in which case he has to submit to the domestic censorship; or, should he meet with objections here, outside the frontiers of his own state he can still either place himself under the censorship of another state in the Confederation or take advantage of press freedom in foreign countries. In any case the state retains the right to take repressive measures against possible breaches of the law.
England, Charlotte; Perkin, Beth: Stansted 15: British Activists Who Stopped Deportation Charter Flight Convicted of Terrorism Charge
Published: 2018
A look at a group of fifteen activists who prevented a deportation charter flight from leaving Stansted airport in the UK by securing themselves around the aeroplane, and were subsequently found guilty of a terrorist offence.
Englehardt, Tom: The Fog of Intelligence
Or How to Be Eternally "Caught Off Guard" in the Greater Middle East
Published: 2015
The phrase "the fog of war" stands in for the inability of commanders to truly grasp what's happening in the chaos that is any battlefield. Perhaps it's time to introduce a companion phrase: the fog of intelligence.
Englehardt, Tom: Where Did the Antiwar Movement Go?
War, Sunny Side Up, and the Summer of Slaughter (Vietnam and Today)
Published: 2015
Let me tell you a story about a moment in my life I'm not likely to forget even if, with the passage of years, so much around it has grown fuzzy. It involves a broken-down TV, movies from my childhood, and a war that only seemed to come closer as time passed.
Engler, Gary: Bank Report Reveals Where Ruling Class Lives
Published: 2019
The 2019 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report provides a glimpse at the inequality that the neoliberal era has produced, who has benefitted and those who have been left behind.
Engler, Yves: Anarchist Bookfair bans anarchist publisher
Published: 2021
The organizers of Montreal's Anarchist Book Fair have banned Black Rose Books, who have been publishing anarchist books since the 1960s, from participating. The reason given is that Black Rose publishes
Engler, Yves: Annamie Paul’s failure to confront international racism
Published: 2021
Annamie Paul and her supporters are right to cite racism as a driving factor in her leadership crisis. But the Green leader's supporters have misplaced the source of responsibility. It is Paul's inability to view colonized peoples, notably Palestinians, as deserving of equal rights that is the source of her current troubles.
Engler, Yves: Anti-Palestine Media Bias Remains Untouchable Even to Canada’s Media Critics
Published: 2016
A recent Canadaland podcast simultaneously highlighted anti-Palestinian media bias and the fear liberal journalists’ face in discussing one of the foremost social justice issues of our time.
Engler, Yves: Canada's complicity with crimes against humanity in Gaza
Published: 2023
Melanie Joly traveled to Israel to support its genocidal policies in Gaza. The trip will go down as one of the more shameful moments in Canada's odious anti-Palestinian history.
Engler, Yves: Canada's Little Known History of Impoverishing the Congo
Published: 2017
Canadians are ignorant and confused about their country's role in the world.In a recent example of 'benevolent Canada' bias, the Globe and Mail reported uncritically about a trip International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau made to the Congo. In a story last week headlined "Canada commits $97-million to Congo under feminist foreign-aid policy", the Globe reported that "Canada has committed nearly $100-million to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to support women's economic empowerment, protect street children and provide humanitarian assistance."
Engler, Yves: Canada's Military shapes Coverage of Deployments
Published: 2018
A look at the Canadian military's influence over news coverage. The article outlines the great lengths the military goes to shape information covering its missions, including the recent deployment to Mali.
Engler, Yves: Canadian Embassy: Militarily Supporting Israeli Apartheid
Published: 2020
A top diplomat organizing an event to celebrate Canadians fighting for another country's military ought to generate criticism. Doing so while that force humiliates Palestinians at checkpoints in the West Bank, fires on protesters in Gaza and bombs Syria in violation of international law is an outrage that must be condemned.
Engler, Yves: Canadian Jewish News: Promoter of Terror Tourism?
Published: 2018
What should we make of a media outlet that praises those who join or give money to a foreign army, which occupies territory belonging to another people, terrorizes the local population by destroying houses, restricting their movement, subjecting them to military courts and shooting unarmed protestors? What should we call the Canadian Jewish News, an unfailing flatterer of Canadians who join or finance a military subjugating Palestinians? Would “promoter of terror tourism” be an appropriate description?
Engler, Yves: Corporate Sycophants and the TPP
Published: 2015
The hypocrisy of "free market" advocates is astounding. While they trumpet increased competition and the elimination of state imposed barriers as a means of spurring economic advancement, they ignore how the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and other "free trade" accords increase monopolistic intellectual property provisions.
Engler, Yves: Corporations Undermined Public Transportation
Published: 2015
Over the past eighteen months two of the world's largest automakers have been found responsible for deadly conspiracies. But, recent revelations can’t compete with the industry's previous scandals.
Engler, Yves: Corporations Undermined Public Transportation
Published: 2015
Engler analyzes the largest conspiracies committed by automotive manufacturing companies, specifically General Motors' role in eliminating the trolley as America's most used form of public transportation.
Engler, Yves: Election Interference Hypocrisy
Published: 2017
While Canadian and Western media pursue Russian election meddling they ignore clear-cut Canadian meddling elsewhere, and the Unites States' long history of interference in elections around the world, including in Canada.
Engler, Yves: The foreign interference behind foreign interference act
Published: 2024
The foreign interference panic sweeping Canadian media and politics reflects US power. It targets states which the U.S. sees as competitors. It ignores those states most active in interfering in Canadian politics: Israel and the United States.
Engler, Yves: Globe and Mail promotes Controversial Mining Magnate
Published: 2017
How close is too close when it comes to media outlets working with institutions set up by wealthy individuals to influence the news? The question becomes important to ask when Canada's "national newspaper" promotes a worldview paid for by one of the planet's most controversial mining magnates. The Globe and Mail's close ties to the Munk Debates and University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs should worry journalists and everyone who cares about foreign policy discussion in this country.
Engler, Yves: Government censorship rebrands with 'disinformation' campaign
Published: 2022
Current official talk about 'disinformation' has largely become a euphemism for protecting empire and a rebranding of age-old government-run censorship.
ENGLER, Yves: How Cars Drive Inequality
An Exclusive Form of Travel
Published: 2013
Studies show that in car oriented cities are poor are less likely to rise the socioeconomic ladder than in transit and pedestrian oriented cities.
Engler, Yves: How Would Canadians Perceive Russian Troops On Their Border?
Published: 2023
The Canadian government's plan to double its semi-permanent military force on Russia's border ratchets up tensions that should be reduced. It highlights the West's betrayal of promises made to Soviet officials and Canada's addiction to stationing troops in Europe.
Engler, Yves: Is it really 'disinformation' to show Russians as human beings
Published: 2024
he Liberals are openly suppressing alternative views and escalating a war with a nuclear armed state. In recent days they’ve helped ban an anti-war film, labelled a media outlet foreign interference and sought to bomb deep inside Russia. Last Tuesday Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland boosted a campaign to suppress the screening of Russians at War at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Engler, Yves: Israel supporters flout Canadian law with impunity
Published: 2024
Canadians fighting in a force that’s slaughtered tens of thousands should be investigated under Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act. Highlighting reports of Canadians in the Israeli military, a Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East letter to Justice Minister Arif Virani called on him to “Issue a warning to Canadian nationals that serving or volunteering with the Israeli military may make them criminally liable under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act”.
Engler, Yves: Israel's ambassador pushes to shut down pro-Palestinian activism
Published: 2023
Israel wants Canada to criminalize growing displays of solidarity with Palestinians.
Engler, Yves: Jewish National Fund: Teaching Children an Exclusive, Religious/Ethnic Nationalism
Published: 2017
The JNF has produced puzzles and board games as well as organizing a Youth Summer experience program. According to JNF Canada's Education Department, the group "educates thousands of young people in Israel and abroad, helping them forge an everlasting bond with the Land of Israel."
Engler, Yves: Land and Racism
Published: 2017
A look at the Jewish National Fund (JNF), an organization subsidized by Canadian taxpayers, and its exclusionary land policies.
Engler, Yves: Mining Peru
Canada's New Territory?
Published: 2010
In Peru, 40 percent of conflicts involving local communities are over mining. The majority of the mining sector in Peru is owned by Canadian corporations.
Engler, Yves: Postering Revolution
Wheat Paste, the Marxist Glue
Published: 2013
On the role of postering in the activist agenda.
Engler, Yves: Resistance to Ukraine occupation good, Palestine bad: politicians
Jewish suffering matters to Canadian politicians. Palestinian suffering doesn't.
Published: 2023
Soon after the resistance broke through their cage in Gaza, the leaders of Canada's four main federal parties condemned the Palestinians. The same politicians who cheer on resistance to Russia's invasion of Ukraine denounce Palestinian fighters who captured Israeli tanks, soldiers and bases, all instruments of an illegal ongoing occupation of United Nations recognized Palestinian territory and the colonial blockade of Gaza.
Engler, Yves: Singh's kowtowing to Israel lobby raises leadership questions
Published: 2024
Amidst Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, the divide between Jagmeet Singh and NDP supporters, as well as his caucus, has become glaring.
Engler, Yves: Time to acknowledge hateful leader of 'anti-hate' group
Published: 2022
What do you call an 'antiracist' group led by an open ethnic/religious supremacist?
Engler, Yves: Venezuela declares Craib Kowalik, Canada's Chargé d'Affaires in Caracas, persona non gratas
Published: 2017
Last week Venezuela declared Canada's chargé d'affaires in Caracas persona non grata. In making the announcement the president of the National Constituent Assembly Delcy Rodriguez denounced Craib Kowalik's "permanent and insistent, rude and vulgar interference in the internal affairs of Venezuela."
Engler, Yves: War criminal Israelis welcomed to Canada, Palestinians barred
Published: 2024
The double standard is egregious. Holocaust victims face extreme security checks while genocidal Jewish supremacists enter Canada with ease.
Engler, Yves: What sort of 'caring' do Zionist medical faculty at U of T teach?
Published: 2023
An exaggerated sense of self-importance and entitlement, hubris, chutzpah, racism while claiming victimhood and massively flawed thinking are the descriptors that come to mind when considering the 555 doctors at the U of T who signed an Open Statement to the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.
Engler, Yves: What's the Matter With That Union Boss?
The Real Yes Men
Published: 2013
Why do the most right-wing politicians and corporate news outlets always use the term “union boss”? Because the worst thing they can think of is to say the leader of a labour organization acts like a capitalist? Or the capitalist’s lackey?
Engler, Yves: When Canada Invaded Russia
Published: 2017
The corporate media presents Russia as militaristic but ignores Canada’s invasion of that country.
Engler, Yves: White privilege masquerades as anti-racism
Published: 2014
Why does a demonstration of hundreds of people against "anti-Semitism" in Toronto seem more like a march for white supremacy than a rally against racism?
Engler, Yves: Why is Canada Subsidizing Racist Property Restrictions?
The JNF's Bigoted Land Use Policy
Published: 2013
In Canada it is illegal to restrict the sale of property to certain ethnic or religious groups but many of our business people and politicians promote an organization that does exactly that in Israel.
Engler, Yves: Zionists travel further on path to fascist far right
Published: 2024
Israel supporters have become a leading fascist force in Canada.
Ensing, Chris: Wheatley explosion could be 'tip of the iceberg' in Ontario given number of abandoned wells: expert
Published: 2021
An explosion in Wheatley, Ontario which sent 7 people to hospital, believed to be caused by an abandoned gas well is the extreme example of what can happen if such wells are not properly plugged.
Ensler, Eve: ISIS Slave Market Puts Women and Girls on Same List as Cattle
Published: 2015
I am thinking of the price list leaked out from the ISIS Sex Slave Market that included women and girls on the same list as cattle. ISIS needed to impose price controls as they were worried about a downturn in their market.
Ensor. Sarah: Fishers and plunderers: The tragedy of the commodity
Published: 2016
Overfishing, pollution and warming water have pushed the world’s oceans into crisis. If nothing is done the results will be catastrophic for marine systems and the billions of humans who rely on them. To stop this destruction our society has to be organized in a completely different way.
ENSSER: No Scientific Consensus on Safety of Genetically Modified Organisms
Published: 2013
There is no scientific consensus on the safety of genetically modified foods and crops, according to a statement released by an international group of more than 90 scientists, academics and physicians.
Enszer, Julie R.: The Common Language of Adrienne Rich
Against The Current vol. 160
Published: 2012
Eminent poet, essayist, lesbian and feminist Adrienne Cecile Rich died on March 27, 2012.
Erakat, Noura: Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza - Debunked
Israel claims that it is merely exercising its right to self-defense and that Gaza is no longer occupied. Here's what you need to know about
Published: 2014
Israel has killed almost 800 Palestinians in the past 21 days in the Gaza Strip alone; its onslaught continues. The UN estimates that more than 74 percent of those killed are civilians. Israel does not deny that it killed those Palestinians using modern aerial technology and precise weaponry courtesy of the world’s only superpower. In fact, it does not even deny that they are civilians.
Erasmus: Erasmus Quotes
Erdman, Joanna: An Abortion Law Preformed
Published: 2021
In 1984, in R. v. Morgentaler, Carolyn Egan and Janice Patricia Tripp of the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics gave evidence for the defence in the Supreme Court of Ontario. This 2021 article in the Journal of Law and Social Policy (Volume 35, Number 35) analyzes the transcripts of their courtroom testimony. It focuses on "those moments when Egan and Tripp answered questions about the 1969 abortion law" and, in effect, "made the 1969 abortion law itself, its rules and procedures, the subject of examination." In doing so, according to Joanna N. Erdman, "they constructed new meanings of the law and social action in relation to it."
Eric, Sommer: The World Center of Hacking is in Washington, Not Moscow or Beijing
Published: 2017
Documents from the U.S. NSA (National Security Agency) unveiled by Edward Snowden show that whole countries, not just a number of sensitive computers, have been hacked by the NSA.
Erichsen, Casper W.: Skullduggery and necrophilia in colonial Namibia
Published: 2012
Erickson, Barbara: Somebody Needs to Tell The NY Times: Israel Has The Bomb
Published: 2015
The NY Times has talked about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's coming speech at which he will raise the alarm about Iran producing a bomb. Nevertheless, Israel has had the bomb since 1967 and it is counted as the world's 6th nuclear state.
Ernesto, Chris: US Announces Support of Neo-Nazis
Published: 2015
Pentagon officials confirmed last week that US troops will deploy to Ukraine in the spring to help build the Ukrainian National Guard. In addition to sending US troops, Washington has already sent heavy military equipment and has earmarked $19 million for Ukrainian forces. The Ukrainian National Guard includes the Azov Battalion, a pronounced neo-Nazi group that has reportedly been involved in the recent violence in Ukraine.
Ernsting, Almuth: Biofuel or Biofraud? The Vast Taxpayer Cost of Failed Cellulosic and Algal Biofuels
Published: 2016
In November 2014, cellulosic biofuel company KiOR filed for bankruptcy, having shut down their refinery in Columbus, Mississippi earlier that year. There have been many unsuccessful biofuel ventures of this type, but KiOR's stands out for several reasons.
Escobar, Pepe: Big Tech's 'Cancel Culture' Love Affair
Published: 2022
Cancel culture is inbuilt in the techno-feudalist project: conform to the hegemonic narrative, or else. Journalism that does not conform must be taken down. This month, several of us - Scott Ritter, myself, ASB Military News, among others - were canceled from Twitter. The - unstated - reason: we were debunking the officially approved narrative of the Russia/NATO/Ukraine war.
Escobar, Pepe: China Widens its Silk Road to the World
Published: 2017
China's new 'Silk Road' initiative is a large-scale, multilateral development Asian project which has the potential to change the shape of the world economy.
Escobar, Pepe: Hybrid War Hyenas Tear Brazil Apart
Published: 2016
The gloomy and repulsive night when the female President of the 7th largest economy in the world was the prey of choice fed to a lynch mob of hyenas in a drab, provincial Circus Maximus will forever live in infamy.
Escobar, Pepe: Paris terror attacks - who profits?
Published: 2015
The attacks in Paris are placed in a geo-political context of France, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Syria.
Escobar, Pepe: 'Rublegas:' the world's new resource-based reserve currency
Published: 2022
Rublegas is the commodity currency du jour and it isn't nearly as complicated as NATO pretends. If Europe wants gas, all it needs to do is send its Euros to a Russian account inside Russia.
Escobar, Pepe: Washington and Berlin on a Collision Course
Published: 2017
The Russia sanctions bill that passed the US Senate on June 15, 2017 directly demonizes the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, under the Baltic Sea, which is bound to double Gazprom's energy capacity to supply gas to Europe.
Escobar, Pepe: Why the New Silk Roads terrify Washington
Published: 2016
Almost six years ago, President Putin proposed to Germany 'the creation of a harmonious economic community stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok.' This idea represented an immense trade emporium uniting Russia and the EU, or, in Putin's words, "a unified continental market with a capacity worth trillions of dollars."

In a nutshell: Eurasia integration.

Washington panicked.
Escobar, Santiago: Legal Ruling Will Allow Rain Forest Indigenous Peoples to Pursue Chevron in Canada
Published: 2014
Ontario Court of Appeal says communities of Ecuador affected by Chevron can enforce Ecuadorian rulings in Canada.
Eskow, John: The Bizarre Compulsion of Black Men to "Reach for their Waistbands"
Waistband-Reaching Syndrome Could Get You Killed
Published: 2014
If police accounts are to be believed, there is a bizarre urge among young, unarmed black men to provoke their own murder by "reaching for their waistbands" when cops are aiming service revolvers at them.
Essa, Azad: Why the truth about the death of anti-apartheid activist matters
Published: 2017
The murder of school teacher and activist Ahmed Timol is but one of many stories of injustice hidden by apartheid, and left mostly untouched since 1994.
Esses, James: The fall of Scientific American
Published: 2023
When its articles touch on questions of gender and biological sex, Scientific American seems to have abandoned objective facts entirely, in favour of trans-activist pseudoscience.
Essoungou, Andre-Michel: Scramble to be Africa's window on the world
Published: 2022
Several nations are boosting their presence in Africa in a quest for trade opportunities, status and influence. A key way of pursuing this is through the media, in what's become a propaganda war.
Estes, Nick.; Noisecat, Julian Brave: Dennis J. Banks, Naawakamig (1937-2017) - Cofounder of the American Indian Movement
Published: 2017
Under cofounder of the American Indian Movement, Dennis Banks, AIM became the most powerful Native movement of the twentieth century, galvanizing indigenous people throughout the United States, Canada, and beyond.
Etter, Lauren: What Happens When the Government Uses Facebook as a Weapon?
Published: 2017
It's social media in the age of "patriotic trolling" in the Philippines, where the government is waging a campaign to destroy a critic -- with a little help from Facebook itself.
Eudes, Yves: The journalists who never sleep
Published: 2014
Automated 'robot writers' could soon be personalising daily data feed.
Evans', Pete: Volkswagen faces new twist in emissions scandal as allegations of animal testing emerge
Ten macaque monkeys exposed to diesel emissions to see the impact on their bodies
Published: 2018
German automaker Volkswagen is facing a new round of criticism after the company was found to have funded tests of its diesel engine emissions on captive monkeys as part of an attempt to brand its vehicles as clean, safe and healthy.
Evans, Jodie ;Davis, Charles: Yemenis Have Moms Too
Michelle Obama, Open Your Heart
Published: 2013
Abdurahman al-Shubati disappeared more than a decade ago, just 18-years-old and teaching abroad, separated from his family for the first time in life. Join us in calling on Michelle Obama to open her heart to the cries of Abdurahman’s mother and ask Barack to send those cleared home and to expedite the closing of Guantanamo.
Evans, Lewis: Genocide in Plain Sight: Shooting Bushmen From Helicopters in Botswana
Published: 2016
In a healthy democracy, people are not shot at from helicopters for collecting food. They are not arrested, stripped bare and beaten while in custody without facing trial. Nor are people banned from their legitimate livelihoods, or persecuted on false pretenses. Sadly in Botswana, southern Africa's much-vaunted ‘beacon of democracy', all of this took place late last month in an incident which has been criminally under-reported. Nine Bushmen were later arrested and subsequently stripped naked and beaten while in custody.
Evans, Lewis: The 'slow genocide' of Brazil's Guarani people must stop
Published: 2016
Land theft, agribusiness and violence pose an existential threat to Brazil's Guarani people. They maintain a powerful resolve to regain their historic lands, and even have the law on their side - but the tribe will need international support to prevail against murderous ranchers and farmers, corrupt politicians and a paralysed legal system.
Evans, Lewis: Why Survival International has made a formal complaint to the OECD against WWF
Published: 2016
WWF's support for 'fortress conservation' has led to serious human rights abuses for indigenous peoples, and nowhere more so than in Cameroon, where the Baka are considered trespassers and poachers in their own ancestral forests. A formal complaint against WWF's behaviour is now in process.
Evans, Maya: The Drone Revolution Comes to England
Published: 2001
As cities and towns are faced with rising poverty, homelessness and drug addiction, the authorities respond with more social control, using a technology that makes George Orwell’s 1984 seem tame.
Evans, Pete: Another day, another data hack-- and truth is, there's not much you can do about it
Published: 2019
This week's Capital One hack is just yet another reminder of what cybersecurity experts have known for a while: you've probably already had your information stolen, and the only question is whether you know it.
Evans, Rob; Jones, Meirion: Surveillance firms spied on campaign groups for big companies, leak shows
Published: 2017
British Airways, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Porsche are among five large companies that have been identified as having paid corporate intelligence firms to monitor political groups that challenged their businesses, leaked documents reveal.
Evarts, Eric C.: Why a Future Ride in a Self-Driving Car Could Be a Trip to Advertising Hell
Published: 2015
There's nothing marketers love more than a captive audience. And people don't get any more captive than when they're sitting in a car. That's a powerful motivation for companies developing automated cars, beyond the technical innovation that has made such a vision possible.
Ewing, Selena: The suffering of surrogacy: A veteran feminist spells it out
Published: 2018
In Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation Dr Renate Klein takes on the surrogacy industry with plenty of sass and hard evidence. A dogged feminist academic and publisher for over thirty years, her critique of neoliberal capitalism is always underpinned by an authentic concern for women’s wellbeing and a focus on patriarchal structures. She never fails to point out the power differentials. She completely rejects surrogacy in all its forms.

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Fadope, Cece: Journalists and civil society must join forces to engage the public with health news
Published: 2014
A call for journalists to reach out to a broader audience and "team up" with civil society in orer to force attention onto topics that matter. "Exploring ideas that move the audience to think and act."
Fairchild, Charles: Global Sweatshops' Media Spin Doctors
Published: 1997
On the whole, there's an imposed silence about the steadily increasing number of low-wage factories being set up in poor countries by wealthy multinational corporations: the "debate" is over.
Faisal, Meer: India town mourns burning of historic library at Muslim school
Published: 2023
Residents of Bihar Sharif town are still coming to terms with attack on a century-old 'madrassa' during the Hindu festival of Ram Navami.
Fake, Steven: Liberating Thought: Toward an Independent Mass Media
Published: 2010
Prospects for democracy are dependent upon the growth of an independent media with wide exposure in the general population comparable to that of the corporate press.
Fakhoury, Hanni: Know Your Rights!
Published: 2011
Your computer, your phone, and your other digital devices hold vast amounts of personal information about you and your family. This is sensitive data that's worth protecting from prying eyes - including those of the government.
Falcone, Dan: Noam Chomsky: US Is the "Most Dangerous Country in the World"
Published: 2017
Nuclear proliferation and climate change are subjects of acute concern in the current moment, driven into an all-out state of emergency by the new Trump administration. In this interview, Noam Chomsky discusses the media coverage of these two major issues, highlighting US tensions with Russia, Iran and North Korea, as well as discussing the recent US airstrike on Syria's Air Force base.
Faleiro, Sonia: Valley of Unrest
India's unending occupation of Kashmir
Published: 2020
On life in Kashmir after India revoked its semiautonomous state under the Modi government.
Falk, Richard: The Goldstone report and the battle for legitimacy
Published: 2009
It may yet be the case that, as in the anti-apartheid struggle, the shift in the relation of forces in the Palestinians' favour will occur not through diplomacy or as a result of armed resistance, but on the symbolic battlefield of legitimacy that has become global in scope.
Falk, Richard: Israel's New Cultural War of Aggression
Published: 2017
A few weeks ago my book Palestine’s Horizon: Toward a Just Peace was published by Pluto in Britain. I was in London and Scotland at the time to do a series of university talks to help launch the book. Its appearance happened to coincide with the release of a jointly authored report commissioned by the UN Social and Economic Commission of West Asia, giving my appearances a prominence they would not otherwise have had. The report concluded that the evidence relating to Israeli practices toward the Palestinian people amounted to 'apartheid,' as defined in international law.
Falk, Richard: Joint Declaration by International Law Experts on Israel's Gaza Offensive
The International Community Must End Israel's Collective Punishment of the Civilian Population in the Gaza Strip
Published: 2014
The indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, the targeting of objectives providing no effective military advantage, and the intentional targeting of civilians and civilian houses have been persistent features of Israel’s long-standing policy of punishing the entire population of the Gaza Strip, which, for over seven years, has been virtually imprisoned by Israeli imposed closure.
Falk, Richard: Reflections on the Brussels Attacks
Published: 2016
Debate and reflection are urgently needed with respect to the political violence that is being unleashed in various forms in the West and non-West.
Falk, Richard: When BBC Calls, Don’t Answer..
Published: 2014
In any event, my advice to the media savvy, is that if you have caller ID, and you can tell that it is BBC calling, don’t bother answering. I hope I have the good sense to follow my own advice should the phone ever ring again!
Fanelli, Carlo: Why Saying No to Toronto Airport Expansion Makes Sense
Published: 2013
Saying no to the expansion of the Toronto Island Airport and introduction of jet aircrafts is the economical, ecological and socially responsible thing to do.
Fang, Lee: Anti-Syrian Muslim Refugee Rhetoric Mirrors Calls to Reject Jews During Nazi Era
Published: 2015
During the 1930s and early 1940s, the United States resisted accepting large numbers of Jewish refugees escaping the Nazi terror sweeping Europe, in large part because of fearmongering by a small but vocal crowd. In recent days, similar arguments are being resurrected to reject Syrian refugees.
Fang, Lee: As Turkey Bombed Anti-ISIS Fighters, It Hired Lobbying Firm Tied to 2016 Candidates
Published: 2015
On July 24, 2015, Turkey launched a massive military campaign that included sweeping attacks against Kurdish forces as well as minor strikes on Islamic State positions south of Turkey’s border. Just five days later, the Turkish government inked a contract to hire a team of prominent lobbyists to add to its already formidable army of influence-peddlers in Washington.
Fang, Lee: Banks Pressure Health Care Firms To Raise Prices On Critical Drugs, Medical Supplies For Coronavirus
Investment bankers have been candid about the opportunity to raise drug prices on critical drugs and medical supplies
Published: 2020
In recent weeks, investment bankers have pressed health care companies on the front lines of fighting the novel coronavirus, including drug firms developing experimental treatments and medical supply firms, to consider ways that they can profit from the crisis.
Fang, Lee: Donald Trump Says He Can Buy Politicians, None of His Rivals Disagree
Published: 2015
Donald Trump bragged Thursday night that he could buy politicians — even the ones sharing the stage with him at a Republican presidential debate.
Fang, Lee: Emails Reveal Dairy Lobbyist Crafted 'Ag-Gag' Legislation Outlawing Pictures of Farms
Published: 2015
Across the country, legislatures are responding to whistleblowers and activists who have exposed inhumane and at times unsanitary practices at farms by passing laws that criminalize the taking of photos or videos at agricultural facilities. Farming interests have publicly backed the campaign to outlaw recording: in fact, dairy industry lobbyists actually crafted the legislation that was later introduced by lawmakers.
Fang, Lee: FDA Nominee Helped Medical Industry Find and Pay Faculty for "Regulatory Consulting"
Published: 2015
Dr. Robert Califf, whose nomination by President Obama to lead the Food and Drug Administration has come under scrutiny over his extensive ties to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, previously directed a business that specializes in helping health care companies hire faculty members and other academic researchers to influence regulatory decisions.
Fang, Lee: Fracking Firm Encourages Industry to Imitate Taco Bell's Twitter Strategy
Published: 2015
Oil and gas companies are steadily increasing their footprint on social media, hiring specialized public relations firms and developing "visual shorthand" infographics that can be shared easily on Facebook and Twitter.
Fang, Lee: Gun Industry Executives Say Mass Shootings Are Good for Business
Published: 2015
Behind closed doors, speaking with investors and Wall Street analysts, the gun industry views mass shootings as an opportunity to make lots of money.
Fang, Lee: How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System
Published: 2013
With huge profits at stake, CCA and the Geo Group are pushing discreetly for enforcement-heavy immigration reform.
Fang, Lee: Islamophobic U.S. Megadonor Fuels German Far-Right Party With Viral Fake News
Published: 2017
An American website, the Gatestone Institute, is peddling fake news focused on anti-immigration and anti-Islamic rhetoric that many fear will influence the upcoming German federal election.
Fang, Lee: Koch Political Machine Focuses on "Freedom" to Pollute and Pay Less Taxes
Published: 2015
Billionaire conservative activist Charles Koch on Sunday likened his political efforts to the struggles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass, saying that "we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back."
Fang, Lee: Lobbyists Mourn House Speaker John Boehner's Departure
Published: 2015
House Speaker John Boehner’s surprise resignation on Friday was reason to celebrate for members of his own party who often complained that he let corporate lobbyists exercise undue influence over Congress. For lobbyists, Boehner's announcement was a reason to mourn.
Fang, Lee: The Long Sad Slide From Leading Civil Rights Organization to Anti-Black Lives Matter Group
Published: 2015
When you place someone on the seat of power, it can corrupt them.
Fang, Lee: Lyft and Other Gig Economy Giants Cash In With IPOs Before Labor Laws Catch Up With Them
Published: 2019
Many platform companies are making initial investors money by going public. Later investors could be on the hook if they have to change their business models to be in compliance with labour laws.
Fang, Lee; Jilani, Zaid: Defense Contractors Cite "Benefits" of Escalating Conflicts in the Middle East
Published: 2015
Major defense contractors Raytheon, Oshkosh, and Lockheed Martin assured investors at a Credit Suisse conference in West Palm Beach this week that they stand to gain from the escalating conflicts in the Middle East.
Fantina, Robert: Bias in the Media: the Result of Corporate Ownership
Published: 2016
There may still be, perhaps in the quiet countryside somewhere, people who believe that news programs present news. It is unlikely that this is true; rather, those who rely on the corporate-owned press for information probably enjoy finding sources that support what they want to hear. And, if they are unsure of just what it is that they want to hear, their 'trusted' source will tell them.
Fantina, Robert: Palestine, Israel and 'Rockets'
The Increasing Isolation of Israel
Published: 2014
It is with increasing frustration that one hears about Israeli atrocities in the West Bank, only through the skewed lens of the corporate-owned media.
Farago, Alan: Florida's sugar barons grow fat on subsidies, diabetes and Everglades destruction
Published: 2014
Big Sugar is the new Big Tobacco, writes Alan Farago - lethal to human health, wreaking environmental devastation, gouging huge public subsidies, and with the political clout to stop First Lady Michelle Obama from breathing a word against it. Only an alliance of green, health and taxpayer campaigners can kill the beast.
Farand, Chloe: Extinction Rebellion: From the UK to Ghana and the US, Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide
Published: 2018
A look at the Extinction Rebellion, an international movement that calls for peaceful mass economic disruption around the world in order to bring awareness to the growing environmental crisis.
Fareed, Rifat: Kashmiris launch calendar to remember disappeared loves ones
At least 8,000 people have disappeared since 1989 according to human rights groups, leaving relatives in no-man's land
Published: 2019
Women whose husbands were disappeared have spent decades wondering what happened to them and fighting for justice. They and a group representing families of disappeared persons have published a calendar commemerating 12 victims.
Fareed, Rifat: Kashmiris outraged as authorities fell thousands of apple trees
Published: 2020
India engages inethnic cleansing in Kashmir.
Farragher, Elaine: Bats in Your Hair?
Published: 1988
One of the legends that has made many of us more than a little nervous about bats claims that they are prone to crashing into you and getting caught in your hair. Scientists say that is just a myth, but do we really believe them when they say that? Last week I got a chance to test the theory – and my nerve.
Farragher, Elaine: Ferns - a Different Sort of Plant
Published: 1988
Ferns are among the more beautiful of plants, which makes them a pleasure to study, and there are really not that many different varieties; only about a hundred in all of Ontario.
Farragher, Elaine: The Grass is Always Greener...
Published: 1988
Grasses are generally considered by those who have never really looked at them, to look very much the same - tall, skinny green leaves, a bit of fuzzy inflorescence at the top, and if the only grass you see is on your lawn, then even less of interest is visible. But grasses, even very common ones, come in a great variety of shapes and sizes, vary greatly in habit, and have many different uses as well.
Farragher, Elaine: A Guide to Bird Guides
Published: 1988
When you only have mere seconds in which to observe a bird and identify it, and you aren't already an expert ornithologist, the field guide you use, and your familiarity with it, become of prime importance. How it's arranged, the clarity of its illustrations and verbal descriptions, are crucial when you are trying to identify a bird from what has really only been a fleeting glimpse of your subject.
Farragher, Elaine: The House Sparrow
Published: 1988
Let's take another look at the house sparrow, and consider it for itself.
Farragher, Elaine: The Lowly Worm
Published: 1988
For a lowly, inconspicuous creature, seldom seen, never heard and only occasionally smelled, the earthworm has an importance for us humans which belies its unimpressive appearance. It is often one of the first creatures of nature which children notice and investigate.
Farragher, Elaine: The Moonlit Stream
Published: 1988
For relief from the stresses and strains of life, there is nothing like spending a few hours sitting beside a flowing river. A river, unlike a lake, moves. It is going somewhere. It's like life passing you by, and for a change it’s rather nice to just sit there and let it.
Farragher, Elaine: Our Maligned Snakes
Published: 1988
It is hard to know why in our enlightened age, people continue to be horrified by snakes. the repugnance towards snakes is more of an unreasoned, mindless phobia, passed down through the generations and from parent to child along with the myths and misconceptions that feed it.
Farragher, Elaine: Preparing for Winter
Published: 1988
For me, autumn is a time of intense excitement, even more so than spring. Like spring of course, it is a season of dramatic change, but unlike spring, which brings with it a sense of relief, of have "made it" through the winter, autumn has an aura of imminent danger, of bracing oneself for the onslaught ahead.
Farragher, Elaine: Spring Woods
Published: 1988
With the arrival of spring, I am always impressed by the great regularity of nature. Like little automatic springs hidden in the ground, green things start to appear in wonderfully predictable succession, one after another, inching their way up, unfolding in slow but deliberate renewal of life. Actually, most of the time I feel as if it is anything but slow, that if my attention wanders for a day or two to other things, I will suddenly notice that a tree I had been watching is suddenly in full leaf and I have completely missed the process of it coming out. For the spring season is regrettably short.
Farragher, Elaine: Tent Caterpillars
Published: 1988
Tent caterpillars have been a particularly noticeable pest this year as well as last year. My former passive curiosity has been replaced with a rather bitter antipathy as I have watched some of my favourite bushes denuded by these hungry and very efficient insects.
Farragher, Elaine: Trails and Tribulations
Published: 1988
Stereotypes to the contrary, most nature lovers are not hardy explorers who strike off into the bush with little more than a compass, a notebook, and the indispensable container of insect repellent. I know that I am definitely a stick-to-the-path nature lover.
Farragher, Elaine: The Tree of Life
Cedars
Published: 1988
The Eastern White Cedar (Thuja occidentalis) is indeed a hardy species. Although slow-growing, it is inexorable once it gets under way, for it has few enemies. While other trees are being devoured by voracious insects, or debilitated by disease, the cedar grows merrily on, unbothered. While this water-loving tree may get rather brown if it doesn't get enough moisture, it can still manage to survive, especially if the soil is somewhat alkaline.
Farragher, Elaine: Wasps: The Scourge of Autumn
Published: 1988
At this time of year everyone experiences the persistent and threatening harassment of these bright yellow and black insects, who, attracted by any available meat or fruit, drive us outdoor diners indoors in droves, wondering why we ever attempted "dining out" in the first place.
Farred, Grant: C.L.R. James and Anti-/Postcolonialism
Against The Current vol. 90
Published: 2001
C.L.R. James' proclamation in Beyond A Boundary (1963, a classic study of cricket and colonialism), after almost three decades of radical intellectual work, that “Thackeray, not Marx, bears the heaviest responsibility for me,” is a sententious political statement. It abounds with meanings, standing at once as an alluring paradox and a striking truism.
Farrell, Paul; Evershed, Nick; Davidson, Helen: The Nauru files
Cache of 2,000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in Australian offshore detention
Published: 2016
Describing the traumatic conditions in the Nauru asylum camp as revealed by internal reports.
Fatafta, Marwa: Palestinian Human Rights Defender Arrested for a Facebook Post
Published: 2017
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is continuing its crackdown on free speech in the West Bank, this time arresting prominent Palestinian human rights activist Issa Amro for criticizing a journalist's arrest in a Facebook post.
Fatah, Tarek: The OIC does not speak for Muslims
Published: 2008
Tarek Fatah says that "To suggest that any criticism of Islamism, the political ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Ayatollahs, is anti-Islamic is a bogus and fraudulent position. I would contend that my religion Islam demands that I stand up to these bullies and take away from their right to put padlocks on poetry and chastity belts on independent thinking."
Fathollah-Nejad, Ali: Causes behind Iran's protests: A preliminary account
Published: 2018
The causes of the uprising that has been rocking the Islamic Republic of Iran for a week now are unsurprisingly both structural and contingent.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World: Making the future
Published: 2012
Historian Neil Faulkner concludes A Marxist History of the World by looking at what that history can tell us about the possibility for radical social change.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World Part 1: The Hominid Revolution
Published: 2010
In the first of a regular series, Neil Faulkner charts the evolutionary development of modern day humans from primitive apes to socially co-operative human beings.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 10: Men of Iron
Published: 2010
The constant rise and fall of Bronze age societies was a product of their wasteful, crisis ridden nature. But in the barbarian periphery around 1300 BCE an industrial revolution had begun that was to transform the world.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 100: 1968-1975: the workers' revolt
Published: 2012
As the crisis of capitalism spread around the world, the working class took centre stage – but the revolt did not result in successful revolution anywhere.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 101: The Long Recession
Published: 2012
By the early 1970s, the levers of state economic management had stopped working and the world economy entered a long period of stagnation.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 102: What is neoliberalism?
Published: 2012
The ‘free-market’ theory provides a pseudo-scientific justification for the greed and poverty endemic to the system, and the main beneficiaries are the global mega-corporations of neoliberal capitalism.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 103: 1989: the fall of Stalinism
Published: 2012
The revolutions of 1989 represent great victories for mass action, but they were limited in effect.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 104: 2001: 9/11, the War on Terror, and the New Imperialism
Published: 2012
The Al-Qaida terror attacks allowed the great powers to justify new imperialist wars to safeguard the interests of global capital.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 105: The 2008 Crash: from bubble to black hole
Published: 2012
The financial crisis represents the end of an era in which greed and casino-madness had been given free rein by market deregulation and rising debt.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 106: The Second Great Depression
Published: 2012
Four years after the beginning of the crisis, the neoliberal elite is trapped by the contradictions of the system on which its wealth depends.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World Part 11: Western Asia: the Persian Empire
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the centuries following 1000 BCE when the scale of civilisation and empire exploded as the productivity of iron tools boosted the surpluses available to Iron Age empire-builders.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 12: India: the Mauryan Empire
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the growth of the Mauryan Empire which at its zenith encompassed almost the whole of what is today India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 13: China: the Ch'in Empire
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of the Ch'in Empire - short-lived, created by conquest and terror and characterised by extreme centralisation, military-style exploitation, and murderous repression.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 14: The Greek Democratic Revolution
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the radical participatory democracy which began in Athens between 510 and 506 BCE and spread to virtually every city-state in the Aegean.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 15: The Macedonian Empire
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the defeat of the democratic empire centred around Athens in a protracted counter-revolution led by Greek aristocrats, Macedonian kings, and Roman viceroys.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 16: Roman Military Imperialism
Published: 2010
Rome represented a unique fusion of Greek-style citizenship with Macedonian-style militarism. The result was the most dynamic imperialist state in the ancient world.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 17: The Roman Revolution
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the Roman Revolution - a complex, distorted, century-long process of class struggle.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 18: The Crisis of Late Antiquity
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner explains how the Roman Empire entered its terminal crisis as its military imperialism came up against geographical, economic, and sociological barriers to expansion.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 19: Mother-goddesses and power-deities
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at how the growth of private property altered the position of women - from occupying a central role in society to suffering what Engels called ‘the world historic defeat of the female sex’.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World Part 2: The Upper Palaeolithic Revolution
Published: 2010
In the second of his regular series Neil Faulkner reveals the incredible innovation and adaptability of our ancient ancestors, their unique combination of language and imagination and how cultures formed to fit the different environments in which early societies lived and worked.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 20: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner examines how the three great monotheistic religions produced by the contradictions of the ancient world owed their extraordinary power to their origins in the myths and rituals of the oppressed.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 21: Huns, Goths, and Romans
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner charts the transformation of the Huns from tribal nomads into continent-straddling militarists.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 22: Arabs, Persians, and Byzantines
Published: 2010
This week Neil Faulkner describes the rise and explosive spread of the third great monotheistic religion, where compassion, charity, and protection became moral imperatives - Islam.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 23: The Abbasid Revolution
Published: 2010
Islam created a single overarching allegiance throughout the Arab-ruled world yet the Middle East came to be a divided region of weak and unpopular states. Neil Faulkner looks at the conflicts that lay behind this process.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 24: Hindus, Buddhists, and the Gupta Empire
Published: 2010
More than half a millennium separated the fall of India’s Mauryan Empire in the late 3rd century BCE (before the common era) from the rise of the Gupta Empire in the early 4th century CE (common era). Economic and social change during the interval altered the foundations of imperialism.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 25: Chinese History's Revolving Door
Door
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner examines China's imperial history, where for two millennia political revolution did not lead to social transformation, but simply to the replacement of one dynasty by another.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 26: Africa: cattle-herders, iron-masters, and trading states
Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at the early civilisations in Africa and how geography ensured the continent would develop differently from Eurasia.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 27: New World Empires: Maya, Aztec, and Inca
Published: 2011
The early civilisations of the Americas were limited by its geography - in only two areas did urban revolution occur and civilisations develop: in parts of Mesoamerica, and in the Central Andes.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 28: The cycles and arrows of time
me
Published: 2011
In Part 9 of A Marxist History of the World, we paused to discuss ‘how history works’. It would be useful to pause again to review some general lessons of the history of the ancient and medieval civilisations we have looked at since.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 29: The peculiarity of Europe
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Published: 2011
Why Europe? Why was it that the second great transformation in human existence - the development of capitalism and industrial society - was pioneered on the western edge of the Eurasian land-mass?
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World Part 3: The Neolithic Revolution
Published: 2010
In part three of Neil Faulkner's Marxist history series he reveals how the advent of farming lead to primitive communistic societies who through land depletion and scarcity of resources would be forced into global war.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 30: The rise of western feudalism
Published: 2011
Following the collapse of the Roman Empire Western Europe became a politically fragmented region of warring states from which a radically new social, military, and political order developed.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 31: Crusade and Jihad
Published: 2011
The Crusades lasted 200 years and represented the most extreme expression of the futile violence inherent in western feudalism - a murderous attack on the Middle East by western feudal thugs under the banner of religion.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 32: Lord, burgher, and peasant in medieval Europe
Published: 2011
Feudalism is often portrayed as a stagnant system where little changed over centuries. The reality was a system that was more dynamic and productive than anything before it argues Neil Faulkner.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 33: The class struggle in medieval Europe
Published: 2011
Despite dominating western Europe in the 11th century by the 14th century Feudalism was faced with a crisis that generated a wave of revolutionary struggle. Neil Faulkner looks at the causes and outcomes.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 34: The new monarchies
Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at how the transition from feudalism to capitalism introduced a new model of unified states, centralised government, royal armies, internal repression and national-dynastic wars.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 35: The new colonialism
Published: 2011
The Portuguese and Spanish overseas empires founded at the beginning of the 16th century were soon followed by Dutch, English, and French empires. Neil Faulkner looks at how the transformation of the world by European colonialism began.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 36: The Reformation
Published: 2011
The Reformation after 1521 tore apart church and state. Neil Faulkner looks at how the new social forces formed inside late medieval Europe helped undermine the thousand year domination of the Roman Catholic Church.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 37: The Counter-Reformation
Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at how the Reformation was followed by a counter-revolutionary response which involved a dogmatic reassertion of Catholic orthodoxy: the Counter-Reformation.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 38: The Dutch Revolution
Published: 2011
For more than 40 years, with wildly fluctuating fortunes, the Dutch Revolution of 1566-1609 took the form of a protracted popular war of national defence against the Spanish Empire.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 39: The Thirty Years War
Published: 2011
Between 1618 and 1648 Germany was wrecked by insecurity, depopulation, disruption to trade, the destruction of property, and military plundering. Neil Faulkner looks at The Thirty Years War.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World Part 4: The origins of War and Religion
Published: 2010
This week Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of War and Religion in the Early Neolithic world.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 40: The causes of the English Revolution
Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at the how the unresolved contradictions in English society and the attempt to establish Continental-style absolutism led to the execution of the king, and the establishment of a bourgeois republic.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 41: 1640-1645: revolution and war in England
Published: 2011
The attempt to impose Absolutism by Charles I led to a revolutionary civil war in which the King would be executed - Neil Faulkner looks at the English Civil War.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 42: The Army, the Levellers, and the Commonwealth
Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at how even the most radical bourgeois forces, if they are to preserve their property and status, must break the momentum of the movement that has brought them to power.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 43: Colonies, slavery, and racism
Published: 2011
Capitalist contradictions were most evident in the 18th century, when the wealth of the merchant-capitalist class of Britain’s port-cities was contrasted with the untold human misery of the slaves, ramping up the historical significance of racist ideology.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 44: Wars of empire
Published: 2011
The English Revolution transformed Britain into a capitalist economy engaging in geopolitical competition. Neil Faulkner looks at how Britain became the dominant global superpower of the 19th Century.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 45: The Enlightenment
Published: 2011
What gave the Enlightenment its subversive, politically corrosive character was its critique of institutions and practices which appeared comparatively irrational in the light of modern thinking, argues Neil Faulkner.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 46: The American Revolution
Published: 2011
In 1764, Americans thought of themselves as British subjects of King George III. By 1788, they would, by their own decisions and actions, have made themselves the free citizens of a new republic forged in revolution and war.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 47: The French Revolution - Storming of the Bastille
Published: 2011
In the latest of his series on the Marxist understanding of history, Neil Faulkner explores revolution and counter-revolution in 18th-Century France.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World Part 48: The French Revolution - The Jacobin Dictatorship
Published: 2011
In his latest instalment, Neil Faulkner explores the rise of the Jacobin dictatorship and the ever-present threat of counter-revolution in 18th Century France.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 49: The French Revolution - Themidor, Directory and Napoleon
Published: 2011
In his third chapter on the French Revolution, Neil Faulkner discusses the contradictions of bourgeois revolution - but celebrates the gains it won.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 5: The Rise of the Specialists
Published: 2010
The Early Neolithic economy was doomed by insoluble contradictions. Technique was primitive and wasteful. Society lacked reserves against natural disaster and hard times. Virgin land ran out as old fields were exhausted and populations grew.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 50: The Industrial Revolution
Published: 2011
Frederick Engels was sent to Manchester, centre of the Industrial Revolution, to dispel his radicalism. Instead it made him the revolutionary he is remembered as today, Neil Faulkner explains.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 51: The origins of the Labour Movement
Published: 2011
Capitalism's industrial revolution gave birth to its own gravediggers, argues Neil Faulkner as he examines the rise and fall of Chartism.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 52: The 1848 Revolutions
Published: 2011
Even when progress is reversed, some hard-won gains are permanent. Neil Faulkner examines how the counter-revolution in 1848 failed to entirely turn the clock back.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 53: What is Marxism?
Published: 2011
In his latest instalment, Neil Faulkner explores the complex history of Marxism - and how capitalism produced its own gravediggers.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 54: What is Capitalism?
Published: 2011
In this critical chapter of his world history, Neil Faulkner explores capitalism and what it means from the Industrial Revolution to the present day.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 55: The Making of the Working Class
Published: 2011
The development of capitalism entails two complementary processes. The first, explored in MHW 54, is competitive capital accumulation. The second, explored here, is the making – and continual re-making – of the working class.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 56: The Indian Mutiny
Published: 2012
The Indian Mutiny was the subcontinent’s first war of independence, with Indians of different ethnic and religious backgrounds fighting side-by-side despite the divide and rule fostered by the British.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 57: The American Civil War
Published: 2012
One hundred and fifty years ago North America saw the start of a revolutionary war fought between rival systems and opposing political ideologies. Neil Faulkner looks at The American Civil War.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 58: The Meiji Restoration
Published: 2012
An event which would shape the history of the Far East until 1945, Japan’s bourgeois revolution ‘from above’ is explored by Neil Faulkner in this week's Marxist History.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 59: The Franco-Prussian War
Published: 2012
In this week's chapter of the Marxist History series Neil Faulkner looks at how Germany’s ruling elite brought about a bourgeois revolution ‘from above’.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 6: The First Ruling Class
Published: 2010
This week Neil Faulkner looks at the rise of the first ruling classes as the surplus created through the increasing productivity of human labour allowed a section of society to live without producing.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 60: The Paris Commune: the face of proletarian revolution
Published: 2012
The Franco-Prussian war produced the first proletarian revolution in history, and showed to the world for the first time what a workers’ state looks like.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 61: The Long Depression, 1873-1896
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner writes about the The Long Depression – an unprecedented economic slump which started the countdown to the First World War.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 62: The Scramble for Africa
Published: 2012
The imperial competition to control Africa spawned a predatory colonialism of mines, plantations, and machine-guns and propelled humanity towards industrialised world war writes Neil Faulkner.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 63: The Rape of China
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at the impact of western imperialism's repeated and bloody attempts to control the wealth of China
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 64: What is Imperialism?
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at how the growth of giant monopolies and the fusing of industrial, bank, and state capital created global competition - and the roots of World War I.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 65: The 1905 Revolution: Russia's great dress rehearsal
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at how the Russian Revolution of 1905 helped Leon Trotsky formulate an answer to the century-old riddle of Russian history: what form must the revolution take in order to be victorious.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 66: The Ottoman Empire and the 1908 'Young Turk' Revolution
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at how the revolution that began in Turkey in 1908 initiated a process that would transform the middle east over the following two decades.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 67: Reform or Revolution?
Published: 2012
The world Socialist movement was blown apart as its members supported the First World War. Neil Faulkner looks at how the question of reform or revolution lay behind the split.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 68: 1914: descent into barbarism
Published: 2012
In the summer of 1914 capitalism tipped humanity into an abyss of barbarism that would leave millions dead. Neil Faulkner looks at the First World War.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 69: The First World War
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at how capitalism plunged humanity into an abyss of carnage, destruction, and waste without precedent, as mass production methods produced industrialised slaughter.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 7: The Spread of Civilisation
Published: 2010
This week Neil Faulkner looks at the spread and development of ancient city civilisations around the world, each governed by a new ruling class of priests, city-governors and war-leaders.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 70: 1917: the February Revolution
Published: 2012
As WWI turned into a protracted, bloody struggle the initial enthusiasm gave way to growing class tensions which exploded first in Russia's February Revolution.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 71: Dual power: the mechanics of revolution
Published: 2012
The centuries old Russian monarchy was overthrown in a matter of days in February 1917. Neil Faulkner looks at the months of turmoil that followed.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 72: February to October the rhythms of revolution
Published: 2012
The situation of 'dual power' that emerged after the overthrow of the Tsar in February 1917 was marked by a series of major political crises.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 73: 1917: the October Insurrection
Published: 2012
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 75: The German Revolution
Published: 2012
At the end of the First World War, the epicentre of revolution moved from Petrograd to Berlin. Why did the German communists fail where the Bolsheviks had succeded?
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 76: Italy's 'Two Red Years'
Published: 2012
Like Germany, Italy was on the brink of revolution in the summer of 1920, after the strains of imperialist war had levered open deep fractures in an unstable social order.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 77 World Revolution
Published: 2012
In the five years after the First World War, revolutionary contagion spread around the world. It showed the extraordinary possibilities that arise when the masses become active in making their own history.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 78: The First Chinese Revolution
Published: 2012
In 1927, the Chinese nationalists smashed the country's first working-class revolutionary movement – a defeat that would shape the whole subsequent history of China.Counterfire
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 79: Revolt in the Colonies
Published: 2012
The anti-colonial revolts of the early 20th century were inspired by radical ideas, but, as the examples of Ireland, India and Mexico show, history exacts a heavy price for political timidity.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 8: Crisis in the Bronze Age
Published: 2010
Why did Bronze Age empires rise and fall amid crisis and war? And why did this contradictory social form simply replicate itself over long periods of time? Neil Faulkner looks at the evidence.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 80: Stalinism: the bitter fruit of revolutionary defeat
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at the time when the Bolshevik regime turned in on itself and morphed into a mockery of its socialist ideals.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 81: The Roaring Twenties
Published: 2012
Although the 'American Dream' became a reality for millions in the 1920s, it was built on shaky grounds - the huge speculative bubble that was building up on Wall Street was waiting to collapse
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 82: The Hungry Thirties
Published: 2012
Beginning with the Wall Street Crash in 1929, the world economy entered the Great Depression. The misguided policies that world leaders pursued ensured that millions of lives were torn apart.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 83: 1933: The Nazi seizure of power
Published: 2012
By the early 1930s, the German ruling class was determined to use the Nazis to make the world safe for German capital. But the fascist victory was not inevitable – it resulted from the failure of those who opposed fascism.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 84: State Capitalism in Russia
Published: 2012
By the end of the 1920s, Stalin's party-state apparatus had become the dominant force in Russian society. A bureaucratic ruling class was formed, and all forms of dissent and resistance were treated as crimes against the state
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 85: June 1936: the French general strike and factory occupations
Published: 2012
In the mid-1930s French workers launched a wave of strikes and occupations. Neil Faulkner explains how the Stalinised Communist Party worked to contain this resistance.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 86: The Spanish Civil War
Published: 2012
In 1936, after General Franco had led an unsuccessful coup against a democratically elected government, revolution swept across Spain. Neil Faulkner explains why the workers were ultimately defeated.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 87: The Causes of the Second World War
Published: 2012
As Hitler sought to expand Germany's sphere of influence in Europe, Britain's policy of appeasement reflected the interests of the British ruling classes – until German power became overwhelming.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 88: The Second World War
Published: 2012
With the great powers fighting to defend their empires, the Second World War would re-divide the world between competing blocs of capitalists.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 89: 1941-1945: barbarism in a world gone mad
Published: 2012
The Second World War was characterised by primeval savagery. Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Militarist Japan waged war with unprecedented brutality, but the ‘democracies’ also committed terrible war crimes.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 9: How History Happens
Published: 2010
The complex societies that emerged from the division of society into classes also created societies that were wasteful, violent, stagnant and crisis prone. Understanding why is the key to how history happens argues Neil Faulkner.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 90: The Second World War: resistance
Published: 2012
Large parts of Occupied Europe were liberated by local resistance movements. But the potential for a revolutionary transformation was smothered at birth.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 91: The Cold War
Published: 2012
The Second World War had created a world divided between two imperialist blocs. Their nuclear arsenals acted as a ‘deterrent’, but rivalry and suspicion meant that war was never far away.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 92: The Great Boom
Published: 2012
In the first three decades after the war, the world economy experienced unprecedented growth rates and falling unemployment. But the boom rested on unstable foundations.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 93: Maoist China
Published: 2012
After the revolution of 1949, the Chinese Communists resorted to state capitalism to force the country’s industrialisation. The consequences were disastrous.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 94: End of Empire?
Published: 2012
In spite of the imperialist powers' attempts to cling on to their colonies, formal empire was finished by the late 1970s. But this was not the end of imperialism.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 95: Oil, Zionism, and Western Imperialism
Published: 2012
British support for the Zionist movement led to the foundation of Israel in 1948. In conjunction with US imperialism, the Israeli state is an enduring source of oppression in the Middle East.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 96:1956: Hungary and Suez
Published: 2012
1956 was a year of war, revolution, and disillusionment – a year after which nothing could ever be quite the same again.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 97: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution
Published: 2012
The reforms that Fidel Castro introduced after the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship were real, but they were bestowed from above and straitjacketed by poverty.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 98: The Vietnam War
Published: 2012
How an army of peasant guerrillas managed to defeat US imperialism in a full-scale war.
Faulkner, Neil: A Marxist History of the World part 99: 1968 - the long sleep ends
Published: 2012
The long sleep of the post-war period was brought to an end in 1968, as revolts erupted across the developed world.
Faulkner, Neil: Who was Nelson Mandela?
Published: 2013
We should treasure the memory of the Mandela our rulers hated: the lonely, courageous, unbowed political prisoner, condemned for his resistance to racial oppression.
Faulkner, Neil: World War One and the rehabilitation of slaughter
Published: 2014
Damaged by Iraq, ground down in Afghanistan, defeated over Syria, the jingoistic right are determined to rewrite the history of the First World War in an effort to rehabilitate imperialist war in the early 21st century.
Faulkner, William: William Faulkner Quotes
Faust, Lena: The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Implications for Canadian Public Health
Published: 2015
Fawcett, Kirsten: Europe's Landscape Is Still Scarred by World War I
Published: 2014
Slideshow of Photographer Michael St. Maur Sheil's "Fields of Battle-Lands of Peace"
Fawthrop, Tom: The Mekong must run free!
Published: 2013
The Mekong is among Southeast Asia's greatest rivers, sustaining tens of millions from its abundant fisheries and its floodwaters which both irrigate and fertilise. But Nature's bounty, and beauty, are at risk from a series of 11 dams.
Fayyazuddin, Ansar: The Evolution of Evolution - review
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
A review of 'Darwin’s Ghosts' by Rebecca Stott.
Fayyazuddin, Ansar: Galileo's Revolution
Published: 2014
In celebration of the 450th anniversary of Galileo's birth, this article examines the famous scientist's life, contributions, and relevance today.
Fayyazuddin, Ansar: Paradoxes of Infinity
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
Published: 2017
Book review of Amir Alexander's Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World.
Featherstone, Liza: Don't Blame the Media for the Charleston Murders
Published: 2015
Featherstone argues that blaming the media for the Charleston Murders is an easy way to avoid doing any real thinking.
Federman, Adam: Corporate Spying on Environmental Groups
We Are Being Watched
Published: 2013
The surveillance of moderate environmental groups like GDAC comes at a pivotal time for the environmental movement.
Federman, Adam: The FBI's Secret Meetings With TransCanada, Inc.
Guardians of the KXL Pipeline
Published: 2014
On April 4, 2012 the FBI held a daylong “strategy meeting” with TransCanada Corporation, the company building the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, according to documents obtained by Earth Island Journal through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Federman, Adam: How Big Oil Plans to Win Ugly in New York
Leaked Transcript from PR Maven Shows Energy Companies will be Told to Make the Fight Against Fracking Opponents Personal
Published: 2014
A PR firm well known for its hardball tactics in defense of Big Tobacco will deliver the keynote address at tonight’s Independent Oil and Gas Association conference.
Federman, Adam: How Corporations and Law Enforcement Are Spying on Environmentalists
Published: 2015
In August 2010, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit distributed an intelligence bulletin to all field offices warning that environmental extremism would likely become an increasing threat to the energy industry. The eight-page document argued that, even though the industry had encountered only low-level vandalism and trespassing, recent "criminal incidents" suggested that environmental extremism was on the rise.
Federman, Adam: Keystone Cops
TransCanada Cultivates Close Ties With Nebraska Police Agencies
Published: 2014
Since August 2011, the Nebraska Information Analysis Center (NIAC) – one of more than 70 Department of Homeland Security “fusion centers” – and TransCanada Corporation, the company behind the Keystone XL Pipeline, have shared information about anti-pipeline protesters, Nebraska landowners, and opposition to the project.
Federman, Adam: Pipeline Company Paid Pennsylvania Police Department to 'Deter Protests'
Published: 2015
Between June and October 2013, Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, paid a local Pennsylvania police department more than $50,000 to patrol a controversial pipeline upgrade. The company requested that the officers, though officially off-duty, be in uniform and marked cars. Kinder Morgan's aim, according to documents obtained by Earth Island Journal, was to use law enforcement to "deter protests" in order to avoid "costly delays."
Federman, Adam: Undercover Agents Infiltrated Tar Sands Resistance Camp to Break Up Planned Protest
TransCanada and Department of Homeland Security Keep Close Eye on Activists, FOIA Documents Reveal
Published: 2013
Law enforcement officials and TransCanad had been spying on a Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance training camp and were able to block some activists who had planned to block the gates at the company’s strategic oil reserves.
Feeley, Dianne: Abortion Victory
Published: 2016
On June 27, 2016 the U.S. Supreme Court, in Whole Women's Health vs. Hellerstedt, not only struck down key provisions of a 2013 Texas law restricting abortion, but also set a standard by which similar legislation can be measured.
Feeley, Dianne: The Century of Rosa Parks
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
Rosa Parks was a veteran militant of many civil rights battles long before she became an icon.
Feeley, Dianne: Colorblind Law -- NOT
Book Review
Published: 2019
Positive review of Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. It looks at the history of how states circumvented federal desegregation laws.
Feeley, Dianne: Destroying Detroit Schools
Published: 2016
The Detroit Public School system has been under state control for 15 years, the last decade under the direction of a series of Emergency Managers. The result has been a staggering debt, now more than half a billion dollars, with a 50% decline in the number of students served. More students attend charter schools than the public system, but as there is no oversight over charters, poorly run schools continue year after year.
Feeley, Dianne: Eileen Gersh, 1913-1998
Published: 1998
EILEEN SUTTON GERSH, a revolutionary socialist since the 1930s, died in London on March 18, 1998. Like many of her generation, she became radicalized by the political and economic crisis of the 1930s, including the rise of fascism and the Spanish Civil War. Sutton began to read Marx while studying at Somerville College in Oxford and joined the school's Labour Club.
Feeley, Dianne: Leslie Reagan's "When Abortion Was A Crime" - Book Review
Published: 1998
Feeley, Dianne: Northern Freedom Chronicles - book review
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
Review of 'Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North' by Thomas J. Sugrue.
Feeley, Dianne: Obituary: Flint Sitdowner: Olen Ham (1917-2012)
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
Obituary for Olen Ham.
Feeley, Dianne: Other Horrendous Acts
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
Passage of the right-to-work-for-less bill is only one of several horrendous laws the Michigan legislature has enacted in the final days of its session.
Feeley, Dianne: Reproductive Justice Needed
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
Many wonder why the fight to maintain legal abortion is still so heated forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Dianne Feeley points to attitudes about women that provide the political space for the right-wing’s attacks.
Feffer, John: Deep Fakes: Will AI Swing the 2020 Election?
Published: 2019
The ability of AI to create credible-looking fake videos could pose a threat to candidates at election time but gullibility was a problem before computer technology.
Feffer, John: Mouths Wide Shut: Obamas War on Whistleblowers
Published: 2015
The Obama administration has been ruthless in its prosecution of whistleblowers.
Feid, Sinn: Belfast's International Wall becomes the Palestinian Wall
Published: 2024
In a defiant show of solidarity with the people of Palestine a group of mural artists led by internationally renowned artist Danny Devenny has transformed Belfast's iconic International Wall into the Palestinian Wall to show off amazing murals designed by Palestinian artists who would have suffered imprisonment, torture and death had they attempted to paint them in their homeland.
Fein, Bruce: The Calamity of America's 'Divine Mission'
Published: 2023
Critical review of Robert Kagan's book The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941.
Feld, Peter: Beinart's Jewish double-bind: Support oppression or you're out of the family
Published: 2016
Even when he's serving up a soul-crushing ultimatum, you have to give Peter Beinart some credit. By comparing Israel to "your violent, drug-addicted brother," but saying that if you call the cops -- i.e., support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) -- to "make them change their destructive and self-destructive behavior” you are putting your “personal morality" ahead of family loyalty, he's enraged Israel defenders and anti-Zionists alike. In this way, he becomes the personification of the untenable situation he writes about.
Feldman, Dave: NATO Sets Its Sights on Colombia
Trouble Brewing in South America
Published: 2013
Colombian Defence Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón and the Deputy Secretary-General of NATO, Alexander Vershbow, signed an Agreement on the Security of Information which include future collaboration in matters of security, and facilitates the participation of Colombia in a number of NATO activities.
Feldman, Jonathan Michael: Revenge of the Pomo
Published: 2013
The repression (either physically or ideologically via social amnesia) of utopians by the Palmer Raids, McCarthyism, and now (certain varieties of) Post-Modernism has led us to a situation in which some search for authenticity in the wrong places. The gap between virtuous and misplaced authenticity is a symptom of repression, the loss of some deeper truths about solutions be they cooperatives, political mobilization, or honest journalism.
Feldman, Kiera: With Child
The right to choose in Rapid City
Published: 2016
A lack of abortion clinics, doctor shortages, high costs, and traditional values are among the significant obtacles and challenges facing women in Iowa and other rural mid-western states who seek the right to choose.
Felicity Arbuthnot: Crimea, Georgia and the New Olympic Sport: Russia Bashing
Published: 2016
Fell, Nicholas: The 10 Dumbest, Most Offensive Political Ads in Recent Memory
Published: 2011
Not a single election cycle goes by without some attempt to use fear of the "other" to win votes. Sadly, the results are sometimes successful.
FEMEN: FEMEN activists protest against nuclear power
Published: 2012
Fendt, Lindsay: Conservationist murders threaten Costa Rica's eco-friendly reputation
Published: 2015
The murder of Jairo Mora, who was trying to protect endangered turtle eggs, was the latest in a string of crimes against environmentalists in the country. Many worry activists will stay away if poachers continue to go unpunished.
Fenske, Lynn: The Eight Best Books for Publicity Seekers
Published: 2003
For those of you pursuing and perfecting the fine art of getting publicity, here's a list of books you can't live without.
Fenske, Lynn: HotLink Resouce Shelf: In the News
Published: 2002
Review of a book on media relations in Canada.
Fenske, Lynn: HotLink Resource Shelf #27 - The Art of the Handwritten Note
Published: 2003
Review of a book about handwritten notes.
Fenske, Lynn: HotLink Resource Shelf #30
Published: 2004
Start by accepting the fact that the media moves faster than you do, so be prepared. Always.
Fenske, Lynn: HotLink Resource Shelf: The Art of Cause Marketing
Published: 2002
Review of a book on how to use advertising to change personal behaviour and public policy.
Fenske, Lynn: In Print: Maximizing Coverage in Community Newspapers
Published: 2004
How to get coverage in community newspapers.
Fenske, Lynn: Is Your Web Site Media Friendly?
Published: 2005
How to make your Web site media-friendly.
Fenske, Lynn: Maximizing Coverage of Charity Activities in Community Newspapers
Published: 2002
When it comes to getting coverage in the local newspaper, presentation is paramount. Tto maximize your profile and get your story or event covered, give the newspaper what it wants, when it wants it.
Fenske, Lynn: Media Relations (Review)
A book that helps you conquer the challenges of dealing effectively with the media.
Fenske, Lynn: New on the Bookshelf
Published: 2004
Reviews of recent books on publicity and media relations.
Fenske, Lynn: On the bookshelf - Sources 50
Published: 2002
Fenske, Lynn: Put it in writing
Top five tips for writing press releases.
Fenske, Lynn: Put it in Writing
Advice on writing news releases.
Fenske, Lynn: There's no such thing as a slow news day
Published: 2003
The news media are always looking for news.
Fenske, Lynn: Top Ten List of Media Relations
Published: 2002
Top ten recommendations for becoming (and remaining) media friendly:
Ferner, Mike: Another Empire's Boot Stomps on Ireland
Published: 2019
A civilian airport in Ireland is being used as a hub by the US military.
Fessenden, Marissa: How a Nearly Successful Slave Revolt Was Intentionally Lost to History
More than 500 slaves fought for their freedom in this oft-overlooked rebellion
Published: 2016
on the night of January 8, 1811, more than 500 enslaved people took up arms in one of the largest slave rebellions in U.S. history. They carried cane knives (used to harvest sugar cane), hoes, clubs and some guns as they marched toward New Orleans chanting "Freedom or Death."
Fick, Maggie: Saving past is first step to the future
Published: 2010
The archives of southern Sudan are all currently housed in a tent donated by USAid. Many documents have been damaged due to the poor storage facilities. The Rift Valley Institute, a non-profit research group and scholars from Oxford plan to digitize and find a permanent home for the collection in the near future.
Fielding, Nick; Cobain, Ian; Rushe, Dominic: US military taps 'sock puppets'
Fake personas on social websites to manipulate and influence opinion
Published: 2011
A new $2.76 million dollar 'counter-terrorism' initiative to create a pro-America online presence using fake online personas is underway. These interventions will not be conducted in English or on American sites, but will be Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and Pashtu speaking "sock-puppets".
Fields, Helen; Mitchell, Alanna: Heavy metal songs: Contaminated songbirds sing the wrong tunes
Published: 2014
Scientists have long known that mercury is a potent toxicant: It disrupts the architecture of human brains, and it can change birds' behavior and kill their chicks. But after extensive research in Virginia, scientists have shown that mercury also alters the very thing that many birds are known for -- their songs.
Figlerowicz, Marta: The Gatekeepers Aren't Gone
Published: 2016
Viral content seems democratic. But it's still mostly controlled by big media companies.
Fikre, Teodrose: The John Lewis Conundrum: Caring for Justice or Carrying Water
Published: 2017
What the author is writing about John Lewis is not so much a condemnation as it is a reflection of the very meaning of justice and how we can fight for it.
Fikremariam, Lij Teodrose: The Absurdity of Saying "White Privilege'
Published: 2017
Using rhetoric like "white supremacy" and "white privilege" is a way of stereotyping the whole of "white" people and lumping everyone into one group. This is the surest way to turn potential allies in the struggle for justice into adversaries; by doing so we end up perpetuating the very divides that the "system" depends on to splinter people apart.
Fikremariam, Teodrose: Fred Hampton vs Race Bamboozlers: Solidarity is the Key to Justice
Solidarity is the Key to Justice
Published: 2021
Where I part with CRT and BLM is when they take these evident truths about our country and weaponize them to collectively judge “others”, monopolize pains, arrogantly lecture people and silence anyone who disagrees with them. Forgetting the lessons of Martin Luther King—who wisely noted that hate cannot be driven out with hate—advocates of CRT and BLM insist on being divisive instead of forging common grounds with other marginalized communities the way Fred Hampton did in the 1960s.
Fillmore Nick: CBC Radio badly off track with
Published: 2024
I’m not surprised that many of my friends have abandoned CBC Radio. I think traditional listeners are leaving in droves. CBC Radio is fixated on building an audience by providing trivial, entertainment-like. For many managers, numbers are more important than content.
Fillmore Nick: Strong voter registration campaign could mean the end for Harper
Published: 2015
The primary objective of Stephen Harper's absurdly-named Fair Elections Act is to prevent hundreds-of-thousands of Canadians from voting for the NDP, Liberals, Greens, etc. But efforts to help people to register to vote are not as strong as they could be. There needs to be close co-operation among groups to make sure that as many people as possible - particularly people in some 70 ridings where the Conservatives are vulnerable - have the identification they need to vote.
Fillmore, Cathleen: The Benefits of Professional Speaking
Published: 2010
No matter how good you are, you'll still have something to learn or some new set of skills to acquire.
Fillmore, Cathleen: Blowing Your Own Horn!
Published: 2000
Launching your own public relations campaign.
Fillmore, Cathleen: Flying High: 5 Sure Ways to Get Your Business Soaring
Published: 2001
Know your audience, know your message, be clear and consistent in that message, then develop a strategy and execute it.
Fillmore, Cathleen: Gain Clients (and Earn Money) By Speaking Engagements
Published: 2010
One of the best way to get new clients is by speaking to organizations. There's something about the immediacy of being in front of people that has great spin-off benefits. So whether you do it for the fees or for the contacts or both, you really can't lose.
Fillmore, Cathleen: Professional Speakers: Create Brilliant Marketing Material
Published: 2010
Speakers really find it difficult to talk about themselves in glowing terms but that's exactly what you need to do. Put your words on paper in a way that really reflects your brilliance.
Fillmore, Cathleen: Professional Speakers: To Market, To Market!
Published: 2010
Your positioning defines your market. Once you've decided on exactly what you stand for, you are now clear about who wants to hear you speak.
Fillmore, Cathleen: Professional Speakers: What's on Your Menu of Services?
Published: 2010
As a professional speaker, you need to offer more than simply a keynote or two to your clients. But you don't want to offer so many different things in different forms that you confuse your client.
Fillmore, Cathleen: 6 Keys to Becoming a Six Figure Speaker
Published: 2008
Rather than ask what the hot topics are, ask yourself what you want to say and then find the fit you're looking for.
Fillmore, Cathleen: Smooth Talking! Explore the Paid Speaking Market
Published: 2005
Becoming a professional speaker.
Fillmore, Cathleen: Why Buyers Don't Choose You
Published: 2010
Positioning is basically how you differentiate yourself in the marketplace. The most powerful positioning addresses your prospects' (often unspoken) needs. It appeals to the emotions first, then the intellect.
Fillmore, Nick: Austerity chokes Canada's down-and-out, as Harper, Flaherty look the other way
Published: 2013
The exceedingly aggressive austerity cuts carried out by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty over the past seven years have come home to roost as millions of Canadians, depressed and without hope, are succumbing to its worst consequences.
Fillmore, Nick: Business journalists go on the attack; demonize Atlantic seasonal workers
Published: 2013
National business journalists and columnists have bought into Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s demeaning view that folks in the Atlantic region are backward and have a defeatist attitude. Framed in disrespectful language, they’re promoting untested economic ideas that, if adopted, would seriously damage the economy – and the people – of the region.
Fillmore, Nick: Can Mulcair work a miracle and gain unlikely victory?
Published: 2015
The big sleeper in the campaign that could mean victory for the Conservatives depends on whether hundreds-of-thousands of people who favour the NDP or the Liberals can manage to vote. According to the Council of Canadians, the so-called Fair Elections Act makes it more difficult for at least 770,000 people to vote.
Fillmore, Nick: Canadian group not dealing with major free expression issue
Celebrating World Press Freedom Day
Published: 2014
We need to address how corporate-owned mainstream news organizations restrict the freedom of journalists and prevent the public from having access to a wide variety of important news and opinion articles. This lack of balanced information affects everything from people having the information they need to decide how to vote to all of us better understanding how power is exercised in our communities. The censorship consists of banning some topics and discussions and filtering out stories and ideas that do not fit the current mainstream media agenda.
Fillmore, Nick: Canadian Media in Crisis
Published: 2010
How so-called "business journalism" is often biased and tends to give readers a distorted picture of the news.
Fillmore, Nick: Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
Published: 2009
Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they've deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it's not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
Fillmore, Nick: CBC Radio badly off track with too much personal storytelling
Published: 2017
CBC Radio's wandering off into a journalistic sub-culture must be curtailed. At most, radio's schedule should include a couple of the storytelling programs.
fillmore, Nick: Corporate money preventing all-out campaign to stop global warming
Published: 2013
Highly-regarded former Toronto Mayor David Miller says he is "very excited" about becoming the new President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund-Canada in September. But there are questions about whether the WWF is effective in its work and, moreover, why the WWF and other members of the global environmental movement have made such little progress combatting the most serious threat to earth - climate change.
Fillmore, Nick: Corporate-owned media manipulation threatens Canadian democracy
Published: 2011
How freedom of expression is threatened because corporate-owned media in Canada censor and manipulate the news.
Fillmore, Nick: Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
Published: 2010
A mini-paper would be incredibly inexpensive to publish. There would be no requirement for newsprint, a huge printing plant or large delivery system.
Fillmore, Nick: Creation of Sustainable Free Media Would Be Huge Breakthrough
Part 4 of The Crisis in Canadian Media
Published: 2010
Independent media organizations would approach news differently compared to the coverage provided by corporate-owned media.
Fillmore, Nick: Do you know a community that might like a new newspaper?
Published: 2017
At least 171 media organizations in 138 communities closed between 2008 and this January [2017]. However, Canadian communities still should be able to have reliable newspapers. They need to explore creating community-controlled not-for-profit papers.
Fillmore, Nick: Don't weep for censoring, right-wing Postmedia newspapers
Published: 2016
Another 90 dedicated journalists in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa lost their jobs Tuesday as cutthroat Publisher Paul Godfrey slashed away again in an effort to turn Postmedia into a profit-making business. In a bizarre move, two competing papers will continue to be separate entities, but there will be one set of editors and most journalists will be shared.
Fillmore, Nick: Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
Published: 2010
A group that launches, or even refocuses, an independent news media project - or raises money for just about any public-interest activity - will probably have success in fundraising if it does the proper research and targets a unique audience. It will need to demonstrate that it offers an important public service, such as providing in-depth coverage of local political, economic, and social issues not covered adequately by other media.
Fillmore, Nick: Globe's article on income gap really propaganda
Published: 2013
Journalist Barrie McKenna, writing in the main hyped-up article in the Globe’s Focus section on November 9, 2013, talks about how the gap in income between the rich and the rest of us is a serious problem that will hurt Canada for generations to come.
Fillmore, Nick: Groups need to investigate impact of damaging corporate media censorship
Freedom to Read Week 2013
Published: 2013
Fillmore, Nick: Here's why papers don't deserve support; money should go to committed Internet sites
Published: 2017
Governement funding should not go toward propping up mainstream print media, but rather towards access to information in communities where it is currently lacking.
Fillmore, Nick: How should we remember Ralph Klein?
Published: 2013
Ralph Klein was one of Canada's most aggressive neo-liberals. Klein's true legacy is a string of anti-social policies and programs.
Fillmore, Nick: I'll bet you didn't know you own billions of dollars in coal stocks
Published: 2016
Exposing the investments and other involvements of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in the fossil fuel industry.
Fillmore, Nick: Independent media advocates must develop creative news sites
Published: 2010
We should be able to come up with two or three practical models that can be used to set up sustainable news and information production and delivery systems.
Fillmore, Nick: Ineffective 350.org divestment campaign should give way to direct corporate actions
Published: 2017
While 350.org runs a number of important campaigns, such as "Resist Trump's Climate Agenda" , there are serious questions about whether divestment campaigning is effective or whether it should be replaced by direct action campaigning.
Fillmore, Nick: Journalists, community groups need to develop independent Canadian media
Published: 2011
It is shocking that – in the 21st Century – we still have a system under which corporate over-lords – not the journalists who produce the news – control the process that determines the content of mainstream media.
Fillmore, Nick: Just winning next election not enough for Liberals or NDP
Published: 2013
if there is a new government, it will come to power with the extreme right wing more entrenched than ever before.... Aggressive organizations are determined to maintain policies that tend to reward the rich and penalize the rest of us.
Fillmore, Nick: MEDIA IN CRISIS - 1: Why feds should step in to help democracy's watchdogs
Published: 2016
A flourishing, capable news media is the oxygen of democracy. In Canada, our traditional oxygen-providers, the mainstream corporate-owned newspapers, are dying. We need to come up with something better to serve our communities.
Fillmore, Nick: MEDIA IN CRISIS - 2: Citizens, government need to plan now to have quality media in future
Published: 2016
Canada's mainstream media are in a state of incipient meltdown. They no longer deliver the volume or quality of news that Canadians need to be informed about important happenings in their communities, let alone to participate in a healthy democratic process.
Fillmore, Nick: No longer a real newspaper, new Globe betrays Canadians
Published: 2010
The new tarted-up, glossy, colour Globe and Mail is many things, but it is not a real “news paper.”
fillmore, Nick: Petitions next to useless in campaign to defend CBC
Published: 2013
Pressure groups put a lot of effort into petitions, but the question is - does sending petitions have any effect. Are they just wasting everyone's time?
Fillmore, Nick: Today's media language a little too much like 1984's Newspeak
Published: 2015
Canada is not Orwell's imaginary society where peoples' every thoughts and ideas are controlled by The Party, but our own powerful elite has pushed our media closer to censorship and a propaganda-feeding machine than I ever imagined possible.
Fillmore, Nick: We must win back democracy, even if it takes Hedges' revolution
Published: 2016
While the banks, elites, and the super-rich have been scrambling to try to hold onto their billions following the UK's shocking vote to exit from the European Union, the anger expressed by the leave side was another emotional cry to end the control that corporations and the elite have over everyday people in many Western countries.
Fillmore, Nick: We shouldn't weep for broke but lying mainstream media
Published: 2017
A report from the Public Policy Forum of Montreal released on January 26 says the Canadian news industry "is reaching a crisis point as the decline of traditional media, fragmentation of audiences and the rise of fake news pose a growing threat to the health of our democracy." Whereas the 1970 report was entitled "The Uncertain Mirror", the new appeal for support is called "The Shattered Mirror."
Fillmore, Nick: What needs to happen to save and rebuild the CBC
Published: 2014
Can the CBC be saved and restored? Probably. But it will take some time and some good luck, as well as some heavy duty political lobbying. It is important that CBC supporters, including those who have fallen by the wayside during the destructive Harper years, unite behind some common goals and pressure the two opposition leaders to commit themselves to restoring the Corporation to its proper role in the country.
Fillmore, Nick: Why are our environmental groups supporting weak climate targets?
Published: 2016
The federal government's recently announced that all Canadian jurisdictions must adopt a carbon pricing scheme by 2018 with a minimum price of $10 per tonne. The price must rise to reach $50 per tonne by 2022. The goal of reducing emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 will not get Canada anywhere close to its promises to the United Nations. Canadians probably believe that our major environmental groups are busy lobbying and pushing the federal and provincial governments to do much more. But no, this is not the case.
Fillmore, Nick: Why Canada must limit the influence of corporate media
Published: 2009
Traditional news departments follow unwritten but well-understood guidelines concerning what they should not cover. Most people in the newsrooms have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in corporate ideology that they seldom suggest a story that falls outside of the guidelines.
Fillmore, Nick: Will the Real Gwyn Morgan Please Stand Up
Published: 2013
Finamore, Carl: Egypt's Year of Revolution
Against The Current vol. 158
Published: 2012
An interview with Carl Finamore, who went on a reporting trip to Egypt for ten days in 2011.
Finamore, Carl: Organizing Is About People - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 159
Published: 2012
With God on Our Side is a very catchy book title, which may appear at first glance to be quite topical in that religion so dominates — and distorts, many would add — political discussion in this country. But if curiosity may initially draw the reader’s eye, the subtitle “The Struggle for Workers’ Rights in a Catholic Hospital” gives it away: This is a book about organized labor and workers.
Finamore, Carl: Why Police Kill So Often
Published: 2015
The FBI reports 404 civilians were killed by police in 2011. All were listed as "justifiable homicides." Under more intense questioning, it was then revealed that figures are not actually kept for "unjustified" police murders and, remarkably, their statistics rely exclusively on incidents self-reported by the cops.
Fink, Rachel: Al Jazeera Documentary Uses Israeli Soldiers' Social Media Footage to Accuse Them of War Crimes
Published: 2024
Names and identifying details of soldiers who served in Gaza are used in a film documenting Israeli war crimes, alongside footage they posted of their own misconduct throughout the war.
Fink, Sheri: Settlement Reached in C.I.A. Torture Case
Published: 2017
The lawsuit against two psychologists who helped architect the Central Intelligence Agency's brutal interrogation program was recently brought to an end, in what was an unusual effort to hold them personally accountable for the tactics the CIA adopted.
Finkel, Alvin: Peter Graham and Ian McKay, Radical Ambition: The New Left in Toronto.
Book Review
Published: 2019
Works on the Canadian New Left are now sprouting plentifully and certainly a work on the country's major city is welcome. This one is encyclopedic, and Graham and McKay deserve thanks for their inclusive rendition of the youthful radical movements in Toronto from 1958 to 1985. The book is generous in its treatment of most of them, though it offers, as it should, analysis of why some groups achieved more in the short term than others while still others left a lasting legacy, for example, in preserving natural areas or working-class neighbourhoods that corporate interests wanted to bulldoze.
Finkel, David: Atzmon's Mistaken "Identity" - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 157
Published: 2012
A review of The Wandering Who? by Gilad Atzmon.
Finkel, David: Betraying the Kurds
Published: 2019
Many debates about Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria ignore the overall illegitmacy of military-political intervention.
Finkel, David: The Empire in Decline
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
An interview with Gilbert Achcar, professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.
Finkel, David; Kaufman, Walter: Freedom Summer Remembered
Interview with Walter Kaufman
Published: 2014
Walter Kaufman is a retired attorney, psychotherapist and former community college teacher living in Berkeley, California. He was a participant in the 1964 Freedom Summer, working in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Against the Current editor David Finkel interviewed him for the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer project.
Finkel, Joel R.: Capital on CD-Rom, Cat Optional - CD-Rom Review
Published: 1999
Karl Marx's Multimedia Capital, v.1. Cominsane Press, 1998. Distributed by Monthly Review Press, 1-800-670-9499. $20.
Finkeldey, Jasper: Ecologist Special Report: Why mining and violence are inextricably linked
Published: 2017
The South African government is currently embarking on streamlining decision-making processes in mining. To many this sounds like more top-down decision-making at the expense of those communities that will have to host mines and paves the way for more violent conflict, warns Jasper Finkeldey.
Finkelstein, Norman G: The New York Times' Second Assassination of Razan at-Najjar
Published: 2018
On 1 June 2018, an Israeli assassin poised along "the largest concentration camp ever to exist" killed 20-year-old paramedic Razan al-Najjar. On 7 June 2018, the New York Times assassinated her a second time. It surely does not surprise that the Times provides yeoman’s service for Israeli hasbara.
Finley, Klint: Where the free software movement went wong-and how to fix it.
Published: 2013
Finley discusses the differences between Free Software and OpenSource software from a political perspective.
Finn, Ed: "Beyond Banksters" by Joyce Nelson
Book Review
Published: 2017
A review of "Beyond Banksters: Resisting the New Feudalism" by Joyce Nelson.
Fischer, Brendan: Scott Walker's False Promise of Racial Unity
Published: 2015
Scott Walker's solution for racial injustice? Ignore it. Acknowledging systemic problems like the documented wave of police killings of unarmed black men, or the racial wealth gap, or disparities in sentencing and incarceration, creates "discord."
Fischer, James: Glass buildings kill birds - architects must act!
Published: 2013
Horrified at the giga-scale death of birds caused by collisions with trendy expanses of plate glass in modern buildings, James Fischer calls on architects to bring an end to the needless slaughter - and "save a billion birds"!
Fish, Eric: The Forgotten Legacy of the Banqiao Dam Collapse
Published: 2013
In 1975, after a period of rapid dam development, a perfect storm of factors came together to topple Henan Province's Banqiao Dam and kill an estimated 171,000 people. Today, on the cusp of another dam-building binge, some worry that factors which led to Banqiao’s collapse are re-emerging.
Fishman, Andrew: Overwhelmed NSA Surprised to Discover Its Own Surveillance "Goldmine" on Venezuela's Oil Executives
Published: 2015
A top-secret National Security Agency document, dated 2011, describes how, by "sheer luck," an analyst was able to access the communications of top officials of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela.
Fishman, Andrew; Greenwald, Glenn: Spies Hacked Computers Thanks to Sweeping Secret Warrants, Aggressively Stretching U.K. Law
Published: 2015
British spies have received government permission to intensively study software programs for ways to infiltrate and take control of computers. The GCHQ spy agency was vulnerable to legal action for the hacking efforts, known as "reverse engineering," since such activity could have violated copyright law. But GCHQ sought and obtained a legally questionable warrant from the Foreign Secretary in an attempt to immunize itself from legal liability.
Fishman, Andrew; Marquis-Boire, Morgan: Popular Security Software Came Under Relentless NSA and GCHQ Attacks
Published: 2015
The National Security Agency and its British counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters, have worked to subvert anti-virus and other security software in order to track users and infiltrate networks, according to documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Fishman, Andrew; Martins, Rafael Moro; Demori, Leandro; de Santi, Alexandre; Greenwald, Glenn: Breach of Ethics
Leaked Chats Between Brazilian Judge and Prosecutor Who Imprisoned Lula Reveal Prohibited Collaboration and Doubts Over Evidence
Published: 2019
Leaked documents show that Sergio Moro, a judge at the time, collaborated heavily with investigators in Operation Car Wash, a serious breach of judicial impartiality. Even critics of Lula who consider him corrupt doubt the veracity of aspects of the investigation.
Fisk, Milton: Health Care Reform or Ruin?
Against The Current vol. 160
Published: 2012
Far from laying the health care debate to rest, the Supreme Court decision on Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) put life back into it. Calling the individual health insurance mandate a “tax” aroused anger on the right, but the court’s ruling on federal Medicaid money is what really puts a new dimension into the fight.
Fisk, Robert: After Middle Eastern Wars End, the Medical Wars Begin
Published: 2017
What are the wars doing to the health care infrastructure?
Fisk, Robert: All Massacres Will Become 'Alleged Massacres' If We Don't Pay Attention
Published: 2019
The greatest enemy of all journalists – and all politicians – is the failure of institutional, historical memory.
Fisk, Robert: American Visitors to the Gestapo Museum Draw Their Own Conclusions
Published: 2019
An exploration of the ethics of drawing comparisons from present-day injustices to Nazi atrocities.
Fisk, Robert: The Evidence We Were Never Meant to See About the Douma Gas Attack
Published: 2019
A report that conflicts with claims that two cylinders containing chemicals were dropped from an aircraft was suppressed by the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons. This erodes public trust in the institution and is distressing given the recent history of using dubious existence of deadly weapons to justify wars.
Fisk, Robert: From Nazi Germany to Ottoman Turkey, Genocides Begin in the Wilderness, Far From Prying Eyes
Published: 2019
Recent research shows that the Armenian genocide began before its usually accepted date in 1915. This is consistent with other genocides which start away from the metropolises with only minimal instructions from higher government.
Fisk, Robert: Gaza and the Press
Dress the Gaza Situation Up All You Like, But the Truth Hurts
Published: 2014
The latest bloodbath in Gaza, which is being so graphically covered by journalists that our masters and our media are suffering a new experience: not fear of being called anti-Semitic, but fear of their own television viewers and readers – ordinary folk so outraged by the war crimes committed against the women and children of Gaza that they are demanding to know why, even now, television moguls and politicians are refusing to treat their own people like moral, decent, intelligent human beings.
Fisk, Robert: How the Murders of Journalists in the Middle East Are Brushed Aside
Published: 2019
Though higher-profile than most, Jamal Khashoggi was far from the first Arab journalist to be murdered in the Middle East. In his case, just like most others, cover-ups disguised as investigations may placate public outcry.
Fisk, Robert: The Hypocrisies of Terror Talk
Published: 2016
The religious identity of terrorists and the place where terror strikes shapes the rhetoric that media uses to describe the perpetrators and places.
Fisk, Robert: Inside The Scorpion
A Journalist's Ordeal in Egypt's Most Notorious Prison
Published: 2017
The story of journalist Mohamed Fahmy's experiences during their two-year confinement in an Egyptian prison.
Fisk, Robert: ISIS and the Far Right: a Joint Assault on Multicultural Countries
Published: 2016
ISIS's assaults on multicultural countries is to provoke the non-Muslim people of those countries to reject their millions of Muslim fellow-citizens.
Fisk, Robert: It's not just radicalised Islamists - what about foreign fighters who flock to the IDF?
Is the Government interested in UK citizens who have been fighting in Israeli uniform in Gaza in the past couple of weeks?
Published: 2014
Let us hope and pray that no UK citizens have been involved in such terrible deeds. But it wouldn’t be a bad idea, would it, if the lads in blue had a friendly word with them when they arrive back at Heathrow – and insist on knowing exactly what they were up to when they wore another country’s uniform.
Fisk, Robert: Journalism and 'the words of power'
Published: 2010
More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
Fisk, Robert: The Madder Trump Gets, the More Seriously the World Takes Him
Published: 2017
The more dangerous America's crackpot President becomes, the saner the world believes him to be. Just look back at the initial half of his first 100 days: the crazed tweeting, the lies, the fantasies and self-regard of this misogynist leader of the Western world appalled all of us. But the moment he went to war in Yemen, fired missiles at Syria and bombed Afghanistan, even the US media Trump had so ferociously condemned began to treat him with respect. And so did the rest of the world.
Fisk, Robert: Playing Right Into ISIS's Hands
Published: 2015
Now that we're all supposedly involved in the world battle against the worst enemy since Hitler - not climate change, of course, but Isis - it's time to understand just how the forces of law, order and security, who are supposed to protect us, can do more to recruit European Muslims to the Islamist cause than all the Isis videos combined.
Fisk, Robert: 70,000 Kalashnikovs: Cameron's "Moderate" Rebels
Published: 2015
Not since Hitler ordered General Walther Wenck to send his non-existent 12th Army to rescue him from the Red Army in Berlin has a European leader believed in military fantasies as PR Dave Cameron did last week. Telling the House of Commons about the 70,000 "moderate" fighters deployed in Syria was not just lying in the sense that Tony Blair lied - because Blair persuaded himself to believe in his own dishonesty - but something approaching burlesque. It was whimsy - ridiculous, comic, grotesque, ludicrous. It came close to a unique form of tragic pantomime.
Fisk, Robert: Shadows of Algeria: the Lost Context of the Paris Attacks
Published: 2015
It wasn't just one of the attackers who vanished after the Paris massacre. Three nations whose history, action - and inaction - help to explain the slaughter by Isis have largely escaped attention in the near-hysterical response to the crimes against humanity in Paris: Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
Fisk, Robert: The Soothsayers of Eternal War
Published: 2015
Eisenhower famously sent some brusque advice to Anthony Eden in 1956 when he decided that Britain's deceitful war in Egypt should come to an end. "Whoa, boy!" were his words. And they should be repeated now to the politicians, historians and other nincompoops who regard themselves as the soothsayers of eternal war.
Fisk, Robert: The True Gaza Backstory
It's About Land, Stupid
Published: 2014
How come all those Palestinians – all 1.5 million – are crammed into Gaza in the first place? Well, their families once lived, didn’t they, in what is now called Israel? And got chucked out – or fled for their lives – when the Israeli state was created.
Fisk, Robert: The Truth Behind The Israeli Propaganda
Published: 2010
The amazing thing in all this is that so many Western journalists - and I'm including the BBC's pusillanimous coverage of the Gaza aid ships - are writing like Israeli journalists, while many Israeli journalists are writing about the killings with the courage that Western journalists should demonstrate.
Fisk, Robert: When will Palestinians learn? Turning to international law isn't the answer - just ask America and Israel
Published: 2015
Throw an old dog a bone and sure enough, he'll go chasing after it. So it is with "Palestine's" request to join the International Criminal Court.
Fisk, Robert: While the World Watches Trump, It’s Missing What’s Really Going On
Published: 2019
The superficial antics of Trump and other world leaders are making front page news while investigative reporting on real issues is pushed to the margins.
Fisk, Robert: Who Could Ever Feel Pride in the Balfour Declaration?
Published: 2017
Although the Balfour Declaration itself has been parsed, de-semanticised, romanticised, decrypted, decried, cursed and adored for 100 years, its fraud is easy to detect: it made two promises which were fundamentally opposed to each other -- and thus one of them, to the Arabs (aka "the existing non-Jewish communities"), would be broken.
Fisk, Robert: You Can't Commit Genocide Without the Help of Local People
Published: 2018
How do you organise a successful genocide – in Turkish Armenia a century ago, in Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1940s, or in the Middle East today? A remarkable investigation by a young Harvard scholar – focusing on the slaughter of Armenians in a single Turkish Ottoman city 103 years ago – suggests the answer is simple: a genocidal government must have the local support of every branch of respectable society: tax officials, judges, magistrates, junior police officers, clergymen, lawyers, bankers and, most painfully, the neighbours of the victims.
Fite, Katie: They Came to Take a County: Land Seizure Agitators, Propagandists, Politicians
Published: 2016
Thanks to the Bundy Gang, public lands advocates became aware of elements of the Land Seizure movement that had been operating in the shadows. The curtain was drawn back on networks of agitators and propagandists: Constitutional "experts" and sheriffs, "patriot" legislators and self-centered sovereign citizens.
Fite, Katie: Toxic Range: the BLM's Growing Chemical Addiction
Published: 2016
BLM is escalating herbicide use on public lands. A primary agency excuse for forsaking sage-grouse ESA protection is the pipe dream that new habitat will be created through radical deforestation, and that fuelbreaks will stop fires.
Fitts, Alexis; Pring, Nicola: Are we journalists first?
Published: 2014
Authors address a longstanding debate about whether and when a reporter can intervene in a story. Real accounts are provided as examples.
Fitz, Don: Any White Cop Can Kill a Black Man at Any Time
Published: 2017
Any white cop can kill a black man at any time and the cop will not go to jail, exemplified in the Jason Stockley, Anthony Lamar Smith case.
Fitz, Don: The Right-to-Farm Scam
Third Wave Corporatocracy
Published: 2014
When Monsanto’s home state of Missouri passed the “Right to Farm” on August 5, 2014 the third noose of corporate control tightened around the neck of the US. Unlike the first two steps of corporate domination of public life, this was a constitutional amendment that would block the state legislature or voters from passing future laws for environmental protection, animal welfare or labeling of contaminated food. This third wave corporatocracy could well spread across US and globally as it becomes a new form of mass disenfranchisement.
Fitz, Don: A Statue of Hatuey
Published: 2020
On the story of Hatuey, a Taino warrior who resisted the invasion of the Spanish in the Western hemisphere.
Fitzgibbon, Will: Files Open New Window on $182-Million Halliburton Bribery Scandal in Nigeria
Published: 2015
British lawyer facilitated bribes through secret Swiss HSBC accounts in his name and names of family members; revelations may place Nigerian government under pressure.
Fitzgibbon, Will: How the One Percenters Divorce: Offshore Intrigue Plays Hide and Seek with Millions
Firm that practices no matrimonial law nonetheless plays big role when the superrich around the globe decide to split
Published: 2016
Offshore companies used 'in a game of hide and concealment' after marriages break down
Documents list luxury cars and yachts, lavish homes, and art collections. Spouses face a costly battle to prove ownership of offshore assets in protracted divorce proceedings.
Fitzgibbon, Will: Investigation Reveals 'Environmental Ruin' And Workers Rights Abuses
Published: 2015
Broken promises to impoverished communities, serious environmental concerns and poor health and safety records linked to Australian mining companies have all been revealed by Africa’s largest ever collaborative journalistic investigation.
Fitzgibbon, Will; Hamilton, Martha M.: Bank's Services for Arms Dealers in Conflict with Its Own Policy
Published: 2015
HSBC Private Bank, operating out of famously neutral Switzerland, was a financial conduit for business operators and criminals who fueled and financed some of Africa's bloodiest wars and most corrupt arms deals.
Fitzgibbon, Will; Hamilton, Martha M.: The Real 'Housewives' of HSBC
Published: 2015
Housewives accounted for more than 7,300 of the clients listed by profession in HSBC's files, outweighing two other categories that suggest no paid compensation. "Without profession" and "student" together added up to fewer than 4,000.
Fitzgibbon, Will; Hamilton, Martha M.; Schilis-Gallego, Cécile: Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa
Published: 2015
A pattern of links between mining activities and deaths, disfigurement, environmental destruction and displacement suggests a troubling track record for Australian companies seeking wealth from Africa's minerals.
Fitzpatrick, Ian; Tickell, Oliver: Carving up Africa - aid donors and agribusiness plot the great seed privatization
Published: 2015
An elite group of aid donors and agribusiness corporations plan the takeover of Africa's seeds, replacing traditional seed breeding and saving by small farmers with a corporate model of privatized, patented, genetically uniform and hybrid seeds.
Fitzpatrick, John W: Opinion: We must hear - and heed - the nightingale's warning
Published: 2014
These threatened species continue to sing, but their songs aren't poetic or musical -- they are alarm songs. The good news is that when we listen to the birds, when we notice their diminished presence and when we change our behaviour even slightly to accommodate their needs, they respond spectacularly.
Flack, Derek: The year it all went down the tubes for the TTC
Published: 2016
Flack analyzes the provincial budget cuts imposed by the Mike Harris Conservatives and the resulting lack of funding that led to the Toronto Transit Commission having to increasingly rely on revenue from ridership to fund transit, leading to a decrease in customer satisfaction, a lack of opportunity for expansion, and general decline.
Flanders, Laura: Collusion in Plain Sight
Published: 2019
The media should use the same language for Trump's pandering to corporations and failure to publicly condemn white supremacist violence as they do for his supposed collaboration with Russia.
Flannery, Tim: Climate crisis: seaweed, coffee and cement could save the planet
Published: 2015
Greenhouse gas levels are on track to exceed the worst-case scenario. But, as world leaders meet in Paris for the UN climate summit this month, Tim Flannery argues that there are still realistic grounds for hope.
Flegg, Erin: First Nations' anti-Keystone XL alliance years in making
Published: 2014
Indigenous organizers say Reject and Protect gathering in DC marked the culmination of years spent building solidarity across nations and across borders, and that more will be on the way.
Fleigner, Jim: Which is more important - what to sell or where to sell it?
Published: 2014
Recent research sought to determine which variable determined the greatest circulation results: frequency, zip code, or offer price.
Flinders, Tim: Divine wilderness: John Muir's spiritual and political journey
Published: 2016
For John Muir, founder of America's national parks, immersion in nature was a blessing providing direct communion with divinity,and the cause of a spiritual awakening that inspired his life's work: to preserve wilderness and communicate the beauty, wonder and fragility of nature, sharing widely the source of his own enlightenment.
Flood, Alison: Challengers vow to publish Anne Frank diaries as foundation moves to keep control of copyright
Published: 2015
Charity that guards world-renowned account of a Jewish girl's life in hiding from the Nazis says copyright - which some argue ends this year - extends from father's death.
Flood, Alison: CIA used Doctor Zhivago as a Literary Weapon during the Cold War
Published: 2014
Newly declassified documents reveal the CIA published Boris Pasternak's Nobel-winning novel to sow unrest among Soviets.
Flower, Merlin: How To Make India Safer For Women
Published: 2013
What’s to be done to make India, a country where women are veneered in the temple and beaten at home, safer for women?
Flowers, Alison; Macareg, Sarah: Charged with murder, but they didn’t kill anyone -- police did
Published: 2016
A Reader investigation found ten cases since 2011 where police killed a civilian in Chicago and charged an accomplice with the murder.
Flowers, Margaret; Camp, Lee: Conflict In Ukraine Used To Silence Voices Of Dissent In The United States
Published: 2022
Clearing the FOG speaks with political comedian Lee Camp about the sudden de-platforming that happened to him when RT America abruptly shut down after the Russian military intervention in Ukraine last month. Camp lost his program Redacted Tonight that aired weekly for the past eight years, and he was kicked off of other platforms such as Spotify. Camp talks about the big picture of growing censorship, the state of the media and freedom of the press, and the assault on the public's access to information that counters the narrative in the corporate media.
Flowers, Margaret; Zeese, Kevin: Venezuela: US Imperialism Is Based On Lies And Threats
Published: 2018
First-hand report of a delegation to Venezuela from the US. They say the coup is weak and the Venezuelan people are strong and Maduro has their support.
Flowers, Margaret; Zeese, Kevin: The World Must End The US' Illegal Economic War
Published: 2020
The United States is relying more heavily on illegal unilateral coercive measures (also known as economic sanctions) in place of war or as part of its build-up to war. In fact, economic sanctions are an act of war that kills tens of thousands of people each year through financial strangulation.
Floyd, Chris: The Age of Hell
Entrenching Murder as the American Way
Published: 2012
The Washington Post has just laid out, in horrifying, soul-slaughtering detail, the Obama Administration’s ongoing effort to expand, entrench and “codify” the practice of murder and terrorism by the United States government. The avowed, deliberate intent of these sinister machinations is to embed the use of death squads and drone terror attacks into the policy apparatus of future administrations, so that the killing of human beings outside all pretense of legal process will go on, year after year after year, even when the Nobel Peace Laureate has left office.
Floyd, Chris: Don Draper Rules: Russian Ads and American Madness
Published: 2017
So we've finally seen some of the social media ads which we are told skewed the entire election in 2016 and constituted a key part of the internet assault on America launched by Vladimir Putin's "troll army." Scary stuff blazoned across front pages and screen scrolls everywhere. But before going on, perhaps we should find out what makes a social media account part of Putin's invasion force?
Well, according to Twitter, it is ANY account created in Russia.
Floyd, Chris: The God That Failed
The 30-Year Lie of the Market Cult
Published: 2008
Perhaps the most striking fact revealed by the global financial crash -- or rather, by the reaction to it -- is the staggering, astonishing, gargantuan amount of money that the governments of the world have at their command. In just a matter of days, we have seen literally trillions of dollars offered to the financial services sector by national treasuries and central banks across the globe.
Floyd, Chris: Masking Tragedy in Ukraine
Sinister Illusions
Published: 2014
It is no secret that Barack Obama is one of the supreme illusionists of modern times. The disconnect between his words and his deeds is so profound as to be almost sublime, far surpassing the crude obfuscations of the Bush-Cheney gang.
Floyd, Chris: The NYT's Love Letter to Death Squads
Hymns to the Silence
Published: 2012
It is, I confess, beyond all my imagining that a national leader so deeply immersed in murdering people would trumpet his atrocity so openly, so gleefully - and so deliberately, sending his top aides out to collude in a major story in the nation's leading newspaper, to ensure maximum exposure of his killing spree.
Floyd, Chris: Which Side Are You On?
Published: 2020
I think of my friend whenever I hear some bullshit-bloated politician or commentator dismissing the humanity and dignity of criminals and prisoners.
Flynn, Meagan: Barbarism: Texas judge ordered electric shocks to silence man on trial. Conviction thrown out.
Published: 2018
A look at the controversial use of the stun belt, a pain inducing device used to control prisoners, which was recently used by a judge within a court of law in the state of Texas.
Fogel, Ben: African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions (Book Review)
Published: 2012
This book sets out to place the host of new movements arising across the continent in a singular socio-political context.
Foley, Brian: A Dangerous Lack of Rigor
Cross Examine Authority
Published: 2012
Explores two recent events reveal the lack of rigor that has come to pervade our public sphere: the failure of the UN (or anybody else) to question seriously the case for war against Iran, and the first presidential “debate.”
Foley, Stephen: Physicists and the financial markets
Published: 2013
Physicists have been lured into the financial market for decades, prized for their insights and data-crunching skills. But in a time of turbulence, flash crashes and high-frequency trading, can they really spot things that others miss?
Foner, Eric: Gateway to Freedom
The origins of the Underground Railroad
Published: 2014
An essay on the origins of the Undeground Railroad, excerpted from Foner's book 'Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad'.
Fontaine, Theodore: After Residential School, My Path to Healing
Published: 2011
Theodore Fontaine's memoir narrating the 12 years he spent in a residential school.
Fontaine, Theodore: Broken Circle
Published: 2011
A two-part excerpt from Theodore Fontaine's book Broken Circle, a memoir of surviving the Fort Alexander Indian Residential School in Manitoba -- and pursuing his own path to healing.
Fontaine, Theodore: An Inspiration Named Chubby
Published: 2011
Theodore Fontaine's memorr of his 12 years in a residential school.
Food & Water Watch: The So-Called Scientific "Consensus": Why the Debate on GMO Safety is Not Over
Published: 2014
Biotechnology seed companies, aided by advocates from academia and the blogopsphere, are using their substantial resources to broadcast the myth of a "scientific consensus" on the safety of GMOs, asserting that the data is in and the debate is over. The public relations campaign, helped along by industry groups, has caught the attention of some of the most visible news outlets in the country, with biotech advocates portraying GMO critics as akin to climate change deniers, out of step with science.
Foran, John: Essential reading on the Paris climate agreement
Published: 2016
An annotated guide to thirty-four of the best articles on the COP21 Paris Agreement on climate change published in the immediate aftermath of the agreement.
Foran, John: The Insanity of the COP: We Must Adopt a Different Vision
Published: 2015
Ford, Nick: Authoritarianism Means Never Having to Apologize Over Spilled Milk
Published: 2016
In Virginia a middle school student named Ryan Turk was arrested and then suspended from school for allegedly stealing a $0.65 carton of milk. Officials claim that the student tried to conceal the carton of milk and are also charging him with larceny. But there’s a problem: Ryan Turk is on the free lunches program.
Forni, P.M.: Keep It Down (and Rediscover Silence)
Published: 2002
Forstater, Maya: The case that changed the gender debate
Stonewall's strategy of 'no debate' has backfired
Published: 2022
Forster, Cindy: Rigoberta Menchú: A Witness Discredited?
Published: 1999
This January, the charge that the Maya human rights activist and Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú had lied about her past hit the U.S. reading public like a ton of bricks. Anthropologist David Stoll published a book claiming to have unearthed not only Rigoberta's lies, but also the deceptions of the entire Latin American left from Zapata to Che and beyond.
Forte, Maximilian C.: The Dying Days of Liberalism
How Orthodoxy, Professionalism, and Unresponsive Politics Finally Doomed a 19th-century Project
Published: 2017
It's not a small thing that has fallen here, not merely the defeat of Hillary Clinton and Americans rejecting Obama’s "legacy". We are dealing with a series of institutions, an expert class, and a network of political and corporate alliances, that is being shaken beyond repair. We are in the earliest days of a historical transition, so it's not clear what is coming next, and the labels that have been proliferating demonstrate confusion and uncertainty -- populism, nativism, nationalism, etc.
Forte, Maximillian: The Wikileaks Afghan War Diary
Reason for Celebration, Cause for Concern
Published: 2010
The release of Wikileaks acquired records from U.S. forces in Afghanistan is an event of major significance which in some ways deserves to be celebrated by those opposed to the war in Afghanistan, but there are also some serious problems with the records and with the way Wikileaks released them.
Forte, Maximillian C.: A War on Wikileaks?
Unhinged at the US State Department and Pentagon
Published: 2010
If the state fails to make any sense - not surprising - it is because it is has no intention of doing so. The state is appealing to something more visceral with all of this posturing: fear. It wants to strike fear into the minds and bodies of people working with Wikileaks, or anyone else doing such work, and anyone contemplating leaking any classified records. Fear is its greatest weapon of psychological destruction, with proven success at home. The outcome the state hopes for is greater self-censorship and greater self-monitoring.
Foster, Gregory D.: Secret Armies, Shadow Wars, Silent Unaccountability
Published: 2016
We live today in an era of postmodern war. It's a two-front war -- the first being the virtual front of threats, posturing, and arms buildups we persist in waging, Cold War-style, against state-based mirror-images of ourselves (Russia and China); the second being the dirty front we wage in the shadows against irregular, non-state thugs and pygmy tyrants who use their weaknesses as strengths, asymmetrically, to turn our strengths into weaknesses.
Foster, John: Celebrating Bob Carty (1950 - 2014)
Published: 2014
Tribute given by John Foster at the pass of Bob Carty
Foster, John B.; Clark, Brett: Crossing the River of Fire
The Liberal Attack on Naomi Klein and This Changes Everything
Published: 2015
A review of Naomi Klein's book "This Changes Everything" on climate change and its political enviroment.
Foster, John Bellamy: The Four Laws of Ecology and The Four Anti-Ecological Laws of Capitalism
Published: 2012
An exponential growth dynamic is inherent in capitalism, a system whereby money is exchanged for commodities, which are then exchanged for more money on an ever increasing scale.
Foster, John Bellamy: Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition
Published: 2015
Socialist thought is re-emerging at the forefront of the movement for global ecological and social change.
Foster, John Bellamy: We Need a Much Bigger Leap! John Bellamy Foster on Naomi Klein's 'No Is Not Enough'
Book review
Published: 2017
There is much to admire in Naomi Klein's new book, but she underestimates the danger posed by Trumpism, and doesn't pose a real alternative. She calls for a Leap, but it isn't high enough or far enough.
Foster, John Bellamy; Fries, Lynn: The Capitalist Solution to 'Save' the Planet: Make It an Asset Class & Sell it
Published: 2022
Lynn Fries speaks to John Bellamy Foster on a critically important and underreported topic: how investors are trying to use rapidly moving climate crisis as an opportunity to loot even more of the commons.
Foster, John Bellamy; McChesney, Robert W.: Surveillance Capitalism
Monopoly-Finance Capital, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Digital Age
Published: 2014
A massive corporate sales effort and military-industrial complex constituted the two main surplus-absorption mechanisms in the U.S. economy in the first quarter-century after the Second World War, followed by financialization after the crisis of the 1970s. Each of these means of surplus absorption were to add impetus in different ways to the communications revolution, and each necessitated new forms of surveillance and control. The result was a universalization of surveillance, associated with all three areas.
Fothergill, Robert: Canadian Film-Makers' Distribution Centre
A Founding Memoir
Published: 1994
Published in Canadian Journal of Film Studies 3.2 (1994)
Fotiadis, Apostolis: Europe's Leaders Visit Athens to Celebrate Their Failure
Published: 2014
The start of Greece's six-month presidency of the EU was marked by a ceremony in the Greek capital attended by the EU commissioners. But protests were banned and there was no in-depth talk about the raging controversy over the bloc's handling of the Greek debt crisis and the renewed concerns about the vitality of the Eurozone.
Foucart, Stephane: A race for land is destroying the Guatemalan rainforest
Published: 2007
Agriculture is quickly decimating Guatemala's primal forests> It has experience the most rapid deforestatation of any nation in the last five years.
Fournier, Pierre: The New Parameters of the Quebec Bourgeoisise
Published: 1980
Published in Studies in Political Economy 3 (1980)
Fowdy, Tom: The cynical hypocrisy of the world's No1 propagandist
US pledges $300mn to fund massive global anti-China media machine
Published: 2021
Chinese- and Russian-funded journalism is 'disinformation,' but when Washington spends millions on 'independent' news outlets and buying journalists to get favourable coverage of its policies, it's called 'spreading information.'
Fowler, Ruth: LAPD Chickens Come Home to Roost
Why I'm More Scared of the Cops Than I Am of Christopher Dorner
Published: 2013
Fox, Claire: Censorship is the Wrong Way to Combat the British National Party
Published: 2009
The illiberal obsession with silencing Nick Griffin and the British National Party in the run up to elections has won the party undeserved publicity, says Claire Fox
Fox, Kit; Swaby, Rachel: At 13, She Broke the Women's Marathon World Record. Then She Disappeared From Running
Published: 2019
The Story of Maureen Wilton.
Fox, Michael: The Globalization of Garbage: Following the Trail of Toxic Trash
Published: 2009
Despite a near universal international ban on exporting toxic or hazardous material, most of electronic waste from the United States ends up in China, India, Vietnam, or in African countries like Ghana, and Nigeria.
Fox-Hodess, Katy: Greece's Fascist Threat
Published: 2013
The increasingly bold Golden Dawn party has precipitated a political crisis in Athens whose resolution is far from certain. Golden Dawn, the largest fascist party in Europe and the third largest party in Greece, has grown rapidly during the economic crisis both by scapegoating immigrants, ethnic minorities and queer people, and offering basic necessities like food to Greek citizens impoverished by the country’s austerity program.
Foy, Patrick: The Make-Believe Crisis in Iran
More lies and Misinformation
Published: 2012
The Iranian nuclear program scenario has been in place for years and is becoming tedious, but we now seem to have arrived at a new plateau of mass hysteria thanks to the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign. Why?
France, Anatole: Anatole France Quotes
Francois, Camille: The cyber arms race
Published: 2016
A look at cyber warfare between nations, a militarisation of cyberspace that is advancing far faster than the creation of positive peace keeping mechanisms.
Frank, Joshua: Hanford's Leaky Nuke Tanks and Sick Workers, A Never-Ending Saga
Published: 2016
It's been a toxic few weeks at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Eastern Washington. Not that this is exactly news -- Hanford is the most radioactive site in North America and is thereby always toxic. But what is news is how dangerous and negligent the remediation efforts at Hanford continue to be.
Frank, Sam: Orwell's Triumph: How Novels Tell the Truth of Surveillance
Published: 2015
Novels may be the best medium for describing a distopian world in which everyone is under constant surveillance.
Frank, Thomas: Nor a Lender Be
Hillary Clinton, liberal virtue, and the cult of the microloan
Published: 2016
A criticism of the rhetoric of the modern liberal class' rhetoric of idealism and virtue, as embodied by the efforts of Hillary Clinton.
Frank, Thomas: The Real Cost of a Cheap Burger
Fastfood Workers Go Hungry: Is that the American Dream?
Published: 2014
America’s fastfood outlets are not restaurants but food systems serviced by cheap labour in de-skilled jobs — employees so badly paid that they need state aid and charity. They went on strike in North Carolina last summer.
Franklin, Stephen: A Day in the Life of a Day Laborer
Published: 2017
A look at day labourers in Chicago, many who work precariously, under dangerous conditions and sometimes without getting paid.
Franklin, Stephen: One Taxi Driver's Story of Trying to Survive in the Age of Uber
Published: 2017
Since Uber and other "ride-share" businesses emerged in Chicago, the livelihood that once sustained one taxi driver's family of five has now virtually disappeared.
Franklin, Stuart: Undeceiving the World
Can a staged photograph tell the truth?
Published: 2016
A historical look at how photographs have been staged and manipulated, and the meaning of "truth" as it relates to photo-journalism and documentary film making.
Franklin, Ursula: Ursula Franklin Quotes
Frase, Peter: Delusions of the Tech Bro Intelligentsia
Published: 2013
With employees of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system on strike, the Silicon Valley tech elite has reminded us all that despite their enlightened Bay Area lifestyles, they are still, at root, a bunch of rich dudes. Corey Robin ably documents the reactionary politics and moral degeneracy of people who see themselves as heroic entrepreneurs and the people who get them to work as greedy parasites.
Frase, Peter; Sunkara, Bhaskar: The Welfare State of America
A manifesto on building social democracy in the age of austerity
Published: 2012
A movement to expand the welfare state has the potential to foster a new majoritarian Left coalition. Republicans know this -- that’s why they manipulate the way welfare is perceived at every turn. The reality is that 96 percent of Americans have benefited from government programs, but the Right works hard to hide that fact.
Fraser, Nancy: How feminism became capitalism's handmaiden - and how to reclaim it
Published: 2013
As a feminist, I've always assumed that by fighting to emancipate women I was building a better world – more egalitarian, just and free. But lately I've begun to worry that ideals pioneered by feminists are serving quite different ends. I worry, specifically, that our critique of sexism is now supplying the justification for new forms of inequality and exploitation.
Frayssinet, Fabiana: Informal Labour, Another Wall Faced by Migrants in Latin America
Published: 2017
A large proportion of the 4.3 million migrant workers in Latin America and the Caribbean survive by working in the informal economy or in irregular conditions. An invisible wall that is necessary to bring down, together with discrimination and xenophobia.
Frayssinet,Fabiana: Latin America's Social Policies Have Given Women a Boost
Published: 2015
Although they do not specifically target women, social policies like family allowances and pensions have improved the lives of women in Latin America, the region that has made the biggest strides so far this century in terms of gender equality.
Frazier, Kendrick: From Internet Scams to Urban Legends, Planet (hoa)X to the Bible Code
Published: 2004
Frazier, Mya: A Camera on Every Cop
Taser International cashes in on police misconduct
Published: 2015
On December 1, 2014, after several months of protests against police brutality that began with the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, President Obama pledged $75 million in federal funds to help purchase 50,000 police body cameras.
Fredman, Nick: The guardians of the Andean potato
Published: 2017
More than 2,800 types of potatoes are known to have originated in Peru. The existence of these varieties can be attributed to the high value the Quechua people place on their cultural traditions and biological diversity.
Freedland, Jonathan: From Google downwards, our digital masters must be watched
Published: 2012
Commentary on how the wielders of power who scrutinize our actions should be held in check, in the same way as politicians.
Freedom to Read: Challenged Books and Magazines List 2009
Published: 2009
This updated document provides a list of 100 books and magazines which have been challenged due to their content between the years of 1989 and 2009.
Freeman, Cameron: Guerrilla Tactics for Maximizing the Results of Your Media Campaign
Published: 2001
Strategy and tactics for successful media campaigns.
Freeman, Chas. W.: The Many Lessons of Ukraine War
Published: 2023
Combatting Russia to the last Ukrainian was always an odious strategy.
Freeman, Connor: Ben Gvir Wants Israeli Police to Create 'Local Response Teams' to Protect Jews Outside of Israel
Published: 2024
Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, an extremist settler and Jewish supremacist, has called on the police commissioner to create “local response teams” globally to protect Jewish communities overseas.
Freeman, Hadley: The week the trans spell was broken
Published: 2022
In the end, it wasn't one person who pointed out that gender extremism wears no clothes. There were so many: therapists, academics, parents, authors, athletes, politicians, barristers, journalists, scientists, feminists, gay activists, all shouting over the years that this ideology would hurt women, children, gay people and trans people.
Freeman, Hadley: Why I stopped being a good girl
Women can no longer afford to sit out the gender wars
Published: 2022
How can feelings (gender identity) always take precedence over material reality (biological sex)?
Freeman, Melanie Stetson: Tomato pickers win higher pay. Can other workers use their strategy?
Florida's tomato pickers took on some of the country's biggest retailers and fast-food chains - and won, transforming working conditions in
Published: 2017
Tactics like this protest outside Wendy's, repeated in cities across the country, have helped make the Coalition of Immokalee Workers one of the most successful worker organizations in the country. By applying pressure to corporations at the top of the supply chain, the big retailers and fast-food chains that buy tomatoes, the CIW has helped tens of thousands of mostly Hispanic immigrant workers who pick the bulk of the nation’s winter tomato crop.
Freeman, Sunny: NAFTA's Chapter 11 Makes Canada Most-Sued Country Under Free Trade Tribunals
Published: 2015
According to a new study, Canada is the most-sued country under the North American Free Trade Agreement and a majority of the disputes involve investors challenging the country's environmental laws.
Freeman-Maloy, Dan: Why is the Canadian Media Ignoring Evidence of 1948 Massacres?
Published: 2015
The better part of a decade ago, I described the Toronto Star's Mitch Potter as "a canary in the mineshaft of liberal Canadian racism." A piece on 1948 Palestine published in a recent edition of the Toronto Star shows the canary very close to asphyxiating.
Freeze, Colin; Dobby, Christine: NSA trying to map Rogers, RBC communications traffic, leak shows
Published: 2015
The U.S. National Security Agency has been trying to map the communications traffic of corporations around the world, and a classified document reveals that at least two of Canada’s largest companies are included.
Frei, Rosemary: Toronto's film industry grows, but at what cost?
Published: 2018
While high profile film productions are increasing in Toronto, the article questions whether taxpayers are getting good value for the billions of dollars of public money being invested into the film industry's expansion in the city.
Fremstad, Shawn: The Public Charge Rule for Immigrants Evokes the Antebellum Slave Codes
Published: 2020
Immigration historians have written extensively about how the archaic provision Trump is relying on had antecedents in state laws regulating Atlantic immigration in the 1800s. But little, if anything, has been said in the media about how Trump's rule is also rooted in a different set of state laws, specifically, state slave codes and other antebellum-era laws designed to preserve slavery and limit the movement of freed slaves.
French, David: The Tragic Transgender Contagion
Published: 2016
Anguished parents note that entire peer groups seem determined to 'transition' together.
Frese, Bill: Feral 'Roundup Ready' GM alfalfa goes wild in US West
Published: 2016
A USDA study shows that a GM alfalfa has gone wild in alfalfa-growing parts of the West. This may explain GMO contamination incidents that have cost US growers and exporters millions of dollars - and it exposes the failure of USDA's 'coexistence' policy for GMOs and traditional crops.
Frey, Chris: Revealed: how facial recognition has invaded shops – and your privacy
New in store: facial recognition devices
Published: 2016
Retailers are using ever more sophisticated software to watch how consumers shop.
Fridell, Gavin: The Battle to Unionize Starbucks in Chile: an Interview with Andrés Giordano Salazar
Published: 2016
After six years of intense battles, two strikes, a hunger strike, and four legal sentences for anti-union activities, Starbucks reluctantly agreed to sign a collective agreement with unionized workers in Chile in May 2015. This was a huge concession for the world’s largest coffee shop chain that has long aggressively fought off unionization efforts among its 150,000 workers in 64 countries.
Friedel, Frederic: The remarkably talented Harmony Zhu
Published: 2014
"Did you see the Canadian girl?" Garry Kasparov said to us. "Very impressive!". He was in Al Ain, paying a visit to the World Youth Championship, where a seven-year-old was dominating the under eight group. We check her out and found that Harmony Zhu is not just a great chess player. She is extremely talented in a completely different field – hint: nomen est omen... You will never guess!
Friedersdorf, Conor: The Danger of Being Neighborly Without a Permit
Published: 2015
Three years ago, The Los Angeles Times published a feel-good story on the Little Free Library movement.The idea is simple: A book lover puts a box or shelf or crate of books in their front yard. Neighbours browse, take one, and return later with a replacement.
Friedersdorf, Conor: Why Banning Laura Kipnis Would Betray Wellesley's Academic Mission
Published: 2017
Six professors at an elite American college insist that students will suffer "damage" or "injury" if speakers they may disagree with are allowed to speak on campus.
Friedman, Ann: Gawker's so far successful experiment in making office chat public
Are group chat rooms a waste of time or essential to running a modern newsroom?
Published: 2014
Article describing the events that led up to the creation of a space, called Disputations, where journalists and other newsroom members can share their opinions (often on unimportant topics).
Friedman, Eli: China in Revolt
Published: 2012
Few in the West are aware of the drama unfolding in today’s “epicenter of global labor unrest.” A scholar of China exposes its tumultuous labor politics and their lessons for the Left.
Friedman, Marsha: How to be a Print Reporter's Best Pick
Understanding a journalist's needs means you can change your behaviour to grab thier attention.
Friedman, Marsha: What is a 3-D Public Relations Campaign?
What was a 3-D marketing model must now become a 4-D model to corporate social media. This is how you crate an effective 4-D marketing campaign
Friedman, Marsha: Why Getting on a Show is So Important
As people continue to hate advertisements and as the ability to skip thse advertisements become more acessible, companies are shifting thier advertising udget towards talk shows. Here's how to do it.
Friedman, Sam: What Is the "Working Class"?
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
I used to hold up signs about “Workers Power” at demonstrations. I rarely do that any more. This is because almost no one understands what “workers power” might mean. They also do not know what “worker” means.
Friesen, Carl: Media Relations as a Marketing Tool
The first step to getting media attention is to make sure that reporters know about you.
Frim, Landon; Fluss, Harrison: Aliens, Antisemitism, and Academia
Published: 2017
Criticizing Enlightenment thought has become fashionable across the political spectrum. For the past several decades, more and more academics have called reason into question. This is especially true among left-leaning, postmodern, and post-structuralist thinkers. This coincides with one of the Alt-Right’s primary tactics: adopting leftist rhetoric as cover for its racialist, nativist, and often misogynistic agendas.
Frizzell, Nell: Is this Europe's best secret museum?
Published: 2016
In a small German town, a museum dedicated to life in the GDR – with everything from crank-handled calculators to Communist doilies – exists, virtually undiscovered, in one man's attic.
Froomkin, Dan: Only Edward Snowden Can Save James Bond
Published: 2015
Bond is doomed because early in the movie Spectre, the otherwise benevolent Q, muttering something about nanotechnology and microchips, injects him with "smart blood."
Froomkin, Dan: Q&A: On the Untouchable 'Lords of Secrecy'
Published: 2015
Horton, a lawyer, journalist and human rights advocate, makes the case in his book, Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Foreign Policy, that because the public is allowed to know so little, it has effectively been cut out of national security decisionmaking.
Froomkin, Dan: Torture If You Must, But Do Not Under Any Circumstances Call the New York Times
Published: 2015
Monday’s guilty verdict in the trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling on espionage charges -- for talking to a newspaper reporter -- is the latest milepost on the dark and dismal path Barack Obama has traveled since his inaugural promises to usher in a "new era of openness."
Froomkin, Dan: U.N. Report Asserts Encryption as a Human Right in the Digital Age
Published: 2015
Encryption is not the refuge of scoundrels, as Obama administration law-enforcement officials loudly proclaim – it is an essential tool needed to protect the right of freedom of opinion and expression in the digital age, a new United Nations report concludes.
Froomkin, Dan: Very Mention of Snowden's Name Makes Prosecutors Tremble
Published: 2015
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has become such a powerful symbol of government overreach that federal prosecutors in a terror case in Chicago are asking the judge to forbid defense attorneys from even mentioning his name during trial, for fear that it would lead the jury to disregard their evidence.
Froomkin, Dan; Vargas-Cooper, Natasha: The FBI Director's Evidence Against Encryption Is Pathetic
Published: 2014
FBI Director James Comey gave a speech Thursday about how cell-phone encryption could lead law enforcement to a “very dark place” where it “misses out” on crucial evidence to nail criminals. To make his case, he cited four real-life examples — examples that would be laughable if they weren’t so tragic.
Froomkin,Dan: The Computers are Listening
How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text
Published: 2015
Top-secret documents from the archive of Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.
Frost, Jennifer: An Interracial Movement of the Poor
Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s
Published: 2001
Frye, Northrop: Northrop Frye Quotes
Fryett, Dave: Omar Barghouti And “Reverse” Racism
Published: 2012
Fuentes, Annette: Criminalizing Truancy
Should Kids be Jailed for Skipping School?
Published: 2012
American jurisdictions are increasingly turning to the criminal justice system to deal with truancy. Students and parents are being fined, and in some cases jailed, for missing school.
Fuentes, Federico: Bolivian reality versus the 'extractivism' debate
Published: 2014
Some left critics of progressive governments in South America point to differences between 'pro-extractivists' and 'anti-extractivists.' Federico Fuentes says that framework hinders real understanding of the issues.
Fuentes, Federico; Curcio, Pascualina: Venezuelan economist: 'Hyperinflation is a powerful imperialist weapon'
Published: 2019
Interview with Venezuelan an economist about how hyperinflation is being used as a weapon against the country.
Fuher, Lili; Fatheuer, Thomas; Unmusig, Barbara: Green transformation is a political project, not an economic one
Published: 2016
There is a need for public policy in order for green initiatives to be tangiblem in-depth projects.
Fuller, Roslyn: Save the corporations… I mean children
Published: 2014
When Save the Children chose to bestow the Global Legacy Award on Tony Blair, the charity inadvertently revealed the dark underbelly of NGO activity.
Fulton, Deirdre: Energy Revolution Is Possible... And It Would Only Take 782 Rich People To Pay For It
Published: 2015
Fewer than 800 of the world's wealthiest people could power half the world with 100 percent renewable energy within 15 years, report says.
Fulton, Deirdre: Monsanto Crops Pushing Monarch Butterfly to Verge of Extinction
Published: 2015
Herbicide-resistant genetically modified crops have brought the iconic monarch butterfly to the brink of extinction, according to a new report by the Center for Food Safety.
Fulton, Deirdre: 'Yes, I Lied': Vindicating Villagers, Star Chevron Witness Busted for Perjury
Published: 2015
Chevron has taken the people of Ecuador and the U.S. court system on a ride, full of lies, deliberate delay, and obstruction of justice, says Amazon Watch.
Fundamedios: Bombs explode outside offices of two newspapers in Ecuador
Published: 2015
This morning, Fundamedios condemned the explosion of two pamphlet bombs. One across the offices of the newspaper El Universo and the second at the entrance of the state-controlled newspaper, El Telégrafo. "We must condemn violence wherever it comes from."
Furedi, Frank: 'OK, Boomer' mentality: Academics want to label old age a disease, in case you had any respect left for the elderly
Published: 2020
Prominent academics are pushing for the World Health Organization (WHO) to include old age on its list of diseases. They say it will improve old people’s lives – but in reality, it will give everyone the excuse to write them off.
Fussell, Sidney: Algorithms Are People
The secret sauce of search engines gives tech companies an abundance of plausible deniability.
Published: 2019
Amazon, Google, and other tech platforms deny interfering with their respective search algorithms, to boost profits or sidestep regulations. Because of the murky mechanics of how search works, proving the allegations is nearly impossible.

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Gabbert, Laura; Schein, Justin: No Impact Man
Published: 2009
Follow Colin Beavan for one year in New York as he tries to drastically reduce his climate footprint, forgoing even electricity and causing many disputes with his wife.
Gabor, Andrea: The K-12 Takeover
Big Philanthrophy's bid to privatize education
Published: 2019
On the effects of the implementation of the charter school system in New Orleans.
Gabriel, Larry: The Cocaine-Contra-CIA Complex - Book Review
Published: 1999
Dark Alliance. The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998), Hardback $24.95.
Gadzo, Mersiha: Gaza power cuts: When fuel runs out, 'babies will die'
Published: 2017
Gaza's doctors fear inevitable patient deaths if fuel reserves are depleted by end of June.
Gadzo, Mersiha: Gaza's women of steel
Published: 2017
Gadzo interviews three different women in Gaza who have taken on difficult, yet culturally progressive, employment in the wake of the region's economic devastation.
Gadzo, Mersiha: How Palestinian women led successful non-violent resistance
Published: 2018
Two women share their stories of how they peacefully protested during both Intifadas and challenged Israel's occupation.
Gadzo, Mersiha: How the US and Israel exchange tactics in violence and control
Published: 2020
Two decades of Israeli-US police cooperation includes training in racial profiling and violent suppression of protests.
Gadzo, Mersiha: Israeli forces 'deliberately killed' Palestinian paramedic Razan
Published: 2018
Probe by Israeli rights group B'Tselem concludes that intentional fatal shot was fired at the Palestinian paramedic.
Gadzo, Mersiha: Meet the man crowd-funding Gaza's first English library
Published: 2017
Mosab Abu Toha, works to expand his collection of English books to create a public library that will enrich the lives and society within Gaza during the Israeli occupation.
Gaffney, A. W.: How Class Kills
Published: 2015
A recent study showing rising mortality rates among middle-aged whites drives home the lethality of class inequality.
Gagare, Owen: Zimbabwe: China Demands Property Rights
Published: 2017
China this week urged the Zimbabwean government to respect property rights, address concerns over policy inconsistency and clarify its indigenisation policy to attract investment into the country.
Gago, Osvaldo: Notes on digital activism
A list of several ways for activists to use the internet to promote their cause. Topics include search engine optimization, analytics and online advertising.
Gailey, Tony; Russell, Julian: In Grave Danger of Falling Food
Published: 1989
An introduction to of permaculture: an approach to land management and philosophy that adapts to natural ecosystems. Originally produced for Australian TV.
Gain, Klaire: Fighting for Their Water and Their Lives, Communities Take Direct Action Against Barrick Gold in the Dominican Republic
Published: 2017
People who live near the Pueblo Viejo gold mine iin Dominican Republic struggle to gain accountabilty from the Canadian-owned companies running it. Their environment has been poisoned and they want funds for 600 families to be relocated.
Gaist, Thomas: CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden
Published: 2016
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prepared to kidnap Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed illegal and unconstitutional mass spying by the National Security Agency (NSA), documents obtained by the Danish media outlet Denfri show.
Gajdics, Peter: Gay Not Queer
Published: 2022
Gay identities are based on biological sex; gender identities erase biological sex and replace it with gender.
Galbraith, James K.: Resource Limits to American Capitalism & the Predator State Today
Published: 2022
James K. Galbraith discusses the shift of US capitalism from an industrial state to what he calls a predator state: a finance-led, military-centered corporate republic that continues to prevail. To overcome it, he lays out what is needed to focus on employment, stability and adjustments to rising resource costs.
Galbraith, John Kenneth: John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Galeano, Eduardo: The World Cup and the Corporatization of Soccer
Published: 2014
Huge global sporting contests, their boosters promise, will transform the nature of the host country. The billions South Africa poured into hosting the World Cup were touted by some as a form of development. The result? The month-long euphoria of the contests was followed by the hangover of dealing with an expensive unused or underused stadium infrastructure scattered across that developing country. Host countries pay FIFA for the privilege of hosting the competition, then foot the bill for most of the tournament, while FIFA takes most of the revenues.
Galindo-Doucette, Evelyn: Inside El Salvador's Military Blacklist
The Yellow Book
Published: 2014
The Yellow Book (Libro amarillo) is a 270 page document from 1987 that the National Security Archive in Washington DC made public on September 28th, 2014. The Yellow Book includes 1,975 photographs that the Salvadoran Armed Forces and the State Department of Intelligence of El Salvador used to catalogue people as “terrorists” and “enemies” of the state. The Yellow Book is the only military document that has been made public to this day.
Galizia, Matthew Caruana; Carvajal, Rigoberto: Explore the Swiss Leaks Data
Published: 2015
The Swiss Leaks project is based on a trove of almost 60,000 leaked files that provide details on over 100,000 HSBC clients and their bank accounts. Explore the data to see how different countries compare, and find out more about some of the clients of the bank.
Galizia,Matthew Caruana;Cabra,Mar;Williams,Margot;Díaz-Struck,Emilia;Rudder,Hamish Boland: Explore the Documents: Luxembourg Leaks Database
Published: 2014
ICIJ's Luxembourg Leaks investigation is based on a confidential cache of secret tax agreements approved by Luxembourg authorities, that provide tax-relief for more than 340 companies around the world. These private deals are legal in Luxembourg.
Gallagher, Kevin: Fascinating insights on political communications
Book Review of 'Political Columns: Behind the Scenes with Powerful People'
Published: 2008
Bonner approaches each subject, some as a scientist, as he does when examining the first televised debate between Nixon and Kennedy, but ultimately as an artist who knows that there is much more to communication than the mechanics. He knows how to deliver a clear message and to make it believable.
Gallagher, Peter: The Life and Death of Objective Peckham
Stripped of British citizenship and killed by an American drone
Published: 2015
Documentation of the final years of Bilal el-Berjawi's life, a British-Lebanese citizen suspected of being a terrorist. The story raises questions about the British government's role in the targeted assassination of its citizens, and provides an insight into covert U.S. military actions.
Gallagher, Peter: Researchers Find 'Astonishing' Malware Linked to NSA Spying
Published: 2015
Security researchers have uncovered highly sophisticated malware that is linked to a secret National Security Agency hacking operation.
Gallagher, Royer: From Paris to Boston, Terrorists Were Already Known to Authorities
Published: 2015
Whenever a terrorist attack occurs, it never takes long for politicians to begin calling for more surveillance powers. Officials in the United Kingdom and the United States have been among those arguing that more surveillance of Internet communications is necessary to prevent further atrocities.
Gallagher, Ryan: Documents Reveal Canada's Secret Hacking Tactics
Published: 2015
Canada's electronic surveillance agency has secretly developed an arsenal of cyberweapons capable of stealing data and destroying adversaries' infrastructure, according to newly revealed classified documents. Communications Security Establishment, or CSE, has also covertly hacked into computers across the world to gather intelligence, breaking into networks in Europe, Mexico, the Middle East and North Africa, the documents show.
Gallagher, Ryan: Inside Google's Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine in China
Published: 2018
Google analyzed search terms entered into a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for a censored search engine it has been planning to launch in China, according to confidential documents seen by The Intercept. Engineers working on the censorship sampled search queries from 265.com, a Chinese-language web directory service owned by Google.
Gallagher, Ryan: Profiled
From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users' Online Identities
Published: 2015
Amid a renewed push from the U.K. government for more surveillance powers, more than two dozen documents being disclosed by The Intercept reveal for the first time several major strands of GCHQ’s (Government Communications Headquarters) existing electronic eavesdropping capabilities.
Gallagher, Ryan: Revealed: How DOJ Gagged Google over Surveillance of WikiLeaks Volunteer
Published: 2015
The Obama administration fought a legal battle against Google to secretly obtain the email records of a security researcher and journalist associated with WikiLeaks.
Gallagher, Ryan: Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm
Published: 2013
Raytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a 'Google for spies', drawing ire from civil rights groups.
Gallagher, Ryan: Thousands Join Legal Fight Against UK Surveillance — And You Can, Too
Published: 2015
Thousands of people are signing up to join an unprecedented legal campaign against the United Kingdom’s leading electronic surveillance agency.
Gallagher, Ryan; Greenwald, Glenn: Canada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads
Published: 2015
Canada's leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users' file downloads in a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents. The covert operation taps into Internet cables and analyzes records of up to 15 million downloads daily from popular websites commonly used to share videos, photographs, music, and other files.
Gallagher, Ryan; Hager, Nicky: Documents Shine Light on Shadowy New Zealand Surveillance Base
Published: 2015
The documents, revealed Saturday by the Sunday Star-Times in collaboration with The Intercept, show how closely New Zealand has worked with the NSA to maintain surveillance coverage of the region. The files also offer an unprecedented insight into the Waihopai base, exposing how it's been integrated into a global eavesdropping network.
Gallagher, Ryan; Syal, Rejeev: Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones
Published: 2011
Civil liberties group raises concerns over Met police purchase of technology to track public handsets over a targeted area.
Galloway, George: Catalonia 'separatists' bad, HK 'pro-democracy protesters' good: Orwell's 1984 becomes user's manual for Western 'free media'
Published: 2019
When supporters of Catalan leaders jailed for organizing a democratic vote advance on Barcelona airport, media make a fuss over 'separatists' causing chaos. When the same tactic is used in Hong Kong, it's a 'pro-democracy' protest. In George Orwell’s 1984, The War Ministry was renamed the Ministry of Peace. Truth was Lies, Hate was Love. But author Lewis Carroll got there first.
Galloway, George: Islamic State in Ukraine: A Christmas present from the West
Published: 2018
The report in British newspaper the Times, that Chechen Islamists, many reeling from defeat in Syria and Iraq amongst the alphabet soup of fanaticism, had indeed arrived at the war front in eastern Ukraine, woke me up from any Christmas torpor.
Galloway, George: Pussycat media has failed to call out the UK government's ABYSMAL Covid-19 response. We should be angry
Published: 2020
As the UK government’s inadequate response to the coronavirus pandemic gets record numbers of citizens killed, the media should be up in arms calling out every failure. Instead, the Q&A sessions look like a softball match.
Gallus, Maya (director): Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels
Published: 1991
A documentary about author Elizabeth Smart, with Jackie Burroughts playing Elizabeth Smart.
Gambino, Lauren: Harvard's prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates
Published: 2015
Prisoners participating in Bard College initiative to provide them a liberal arts education beat Ivy League students who won national title only months ago.
Gambone, Larry: The Comox Project 1965
Published: 2007
Gameau, Damon: 2040
Director Gameau looks at climate change through the perspective of his daughter, who'll turn 21 by 2040. Gameau meets innovators and activists, exploring methods to safeguard his daughter's future.
Gandesha, Samir: The Lessons of the World Cup for our Victim Culture
Published: 2018
That we are living in an age of victim culture is well-exemplified by an article recently published by the CBC suggesting that minorities "feel apprehensive about heading into the wild because they don't see themselves reflected in the outdoor industry and media." The underlying premise is that a paucity of representations of members of these groups constructs the outdoors as a kind of "unsafe space" of which people from these communities ask, according to the African-American author of a book called The Adventure Gap, James Mills, "'Do I belong here? And if somebody believes that I don’t belong here, will they do something to harm me?'"
Gandhi, Mohandas: Mohandas Gandhi Quotes
Gandolfo, Luisa: Gaza: water crisis grows as Israel targets essential infrastructure
Published: 2014
Israel's war on Gaza has seen the systematic and widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure essential for human survival. This represents an apparently deliberate 'cutting off of life support' to those that survive the bombardment now under way.
Gannon, Megan: The Knotty Question of When Humans Made the Americas Home
A deluge of new findings are challenging long-held scientific narratives of how humans came to North and South America.
Published: 2019
Indeed, no tidy, new framework has arisen to take the place of older theories. Instead, new data, including genetic findings, continue to complicate the story of how these continents came to be peopled.
Garber, Megan: What Does 'Community' Mean?
Published: 2017
The terms evolution makes a nice metaphor for the rise of American individualism -- and the decline of trust in American institutions.
Garcia, Elena: Helping drought-stricken farmers requires recognising global warming and planning
Published: 2018
All of NSW has now officially been declared to be in drought, and 57% of Queensland has officially entered its sixth year of the current drought (though there has been little real change from when 88% was declared to be in drought in March 2017).Droughts keep getting worse, and the changing climate means they will continue to do so.The Coalition's "solutions" start with denying that climate change is real.
Garcia, Laura: Javier Sicilia Calls Out to Alternative Media as a Force for Communication
Published: 2012
At the 2012 School of Authentic Journalism, a poet reviews the first year of the movement against the drug war that he inspired.
Gardner, Fred: Paula Broadwell, Whistleblower
It's More Than a Sex Scandal
Published: 2012
We await the follow-up to Paula Broadwell’s assertion that two prisoners were being held at the CIA “annex” near the consulate in Benghazi at the time of the assault that left Ambassador Christopher Stephens and three other Americans dead.
Gardner, Justin: First of Its Kind Study Shows 55,400 People Hospitalized or Killed by US Cops in a Single Year
Published: 2017
The authors of a study which examined police interactions with the public conclude that alarmingly high numbers reflect an "excess exposure" of people to police violence.
Gardner, Justin: How Cops Use 'Psychopaths and Liars' and Often Become Them to Achieve Their Goals
Published: 2015
Does using criminals or actually becoming them, justify the path to security? American law enforcement tends to think so.
Gardyne, Allan: The Formula: How To Make A Video Go Viral
Published: 2015
Many people fail to realize that Youtube is also a social media platform. You use videos to get your message out and you read comments to get feedback and consumer interactivity.
Garfinkle, Miriam: Airport expansion
Re: Billy Bishop expansion plan needs real scrutiny
Published: 2015
The Toronto Island airport in its present configuration is already harmful to public health. Any expansion would contribute to climate change by increasing emissions and air pollution and decreasing green and recreational space.
Garfinkle, Miriam: Breast cancer realities
Judging by the Globe and Mail coverage, it appears that breast cancer only strikes women who have six figure incomes, most of whom, apparently, are also high-profile media personalities. This is not the case. Working-class women and women living in poverty also get breast cance
Garfinkle, Miriam: Community is my family's support system
Published: 1995
The teacher, the mother, my community - they are reminders of a world that still struggles to maintain decent values and a basic kindness between human beings.
Garfinkle, Miriam: Deputation Opposing Island Airport Expansion
Published: 2013
It is absurd to have a major airport on a city's waterfront. The negative impacts -- air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, massively increased traffic, the risk of planes taking off and landing with a few hundred meters of homes and schools -- are clear and unacceptable.
Garfinkle, Miriam: Deputation to the Toronto Board of Health regarding proposed expansion of Island Airport
Published: 2013
The waterfront is a highly utilized collective space that we have highly invested in to be used for recreational activities that promote health and fit into the city's vision of increasing green space. Why would we destroy it with an expanding airport?
Garfinkle, Miriam: Dr. Miriam Garfinkle: Public Health Will Be Loser if Jets Win
Toronto Physician Highlights Negative Health Effects of Planned Island Airport Expansion
Published: 2014
The serious health and safety impacts and risks arising from the continually expanding island airport are of paramount concern. The negative impacts of this scheme -- increased air pollution in an already highly polluted area, massively increased traffic and congestion in an already congested area, serious concerns about water quality, noise pollution, fuel transport and storage and the risk of planes taking off and landing within a few hundred metres of homes and schools are clear and unacceptable.
Garfinkle, Miriam: Health Care Professionals In Canada Join with PHR-Israel
Published: 2008
Canadian health care professionals are linking with Physicians for Human Rights - Isreal to support their work in struggling and advocating for human rights, in particular the right to health, for people both in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Garfinkle, Miriam: Israel's use of cluster bombs is a war crime
Israel's use of cluster bombs is a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Garfinkle, Miriam: Letter to Mayor Ford regarding funding for Immigrant Women's Health Centre
Published: 2011
The health work done at Immigrant Women's Centre is high quality care involving all aspects of immigrant women's reproductive health.
Garfinkle, Miriam: The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end
Published: 2008
The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end. The dispossession of the Palestinians must be fully acknowledged and Israel must reach out to embrace the full rights of Palestinians to nationhood and viability. Only then will the nightmare end that is the reality of the Palestinian people living in the Occupied Territories and the refugee camps. And only with that can there be any hope for a real peace.
Garfinkle, Miriam: Ontario health-care reform and Community Health Centres
Re: Too Many Left Behind in Health Care Reforms
Published: 2017
We already have a working model of primary care that targets these populations and that is very good at dealing with complex needs and providing holistic care. Community Health Centres (CHCs) have been in existence for decades all over Canada, providing care to communities that are not well served by other models of primary care.
Garfinkle, Miriam: Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil
Published: 2014
About Zatoun, which brings Plaestinian olive oil to Canada.
Garfinkle, Miriam: Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil - Arabic text
Published: 2014
Garfinkle, Miriam: Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil - Korean text
Published: 2014
Garfinkle, Miriam: Response to Toronto Sun article
Published: 2001
Sun reporter's ill-informed and poor-quality reporting reflects her hostility to organizatons providing services for immigrant women.
Garfinkle, Miriam: Some pumpkin recipes
Turn your Hallowe'en pumpkins into delicious and nutrious food
Published: 2012
What is really unfortunate about the tradition of pumpkin carving is the waste of food as the vast majority of these pumpkins are destined for destruction. Pumpkin is a highly nutritious vegetable. The seeds and the flesh are packed with vitamins and nutrients. There are wonderful pumpkin recipes around and pumpkin actually is very tasty.
Garfinkle, Miriam: Talk to United Church Toronto Conference AGM
Supporting the call for boycott, divestment and sanctions
Published: 2009
Miriam Garfinkle spoke to the United Church Toronto Conference Annual General Meeting in 2009 when the United Church was considering resolutions supporting boycott, divestment and sanctions to pressure Israel to ends it oppression of the Palestinian people.
Garfinkle, Miriam; Abdul Qadir, Reem: Les soins de santé et les enfants en perturbation à Gaza
Published: 2007
Garfinkle, Miriam; Abdul Qadir, Reem: Post-traumatic stress and the children of Gaza
Published: 2007
The situation in Gaza is devastating. We have to act to protect the children of Gaza.
Garfinkle, Miriam; Abdul-Qadir, Reem: Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
Published: 2007
These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
Garfinkle, Miriam; Deutsch, Judith; Abdul-Qadir, Reem; Santa Barbara, Joanna: Gaza: Health System in Collapse
Published: 2008
The extremity of suffering in Gaza is little known in the West. Underlying the health emergency is the Israeli military's destruction of Gaza's basic infrastructure and Israel's closure of all Gaza's borders.
Garfinkle, Miriam; Gazeley, Sharon: Province must treat health centre staff fairly
Published: 2007
The government should deal fairly with health and social service staff who are bargaining for a new contract.
Garfinkle, Miriam; Woolhouse, Susan: Letter to Toronto City Council regarding jets at Toronto Island airport
Published: 2013
We are writing to express grave concerns regarding the proposal to expand the Billy Bishop Airport to jets. We are community health physicians and are extremely alarmed by the potential health harm of jets which will particularly impact the community that lives in such close proximity to the airport.
Garfinkle, Miriam; Woolhouse, Susan: Porter's corporate interests can't be allowed to trump public health
Published: 2013
We are concerned that it will be the children who live, study and play less than 300 metres from the current airport in the high-rises, the Waterfront school, Little Norway Park, the daycare and community centre who will be most affected by the addition of jets. Consider that landings and takeoffs generate the highest emissions and that peak airport periods coincide with times children walk to and from school.
GARLOCK, Chris: Screening the Working Class
Movies We Love About Workers, Work and the Workplace
Published: 2013
List of movies featuring workers, work, and the workplace.
Garossino, Sandy: What if Omar Khadr isn't guilty?
Published: 2017
The controversy surrounding Omar Khadr's reported $10.5-million settlement for Ottawa's complicity in his oppressive detention at Guantanamo Bay obscures a key issue we've never truly explored in Canada.What if Khadr was innocent of the murder of Sgt. Christopher Speer this whole time, and we didn't lift a finger while he sat in a hell-hole for a decade?
Garrard, Chris: Fighting Big Oil's Cynical Arts Sponsorship
Published: 2014
A growing movement is opposing fossil fuel industry sponsorship of the arts. Pop-up protests and performances denouncing Shell, BP and others are winning the popular vote.
Garris, Eric: Google Disables All Ads on Antiwar.com (Updated)
Published: 2015
Garrison, Ann: History Is Happening: WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate
Published: 2019
An article based on and in discussions with Nozomi Hayase's book 'WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate: History Is Happening'.
Garrison, Laura Turner: 6 Modern Societies Where Women Literally Rule
Published: 2016
An article about 6 female-led societies that thrive in the real world today.
Garside, Juliette: Vodafone Reveals Existence of Secret Wires that Allow State Surveillance
Published: 2014
Wires allow agencies to listen to or record live conversations, in what privacy campaigners are calling a 'nightmare scenario'.
Garson, Marilyn: UNRWA Does not Perpetuate the Conflict, the Conflict Perpetuates UNRWA
Published: 2018
In January, without warning, Donald Trump refsued to pay $305 million of his country's $365 million commitment to UNRWA. UNRWA, the UN agency serving Palestinian refugees, remains $200 million short of the funds it needs to provide humanitarian services for five million people, including 2/3 of the population of the Gaza Strip.This is not really a story about under-funding UNRWA. This is about the people who strenuously seek to eliminate it.
Gartenberg, Chaim: Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and WebEx are collecting more customer data than they appear to be
Published: 2020
Certain applications collecting more data from users than is immediately apparent.
Garton Ash, Timothy: When economists ignore the human factor, we all pay the price
Published: 2016
The Guardian recently asked nine economists whether we’re heading for another global financial crash and they gave many different answers. Yet still we turn to economists as if they were physicists, armed with scientific predictions about the behaviour of the body economic. We consumers of economics, and economists themselves, need to be more realistic about what economics can do. More modesty on both the supply and the demand side of economics will produce better results.
Garvey, John: The New Worker Organizing
Published: 2013
Many, perhaps most, worker center–based organizing projects focused on workers in low-wage jobs, are conducted with the active support and, often enough, leadership provided by a variety of community-based organizations—with support from one or more unions.
Garza, Javier: World cup coverage highlights importance for Journalists' security
Published: 2014
Article detailing the trials and tribulations journalists faced leading to the start of the World Cup in Brazil, and calls for measures to improve conditions for mediapeople in the future.
Gaskell, Jane; Laura-Lee, K; Katrina, P: Approaches to Poverty in the Toronto School Board, 1970 - 1990
No Shallow Roots
Published: 2009
Published in Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. December, 2009
Gasper, Phill: Stephen Jay Gould: Dialectical Biologist
Published: 2002
Gould, the world’s leading expert on the evolution of Bahamian land snails, and one of the most influential evolutionary theorists of his generation, shared Engels’ enthusiasm for understanding the natural world dialectically – in other words, seeing it as made up of complex and dynamic interactive processes.
Gasser, Michael: The University & the Security State
Published: 2014
Gasser examines the implicit political agendas behind the offers of funding given to American universities by the Department of Homeland Security to research the "cognitive science of terrorisim."
Gathara, Patrick: The fallacy of the colonial 'right to self-defence
Colonial powers have long demanded the 'right to self-defence' against the people they have colonised.
Published: 2021
Gaudiano, Brandon; Herbert, James: Can We Really Tap Our Problems Away?
Thought Field Therapy is marked as an extraordinarily fast and effective body-tapping treatment
Published: 2000
Thought Field Therapy is marketed as an extraordinarily fast and effective body-tapping treatment for a number of psychological problems. However, it lacks even basic empirical support and exhibits many of the trappings of a pseudoscience.
Gaudichaud, Franck: Where the conspiracies are real
Published: 2015
US expansionism in Latin America, sometimes violent, sometimes discreet, played such a large role in shaping the history of the continent that many still see the "black hand" of Washington behind every obstacle faced by progressive governments.
Gavigan, Shelle A.M: Twenty Five Years of Dynamic Tension
The Parkdale Community Legal Service Experiance
Published: 1997
Published in Osgoode Hall Law Journal 35 - 3 (1997)
Gavlank, Dale; Ababneh, Yahya: Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
Published: 2013
Consider this: the only beneficiaries from the atrocity were the rebels, previously losing the war, who now have Britain and America ready to intervene on their side. While there seems to be little doubt that chemical weapons were used, there is doubt about who deployed them.
Gawande, Atul: Hellhole
Published: 2009
The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?
Gaworecki, Mike: Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater
Published: 2014
It has now been revealed that California regulators with DOGGR permitted hundreds of wastewater injection wells and thousands more wells injecting fluids for 'enhanced oil recovery" into aquifers protected under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
Gaworecki, Mike: Here's How To Craft A Winning Climate Message
Published: 2016
A guide to fighting back against dirty energy industry spin when discussing the climate crisis. The Climate Solutions for a Stronger America messaging guide is based on data from a repeat national survey of likely voters. Researchers examined the data to determine how to successfully communicate climate issues and identified three top-performing messages.
Gaworecki, Mike: Meet The Folks On The Front Lines Of Fracking In California
Published: 2014
The oil and gas industry has worked very hard to push the narrative that fracking is completely safe, and that any opposition is led by a small group of full-time activists.
Gaworecki,Mike: Chevron Whistleblower Videos Show Deliberate Falsification Of Evidence In Ecuador Oil Pollution Trial
Published: 2015
Chevron lost the lawsuit filed against the company by Indigenous villagers who say Texaco, which merged with Chevron, left hundreds of open, unlined pits full of toxic oil waste in the Amazon rainforest. Nevertheless, the company attempts to retry the case.
Gayer, Laurent; Hasan, Fawad: Pakistan's coercive sweatshop capitalism
Published: 2022
Pakistan's textile industry is a major supplier for Western discount clothing brands. This means nothing is allowed to disrupt productivity; workers' rights and safety are frequently flouted, and police and private security firms use intimidation and violence to ensure the machines keep running.
Gazzaniga, Riccardo; Dieffenbach, Alexa Combs: The White Man in That Photo
Published: 2015
Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith's rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and it certainly deceived me for a long time.
Gbadamosi, Nosmot: Stealing Africa: How Britain looted the continent's art
Published: 2021
During war and colonisation, Western nations participated in the theft of thousands of pieces of African art. This is the story of the role Britain’s anti-slavery mission played in looting African artefacts, and of the campaign to get them returned.
Geary, Kate: Our Land, Our Lives
Time Out On The Global Land Rush
Published: 2012
In the past decade an area of land eight times the size of the UK has been sold off globally as land sales rapidly accelerate. This land could feed a billion people equivalent to the number of people who go to bed hungry each night. In poor countries, foreign investors have been buying an area of land the size of London every six days. With food prices spiking for the third time in four years, interest in land could accelerate again as rich countries try to secure their food supplies and investors see land as a good long-term bet.
Gebeily, Maya: Syrian boys caught in 'vicious cycle' of sex abuse: UN
Published: 2017
Syrian men and boys, in their war-torn country and abroad, have suffered "a vicious cycle" of sexual abuse with more devastating consequences than previously reported, according to the United Nations new report "We Keep it in Heart".
Gebhart, Gennie: How To Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Gmail and Google
Published: 2016
Instructions to enable two-factor authentication for improved security for users of Gmail and Google services.
Geigner, Timothy: FBI Continues To Foil Its Own Devised Terrorist Plots
Published: 2012
It seems there's a new pattern showing itself every time I read a news report in which the FBI proudly announces it foiled a terrorist plot. That pattern goes something like this: hear that a huge explosion was averted and lives were saved, find out the plotter was an American citizen, find out he was under investigation by the FBI for several years, and then finally find out that it was the FBI that egged on the suspect and built his "bomb" for him. In other words, the only way these things could become less impressive is if the FBI actually decided to quit finding these loner folks to urge into violence and just built their own physical straw man to parade in front of the cameras.
Geist, Michael: The Case Against Ratifying the TPP
The Case Against Ratifying the Trans Pacific Partnership
Published: 2016
Gelder, Sarah Van: Vandana Shiva On Resisting GMOs: "Saving Seeds Is a Political Act"
Published: 2013
Sarah van Gelder interviewed Vandana Shiva, renowned for her activism against GMOs, globalization, and patents on seeds and traditional foods.
Gelderloos, Peter: The Nature of Police, the Role of the Left
Learning From Ferguson
Published: 2014
Iit would be hard to deny that the police are a racist institution par excellence. They kill young Black, Latino, and Native people at a disproportionately higher rate than white youth, and the institution itself descended from the patrols created to capture fugitive slaves in the South and police urban immigrants in the North.
Gendel, Morgan: The Inner Light
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5 Episode 25
Published: 1992
Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) is struck with an energy beam from an alien probe. While minutes pass for the rest of the crew, Picard experiences 40 years as Kamin, a humanoid scientist whose planet is threatened by the nova of its sun.
Gendin, Sidney; Bloom, Steve: Letter and Response on Mumia Abu-Jamal
Published: 1999
STEVE BLOOM SUCCEEDS in making a very persuasive case in the January-February issue of Against the Current that the trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal was an outrage against justice.
Genoni, Tom Jr.: Exploring Mind, Memory, and the Psychology of Belief
Part II: Perception, Memory and the Courtroom
Published: 1995
So-called simple perceptions are anything but simple, and what we see is not always the true nature of reality. Perception is a creative act that involves not only the purely sensory apparatus of the brain but also such things as memory, emotion, and our hopes and fears.
Genovese, Holly: The Coding Of 'White Trash' In Academia
Published: 2016
As an academic from the U.S. Deep South, Holly Genovese has found herself between two worlds, not accepted in academia because of her background, and yet unable to 'go home again.'
Gensler, Harry J.: Golden Rule Chronology
This chronology gives some important events about the golden rule ("Treat others as you want to be treated").
Gensler, Harry J.: Golden Rule Chronology
This chronology gives some important events in the history of the golden rule ("Treat others as you want to be treated").
Gentleman, Amelia: Inside Halden, the most humane prison in the world
Amelia Gentleman visits Halden, the high-security jail in Norway
Published: 2012
A look into the flagship prison of Norway, where recidivism after two years is only 20%, and the focus is on rehabilitation rather than punishment.
Gentleman, Amelia: The Mother Behind the Galway Children's Mass Grave Story
'I Want to Know Who's Down There'
Published: 2014
It was amateur historian Catherine Corless's painstaking research that brought news of the children's mass grave in Tuam to the world's attention. She tells how her search for the truth turned her life upside-down.
Genté, Régis: Kazakhstan's 99 per cent
Protests by Kazakhstan's oil workers in 2011 were crushed, but anger remains over huge inequalities of income and lifestyle
Published: 2012
Kazakhstan could be among the world’s top 10 oil producers by 2020, but the Kazakhs who get the oil out of the ground don't benefit much from it. In May 2011 thousands of oil workers in western Kazakhstan began the biggest strikes since the country emerged from the breakup of the USSR.
Genté, Régis; Rouy, Laurent: Ukraine: the practice of protest
Published: 2005
There was genuine, widespread rejection of the regime in Ukraine, but the mass demonstrations were still not spontaneous. They were backed by self-seeking organisations, both local and international.
George, Laura C.: How to See if Your Images are Being Used on Other Websites
Published: 2013
You just ran across your artwork, featured on a blog! Except, they hadn't told you they did it and you just happened to find out on your own. These situations are where my little image trick comes in handy. And it's free! Here’s the step-by-step.
George, Robvert P.; West, Cornel: Truth Seeking, Democracy, and Freedom of Thought and Expression
A Statement by Robert P. George and Cornel West
Published: 2017
George, Rose: One latrine at a time
Liberia's president is unusually frank as she agrees that toilets are fundamental to creating a healthier country
Published: 2012
Diarrhoea kills more children than HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined – and its main cause is food and water contaminated with human waste. Liberia's president is trying to change all that. Building latrines must be a key priority to promote health and sanitation.
George, Susan: The Rise of the Illegitimate Authority of Transnational Corporations
Published: 2015
Transnational corporations are demanding the right to what they call "competitiveness": lower taxes, control over lawmaking, and the right to sue governments for affecting profits. In her new book, Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations are Seizing Power, Susan George shines a light on the secret corporate coalitions that are influencing critical government decisions and posing a direct threat to democracy.
Geovanis, Chris: Aaron Swartz and the Assault on Open Information
Malicious Government Prosecution
Published: 2013
The great corporate-supported push to hide essential, publicly funded information behind private firewalls and government secrecy, represents a breathtaking breach of the basic tenets of democracy.
Gerard, Ryle: 100,000 Clients, $100 Billion: The Swiss Leaks Data
Published: 2015
The files at the foundation of the Swiss Leaks project are based on data secreted away by Hervé Falciani, a former HSBC employee-turned-whistleblower. He turned the data over to the French government in 2008 and its tax authority launched an investigation.
German, Lindsey: Battle of the Somme: the horrific epitome of the first world war
Published: 2014
Thousands of men who went over the top that morning thought they would meet little resistance. 57,000 were dead or wounded by the end of the day.
Germanos, Andrea: Bashing Probe of US War Crimes, Pompeo Threatens Family of ICC Staff With Consequences
Published: 2020
Amnesty International on Wednesday rebuked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over new comments bashing the International Criminal Court and threatening court staff--and their family members--investigating alleged war crimes committed by United States forces in Afghanistan. "Threats against family members of ICC staff who are seeking justice is a new low, even for this administration," said Daniel Balson, Amnesty International USA's advocacy director.
Germanos, Andrea: Nation That Says It Can't Afford Medicare for All Has Spent $5.6 Trillion on War Since 9/11
Because, as new study notes, wars force the question: "What we might have done differently with the money spent?"
Published: 2017
A new analysis offers a damning assessment of the United States' so-called global war on terror, and it includes a "staggering" estimated price tag for wars waged since 9/11—over $5.6 trillion.
Gertel, Gil: The Zionist educator we should have listened to
Published: 2016
At a time when Israel's education minister sees only Jews as moral, it is worth remembering a prominent Zionist educator who taught us that things could have turned out differently.
Gessen, Masha: The Bodies in The Forest
Published: 2018
An excerpt from Gessen's book "Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia", published by Columbia Global Reports. The book examines Stalin's extensive network of labour camps that held and killed millions of prisoners in 1930s to the 1950s.
Gessen, Masha: The Reichstag Fire Next Time
The coming crackdown
Published: 2017
The article draws comparisons between the current climate in the Trump era with that of pre-Nazi Germany, in particular the Reichstag Fire of 1933, an event which Adolph Hitler exploited and launched a militant stance that eventually lead to a facist state.
Geybullayeva , Arzu: When They Lock Up the Truth: Khadija Ismayilova and the Latin America Connection
Published: 2016
Azerbaijan, a former Soviet country with remarkable oil and gas reserves has been controlled for decades by the Aliyev family.
Ghanem, Noureldein: Database exposes 500 instances of Israeli incitement to genocide in Gaza
Published: 2024
Europe-based NGO, Law for Palestine, unveils more than 500 cases of incitement to genocide and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians by Israeli decision-makers, lawmakers, army personnel, and intellectuals.
Ghani, Faras: Tharparkar: Pakistan's ongoing catastrophe
Published: 2016
More than 1,500 children under the age of five have died in the Tharparkar district of Pakistan's Sindh province since 2011. Each year, as the death toll climbs, reports are sought, commissions created and emergency plans announced by the provincial government. But none of these seem able to stop the recurring problems plaguing this vast 20,000sq km district.
Ghazal, Rym: The past belongs to everyone: British Library calls on public to help piece together history
Published: 2015
As the British Library thrusts itself into the digital age, more than a million images from its archives are available online. And it wants the public's help to expand what is known about them.
Ghose, Tia: Surprise: Ashkenazi Jews Are Genetically European
Published: 2013
The origin of the Ashkenazi Jews, who come most recently from Europe, has largely been shrouded in mystery. But a new study suggests that at least their maternal lineage may derive largely from Europe.
Ghosh, Surbir: Guilty Mileage
How the Indian News Media Covered the Judgements in Two High Profile Cases
Published: 2008
The last few years have seen a number of high-profile cases in Indian courts wherein the rich and mighty have been held guilty and sentenced to prison. The news media, in many cases, has been accused of conducting its own shadow trials. The news media coverage these court cases have derived has been phenomenal...
Ghosh, Surbir: Where News Itself is a Category
Published: 2008
Highlighting the various reasons for the decline of quality news, Subir Ghosh says when business interests hold sway over all others, the basic tenets of journalism fall by the wayside. However, if people in the society want mature journalism, we ourselves have to mature too, he maintains.
Ghosh, Surbir: Written off
How the Indian Media Deals with its Freelance Journalists
Published: 2009
Most freelance journalists in India are perceived to be the stepchildren of the Indian news media. Though some indications are there, we want to come up with concrete numbers.
Giambrone, Joe: In Defense of Free Speech
It's Easier to Blame Bad Filmmakers Than to Address Massive War Crimes
Published: 2012
The answer to speech you disagree with is … (drum roll) … MORE SPEECH.
Gibbons, Ann: There's no such thing as a 'pure' European--or anyone else
Published: 2017
Europeans have no unique heritage. New studies show that almost all indigenous Europeans descend from at least three major migrations in the past 15,000 years, including two from the Middle East.
Gibbs, Katie; Houben, Adam; Hutchings, Jeff, Mooers, Arne, Trudeau, Vance L., Orihel, Diane: 'The Death of Evidence' in Canada: Scientists' Own Words
Data distorted for 'propaganda' and other complaints against the Harper government made at last week's Ottawa rally
Published: 2012
Gibran, Kahlil: Kahlil Gibran Quotes
Gibson, Connor: Koch Brothers View Universities As Propaganda Machines
Published: 2016
New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer’s new book, "Dark Money," includes details that bolster concerns publicized by UnKoch My Campus, and students and professors across the USA who have blown the whistle on Charles Koch’s co-optation of higher education programs. Universities are the spine of Charles Koch's lobbying model, which after four decades of finance has grown into an integrated network of professors, public relations agents, lobbyists, pundits, and politicians. Koch foundations started investing in campuses at an exponential pace, starting with just seven campuses in 2005.
Gibson, Rich: The Wars on Vietnam
Published: 2015
In the past month, the Pentagon, PBS, and the for-profit press took a three pronged approach to the Vietnam Wars: (1) praise the returned troops and promote the notion of a home-country stab in the back; (2) highlight the evacuees and the US heroes of the April ‘75 evacuations; and (3) focus on the post-war babylift and the Vietnamese babies now grown up.
Gibson, Robert; Channing, Taylor: Here's how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill
Published: 2015
Documenting the corruption of the U.S. political system.
Gide, Andre: Andre Gide Quotes
Gidney, Catherine: A Long Eclipse
The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920 - 1970
Published: 2004
Gidney, Catherine: Poisoning the Student Mind?
The Student Christian Movement at the University of Toronto, 1920 - 1965
Published: 1997
Published in Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/ Revue de la Societe historique du Canada, 8.1 (1997)
Gies, Heahter: OceanaGold vs El Salvador: Foreshadowing 'Trade' Under the TPP?
Published: 2015
The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank investor-state tribunal with proven tendency to favor corporate interests over arguments for protecting national sovereignty, the environment, and human rights.
Gilbert, Chris: What's Really Happening in Venezuela?
Shadows of the Weimar Republic
Published: 2014
An analysis of the 2014 civil unrest in Venezuela.
Gilbertson, Tamra; Reyes, Oscar: What's at stake in Copenhagen
The crucial debates at Copenhagen
Published: 2009
Tere is no chance of achieving binding greenhouse gas reductions within the current framework for an agreement. Instead the problem is being redefined to fit the business-as-usual assumptions of neoliberal economics.
Gilchrist, Emma: 'It's a New Day': Why Environmentalists Need to Change Their Strategy Under Trudeau Government
Published: 2015
Now that Justin Trudeau and the Liberals have taken the helm, advocates have high hopes for a course correction on the environment and energy files. But after nearly a decade of working under hostile conditions, environmentalists need to make a course correction of their own if they want to effectively influence public policy, experts say.
Gilchrist, Emma: 'It's No Longer About Saying No': How B.C.'s First Nations Are Taking Charge With Tribal Parks
Published: 2016
On June 26, 2014, the Tsilhqot’in Nation's 25-year court battle came to an end when the Supreme Court unanimously ruled the nation holds title to approximately 1,900 square kilometres of its traditional territory.
Gilk, Paul: Divine Land Grants
Published: 2024
Gill, Lesley; Ross, Norbert: What's Class Got to Do With It?
Published: 2016
Unsettled by Donald Trump's bigotry and xenophobia, liberal pundits have struggled to understand his improbable anointment as the nominee of the Republican party. Many have sought answers in the experience and behaviour of the white-working class, the bedrock of Trump support.
Gill, Timothy M.: Electorial Interventions
A Suspiciously Naive View of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World
Published: 2020
Gill explores American intervention abroad, and argues that foreign intervention has been a part of the American policy since the Monroe Doctrime in 1823. He further argues that in the Post-Cold War world, the US has promoted a liberal form of democray where any emphases on social and economic rights are largely absent. He critiques the work of David Shimer, a New York Times correspodent, as being naive and regurgitating the carefully crafted statements of American political elites.
Gillam, Carey: Food industry must get behind 'right to know' on GMO
Published: 2015
The citizens 'right to know' campaign about GMOs has put the food industry on the defensive, big time. But that only creates the impression they have something to hide. if GMOs are as great as they claim, they should be only too glad. It's time they switched sides and got with the people they feed.
Gillespie, Sarah: Gaza, Israel and 'Human Shields'
The People Putting Innocents in Danger are the Israelis
Published: 2014
What does it mean to use human shields? Employed by the Germans and Japanese in the Second World War, the tactic is premised on an underlying trust in your enemy’s humanity. It appeals to the compassion and mercy of the combatant that they not slaughter the innocent in order to avenge their target. The ‘shield’ is not the human bodies surrounding the ‘guilty’ party, the shield is the clemency that mankind instinctively affords the innocent. The shield evaporates only when confronted by an enemy who is not merely a fellow solder locked in a power battle, but a psychopath unconcerned with the pain of others.
Gillison, Douglas; Turse, Nick; Syed, Moiz: The Network
Leaked Data Reveals How the U.S. Trains Vast Numbers of Foreign Soldiers and Police With Little Oversight
Published: 2016
Gillmor, Dan: Why I'm Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft
I'm putting more trust in communities than corporations
Published: 2015
Gillmor discusses how we are losing control over the technology tools that once promised equal opportunity in speech and innovation.
Giordane, Al: John Kerry and Me
Published: 2012
Experiences in community organizing and electoral organizing.
Giordano, Al: Authentic journalism: weapon of the people
Published: 2010
The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big media claimed but failed to do: Honest, coherent storytelling.
Giordano, Al: From the Ashes of Dying Newspapers Will Come Authentic News
Published: 2009
Every time a daily newspaper of the obsolete model lays off another round of reporters, more of them come to us to study and learn the craft anew from this very different and opposite angle: from below, as opposed to the top down model that encrusted around them and doomed the previous version of their careers. Truth is, there is a direct correlation between the space in the media sphere that gets freed up every time a daily newspaper loses circ or dies and the increased reach that we and others have as we replace them with a better more people-powered model. So don't mourn the American daily newspaper. Anything you liked about it will continue but from a different set of new media. The time will come when one or more of those publications, or a new one yet to come in the US, will turn to the models that work for the daily Por Esto! or El Libertador or others South of the border, kissing their slavish dependence on advertisers goodbye and throwing their lot in, instead, with the larger multitudes of society.
Giordano, Al: Hollywood's Gary Webb Movie and the Message that Big Media Couldn't Kill
Published: 2014
Gary's email arrived quite by surprise. I knew about his Dark Alliance series, five years prior, documenting the CIA's trafficking of cocaine to fund paramilitary squads in Central America. I also knew he had been pummeled by corporate media and had lost his job over it. "They're trying to turn you into me," he said, “but you can win because you don't have a boss who can sell you out."
Giordano, Al: The Last American Newspaper
Published: 2013
Nostalgia is a particularly Bostonian pastime, and now almost anyone who ever set foot in that city over the past half-decade has another trigger for melancholy. The Boston Phoenix is dead, boys and girls. The Phoenix wasn’t merely the newspaper where I worked in my thirties. It was the place that gave me the time, space and freedom to evolve into who I would become for the rest of my life.
Giordano, Al: Life Inside of the Song of History with Pete Seeger
Published: 2014
Remembering Pete Seeger, his music, and his impact.
Giordano, Al: Mandela's Paradoxes Made His Journey Even Greater
Published: 2013
Mandela was in it to win it. He sought concrete, historic and “big” change, knew that it could not be achieved without the support of public opinion, and proved expertly flexible in, through trial and error, discovering what worked and what did not work, and embracing what did work.
Giordano, Al: The Medium is The Middleman: For a Revolution Against Media
Published: 1997
Media now controls a new economic order: one that has supplanted governments, churches and productive industry to impose a mediating tyranny over people and our Daily Lives.
Giordano, Al: The Mexican Student Movement Is Younger & Faster than "Occupy"
Published: 2012
It has been decades since I have seen any march of this size include a pledge by participants with that much discipline and awareness that the march is about influencing public opinion (in other words, not about "us" but about everyone). It reminds more of the guidelines from the victorious struggles of Ghandi to win independence from colonial rule in India, the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 70s.
Giordano, Al: Tomorrow on NY Radio We'll Be Dropping a Bomb on Facebook
Published: 2015
I've been asked to speak for Narco News and the nonprofit Fund for Authentic Journalism, and I'll announce that we're taking our 27,000+ Facebook users to Tsu as our response to Facebook and Instagram owner Mark Zuckerberg banning links to his upstart competitor last weekend.
Giordano, Al: What Some US Reporters Don't Get About Brazil and the Honduras Crisis
Published: 2009
Clueless desk editors like those at the New York Times titled these conflicts "Riots in Honduras." But you don't need to be able to understand Spanish to see and hear that, distinct from rioters, the young people of the neighborhood that came out and violated the military curfew to defend their neighborhood from this police invasion know and have memorized complicated political slogans and rhymes which they chanted in unison. "Riots" are disorganized explosions. This neighborhood, and others like it, however, have been forced by the realities of the coup to organize themselves to a greater extent than ever before.
Girard, Louis: Quebec prosecuting nearly 100 crane operators for 'illegal' 2018 strike
Published: 2018
Nearly 100 crane operators in Quebec are facing criminal prosecution for having participated in an "illegal" wildcat strike in June 2018.
Giroux, Henry: America's Descent Into Madness
The Politics of Cruelty
Published: 2013
The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible. Anti-public intellectuals promotes a culture of consumerism.
Giroux, Henry: Trump's War on Children is an act of State Terrorism
Published: 2018
State terrorism comes in many forms, but one of its most cruel and revolting expressions is when it is aimed at children. The Trump administration has detained more than 2,000 children, and the numbers are expected to grow exponentially in light of Trump's refusal to change the cruel policy.
Giroux, Henry A.: The Corporate Stranglehold on Education
Is Higher Education in Need of a Moral Bailout?
Published: 2009
Rather than challenge the economic irresponsibility, ecological damage, and human suffering, and culture of cruelty unleashed by free market fundamentalism, higher education appears to be one of its staunchest defenders, uncritically embracing a view of itself based on a market model of the academy.
Gitlin, Todd: Journalism as We Knew It Is Never Coming Back
Published: 2017
It’s old news that Donald Trump abuses reason, knowledge, decency and dark-skinned people. If you are paying attention, each one of his assaults on decency, intelligence and knowledge will feel urgent, ridiculous or both. Each day he threatens grave damage to actual human beings and the rest of Planet Earth, and each day he demonstrates his incapacity to do anything but inflict more damage.
gjohnsit: Dominican Republic to be 'Socially Cleaned' in two days
Published: 2015
In two days about a quarter of a million people will be made stateless. They will have no homes, no passports, and no civil rights. There are several reasons for this, but the primary reason is racism. At issue is a ruling by the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic to strip away the citizenship of several generations of Dominicans. According to the decision, Dominicans born after 1929 to parents who are not of Dominican ancestry are to have their citizenship revoked. The ruling affects an estimated 250,000 Dominican people of Haitian descent, including many who have had no personal connection with Haiti for several generations.
Gladu, Jean Paul: Aboriginal Entrepreneurs: The Under-Reported Story of This Generation
Published: 2013
Aboriginal entrepreneurs and businesses were front and centre for me this past November as the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) launched a unique research study as part of our 2013-14 Aboriginal Business Survey.
Glaser, John: US: Offensive Cyber-Warfare is Illegal... Unless We Do It
Published: 2013
The US government declares that cyberwarfare directed against the US would be an act of war -- and, oh, by the way, that it is agressively engaged in cyberwarfare against foreign countries.
Glass, Charles: Disunified Front
The chaotic, underfunded battle against the Islamic State
Published: 2016
Journalist Charles Glass and photographer Don McCullin toured the Kurdish and Arab Shiite front lines that facing Islamic State Territory. In interviews with embattled leadership against ISIS, they discover an underfunded resistence, shortage of weapons and ultimately America's refusal to coordinate which has prolonged the fighting.
Glass, Charles: The Unjust Prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation Five
Published: 2018
Miko Peled, in "Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five," his exhaustive study of the U.S. government's case against five defendants from a friendless minority, demonstrates how American justice has deviated so far from Blackstone that the courts can convict a hundred innocents for one who is guilty.
Glavin, Terry: Anti-War Movement's Strange Allies: Hard Line Islamists
Canada's progressive Muslims wonder why left would embrace theocrats
Published: 2006
Canada's anti-war movement has become not only the primary vehicle for an obscure, formerly left-wing group that attacks anyone who opposes Shariah courts in Canada, it's also now the main source of public respectability for a Toronto think-tank that advocates for the establishment of theocracies that hang gay people.
Glazebrook, Dan: Quantitative Easing: the Most Opaque Transfer of Wealth in History
Published: 2017
Quantitative Easing, by 'injecting' money into the economy, was supposed to get banks lending again, boosting investment and driving up economic growth, but this has proven not to be the case.
Glazebrook, Daniel: Deadliest Terror in the World: The West's Latest Gift to Africa
Published: 2015
Nigeria's Boko Haram are now officially the deadliest terror group in the world. That they have reached this position is a direct consequence of Cameron and Co's war on Libya - and one that was perhaps not entirely unintended.
Glennon, Patrick: "Listen, Yankee!": Tom Hayden Captures Absurdity of Cuban Embargo
Published: 2015
The US embargo of Cuba, like a bad hangover from the Cold War, has lingered on for far too long. After decades of bingeing on the country's particularly potent brand of anticommunism, the nation's ruling elite has found it near impossible to kick its predilection for holding Cuba to a higher standard than it does for putative US allies and, for that matter, the United States itself.
Global Voices: The Biggest Threat to Mexican Journalists Aren't Drug Cartels Anymore
Published: 2015
Northern Mexico and the drug cartels have dangerous reputations; especially for journalists. This should come to a surprise to no one. This year, however, the danger seems to have shifted in both location and source. Of the six journalists that were killed in Mexico this year, all of them were killed in the south; most likely at the hands of police officers and politicians.
Global Witness: How many more
Published: 2015
New report shows killings of environmental activists are increasing, with indigenous communities hardest hit. Global Witness shines a spotlight on Honduras - the most dangerous country to be an environmental defender.
Glover, Chris: Transgender refugee defies critics by inviting military recruiters to a trans job fair
Trans group calls job fair 'extremely disrespectful' and 'a racist act'
Published: 2017
A transgender Kenyan refugee is defiant in the face of accusations she's being racist and "inherently violent," for inviting the Canadian Armed Forces to a job fair aimed at helping transgender people find work.
Goddard, Ed: The Orwell quotes right-wingers never mention
Published: 2019
A brief look at George Orwell's revolutionary, left-wing views to counter the superficial references to "thought police" or "big brother" used in right-wing circles.
Godoy, Emilio: Expansion of Renewable Energies in Mexico Has Victims, Too
Published: 2017
An account of the impact of wind and solar projects in the Yucatan state of Mexico on the nearby communities, in particular farmers, and the failures of the government to consult or inform the community on the environmental impacts and contract terms.
Goeden, Gerry: What Will the World Inherit From GE Salmon?
Uncharted Waters
Published: 2014
It’s true; about 50 percent of the fish we eat are farmed. There is good reason for this as, one by one, the world’s commercial fisheries collapse through overfishing. According to FAO (2010), 70% of the world’s large commercial fisheries have either failed or are not far from it.
Goines, Lisa; Hagler, Louis: Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague
Published: 2007
Environmental noise pollution, a form of air pollution, is a threat to health and well-being. It is more severe and widespread than ever before, and it will continue to increase in magnitude and severity because of population growth, urbanization, and the associated growth in the use of increasingly powerful, varied, and highly mobile sources of noise. It will also continue to grow because of sustained growth in highway, rail, and air traffic, which remain major sources of environmental noise. The potential health effects of noise pollution are numerous, pervasive, persistent, and medically and socially significant.
Goita, Mamadou: Advancing Food Sovereignty to Transform Economies
Published: 2015
Food sovereignty can transform local, national, and regional markets to support countries’ domestic economies and allow us to create wealth, both in production and knowledge.
Goldacre, Ben: What the Tamiflu Saga tells us about Drug Trials and Big Pharma
Published: 2014
We now know the government's Tamiflu stockpile wouldn't have done us much good in the event of a flu epidemic. But the secrecy surrounding clinical trials means there's a lot we don't know about other medicines we take, says Ben Goldacre.
Goldenberg, Suzanne: CO2 Emissions are Being 'Outsourced' by Rich Countries to Rising Economies
Published: 2014
Greenhouse gas output of China and elsewhere is increased by making goods that are then used in the US and Europe.
Goldenberg, Suzanne: Fracking hell: what it's really like to live next to a shale gas well
Published: 2014
Nausea, headaches and nosebleeds, invasive chemical smells, constant drilling, slumping property prices – welcome to Ponder, Texas, where fracking has overtaken the town.
Goldenberg, Suzanne: Season of dread returns as Haiti awaits devastating hurricane season
Decades of deforestation left the Carribbean island defenceless against last year's catastrophic hurricanes. But Haiti hopes attempts to sav
Published: 2009
An examination of the continuing effects of recent hurricanes on the economy and ecology of Haiti.
Goldenberg, Suzanne: Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks
Published: 2013
Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science.
Goldfield, Michael: Black Liberation, Working-Class Unity, and the Popular Front: A Reply to Mel Rothenberg
Published: 1999
MEL ROTHENBERG HAS written a generous review of my book The Color of Politics, (Against the Current 75, July/ August 1998), in which he praises and succinctly summarizes certain of my key arguments. For this I am, of course, grateful. On one issue, however, Rothenberg draws conclusions with which I wish to disassociate myself, conclusions that I believe do not flow from my writing or analysis. The issue concerns his assertion about the importance and salutary effect of popular front approaches...
Goldner, Loren: A Hollowed-Out Keynesian Warfare State
American Democracy Today and Historically
Published: 2003
The Democratic Party today is a party of corporate lawyers. Forty years ago, it was still rooted in local urban political machines and in the unions. A similar gap has arisen between the business elite that controls the Republican Party and the small-town lower-middle class constituency that supports the Republican "cultural agenda" of a backlash against "permissiveness", as on the abortion issue, or the separation of church and state. The entire official political system is mobilized with a "hard" Hobbesian edge against the "social": the program is to close factories, close schools, close hospitals, build prisons.
Goldner, Loren: Multiculturalism or World Culture?
On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
Published: 2000
Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the values associated with intensive capitalist accumulation as "white male", so "non-white" peoples such as Japanese or Koreans who currently embody those values with a greater fervour than most "whites" are ignored.
Goldner, Loren: Philip Mirowski, Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste (Book Review)
How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (Verso, 2013)
Published: 2013
Philip Mirowski has written an important book, one well worth reading. Both an economist and an historian/philosopher of science, Mirowski is unusual in being highly attuned to the purging (long ago) of both economic history and the history of economic thought from the Anglo-American academic “economics” curriculum.
Goldner, Loren: The Russian Revolution Revisited - Review
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
A review of 'The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History' by John Eric Marot.
Goldstein, Joseph: Old New York Police Surveillance Is Found, Forcing Big Brother Out of Hiding
Published: 2016
From the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, police surveillance of political organizations in New York was extensive enough to require more than half a million index cards, simply to catalog and cross-reference the many dossiers. But over the ensuing decades, the dossiers themselves were presumed missing or lost. Police Department lawyers said they had no idea where the files had gone.

Now, a significant portion of the missing files have been discovered during what the city said on Thursday was a routine inventory of a Queens warehouse, where archivists found 520 brown boxes of decades-old files, believed to be the largest trove of New York Police Department surveillance records from the era.
Goldstein, Sam Jaffe: Nothing Kept Me Up At Night the Way Gorgon Stare Did
Published: 2019
An interview with an expert on drones about a new camera technology that drastically improves wide-area sureillance capabilities.
Goldstone, Brian: The Pain Refugees
The forgotten victims of America's opiod crisis
Published: 2018
On how Americans prescribed opiods for chronic pain were affected by the tightening of restrictions on pain pills in the US.
Goli, Ammar: The Organised Suppression of Kurdish Journalists in Iran
Published: 2015
It has been nearly 120 years since the first Kurdish newspaper, 'Kordestan' was published – a publication which did not in come into existence here in Kurdistan, but in exile in Egypt, its later life being in Europe. In 1909, 'Kordestan' was banned from publishing by the Ottoman Empire. Despite the ban being placed over a century ago, with its founders and journalists having been arrested and prosecuted, it seems that even today the fate of Kurdish journalism is intertwined with that of 'Kordestan'.
Golinger, Eva: The Dirty Hand of the National Endowment for Democracy in Venezuela
Agents of Destabilization
Published: 2014
Anti-government protests in Venezuela that seek regime change have been led by several individuals and organizations with close ties to the US government. The National Endowment for Democracy “NED” and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have channeled multi-million dollar funding to Lopez’s political parties Primero Justicia and Voluntad Popular, and Machado’s NGO Sumate and her electoral campaigns.
Gollom, Mark: 'It's like they never existed': Toronto monument will honour mistreated British Home Children
Published: 2017
Over eight decades 115,000 children in Britain living in squalid conditions were sent to Canada for a better life, only to be exploited as workers by foster families and often suffering deplorable abuse.
Gomez, Camilo: The Rise of the Intellectual Pornstar
Published: 2018
Once only found in society's margins, the pornography industry has developed into a multi-billion dollar business that is branching into the mainstream. The article explains that the industry, while still controversial, increasingly comments on the social problems of today and pushes for reforms in areas that other large industries are scared to.
Gomez, Manuel R.: The Bay of Pigs and Chronic Hubris
The Same Mistake for 52 Years
Published: 2013
April 17-19 marks the 52nd anniversary of the US-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles, our proxies to try to overthrow the Cuban Revolution.
Gomez, Mariana; Hitchcock, Benjamin: Cajamarca - curing gold fever
The people of Cajamarca stopped a gold mine in their water and food rich territory. But the real story is what happened next...
Published: 2020
Farmers, youth and other environmental defenders from Cajamarca, deep in the embrace of the Colombian Andes Mountains, have stopped a vast gold mine, re-valued the ‘true treasures’ in their territory and begun to develop regenerative alternatives to mining 'development'.
Gone, Yoana: Israeli Soldiers Who Document Their Crimes Know They're Safe From Prosecution
Published: 2024
These videos seem to be everywhere in the past year: soldiers abusing, looting and smashing, all with big smiles. On Friday, Al Jazeera aired a comprehensive investigative report about war crimes committed by the IDF in Gaza, which is full of material posted by the soldiers themselves. Most of the report deals with more horrific crimes, from mass starvation to the shooting of children, but these videos are especially shocking: the visible faces make the violence more intimate, and the giggles testify to a sadistic pleasure that is hard to deny.
Gonzales, Mike: John Berger (1926-2017)
"He helped form a generation for whom he made it possible to discover a different, critical way of seeing"
Published: 2017
John Berger's revolutionary insistence was that our reality could be seen differently, and altered by our intervention.
Gonzales, Mike: The Sense of Art: In memoriam John Berger
Published: 2017
In memoriam of the British writer and lecturer John Berger.
Gonzalez, Celilia: Torture, Democracy and Memory in Argentina
No Sugarplums for Christmas
Published: 2014
Gonzalez, Mike: Redeeming Chávez's Dream
Published: 2016
The world press, suddenly aware of the deepening crisis in Venezuela, is relishing in the Bolivarian Revolution's woes. But its coverage rarely goes deeper than images of poor people clamoring for food. The photos index the situation's seriousness, but they do not capture its complexity.
Gonzalez, Pedro: Servant of the Corrupt
Published: 2022
Pedro Gonzalez details the connections among Zelensky, oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and Washington, D.C.
Good, Kenneth: The Killing and Raping Game in Kenya and the Despots Who Run It
Published: 2020
Politics in Kenya is dominated by rapacious elites consumed with the looting of state resources, using violence to avoid any possible accountability. Elections serve as key points of entry and consolidation in this system for both ruling and competing elites, and are manifestations of corruption, fraud, and repression.
Goodley, Simon; Inman, Phillip: Zero-hours contracts cover more than 1m UK workers
Published: 2013
Poll of more than 1,000 employers reveals controversial contract used far more widely in the UK than government data suggests.
Goodman, Amy: After Visiting Brazil's Lula in Prison, Noam Chomsky Warns Against "Disaster" Under Jair Bolsonaro
Published: 2018
An interview with Noam Chomsky about newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil. Politically the election marks a dramatic shift to the right for the country which Chomsky describes as a disaster for Brazil. The article includes a link to the interview on video.
Goodman, Amy: "Brutal and Sadistic": Noam Chomsky on Family Separation & the U.S. Roots of Today's Refugee Crisis
Published: 2018
An interview with Noam Chomsky on the refugee crisis and the Trump administration's family separation policy. The article includes a link to the video interview.
Goodman, Amy: "Mr. Boston": Meet the Man Who Secretly Helped Daniel Ellsberg Leak Pentagon Papers to the Press
Published: 2018
Interview with historian Gar Alperovitz. Alperovitz has revealed for the first time the key role he and a handful of other activists played in helping whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leak to journalists the Pentagon Papers -- a 7,000-page classified history outlining the true extent of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam.
Goodman, Jim: Feedlots and E. Coli
Published: 2009
Improving processing plant inspections is a good idea, but it is only part of the solution. The real solution is minimizing the potential contaminant. Secondly, slow down the processing line so the workers can do their jobs. CDC tells people to wash their hands, their cutting boards and to cook meat thoroughly. Good sound suggestions, but why is the burden of safety inordinately placed on the consumer? Why are the processors allowed to hide behind the 'safe handling instructions' and maximize their profits with impunity?
Goodman, Jim: New Seeds, Old Pesticides
A Farmer on 2,4-D and Next Gen GMOs
Published: 2014
I doubt very many people have ever heard or seen a "tank mix." Simply put, it is a mix of several crop chemicals used together to control a variety of weeds. I have not looked into a swirling mix of chemicals in a crop spray rig for probably 20 years – that's about how long it has been since we have used any herbicides on our farm.
Goodman, Jim: The Trans Pacific Partnership Will Not Help Struggling Farmers
Published: 2016
A recent Associated Press article claimed that Wisconsin dairy producers "see nothing but advantages" if the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) were passed during the final session of Congress. A more accurate statement would be that some dairy producers see nothing but advantages. I am at a loss to understand how dairy producers would see any advantages to yet another "free trade" agreement.
Goodman, Jim: Will GM Crops Collapse the Food System?
Published: 2014
Often when a technology is introduced one never considers why it was introduced or what future events and connections may be put in motion. Clearly the trend to global crop production and marketing has changed the face of agriculture. Now we are left to decide if it was a good thing, this world changing shift in crop production brought about by GM crops.
Goodman, Jim: Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Have Been Duped into Producing Too Much Milk
Published: 2017
Wisconsin farmers have been duped into producing too much milk, resulting in reduced profitability and at the expense of the environment.
Goodman, Mel: The "War Scare" in the Kremlin, Revisited: Is History Repeating Itself?
Published: 2015
The Washington Post on October 25, 2015 published an important story based on a recently-published U.S. intelligence review from 1990 that confirmed Soviet leaders in 1983 believed the Reagan administration was using a mobilization exercise to prepare a nuclear surprise attack.
Goodman, Paul: Paul Goodman Quotes
Goodwin, Matthew: Wade Michael Page and the rise of violent far-right extremism
Published: 2012
The man who opened fire in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin was not just a crazed loner, but a vocal neo-Nazi – in fact, his white supremacist ideology reflected a growing form of extremism that expresses its strength through violence rather than at the ballot box.
Goodwin, Michael; Burr, Dan E.: Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic
Published: 2014
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are the latest in a long line of international free trade agreements. But why are they bad for the majority of people and the planet and what are the justifications given by politicians, economists and big corporations for pushing them? This fanstastic comic explains.
Goodyear, Sheena: Why this woman left a career in architecture to catalogue bird feathers
Published: 2023
During the pandemic lockdowns, Munshi took a two-year online course on bird biology from Cornell University. And now, instead of designing buildings, she puts her aesthetic skills to use by collecting, photographing, measuring and cataloguing the wings and feathers of India's more than 1,300 bird species.
Gordon, Andrea: Annie Kidder and People for Education have made a mark on Ontario schools, but have they become part of the system?
Published: 2017
A look at the work of Annie Kidder, a public education advocate, who has spearheaded a grassroots movement that has given Ontario parents more of a voice in what goes on inside their children's classrooms.
Gordon, Linda: Gerda Lerner, 1920-2013
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
Gerda Lerner has been the single most influential figure in the development of women’s and gender history since the 1960s.
Gordon, Neve: Israel's War Echo Chamber
Lost Voices of Dissent
Published: 2014
For several days now, some of my neighbours have suggested that the time has come to “destroy them”- meaning either Hamas or Palestinians – “once and for all”. Government ministers, members of Knesset and leading media commentators have also been consistently pouring oil onto the fire. Indeed, it seems the only vocal criticism against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is that he is too soft on the Palestinians. There is no public debate about the necessity of another war, but only about how punitive Israel should be.
Gordon, Neve: It's No Wonder the Military likes Violent Video Games, They Can Help Train Civilians to Become Warriors
Published: 2019
Most studies show no correlation between video games and violence but the adoption of computer simulations by the military and their similarity to video games should give us pause about their ethical impact on society.
Gordon, Neve: The witch hunt at Westminster
Why was a documentary film on the 'anti-Semitism in Labour debate' banned from being screened at the British parliament?
Published: 2019
A screening of a documentry about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party was cancelled in British parliament. Charges seem to conflate anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism.
Gordon, Neve; Perugini, Nicola: The fallacy of Israel's human shields claims in Gaza
Published: 2018
Desperately trying to justify the killing of unarmed protesters, Israel once again uses its 'human shields' mantra.
Gordon, Neve; Perugini, Nicola: On 'Human Shielding' in Gaza
How the Israeli Army has Tried to Justify Striking Civilian Areas
Published: 2014
All fighting within cities and all bombardments of urban spaces, even the most “precise and surgical”, is a potential death trap for civilians. Consequently, the permeation of war into cities inevitably transforms their inhabitants into potential human shields.
Gorelick, Steven: Branding Tradition: a Bittersweet Tale of Capitalism at Work
Published: 2016
It's almost sugaring time here in Vermont. On our homestead we tap about 25 trees, boil down the sap on the kitchen cookstove, and - in a good year - end up with 4 or 5 gallons of maple syrup. That may sound like a lot, but since it represents our family's main source of sweetener it's rarely enough to get us through the year. By mid-winter we're usually buying syrup from a neighbor -- someone who makes his living from his sugar bush.
Gorman, Michael: More Than Wordle... Ten Other Word Cloud Generators ... Providing Unique Features
Published: 2010
Gorman, Peter: The Dangers of Journalism 101
Journalists who don't run with the pack routinely face difficulty and danger
Published: 2013
Journalists who cover cutting edge material, the politics of repression or wars or covert operations have always been at risk. It’s part of the job and part of the joy of the job. The risk, the danger is all part of the rush that makes some journalists work.
Gorz, Andre: Workers' Control is More than Just That
Published: 1971
One perspective on workers control is that it will never be won while capitalism prevails and must be fought for precisely for that reason. Gorz shares this view and argues that, when we speak of workers' control, we speak of the capability of the workers' to take control of the process of production and to organize the working process as they think best.
Gostoli, Ylenia: How the internet 'punishes' Palestinians
Tech giants Google, Airbnb and PayPal accused of shaping false narratives with policies in Palestinian territories.
Published: 2018
Multinational tech companies, including Google, Facebook and PayPal are being accused of complicity in rights violations and in shaping false narratives with regard to policies in Palestinian territories.
Gostoli, Ylenia: Israeli museum transfer sets 'dangerous precedent'
Published: 2016
A recent court ruling sanctioned the move of a rare archaeological library from East to West Jerusalem.
Gottesdiener, Laura: The Unbelievable Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement And Punishment for as Little as Reading a Book
Published: 2012
The majority of those in solitary confinement were given the punishment for nonviolent, low-level offenses such as having unauthorized books or disobeying an order or growing their mustaches too long.
Gould, Stephen Jay: Stephen Jay Gould Quotes
Gould, Stephen Jay; Chavez, Miguel: The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive
This website is an independently operated tribute to the life and work of Stephen Jay Gould. Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was among the best known and widely read scientists of the 20th century. A paleontologist and educator at Harvard University, Gould made his largest contributions to science as the leading spokes-person for evolutionary theory. His monthly columns in Natural History magazine and his popular works on evolution have earned him numerous awards and one of the largest readerships in the popular-science genre — penning over twenty successful books throughout his career.
Goulding, Richard: Community Organising - A New Part of the Union
Published: 2012
A look at Unite’s community union organizing.
Gowans, Stephen: Eight reasons why the latest Syria chemical weapons attack allegations are almost certainly complete nonsense
Published: 2018
A discussion on the chemical attack in Douma, Syria, and why the allegations are likely false.
Gowans, Stephen: No matter how it appears, Trump isn't getting out of Syria and Afghanistan
Published: 2018
Trump's plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Syria don't reflect a large change in US foreign policy. US troops are only a small part of the forces currently deployed there and they will probably be replaced with mercenaries paid for by oil monarchies.
Gowans, Stephen: Sense and Nonsense About Ukraine
Published: 2021
Goñi,Uki: A novel oasis: why Argentina is the bookshop capital of the world
Published: 2015
Buenos Aires alone has more bookstores per person than any other city in the world - just enough for inquisitive Argentinians to indulge their literary cravings.
Grabar, Henry: What Really Happens When a City Makes Its Transit System Free
Published: 2012
Grabar analyzes the free transit system in Châteauroux, supported by a similar case in Aubagne, to provide a realistic view of how well transit can function fare-free.
Graber-Stiehl, Ian: Science's pirate queen
Alexandra Elbakyan is plundering the academic publishing establishment
Published: 2018
A profile of open access academic publishing activist Alexandra Elbakayan and the ongoing conflict between academics and for-profit academic publishing houses.
Graceffo, Loretta: Media Must Stop Asking Youth Activists to 'Save the World'
Published: 2021
Graceffo explores the recent trend in which young activists are granted international fame. She argues that the media places too much responsibility on these youth with little protection against scrutiny and hate speech while also continuing to silence voices from the Global South.
Graeber, David: The elites hate Momentum and the Corbynites - and I'll tell you why
The movement that backed the Labour leader challenges MPs and journalists alike - because it's about grassroots democracy
Published: 2016
As the rolling catastrophe of what's already being called the "chicken coup" against the Labour leadership winds down, pretty much all the commentary has focused on the personal qualities, real or imagined, of the principal players. Yet such an approach misses out on almost everything that's really at stake here. The real battle is not over the personality of one man, or even a couple of hundred politicians. If the opposition to Jeremy Corbyn for the past nine months has been so fierce, and so bitter, it is because his existence as head of a major political party is an assault on the very notion that politics should be primarily about the personal qualities of politicians.
Graeber, David: Punching the Clock
Published: 2018
An excerpt from David Graeber's book "Bullshit Jobs" published by Simon and Schuster. Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, looks at the existence of meaningless work and the psychological and societal harm that results.
Graham, Barbara Florio: Letters to the Editor
Published: 2004
The Letters page is one of the most popular sections of any newspaper, and is therefore an ideal way to keep your name and your core message in front of the public.
Graham, Barbara Florio: Media Relations - Behaviours Unbecoming
Published: 2003
What NOT to do when dealing with the media.
Graham, Barbara Florio: Schedule a Photo Shoot
Published: 2010
Snapshots taken by friends or family are fine for most purposes, but when you need a professional portrait to use on your website, in your promotional materials or for the back cover of your book, you need to hire a professional.
Graham, Barbara Florio: Secrets from a Top Sales Exec
Published: 2010
Marketing your business, product or yourself is like any other type of sales.
Graham, Barbara Florio: Website Woes: Are you making these mistakes?
Published: 2011
Even the most simple website can be difficult to navigate, and I'm regularly frustrated by sites hosted by major media or large corporations that are annoying for one reason or another.
Graham, Barbara Florio: When to Contact the Media
Published: 2004
Advice on when to contact the media.
Graham, Barbara Florio: Why Publicity Sometimes Fails
Published: 2004
You've done everything you can think of to publicize your new product launch, event, or small business. But nothing seems to work. Barbara Florio Graham explains why.
Graham, Darwin, Bond: Iron Cagebook
The Logical End of Facebook's Patents
Published: 2013
Graham, Kathleen: The Future of News
Published: 2009
Communications and electronic journalism have changed dramatically in recent years and promise to change even more in years to come. The familiar lines that once marked the boundaries between radio, television, print, computers, telephones and other media are blurring...
Graham, Martha: Martha Graham Quotes
Graham, Peter: Black Power in Toronto
Connexipedia article
Published: 2020
History of the Black Power Movement in Toronto, in the context of the Black Power movement in North America.
Graham, Peter: Community Homophile Association of Toronto (CHAT)
Connexipedia article
Published: 2020
History of the Community Homophile Association of Toronto (CHAT).
Graham, Peter: Counter-Culture
Connexipedia article
Published: 2020
An article on the history of the 1960s Counter-Culture in Toronto.
Graham, Peter: The Injured Workers Movement
Connexipedia article
Published: 2020
History and formation of The Injured Workers Movement.
Graham, Peter: League for Student Democracy (LSD)
Connexipedia article
Published: 2020
An article about the history of the League for Student Democracy (LSD) in Toronto.
Graham, Peter: 1960s CounterCulture in Toronto
Published: 2020
Amidst the overt political developments of the late 1950s and early 1960s, a small but significant portion of youth became attracted to Beat or bohemian culture.
Graham, Peter: Parkdale Tenants' Association (PTA)
Connexipedia article
Published: 2020
History of the Parkdale Tenants’ Association (PTA) in Toronto.
Graham, Peter: Stop Spadina Save Our City Co-ordinating Committee (SSSOCCC)
Connexipedia article
Published: 2020
History of the Stop Spadina Save Our City Co-ordinating Committee (SSSOCCC), which was formed to oppose the proposed Spadina Expressway that was supposed to be bulldozed through the middle of downtown Toronto.
Graham, Stephen: Lockdown London
The Olympics will see the UK's biggest mobilisation of security forces since the second world war
Published: 2012
The projected expense of security at the upcoming London Olympic Games is $867m -- part of the booming 'security industry'.
Graham-Harrison, Emma: Why China's super-rich are now eager to invest in philanthropy
Published: 2015
The country's wealthy elite chase recognition and status by splashing cash on museums and schools, but there may also be a less idealistic motive behind their largesse.
Grain: GMOs: Fooling -- er, "feeding" -- the world for 20 years
Published: 2012
Myths and outright lies about the alleged benefits of genetically engineered crops (GE crops or GMOs) persist only because the multinationals that profit from them have put so much effort into spreading them around.
Granatstein, J.L.; Stafford, David: Spy Wars
Espionage and Canada from Gouzenko to Glasnost
Published: 1990
A survey history of Canad'as "secret" history.
Grandia, Kevin: Tobacco Gun for Hire James Enstrom, Willie Soon and the Climate Deniers Attack on Merchants of Doubt
Published: 2015
Climate denier Fred Singer, scientist working for tobacco companies, asks whether it would make sense to file a lawsuit to try and stop the release of the new documentary, Merchants of Doubt – a film tracing the tactics used by Big Tobacco to spread misinformation.
Grandia, Kevin and DeMelle, Brendan: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
Published: 2016
Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. Exxon corporate documents from the late 1970s state unequivocally "there is no doubt" that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing "problem" well understood within the company.
Grandin, Greg: How the 1989 War on Manuel Noriega's Panama Super-Charged US Militarism
Published: 2017
Manuel Noriega is dead at 83. He seems like a sad footnote to the last disastrous quarter century, but the December 1989 US invasion of Panama really was a permission slip for Washington -- led by both Republicans and Democrats -- to waste whatever potential benefits the end of the Cold War might have brought.
Grandin, Greg: In Vietnam War US deliberately bombed hospitals
Published: 2015
Grant, John: Is the Islamic State Really Such a Psychological Enigma?
A Bizarre Excursion Into the Surreal
Published: 2015
The costly debacle known as the Iraq War put the US government in a tough spot that's now exacerbated by the rise of the Islamic State in Anbar Province and western Syria.
A recent New York Times story referred to the Islamic State (also ISIS or ISIL) as a "conundrum" - "a hybrid terrorist organization and a conventional army."
Grant, John: Israel Moves to Check Its Artists
Published: 2016
As a writer/photographer and a tax-paying American citizen, a story in the New York Times about Israel's culture wars made me cringe. It seems the powerful, militarist right in Israel -- so committed to expansion and settlements in the West Bank -- is now trying to suppress ideas among the nation's artistic and literary minds.
Grant, Richard; photographs by Allison Shelley: Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom
Published: 2016
The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways. Archaeologists are learning more about their free communities.
Grant, Sonia; Peloso, Andrea; Pope, Erin; Saunders, Sakura; Sharkey, John; Vasey, Dave; Vos, Lukas: Not Worth The Risk
A Community Report on the Line 9 International Energy Board Hearings
Published: 2014
Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline – a 38 year old pipeline that is almost identical in build and age to the Line 6B pipeline that ruptured into the Kalamazoo river – seeks to gain approval to reverse its flow, increase its capacity, and carry a dangerous heavy crude known as dilbit, or diluted bitumen. Line 9 runs through sensitive ecosystems and important farmlands throughout Southern Ontario and Quebec, and passes within 50 km of over 9 million people, including 18 First Nations communities.
Grant, Tavia: Asbestos revealed as Canada's top cause of workplace death
Published: 2014
Asbestos exposure is the single largest on-the-job killer in Canada. Since 1996, almost 5,000 approved death claims stem from asbestos exposure, making it by far the top source of workplace death in Canada.
Graves, Lisa: 5 Ideas that Really Matter But FOX Won't Address Them in the Presidential Debate
Published: 2015
Iimportant issues – issues that affect millions of American families – are going unacknowledged entirely in the current election campaign.
Graves, Lisa: Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights
Published: 2014
Rick Berman, the king of corporate front groups and propaganda, has been caught on tape detailing his attacks on public interest groups in the labor and environmental movements. Berman specializes in setting up pro-corporate front groups to attack grassroots citizen groups. Berman advocates and practises a range of dirty tactics and propaganda techniques.
Gray, Peter: The Decline of Play and Rise in Children's Mental Disorders
Published: 2010
Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past 50 to 70 years. Today, by at least some estimates, five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or anxiety disorder as was true half a century or more ago. This increased psychopathology is not the result of changed diagnostic criteria; it holds even when the measures and criteria are constant.
Gray, Steve: Native advertising: What is it, and why now?
Call it a breakthrough or sellout, native advertising has ushered in a new era of customer-centric advertising defined by unlimited bandwidt
Published: 2014
Native advertising is the act of placing ads in the middle of an article. It has become far more common these days. This article outlines why.
Grech, Michael; Mayo, Peter: Engaging the Popular Imagination; Engaging the Holy Week culture
Published: 2018
Holy Week, in the Christian religious tradition, comprises an important series of events that take place in many communities in the Mediterranean, Latin America and beyond around this time – events commemorating Jesus Christ's entry to Jerusalem, his last supper with the Apostles, together with his passion, death and resurrection. These commemorative events extend well beyond religious devotion and piety.
Greely, Henry T.: Covid-19 'immunity certificates': practical and ethical conundrums
Published: 2020
The media’s understandable focus is now on the number of people hospitalized with and dying from Covid-19. Yet most Americans who develop this disease will recover from it on their own after experiencing flu-like symptoms.
Green, Bryce: Hyping Ukraine Counteroffensive, US Press Chose Propaganda Over Journalism
Published: 2023
It has been clear for some time that US corporate news media have explicitly taken a side on the Ukraine War. This role includes suppressing relevant history of the lead-up to the war, attacking people who bring up that history as 'conspiracy theorists', accepting official government pronouncements at face value, and promoting an overly rosy picture of the conflict in order to boost morale. For most of the war, most of the US coverage has been as pro-Ukrainian as Ukraine's own media, now consolidated under the Zelenskyy government.
Green, Bryce: US Media's Intellectual No-Fly-Zone on US Culpability in Nord Stream Attack
Published: 2022
Discusses the media's suspicion of Russia over the destruction of the Nord 2 pipeline, although Washington has an established history of opposition to the pipeline.
Green, Colin: The Killings Fields of Gaza
Asymmetric Warfare
Published: 2013
Revelations from Israeli sources such as ‘Breaking the Silence’ and ‘Physicians for Human Rights-Israel’ that the Israeli assaults on Gaza in 2008/9 (Cast Lead) and 2012 (Pillars of Defence) were planned many months ahead pose many questions about the real motives for the seven year siege and these massive attacks on a helpless concentration of impoverished and imprisoned people.
Green, Commander Robert: Jeremy Corbyn is right to reject Trident
Published: 2015
Jeremy Corbyn has come under attack yesterday for his refusal to countenance the use of nuclear weapons. But his stance is honourable and both legally and strategically correct - especially with his opposition to renewing the Trident nuclear missile system.
Green, Jim: The nuclear renaissance is stone cold dead
Published: 2013
2013 has been the nuclear power industry's annus horribilis and the nuclear renaissance can now be pronounced stone cold dead. The industry is finding it increasingly difficult to profitably operate existing reactors - especially ageing reactors requiring refurbishments - let alone build new ones.
Green, Jim: Radioactive waste and the nuclear war on Australia's Aboriginal people
Published: 2016
Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s. The same attitudes persist today with plans to dump over half a million tonnes of high and intermediate level nuclear waste on Aboriginal land, and open new uranium mines. But now Aboriginal peoples and traditional land owners are fighting back.
Green, Michael: No Exit
The ongoing abuses of Australia's refugee policy
Published: 2018
A first person account of the refugee crisis in Australian detention centres. At great expense the Australian government holds detainees offshore in crowded camps, many of whom are stranded and living under deplorable conditions.
Green, Penelope: The Real Burning Man
Published: 2018
Driving converted delivery trucks, Roadtreks,vintage RVs, "skoolies" and the odd Prius, a few thousand gather in defiance of consumerist society.
Greenberg, Karen: Preparing for a Digital 9/11
Published: 2012
In recent years, in one of the more dangerous, if largely undiscussed, developments of our time, the Bush and then Obama administrations have launched the first state-planned war in cyber space. First, there were the "Olympic Games," then the Stuxnet virus, then Flame, and now it turns out that other sophisticated malware programs have evidently followed.
Greenberg, Ken: Ken Greenberg on Island Airport Expansion and Shared Values
People sometimes get amnesia - we forget the battles we fought to get where we are
Published: 2015
We are once more on the verge of making one of those decisions that comes along every generation that will have a profound impact on the shape of the city.
Greene, Bryce: 'Apartheid' Designation Ignored as Israel Kills Children in Gaza Again
Published: 2023
Greene looked at coverage of Israel's bombings of the Gaza Strip from the Washington Post, New York Times and CNN, and didn't find a single reference to Israel as an apartheid state, despite this being the consensus in the human rights community. Greene criticizes the lack of coverage and distortion of events perpetuated by the media.
Greene, Bryce: In Ukraine, 'No One Hears That There Is a Diplomatic Solution'
Published: 2022
Greene, Jacob: The Media's Dirty War on Occupy
Against The Current vol. 159
Published: 2012
In media portrayals of a protest movement widely criticized for its broad message and vague demands, one picture of the Occupy movement remained consistent across various outlets: the protestors are filthy.
Greene, Julie: Who Built the Panama Canal?
Published: 2017
Donald Trump might not know it, but the United States didn't build the Panama Canal. Workers did.
Greenfield, Lauren: Thin
Published: 2006
The story of four women suffering from anorexia and bulimia in South Florida.
Greenstein, Tony: Twitter closes down my account for 'hateful conduct'
Published: 2018
Several Twitter accounts with pro-Palestinian content have been suspended. At the same time those making explicit threats against them have been found not to violate Twitter's terms of service.
Greenstein, Tony: Zionism Boycotts the Funeral of Marek Edelman
Published: 2009
A sad farewell to Marek Edelman - the last surviving Commander of the Bund. The article describes his funeral in Warsaw, where he was buried, although he lived in Poland's second city, Lodz.
Greenstein, Tony: Zionists Seek to Silence the Lancet and Secure the Dismissal of its Editor, Richard Horton
Response to the Complaint to Reed Elsevier, Publishers of the Lancet, by Professor Sir Mark Pepys and 395 Colleagues
Published: 2015
The involvement of 396 senior researchers in a mass effort to force Reed Elsevier to withdraw the letter is the latest in a series of heavy-handed interventions to stifle media coverage of the Israel-Palestine issue and should be resisted.
Greenwald, Glen: Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit
Published: 2016
Detailing how the Democratic party's response to their defeat in the 2016 election reflects a failure to recognize factors leading to the UK Brexit referendum result.
Greenwald, Glen: The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis' Free Speech Rights in Charlottesville
Published: 2017
You can fight fascism by employing and championing one of its defining traits: viewpoint-based state censorship. those who favor free speech suppression, or who oppose the ACLU’s universal defense of speech rights, will create results that are the exact opposite of those they claim to want. It’s an indescribably misguided strategy that will inevitably victimize themselves and their own views.
Greenwald, Glenn: Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA's Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence
Published: 2016
There are some basic facts about what is known and, more importantly, what is not known about the anonymous CIA leaks concerning the 2016 US Presidency Election.
Greenwald, Glenn: As Corruption Engulfs Brazil's "Interim" President, Mask Has Fallen Off Protest Movement
Published: 2016
Momentum for the impeachment of Brazil's democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was initially driven by large, flamboyant street protests of citizens demanding her removal. Although Brazil's dominant media endlessly glorified (and incited) these green-and-yellow-clad protests as an organic citizen movement, evidence recently emerged that protests groups were covertly funded by opposition parties. Still, there is no doubt that millions of Brazilians participated in marches demanding Rousseff's ouster, claiming they were motivated by anger over her and her party’s corruption. But from the start, there were all sorts of reasons to doubt this storyline and to see that these protesters were (for the most part) not opposed to corruption, but simply devoted to removing from power the center-left party that won four straight national elections.
Greenwald, Glenn: As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom
Published: 2018
Democrats and Republicans both seem willing to curtail freedom of the press when an outlet publishes work against their interests, however, prosecuting Julian Assange/Wikileaks would create a precedent that would criminalize the core function of investigative journalism.
Greenwald, Glenn: Billionaires in Brazil: Understanding How Extreme Wealth and Political Power Overlap Everywhere
Published: 2016
Alex Cuadros spent years covering the billionaire class of Latin America for Bloomberg. A Portuguese-speaking American journalist who spent years based in Brazil, he has now written a highly entertaining and deeply insightful book about the particularly powerful, flamboyant, assertive, and often-crazed class of Brazilian billionaires. Titled Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country, his new book was released yesterday. Brazillionaires contains important lessons far beyond Brazil.
Greenwald, Glenn: Burning Victims to Death: Still a Common Practice
Published: 2015
The latest ISIS atrocity - releasing a video of a captured Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive - prompted substantial discussion yesterday about this particular form of savagery. It is thus worth noting that deliberately burning people to death is achievable - and deliberately achieved - in all sorts of other ways.
Greenwald, Glenn: Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That 'A Terrorist' Attacked Its Soldiers
Published: 2014
The national mood and discourse in Canada is virtually identical to what prevails in every Western country whenever an incident like this happens: shock and bewilderment that someone would want to bring violence to such a good and innocent country, followed by claims that the incident shows how primitive and savage is the “terrorist ideology” of extremist Muslims, followed by rage and demand for still more actions of militarism and freedom-deprivation.
Greenwald, Glenn: Clapper Calls for Arming Ukrainian Forces: Who Would That Actually Empower?
Published: 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin has long said that the Ukrainian coup of last year, and the subsequent regime in Kiev, is driven by ultra-nationalists, fascists, and even neo-Nazi factions. The Russian TV outlet RT also frequently refers to "the active role far-right groups have played on the pro-government side in Ukraine since the violent coup of the last year."
Greenwald, Glenn: CNN and the NYT Are Deliberately Obscuring Who Perpetrated the Afghan Hospital Attack
Published: 2015
Much of the world spent the last 48 hours expressing revulsion at the U.S. airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. It was quite clear early on that the perpetrator of the attack was the U.S., and many media outlets and other organizations around the world have been stating this without any difficulties.
Greenwald, Glenn: CNN Journalists Resign: Latest Example of Media Recklessness on the Russia Threat
Published: 2017
Major U.S. media outlets have published claims about the Russian threat in the direction of exaggerating the threat as well as inventing incriminating links between Moscow and the Trump circle, many of which have turned out to be false.
Greenwald, Glenn: Corporate Media's Double Standard: They Attack Whomever They Want, But You Cannot Criticize Them
Published: 2021
Greenwalk responsed to The Washington Post's article and Daily Beast's questions about accusations from The Intercept that he endangered their writers.
Greenwald, Glenn: Email from a Married, Female Ashley Madison User
Published: 2015
The private lives and sexual choices of fully formed adults are usually very complicated and thus impossible to understand -- and certainly impossible to judge -- without wallowing around in the most intimate details, none of which are any of your business. That's a very good reason not to try to sit in judgment and condemn from afar.
Greenwald, Glenn: Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual Culprits Who Empowered ISIS
Published: 2015
Whistleblowers are always accused of helping America's enemies (top Nixon aides accused Daniel Ellsberg of being a Soviet spy and causing the deaths of Americans with his leak); it's just the tactical playbook that's automatically used. So it's of course unsurprising that ever since Edward Snowden's whistleblowing enabled newspapers around the world to report on secretly implemented programs of mass surveillance, he has been accused by "officials" and their various media allies of Helping The Terrorists.
Greenwald, Glenn: Facebook Is Collaborating With the Israeli Government to Determine What Should Be Censored
Published: 2016
Last week, a major censorship controversy erupted when Facebook began deleting all posts containing the iconic photograph of the Vietnamese "Napalm Girl" on the ground that it violated the company's ban on "child nudity." Facebook even deleted a post from the prime minister of Norway, who posted the photograph in protest of the censorship. As outrage spread, Facebook ultimately reversed itself - acknowledging "the history and global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time" - but this episode illustrated many of the dangers I've previously highlighted in having private tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google become the arbiters of what we can and cannot see.
Having just resolved that censorship effort, Facebook seems to be vigorously courting another. The Associated Press reports today from Jerusalem that the Israeli government and Facebook have agreed to work together to determine how to tackle incitement on the social media network.
Greenwald, Glenn: The Fun of Empire: Fighting on All Sides of a War in Syria
Published: 2014
Now the Obama administration and American political class is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the failed “Bomb Assad!” campaign by starting a new campaign to bomb those fighting against Assad – the very same side the U.S. has been arming over the last two years.
Greenwald, Glenn: Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet
Is GCHQ awesome and 100% legal?
Published: 2014
The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, “amplif[y]” sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be “extremist.”
Greenwald, Glenn: Hailed as a Model for Successful Intervention, Libya Proves to be the Exact Opposite
Published: 2015
Advocates of the U.S. intervention in Lybia regard the event as a proof of success. Greenwald discusses why things are working in the opposite way.
Greenwald, Glenn: Hillary Clinton on the Sanctity of Protecting Classified Information
Published: 2015
It turns out that at least two of the emails which traversed Hillary Clinton’s personal email account and server were "top secret," according to the inspector general for the Intelligence Community. To describe that as reckless is an understatement given that, as AP notes, "There is no evidence she used encryption to shield the emails or her personal server from foreign intelligence services or other potentially prying eyes." The FBI has now taken possession of that server.
Greenwald, Glenn: In Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons
Published: 2015
Numerous writers thus demanded: to show "solidarity" with the murdered cartoonists, one should not merely condemn the attacks and defend the right of the cartoonists to publish, but should publish and even celebrate those cartoons. "The best response to Charlie Hebdo attack," announced Slate's editor Jacob Weisberg, "is to escalate blasphemous satire."
Greenwald, Glenn: Iranians Are Much Talked About on Sunday Morning TV, But Never Heard From
Published: 2015
Over the last couple months, the Sunday morning TV shows -- NBC's Meet the Press, CBS's Face The Nation, ABC's This Week, Fox's News Sunday, and CNN's State of the Union -- have focused on a deal with Iran as one of their principal topics. In doing so, they have repeatedly given a platform to fanatical anti-Iran voices.
Greenwald, Glenn: Israel Calls a Man Its Soldiers Killed a 'Terrorist': Until They Realized He Was an Israeli Jew
Published: 2015
The Jerusalem Post today describes the killing of a man by two IDF soldiers after, the soldiers claim, he was acting erratically and tried to grab one of their guns. When he was fatally shot by the IDF, says the paper, he was "believed to be an Arab terrorist." As it turns out, he was not an Arab Palestinian but rather an Israeli Jew. Upon learning this, the "terrorist" designation was officially and "immediately" rescinded.
Greenwald, Glenn: Jeremy Corbyn Accused of Being Russian 'Collaborator' for Questioning NATO Troop Build-Up on Border
Published: 2017
The armed forces minister for Britain's right-wing government, Mike Penning, accused Corbyn of being a collaborator with the Kremlin.
Greenwald, Glenn: The Left Continues to Destroy Itself and Others With Evidence-Free Destruction of Reputations
Published: 2021
Equating accusations with proven fact is reckless and repressive. It is also standard behaviour in liberal politics, whereby they ruin lives without a second thought.
Greenwald, Glenn: Media Lessons from Snowden Reporting: LA Times Editors Advocate Prosecution of Sources
Published: 2015
The LA Times editors want Snowden imprisoned, but not the leakers whose leaks make the U.S. government look good, much of which gets laundered in that particular paper.
Greenwald, Glenn: NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children
Published: 2014
Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been ordered by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately.
Greenwald, Glenn: NBC News Releases the Long-Awaited Trailer for its Summer Horror Film About ISIS
Published: 2015
ISIS now officially poses a bigger threat to the "U.S. homeland" than the one posed by former title-holder Al Qaeda.
Greenwald, Glenn: New Study Shows Mass Surveillance Breeds Meekness, Fear and Self-Censorship
Published: 2016
A newly published study from Oxford's Jon Penney provides empirical evidence for a key argument long made by privacy advocates: that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds fear and conformity and stifles free expression. Reporting on the study, the Washington Post this morning described this phenomenon: "If we think that authorities are watching our online actions, we might stop visiting certain websites or not say certain things just to avoid seeming suspicious."
Greenwald, Glenn: The New York Times Admits Key Falsehoods That Drove Last Year’s Coup in Bolivia: Falsehoods Peddled by the U.S., Its Media, and the Times
Published: 2020
The U.S. government and its media once again help destroy a thriving Latin American democracy.
Greenwald, Glenn: NYT Editorial Slams "Disgraceful" CIA Exploitation of Paris Attacks, But Submissive Media Role Is Key
Published: 2015
A truly superb New York Times editorial this morning mercilessly shames the despicable effort by U.S. government officials to shamelessly exploit the Paris attacks to advance long-standing agendas.
Greenwald, Glenn: Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.
Published: 2017
The U.S. continues to massacre Yemeni civilians, both directly and through its tyrannical Saudi partners.
Greenwald, Glenn: On Media Outlets That Continue to Describe Unknown Drone Victims As "Militants"
Published: 2014
Most large western media outlets continued to describe completely unknown victims of U.S. drone attacks as "militants" -- even though they (a) had no idea who those victims were or what they had done and (b) were well-aware that the term had been "re-defined" by the Obama administration into Alice in Wonderland-level nonsense. They count the corpses and they're not really sure who they are.
Greenwald, Glenn: The Orwellian Re-Branding of 'Mass Surveillance' as Merely 'Bulk Collection'
Published: 2015
Just as the Bush administration and the U.S. media re-labelled "torture" with the Orwellian euphemism "enhanced interrogation techniques" to make it more palatable, the governments and media of the Five Eyes surveillance alliance are now attempting to re-brand "mass surveillance" as "bulk collection" in order to make it less menacing (and less illegal).
Greenwald, Glenn: The Petulant Entitlement Syndrome of Journalists
Published: 2015
Jonathan Chait’s denunciation of the "PC language police" provoked intense reaction: much criticism from liberals and praise from conservatives.
Greenwald, Glenn: Political Smears in U.S. Never Change: the NYT's 1967 Attack on MLK's Anti-War Speech
Published: 2015
John Oliver's Monday night interview of Edward Snowden -- which in 24 hours has been viewed by 3 million people on YouTube alone -- renewed all the standard attacks in Democratic circles accusing Snowden of being a traitor in cahoots with the Kremlin.
Greenwald, Glenn: The Puritanical Glee Over the Ashley Madison Hack
Published: 2015
High school students have long read The Scarlet Letter, the 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne set in a Puritanical Massachusetts town in the mid-17th century. As The Atlantic noted in 1886, "the punishment of the scarlet letter is a historical fact." To see just how current is the mentality driving the scarlet letter, observe the reaction to the Ashley Madison hack.
Greenwald, Glenn: The Radically Changing Story of the U.S. Airstrike on Afghan Hospital: From Mistake to Justification
Published: 2015
When news first broke of the U.S. airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, the response from the U.S. military was predictable and familiar. It was all just a big, terrible mistake, its official statement suggested.
Greenwald, Glenn: Reflecting New U.S. Control of TikTok's Censorship, Our Report Criticizing Zelensky Was Deleted
Published: 2022
For years, U.S. officials and their media allies accused Russia, China and Iran of tyranny for demanding censorship as a condition for Big Tech access. Now, the U.S. is doing the same to TikTok.
Greenwald, Glenn: Refusal to Call Charleston Shootings 'Terrorism' Again Shows It's a Meaningless Propaganda Term
Published: 2015
In February 2010, a man named Joseph Stack deliberately flew his small airplane into the side of a building that housed a regional IRS office in Austin, Texas, just as 200 agency employees were starting their workday. Along with himself, Stack killed an IRS manager and injured 13 others. The attack had all of the elements of iconic terrorism, but it was explicitly declared inapplicable by media outlets and government officials alike.
Greenwald, Glenn: Samples of Israeli Horrific Brutality and War Criminality in Gaza
Published: 2015
The Israeli group Breaking the Silence issued a report this morning containing testimony from Israeli soldiers about the savagery and criminality committed by the Israeli military during the attack on Gaza in the summer of 2014.
Greenwald, Glenn: The "Snowden is Ready to Come Home!" Story: a Case Study in Typical Media Deceit
Published: 2015
Most sentient people rationally accept that the U.S. media routinely disseminates misleading stories and outright falsehoods in the most authoritative tones. But it's nonetheless valuable to examine particularly egregious case studies to see how that works.
Greenwald, Glenn: Stop Exploiting LGBT Issues to Demonize Islam and Justify Anti-Muslim Policies
Published: 2016
In the late 1990s, Eric Rudolph -- raised Catholic and affiliated for a time with a Christian Identity sect -- bombed abortion clinics and a gay bar, insisting they were venues of immorality and evil. Last July, an Orthodox Jewish Israeli attacked the marchers in the Jerusalem LGBT pride parade, stabbing six of them, and one of them, a teenager, died of her wounds; justifying his attacks by appealing to Talmudic punishments for homosexuality, he had just been released from a 10-year prison term for doing the same in 2005. Yesterday, a Christian pastor from Arizona, Steven Anderson, praised the slaughter of 49 people in an Orlando LGBT club on the ground that "homosexuals are a bunch of disgusting perverts" and are "pedophiles."
Greenwald, Glenn: Trump's Amoral Saudi Statement Is a Pure Expression of Decades-Old 'U.S. Values' and Foreign Policy Orthodoxies
Published: 2018
Donald Trump's statement that the US would continue business and diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi may be blunter than people are used to but it is standard operating procedure of American policy.
Greenwald, Glenn: UK Media Regulator Again Threatens RT for "Bias": This Time, Airing "Anti-Western Views"
Published: 2015
The U.K. Government loves to lecture the world about infringements of liberty generally and press freedom specifically. It does so as it threatens to revoke the broadcasting license of a media outlet for broadcasting "anti-western" views and other perspectives at odds with the U.K. Government, all while shielding (and venerating) the equally virulent biases from pro-state television in the U.K.
Greenwald, Glenn: The U.S. Government's Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations
Published: 2014
Throughout the last year, the U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that it does not engage in economic and industrial espionage, in an effort to distinguish its own spying from China's infiltrations of Google, Nortel, and other corporate targets. Turns out that isn't true.
Greenwald, Glenn: WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived
Published: 2017
In the past six weeks, the Washington Post published two blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of "fake news," the other on how it invaded the U.S. electric grid. Both articles were fundamentally false.
Greenwald, Glenn: Watch How Casually False Claims Are Published: New York Times and Nicholas Lemann Edition
Published: 2017
We have a perfect example of how this happens from the New York Times today, in a book review by Nicholas Lemann, the Pulitzer-Moore professor of journalism at Columbia University as well as a longtime staff writer for the New Yorker. Lemann is reviewing a new book by Edward J. Epstein -- the longtime neocon, right-wing Cold Warrior, WSJ op-ed page writer, and Breitbart contributor -- which basically claims Snowden is a Russian spy.
Greenwald, Glenn: What 'Democracy' Really Means in U.S. and New York Times Jargon: Latin America Edition
Published: 2014
One of the most accidentally revealing media accounts highlighting the real meaning of "democracy" in U.S. discourse is a still-remarkable 2002 New York Times Editorial on the U.S.-backed military coup in Venezuela, which temporarily removed that country’s democratically elected (and very popular) president, Hugo Chávez.
Greenwald, Glenn: What's Scarier: Terrorism, or Governments Blocking Websites in its Name?
Published: 2015
The French Interior Ministry ordered that five websites be blocked on the grounds that they promote or advocate terrorism.
Greenwald, Glenn: Why Is The Daily Beast's Russia Critic Silent About So Many Hideous Abuses?
Published: 2015
A comprehensive review by The Intercept of the writings of Sam Charles Hamad - author of this Daily Beast article accusing the "global left" of remaining "silent" on abuses by Russia - reveals that he has been completely silent, shockingly and appallingly so, about the following wide array of severe global injustices, never once writing about, let alone condemning...
Greenwald, Glenn: Why Is the U.S. Refusing an Independent Investigation If Its Hospital Airstrike Was an "Accident"?
Published: 2015
In Geneva , Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demanded a formal, independent investigation into the U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz. The group's international president specified that the inquiry should be convened pursuant to war crime-investigating procedures established by the Geneva Conventions and conducted by The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission.
Greenwald, Glenn: With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech
Published: 2015
Criminal cases for online political speech are now commonplace in the UK, notorious for its hostility to basic free speech and press rights. As The Independent's James Bloodworth reported last week, "around 20,000 people in Britain have been investigated in the past three years for comments made online."
Greenwald, Glenn, et. al: Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
Published: 2013
Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.
Greenwald, Glenn; Demori, Leandro; Reed, Betsy: How and Why The Intercept Is Reporting on a Vast Trove of Materials About Brazil’s Operation Car Wash and Justice Minister Sergio Moro
Published: 2019
A summary of the Intercepts investigation into Operation Car Wash based on a trove of private communication they have received and are making available to the public.
Greenwald, Glenn; Fishman,Andrew: Greatest Threat to Free Speech in the West: Criminalizing Activism Against Israeli Occupation
Published: 2016
The U.K. government has announced that it is will be illegal for "local [city] councils, public bodies, and even some university student unions ... to refuse to buy goods and services from companies involved in the arms trade, fossil fuels, tobacco products, or Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank." Thus, any entities that support or participate in the global boycott of Israeli settlements will face "severe penalties."
Greenwald, Glenn; Gallagher, Ryan: New Zealand Cops Raided Home of Reporter Working on Snowden Documents
Published: 2014
Agents from New Zealand's national police force ransacked the home of a prominent independent journalist earlier this month who was collaborating with The Intercept on stories from the NSA archive furnished by Edward Snowden. The stated purpose of the 10-hour police raid was to identify the source for allegations that the reporter, Nicky Hager, recently published in a book that caused a major political firestorm and led to the resignation of a top government minister.
Greenwald, Robert: War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Free Press and the National Security State
Published: 2013
During his election campaigns, Barak Obama promised the most transparent administration in U.S. history. Cynics can rejoice in the fact that the Obama administration has indicted more people for violating government secrecy than all previous administrations combined. This is the story of four whistleblowers who who traded their careers and life normalcy for slander, danger, legal prosecution and an opportunity to expose the crimes of the US government.
Greenwald,Glenn: Cowardly Firing of Australian State-Funded TV Journalist Highlights the West's Real Religion
Published: 2015
A TV sports commentator in Australia, Scott McIntyre, was summarily fired by his public broadcasting employer, Special Broadcasting Services (SBS), because of a series of tweets he posted about the violence committed historically by the Australian military.
Greenwald. Glenn: U.S. Journalists Who Instantly Exonerated Their Government of the Kunduz Hospital Attack, Declaring it an "Accident"
Published: 2015
Shortly after the news broke of the U.S. attack on a Doctors without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, there was abundant evidence suggesting (not proving, but suggesting) that the attack was no accident.
Greenwalk, Glenn: The Sunday Times' Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst - and Filled with Falsehoods
Published: 2015
Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it's hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as Truth. But they've learned no such lesson. That tactic continues to be the staple of how major U.S. and British media outlets "report," especially in the national security area.
Greer, Jon: How to Pitch the Media
Journalists hate dealing with media pitches. The more often they receive them, the more annoyed they get. This article teaches three effective means of pitching news topics to media sources.
Gregor, Thomas: Anxious Pleasures (excerpt)
Published: 1986
Grenfell, Oscar: Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
Published: 2019
Sources reveal new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times and refute lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
Grenfell, Oscar: Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
Published: 2019
Australian journalist Mark Davis HAS revealed new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times, and refuting the lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason: Labrador Days
Tales of the Sea Toilers
Published: 1919
Gresh, Alain: Kuwait's citizens without rights
Published: 2013
Kuwait depends on the labour of foreign nationals, and of its underclass who do not have formal proof of nationality.
Gresh,Alain: The right way to end terrorism
From armed resistance to jihadist networks
Published: 2015
Gresh discusses a way to end terrorism, by placing an emphasis on the term itself and the repercussions of its meaning and use.
Grey, Barry: New Met production of Porgy and Bess prompts racialist criticisms of America’s greatest opera
Published: 2019
The very fact that the race, gender or nationality of the artist is today uncritically presented as a central issue in evaluating a work testifies to the degeneration of bourgeois thought in general and the terrible damage inflicted over many years by identity and racial politics. The use of such criteria in past periods was associated with the political right, which employed them to promote anti-democratic and racist agendas.
Griego, Tina: Black market boom lays bare a social divide in Colorado's marijuana market
Published: 2014
Inside Colorado's black market for pot, segregation and resentment flourish.
Grier, Stan: Years Before Charlottesville, Tribes Urged Yellowstone National Park to Change the Names of a War Criminal and a White Supremacist That Defile Sacred Land
We're Still Waiting
Published: 2017
Chief Stan Grier explains why historical figures who advocated genocide and white supremacy must be not continue to be commemorated at Yellowstone National Park, a sacred land to Indigenous communities for at least 10,000 years.
Griffin, Andrew: Google voice search records and keeps conversations people have around their phones - but the files can be deleted
Published: 2016
How google search can record and store conversations picked up by a phone's microphone, as well as how to prevent this and delete the stored files.
Griffin, Neil: The vanishing: my search for a beloved animal, after millions of them die
Published: 2024
A former biologist returns to the Alberta badlands to search for the species he was captivated by as a child, which has now been decimated across North America. Was he too late?
Griffin, Will: Military 'Service' Serves the Ruling Class
Published: 2018
Military veteran and peace activist Will Griffin comments on the military campaigns in which he participated, and why he believes that military service ultimately serves noboby but a minority ruling class.
Griffiths, Jay: The Transition Initiative
Changing the scale of change
Published: 2009
People never need communities more than when there are threats to security, food, and lives. The Transition Initiative recognizes how much we need this scale now, because of peak oil and climate change. But beyond this concrete need, the lack of a sense of community has negative psychological impacts on individuals across the 'developed' world, as people report persistent and widespread feelings of loneliness, isolation, dispossession, alienation, and depression.
Griffiths, Jay: Why parents should leave their kids alone
Published: 2013
What if the best thing we could do for our children is to set them free? Jay Griffiths explains why moden parenting often makes children miserable.
Grim, Ryan: Rikers Island Prisoners Are Being Offered PPE and $6 an Hour to Dig Mass Graves
Published: 2020
New York City owns and operates a public cemetery on Hart Island, which has been tended by prison labour. Now prisoners are being asked to dig mass graves
Grimes, William: Rosalyn Baxandall, Feminist Historian and Activist dies at 76
Published: 2015
Rosalyn Baxandall, a feminist historian who was among the first to bring scholarly attention to the historical role of women in the workplace and to expand the meaning of "women's work," has died.
Groom, Nichola: Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace
Published: 2020
Green explores the repurcussions of more than a century's worth of oil and gas drilling, particularly leaks from abandoned wells that release pollutants into the air and water.
Grossman, Elizabeth: As Temperatures Climb Across the Country, Workers Will Suffer
Published: 2016
The summer of 2016 is barely two weeks old, but this year is already on track to break high temperature records in the United States. On June 20, cities across the Southwest and into Nevada reached all-time triple-digit highs. Meanwhile, every single state experienced spring temperatures above average, with some in the Northwest reaching record highs. These temperatures have already proved deadly, killing five hikers in Arizona earlier this month. Triple-digit heat earlier that same week is also being blamed for the deaths of two construction workers, 49-year old Dale Heitman in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 15 and 55-year old Thomas F. “Tommy” Barnes on June 14 at the Monsanto campus in nearby Chesterfield, Missouri.
Grossman, Elizabeth: The Biggest Source of Plastic Trash You've Never Heard of
Published: 2015
How plastic waste is used on the farm for agriculture.
Grossman, Karl: Lyme Disease and Biowarfare
Published: 2019
Historical look at the connection between Lyme disease and US government-produced bioweapons by a journalist who has been researching it for decades.
Grossman, Victor: Coming Cutthroats and Parting Pirates
Published: 2016
"Shoot them down!" That’s one answer to the problem of refugees and immigrants flooding into Germany, clearer even than any Trump-wall. It was offered by Frauke Petry, head of Alternative for Germany (AfD), the fast-growing party which, now at 12 percent nationally, has moved up into third place, outstripping the Greens and the Left party (LINKE).
Grossman, Victor: Confronting Germany's New Fascists in Berlin
Published: 2018
A look at the rise of facism in Germany with the recent winning of seats, now with 92 representatives in the national Bundestag, by the five-year-old Alternative for Germany (AfD). This new found platform provides the party with a voice in every debate and the first speakers after those of the government.
Grossman, Victor: Despair and Joy in Berlin
Published: 2023
Grossman, Victor: Gun Control in Old East Germany
Published: 2018
In Communist-run East Germany weapons and ammunition were strictly controlled. Rifles, though privately-owned, were locked up at the hunting clubs, usually connected with the forest rangers' home and station.
Grossman, Victor: Je Suis Charlie - But I Have Others
"Brothers, Our Town is Burning!"
Published: 2015
We must work to close gaps, clasp hands and work together for a better world. We dare not forget those countless bloody deeds recorded largely in dusty archives - and their urgent lessons! I may well join in with "Je suis Charlie!" but must add: "I am Gul Rahman! I am Abu Zubaydah! I am Charles Horman and Ken Saro-Wiwa! I am Ghassan Kanafani and Victor Jara!"
Grossman, Victor: Scenes From a Wonderful Parade Against the TPP
Published: 2015
A quarter of a million people protested against the "Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership", TTIP, and its equally spurned Canadian sister, CETA.
Grossman, Zoltan: A Short History of Bio-Chemical Weapons
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
Published: 2013
Chronology between 400 BC and 2013 of bio-chemical weaponry and foreign policy.
Grosso, Joseph: Elie Wiesel: Poseur for Peace
Published: 2016
In the midst of another Israeli operation in Lebanon, this one in 2006, Wiesel stood in front of a crowd in Manhattan (along with then Senator Hillary Clinton) and declared "Israel defends herself, and we must say to Israel 'Go on defending yourself.'" His final years didn't slow him down. Wiesel took out a full page ad in newspapers across the country during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict fully supporting Israel's effort (Human Rights Watch went on to document several instances of war crimes by the Israeli military) without a syllable about diplomacy except that 'before diplomats can begin in earnest the crucial business of rebuilding dialogue…the Hamas death cult must be confronted for what it is'.
Grosso, Joseph: Rage Against the Machine: A War vs. Consensus
Published: 2018
As it stands now, even if the unlikely liberal wet dream of a Trump impeachment actually comes to pass, the theocratic Mike Pence will simply assume office. No doubt cities like New York and Boston will initially erupt in celebration. But should it really be that long before the realization dawns that the real work remained ongoing?
Groves, Tim: Canada's Spy Groups Divulge Secret Intelligence to Energy Companies
Published: 2012
Documents raise fears that info on environmentalists, indigenous groups and more shared with industry at biannual, secret-level, briefings.
Guelpa, Philip: Social inequality in Early Bronze Age Europe
Published: 2019
Recent research into Bronze Age populations in Germany provides some insight into a certain aspect of class formation, which may be more broadly relevant. In Europe, aside from the Aegean area, such civilizations did not develop in the same manner as in the territories to the east, with their high degree of urbanization and intensive, often irrigation-based, agriculture.
Guenard, Marion: Cairo puts its faith in ragpickers to manage the city's waste problem.
Published: 2013
Egyptian Christian minority with tradition of turning a profit from recycling given official role in city's waste processing.
Guerin, Fred: The Canadian Ministry of "Truth": "Reality Is Whatever We Say It Is"
Published: 2015
The government and corporations operate as if truth and reality are what they say it is. Guerin analyzes and provides examples of this propaganda, including Canada's Bill C-51.
Guerra, Rene: Salvadorans Warn Canadians about World Bank's Kangaroo Court
Published: 2015
In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the World Bank's little known investor-state arbitration tribunal that could force El Salvador to pay Canadian mining firm OceanaGold US$301 million, a Salvadoran delegation is in Canada to discuss how this arbitration process threatens democratic decision making, public health and the environment here and beyond.
Guevara, Marina Walker; Ryle, Gerard; Olesen, Alexa; Cabra, Mar; Hudson, Michael; Giesen, Christoph: Leaked Records Reveal Offshore Holdings of China's Elite
Published: 2014
Close relatives of China's top leaders have held secretive offshore companies in tax havens that helped shroud the Communist elite's wealth, a leaked cache of documents reveals.
Guevara, Marina, Walker; Lavelle, Marianne; Pell, M.B.; Kashiwagi, Akiko; and others: Global Climate Change Lobby
Published: 2009
Inside the battle to influence the most important environmental treaty of our time.
Guggenheim, Davis: Waiting for 'Superman'
Published: 2010
The failures of the American public education system is examined by following several students as they strive to be accepted into a charter school.
Gulevich, Vladislav: Ukraine: the Ugly Truth
Kiev's War Against Freedom of Speech
Published: 2014
The US State Department has given its support to the military operation undertaken by Kiev in Donbass.
Gulkin, Cathy; Littlejohn, Elizabeth;: Save Our Waterfront
Published: 2013
An architect, a doctor, a teacher & mother and a sailor tour Toronto Harbour and discuss the negative impacts the expansion of BIlly Bishop airport would have on the environment.
Gullo, Karen: EFF Asks Court to Strike Down Unconstitutional Restraint on Our Speech
Published: 2017
GEMSA's patent litigation was featured in EFF's June 2016 blog series "Stupid Patent of the Month."
Gup, Ted: Free Speech, but Not for All?
Published: 2017
Just over a century ago, the president of a distinguished college barred the suffragette and human-rights activist Jane Addams from speaking on campus, and suspended a student named Inez Milholland for organizing others in support of women's rights. Milholland would go on to become influential in the women’s movement, and the college president, James Monroe Taylor, would become yet another example of an overly protective and historically myopic educator. He believed that women should be "not leaders, but good wives and mothers" -- the prevailing view of the day.
Gup,, Ted: A Different Kind of Safe Space
Published: 2016
Words are dangerous, but not as dangerous as efforts to suppress them, be it by government or dean -- and certainly not as insidious as self-censorship.
Gupta, Arun: 15 Actions That Can Shut Down Trump's Assault on Immigrant Families
Published: 2018
A list of recommended actions that can be taken against the Trump Administration's policy toward immigrant families, some of which include: Expose for-profit detention corporations; Target mayor's offices, state capitals, and governor's mansions; Practice non-violence, as well as using the media to your advantage.
Gupta, Arun: The Politics of the California Drought
Published: 2015
As if in compensation for a historic drought, California is being deluged by expressions of grim satisfaction that it is finally getting its comeuppance for environmental sins. Judgement was especially swift after California Gov. Jerry Brown imposed a 25 percent reduction in water usage for urban areas. The media asked if this is "The End of California?", as well as declaring "So Long, California," and "Dust Bowl 2.0."
Gupta, Arun: What Does It Mean to Call Dylann Roof a 'Terrorist'?
Published: 2015
It would have been unfathomable a year ago for the phrase "white terrorism" to be used by the mainstream media. This shift in discourse is just one effect of the post-Ferguson moment in which there is a halting national discussion of systemic racism. Terminology matters because changing ideological frames is part and parcel of changing policies, institutions, and structures.
Gurley, Lauren: What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Rural Poverty
Published: 2017
Gurly analyzes the institutional reasons behind widespread poverty, depopulation, and unemployment in Jefferson County, Mississippi.
Gurley, Lauren: Why the Left Isn't Talking About Rural American Poverty
Published: 2015
Within the popular American conscience there are two favoured focal points for discussing the problem of poverty. The first is within the urban, inner city context and the second is the poverty of the Global South: Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the rest of the developing world. What seldom gets talked about -- and when it is, often with irreverent humor and contempt -- is the poverty of rural America, particularly rural white America: Appalachia, the Ozarks, the Mississippi Delta, the Dakotas, the Rio Grande Valley, the Cotton Belt. So why is the poverty of rural America largely unexamined, even avoided?
Gurtov, Mel: Manipulating Reality: Facebook is Listening to You
Published: 2015
One thing we have become all too used to is that our reality can be manipulated to create the appearance of something else entirely. Invading another country is defensive, rigged elections are passed off as democracy in action, more guns (or more nuclear weapons) ensure the peace, trade and foreign investment increase jobs at home. Orwellian logic has become commonplace.
Gushue, John: Larry Dohey was unforgettable. We can honour him by protecting the archives he loved.
Published: 2019
Keeping our stories alive for the future is the passion of archivists whose work is not often recognized.
Gustafsson, Jenny: Professor's Work Shows People Power Trumps Violence
Published: 2012
Erica Chenoweth’s research is taking the bang out of armed struggles.
Gutiérrez, Estrella: Bicycle Use Booming in Latin America
Published: 2013
“I ride 43 km a day and I love it,” said Carlos Cantor in Bogotá, Colombia. “Five years ago I switched my car for a bike,” explained Tomás Fuenzalida from Santiago, Chile. They are both part of the burgeoning growth of cycling as a transport solution in Latin America.
Gutman, Daniel: Climate Change Drives Up Rural Poverty in Latin America
Published: 2018
In Latin America and the Caribbean region's first meeting of Week of Agriculture and Food, held in November 2018, more than 1,000 officials and experts agreed that the fall in agricultural yields and increasing migration from the countryside are consequences of global warming.
Gutman, Daniel: Women-Led Radio Station Amplifies Voices of Indigenous Communities in Argentina
Published: 2018
In the late 1990s several Indigenous women founded a radio station which continues to broadcast. It resists cultural subjugation and provides a voice to Indigenous people.
Gutstein, Donald: Canada's right-wing media monopolies move further right
Published: 2011
The Canadian news media landscape has changed dramatically since the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications released its underwhelming report on the state of Canadian media in 2006.
Gutstein, Donald: How Canada's corporate media framed the Occupy movement
Published: 2011
The Occupy movement occupied two parallel, rarely intersecting universes in the corporate media. In one, described frequently in the Toronto Star, occasionally in the Vancouver Sun and Globe and Mail and only once in the National Post, Occupy is a worldwide movement created in response to the growing gap between the one percent at the top of the income-and-asset pyramid and the 99 percent below.
Gutstein; Donald: Debunking the Fraser Institute's Latest Crusade: Teacher Merit Pay
Published: 2011
Fresh from the triumph of successfully promoting its fallacious school report card, this time in Alberta, the Fraser Institute is already scheming to peg teacher pay to student test scores and create a market for teachers. We should remember that the institute's success with school rankings would not be possible without over-the-top support from the corporate media.
Gutstein; Donald: Follow the Money, Part 1 - The Weston Family
Published: 2014
You've seen him in television ads hyping President's Choice dessert ideas, naming fake supermarkets after enthusiastic customers, sitting down with moms around the kitchen table and talking to President's Choice farmers on their hormone-free farms.
Gutstein; Donald: Follow the Money, Part 2 - Barrick Gold's Peter Munk
Published: 2014
The Fraser Institute awarded Barrick Gold chairman Peter Munk its T.P. Boyle Founder's Award at a gala dinner in Toronto in 2010. This is the think tank's most prestigious award, which it gave to Munk "in recognition of his unwavering commitment to free and open markets around the globe and his support for enhancing and encouraging democratic values and the importance of responsible citizenship." Equating "free and open markets" with "democratic values" is a long-standing neoliberal marketing mantra.
Gutstein; Donald: Follow the Money, Part 3 - Big Oil and Calgary's School of Public Policy
Published: 2014
If it disseminates pro-free market studies like a right-wing think tank, and if it courts Big Oil money like a right-wing think tank, and if it recruits conservative scholars like a right-wing think tank, then it probably is a right-wing think tank.
Gutstein; Donald: Follow the Money, Part 4 - Who Owns the National Post?
Published: 2014
It"s no secret that Postmedia Network, publisher of the National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun and other major Canadian dailies, is hemorrhaging money.
Gutstein; Donald: Follow the Money, Part 5 - The Tobacco Papers Revisited
Published: 2014
Michael Walker, former executive director of the Fraser Institute, long denied that institute directors — the people who fund the institute’s work — can tell researchers what to do.
According to this rosy view of the think tank’s mission, Big Oil directors from Calgary, for instance, don’t tell Fraser Institute researcher Kenneth Green to produce studies denying global warming or proving that the Keystone and Northern Gateway pipelines are crucial for Canada’s economic survival. Green does these on his own because that’s what his research indicates.
Gutstein; Donald: Follow the Money, Part 6 - Obesity: A new role for second-hand-smoke-causes-cancer deniers
Published: 2014
The tobacco industry has shifted its doubt-manufacturing operations to countries like Russia, Indonesia and China, where the incidence of smoking — and cancer — continues to rise. But other industries with deep pockets need to manufacture doubt about the health risks of their products.
Guyatt, Gord: A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
Published: 1995
Covers the year 1979 - 1994.

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Hacker, Andrew: Affirmative Action
The New Look
Published: 1989
Affirmative action may be out of favor at the Supreme Court, but it is becoming a stronger force on America's campuses. Until a decade or so ago, questions of ethnicity and equity could be considered as involving mostly blacks and whites. Now Asians and Hispanics among others are making claims as well, and the rules determining which groups will be given preferential treatment have been changing. A discussion and review of the changing state and perception of affirmative action in America.
Hackwell, Bill: Unprecedented Cruelty Against Immigrants and Their Children
Published: 2018
Recently White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly backed up the policy when he explained that, "the children will be put in foster care or whatever." This comes at the same time as a new report revealed that there are some 1,500 undocumented children, who have been placed by federal authorities in homes of "sponsors," and are now missing in the system.
No other country has a policy of separating families who intend to seek asylum.
HaCohen, Ran: Israel: Neither Democratic or Jewish
Published: 2017
After 50 years of Occupation, Israel is neither democratic, nor Jewish.
Haddad, Emmanuel: Lebanon: the right to know
Published: 2019
Haeder, Paul: Gray Whales Are Dying: Starving to Death Because of Climate Change
Published: 2019
A look at the plight of sea mammals and the state of marine science education.
Hager, L. Michael: Conflict of Interest and the Israel Lobby: a Junket for State Senators
Published: 2016
Last December, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC), a pro-Israel lobbying organization, provided an expense-paid, ten-day trip to Israel for ten Massachusetts senators (including Senate President, Stanley Rosenberg).
Haggert, Angelica: Ottawa Jewish Archives finding success online despite pandemic challenges
Published: 2021
Archives are witnesses to the past, providing a tangible history of the community -- and the Ottawa Jewish Archives' collection includes family, business congregation and organization materials to preserve the Ottawa Jewish community's lived experiences.
Hagler, Louis: Adverse Health Effects of Noise
Published: 1995
The effects of noise are widespread and impose long-term consequences on health.
Hahn, Gordon M.: The New Terrorist Threat: Ukrainian Ultra-Nationalist and Neo-Fascist Terrorism at Home and Abroad
Published: 2020
On 16 February 2020, the U.S. State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism arrived in Ukraine. The agenda was not announced. The hope is that he discussed at least some of the issues discussed in this report with his Ukrainian counterparts.
Hahn, Steven: A Revised History of the Slave Trade
Lessons from a Terrible Global Experience
Published: 2006
It’s almost 200 years since the Anglo-American trade was banned: how do historians now view its practices and effects?
Haider, Asad: Idylls of the Liberal: The American Dreams of Mark Lilla and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Published: 2017
Social change is not made by noble heroes, even if they find themselves in the right place at the right time to take the credit. It is made by the commoners -- by those who remain nameless and faceless in the legends, and in the political ideologies of Lilla and Coates.
Haider, Shuda: Why Culture Matters
Published: 2017
In order to engage in a meaningful dialogue about 'cultural appropriation' we have to reject the framing that critics like Bari Weiss give it -- where culture becomes just another market.
Haigh, Gideon: The doctor who is besting big tobacco
Published: 2016
When Dr Bronwyn King discovered her pension fund was investing in the cigarette companies that were killing her cancer patients, she was staggered. And she knew she had to act
Haiven, Judy: After 10 years, Hassan Diab is finally free
Published: 2018
Hassan Diab is freed by French authorities after what was deemed a bungled case and rush to judgment, one which zeroed in on Diab with unjust finger-pointing from B'nai Brith.
Haiven, Larry: The cry gevalt syndrome
are Jewish students really 'terrified' on campus?
Published: 2022
University campuses are places where contending views meet and clash. Pro-Israel organizations would seem to want the opposite.
Haiven, Larry: Two very different Jewish responses to bigotry
One promoting solidarity, the other promoting insularity
Published: 2020
In the last weeks of September 2020, anonymous adhesive stickers bearing possible messages of bigotry appeared on utility poles and other surfaces in Halifax, Nova Scotia. And the response from two Jewish organizations demonstrate two very different approaches to those messages.
Hakami, Ramzi: Predatory Journals: Write, Submit, and Publish the Next Day
Published: 2017
Predatory journals can be defined as "publications [that take] large fees without providing robust editorial or publishing services." They usually "recruit articles through aggressive marketing and spam emails, promising quick review and open access publication for a price. There is little if any quality control and virtually no transparency about processes and fees. Their motive is financial gain, and they are corrupting the communication of science. Their main victims are institutions and researchers in low and middle income countries..."
Hale, Erin: 'Orwellian': EU's push to mass scan private messages on WhatsApp, Signal
Published: 2024
EU member states to vote on controversial Chat Control 2 proposals to scan communications for child sex abuse material.
Halimi, Serge: Big media versus the people
Published: 2015
A look how "Big Media" shapes public attitudes, the economy, culture, leisure and education, and how governments have developed close relationships with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest.
Halimi, Serge: License to Kill
Published: 2018
Halimi places alleged Russian involvement in the attempted assasination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the context of routine extrajudicial killings by the wider inernational security services.
Halimi, Serge: The Official Fake News
Published: 2018
Emmanuel Macron, who was comfortably elected to the presidency, has instructed his parliamentary majority to provide him with a law against 'fake news' during election campaigns. The law would be a selective halt to the the dissemination of information with dangerous consequences.
Halimi, Serge: Trump's EU doormats
Published: 2018
The author demontrates the need for EU members to maintain their independence and sovereignty through the treatment and demands made of EU leaders by Trump concerning deals on Iran.
Halimi, Serge; Rimbert, Pierre: France: the new authoritarian journalism
Published: 2024
Western media's reporting of the war in Gaza makes little pretence of impartiality. In French newsreooms and radio studios, unconditional support for Israel is the norm and part of a wider lurch to the right.
Halimi, Serge; Rimbert, Pierre: Keep your mouths shut
Published: 2016
The media coverage of union and Nuit Debout protests in France are evidence that publications and channels now serve only the wealthy and influencial.
Hall, Harriet: Trans Science
A review of Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
Published: 2021
The incidence of teen gender dysphoria is rising and seems to be linked to internet influences and social peer groups. The number of people identifying as lesbians is dropping. Therapists are accepting patients’ self-diagnoses unquestioningly, and irreversible treatments are being offered without therapist involvement.
Hall, James: The politics of display
The redesign of the Ashmolean in Oxford provides a chance to reflect on how we understand the meaning of collections
Published: 2009
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is the oldest museum in Britain, founded in 1693. The institution has grown, thanks to a new postmodern building by architect Rick Mather. The open concept design of the new galleries is perfect for the curatorial focus on the impact of trade and the legacy of intercultural exchange titled "Crossing Cultures Crossing Time".
Hall, Pam, and community collaborators: Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge
Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge is an ongoing collaborative art-and-knowledge project that exists in multiple forms, this website being one. It also exists as unbound printed panels or 'pages" in community-owned boxed sets and will soon exist as a hard-covered book of "excerpts". The Encyclopedia project recruits art, community collaboration, and place-based research as a way of making and moving knowledge that is often never documented in ways that can be shared.
Hall, Parker: Keep those albums sounding great by converting your vinyl to a digital format
Published: 2018
Hallam, Susan: Link Removal Requests: how not to do it
Published: 2013
I am receiving link removal request emails from a company who must be having problems with their Google rankings. They have either been notified by Google that they have links coming from bad websites, or taken the matter into their own hands. They have decided to clean up their back link profile in order to improve their rankings in the search engines.
Halle, John; Chomsky, Noam: Halle/Chomsky: An Eight Point Brief for LEV (Lesser Evil Voting)
Published: 2016
Among the elements of the weak form of democracy enshrined in the constitution, presidential elections continue to pose a dilemma for the left in that any form of participation or non participation appears to impose a significant cost on our capacity to develop a serious opposition to the corporate agenda served by establishment politicians. The position outlined below is that which many regard as the most effective response to this quadrennial Hobson's choice, namely the so-called "lesser evil" voting strategy or LEV. Simply put, LEV involves, where you can, i.e. in safe states, voting for the losing third party candidate you prefer, or not voting at all. In competitive "swing" states, where you must, one votes for the "lesser evil" Democrat.
Halleck, Thomas: Snowden's NSA Leaks Catalogued In First Searchable Database Of The Surveillance Documents
Published: 2015
Canadian journalists and researchers have teamed up to create the world's first fully-searchable index of the classified documents revealing NSA surveillance leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Halliday, Fred: The Left and the Jihad
Published: 2006
The left was once the principal enemy of radical Islamism. So how did old enemies become new friends?
Hallinan, Conn: Baiting the Bear
Russia and NATO
Published: 2016
"Aggressive," "revanchist," "swaggering": These are just some of the adjectives the mainstream press and leading U.S. and European political figures are routinely inserting before the words "Russia," or "Vladimir Putin." It is a vocabulary most Americans have not seen or heard since the height of the Cold War. The question is, why?
Hallinan, Conn: The Dark Side of the Ukraine Revolt
The Rise of the Quasi-Fascists
Published: 2014
While most of the Western media describes the current crisis in the Ukraine as a confrontation between authoritarianism and democracy, many of the shock troops who have manned barricades in Kiev and the western city of Lviv these past months represent a dark page in the country’s history and have little interest in either democracy or the liberalism of Western Europe and the United States.
Hallinan, Conn: Nuclear Lies and Broken Promises
Published: 2019
When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an economic meeting in the city of Sivas this September that Turkey was considering building nuclear weapons, he was responding to a broken promise. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the government of Iran of lying about its nuclear program, he was concealing one of the greatest subterfuges in the history of nuclear weapons.
Hallinan, Conn: Rivers of Dust: The Future of Water and the Middle East
Published: 2019
Syria and Iraq are at odds with Turkey over the Tigris-Euphrates. Egypt's relations with Sudan and Ethiopia over the Nile are tense. Jordan and the Palestinians accuse Israel of plundering river water to irrigate the Negev Desert and hogging most of the three aquifers that underlie the occupied West Bank. According to satellites that monitor climate, the Tigris-Euphrates basin, embracing Turkey, Syria, Iraq and western Iran, is losing water faster than any other area in the world, with the exception of Northern India.
Hallinan, Conn: Sanctions & the Dollar
Published: 2014
The recent round of sanctions aimed at Moscow over the crisis in the Ukraine could backfire on Washington by accelerating a move away from the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. While in the short run American actions against Russia’s oil and gas industry will inflict economic pain on Moscow, in the long run the U.S. may lose some of its control over international finance.
Hallinan, Conn: Tensions in the Arctic
The Big Chill
Published: 2014
Tensions in the region arise from two sources: squabbles among the border states -- Norway, Russia, the U.S., Canada, Denmark (representing Greenland), Finland, Iceland, and Sweden -- over who owns what, and efforts by non-polar countries-- China, India, the European Union and Japan -- that want access. The conflicts range from serious to somewhat silly.
Hallinan, Conn: US must stop playing with nuclear hellfire
Published: 2016
The chances of nuclear destruction are higher than in the Cold War due to recent US foreign policy actions, including the positioning of armed forces positioned on Russia's borders.
Hallinan, Conn: A Very Brazilian Coup
Published: 2016
On one level, the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff seems like vintage commedia dell’arte. For instance, the lower house speaker who brought the charges, Eduardo Cunha, had to step down because he has $16 million stashed in secret Swiss and U.S. bank accounts. The man who replaced Cunha, Waldir Maranhao, is implicated in the corruption scandal around the huge state-owned oil company, Petrobras.
Hallinan, Conn: WikiLeaks, Ukraine and NATO
A Relentless March to Russia's Doorstep
Published: 2014
Is the Russian occupation of the Crimea a case of aggressive expansionism by Moscow or aimed at at blocking a scheme by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to roll right up to the Russia’s western border?
Hallinan, Conn: The World Needs a Water Treaty
Published: 2019
Climate change is making water into as valuable a commodity as oil with similar national tensions resulting.
Hallinan, Conn: The World Needs a Water Treaty
Published: 2019
During the face-off earlier this year between India and Pakistan over a terrorist attack that killed more than 40 Indian paramilitaries in Kashmir, New Delhi made an existential threat to Islamabad. The weapon was not India’s considerable nuclear arsenal, but one still capable of inflicting ruinous destruction: water.
Hallman, J.C.: Monumental Error
Will New York City finally tear down a statue?
Published: 2017
An examination of the Sims controversy in New York City, where authorities have long debated the removal of a statue in Central Park celebrtating 19th-century doctor J. Marion Sims, the 'father of gynecology' who experimented on black women.
Halper, Jeff: Israelizing the American police, Palestinianizing the American people
Published: 2020
Israel has not influenced U.S. law enforcement by training it to be more violent, but rather has served as a model in creating the American Security State.
Halper, Jeff: What Comes Next: Towards a bi-national end-game in Palestine/Israel
Published: 2013
Jeff Halper suggests that the best political system to express both the desires of the two national communities of Palestine/Israel for self-determination and of its individual citizens for democracy would seem to be a consociational democracy.
Hamacher, Duane W.: The Memory Code: how oral cultures memorise so much information
Published: 2016
Long before the ancient Celts, Aboriginal Australians were recording vast scores of knowledge to memory and passing it to successive generations. Aboriginal people demonstrate that their oral traditions are not only highly detailed and complex, but they can survive -- accurately -- for thousands, even tens of thousands, of years.
Hamelin, Laurie; Pimentel, Tamara: 'We've got a real divide in the community:' Wet'suwet'en Nation in turmoil
Published: 2020
The battle over the CGL pipeline in British Columbia both on social media and in the press is dividing the Wet'suwet'en Nation some members say. The two opposing sides have been in a very public dispute over Coastal GasLink's (CGL) 670 km pipeline that will carry fracked natural gas from Dawson Creek, B.C., in the northeast, to Kitimat on the coast.
Hamilton, Anna: Sarah Schulman's 'Conflict is not Abuse' is Essential Reading For Activist Communities
Published: 2016
In her 18th book, writer and Distinguished Professor of English at CUNY Staten Island Sarah Schulman takes on the weighty topic of interpersonal conflict, abusive behavior, the "overstatement of harm," and how the continued mistaking of conflict for abuse leads to unnecessary escalation of various problems -- often leading to cruel acts of isolation, shunning, scapegoating, and other manifestations of in-group bullying that are used to justify keeping certain people out of families, circles of friends, affinity groups, and activist communities.
Hamilton, Jack: Pete Seeger Was Folk Music
Published: 2014
Charles Seeger loved folk music. No folk musician more completely embodied this than Charles Seeger’s son Pete Seeger, who died Monday at 94. It’s difficult to imagine 20th-century music without Pete Seeger, but it would certainly sound much different, and much worse.
Hamilton, Martha M.: Panamanian Law Firm Is Gatekeeper To Vast Flow of Murky Offshore Secrets
Files show client roster that includes drug dealers, Mafia members, corrupt politicians and tax evaders - and wrongdoing galore
Published: 2016
Founding partners of Mossack Fonseca had international pedigrees and backgrounds in the worlds of money, power and secrets. The law firm helps clients respond swiftly to changes in laws, shifting business from one secrecy jurisdiction to another. Among additional services offered are yacht and plane registrations, and, for some clients, handling of finances. Mossack Fonseca kept a low profile -- until recent scandals brought international attention.
Hamilton, Martha M.: Whistleblower? Thief? Hero? Introducing the Source of the Data that Shook HSBC
Published: 2015
Hervé Falciani’s long, strange journey from bank computer expert to jailed fugitive to candidate for office to spokesman for whistleblowers.
Hamilton, Martha M.; Sorgenfri, Jakob; Hansen, John: New Countries Seek HSBC Data and Undeclared Cash
Published: 2015
A number of other countries have also announced new or expanded investigations variously into the bank's Swiss clients named on the French lists, into HSBC itself, and into the response from national regulators who may have had access to the data, or knew about it but did not request it.
Hamilton, Mina: Korea: What the Generals Aren't Telling You
Published: 2018
Hamilton points out that the 24 nuclear power stations in South Korea represent high risk targets in a retaliatory attack from North Korea.
Hammad, Shatha: For first time in 70 years, Palestinians return to their villages
Published: 2018
To commemorate Land Day, group of Palestinian refugees returned to the villages they were expelled from in 1948.
Hammer, Kate: Master's student earns top marks for dissent
University of Toronto rabble rouser graduates in a gown of protest- but still faces criminal charges from a sit in gone wrong
Published: 2008
Hammond, Jeremy R.: The 'Forgotten' US Shootdown of Iranian Airliner Flight 655
Published: 2017
The shooting down of Iran Air flight 655 by the US Navy, which killed 290 civilian passengers, is well remembered in Iran twenty-nine years after the incident, yet many Americans reliant on US media may not have even heard about it.
Han, Kirsten: A Life of Challenge to the Dogma of "Objectivity"
Richard Bell Is Practiced at Juggling Journalism, Advocacy and Politics
Published: 2012
Journalism, advocacy, politics: Are they completely different fields or aspects of the same game? Can someone actually do all three? Richard Bell has done them all and has lived to tell the tale.
Hancox, Dan: Spain's communist model village
Published: 2013
Marinaleda, in impoverished Andalusia, used to suffer terrible hardships. Led by a charismatic mayor, the village declared itself a communist utopia and took farmland to provide for everyone. Could it be the answer to modern capitalism's failings?
Hand, Mark: The Mine Wars: West Virginia's Coal Miners March on Public Television
Published: 2016
This riveting history of southern West Virginia's coal industry eventually caught the eye of a national television network.PBS is premiering a two-hour documentary called The Mine Wars as part of American Experience, the network's flagship history series.
Hand, Mark: Pipeline Rights vs Private Property Rights
Published: 2016
The U.S. natural gas industry views private property with less reverence than it did when the shale gas revolution began 10 years ago. Companies are chomping at the bit to build new pipelines that will move natural gas and natural gas liquids to profitable markets. However, building a single long-haul pipeline is a timely and costly endeavour that often requires working with hundreds of individual private property owners to create a right of way.
Hanley, Charles J.: Inuit Are Living on the Front Lines of Climate Change
Published: 2009
Climate change is being felt in northwest Canada, and in a wide circle at the top of the world, stretching from Alaska through the Siberian tundra, into northern Scandinavia and Greenland, and on to Canada's eastern Arctic islands, a circle of more than 300,000 indigenous people.
Hann, Marion; Crosbie-Marshall, Lin: Newfoundland War Brides
Published: 2007
Lin Crosbie-Marshall discusses courtship and cultural connections with four Corner Brook women who left Scotland over 60 years ago, and followed their soldier husbands to western Newfoundland.
Hanna, Liz: India's killer heatwave - a deadly warning of the world we face, without climate action
Published: 2015
As delegates prepare for the Bonn climate talks, India is being struck by extreme heat with a long-delayed monsoon season and a death toll of thousands. If this is an indicator of the warming world to come, it's giving us all the reasons we could possibly want to act decisively before it's too late.
Hanna, Mike: Mandela's art of 'understanding the enemy'
Published: 2013
A senior correspondent reflects on decades of covering the savvy political operator who became an African icon.
Hanna, Thomas M: Red state, red power: Nebraska's publicly-owned electricity system
Published: 2015
Republican Nebraska's energy is all publicly owned or cooperative, and prices are among America's lowest, with great service standards and a strong commitment to renewables. Decentralised and locally accountable, this could be the model that replaces inefficient, unresponsive monopolies - both nationalised and corporate.
Hannon, Gerald: Even a 50-something with greying hair and a smallish you-know-what can be a Porn Star
How to make your own smut so it moves you where it counts
Published: 1998
Learning how to make a pornographic film.
Harbinson, Rob: Cambodia: indigenous protests repel dam builders - so far
We don't need any compensation because we are staying here on the lands of our ancestors. Our children will never forgive us if we move.
Published: 2014
Since the 1980s Cambodia has lost 84% of its primary forests, and the remote Cardamom mountains are the country's last great natural treasure. Just the place for grandiose dam projects? 'No way!" say indigenous people and young eco-activists.
Harbinson, Rob: Philippines islanders unite to resist 'land grab' palm oil companies
Published: 2016
Farmers on Palawan are being tricked into giving land away to palm oil companies with local government support, writes Rod Harbinson. Under the palm oil company 'leases' the farmers lose all rights to their land, never receive any money, and are saddled with 25 years of debt. Those who resist the land grabs are now in fear for their lives following the murder of a prominent campaigner.
Harbinson, Rod: Cambodia: local people risk everything to defend national park sold off to highest bidders
Published: 2015
Botum Sakor national park is one of Cambodia's biodiversity hotspots. Now indigenous people are being violently evicted as the park is being sold off to developers for logging, plantations, casinos and hotels. Local communities are defending themselves and their land.
Hardigan, Richard: Israel Continues Its Attack on Palestinian Freedom of Expression
Published: 2017
The arrest of a teenager for voicing an opinion on a social media site raises serious concerns over freedom of expression in Israel.
Hardigan, Richard: Shatila: Remembering the Massacre
Published: 2015
Shatila is probably the most well-known of all the Palestinian refugee camps. In September of 1982, a local Christian militia, known as the Phalange, aided by its Israeli allies, entered Shatila and bordering Sabra, engaging in an orgy of torturing and killing that lasted several days.
Hardin, Herschel: Herschel Hardin Quotes
Harding, Jeremy: South Africa's short memory
Published: 2015
The migrants so recently attacked in South Africa almost all came from neighbouring countries that paid a high price in death and ruin for supporting anti-apartheid struggles.
Harding, Luke: Kyrgyzstan faces humanitarian crisis as Uzbeks flee slaughter
Kyrgyzstan shaken by ethnic slaughter
Published: 2010
Kyrgyzstan is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis after more than 100,000 minority Uzbeks, fleeing Kyrgyz mobs in the south of the country, gather on the Uzbekistan border.
Hardy, Jane: Radical economics, Marxist economics and Marx's economics
Published: 2016
The major global crises of the mid-1970s and 2008-9 provoked debates among the ruling class about the best economic policies to manage capitalism. For socialists and activists the question was different, and debates about whether and to what extent capitalism could be reformed to avert crisis and instil a more humane and fair system became even sharper.
Harkin, James: We Don't Have Rights, But We Are Alive
A gay soldier in Assad's army
Published: 2016
Considered more of a safe haven for homosexuals than other places in the Middle East, the author speaks with a military member in Syria about being a gay man in Assad's army as well as the future of his country.
Harms, Gregory: The Nation is Not Divided and Still Prefers Bernie Sanders
Published: 2016
The reportage of the presidential primaries has been heavy on personalities and the latest numbers, and light on information useful to voters. Comparisons to a horse race are apt. Were the news to take a documentary approach instead, the campaigns would be revealed as they are: something existing contrary to the public's interests.
Harries-Jones, Peter: Towards a two-tiered knowledge society
Published: 2015
On the Conservative government's actions to reduce Internet access and library access to a large portion of the population.
Harrington, Chris: Climate Change Poses Huge Challenge To The Coast Guard, But Fox News Would Rather Dismiss It
Published: 2015
Climate change and national security are no laughing matters but Fox News thinks it's hilarious when you pair the two together. The scientific community would disagree with Fox News.
Harrington, Evan: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia: Note from a Mind-Control Conference
Published: 1996
The debate over "recovered" and "false" memories continues to be one of the most contentious issues in the field of psychology today. The debate is extremely polarized with very little amicable communication among members of the opposing camps. While such a dispute may eventually be beneficial to science, in that both sides are clearly being spurred on to produce original research at a frenetic pace, at the moment the clearest manifestation of this dichotomy is miscommunication and friction between factions.
Harrington, Mary: For Clinton feminists, not all women are equal
Published: 2021
Female liberation has been captured by a wealthy elite.
Harrington, Thomas S.: Israel Has Been 'Singled Out' in the US for a Very Long Time
To whom much is given, much is expected
Published: 2013
The American Studies Association, the umbrella organization of academics devoted to the study of US literature, history and culture, recently voted to join the movement to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
Harris, John: Get your head out of the clouds
If we allow our personal data to be stored in giant electornic centres, we deserve what we get
Published: 2011
Appraising the risks to personal data held in cloud computing systems.
Harris, John: Ukip: the battle for Britain
Published: 2013
A exposé on Ukip, which wonders: is it a lunatic fringe or a sign of things to come?
Harris, Paul: Under siege: North Dakota's last abortion clinic fights on
Published: 2013
North Dakota's largest city, Fargo, is home to the last facility offering terminations. And as laws tighten across America, the pro-life movement is starting to scent victory.
Harris, Roger: Juan Guaidó: The Man Who Would Be President of Venezuela Doesn't Have a Constitutional Leg to Stand On
Published: 2019
The US coup in Venezuela uses constitutional arguments to give legitimacy to Guaido's presidency. This article details how this argument is false.
Harris, Roger: Why the US Puppet President of Venezuela is Toast
Published: 2019
In the alternative universe of corporate media, which ignores the economic war being waged against Venezuela, Reuters bemoans that the “crackdown” on Guaidó’s agents has failed to receive “significant retaliation from the international community.” In reality, Venezuela has massively suffered from the US-orchestrated punishments for resisting reverting to the status of a client state.
Harris, Sophia: 'Feels like blackmail': Canada needs to take a hard look at its piracy notice system
Copyright infringement notices spark fear and confusion among some Canadians
Published: 2016
Some anti-piracy firms routinely send out letters demanding hundreds of dollars from Canadians for alleged illegal downloads. And if they don't pay up, recipients are told they could face legal action and big fines. The problem is, people may be falsely accused and no one is under obligation to pay a settlement -- not even a penny.
Harris, Sophia: 'What a mess': McDonald's customers frustrated as 'Hamburglar' hacks more app accounts
Company said incidents are rare and it's 'confident in the security of our app'
Published: 2019
The so-called Hamburglar is still at large, hacking customers' McDonald's app accounts and ordering food on their dime. For some victims, their troubles didn't end there as they were unhappy with how McDonald's handled their cases.
Harris, Tom: The end of the story
When a prominent journalist was killed for investigating black activists, it shocked America.
Published: 2007
On August 2nd 2007 Chauncey Bailey was murdered, he was the first journalist in thirty years to be murdered in the U.S. in the pursuit of a story.
Harris, Tristan: Smartphone addiction is part of the design
The Slot Machine in Your Pocket
Published: 2016
Examining the methods by which smartphone apps are created to demand constant, repeated attention, and offers a proposal to promote apps which avoid these pitfalls and promote better use of user's time.
Hartman, Trinity: Bing Liu: The Science of Detecting Fake Reviews
Published: 2012
The dark art of rigging reviews is widespread across the web and has even ensnared several content26 clients over the years. The temptation to post fake reviews is high for companies that sell products online. The going rate for a fake five-star review seems to be about $5. Think about it - a mere $500 could pay for 100 5-star reviews on Amazon or Yelp.
Harvey, Barbara: A BDS Movement That Works
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
In 2005, a call was issued for global nonviolent resistance to occupation through acts of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.They had three goals: an end to occupation and return to the pre-1967 Green Line, equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and recognition of the Palestinian right of return.
Harvey, Fiona: Wildlife haven in the Korean DMZ under threat
Published: 2012
Agricultural development is encroaching on the biodiversity of the demilitarised zone, destroying habitat and plant life.
Harwell, Drew: Companies race to gather a newly prized currency: Our body measurements
Published: 2017
The mining of data by clothing companies in the form of documented body measurements raises concerns over privacy and misuse of our most personal information.
Hasan, Medi: Reactions to Manchester Bombing Show How Anti-Muslim Bigots Are 'Useful Idiots' for ISIS
Published: 2017
How hatred of Muslims is unwittingly an effective tool for ISIS recuritmenent.
Hasan, Mehdi: Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life -- And He Isn't Going to Change After Charlottesville
Published: 2017
Consider the first time the president's name appeared on the front page of the New York Times was an article which pointed out that the Department of Justice had sued the Trump family's real estate company in federal court over alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act because of anti-black bias. Over the next four decades, Trump burnished his reputation as a bigot.
Hasan, Mehdi: Reactions to Manchester Bombing Show How Anti-Muslim Bigots Are 'Useful Idiots' for ISIS
Published: 2017
Following recent terrorist attacks in Britain, the article looks at anti -Mulsim backlash and how it is playing into the hands of ISIS.
Hasan, Mehdi: Trump's Transition Team Colluded With Israel. Why Isn't That News?
Published: 2017
Hasan asks the question: why aren't more members of Congress or the media discussing the Trump transition team's pretty brazen collusion with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to undermine both U.S. government policy and international law?
Hashim, Asad: Suspect in Lahore blasphemy case fighting for his life
Published: 2018
A Christian resident of Lahore says he attempted suicide as interrogators forced him to perform oral sex on cousin.
Hashim, Asad: Suspect in Lahore blasphemy case fighting for his life
A Christian resident of Lahore says he attempted suicide as interrogators forced him to perform oral sex on cousin.
Published: 2018
Christians and other minorities, who make up about two percent of Pakistan's 207 million population, are disproportionately targeted by blasphemy laws, which prescribe a mandatory death penalty for anyone found guilty of "defiling the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad". There is increasing violence associated with the laws, with at least 74 people killed in attacks motivated by blasphemy accusations since 1990.
Haskell, David Millard: Suppressing TVO video, stifling free speech, is making Wilfrid Laurier unsafe
Published: 2017
The university is wrong to castigate a grad student and teaching assistant for showing to her students a debate on TVO’s The Agenda that featured controversial professor Jordan Peterson.
Haskins, Caroline: Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant
Published: 2019
Amazon's home surveillance company Ring is coaching police on how to use their technology which simultaneously provides a source of advertising for Amazon.
Hass, Amira: The Anti-Semitism That Goes Unreported
Published: 2012
Our grandparents knew that the order-enforcement authorities wouldn't intervene to help a Jewish family under attack; we know that the Israel Defense Forces, the Israel Police, the Civil Administration, the Border Police and the courts all stand on the sidelines, closing their eyes, softballing investigations, ignoring evidence, downplaying the severity of the acts, protecting the attackers, and giving a boost to those progromtchiks. The hands behind these attacks belong to Israeli Jews who violate international law by living in the West Bank. But the aims and goals behind the attacks are the flesh and blood of the Israeli non-occupation. This systemic violence is part of the existing order. It complements and facilitates the violence of the regime.
Hass, Amira: Escalation is when Palestinians lose self-restraint
Published: 2015
Who is to blame for the escalation?
Hass, Amira: Israel showed restraint in Gaza before attacking? You must be kidding
Published: 2014
Israeli journalist Amira Hass, writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, demolishes some myths.
Hasson, Nir: Palestinian villagers tilled their land so well, Israel is now confiscating it from them
Published: 2016
The separation barrier will cut residents of Al-Walaja from their lands by the end of the year; the beauty of the terraces they cultivated for decades was used as one of the main reasons for announcing the area a national park.
Hastings, Tom H: Pentagon's War on the Earth
Published: 2016
We are waging war. We are the Nation of War. We destroy. We kill. Everyone fears us. Fewer and fewer admire us. But our fighting forces -- and their attendant industries which manufacture the bombs, bullets, and ballistic delivery devices -- also wage a war on the clean air, clean water, and clean soil many Americans falsely regard as protected by legislation fought for by those trying to protect our environment.
Hastings, Tom H.: What is Nonviolence Anyhow?
Published: 2015
What is it, this nonviolence? Who gets to define it? A kindergarten teacher is nonviolent when she puts a vase of fresh flowers on her desk and smiles at her little students, right? A young man who publicly refuses to be drafted during an invasion of another country is nonviolent, certainly. How about an old man who writes a letter to the editor arguing for peace on Earth?
Hathaway, B.A.: 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading
Published: 1888
Hatuqa, Dalia: Anti-BDS bills expected to feature prominently at AIPAC
Annual meeting to push for measures that counter boycott Israel campaign as rights groups call bills 'unconstitutional'
Published: 2018
At the annual meeting of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), the lobbying group's agenda is set to propose measures to counter the growing campaign to boycott Israel and its West Bank settlements. At the centre of discussion are anti-bocott bills, described by critics as laws designed to curb the not-for-profit Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement- a human rights movement that supports Palestinian rights.
Hatuqa, Dalia: How Israel is digitally policing Palestinian minds
Published: 2017
Israeli authorities have been arresting and holding hundreds of Palestinians it accuses of fanning the flames of violence in the occupied West Bank and Israel.
Hauser, Micah: The Deportation Racket
Con artists are preying on undocumented immigrants in detention
Published: 2019
Undocumented immigrants have long been targeted by swindlers who promise shortcuts through the labyrinthine corridors of immigration law. What happened to Duran is most commonly called notario fraud, a catchall term that refers to a scam in which an individual misrepresents his or her qualifications to handle immigration work.
Hawes, William: Electoral Politics and the Illusion of Control
Published: 2016
We have all been told a lie. The lie that says democracy can be maintained only through voting, through purely representative, parliamentarian means. When the founding fathers set up the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they were wary of any truly popular, working and middle class control of the United States. Our government was to be run as a republic, designed by elites, for the elites. Our three branches of government were not simply invented for checks and balances: another reason was to stymie any massively popular mandates that would go against the interests of the oligarchy.
Hawkins, Howie: Biden’s Climate Plan: It’s Too Late for Gradualism
Published: 2021
The climate emergency demands a radical and rapid decarbonization of the economy with numerical goals and timetables to transform all productive sectors, not only power production (27% of carbon emissions), but also transportation (28%), manufacturing (22%), buildings (12%), and agriculture (10%). That emergency transformation can only be met by an ecosocialist approach using public enterprise and planning. Instead, Biden's plan emphasizes corporate welfare: subsidies and tax incentives for clean energy that will take uncertain effect at a leisurely pace in the markets. Moreover, it does nothing to stop more oil and gas fracking and pipelines for more gas-fired power plants, or to shut down coal-fired power plants. Without out directly saying so, it is a plan to burn fossil fuels for decades to come.
Hawkins, John Kendall: The Crisis in Investigative Journalism
The Case of James Risen
Published: 2014
Investigative journalists are the vanguard of the so-called Fourth Estate, bearing the formidable task of watchdogging the other three estates
Hawkins, John Kendall: Torturing Assange
An Interview with Andrew Fowler
Published: 2020
Andrew Fowler, Australian award-winning investigative journalist and author of 'The Most Dangerous Man in the World: Julian Assange and WikiLeaks' Fight for Freedom,' accounts the rise and political imprisonment of Assange. According to Fowler, Assange seemingly inevitably moved toward an adversarial positioning against American imperialism abroad. He was a tonic for the indifference expressed by so many ordinary Americans in the traumatic aftermath of 9/11 and the rise of the surveillance state.
Hawks, John: Three big insights into our African origins
Published: 2019
John Hawks delivered a lecture to the American Society for Human Genetics, focusing on the African record of human origins.
Hawley, Alex: Review: Where I Live Now by Sharon Butala takes readers on a lovely and dark journey
Book Review
Published: 2017
Review of a woman's memoir of life on the prairies and the death of her husband.
Haworth,Abigail: Bangkok's Big Brother is watching you
Published: 2015
Abigail Haworth charts the rise of General Prayuth Chan-ocha and his despotic regime.
Hay, John: The Deciders
The disastrous Iraq policies that led to ISIS were not President Bush's
Published: 2015
In May 2003, in the wake of the Iraq War and the ousting of Saddam Hussein, events took place that set the stage for the current chaos in the Middle East. Yet even most well-informed Americans are unaware of how policies implemented by mid-level bureaucrats during the Bush administration unwittingly unleashed forces that would ultimately lead to the juggernaut of the Islamic State.
Hayase, Nozomi: Assange's Battle: A Fight for Democracy
Published: 2015
Whistle-blowers have become dissidents of the West. In the US, the crackdown on journalists and publishers has reached its height. Despite his campaign pledge to be "the most transparent administration", President Obama engaged in unprecedented persecution of whistle-blowers, worse than all other previous administrations combined. Those who communicate with the press and reveal the secrets of the deep state are seen as insider threats. They have become enemies of the state, often treated as traitors and criminalized.
Hayase, Nozomi: Assange's Extradition Case: Critical Moment for the Anti-war Movement
Published: 2020
While media have become stenographers to power and have long betrayed ordinary people, WikiLeaks has defended the public’s right to know by publishing more than 10 million documents, with a pristine record of accuracy exposing human rights abuses, government spying and war crimes on an unprecedented scale. By bringing truth to the public, the whistleblowing site transformed the Fourth Estate into becoming a powerful vehicle for peace-making.
Hayase, Nozomi: Defense for Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange
Published: 2019
Transcript of a speech in defense of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange.
Hayase, Nozomi: The Global Battle for Free Speech
WikiLeaks: Bringing the First Amendment to the World
Published: 2014
Since 2011, waves of global uprisings have been erupting as never before. The crisis of representation helped spawn decentralized movements as a manifestation of people’s aspiration to take the reins of their own destinies. For many, the presumption of legitimacy of their governments has been crumbling. What triggered this widespread global crisis? WikiLeaks was a game changer. Their publication of disclosed documents along with established media reaction showed the true face of liberal institutions and the waning effectiveness of the politics of representation.
Hayase, Nozomi: Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years
His Idealism Remains at Large
Published: 2013
28-year-old political activist Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release at the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York. This was the maximum sentence he could receive after his non-cooperating plea deal.
Hayase, Nozomi: Political Prisoners in the Sacrifice Zone of Empire
Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond
Published: 2014
Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania and Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a ten year sentence at a federal prison in Manchester, Kentucky.
Hayase, Nozomi: Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free Speech
Published: 2017
US authorities are reported to have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This overreach of US government toward a publisher is another sign of a crumbling façade of democracy.
Hayase, Nozomi: WikiLeaks: Conspiracy of Governance to the Courage to Inspire
The Moral Math of Our Time
Published: 2014
WikiLeaks emerged into the limelight like a call to the conscience of humanity. They released secret documents revealing Kenyan government corruption, Iceland’s financial collapse, the criminality of US wars in the Middle East and more. Their very existence and what they revealed called into question the legitimacy of imperial power structures around the world.
Hayase, Nozomi: WikiLeaks: 10 Years of Pushing the Boundaries of Free Speech
Published: 2016
We are now entering WikiLeaks 10 year anniversary. The organization registered their domain on October 4, 2006 and blazed into the public limelight in the spring of 2010 with the publication of Collateral Murder. This video footage depicted the cruel scenery of modern war seen from an Apache helicopter gun-sight. It became an international sensation, with the website temporarily crashing with the massive influx of visitors.
Hayase, Nozomi: WikiLeaks Vault 7 Reveals CIA Cyberwar and the Battleground of Democracy
Published: 2017
WikiLeaks dropped a bombshell on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named “Vault 7”, the whistleblowing site began releasing the largest publication of confidential documents that have come from the top secret security network at the Cyber Intelligence Center.
Hayward, Tim: The Guardian, White Helmets, and Silenced Comment
Published: 2018
The Guardian recently published an article claiming that critical discussion of the White Helmets in Syria has been 'propagated online by a network of anti-imperialist activists, conspiracy theorists and trolls with the support of the Russian government'. Many readers were dismayed at this crude defence of a – presumably – pro-imperialist perspective, and at the unwarranted smearing of reasoned questioning based on evidence from independent journalists.
Hazard, John: Lopez Obrador in Mexico: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old?
Published: 2018
The newly elected President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has been described by some in the U.S. as a radical socialist, however this article explains that he has already back-peddled on important pre-election promises.
Hazard, Johnny: In Protest Against Police Raping Spree, Women Burn Their Station in Mexico City.
Published: 2019
A first person account of protests in Mexico City in response to reports of rape by police officers which have been dismissed by the administration.
Hdeges, Chris: On Being Disappeared
Published: 2022
YouTube has removed the entire six-year archive of the author's show 'On Contact.' This censorship, he says, is about supporting what I.F Stone reminded us is what governments always do - lie.
Head, Mike: Australian government orders ASIO raids to suppress East Timor spying evidence
Published: 2013
The Abbott governmen ordered Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and Australian Federal Police (AFP) raids on the homes and offices of a lawyer and former intelligence agency whistleblower involved in an international legal challenge to Australia’s spying on the East Timor government during maritime border talks in 2004.
Head, Mike: Snowden document confirms US-backed mass surveillance in Australia
Published: 2013
The document obtained by the former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor confirms that the electronic surveillance agency, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), monitors the domestic population, as well as the people and governments of many Asian countries.
Healy, Hazel: The food rush
Published: 2011
Commodity speculators have moved into food - with dire consequences for the world’s poorest.
Healy, Jack: Denver Post Editor Who Criticized Paper's Ownership Resigns
Published: 2018
Chuck Plunkett said he knew that he was risking his job as the editorial page editor of The Denver Post when he wrote an impassioned editorial last month blasting the newspaper's hedge-fund owners as "vulture capitalists" who had hobbled Colorado's largest newspaper with deep layoffs and cost-cutting. On Thursday, Mr. Plunkett resigned after he said an executive who oversees the newspaper refused to run another sharp-edged editorial Mr. Plunkett had written for this Sunday's newspaper.
Heasman, Richard; Tickell, Oliver: Disused oil and gas wells wells a major source of methane
Published: 2014
Long-disused oil and gas wells in the US have been found to be a 'significant' source of the super greenhouse gas methane. The climate impact of oil and gas is underestimated, as this long term impact is not included in existing calculations.
Heat-Moon, William Least: William Least Heat Moon Quotes
Heaven, Douglas: Why deep-learning AIs are so easy to fool
Artificial-intelligence researchers are trying to fix the flaws of neural networks.
Published: 2019
These problems are more concerning than idiosyncratic quirks in a not-quite-perfect technology, says Dan Hendrycks, a PhD student in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Like many scientists, he has come to see them as the most striking illustration that DNNs are fundamentally brittle: brilliant at what they do until, taken into unfamiliar territory, they break in unpredictable ways.
Hedges, Chris: Alice Walker & the Price of Conscience
Published: 2022
On the decision of the Bay Area Book Festival to disinvite Alice Walker.
Hedges, Chris: The Careerists
Published: 2012
The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colourless human beings.
Hedges, Chris: Chronicle of a War Foretold
Published: 2022
Hedges, Chris: The Cost of Bearing Witness
Published: 2023
There are scores of Palestinian writers and photographers, many of whom have been killed, who are determined to make us see the horror of this genocide. They will vanquish the lies of the killers.
Hedges, Chris: Crucifying Julian Assange
Published: 2018
Juilien Assange, who exposed the dark machinations and crimes of the US government, is now under threat of being expelled from the Equadorian Embassy. The article looks at what is happening to Assange and why the the silence over his plight is a betrayal by the press.
Hedges, Chris: The Dawn of the Apocalypse
Published: 2022
We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction.
Hedges, Chris: The Democratic Party's Revenge on Matt Taibbi
Published: 2023
Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who exposed them.
Hedges, Chris: 'Fake News' in America
Homegrown, and Far From New
Published: 2016
Details the hypocrisy of the media and Democratic party's recent outcry over 'fake news', as the loose definition encompasses well-established media practices, and may be used to attack any alternative media source.
Hedges, Chris: Forgotten Victims of America's Class War
Published: 2023
Once the jobs left and Democrats abandoned working men and women, people became desperate in the author's hometown in Maine - as in tens of thousands of white, rural enclaves across the country.
Hedges, Chris: The Greeks Get It
Published: 2010
Here's to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country. They know what to do when Goldman Sachs and international bankers collude with their power elite to falsify economic data and then make billions betting that the Greek economy will collapse. They know what to do when they are told their pensions, benefits and jobs have to be cut to pay corporate banks, which screwed them in the first place. Call a general strike. Riot. Shut down the city centers. Toss the bastards out. Do not be afraid of the language of class warfare: the rich versus the poor, the oligarchs versus the citizens, the capitalists versus the proletariat. The Greeks, unlike most of us, get it.
Hedges, Chris: How 'Antifa' Mirrors the 'Alt-Right'
Published: 2017
Behind the rhetoric of the "alt-right" about white nativism and protecting American traditions, history and Christian values is the lust for violence. Behind the rhetoric of antifa, the Black Bloc and the so-called "alt-left" about capitalism, racism, state repression and corporate power is the same lust for violence.
Hedges, Chris: The Israeli Execution of Shireen Abu Akleh
Published: 2022
Israel, which shoots hundreds of Palestinians a year, routinely includes reporters and photographers on its target lists. The execution of Abu Akleh was not an accident. She was singled out for elimination.
Hedges, Chris: Israel's Culture of Deceit
Published: 2023
Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.
Hedges, Chris: Israel's lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitatio
Published: 2024
Israel's lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and wound hundreds a day.
Hedges, Chris: Julian Assange: A Fight We Must Not Lose
Published: 2023
The detention and persecution of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press.
Hedges, Chris: The Origin of America's Intellectual Vacuum
Published: 2010
A profile of Chandler Davis, a blacklisted mathematician who served six months in jail for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Hedges, Chris: Palestinians Speak Israel's Language
Published: 2023
Israel follows the colonial playbook. Death for death. Atrocity for atrocity. But it is always the occupier who initiates this macabre dance and trades piles of corpses for higher piles of corpses.
Hedges, Chris: The Terror We Give Is the Terror We Get
Published: 2015
The barbarism we condemn is the barbarism we commit. The line that separates us from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is technological, not moral. We are those we fight.
Hedges, Chris: They Lied About Afghanistan & Iraq; Now They're Lying About Ukraine
Published: 2023
The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war.
Hedges, Chris: To the Israeli Soldier Who Murdered Her
Published: 2024
Shooting unarmed people is not bravery. It is not courage. It is not even war. It is a crime.
Hedges, Chris: Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death
Published: 2022
The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives during the Cold War and dominates our lives now.
Hedges, Chris: We Are All Deplorables
Published: 2016
Those cast aside by the neoliberal order have an economic identity that both the liberal class and the right wing are unwilling to acknowledge. This economic identity is one the white underclass shares with other discarded people, including the undocumented workers and the people of color demonized by the carnival barkers on cable news shows. This is an economic reality the power elites invest great energy in masking.
Hedges, Chris: We Are All Deplorables
Published: 2016
Chris Hedges on American life, politics and religion.
Hedges, Chris: Worthy & Unworthy Victims
Published: 2022
The life of a Palestinian or an Iraqi child is as precious as the life of a Ukrainian child. No one should live in fear and terror. No one should be sacrificed on the altar of Mars.
Hedges, Chris; Parenti, Christian: How Wokeness Kills Class Politics and Empowers Empire
Published: 2024
Oftentimes the idea of 'wokeness' or 'woke' ideology, whether calling it as such or acknowledging its existence, can be thought of as coinage of the right wing. Christian Parenti, professor at John Jay College, journalist and author, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to make the case that what he and many others define as "woke" is actually a weapon used to further suppress marginalized people, prevent the awareness of class politics and class struggle and further divide the working class.
Hegel, G.W.F.: G.W.F. Hegel Quotes
Heilbut, Anthony: The Number That No Man Could Number
Black America's civil war over gay rights
Published: 2017
A look at the complex relationship between the Church and homosexuality among African-Americans. While many church leaders become the public face of resistance to homosexuality and same-sex marriage, behind closed doors the reality is very different.
Heinbecker, Paul: Unfriendly fire: The casualty of war Ottawa would rather forget
Published: 2014
On this Remembrance Day, I am remembering one Canadian peacekeeper in particular — someone the Harper government probably prefers to forget. Major Paeta Hess von Kruedener was killed (along with three other UN observers) by the Israelis in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war
Heine, Heinrich: Heinrich Heine Quotes
Heleta, Savo: Academics can change the world -- if they stop talking only to their peers
Published: 2016
Heleta discusses the limited audience that academics publish for and the lack of real-world impact their ideas have as a result.
Helie Lucas, Marieme: Sex segregation in UK universities - a step forward for the Muslim religious right
Published: 2013
The authorities of universities in the UK have made public their policy of bending to religious fundamentalists by condoning sex segregation on university premises. The education system is especially targeted, as controlling the minds of the youth is critical.
Helm, Sarah: Israel at 70: Why Gaza's refugees and their descendants will never forget their violent expulsion
Published: 2018
Tuesday marks the anniversary of the start of the exodus from what became Israel, an event Palestinians call the Nabka (catastrophe). Sarah Helm visits Gaza to hear the views of residents old and young about their past and future
Helmore, Edward: Panama's indigenous champion defies president's mining deal
Canadian-Korean consortium plans 30-year gold, silver and copper project
Published: 2012
In Panama the Ngabe-Bugle indigenous community fights to keep a Canadian copper mining company off their land.
Hemingway, Alex: Uber? Taxis? Or Plan C? How to Get Ride Hailing Right
BC could show the world a non-profit model that beats oligopolies
Published: 2018
A look at 'ride-hailing' and why it should be run on a non-profit basis as a co-op or other non-profit model.
Henderson, Clint: 10 Shocking Incidents of Police Brutality Caught on Tape
Finally, a Reason to Like CCTV
Published: 2012
The internet is full of videos exposing police officers’ use of excessive physical force when trying to apprehend or detain “potential criminals”. Every year in fact there seems to be an increase in YouTube video uploads, video views, and news stories depicting this type of injustice.
Henderson, Elizabeth: Organic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science but Genetic Engineers Often Are
Published: 2016
Henderson argues that biotechnologists conflate anti-science with anti-genetic engineering, and that genetically engineered crops are being commercialized without proper testing.
Henderson, Elizabeth: Organic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science but Genetic Engineers Often Are
Published: 2016
Hendricks, Pepe: Stop hate rape!
Published: 2014
Hate crimes, homophobia and discrimination against queer people are global phenomena that are common practice. This situation is especially experienced in Africa and the Middle East where harsh and punitive legislation and policies are authorised and endorsed. The lack of democracy, or the protection thereof, also perpetuates extreme human rights abuses, which often takes the form of physical assault.
Hendricks, Steve: Come Again? Second Thoughts on My Ashley Madison Affair
Published: 2015
Henein, Maryann: "Superman Is Not Coming": Erin Brockovich on the Future of Water
Published: 2017
Come take a ride on America's toxic water slide: First stop: Flint, Michigan, where two years later, people are still contending with lead-laced water, which was finally detected by the EPA in February 2015 with the help of resident Lee Anne Walters. Next stop: California, where hundreds of wells have been contaminated with 1,2,3-TCP, a Big Oil-manufactured chemical present in pesticides.
Henerson, Mary Anne; Platt, Brian: More Than a Few Rogue Cops: the Disturbing History of Police in Schools
Published: 2016
Another week, another video of police abuse surfaces. This time the video shows San Antonio school resource officer Joshua Kehm body-slamming 12-year-old Rhodes Middle School student Janissa Valdez. Valdez was talking with another student, trying to resolve a verbal conflict between the two, when Kehm entered and attacked her. "Janissa! Janissa, you okay?" a student asked before exclaiming, "She landed on her face!" In a statement on the incident, co-director of the Advancement Project Judith Browne Davis wrote, "Once again, a video captured by a student offers a sobering reminder that we cannot entrust school police officers to intervene in school disciplinary matters that are best suited for trained educators and counselors."
Hengari, Alfredo Tjiurimo: The return of the Herero and Nama skulls: Coming to terms with a difficult history
Published: 2012
In his analysis of the failure over more than two decades to deal with the genocide, Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari looks at the changing attitudes of Namibia’s SWAPO-led government and the role of the Namibian media as well as Germany’s evasive political posturing.
Henley, John: Fanning the flames of intolerance
The burning of books -- an ultimate form of control and condemnation
Published: 2010
A historical overview of book burnings by political and religious regimes.
Henley, Jon: Greece's solidarity movement: 'it's a whole new model - and it's working'
Published: 2015
Citizen-run health clinics, food centres, kitchens and legal aid hubs have sprung up to fill the gaps left by austerity – and now look set to play a bigger role under a Syriza government.
Henley, Jon: The village where people have dementia -- and fun
Published: 2012
How is society to look after the ever-growing number of people with dementia? A curiously uplifting care home near Amsterdam may have the answers.
Henley,Jon: May Day: workers of the world unite and take over -- their factories
Published: 2015
The co-operative movement is giving employees the chance to rebuild shuttered livelihoods.
Henneton, Thibault: Do You Play Video Games or Do They Play You?
Mass Culture for Profit
Published: 2014
Since the spread of smart mobile devices - smartphones and tablets - the video games industry has learned a lesson in economic Darwinism: develop your mobile business or face extinction. The growth of gaming on the move means a new global division of labour, and the industry is revising its profit margins.
Henneton, Thibault: The security - digital complex
Published: 2016
With the rise of the Internet and the globalisation of electronic data, there has been a shift in the university-military-industrial complex to a new security-digital complex -- a public-private hybrid that is both narrower and more far-reaching.
Henry, Cora: Nigerian media seek to cope with Boko Haram threat
Published: 2015
This spring, everyone who knew of Adeola Akinremi's plans to travel to northeast Nigeria to report on the tens of thousands displaced by Boko Haram told him to be extremely careful. Some urged him not to go at all. But Akinremi, features editor of the independent daily ThisDay, was set on telling the victims' stories and he set out for Adamawa state the first week of May.
Heraclitus: Heraclitus Quotes
Herman, Edward S.: Containing the United States
Published: 2016
With Hillary Clinton about to be elected and some advanced cadres of the war party preparing to take charge, who is going to contain the United States? The U.S. political system has failed its populace and the world and has imposed no brakes on the war machine. The UN and EU are still too much under the U.S. thumb. Russia and China are too weak and with too flimsy an alliance system to threaten U.S. hegemony and do more than make direct U.S. aggression against themselves very costly.
Herman, Edward S.: Fake News on Russia in the New York Times, 1917-2017
Published: 2017
Fake news on Russia is a Times tradition that can be traced back at least as far as the 1917 revolution.
Herman, Edward S.; Peterson, David: Assange and Posada in the Propaganda System
Mixed Media
Published: 2011
Posada's case is a dramatic illustration of the fraudulence of the so-called "War on Terror" and highlights the U.S. refusal to abide by the rule of law. Assange's case shows well the U.S. establishment's fear of the free-flow of information that might interfere with foreign policy and reveal that there are many more Posadas whose service to the empire might be disclosed. And the media's cooperation in this protection of Posada and pursuit of Assange is clear. \
Herman, S. Edward: Golden Silences in the Propaganda System
Published: 2015
Propaganda shapes the flow of information in many different ways, including, obviously, the choice of the news fit to print, its placement, and the selection of authorities to make those facts credible. But equally important, and implicit in news choices, especially where there are political interests at stake and possible varying interpretations of the news, is omitting facts and ignoring sources that call the chosen (often official) perspective into question.
Hermann, Zsuzsa: Protest Against Closing Down the Lukács Archiv
Published: 2016
We, the undersigned, wish to express our deepest worries about the resolution of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to close down the Lukács Archives in Budapest. Görgy Lukács was one the significant philosophers of the 20th century, an author of modernity outstanding not only in philosophy but also in the fields of political mindedness, theory of literature, sociology and ethics An author of international renown, Lukács represented one of the intellectual peaks in Hungary's history of civilisation, his works constitute a part of the treasures of humankind. For decades, the Lukács Archives has facilitated academic and non-academic circles to have access to the documents related to the philosopher's life and professional achievements. As it is located in the philosopher's home of his late years, it has also served as a memorial place devoted to a decisive personality of our era. Based on the above, we call on the authorities in charge to re-consider their decision, which took the international community of science and art by consternation and sorrow.
Hern, Alex: Bitcoin's energy usage is huge - we can't afford to ignore it
Published: 2018
A look at the use of cryptocurrency, its astonishingly high use of electrical power and why there is a need to take it seriously as a climate threat.
Herriman, Jade: Repair cafés are about fixing things - including communities
Published: 2015
Repair cafés are a new global phenomenon that brings the two together, giving satisfaction to both, sharing skills, keeping stuff out of landfill, fighting 'designed obsolescence', and building communities sustained by mutual help.
Hersh, Seymour: How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
Published: 2023
The New York Times called it a "mystery," but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept a secret - until now.
Hersh, Seymour M.: Looking for Calley
How a young journalist untangled the riddle of My Lai
Published: 2018
Seymour M. Hersh looks back at the 1969 My Lai Massacre where hundreds of unarmed civilians were massacred by U.S. Army soldiers. As a young freelance journalist in Vietnam Hersh gained recognition for exposing the atrocity and its cover-up, and ultimately helped turn public opinion against the war.
Hersh, Seymour M.: Whose sarin?
Published: 2013
Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. The Syrian army is not the only party in the country’s civil war with access to sarin.
Hervieu, Benoît: Citizen Activism Challenges Protected Media Oligopoly
Published: 2011
The issue of news and information is playing a central role in this upsurge of citizen unrest in Chile.
Herz, Ansel: How to Write about Haiti
Published: 2010
How to make sure that you stick to the tried and proven cliches.
Herz, Ansel: Police Go on Fishing Expedition, Search the Home of Seattle Privacy Activists Who Maintain Tor Network
Published: 2016
Seattle police descended on the Queen Anne condo of two outspoken privacy activists with a search warrant early this morning, leaving them shaken and upset. Jan Bultmann and David Robinson, a married couple and co-founders of the Seattle Privacy Coalition, said they were awakened at 6:15 a.m. by a team of six detectives from the SPD knocking on the door. Bultmann said were made to sit outside as the officers, who had a search warrant, examined their equipment.
Herzig, Nancy; Bernabe, Rafael: Further Dialogue on Pornography
Pornography, Censorship, Sexuality
Published: 1997
The Church and right-wing groups have intensified their war on the three horsemen of immorality: abortion, gays and pornography. In the struggle against this, we have emphasized the need to oppose censorship. We have also-if appropriate or necessary-defended pornography. a freer, richer, sexuality cannot evolve by somebody (experts, feminists, socialists) legislating what liberating sex is, while censoring what falls beyond the practices so defined.
Herzog, Katie: Call-Out Culture Is a Toxic Garbage Dumpster Fire of Trash
Published: 2018
A look at the "Call-out" culture where individuals who express opinions are quickly reprimanded online with derogatory labels; a mass media social comdemnation often without any sort of due process, which ultimately spreads a fear to engage in controversy or voice opinions that are even slightly outside the tide of contemporary thinking.
Heugh, Kathleen: Africa: Lessons From Africa Prove the Incredible Value of Mother Tongue Learning
Published: 2017
Using case studies of educational systems in Africa, Heugh defends the use of mother-tongue education in multilingual countries, whereby vernacular languages are used in primary schools to introduce official languages.
Hiaven, Judy: Clayton Ruby: weighing him in the balance
Published: 2022
The well-known Toronto lawyer and civil libertarian died earlier this month, at age 80. So far, most of the obituaries have praised him and portrayed him as a left-wing icon. But it is the left that he smeared for its support for Palestinians' human rights.
Higgins, Charlotte: Ancient Greece, the Middle East and an ancient cultural internet
Published: 2013
The ancient Greek world is being recast from an isolated entity to one of many hybrid cultures in Africa and in the East.
Higgins, Eoin: While US, North Korea Both Make Threats, Only One Has Killed Millions of the Other's People
Published: 2017
Despite bombastic threats from both the Unites States and North Korea, the mainstream media plays down the simple fact that it is North Korea that is isolated and facing overwhelming military superiority.
Higgins, Parker: Forward Secrecy Brings Better Long-Term Privacy to Wikipedia
Published: 2014
Wikipedia readers and editors can now enjoy a higher level of long-term privacy, thanks to the Wikimedia Foundation's rollout last week of forward secrecy on its encrypted connections.
Hightower, Ed: Forbes 400 list of world's richest people highlights growth of social inequality
Published: 2014
Forbes magazine published its 28th annual list of the world's wealthiest individuals and families on Monday. In all, the research team behind the Forbes Billionaires list found a total of 1,645 billionaires worldwide, with a combined net worth of $6.4 trillion, an increase of $1 trillion from 2013. The number of new billionaires, at 268, was the highest figure in the report's history.
Hightower, Jim: "Local" Goes Loco
Published: 2009
Buying "local" has become a popular movement in American agriculture and commerce. Some corporations, however, are taking "local" a step farther.
Hijazi, Menna: I had ten minutes to evacuate my life
Published: 2021
I do not believe any human being should ever be accustomed to wars; it is just abnormal to live under fire and rockets with this amount of tension. Neither Abdallah, nor any other child should ever get used to wars.
Hildebrandt, Amber; Seglins, Dave; Pereira, Michael: CSE monitors millions of Canadian emails to government
Published: 2015
Canada's electronic spy agency collects millions of emails from Canadians and stores them for "days to months" while trying to filter out malware and other attacks on government computer networks.
Hilder, Yvonne: Getting the Most from Interviews
Published: 1997
Tips from a pro for getting the most from media interviews.
Hilder, Yvonne: Tips for Getting the most from E-mail
Published: 2000
The E-mail I receive from journalists seeking assistance with their research and from organizations listed with Sources is often puzzling. Many messages are unaddressed, unsigned and written in haste. Some queries require detective work before I can send a proper response.
Hill, David: Gas company: Amazon tribes vulnerable to 'massive deaths'
Published: 2014
Amazon tribes in Peru's rainforest are at risk of 'massive deaths' from new diseases to which they lack immunity, gas company Pluspetrol admits - as it tries to expand its Camisea gas project into a Reserve for isolated indigenous people.
Hilley, John: Guardian's day of shame, and the dark depths of liberal McCarthyism
Published: 2017
The liberal 'resistance' to Donald Trump has revealed a service media now plumbing its own dark, reactionary depths. A Guardian editorial has welcomed back to public prominence none other than George W Bush. Even for the Blair-protecting, war-apologising Guardian, it's a landmark day of shame.
Hillman, Harold: Research Practices in Need of Examination and Improvement
Published: 2001
Belief in the function of the scientific method as a tool for improving the quality of research implies that the more accurately, carefully and honestly, a hypothesis is generated, the experiments are done and results are more likely to arrive at more reliable hypothesis.
Himmelstein, David U.: Testimony of David U. Himmelstein, M.D. before the HELP Subcommittee
Published: 2009
A single-payer reform would make care affordable through vast savings on bureaucracy and profits. As my colleagues and I have shown in research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, administration consumes 31 percent of health spending in the United States, nearly double what Canada spends. In other words, if we cut our bureaucratic costs to Canadian levels, we'd save nearly $400 billion annually - more than enough to cover the uninsured and to eliminate co-payments and deductibles for all Americans.
Hindess, Kathryn: Whose seeds are they anyway?
Real Farming Report
Published: 2017
The new People Need Nature report - published to coincide with this week's annual Oxford Real Farming Conference - warns that modern farming practices are not good for wildlife. But they're not good for humans either. And with predictions that we will need to produce 70 per cent more food to feed a third more mouths by 2050 the question of seed ownership and diversity cannot be ignored.
Hinshaw, John: The Labor Party's Pittsburgh Convention
Published: 1999
BETWEEN NOVEMBER 13-15 in Pittsburgh, over 1400 delegates from six national unions, over two hundred local unions and thirty-nine chapters of the Labor Party met for its first Constitutional Convention. These delegates, representing trade union bodies whose memberships total over one million (and some thousands of party members), recommitted the LP to the comprehensive program adopted at the founding convention in Cleveland in 1996.
Hirsch, Afua: Mali: Timbuktu's literary gems face Islamists and decay in fight for survival
Published: 2013
Daring by a dedicated few saved many manuscripts in Mali from Islamists.
Hirthle, Jason: Washington's Not-So-Invisible Hand: It's Not Economics, It's Empire
Published: 2016
Scottish philosopher Adam Smith famously noted the "invisible hand" of the market that supposedly shaped the character of economies near and far. The rightwing neoliberal capitalist movement, dominant in the West since the early Seventies, has turned this phrase into the sacrosanct dictum of its secular religion. All human behaviour must be submitted to the "free market." (This is the notional credo, but in practice corporate elites are subsidized, bailout out, and given every possible taxpayer benefit to ensure higher private profits.) So now, when nations fail, it is typically said in the media to be the product of a) a crazed dictator threatening counterintuitive genocide on his own people; or b) foolish state interventions by deranged socialist ideologues.
Hirthler, Jason: Blaming Everbody
Published: 2016
The Democratic Party brought the 2016 election disaster on themselves.
Hirthler, Jason: The Empire's Shill
The Real Mission of the New York Times
Published: 2013
Hirthler, Jason: The Illusion of Debate
Consensus for the People that Matter
Published: 2014
A recent article in FAIR reviewed the findings of its latest study on the quality of political “debate” being aired on the mainstream networks. It studied the run-up to the military interventions in both Iraq and Syria. Perhaps the arbiters of the study intended to illustrate what we’ve learned since the fraudulent Iraq War of 2003. Well, it appears we’ve learned nothing.
Hirthler, Jason: The Journalists Do The Shouting
Published: 2019
A summary and analysis of some of the mainstream media's coverage US conflicts with Iran.
Hirthler, Jason: The Journalists Do The Shouting
Published: 2019
Today’s meaningful art is samizdat stickers on wireline poles and spray-canned corporate advertising. Corporate media is no longer considered a sure source of credible reporting.
Hirthler, Jason: Return of the Evil Empire
Published: 2014
You have to hand it to them. The United States media machine is unequaled at producing and disseminating misinformation. It begins in the bowels of the State Department or White House or Pentagon and is filtered out through the government’s front organizations, otherwise known as Mainstream Media (MSM).
Hirthler, Jason: Sorry, Not Sorry: Neither the Media Nor Their Owners are Going to Change
Published: 2016
Detailing the failures of the corporate media in coverage of the 2016 US election, and how these problems are systemic due to the corporate ownership structure.
Hitchens, Peter: It's Nato that's empire-building, not Putin
Published: 2015
Two sides are required for a New Cold War — and there is no obvious need for an adversarial system in post-Soviet Europe.
Hitchens, Peter: It's WMD all over again. Why don't you see it?
Published: 2017
Today’s frenzy over alleged use of poison gas in Syria is the 2017 version of Anthony Blair’s WMD in Iraq. Why can you not see it? Did you think they would do it in exactly the same way again? You are being assailed through your emotions, to act first and think long after, and far too late.
Ho, Fred: Why Music Must Be Revolutionary -- and How It Can Be
Against The Current vol. 159
Published: 2012
Music, and all artistic and creative expression, is intrinsic to and an essential characteristic of human species-being. Music is a form of language, a type of communication, a spiritual force, an aesthetic or artistic expression, social ritual, entertainment and recreational activity, and is socio-politically catalytic.
Ho, Mae Wan: Glyphosate is a disaster for human health
Published: 2014
Extensive, long running evidence for the cancer-causing effects of glyphosate, and other toxic impacts, have been ignored by regulators. Indeed as the evidence has built up, permitted levels in food have been hugely increased.
Hoare, Philip: Museum and Gallery Curators Reopen the Cabinet of Curiosities Concept
Published: 2014
Stuffed pelicans, bell-jarred oddities and unicorn horns: the wunderkammer – or 'cabinet of curiosities' – is a macabre, colonial throwback. So why is it back in vogue?
Hoare, Philip: Whale songs: shanties drag mysteries of whaling life back from the deep
Published: 2014
A new album of songs chronicling the lost culture of whaling reminds new audiences a forgotten way of life.
Hobbs, Greg: Yiddish Glory: How a Grammy nomination sprang from a Canadian prof's chance discovery
'Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II' nominated in World Music Grammy category
Published: 2019
A collection of WWII era Soviet Yiddish music went from an archive to a Grammy-winning album. The collection revealed much new information about Soviet Jews.
Hochschild, Adam: The Fourth Branch
How the CIA infiltrated student politics
Published: 2015
Article about the CIA's influence and control over the National Student Association, a relationship that was kept secret for years.
Hochschild, Adam: Spain in Our Hearts
Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Published: 2016
Hochschild shares tales of some of the roughly 2,800 Americans who participated in the Spanish Civil War. He shows how the war was a brutal, cruel mismatch from the beginning, with Franco's fascist forces strengthened by 80,000 Italian troops supplied by Mussolini, as well as weapons and airplanes provided by Hitler in exchange for war-related minerals. Additionally, Hochschild uncovers the story of how Texaco, headed by an admirer of Hitler, Torkild Rieber, provided Franco with unlimited oil on credit, shipped it for free, and supplied invaluable intelligence on tankers carrying oil to the Republican forces.
Hochschild, Arlie: Think Republicans are disconnected from reality? It's even worse among liberals
A new survey found Democrats live with less political diversity despite being more tolerant of it – with startling results
Published: 2019
Democrats and Republicans have deep misconceptions about what the other side believes. This stops them from working together towards goals that mutually acceptable and achievable.
Hochschild, Arlie Russell: I Spent 5 Years With Some of Trump's Biggest Fans. Here's What They Won't Tell You.
How Donald Trump took a narrative of unfairness and twisted it to his advantage.
Published: 2016
Trump masculinizes benefits, but with a key proviso: restrict government help to real Americans.
Hodal, Kate: Boracay islanders fear for their lives in battle with Philippine tourist trade
Published: 2013
Hotel security guard is charged with murder after shooting of spokesman for Ati people, who claim ancestral land rights.
Hodal, Kate: Indonesia's Smoking Epidemic
An old problem getting younger
Published: 2012
Cigarettes are a rite of passage for boys in Indonesia, where 70% of the adult male population smokes. Activists and health care professionals are advocating for age restrictions on tobacco products and a ban on tobacco advertisements.
Hodal, Kate: Moken nomads leave behind their 'sea gypsy' life for a modern existence
Brought to the world's attention by the 2004 tsunami, the seafaring tribe is struggling to reconcile tradition and modernity
Published: 2012
The Moken, deep-sea divers off Thailand, find their way of life threatened by modern trawlers and voracious property developers.
Hodder, Jonny: All in the family
Published: 2018
Three parents who have made Canadian history by winning a court's recognition as a legal family are still adjusting to their status as pioneers for polyamorous rights.
Hodge, Oliver: Garbage Warrior
Published: 2007
Follow architect Michael Reynolds as he pioneers the earthship, a shelter that is made of natural and recycled materials and junk. A documentary centered around experimentalism, creativity, and challenging legal and public norms to make an ecological difference.
Hodges, Glenn: Formed by Megafloods, This Place Fooled Scientists for Decades
Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State. Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientif
Published: 2017
Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State. Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientific dogma of his day.
Hoffman, Abbie: Abbie Hoffman Quotes
Hoffman, David E.: In 1983 'war scare', Soviet leadership feared nuclear surprise attack by U.S.
Published: 2015
A nuclear weapons command exercise by NATO in November 1983 prompted fear in the leadership of the Soviet Union that the maneuvers were a cover for a nuclear surprise attack by the United States, triggering a series of unparalleled Soviet military responses, according to a top-secret U.S. intelligence review that has just been declassified.
Hoffman-Andrews, Jacob: How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections
Published: 2015
Verizon advertising partner Turn is using Verizon Wireless's UIDH tracking header to resurrect deleted tracking cookies and share them, forming a vast web of non-consensual online tracking. The tehcnology makes it impossible for customers to control their online privacy.
Hoggan, James: How Propaganda (Actually) Works
Published: 2016
Political propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.
Hoggan, James: How Propaganda Works to Divide Us
Published: 2017
Political propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.
Holden, Patrick: Good nutrition begins in healthy soils
Published: 2016
There's no such thing as 'healthy food' if it's not produced by sustainable farming systems on living soils, Patrick Holden told the recent 'Food: The Forgotten Medicine' conference. But after 70 years of industrial farming, there's a huge job to be done to restore our depleted soils and the impoverished genetic diversity of our seeds and crops.
Hollar, Julie: How Much Less Newsworthy Are Civilians in Other Conflicts?
Published: 2022
As US news media covered the first shocking weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some media observers -- like FAIR founder Jeff Cohen -- have noted their impressions of how coverage differed from wars past.
Holloway, Kali: Activists Track Down Racist Trolls Who Thought They Were Anonymous and Brilliantly Embarrass Them
A Brazilian group is turning racist social media messages into signs everyone can see.
Published: 2015
Recently, the Cleveland Plain Dealer announced it had turned off comments on stories about Tamir Rice because "just about every piece we published about Tamir immediately became a cesspool of hateful, inflammatory or hostile comments."
Holloway, Kali: African-American Women Now Top the List of Most-Educated Group in the Country
Published: 2016
Statistics on black women and education have shown them leading all other gender and racial groups for a few years now. More than half of all black women specifically between the ages of 18 and 24 are enrolled in college, and black women overall outpace other race and gender groups in terms of college enrollment, according to the National Center of Education Statistics/U.S. Census numbers.
Holloway, Kali: Anti-Vax Propaganda Helps Measles -- Once Eradicated -- Spread Across the Twin Cities
Health officials expect the number of diagnoses to rise.
Published: 2017
The anti-vaxxer misinformation campaign has led to yet another outbreak of a preventable disease. Minnesota's Department of Health has announced that 44 people in the state have been diagnosed with measles, a disease once eradicated in the United States. Forty-two of the cases are in children, most of them Somali-Americans who were never vaccinated. According to numerous sources, the outbreak is the result of a sustained anti-vaccination campaign.
Holloway, Kali: 10 Ways Monopoly Airlines Use 'Calculated Misery' to Make Flying an Increasingly Overpriced Nightmare
Published: 2015
In the three months of last quarter, America's commercial airlines collectively made $5.5 billion, up 53 percent over the same period a year before and the highest tally since the pre-Recessionary days of 2007. And yet, customers have never been more unhappy.
The airline industry profits by having you pay extra to be treated like a human being.
Holloway, Kari: Teenage Girls Increasingly Requesting Labiaplasty to Get the Perfect Designer Vagina
Very young women are going under the knife to sculpt parts that are still growing and changing.
Published: 2016
Never underestimate the power of beauty myths to manufacture inadequacies where before there were none. A little over a decade ago, labiaplasty -- the partial or wholesale removal of parts of the labia minora, aka the inner vaginal lips -- was a relatively obscure plastic surgery, compared with nips, tucks and lifts to various other parts. In more recent years, the number of women opting for the surgery has grown exponentially. Now very young women -- girls still in their teens -- are requesting the procedure in numbers growing so quickly that even some practitioners are concerned.
Holmes, Sherlock [Arthur Conan Doyle]: Sherlock Holmes Quotes
Holstein, Ned: Judges Run Wild
Published: 2004
The puffed-up arrogance of many family court judges is born of their unfettered control over our lives.
Holt, John: John Holt Quotes
Holt-Giménez, Eric: The world food crisis: what is behind it and what we can do
Published: 2008
The World Food Program's description of the global food crisis raises the spectre of a natural disaster surging over an unaware populace that is helpless in the face of massive destruction. With billions of people at risk of hunger, the current food crisis is certainly massive and destructive.
Holz, Maxine: Whatever Happened to the Sexual Revolution?
Published: 1986
What would a future anthropologist make of the bizarre and seemingly contradictory assortment of information on sexuality available today?
Hooper, Simon: Mandela the radical
Published: 2013
Nelson Mandela will be celebrated principally for the dignity with which he emerged onto the world stage after decades in prison and for the forgiveness that he displayed towards his former enemies in forging a democratic, multi-racial South Africa from the poisoned legacy of apartheid.
Hoover, James: Pharma Greed Run Amuk
Published: 2016
Congress, especially its GOP members, created the Martin monster. Martin Shkreli is only one of the monsters the GOP Congress has created. Probably our best hope is that one or many, like Shkreli, will overreach in an outrageous greed that our government has condoned for decades. Like errant spoiled children, pharmaceuticals (Pharma) have run roughshod over an obliging Congress and a consuming public since politicians -- in effect -- gave them license to steal.
Hope, Matt: 'Our Rivers are Black with Coal' - living with Siberia's mines
Published: 2018
A look at the aggressive coal mining industry in Siberia where local opposition and human rights are ignored, and indigenous communities and ecosystems are being destroyed.
Hopkina, Ruth: A history of American lynchings
Published: 2017
A soil collection project is commemorating the forgotten victims of lynching and helping to tell their stories.
Hopkins, CJ: Who’s Afraid of Corporate COINTELPRO?
Published: 2017
On November 30, 2016, presumably right at the stroke of midnight, Google Inc. unpersoned CounterPunch. They didn't send out a press release or anything. They just quietly removed it from the Google News aggregator. Not very many people noticed.
Hopkins, CJ: Why Ridiculous Official Propaganda Still Works
Published: 2017
Chief among the common misconceptions about the way official propaganda works is the notion that its goal is to deceive the public into believing things that are not "the truth" (that Trump is a Russian agent, for example, or that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, or that the terrorists hate us for our freedom, et cetera). However, while official propagandists are definitely pleased if anyone actually believes whatever lies they are selling, deception is not their primary aim.
Hopkins, Nick: China suspected of Facebook attack on Nato's supreme allied commander
Beijing cyber-spies accused of using fake social networking accounts in bid to steal military secrets from the west
Published: 2012
Nato's most senior military commander has been allegedly been targeted in a Facebook scam designed to glean information about him from his colleagues, friends and family.
Hopkins, Nick; Evans, Rob; Norton-Taylor, Richard: MoD staff and thousands of military officers join arms firms
Guardian research in the aftermath of the 'jobs for generals' scandal shows extent of links between MoD and private sector
Published: 2012
Conflicts of interests are brought to light as senior military personnel depart the military and transition into the private sector side of the military industrial complex.
Hopkins, Ruth: VAWA Must Pass to Protect All Women, Regardless of Race
The Fight Ahead
Published: 2013
No woman deserves to be beaten, raped, or killed, regardless of her race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.
Hoppe, Nora: The Crusades of the Virtuous
Published: 2023
It is now indispensable, more than ever before, to support and promote enlightenment, education, culture and the arts by reconstructing the bridge (that was damaged by postmodernism and neoliberalism) to our historical cultural roots.
Horace: Horace Quotes
Horgan, John: Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
A science journalist takes a skeptical look at capital-S Skepticism
Published: 2016
So I'm a skeptic, but with a small S, not capital S. I don’t belong to skeptical societies. I don’t hang out with people who self-identify as capital-S Skeptics. Or Atheists. Or Rationalists. When people like this get together, they become tribal. They pat each other on the back and tell each other how smart they are compared to those outside the tribe. But belonging to a tribe often makes you dumber.
Horgan, John: Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
Published: 2016
A science journalist takes a skeptical look at capital-S Skepticism
Horn, Bernie: The Emerging Progressive Majority
Introduction to 'Framing the Future'
A large group of Americans favor both progressive policy and conservative philosophy. As a result, they may side with either progressives or conservatives, depending on how a political question is framed.
Horn, Gerd-Rainer: Halting British Fascism - Book Reviews
Published: 1999
In Excited Times: The People Against the Blackshirts by Nigel Todd (Whitley Bay: Bewick Press, 1995), 130 pages.
The Struggle For Hearts and Minds: Essays on the Second World War by Raymond Challinor (Whitley Bay: Bewick Press, 1995), 118 pages.
Horn, Steve: The Blue Engine Behind Fracked Gas Exports PR Blitz
"Our Energy Moment"
Published: 2014
Behind nearly every major corporate policy push there’s an accompanying well-coordinated public relations and propaganda campaign. As it turns out, the oil and gas industry’s push to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) obtained via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) plays the same game, in this case via the industry-led PR blitz "Our Energy Moment".
Horn, Steve: Fossil Fuel Industry Benefits from $20 Billion in Subsidies in the U.S.
Published: 2015
A new joint investigative report by Oil Change International and the Overseas Development Institute reveals that, in the United States alone, the fossil fuel industry has benefited from over $20 billion per year in government subsidies between 2008-2015.
Horn, Steve: Gulf-Bound Tar Sands for Export?
Follow the Oiltanking Trail
Published: 2014
The U.S. Senate failed to get the necessary 60 votes to approve the northern leg of TransCanada‘s KeystoneXL pipeline, but incoming Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already promised it will get another vote when the GOP-dominated Senate begins its new session in 2015.
Horn, Steve: Here's the PR Firm Behind ‘Your Energy America’ Front Group Pushing Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Published: 2017
A newly formed front group called "Your Energy America" is pushing Dominion Energy's Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline; evidence points to DDC Advocacy as the PR firm behind the group, which has known ties to the Republican Party.
Horn, Steve: Keystone XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists
Green Scare Continues
Published: 2013
TransCanada has colluded with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in Nebraska, labeling non-violent activists as possible candidates for “terrorism” charges and other serious criminal charges.
Horn, Steve: Newspaper Owned By Fracking Billionaire Leaks Memo Calling Pipeline Opponents Potential "Terrorists"
Published: 2017
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has produced a report titled, "Potential Domestic Terrorist Threats to Multi-State Diamond Pipeline Construction Project," dated April 7, 2017. The DHS field analysis report points to lessons from policing the Dakota Access pipeline, saying they can be applied to the ongoing controversy over the Diamond pipeline, which, when complete, will stretch from Cushing, Oklahoma to Memphis, Tennessee. While lacking "credible information" of such a potential threat, DHS concluded that "the most likely potential domestic terrorist threat to the Diamond Pipeline … is from environmental rights extremists motivated by resentment over perceived environmental destruction."
Horn, Steve: Obama Administration Muzzling Its Scientists
Just Like Canada's Harper Government
Published: 2014
Muzzling of scientists matters because they make policy decisions with real-world impacts on society.
Horn, Steve: Study: Fracking, Not Just Fracking Wastewater Injection, Causing Earthquakes in Western Canada
Published: 2016
A groundbreaking study published in Seismological Research Letters has demonstrated a link between hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for oil and gas and earthquakes.
Horn, Steve: Trump Attorney Sues Greenpeace Over Dakota Access in $300 Million Racketeering Case
Published: 2017
Lawyers for Energy Transfer Partners, which include Donald Trump's go-to attorneys, have filed a $300 million lawsuit against Greenpeace and other environmental groups for their activism against the long-contested North Dakota-to-Illinois project.
Horowitz, Adam: Israel paints fighter jet pink to raise breast cancer awareness while preventing cancer patients in Gaza from receiving treatment
Published: 2016
Horowitz, Howard: 'Today is one of the most tragic days in the history of the Jewish people: one American Jews response to the Gaza massacre
Published: 2018
In this open letter to the Westchester Israel Action Committee by congregant Howard Horovitz, Horovitz asks "When will we stand up, as human beings, as a committee and as a Temple, to condemn the massacre of Palestinians on the Gaza border?"
Horrocks, Lisa: Seven News: The Story of a Community Newspaper
Published: 1984
An essay about the Toronto community newspaper Seven News, written in 1984 by Lisa Horrocks, who was part of Seven News as a staff or board member for a number of years.
Horton, Gerard: Segregation is here, just look at Israel's legal system
Published: 2015
Although segregated buses provide a clear and obvious picture of discrimination, applying different laws to individuals living side by side may prove to have far greater legal, ethical and strategic consequences for Israel.
Horton, Guy: Explaining Burma's missing 9 million people - evaporation, or genocide?
Published: 2014
In Burma nearly one in five people is not alive who was expected to be alive based upon a modest estimate of the 2% population growth rate. Despite its significance, the figure is met with silence.
Horton, Michael: Saudi Arabia's Yemen Strategy: Divide and Destroy
Published: 2015
While eleven weeks of airstrikes and a punitive naval blockade have laid waste to much of Yemen, most people remain resolute and what is a distinctly Yemeni sense of humour is intact. This is despite the fact that more than 2000 people have been killed, over half of whom are civilians, and billions of dollars of infrastructure have been destroyed since the Saudi led "Operation Decisive Storm" began on March 25, 2015.
Horwell, Veronica: Social geography of a night of plunder
‘Up for it to cause havoc’ on the streets of London
Published: 2011
In London last month every local uprising, or as a notice in a closed Clapham pub read, ‘social unrest’, had different origins and manifestations. And very few of them were riots.
Hosken, Liz: Rooting rebellion in nature
Published: 2019
Reflections on the legacy of philosopher and ‘geologian’ Thomas Berry, ten years after his death.
Hossein-Zadeh, Ismael: How International Financial Elites Change Governments to Implement Austerity
Global War on the 99%
Published: 2014
Many countries around the world are plagued by all kinds of armed rebellions, economic sanctions, civil wars, “democratic” coup d’états and/or wars of “regime change.” These include Ukraine, Venezuela, Syria, Thailand, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Somalia and Lebanon. Even in the core capitalist countries the overwhelming majority of citizens are subjected to brutal wars of economic austerity.
Hossein-Zadeh, Ismail: The Age of Finance Capital -- and the Irrelevance of Mainstream Economics
Published: 2015
Despite the fact that the manufacturers of ideas have elevated economics to the (contradictory) levels of both a science and a religion, a market theodicy, mainstream economics does not explain much when it comes to an understanding of real world developments. Indeed, as a neatly stylized discipline, economics has evolved into a corrupt, obfuscating and useless -- nay, harmful -- field of study.
House, Gloria: SNCC Movement Worker Reflects
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
Gloria House reflects on how SNCC saw the struggle of African Americans as linked to the struggles of colonialized people, and identified with liberation movements domestically and internationally.
Howard, Janet: Plans for STOLport called unjustified
Published: 1977
While residents of the Toronto Island community continue their fight against the bulldozer – which could strike this year – the proposal for a major airport on the Islands is worrying people from across Toronto.
Howard, Neil: Evil Traffickers and Innocent Children?
It's Not So Simple
Published: 2013
One of the most pressing reasons why teenagers like Adri need to migrate for work is because there’s no other way for them or their families to access the money that is essential to life in any capitalist economy.
Howarth, Lorna: Farming Freedom
Published: 2014
A simple agricultural technique could release farmers from the grip of agrochemical corporations. With no patents, no royalties and no licensing fees, this system just benefits the farmers.
Howlett, Dennis: The Canada Revenue Agency Needs an Overhaul
Published: 2015
Canada misses out on billions of dollars in revenue due to the Canada Revenue Agency's failure to pursue tax evasion by rich companies and individuals.
Hoy, James: A Chronology of Sherlock Holmes by William S. Baring-Gould
Chronology of Sherlock Holmes.
Hoye, Bryce: Chimney swift project asks Manitobans to preserve habitat for sooty bird
Threatened species has undergone massive population declines over last 60 years, biologist says
Published: 2016
It used to be the case that chimney swifts nested deep inside the rotten, hollowed-out trunks of dying old growth trees. They build bracket nests using twigs and saliva, which they stick to the sides of vertical surfaces. As forests were cleared for developments, the birds adapted to urban environments by nesting in chimneys but that habitat is disappearing as well.
Modern furnace guidelines generally suggest building owners cap or line old chimneys to prevent anything from getting inside. Over time, chimneys have also been torn down, replaced or fallen into varying states of disrepair, jeopardizing the future of the chimney swift species.
Hoyt, William John, Jr.: Anti-Vaccination Fever
The Shot Hurt Around the World
Published: 2004
Sensationalist media, religious fanatics, and alternative medical practitioners fanned the fires created by questionable research to spawn worldwide epidemics of a disease that has almost been forgotten.
Hryce, Graham: Slavery reparations are just another elite political ploy to avoid tackling the real race problems in America
Published: 2021
Unfortunately for black Americans, be they descendants of slaves or not, slavery reparation payments -- even if Congress ultimately sanctions them – will do nothing to alleviate black poverty, or ease the bitter ongoing racial tensions that continue to tear American society apart on a daily basis. In fact, the entire slavery reparations issue is nothing more than an ideological smokescreen, behind which America’s contemporary ruling elite can continue to avoid confronting the race issue that they have consistently refused to meaningfully deal with for centuries.
http://artybollocks.com/: Artybollocks Generator
Published: 2010
Do you hate having to write your own artist statement? Generate your own artist statement for free, and if you don't like it, generate another one. Feel free to use the statements with funding applications, exhibitions, curriculum vitae, websites, ...
Htun Lin: Job makes us sick
Published: 2013
Corporations blame individual workers for their own state of health, which in reality is adversely impacted by unsafe work conditions individual workers have little or no control over. When management puts austerity and cost-cutting ahead of well-being, individual human beings pay the price.
Htun, Lin: Workshop Talks: Reclaim our labor
Published: 2015
Lin discusses the precarious conditions under which healthcare labourers work.
Hubbard, Tim; Love, James: A New Trade Framework for Global Healthcare R&D
Published: 2004
The AIDS crisis has brought to public notice what has always been generally true — that the existing business model for drug development leads to high prices and unequal access. There is now widespread dissatisfaction with drug prices in both the developed and developing world.
Hubler, Angela: At the Dark End of the Street - book review
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance — A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle McGuire.
Hubler, Angela: Josephine Herbst's "Pity is not Enough" - Book Review
Published: 1999
Pity is Not Enough by Josephine Herbst, with an introduction by Mary Anne Rasmussen (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998) $16.95 paper.
WHILE JOHN DOS Passos' U.S.A. trilogy has remained in print for the past sixty-some years, Josephine Herbst's nearly contemporary Trexler trilogy has not been so favored. The first volume, Pity is Not Enough, was published in 1933 by Harcourt Brace. Although Warner Books republished the trilogy in 1985, it quickly went out of print again.
Hudges, Chris: The Lie of American Innocence
Published: 2022
The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the hypocritical moral posturing sweeping across the United States. It is unclear how anyone would try Putin for war crimes since Russia, like the United States, does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. But justice is not the point. Politicians like Biden, who do not accept responsibility for our well-documented war crimes, bolster their moral credentials by demonizing their adversaries. They know the chance of Putin facing justice is zero. And they know their chance of facing justice is the same.
Hudson, Michael: American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama
Published: 2022
As in a Greek tragedy whose protagonist brings about precisely the fate that he has sought to avoid, the US/NATO confrontation with Russia in Ukraine is achieving just the opposite of America's aim of preventing China, Russia and their allies from acting independently of U.S. control over their trade and investment policy.
Hudson, Michael: America’s Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff
How Today’s Fiscal Austerity is Reminiscent of World War I’s Economic Misunderstandings
Published: 2012
An exploration of how today’s fiscal austerity is reminiscent of World War I’s economic misconceptions.
Hudson, Michael: America's Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial Socialism
Published: 2021
Hudson, Michael: Another Housing Bubble?
Published: 2017
This is an edited transcript from an interview on The Real News Network. Sharmini Peries interviewed Michael Hundson (author of J is For Junk Economics).
Hudson, Michael: Civilization Will Triumph Over Barbarism
Published: 2024
The recent Congressional hearings leading to a bloodbath of university presidents brings back memories from my teen-age years in the 1950s when everyone's eyes were glued to the TV broadcast of the McCarthy hearings.
Hudson, Michael: The Need for a New Political Vocabulary
Published: 2024
Political differences between Europe’s centrist parties are marginal, all supporting neoliberal cutbacks in social spending in favor of rearmament, fiscal stringency and the deindustrialization that support of U.S.-NATO policy entails. The word “centrist” means not advocating any change in the economy’s neoliberalism. Hyphenated-centrist parties are committed to maintaining the pro-U.S. post-2022 status quo.

That means letting U.S. leaders control European politics via NATO and the European Commission, Europe’s counterpart to America’s Deep State. This passivity is putting its economies onto a war footing, with inflation, trade dependence on the United States and European deficits resulting from U.S.-sponsored trade and financial sanctions against Russia and China.
Hudson, Michael: The New Cold War Policy Has Backfired
How the US Created Its Own Worst Nightmare
Published: 2014
The world’s geopolitics, major trade patterns and military alliances have changed radically in the past month. Russia has re-oriented its gas and oil trade, and also its trade in military technology, away from Europe toward Eurasia. The result is the opposite of America’s hope for the past half-century of dividing and conquering Eurasia: setting Russia against China, isolating Iran, and preventing India, the Near East and other Asian countries from joining together to create an alternative to the U.S. dollar area.
Hudson, Michael: The New Global Financial Cold War
Published: 2016
Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson, a financial economist and historian.
Hudson, Michael: Parasites in the Body Economic: the Disasters of Neoliberalism
Published: 2015
Michael Hudson discusses his new book, "Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy."
Hudson, Michael: Running Government Like a Business is Bad for Citizens
Published: 2017
Donald Trump and Jared Kushner say that the government should be run like a business, but that would mean eliminating regulations and expenses that benefit the people.
Hudson, Michael: A Travesty of Financial History: Bank Lobbyists will Applaud
Published: 2016
Debt mounts up faster than the means to pay. Yet there is widespread lack of awareness regarding what this debt dynamic implies. From Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC to the modern world, the way in which society has dealt with the buildup of debt has been the main force transforming political relations.
Hudson, Michael: Trump's Trade Threats are Really Cold War 2.0
Published: 2019
Trump's attempts to bully China economically may backfire and alienate the US from trade partners.
Hudson, Michael: We Can't Save the Economy Unless We Fix Our Debt Addiction
Published: 2016
Our economy has increasingly been financialized, and the result is a sluggish economy and stagnant wages. We need to decide whether to stop the cycle and save the economy at large, or to stay in thrall to our banks and bondholders by leaving the debt hangover from 2008 intact. Without a debt writedown the economy will continue to languish in debt deflation, and continue to polarize between creditors and debtors.
Hudson, Michael; Black, Bill: Wall Street and the Greek Financial Crisis
Published: 2015
Michael Hudson and Bill Black zero in on some of the key elements of the crisis. They point out that it is not really 'Greece', let alone the Greek people, who have contracted this debt and who have been bailed out until now.
Hudson, Michael; Faulkner, Bonnie: De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire
Published: 2019
A long interview with economist Michael Hudson about Trump's plan to lower interest rates.
Hudson, Michael; Flowers, Margaret: Michael Hudson interview with Margaret Flowers
Published: 2022
According to Michael Hudson, all of a sudden this last week, you're seeing the world economy fracture into two parts, a dollarized part and other countries that do not follow the neoliberal policies that the United States insists that its allies follow. We're seeing the birth of a new dual World economy.
Hudson, Michael; Guevara, Marina Walker; Olesen, Alexa: "ChinaLeaks" Stories Censored in Mainland China
Published: 2014
Chinese authorities move aggressively to block online access to news reports exposing the secrecy-cloaked offshore holdings of China’s political and financial elites.
Hudson, Michael; Haiphong, Danny: Finance Capitalism's Self-Destructive Nature
Published: 2022
Transcript of Interview on The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong May 25th, 2022
Hudson, Michael; Hedges, Chris: The Great Ponzi Scheme of the Global Economy
Published: 2016
Chris Hedges has a discussion with the economist Michael Hudson (author of Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy) on a great Ponzi scheme that not only defines not only the U.S. but the global economy, how we got there and where we’re going.
Hudson, Michael; Hedges, Chris: The Lies of Neoliberal Economics (or How America Became a Nation of Sharecroppers)
Published: 2016
Michael Hudson and Chris Hedges talk about how America become a nation of 'sharecroppers'.
Hudson, Michael; Keen, Steve; Grumbine, Steve: Podcast with Michael Hudson, Steve Keen, Steve Grumbine
Published: 2022
Hudson, Michael; Norton, Ben; Blumenthal, Max: Super Imperialism: The economic strategy of American empire with economist Michael Hudson
Published: 2021
Economist Michael Hudson discusses the update of his book "Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire" and the financial motivations behind the US new cold war on China and Russia.
Hudson, Michael; Palmieri, Michael: The Economics Behind the Skripal Poisoning
Published: 2018
The question is why are they doing this with Russia? Why are they imposing sanctions and mounting a great publicity campaign?
Hudson, Michael; Ritchie, Justin: Junk Economics and the Parasites of Global Finance
Published: 2016
Justin Ritchie intervieww Michael Hudson about economics and global finance.
Hudson, Michael; Wolff, Richard: Ukraine: The Economic Fallout
Published: 2022
Economists Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff discuss the economic war against Russia and its boomerang effect on the West. Does it mean that globalization is over?
Huebner, Al: The Global Battle Against Noise Pollution
Published: 2008
Studies done in several European countries have demonstrated that noise can be a major killer. Awake or even asleep your brain and body react to sounds that increase the levels of stress hormones.
Huertas, Carlos Eduardo: Know who you’re working for and why you’re working
Published: 2012
Colombian ICIJ member Carlos Eduardo Huertas talks about the traits of a good investigative journalist, his experience with Wikileaks and why tackling the big, important themes – and sticking to them – matters.
Huggett, Howard: Deserted wilds in city's centre
Published: 1979
If we are ever going to get a bicycle and pedestrian path, together with other improvements in the area south of Pottery Road we will have to speak up so that our elected representatives can hear us.
Huggett, Howard: Don River Day points out pollution, abuse of river
Published: 1981
Dumping contaminants into the Don River is supposedly no longer allowed, but it continues and the effects are serious.
Huggett, Howard: Now, if only the law was applied equally
Published: 1978
There is a double standard for you - postal workers are threatened when they refuse to obey the law, policemen are threatened when they refuse to break it.
Huggett, Howard: A quiet walk along the Don
Published: 1977
What you don't see in the lower Don Valley are human beings. Right here the stream is flowing through what must be the densest population area that any river in Canada flows through. There are lots of people up there on the streets and buildings and zipping along the thruways, but almost none of them get down here beside this peaceful stretch of the river.
Huggett, Howard: Salmon - and canoes - in the Don River?
Published: 1977
In the 1920's, when this writer was growing up in what was then referred to as the east end of the city, the valley of the Don was the favourite haunt of thousands of kids and quite a few adults. In those days you could get down into the valley from a number of areas and go wandering up and down pretty well as you pleased.
Huggett, Howard: Taxes a rotten deal for working people
Published: 1977
A business is allowed deductions based on the actual situation, whereas for working people allowances are not realistic, but more in the nature of a gesture or a token.
Hughes, Donna M.; Mladjenovic, Lepa; Mrsevic, Zorica: Feminist Resistance in Serbia
Published: 1995
Describes the conditions and factors influencing women’s lives in Serbia in 1995, and the ways women have organised to resist violence and assist one another.
Hughes, Kathryn: Cover story: a year of beautiful books
Publishers are fighting back against the ebook tide with great designs
Published: 2011
Publishers have started building their marketing strategies around form rather than content.
The article emphasises that the whole point of a good book design is to grab the attention of both the reader and bookseller.
Hulet, Jonathan: Content and Public Relations Marketing
This article distinguishes content and public relations marketing; showing ways in which they are similar and ways in which they are not. The author also talks about how both aspects of marketing synergize.
Hulet, Jonathan: Public Relations on the Internet
This article talks about internet reviews on the internet. It provides statistics and stresses the importance of online reviews on consumer decisions. There is specific emphasis on social media.
Humaid, Maram: Gaza exit permits: Aisha's lone journey for cancer treatment
Israeli permit system prevents some parents from accompanying their sick children to hospitals outside of Gaza Strip.
Published: 2019
Heartbreaking story of a girl in the Gaza strip with a brain tumour who had to go through surgery accompanied by a stranger because parents could not get permission to accompany her to the hospital.
Humaid, Maram: ‘This time is different’: Gaza journalists on Israeli bombardment
Published: 2021
Several Palestinian journalists have spoken to Al Jazeera of their fear and the exhaustion of covering the continuing Israeli bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip and their determination to continue their work.
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission: Report on Australian Stolen Generations
Bringing Them Home Report
Published: 1997
Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. This report is a tribute to the strength and struggles of many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people affected by forcible removal. We acknowledge the hardships they endured and the sacrifices they made. We remember and lament all the children who will never come home.
Human Rights Network for Journalists - Uganda: Three journalists suspended after hosting Ugandan opposition leader on radio show
Published: 2015
Three journalists were suspended over hosting an opposition presidential hopeful who is also the former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leader, Dr. Kizza Besigye, on Baba FM radio, without permission from the radio management. The radio was switched off about 15 minutes into the hour-long talk show, in which Besigye was to discuss his political campaign in Busoga.
Human Rights Watch: Egypt's civil society facing renewed government crackdown
Published: 2015
If the Egyptian authorities are successful in their attempt to prevent non-governmental organisations from working, independent civil society in Egypt risks being wiped out.
Human Rights Watch: Ethiopia: Hacking Team Lax on Evidence of Abuse
Leaked Documents Show Need to Regulate Surveillance Sales
Published: 2015
The Italian spyware firm Hacking Team took no effective action to investigate or stop reported abuses of its technology by the Ethiopian government against dissidents.
Human Rights Watch: Ethiopia's 'slow genocide' in the Omo Valley
Published: 2014
A 'slow genocide' is unfolding in Ethiopia - one driven by greed rather than hatred.
Human Rights Watch: Istanbul's LGBT pride march violently disbanded by police
Published: 2015
As Americans celebrate a momentous step forward for the LGBT movement, Turkish gay pride marchers were met with rubber bullets and water cannons from the police. While uncharacteristic of the police force, these violent acts are, unfortunately, in line with the general atmosphere in Turkey. There is an ever-growing epidemic of violent homophobia and transphobia in the country.
Human Rights Watch: Police actions in Ferguson, U.S. interfere with freedoms of assembly, press
Published: 2015
Though the majority of the Ferguson protests were peacful, the police still responded with overwhelming military force. Journalists were one of thier specific targets.
Hummels, David: The Will of the People Doesn’t Mean Jack Shit to the Drug Warriors
Gangsters With Federal Pensions
Published: 2013
The DEA vs. voter-approved marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado.
Hungerford, David: Brexit: It's Not About the EU, It's About the EZ
Published: 2016
"Politics is the concentrated essence of economic forces in motion."
Forget the politics of the June 23 Brexit referendum for a minute. Let's take a look at the money.
Hungerford, Elizabeth: A feminist critique of "cisgender"
Published: 2012
Hunt, Louise: Gambian community project helps women turn waste to worth
Published: 2015
With the level of waste rising fast in Africa, the Gambia's first recycling training centre is teaching women to use rubbish as a means of economic empowerment. The training gives hard-working women another option as they struggle to earn enough money for their families.
Hunter, Kim D.: Continental Cultural Communication
Published: 2015
A review of "Africa Speaks, America Answers" written by Robin D.G. Kelley.
Hunter, Kim D.: Faruq Z. Bey, 1942-2012
Against The Current vol. 160
Published: 2012
Faruq Z. Bey, the recently deceased saxophonist, poet and visionary, was at the heart of a tremendous ensemble in the 1970s and ’80s called Griot Galaxy.
Hunter, Kim D.: The Lives of Amiri Baraka
Published: 2014
A tribute to the life of author and poet Amiri Baraka who was active in the American Black Arts movement.
Hunter, Qaanitah; Ellis, Estelle: Working To Honour Nelson Mandela's Legacy
Published: 2013
As the world mourns the passing of South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, his close friend and political stalwart Tokoyo Sexwale says much needs to be done to honour his legacy.
Hunziker, Robert: Americas Radical, Underground Climate Change Countermovement
Smoking Out the Kochs
Published: 2014
The year is 2050; rising seas have inundated Miami, America’s most recent ghost city since Detroit. A deadly heat wave scorches Chicago, killing thousands of elderly, and a mega-drought has farmers in the Southwest on their knees, praying for relief, as a dreadful dustbowl blankets the fields. America goes hungry.
Hunziker, Robert: Arctic Death Rattle
Published: 2016
The warming of the Arctic negatively affects the entire Northern Hemisphere by altering jet streams at 30,000-40,000 feet altitude, which turns normal weather patterns upside down, wreaking havoc throughout the hemisphere. Even more significantly, loss of Arctic ice exposes the planet to risks of a crushing blow to the planetary ecosystem, without warning.
Hunziker, Robert: India: Birds Drop Out of the Sky, People Die
Published: 2022
"The streets, she says, are lined with dead things. Dogs. Cats. Cows. Animals of all kinds are just there, dead. They've perished in the killing heat. They can't survive." People spend all day in canals and rivers and lakes. Some people line the streets passed out at the edge of life or death.
Hurst, Adrienne: Why the Newberry Library Is Collecting Black Lives Matter Artifacts
Published: 2016
Archivists hope to crowdsource historical documentation of today's civil-rights movements.
Husband, Bertha: Review: Recovering Surrealist Women
Published: 1999
Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, edited with introductions by Penelope Rosemont. With 45 illustrations. Austin: University of Texas Press. $24.95 paper, $50 cloth.
Hussain, Murtaza: After Nice, Don't Give ISIS What It's Asking For
Published: 2016
Not much is yet known about Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the 31-year-old man French police say is responsible for a horrific act of mass murder last night in the southern city of Nice. In the wake of the killings, French President Francois Hollande has denounced the attack as "Islamist terrorism" linked to the militant group the Islamic State. Supporters of ISIS online have echoed these statements, claiming responsibility for the attack as another blow against its enemies in Western Europe. While the motive for the attack is still under investigation, it is worth examining why the Islamic State is so eager to claim such incidents as its own.
Hussain, Murtaza: Florida Man, Accused of Terrorism Based on Book Collection, Set Free
Published: 2015
Robertson had been incarcerated since 2011 on charges of tax fraud and illegal gun possession. After his arrest and subsequent conviction, prosecutors sought to add a 'terrorism enhancement' to his sentence.
Hussain, Murtaza: Former Drone Operators Say They Were "Horrified" By Cruelty of Assassination Program
Published: 2015
U.S. drone operators are inflicting heavy civilian casualties and have developed an institutional culture callous to the death of children and other innocents, four former operators said at a press briefing in New York.
Hussain, Murtaza: Growing International Movement Seeks to Place Arms Embargo on Saudi Arabia
Published: 2016
A lawsuit filed in Canada in March 2016 is seeking to halt a major $15 billion sale of light-armoured vehicles to the government of Saudi Arabia, part of a growing international movement to stop arms sales to the Saudi government over its alleged war crimes in Yemen.
The suit, filed by University of Montreal constitutional law professor Daniel Turp, argues the vehicle sales to Saudi Arabia violate a number of Canadian laws.
Hussain, Murtaza: How the UAE Tried to Silence a Popular Arab Spring Activist
Published: 2014
Earlier this year (2014), as a wave of counterrevolution and repression continued to roll back popular democratic uprisings across the Middle East, one of the Arab Spring’s most popular online activists found himself sitting in a jail cell.
Hussain, Murtaza: Islamic State's Goal: "Eliminating the Grayzone" of Coexistence Between Muslims and the West
Published: 2015
In a statement published in its online magazine, Dabiq, this February, the militant group the Islamic State warned that "Muslims in the West will soon find themselves between one of two choices." Weeks earlier, a massacre had occurred at the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The attack stunned French society, while bringing to the surface already latent tensions between French Muslims and their fellow citizens.
Hussain, Murtaza: U.S. Has Only Acknowledged A Fifth of Its Lethal Strikes, New Study Finds
Published: 2017
While Obama took steps to improve transparency about drone strikes, reports show that the U.S. has only acknowledged approximately 20 percent of its reported drone strikes, and failed to claim responsibility or provide details in the vast majority of cases.
Hussain, Murtaza: U.S. Newspapers Are More Than Twice As Likely to Cite Israeli Sources in Headlines Than Palestinian Ones
Published: 2019
A study of 50 years of news headlines on the Israel-Palestine conflict from five major American publications shows that they are biased towards the Israeli side.
Hussain, Murtaza; Currier, Cora: U.S. Military Operations Are Biggest Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds
Published: 2016
A secret FBI study found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly cited motivation for individuals involved in cases of "homegrown" terrorism. The report also identified no coherent pattern to "radicalization," concluding that it remained near impossible to predict future violent acts.
Husseini, Ibrahim: Palestinian olive farmers defy Israeli attacks for prized crop
Published: 2020
Israeli restrictions, attacks and intimidation continue to hinder the vital olive harvest but Palestinians persevere.
Husseini, Sam: Did This Virus Come From A Lab? Maybe Not- But It Exposes The Threat Of A Biowarfare Arms Race
Published: 2020
There is no scientific finding that the novel coronavirus was bioengineered, but its origins are not entirely clear. Deadly pathogens discovered in the wild can be studied in secret in labs -- and sometimes made more dangerous. That possibility, and other plausible scenarios, have been incorrectly dismissed in remarks by some scientists and government officials, and in the coverage of most major media outlets.
Husseini, Sam: The Long History of Accidental Laboratory Releases of Potential Pandemic Pathogens Is Being Ignored In the COVID-19 Media Coverage
Many people are dismissing the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic might have come from a lab. It is possible that they are unaware of the frequency of biohazards escaping from laboratories?
Hutchins, Aaron: Inside Lindsay Shepherd’s heroic, insulting, brave, destructive, possibly naïve fight for free speech
Published: 2017
Hutchins, Corey: Newspaper revenue experiment throwdown: Crowdfunding versus underwriting
Crowdfunded beats might not work, but there are good reasons for newspapers to give them a try
Published: 2014
Article weighing the pros and cons of acquiring funding through crowdfunding versus underwiting for newspapers.
Hutt,Kendall: Media freedom in the Pacific - a double-edged sword
Published: 2015
The issue of media freedom in the Pacific has come to the fore following recent international calls for Indonesia to allow foreign journalists access to West Papua and President Joko Widodo declaring a lifting of restrictions.
Huxley, Aldous: Aldous Huxley Quotes
Hvidberg, Lars: An apology for the Danish cartoon crisis
Published: 2014
One of the leading forces in the 2005–06 prophet Muhammad cartoon controversy, Danish Muslim activist Ahmed Akkari, now regrets his role as agitator and reveals a larger, more deliberate, and more vicious conspiracy behind the crisis than previously known.
Hyde, Marina: Let's Point a Satellite at GCHQ and the NSA, and See How They Feel
Published: 2014
Turning the tables on the spy agencies would be a fitting form of radical retaliation for their webcam prurience.
Hylton, Riri: Germany threatens journalist with prison for speaking about Palestine
Published: 2019
Palestinian-Canadian journalist Khaled Barakat has been banned from speaking or participating in political activity in Germany.
Hynes, Eric: Interview with director of "Like"
Published: 2016
The director of a documentary about Bangladeshi workers who get paid to "like" Facebook posts discusses the people and ideas behind her film.
Hynes, H. Patricia: The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers
Book Review
Published: 2017
A review of the book, "The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers" by Joseph Hickman.
Hyslop, Katie: Want to Fix Foster Care? Ask Kids Who Have Been Through the System
Innovative report co-researched by youth from care focuses on importance of relationships
Published: 2018
A report called Relationships Matter for Youth "Aging Out" of Care, co-researched by youth from care, focuses on what truly matters to the young people who are in the system and notably on the importance of building relationships.

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Ibtisam, Ahmed: Xulhaz Mannan: Murder of LGBTQ+ editor highlights danger facing all rational voices in Bangladesh
Published: 17
The murder of Xulhaz Mannan, the founder and editor of Bangladesh's first and only LGBTQ+ magazine, Roopban, has drawn the world's attention to the violence directed against the country's outspoken supporters of equal rights. His death at the hands of six assailants sent a wave of fear through the community, and has prompted others to go into hiding.
ICIJ: Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank's Broken Promise to the Poor
Published: 2015
The World Bank pledges to "do no harm." But over the past decade it has regularly failed to protect the world's most vulnerable people.
ifex: Two years since Rabaa massacre, impunity still reigns in Egypt
Published: 2015
On this day two years ago, the Egyptian army and riot police launched a deadly onslaught on supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured.
IFJ Asia - Pacific: Defamation cases quashing press freedom in Indonesia
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (AJI) in expressing strong concern for a growing number of criminal defamation charges against the media and public officials. The IFJ and AJI express concerns for the impact such charges have against freedom of expression and call on the government to ensure such charges do not become a tool to silence critics.
Iglarsch, Hugh: Strictly Legal
The Caronia Decision and a Culture of Mercantile Nihilism
Published: 2013
The Caronia decision reveals an injustice system whose function is to provide legal cover for the excesses of the corporate elite. Caronia is a wake-up moment, announcing that the institutions and the philosophy that sustains it are broken, maybe beyond repair, and must be replaced now, while we’re still standing, by new social forms imbued with sane and humane values.
Ignatiev, John Garvey-Noel: Beyond the Spectacle
Published: 2015
Our initial reaction to the Rachel Dolezal story was: what's the big deal? America has always been a land of shape shifters, and if she isn't stopped for "driving while black" or followed while shopping, and if her sons are not targeted by cops, then how is she different from the politician who is Italian on Columbus Day and Irish on Saint Patrick's Day?
Ikerd, John: This Is Why Carrots Cost More Than Twinkies
Published: 2018
An examination of the role of Government-subsidized crop insurance, farm loans, tax credits, agricultural research and education, as well as environmental and public-health exemptions for farming, on the cost of food production and how that transfers to the consumer.
Ilangamuwa, Nilantha; Le, Hazel: The Dark Side of the Territory
Hong Kong's Caged Lives
Published: 2014
In a place that values freedom and respect, the legacy of “caged homes” creates a stark and chilling contrast.
Illeieff, Zhivko: Russiagate and the Dry Rot in American Journalism
Published: 2019
The idea that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election is used by both liberals and the right to maintain the status quo. Comparisons to Hunter S. Thompson show how staid mainstream news has become.
Index on Censorship: New extremism laws would stifle free speech
Published: 2015
New and vaguely defined counter-extremism laws threaten freedom of speech in the UK. Anyone who disagrees with the government can, theoretically, be banned from media exposure.
Indi.ca: COVID Underdogs: Mongolia
Published: 2020
Mongolia has had the best COVID-19 response in the world. Not only do they have zero deaths, they have zero local transmissions. Mongolia didn’t flatten the curve or crush the curve -- they were just like 'fuck curves'. In Mongolia, there simply wasn't an epidemic at all.
Infograph: Manufactured Consent
Power, Media and Thinktanks
Published: 2017
Corporations don't just shape our politics or economics, they also seek to change public opinion to serve their interests. Which corporations play the biggest role in shaping knowledge and news? What do they fund? Who do they represent? What role have they played in the rise of authoritarian populists? This infographic for State of Power 2017 exposes those 'manufacturing consent'.
Inglesby, Tom; Lipsitch, Marc: The U.S. is funding dangerous experiments it doesn’t want you to know about
Published: 2019
The US government is funding research into making bird flu virus highly contagious without publicly disclosing it. A number of scientists are opposed to the secrecy behind these experiments and even question their value.
INSI: Brazilian deaths highlights need for safety training
Published: 2015
The dangers that journalists face is Brazil is old news. The most recent deaths of two reporters have once again shown the sire situation for media workers in the South American country.
INSI: Peter Greste talks to INSI about media safety
Published: 2015
After 400 days in Jail and public outcry, an Australian journalist has been released from a prison in Egypt. In his interview, Gretse emphasised the importance of making journalism safety a global conversation.
INSI: Sri Lanka Safety Tips
Published: 2008
Provides journalists who will be travelling to Sri Lanka during the war with practical guidelines on how to stay safe considering government hostility towards visiting journalists.
Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety: On the shocking death of Azerbaijani journalist Rasim Aliyev
Published: 2015
Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety is in shock over the murder of our longtime employee and board member, current Chairman Rasim Aliyev. On August 8, 2015, unknown persons beat Aliyev to within inches of his life. He died several hours later in a hospital after doctors failed to provide necessary medical treatment.
Interchurch Justice and Peace Commission: Banacol: A company implicated paramilitarism and land grabbing in Curvarado and Jiguamiando
Published: 2012
This study focuses on the International Banacol Marketing Corporation’s actions in the Afro-Colombian and Mestizo communities’ collective territories of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó in the Lower Atrato region of Chocó, Colombia.
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: Former TV Producer Mostafa Azizi Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison in Iran
Published: 2015
Branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced Mostafa Azizi, a former Iranian television writer and producer imprisoned since February 1, 2015, to eight years in prison, according to his son, who spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: How Iran Used WikiLeaks to Attack a Human Rights Defender
Published: 2015
In their latest attempt to discredit "terrorist" human rights defenders, Iran has accused and slandered Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, of accepting bribes. Though the issue has been resolved, Iran's crusade against human rights activists neither began nor ended with Shaheed and Shaheed isn't the biggest fish they are frying -- not by a long shot.
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions: Behind the Wire
Anti-union Repression in the Export Processing Zones
Published: 1996
One of the most disturbing aspects of the growth of the global market is the increasing number of Export Processing Zones where millions of workers, mainly young women, are employed in grossly repressive conditions. This booklet describes what working in the zones means in reality. It reveals the dark underside of globalisation and calls for action by the international trade union movement, governments, and employers.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: From a UK MP to Secret German Tax Investigations: Swiss Leaks Video Reports
Published: 2015
Along with dozens of print and online media partners, a number of broadcast journalists produced video packages that reached millions of viewers all around the world. Here are some samples from the United Kingdom, Canada, and Germany.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: New Bank Leak Shows How Rich Exploit Tax Haven Loopholes
Published: 2014
The identities of thousands of wealthy offshore clients of a major Jersey, Channel Isles private bank have been leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
The data leaks reveal how the very richest families dip in and out of British jurisdiction as it suits them, exploiting what academic experts call Jersey's 'fictitious space.'
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: 'Standards Were Significantly Lower Than Today:' HSBC's Response
Published: 2015
The Swiss Leaks project is based on a trove of almost 60,000 leaked files that provide details on the names, professions and value of assets of over 100,000 HSBC clients.
International Federation Journalists; Committee to Protect Journalists: Global campaign aims to end violence against women journalists
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) launches a global campaign to bring attention to the issue of violence against women journalists, and to call for an end to impunity for these crimes.
International Federation of Journalists: IFJ condemns killing of third Syrian journalist
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today condemned the killing of Syrian journalist Thaer al-Ajlani who died covering fighting between the Syrian army and rebels in Jobar, east of the capital, Damascus.
International Federation of Journalists: Religious extremists murder fourth blogger in Bangladesh
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly deplores the murder of Niladri Chattopadhyay on August 7 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The IFJ demand immediate action from the Bangladeshi Government to end the continued and systematic attacks on freedom of expression in Bangladesh.
International Federation of Journalists: Two arrested five years after journalist's disappearance
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Free Media Movement (FMM) welcome the arrest of two former military officials over the disappearance of Prageeth Eknaligoda. The IFJ and FMM urge the government to ensure the investigation is thoroughly completed and all those responsible are brought to justice.
International Labor Rights Forum: Golden Veneer: How McDonald's Empty CSR Promises Failed Workers at Taylor Farms
Published: 2015
The report documents systematic and serious violations of workers' fundamental rights protected under international labor standards and McDonald's own Supplier Code of Conduct to freely associate and bargain collectively at Taylor Farms. Further, it finds that McDonald's approach not only failed to prevent or remediate grave violations of workers' rights, it helped undermine workers' free exercise of their rights.
International News Safety Institute: Dealing with PTSD in the newsroom
Published: 2014
Post-traumtic stress disorder doesn't just affect combat veterans and victims of war. Approximately 20% of war correspondants are diagnosed with PTSD.
International News Safety Institute: Killing the Messenger 2014
Published: 2015
Over the year of 2014, many reporters haev been victimized, injured and killed. This report looks at the circumstances behind some of the deaths and raises awareness for the general lack of impunity behind reporter deaths.
International Press Institute: How to cover human development: A first-of-its-kind manual for journalists
Published: 2013
The International Press Institute publishes the Reporter's Guide to the Millennium Development Goals: Covering Development Commitments for 2015 and Beyond, a first-of-its-kind manual for journalists on how to cover human development and remind the public of government commitments to meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals.
International Solidarity Movement: Palestinian Arrested After Filming Settlers Throwing Stones
Published: 2014
Yesterday, August 17, 2014, at approximately 5:30 PM in the old city in al-Khalil (Hebron), settlers from the illegal settlement of Beit Hadassah threw rocks and water at Palestinians living on Shalala Street.
Irvine, Louise: What austerity has done to Greek healthcare
"What I witnessed appalled me - and brought tears to my eyes"
Published: 2015
The shocking 'austerity'-imposed destruction of Greece's once proud healthcare system is a key reason Greeks have turned to Syriza, finds London GP Louise Irvine in an eye witness account.
Irwin, Robert: Edward Said's shadowy legacy
Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate
Published: 2008
So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) to be true. It discourages any kind of critical approach to Islam in Middle Eastern studies.
ISIS: Scientists pledge to boycott Elsevier
Published: 2013
Following the retraction of the Seralini et al scientific paper which found health damage to rats fed on GM corn, over 100 scientists have pledged in this Open Letter to boycott Elsevier, publisher of the journal responsible.
Ismail, Feyzi: Blowing up pipelines won't save the planet
Published: 2023
A review of the film "How to Blow up a Pipeline" that is critical of the film's message: The review argues that sabotage may be exciting and personally satisfying … but it can’t defeat capital’s colossal power.
Isquith, Elias; Reed, Adolph: Starbucks is a national joke: Why its #RaceTogether campaign is so self-righteous
Published: 2015
University of Pennsylvania's Adolph Reed tells Salon why the corporation's new gambit is neoliberal self-parody
Ivancic,Viktor: The Most Terrifying Pressures Occur in Silence
Published: 2015
Ivancic narrates his prosecution by the Croatian government, which is one of the many examples of violence against Feral journalists.
IWB: Monsanto is buying up non-gmo seed companies
Published: 2013
A positive trend in recent years is the growing number of gardening enthusiasts choosing to plant gardens using organic and/or heirloom seeds.

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J., Dr.: Are cows destroying the climate?
Film Review:
Published: 2015
How not to change the world. ‘Cowspiracy’ ignores capitalism and rejects Indigenous peoples’ concerns, while denouncing everyone who eats meat.
Jabr, Ferris: The Story of Storytelling
What the hidden relationships of ancient folktales reveal about their evolution—and our own
Published: 2019
Since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, scientists have repeatedly proposed that the laws of biological evolution apply not just to bird and beast but also to creatures of the mind. Perhaps most famously, in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, the English evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the word meme to describe a "unit of cultural transmission" analogous to a biological gene.
Jack, Ian: Britain took more out of India than it put in -- Could China do the same to Britain?
Published: 2014
Large parts of India's economy were destroyed by British technology in the 1800s, and by deals that favoured British shareholders. Today, it's China that holds that kind of power.
Jack, Ian: The History Thieves - Review
How Britain covered up its imperial crimes
Published: 2016
A review of Ian Cobain's book The History Thieves, an engrossing study which identifies secrecy as a 'very British disease', exploring how, as the empire came to an end, government officials burned the records of imperial rule.
Jackowski, Rosemarie: Your Money, Or Your Life
Published: 2009
Single Payer will save lives, but it also will save money. The exorbitant salaries of Insurance Company CEOs will be eliminated. The profit motive for investors will be eliminated. Administrative costs will be reduced because one single payer will replace a large number of insurance companies - all with different forms, different standards, and different requirements for an endless stream of mind-numbing paper work.
Jackson, Emma: What the Left can learn from the 'Freedom Convoy'
Published: 2022
Jackson, Greg: Vicious Cycles
Theses on a philosophy of news
Published: 2020
On the transformation of news media content and consumption in conjunction with democracy and ideology
Jackson, Janine: China's Cyberspying Is 'on a Scale No One Imagined' -- if You Pretend NSA Doesn't Exist
Published: 2015
Stories about cyberespionage -- like the data theft at the US Office of Personal Management believed but not officially stated to have been carried out by China -- are weird. For one thing, they include quotes about how "we need to be a bit more public" about our responses to cyberattacks -- delivered from White House officials who speak only on condition of anonymity.
Jackson, Janine: Exposure of Another Pro-War Lie Doesn't Make Media More Skeptical of Pro-War Claims
Published: 2019
The story of pro-Maduro forces burning trucks bringing aid to Venezuela has now been reported as false, even by corporate media. The bigger story of how and why this lie was propogated gets left behind.
Jackson, Janine: Face Surveillance Is a Uniquely Dangerous Technology
CounterSpin interview with Shankar Narayan on facial recognition
Published: 2019
Lightly edited transcript of an interview regarding face recognition technology and how it will impact people who are already over-policed.
Jackson, Janine: ‘It Was a Remarkably Successful Grassroots Campaign to Target Amazon’s Credibility’
CounterSpin interview with Neil deMause on Amazon's retreat from New York
Published: 2019
Transcript of interview with Neil deMause about NY's bid for Amazon HQ. Included downloadable MP3 of interview.
Jackson, Janine: The Nuclear Enterprise Is on Autopilot
CounterSpin interview with William Hartung on nuclear overkill
Published: 2017
Janine Jackson interviewed William Hartung about nuclear overkill for the November 17, 2017, episode of CounterSpin.
Jackson, Janine: 'Palestinian Rights Has Become an Incredibly Mainstream Issue'
CounterSpin interview with Josh Ruebner on BDS bans
Published: 2019
Interview with Josh Ruebner about anti-BDS legislation. With downloadable MP3 of interview.
Jackson, Janine: Puerto Rico Is an Artificial Economy
Published: 2015
CounterSpin interview with Ed Morales on Puerto Rican debt crisis.
Jackson, Janine: 'They Had Already Decided They Wanted to Invade Iraq'
CounterSpin interviews with Robert Dreyfuss and Diana Duarte on media and the Iraq War
Published: 2019
MP3s and transcripts of two interviews about justifications for the Iraq war. One focused on intelligence on WMDs and the other on women's rights.
Jackson, Lawrence: The City That Bleeds
Freddie Gray and the makings of an American uprising
Published: 2016
The killing of black teenager Freddie Gray by six police officers resulted in a civic uprising, and spotlights a history of brutality and bloodshed by police in the city of Baltimore.
Jackson, Lisa: Canada's wild rice wars
Published: 2016
How a conflict over wild ricing on Pigeon Lake is drawing attention to Indigenous rights and traditional foods.
Jacob, Ron: An Immediate End to Police Brutality and Murder of Black People by Police
Published: 2016
The Black Panther Party remains unfulfilled fifty years after the Party's founding. This truth is a tragic acknowledgement of both the failure of US capitalism to resolve its greatest disgrace and an admission that it may not be able to. The unpunished murders of Black men by police are just the most graphic proof of this truth.
Jacobs, Andrew: In Sweeping War on Obesity,Chile Slays Tony the Tiger
New regulations, which corporate interests delayed for almost a decade,require explicit labeling and limit the marketing of sugary foods to
Published: 2018
The Chilean government, facing skyrocketing rates of obesity, is waging war on unhealthy foods with a phalanx of marketing restrictions, mandatory packaging redesigns and labeling rules aimed at transforming the eating habits of 18 million people.
Jacobs, Jane: Jane Jacobs Quotes
Jacobs, Jane: Let Islanders Stay
Published: 1978
The service the Ward and Algonquin residents now render the people of Metro is valuable. There is no way the quality and continuity of this community's concern for the Islands and their users could be obtained solely from Metro employees and marina watchmen and guards.
Jacobs, Ron: Assassination Nation
Drones and Targeted Killing
Published: 2015
Since the use of killer drones by the United States began, more than 3500 people have been killed. Many of those killed were civilians. The number of civilians killed depends on how one counts civilians.
Jacobs, Ron: The Coup of Coups
Putting the Shah of Shahs on the Peacock Throne
Published: 2013
Jacobs, Ron: The Deep State is the State
Published: 2017
Like all elements of the state, the so-called deep state exists to enforce the economic supremacy of US capitalism.
Jacobs, Ron: Don't Blame Mandela for Our Failure
Believing the Champions of Neoliberalism
Published: 2013
South Africa believed the promises made by the champions of neoliberalism, and found itself ensnared in its web with no way out by the beginning of the next millennium.
Jacobs, Ron: Dylan and Woody: Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Published: 2017
Book review of Daniel Wolff's 'Grown Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913.'
Jacobs, Ron: Librarians and Palestine
An Interview with Vani Natarajan
Published: 2013
Working to preserve Palestinian records and memory in the face of deliberate destruction by Israel.
Jacobs, Ron: The Lies of Industry and the Liars Who Sell Them
Published: 2020
A review of The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception, a book by David Michaels.
Jacobs, Ron: Lying to Ourselves About the Air War
The Killers
Published: 2014
Most US citizens have never been subjected to an air raid. They have never heard the roar of planes flying high above them while an air raid siren wails, its whine competing with the planes’ roar and piercing the audio centers of the brain making sequential thought difficult if not impossible. Nor have they heard the sound of bombs — canisters filled with high explosives and fire — whistling as they fall through the air toward their targets on the ground. Nor have most US citizens ever sat in a bomb shelter wondering if their homes will survive the aerial assault they are hoping to survive themselves.
Jacobs, Ron: The Media and the Paranoid State
Das Bild to FoxNews
Published: 2014
In 1975, West Germany was often under varying degrees of lockdown. Roadblocks were set up at autobahn exits and identification was checked; groups of heavily armed police were seen in city centers holding machine guns and looking menacing; and airports were under armed guard. The reason given for this military-like presence was the existence of a leftist terror group known as the Rote Armee Fraktion.
Jacobs, Ron: A Microcosm of the Nation - Control Unit Prisons
Out of Control
Published: 2013
A review of 'Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons' by Nancy Kurshan.
Jacobs, Ron: Missouri's Legacy of Violent Racism
Quantrill's Raiders Come to Ferguson
Published: 2014
What is clear about the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri is that the cop murdered Michael Brown pretty much in cold blood. What is also clear is that if Michael Brown was a suspect in this shoplifting case and regular procedures were followed, then he should have been arrested and gone to court. What is less clear is whether or not this killer cop will ever see justice.
Jacobs, Ron: On the Frontlines of Peace
The Life of Daniel Berrigan
Published: 2016
Certain events in one's life often determine the choices made later in that same life. These crucial events can be of a personal nature -- a romance, a family death, the birth of a child, or something less universal -- or they can be events that take place in the public sphere. One such event of the latter category in my life occurred May 17, 1968.
Jacobs, Ron: Rosa Luxemburg - From Street Organizer to Street Name
Published: 2015
Overview of the life of Rosa Luxemburg.
Jacobs, Ron: Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars
Published: 2008
Luxemburg's discussion regarding capitalism and democracy speaks to the world we live in today. Imperial war, she wrote, shows capitalism in 'all its hideous nakedness.' This bloody nakedness is not only essential to capitalist development, but depends on it. Indeed, it is the most cataclysmic and radical of all capitalist shocks.
Jacobs, Ron: The Workers United Are Not Always Defeated
We Should All Learn From It
Published: 2014
Working people around the world are in worse straits than they have been for decades. Unemployment is rampant and real wages are stagnant.
Jacobs, Ryan: The Forest Mafia: How Scammers Steal Millions Through Carbon Markets
When the product is invisible, the cons are endless.
Published: 2013
International law enforcement authorities and environmental advocates say that the carbon markets are extremely vulnerable to financial fraudsters, especially when it comes to forest projects. Their shell games can also be hard to spot. Authorities have concluded that up to 90% of all carbon trading in some countries was a result of fraudulent activities.
Jacobsen, Rowan: The Homeless Herd
An Indian village battles an elephant invasion
Published: 2013
The struggle of villagers against elephants raiding theIR crops at Nohotia, India.
Jacobson, Dale: Poetry and Political Change - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 157
Published: 2012
There is a tradition for engaged political poetry in America. A number of memorable writers come to mind, Walt Whitman, Kenneth Fearing, Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg, John Beecher, Don Gordon, Thomas McGrath, Muriel Rukeyser, Meridel LeSueur, Olga Cabral, Adrienne Rich, Floyce Alexander, and others. There are also poets who write the occasional political poem.
Jahi, Anand: The Body Cam Trade-Off
Published: 2016
Ever since the Snowden revelations, both liberals and conservatives have become increasingly convinced that government surveillance and encroachment into Americans lives has spiraled out of control. That the government should play some role in providing safety and security for its citizens is accepted, but how the government achieves these goals is not as clear. We want security, but not at undue cost to our privacy.
Jamal, Urooba: Why does Israel target Palestinian hospitals?
Targeting hospitals is psychological warfare Israel can get away with with the US's tacit approval, say analysts
Published: 2023
Six weeks into its war on Gaza, Israel's attacks on hospitals have emerged almost as a motif of the conflict, even though refugee camps, schools and churches have not been spared either. At least 21 of Gaza’s 35 hospitals -- including the strip's solo cancer centre -- are completely out of service, and others have been damaged and are short of medicines and essential supplies.
Jamei, Yasser Abu: This Must End
Published: 2021
Our current living conditions under the siege are an affront to human dignity. Concrete political action is needed NOW to end not only the current deathly bombing raids, but also this illegal occupation and siege of Gaza by Israel, immediately.
James, C.L.R.: Every Cook Can Govern
A Study of Democracy in Ancient Greece: Its Meaning for Today
Published: 1956
Modern parliamentary democracy elects representatives and these representatives constitute the government. Before the democracy came into power, the Greeks had been governed by various forms of government, including government by representatives. The democracy knew representative government and rejected it. It refused to believe that the ordinary citizen was not able to perform practically all the business of government.
James, C.L.R.: C.L.R. James Quotes
James, Deborah: Twelve Reasons to Oppose Rules on Digital Commerce in the WTO
Published: 2017
US-based transnational companies in the fields of information, technology and media are working to create international rules that limit the ability of governments to put restrictions on how they make profits.
James, Samuel; Rosenblum, Mort: Range Wars
A copper rush sparks last-ditch battles for Arizona’s soul
A new copper rush is threatening the environment in Arizona as companies seek to exploit new viens and move to deregulate protections. The biodiversity of the Sonoran desert is at risk, as is its ground water.
James, William: William James Quotes
Jamil, Sana: Pakistani Journalists Left in Limbo Amid Vicious Media War
Published: 2015
Pakistani journalists working for BOL Network, a Pakistani media outlet co-owned by journalists, protest against the license cancellation of this organization. Protesters complain against violations of their rights.
Jamison, Leslie: The March on Everywhere
The ragged glory of female activism
Published: 2017
Leslie Jamison recounts her experience as part of the Women's March on Washington in protest of the new Trump Administration, which became the largest single day protest in U.S. history.
Jan, Tracy: Privately run prisoner transport company kept detainees schackedl for 18 days
Published: 2018
The inhumane treatment of people by a prisoner transport company puts into question the use of privately hired companies, where incentive to pick up as many detainees as possible for financial gain supercedes the basic human rights of their charges.
Jang, Grace E.: Ethnic Insult Poses Dilemma for Anchorage TV Reporter
Published: 2009
One reporter struggles with the problem of racist jokes in the media.
Janjevic, Darko: Chaos Computer Club: Europe's biggest hackers' congress underway in Hamburg
Published: 2015
Some 12,000 hackers are challenging the power of Google, Facebook and Youtube to filter information and shape users' view of the world. One of them demonstrated how to hack into VW's cheating software.
Jansen, Nani: Police Shootings, Helicopter Crashes and Bystanders With Cameras: Weighing the Rights of Accidental Journalists'
Published: 2015
Accidental Journalist are everyday people who stumble across something news-worthy. Most commonly, these accidental journalists report on those who abuse their power.
Janson, Jay: The 'Reality' around Us is Constructed by Liars: 'Journalists are War Criminals'
Published: 2024
Janyce McGregor: Canada's Russia sanctions are hitting people with no connection to Putin's war
Published: 2023
Canada's economic measures against Russia - which are meants to target the assets of wealthy oligarchs and government officials - are hitting the personal finances of people with no ties to the Russian government, CBC News has learned. Canadian residents are pleading with Ottawa to release assets frozen after sanctions were imposed on banks.
Jaswal, Srishti: Mughals, RSS, evolution: Outrage as India edits school textbooks
Published: 2023
India's right-wing government removes significant historical and scientific facts from textbooks as it pursues a Hindu supremacist agenda.
Jayaprakash, N.D.: Indo-Pak Nuclear Confrontation: First Use Policy and the Race Towards Armageddon
Published: 2019
There are several indications that India's ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological mentor the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) are obsessed with the perverse urge to wipe out Pakistan with nuclear weapons by unleashing a first or a second strike.
Jaycox, Mark M.: Three Leaks, Three Weeks, and What We've Learned About the US Government's Other Spying Authority: Executive Order 12333
Published: 2013
The National Security Agency has been siphoning off data from the links between Yahoo and Google data centers, which include the fiber optic connections between company servers at various points around the world. While the user may have an encrypted connection to the website, the internal data flows were not encrypted and allowed the NSA to obtain millions of records each month, including both metadata and content like audio, video and text.
Jeffery, Suzanne: Up against the clock: Climate, social movements and Marxism
Published: 2015
The time frame is incredibly short. The problem is not one for future generations but for our generation, those of us who are alive now. If we continue to produce greenhouse gas emissions at the rate we have been we will have used up the carbon needed to take us to 2°C warming in the next 30 years.
Jego, Marie: The fruits of protest
Russia has shelved plans to break up the historic Pavlovsk seed bank
Published: 2010
The Pavlovsk open air seedbank in St. Petersburg maintains 12,000 species of fruit trees, berries, and flowers. Plans to auction off the land have been placed on hold after protests.
Jehu-Appiah, Ali-Masmadi: Seed freedom!
A last chance to thwart the great African seed grab
Published: 2015
Nineteen African nations meet this week (July 2015) in Arusha, Tanzania, to finalise a 'plant protection' protocol that would open up the continent's seeds to corporate interests, taking away farmers' rights to grow, improve, sell and exchange their traditional seeds, while allowing commercial breeders to make free use of the biodiversity in traditional seeds to sell them back to farmers in 'improved' form.
Jenkins, Brian Michael; Daddario, Richard C.: Think Mass Shootings Are Terrorism? Careful What You Wish For
Published: 2017
In the United States there is no law enforcement or policy reason to apply the entirety of international terrorism law domestically. Doing so would not improve the ability to investigate, prosecute, or punish domestic terrorism, and it would come with unwanted consequences.
Jenkins, Gareth: Shakespeare belongs to us
Published: 2016
We don’t know a great deal about William Shakespeare’s life. The records are scant and, in the absence of personal testimony, we know nothing of his intimate feelings or thoughts.
Jenkins, Simon: Maidan, Ukraine ... Tahrir, Egypt ... The Square Symbolises Failure, Not Hope
Published: 2014
The lesson of Egypt for Ukraine is that defiant crowds may destroy an old regime – but they seldom build a new one.
Jenkins, Simon: So the innocent have nothing to fear? After David Miranda we now know where this leads
Published: 2013
The destructive power of state snooping is on display for all to see. The press must not yield to this intimidation.
Jensen, Derrick: Forget Shorter Showers
Published: 2009
Why personal change does not equal political change.
Jensen, Derrick: World at Gunpoint
Or, what's wrong with the simplicity movement
Published: 2009
Global warming (or global climate catastrophe, as some rightly call it), as terrifying as it is, isn't first and foremost a threat. It's a consequence. we'll have a better chance of succeeding if we recognize it as a predictable (at this point) result of burning oil and gas, of deforestation, of dam construction, of industrial agriculture, and so on. The real threat is all of these.
Jensen, Robert: Can Journalism Schools Be Relevant In A World On The Brink?
Published: 2009
The best of our students are worried not just about whether they can find a job after graduation but also whether those jobs will allow them to contribute to shaping a decent future for a world on the brink.
Jensen, Robert: Disagreeing Reasonably in a Complex World
A review of The Case Against Free Speech
Published: 2019
Free speech is not a naturally occurring object. It's an idea, a notion, an aspiration, an approach to politics, always involving a theory about what it means to be human in a particular society at a particular time.
Jensen, Robert: Journalism’s Search for Metaphor and Meaning
Barking Dogs and Sinking Ships
Published: 2014
Journalists often aren’t alert watchdogs, but limiting the profession to the role of a barking dog is a dead-end anyway.
Jensen, Robert: Journalists Rock! Journalism Sucks!
Published: 2012
Working journalists often do the best they can within institutions that place severe limits on them, in much the same way that teachers struggle. Journalists and teachers rock. The problem is the corporate and corporatized systems within which they work. Corporate-commercial news media and corporatized school systems suck.
Jensen, Robert: Life without Limits: The Delusions of Technological Fundamentalism
Published: 2018
In a routinely delusional world, what is the most dangerous delusion? This delusion is not limited to one country, one group, or one political party, but rather is the unstated assumption of everyday life in the high-energy/high-technology industrial world. This is the delusion that we are -- to borrow from the title of a particularly delusional recent book -- the god species.
Jensen, Robert: Some Basic Propositions about Sex, Gender, and Patriarchy
New Books Highlight the Debate between Radical Feminism and Transgender Movement
Published: 2014
Within feminism there has been for decades an often divisive debate about transgenderism. With increasing mainstream news media and pop culture attention focused on the issue, understanding that feminist debate is more important than ever.
Jerryson, Michael: Monks with guns
Published: 2017
Westerners think that Buddhism is about peace and non-violence. So how come Buddhist monks are in arms against Islam?
Jervey, Ben: Former NDP Comms Director Key Strategist on Edelman Energy East Astroturf Strategy
Published: 2014
TransCanada has bought some unlikely support for the company’s public relations astroturf offensive aimed at winning support for the Energy East pipeline.
Jesus: Jesus Quotes
Jewell-Kemker, Slater: Youth Unstoppable
Published: 2021
Follows Director Jewell-Kemker's journey from grassroots teenager to activist adult in the environmental movement. Centered over the course of twelve years in nine different countries.
Jewish Coalition for the Bedouin of Um al-Hiran and Atir: Don't build Jew-only towns on the rubble of Bedouin villages
Published: 2016
Israel's government is now free to expel 1,200 of its Bedouin citizens from their 'unrecognised' villages in the Negev desert, following a Supreme Court decision not to hear their appeal. Now only one thing can save the Bedouin, their communities and their way of life: an international outcry.
Jha, Alok: False positives: fraud and misconduct are threatening scientific research
High-profile cases and modern technology are putting scientific deceit under the microscope
Published: 2012
Better detection tools and a rising retraction rate suggest scientific fraud may be widespread.
Jha, Alok: Poverty saps mental capacity to deal with complex tasks, say scientists
Study suggests being preoccupied with money problems is equivalent to loss of 13 IQ points or losing a night's sleep
Published: 2013
People who are poor expand so much mental energy on the immediate problem of paying bills or cutting costs that they are left with less capacity to deal with other complex but important problems.
Jilani, Zaid: Jeremy Corbyn Wants to Requisition Homes of the Rich for Fire Survivors - Like Churchill Did in WWII
Published: 2017
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has a bold proposal to house the survivors of a devastating fire at London's Grenfell Tower apartment complex in empty luxury homes.
Jilani, Zaid: Kansas Is Punishing a Teacher for Following Her Church's Guidance to Boycott Israel
Published: 2017
As part of her employment with a state program in Kansas a woman was asked to sign a statement proclaiming she not boycott Israel, a clear violation of her first amendment rights says the American Civil Liberties Union.
Jilani, Zaid: Left-Wing Drexel Professor Who Opposes Free Speech Has His Curtailed
Published: 2017
Outspoken Drexel University associate professor George Ciccariello-Maher has been put on-leave by his employer, stiring the debate about academic freedom and free speech.
Jilani, Zaid: Trump Insults the Media, but Bush Bullied and Defanged It to Sell the Iraq War
Published: 2017
Bush was anything but a friend of the press during his presidency. Maybe he didn’t demonize it as much as Trump does -- but he actively manipulated it and bullied it far worse and far more effectively than Trump has, much of it in the service of selling his marquee policy: the war in Iraq.
Jilani, Zaid; LaChance, Naomi: Students Are Pulling a Kaepernick All Over America -- and Being Threatened for It
Published: 2016
Students are being threatened with punishment for not participating in rituals surrounding the national anthem or Pledge of Allegiance -- and they are fighting back. Since NFL 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat during the national anthem in August to protest oppression of people of colour, many Americans, particularly professional athletes and students, have followed suit. But their constitutional right to engage in such gestures of dissent is not always being respected.
Jiménez, Niamh: Against False Privilege
Published: 2022
One of the biggest blunders of modern activism is the promotion of guilt and the demand for false privilege.
Joan: Land concentration, land grabbing and people's struggles in Europe
Published: 2015
The hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land. How these land elites have been actively supported by a huge injection of public funds -- at a time when all other public funding is being subjected to massive cuts.
Johanna, Brenner: Selling Sexual Services: A Socialist Feminist Perspective
Published: 2015
The current debate about sex work among feminists generates more heat than light. Accusations of bad faith fly back and forth across the two sides, research findings are mobilized to undercut the other side even when the research itself is limited by its methods and scope, different sex worker voices are authorized by each side as either genuine or manipulated, depending on whose position those voices seem to support.
John, Allen St.: Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex Privacy Issues - Consumer Reports
Published: 2020
CR evaluated videoconferencing privacy policies and found these services may collect more data than consumers realize.
Johns, Steven: The Iceland women's strike, 1975
Published: 2016
A short history of the strike, or day off, by the of women in Iceland for equality with men on 24 October, 1975.
Johnson, Adam: Big Papers Want Foreign Companies, Not War Crime Victims, to Sue US
Published: 2016
The editorial boards of the US’s four most influential newspapers joined President Barack Obama in opposition to the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, a bill that makes suing Saudi Arabia for the 9/11 attacks markedly easier.
Johnson, Adam: Down the Memory Hole: NYT Erases CIA's Efforts to Overthrow Syria's Government
Published: 2015
FAIR has noted before how America's well-documented clandestine activities in Syria have been routinely ignored when the corporate media discuss the Obama administration's "hands-off" approach to the four-and-a-half-year-long conflict.
Johnson, Adam: Election Meddling
Bad if Done to USA, Bad to Complain About if Done by USA
Published: 2016
Describing the contradictions in media coverage of, and attitudes toward, outside meddling in US elections versus US interference in foreign elections.
Johnson, Adam: In Run-Up to Vote to End Yemen War, MSNBC Remains Totally Silent
MSNBC outflanked from the left by Breitbart
Published: 2018
Johnson expresses concern about the lack of MSNBC coverage of the role of the USA in the conflict in Yemen since 2015.
Johnson, Adam: NPR Runs IDF Playbook, Spinning Killing of 17 Palestinians
Published: 2018
The article looks at the NPR reporting on the killing of 17 palestinians, which follows a pro-Israel bias that dates back for years.
Johnson, Adam: ‘Renouncing Violence’ Is a Demand Made Almost Exclusively of Muslims
Published: 2019
Media analysis shows that calls to renounce violence are directed at Muslims or other victims of Western occupation.
Johnson, Adam: Shotgun Pointed at Black Children Trivialized as 'Confederate Flag Incident'
Published: 2017
How a story is framed is as important -- if not more so -- than the content of an article. Sixty percent of Americans don't read past the headline and 60 percent of Americans share articles on social media without reading them. How a story is teed up to the reader is an essential element in how our media shape our understanding of the news.
Johnson, Adam: Some Pundits Think the Solution to Right-Wing Populism Is Less Democracy
Published: 2016
The core orthodoxies of neoliberalism are under attack by populist forces, and commentators are scrambling for a response. Some are suggesting more left-wing red meat. Others, a moment of self-reflection. But a number of pundits are doing that most noxious of political commentary pastimes -- equating right and left responses to the failures of globalization and advocating that "elites" should fight back against the forces of inconvenient democracy.
Johnson, Alex: Improbable libraries: unusual places to bury your head in a book
Published: 2015
Alex Johnson looks at the imaginative forms the modern library takes.
Johnson, Bobbie: Bookworms Rejoice
Digital deal paves the way for online access
Published: 2008
Google and the US book industry struck a deal to sell digitized books online and distribute royalties to their authors and publishers through a third party.
Johnson, Cedric: Class War in the Confederacy
Why Free State of Jones Matters
Published: 2016
Free State of Jones may well be the most politically important film about the civil war and its aftermath to appear in a quarter century. Free State of Jones is a proper antidote to identitarian thinking, which has mystified popular understandings of the past, and how we approach political action in the present. In contrast to the prevailing view among so many nowadays that racism has always been and continues to be the main barrier to any progressive left politics, this film reminds us of a more complex history, where anti-slavery politics, Radical Republicanism and mass action created the short-lived progress of Reconstruction.
Johnson, Cedric: An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Liberals Who Love Him
Published: 2016
Ta-Nehisi Coates recently criticized the Bernie Sanders campaign for Sanders’ pessimism regarding black reparations for slavery and Jim Crow segregation. When asked during a campaign event whether he would support reparations, Sanders responded with characteristic bluntness, saying that "its likelihood of getting through Congress is nil," before adding that a push for formal reparations for slavery would be politically divisive.
Johnson, Cedric: What Black Life Actually Looks Like
Published: 2019
In the age of Black Lives Matter protests, many activists and academics seem unable to see the complexity of black life beyond the barricades, or outside the frame of the latest viral video killing of a black civilian.
Johnson, Dave: Finding Your Photos Online
Published: 2009
It turns out that there are a couple of ways to keep an eye on your photos.
Johnson, Erica: Banks tell dozens of customers they're to blame for thousands of dollars lost to e-transfer fraudsters
Cybercrime detective says banks must do better job informing customers of risk
Published: 2019
Electronic banking agreements leave customers on the hook and absolve banks of responsibility when electronic money transfers go bad.
Johnson, Erica: Banks tell dozens of customers they're to blame for thousands of dollars lost to e-transfer fraudsters
Published: 2019
Cybercrime detective says banks must do better job informing customers of risk. After Rene Trudeau of Île-des-Chênes, Man., e-transferred $3,000 to pay for a new front door and a fraudster stole the cash, TD Bank said it wasn't to blame and refused to reimburse the money.
Johnson, Jake: Blame the Neoliberals: Democrats' Toxic Ideology Paved the Way for Trump
How corporate centrism has failed to defeat even the most incompetent figurehead of the nativist right
Published: 2016
The Democratic Party is ideologically bankrupt. Neoliberalism, the party's driving force, is toxic, and it has failed not only much of the United States, but also much of the world, driving wealth into the hands of the few. Without a populist left offering an ambitious alternative to the status quo, the nativist right has thrived.
Johnson, Jake: Climate-Driven 'Bugpocalypse'
Published: 2018
An alarming report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that in addition to annihilating hundreds of mammal species, the climate crisis has also sparked a global "bugpocalypse" that will only continue to accelerate in the absence of action to stop planetary warming.
Johnson, Jake: 'We Need to Ban Fracking': New Analysis of 1,500 Scientific Studies Details Threat to Health and Climate
Published: 2019
The latest analysis of studies on the effects of fracking confirms that it poses an extreme threat to the environment and local people's healt.
Johnson, Jimmy: The Secret Secret
Of Wikileaks and Literacy
Published: 2010
Only those with proper clearances can participate in discussions that affect significant aspects of our lives. Certain technological achievements, our collective ethical decisions (torture, secret prisons, air strikes, etc.), our collective behavior towards other nations and peoples (foreign policy discussions) and more are often obscured by state secrecy. Like the medieval clergy, those holding classified clearances are the sole legitimate interpreters of the 'really important' knowledge. In effect, they are a caste that guides our political and technological cosmologies.
Johnson, Katelyn: Legal Weed Is Great, But Black and Brown Communities Can't Be Left Behind
Marijuana legalization must bring both equity and justice for those most impacted by the War on Drugs.
Published: 2019
Marginalized populations that were hardest hit by the War on Drugs should be at the forefront of legalization legislation as well as recipients of the tax revenue from legalized marijuana.
Johnson, KC: Sanday's Structure
Published: 2007
In a recent article at Inside Higher Ed, Penn anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday announced that she was going to place the “Duke case in perspective.” What “perspective,” precisely? “The eye-witness accounts of campus gang rape I present in Fraternity Gang Rape.”
Johnson, Larry: Assessing the Implications of Adtech for Terrorist and Counter-Terrorist Operations
Published: 2024
The February 27, 2024 article published in Wired -- How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets -- and Vladimir Putin -- is an excerpt from the book, Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State, by Byron Tau. Tau’s piece illuminates the tactics and methods intelligence agencies are using to track the activities and movements of individuals by using the data on their smart phones.
Johnson, Larry: Knowing What We Know, Knowing what We Don't Know and Knowing the Difference
Published: 2022
There is enormous disinformation (i.e., deception) flooding the internet from both Ukraine and Russia. However, Ukraine has a decided advantage in the information war given the massive covert action support supplied by US and NATO intelligence organizations.
Johnson, Larry: May nation 'A' Attack Nation 'B' If 'B' is supplying Weapons Used to Attack Nation 'A'
Published: 2024
Johnson, Larry: Why Brazil's Lula is Right -- Israel is Behaving like Nazis
Published: 2024
I note the irony that YouTube allows unfettered access to view images of the Holocaust but tries to limit who can see similar images from Gaza. What is unfolding in Gaza is a war crime of gargantuan proportions. Israel, by its conduct, desecrates the legacy of those Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis and those who survived.
Johnson, Lisa: Thousands of Atlantic salmon escape fish farm near Victoria after nets damaged
Published: 2017
Thousands of Atlantic salmon escaped into Pacific waters east of Victoria, BC after facilities containing an estimated 305,000 fish were damaged at a U.S. fish farm in the San Juan Island.
Johnson, Ragina; Ward, Brian: The Blossoming of Idle No More
Published: 2014
The First Nations-led movement Idle No More emerged in Canada in December 2012 to protest legislation that threatened both the rights of First Nations and environmental protections. The movement has since spread into the U.S. and beyond – and has become one of the central voices in the struggle for Indigenous and ecological justice.
Johnson, Samuel: Samuel Johnson Quotes
Johnson, Tim: Security experts urge clients to stop using Yahoo Mail after spying report
Published: 2016
Yahoo is once again under scrutiny after a report that at the behest of the U.S. government, its engineers had written software to scan every email message sent and received by its users.
Johnston, Devin: Alexa Traffic Rankings
Alexa's data collection methods are deeply flawed, leading to wildly inaccurate traffic statistics.
Johnston, Diana: Destroying Syria: a Joint Criminal Enterprise
Published: 2016
Everyone claims to want to end the war in Syria and restore peace to the Middle East. Well, almost everyone.
Johnstone, Alan: Keeping It In The Human Family
Published: 2015
What socialists set out to prove is that not only has "human nature" changed many times in the past but that there is no such thing as a static human nature. We are products of our environment, particularly of the economic system in which we live.
Johnstone, Alan: We’re A’ Jock Tamson's Bairns*
Published: 2014
A nation is not a natural community that existed before the state, but that it's the other way round: the state existed first and then proceeded to impose on those it ruled over the idea that they formed a “nation”.
Johnstone, Cailtin: Australian Government Sanctions People For Sharing Unauthorized Thoughts
Published: 2022
Stomping on speech which doesn't align with the authorized opinions of the government and the globe-spanning empire of which it is a member state.
Johnstone, Cailtin: Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot Of Censorship
Published: 2022
Perhaps we have foolishly consented to a reality where the most powerful people in the world get to control the information people consume in order to shut down dissent against a murderous and oppressive globe-spanning oligarchic empire.
Johnstone, Cailtin: Spotify Purges Dissident Voices In Latest Censorship Escalation
Published: 2022
Multiple American podcasters who speak critically of the political status quo in their country are reporting that their channels have been shut down as the censorship campaign against Russia-backed media continues to escalate.
Johnstone, Caitlin: Biden DOJ Indicts Four Americans For 'Weaponized' Free Speech
Published: 2023
The U.S. government is charging that members of the African People's Socialist Party 'weaponized' the First Amendment to publish 'propaganda' and promote 'dissenion." What that means is that they engaged in speech and political activism that the U.S. government does not like.
Johnstone, Caitlin: Biden DOJ Indicts Four Americans For 'Weaponized' Free Speech
Published: 2023
The Biden administration's Department of Justice has just charged four members of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) for conspiring to act as agents of Russia by using speech and political action in ways the DOJ says 'weaponized' the First Amendment rights of Americans.
Johnstone, Caitlin: Censorship By Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship
Published: 2022
By mid-2017 independent media outlets were already reporting across ideological lines that algorithm changes from important sources of viewership like Google had suddenly begun hiding their content from people who were searching for the subjects they reported on.
Johnstone, Caitlin: The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media. Now The CIA Is The Media.
Published: 2021
In totalitarian dictatorships, the government spy agency tells the news media what stories to run, and the news media unquestioningly publish it. In free democracies, the government spy agency says “Hoo buddy, have I got a scoop for you!” and the news media unquestioningly publish it.
Johnstone, Caitlin: 'Confirmed' Has Become A Meaningless Word In Mainstream News Reporting
Published: 2020
The word "confirmed" has been misused and abused to such a spectacular extent in mainstream news reporting of late that it doesn’t actually mean anything anymore when they say it.
Johnstone, Caitlin: 'Confirmed' Has Become A Meaningless Word In Mainstream News Reporting
Published: 2020
Last week Politico published a major exclusive report that the “Iranian government is weighing an assassination attempt against the American ambassador to South Africa” in retaliation for the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani earlier this year, citing (you guessed it) anonymous government officials.
Johnstone, Caitlin: The Day The World Ended
Published: 2021
The day the world ended began like any other day. People woke up, had their coffee, checked their social media, kissed their loved ones, went to work. Nobody knew it was coming.
Johnstone, Caitlin: Experts Warned For Years That NATO Expansion Would Lead To This
Published: 2022
Analysts and diplomats have been saying since the 1990s that NATO expansion would eventually spark a conflict in Eastern Europe.
Johnstone, Caitlin: Greenwald's Intercept Resignation Exposes The Rot In All Mass Media
Published: 2020
Journalist Glenn Greenwald has made major waves throughout mainstream and alternative media by resigning from The Intercept, an outlet he co-founded in 2014 with the stated mission of holding power to account with the power of unrestricted journalism. Johnstone argues that editorial freedom is being curbed.
Johnstone, Caitlin: Hillary Clinton Just Told Five Blatant Lies About WikiLeaks
Published: 2017
During an interview with ABC's Sarah Ferguson, while promoting her new book about her loss in the 2017 presidential election, Hillary Clinton told five lies about the WikiLeaks.
Johnstone, Caitlin: How You Can Be 100% Certain That QAnon Is Bullshit
Published: 2019
Outlines techniques used by members of QAnon, including excusing Trump's facilitation of evil deep state agendas, refusing to prove the validity of their positions, and making bogus claims and innacurate predictions.
Johnstone, Caitlin: Ignore Their Words; Watch Their Actions
Published: 2024
While the mass media publish White House press releases disguised as news stories about the president’s feelings and celebrity progressives assure us that this administration is "working tirelessly for a ceasefire," the Israeli Defense Ministry is announcing that it has secured another $8.7 billion in military aid from the US.
Johnstone, Caitlin: The Israel Narrative Is Crumbling Because Of Phone Cameras And The Internet
Published: 2021
Social media is teeming with viral video footage of police assaulting peaceful worshippers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, of Israelis cheering and chanting “Yimach shemam (may their names be erased)” at the sight of a fire near the mosque, of Israeli soldiers arresting Palestinian protesters using the signature knee-on-neck maneuver made famous by the murder of George Floyd, many of which have millions of views.
Johnstone, Caitlin: It's Not OK for Grown Adults to Think This Way About Ukraine
Published: 2022
Johnstone, Caitlin: The Left Will Never Achieve Its Goals Until It Prioritizes Countering Establishment Propaganda
Published: 2021
The idea that China or Russia pose a threat to you is so self-evidently ridiculous, so transparently absurd, that the only way to make you believe it would be to propagandize you. And if you do believe it, that’s exactly what has happened. You can expand this principle to include the entirety of US foreign policy on the global stage today. No ordinary American benefits from the US having troops in Syria, sanctioning Venezuelans to death, supporting Saudi Arabia while it rapes Yemen, circling the planet with military bases and working to destroy any nation which refuses to bow to its dictates. The only way to get Americans to consent to any of these agendas is to propagandize them into doing so.
Johnstone, Caitlin: Let's Back Up A Sec And Ask Why Free Speech Actually Matters
Published: 2022
To really answer the question of whether the increasingly widespread practice of Silicon Valley censorship via algorithm and deplatforming is a major problem and whether an increase in speech restriction is desirable, we need to take a step back and ask ourselves why free speech even matters in the first place.
Johnstone, Caitlin: The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public’s Trust
Published: 2021
It doesn’t ultimately matter what mainstream pundits and reporters believe is the cause of the public’s growing disgust with them, because there's nothing they can do to fix it anyway. The mass media will never regain the public's trust.
Johnstone, Caitlin: MSM Already Helping Next Administration Hide Corruption Under 'Diversity' Banner
Published: 2020
On published articles by the Times and Vox discussing diversity in the incoming Biden administration; and argues that it overlooks individual actions of those appointed.
Johnstone, Caitlin: Narrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns
Published: 2020
On reports regarding social and mainsteam media attempting to censor and control narrative surrounding current protests in the US.
Johnstone, Caitlin: New York Times Job Listing Shows How Western Propaganda Operates
Published: 2020
In order to get a job at the New York Times, you need to demonstrate that you subscribe to the mainstream oligarchic imperialist worldview which forms the entirety of western mass media output. You need to demonstrate that you have been properly indoctrinated, and that you can be guided into toeing the imperial line with simple attaboys and tisk-tisks from your superiors rather than being explicitly told to knowingly lie.
Johnstone, Caitlin: The People Haven't Risen Up For The Same Reason Abuse Victims Don't Leave Their Abusers
Published: 2021
Abusive relationships aren't just one partner doing cruel things to another. If they were, there would be no relationship: there'd just be a woman getting assaulted one time by her boyfriend and then immediately leaving. Abusive relationships necessarily include the construction of psychological barriers to leaving, or else they would not exist. Victims of abuse are kept constantly confused, off-balance, insecure and unsure of themselves, because their abuse always necessarily includes the element of psychological manipulation.
Johnstone, Caitlin: People's Skepticism About Covid-19 Is The Fault Of The Lying Mass Media
Published: 2020
Johnstone, Caitlin: The Real Conspiracy: Notes From The Edge of the Narrative Matrix
Published: 2020
Some conspiracy-type people say the world is messed up because we're ruled by illuminati or reptilians, but I'm way more out there than that: I say our entire society is made of imaginary thought stories with little relation to objective reality, and some clever manipulators have figured out how to exploit this.
Johnstone, Caitlin: Secret, Invisible Evidence Of Russian Hacking Is Not Actually Evidence
Published: 2020
Johnstone, Caitlin: Seriously, Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan
Published: 2020
With overwhelming bipartisan support, the House Armed Services Committee has added a Liz Cheney-spearheaded amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which throws severe roadblocks in the Trump administration’s proposed scale-down of US military presence in Afghanistan and Germany.
Johnstone, Caitlin: Stop Trivializing The Term 'Coup': Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Published: 2021
Critique of media's use of term "coup" to describe events at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Johnstone, Caitlin: They Are Rolling Out The Architecture of Oppression Now Because They Fear The People
Published: 2020
"As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world," NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said in a recent interview.
Johnstone, Caitlin: Twitter Rolls Out New Wikipedia-Like Program To Narrative Manage Tweets
Published: 2021
On the concerns raised in relation to Twitter's Birdwatch feature.
Johnstone, Caitlin: US Bombs Syria And Ridiculously Claims Self Defense
Published: 2021
So we are being told that the United States launched an airstrike on Syria, a nation it invaded and is illegally occupying, because of attacks on "US locations" in Iraq, another nation the US invaded and is illegally occupying. This attack is justified on the basis that the Iraqi fighters were "Iranian-linked", a claim that is both entirely without evidence and irrelevant to the justification of deadly military force. And this is somehow being framed in mainstream news publications as a defensive operation. This is Defense Department stenography. The US military is an invading force in both Syria and Iraq; it is impossible for its actions in either of those countries to be defensive. It is always necessarily the aggressor.
Johnstone, Caitlin: The Western Press Are Just Printing Straight Up Nazi Propaganda About Middle Easterners Now
Published: 2024
It sure is an interesting coincidence how all this mass media demonizing and dehumanizing of Muslim populations is happening at the exact same time the western empire is raining military explosives upon nations full of Muslims.
Johnstone, Caitlin: When Journalism Standards Vanish
Published: 2022
Because Russia and Iran are both viewed as enemies of Washington, Western news media often feel comfortable publishing any old claim about them as fact regardless of sourcing or evidence. Imperial propagandists lower their editorial standards when reporting on official enemies not because they are bad at their job, but because they are very good at their job. It's just that their job isn't what we've been told.
Johnstone, Caitlin: Why It's Ugly To Criticize Trump For Dodging The Vietnam Draft
Published: 2020
There’s a popular tweet going around saying “Do you know what the 58,220 American Dead from the Vietnam War will have in common with the 58,220 American dead expected this midweek? Donald Trump refused to fight for either one of them.”
Johnstone, Caitlin: World's Most Tyrannical Regime Can't Stop Babbling About "Human Rights"
Published: 2021
Like all US secretaries of state, Blinken's public statements overwhelmingly focus on the claim that other nations abuse human rights, and that it is America’s duty to defend those rights. Which is very silly, considering the fact that the US government is the single worst human rights abuser on planet Earth.
Johnstone, Diana: The Bad Losers (And What They Fear Losing)
Published: 2016
If the 2016 presidential campaign was a national disgrace, the reaction of the losers is an even more disgraceful spectacle. And why is that?
Johnstone, Diana: Collateral Damage: U.S. Sanctions Aimed at Russia Strike Western European Allies
Published: 2017
Sanctions by the U.S. Congress which aims to distance relations with Russia may also have a crippling effect on European banks, particularly those in Germany and France.
Johnstone, Diana: COVID-19: Coronavirus and Civilization
Published: 2020
Lockdowns reveal helplessness rather than power. While in a crisis some will take advantage of disaster, it makes no sense that dominant economic powers sought this crisis for some mysterious benefit to themselves, says Diana Johnstone.
Johnstone, Diana: D-Day 2024
Published: 2024
In retrospect, it becomes clear that the Cold War "communist threat" was only a pretext for great powers seeking more power.
Johnstone, Diana: European Unification Divides Europeans: How Forcing People Together Tears Them Apart
Published: 2016
Unification of Europe has brought about radical new divisions within Europe. The most significant split is between the people and their political leaders.
Johnstone, Diana: The Good Intentions That Pave the Road to War
R2P and Genocide Prevention
Published: 2013
Johnstone, Diana: International Injustice: the Conviction of Radovan Karadzic
Published: 2016
Last Thursday, news reports were largely devoted to the March 22, 2016 Brussels terror bombings and the US primary campaigns. And so little attention was paid to the verdict of the International Criminal Tribunal for (former) Yugoslavia (ICTY) finding Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic guilty of every crime it could come up with, including "genocide".
Johnstone, Diana: The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National Sovereignty
Published: 2017
The 2017 French Presidential election marks a profound change in European political alignments. There is an ongoing shift from the traditional left-right rivalry to opposition between globalization, in the form of the European Union (EU), and national sovereignty.
Johnstone, Diana: Nuclear Weapons Ban? What Needs to be Banned Is U.S. Arrogance
Published: 2017
Nuclear disarmament will be possible only when leaders in Washington recognize that other peoples also have a right and a will to live.
Johnstone, Diana: The Servility of the Satellites
The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe
Published: 2013
Recent revelations confirm the completion of the transformation of the "Western democracies" into something else, an entity that as yet has no recognized name. The outrage against the Bolivian President confirmed that this trans-Atlantic entity has absolutely no respect for international law, even though its leaders will make use of it when it suits them. But respect it, allow it to impede their actions in any way? Certainly not. And this disrespect for the law is linked to a more basic institutional change: the destruction of effective democracy at the national level.
Johnstone, Diana: The Single Party French State ... as the Majority of Voters Abstain
Published: 2017
The victory of Macron's personal party, la République En Marche (REM), with an absolute majority of 350 out of 577 seats in the National Assembly, has bled the two traditional governing parties, the Republicans and the Socialists.
Johnstone, Diana: Terrorist Attacks in Paris: Can Tragedy Bring Change?
Published: 2015
Paris has now suffered the sort of attacks that are familiar to Beirut or to Russia. The big question is: what next? Will this fear cause people to wake up to reality and think clearly?
Johnstone, Diana: Thank You, Ed Herman
Published: 2017
Obituary of Edward S. Herman, condsiderd "the godfather of antiwar media critique."
Johnstone, Diana: Ukraine and Yugoslavia
When Will Americans Come to Their Senses?
Published: 2014
Much of public opinion seems to accept the notion that the villain of the Russia-Ukraine story is the Russian president, who is accused of engaging in unprovoked aggression against Crimea – even though he was responding to one of the most blatant provocations in history. Johnstone outlines why this is not the case.
Johnstone, Diana: US Foreign Policy Is a Cruel Sport
Published: 2022
Johnstone, Diana: Washington’s Frozen War Against Russia
Frack the EU!
Published: 2014
For over a year, the United States has played out a scenario designed to (1) reassert U.S. control over Europe by blocking E.U. trade with Russia, (2) bankrupt Russia, and (3) get rid of Vladimir Putin and replace him with an American puppet, like the late drunk, Boris Yeltsin.
Johnstone, Diana: Why the French Hate Chomsky
Published: 2010
Chomsky's criticism is laden with facts, a substance that seems to elicit ennui among contemporary French thinkers. No doubt the importance of the essay in the French educational system has bred a world of 'philosophers' whose skill at manipulating fact-free ideas was the guarantee of a distinguished career. If the social object is to entertain, then the French school reaches its goal -- mystification is often far more entertaining than straightforward descriptions of reality. On the other hand, if the object is to help readers reach their own understanding of reality, especially political reality, then their first need is to be provided with the basic relevant facts, which most people do not have time to ascertain through their own research. Thus Chomsky is useful to citizens by providing them with the raw material to develop their own ideas in a way that the purveyors of ready-made but flimsily supported ideas are not.
Johnstone, Diane: US Uses Past Crimes to Legalize Future Ones
Justifying the Unjustifiable
Published: 2013
The liberal warhawks are groping around for a pretext they can call “legal” for waging war against Syria, and have come up with the 1999 “Kosovo war”.
Johnstone. Caitlin: 'Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine' Is The Dumbest Story Yet
Published: 2020
Johstone, Caitlin: The Most Revealing Footage On Police Brutality Is These Cops Applauding Its Perpetrators
Published: 2020
On video of police applauding perpetrators of police brutality, and the pervasiveness of violent police culture.
Joignot, Frédéric: The contribution of trees to our lives: it is time to take stock
French botanist Francis Hallé makes a case for the defence of trees as a powerful ally in saving the Earth's ecosystems
Published: 2012
A reflection on the impact of trees in the world and the necessity of improving urban forestry out of self-preservation.
Joly, Jeremy: Indigenous peoples in Latin America fight to safeguard their knowledge
Published: 2015
Equal Times met up with William Park just a few months after he had completed a project of mammoth proportions: a 500-page encyclopaedia compiling, in collaboration with the community, a large portion of their medical knowledge. "The aim is to help the community to preserve and pass on their knowledge without it being pillaged by foreign businesses. If they decide to share it one day, that is their choice. It isn't up to us to decide for them," explains the specialist in sustainable agriculture.
Jonah, Aidan: Professor Attacked by Mainstream Media for Opposing NATO Narrative on Ukraine
Published: 2022
A highly regarded Russia specialist in Canada, Professor Michael Carley at the University of Montreal, has refused to support the NATO narrative on the Ukraine conflict and has since been subjected to a vicious smear campaign.
Jones, Ed: Five reasons why we don't have a free and independent press in the UK and what we can do about it
Published: 2016
Exposes the power structures and entities that exert influence over the UK press, and proposes ways that influence might be subverted.
Jones, Evan: The Pariah State
A Short History of Israeli Impunity
Published: 2014
Hasbara has elevated the manipulation of language to a new plateau. This is a qualitative leap. Moving beyond the difficulty of seeing the stye in our own eye, the Hasbara upends linguistic conventions. Black becomes white, evil is translated into righteousness. Victims of murderous ethnic cleansing become terrorists. The conventions of language go completely out the door. Mass murder is self defense. The Great Wall is a barrier or a mere fence. Land grabs are voluntary relocations into disputed territories.
Jones, Jenny: Keep our front gardens green!
Published: 2015
It's time to halt the loss of the nation's front gardens to dreary paving, writes Jenny Jones. Green gardens protect against floods, provide homes for wildlife, keep cities cool in summer, and help us all feel happier. Now, with 7 million gardens already paved over, we must protect those that remain.
Jones, Josh: Large Archive of Hannah Arendt's Papers Digitized by the Library of Congress
Read Her Lectures, Drafts of Articles, Notes and Correspondence
Published: 2018
Many people read the German-Jewish political philosopher and journalist Hannah Arendt as something of an oracle, a secular prophet whose most famous works -- her essay on the trial of Adolf Eichmann and her 1951 Origins of Totalitarianism -- contain secrets about our own times of high nationalist fervor.
Jones, Josh: Leonardo da Vinci's Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages
Published: 2017
A look at some of the secret manuscripts by Leonardo da Vinci, many now online, which remained hidden for centuries and only accessible by only the most rarified of collectors.
Jones, Josh: The Red Menace
A Striking Gallery of Anti-Communist Posters, Ads, Comic Books, Magazines & Films
Published: 2014
By its very nature, propaganda distorts the truth or tells outright lies. It targets our basest impulses -- fear and anger, flight or fight. While works of pure propaganda may pretend to make logical arguments, they eliminate nuance and oversimplify complicated issues to the point of caricature. These general tendencies hold true in every case, but nowhere, perhaps, is this gross exaggeration and fear mongering more evident than in times of war.
Jones, Keith: Five years since Canada's constitutional coup
Published: 2013
Five years ago today, Canada’s Conservative government used the arbitrary powers of the un-elected governor-general to shut down Canada’s parliament so as to prevent the opposition parties from defeating the government in a non-confidence vote.
Jones, Owen: The poor against the poor
'Up for it to cause havoc' on the streets of London
Published: 2011
The August riots in England may foreshadow far worse: they are the result of almost 30 years of deliberate destruction of a way of life and work that had a place for even the least-educated of young urban men.
Jones, Pete: Western Uganda: crop-raiding elephants call for plan bee
Published: 2012
Attempts to stop the destruction of farmers' crops around Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park had failed until research into elephant reactions to bees provided an answer.
Jones, Polly: WTO is back. And this time, no more Mr Nice Guy
Published: 2015
Overtaken by massive regional trade agreements like TPP, TTIP, CETA and TINA, the World Trade Organisation has slipped into the background. But this week it's back with a vengeance, with its first big meeting in two years. The US's plan is to globalise the investment protection regime set out in the TTP, and open a new era of corporate rule and the eradication of democracy.
Jones, Ryan Patrick: His father brought hundreds of Jewish tailors to Canada - now he's stitching together their
'It opened the doors,' Larry Enkin says of the Tailor Project
Published: 2018
Larry Enkin hopes to document the history of the immigrant tailors who came to Canada under the The Tailor Project. The project was initiated by his father Max Enkin following WWII, which brought approximately 2,000 displaced people from Europe to Canada to work in the clothing industry.
Jordan,Will;Radhakrishnan,Rahul: Mossad contradicted Netanyahu on Iran nuclear programme
Published: 2015
Spy cables reveal that Mossad concluded that Iran was not producing nuclear weapons, even though Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu told the UN the opposite.
Joseph, Chief: Chief Joseph Quotes
Juhasz, Antonia: Thirty Million Gallons Under the Sea
Following the trail of BP's oil in the Gulf of Mexico
Published: 2015
One morning in March of last year, I set out from Gulfport, Mississippi, on a three-week mission aboard the U.S. Navy research vessel Atlantis.
Julian, Kate: Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?
Published: 2018
Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession. American teenagers and young adults are having less sex.
Jumah, Saunders: German denial of Herero genocide
Published: 2012
The Germans’ inhuman treatment of the Namibian delegation is only the most recent in a long history of injustice and disrespect towards African peoples. It is more than time, writes Saunders Jumah, for Africans to stand together, demand fair and equal treatment according to international law, and refuse exploitation by anyone.
Jungwirth, Debbie: Grassroots Naturism
A guide for the TNS Volunteer
Published: 2010
A primer for the naturist volunteer.
Jäcklein, Wolf: Ten threats to Europeans
Published: 2014
Ten contemporary social, economic and political issues posing threats to European citizens.

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K'necht, Alan: Making Forms Perform
Published: 2011
A good form is one that is easy to complete from the user perspective, but not the technical perspective. One area frequently missed during testing is how user-friendly and accessible the form is.
Kabariti, Ahmad: On Nakba Day Palestinians in Gaza explain why they joined the 'Great March of Return'
Published: 2018
Palestinian refugees in their own words, on the 70th anniversary of the creation of Israel. In the context of the 2018 opening of the USA embassy in Jerusalem.
Kadritzke, Niels: Greece is sold off and sold out
Greece's public assets, including ports and airports, went at discount prices to predatory buyers who will deprive the state of much - need
Published: 2016
A recent study has concluded that privatisation in Europe has undermined wage structures, made working conditions worse and increased income inequality; nowhere is this exemplified more than in Greece.
Kahle, Trish: They poisoned the river for a 'clean coal' lie
Published: 2014
Thousands of gallons of a toxic chemical used to produce “clean coal”, spilled into Elk River, leaving 300,000 with no water supply.
Kahn, Andrew and Bouie, Jamelle: The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.
Published: 2015
Usually, when we say "American slavery" or the "American slave trade," we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But North America was a bit player. From the trade's beginning in the 16th century to its conclusion in the 19th, slave merchants brought the vast majority of enslaved Africans to two places: the Caribbean and Brazil. Of the more than 10 million enslaved Africans to eventually reach the Western Hemisphere, just 388,747 -- less than 4 percent of the total -- came to North America.
Kaiman, Jonathan: Healthcare in China: GSK claims prompt crackdown on corruption
Published: 2013
Fallout of bribery allegations against British company shows the state wants to be seen to act to clean up murky system.
Kakutani, Michiko: Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth and Morality
Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism
Published: 2017
Observations on Hannah Arendt's 1951 book "Origins of Totalitarianism" on the nature of Totalitarianism and the role of propaganda in its rise and support within societies.
Kalchman, Lois: Boys: Do you know where your mothers are?
Published: 1997
Dr. Miriam Garfinkle got tired of being just the mom in the stands. She instigated the uprising from fan to player at her son's house league championship team party.
Kalder, Daniel: Joel Osteen: the new face of Christianity
Through the eye of the needle
Published: 2010
A profile of the most succesful pastor in America, Joel Osteen, one of those who preach 'the prosperity gospel'.
Kale, Vidyut: P. Sainath has won the World Media Summit Award
Published: 2014
P. Sainath is the winner of World Media Summit Global Award for Excellence 2014 in the Public Welfare category. The WMS awards are described as the "first comprehensive news awards covering multiple media formats, including press, photo, video and integrated media to honour “truth, objectivity and excellence” in journalism".
Kalven, Jamie: Operation Smoke and Mirrors: In the Chicago Police Department, If the Bosses Say It Didn't Happen, It Didn't Happen
Published: 2016
On May 31, 2016, the city of Chicago agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by two police officers who allege they suffered retaliation for reporting and investigating criminal activity by fellow officers. The settlement, for $2 million, was announced moments before the trial was to begin.
Kalven, Jamie: Watch Your Back: Chicago Police Bosses Targeted Cops Who Exposed Corruption
Published: 2016
After Chicago police officers Shannon Spalding and Danny Echeverria filed a whistleblower lawsuit, retaliation against them only intensified.
Kamal, Baher: African Migrants Bought and Sold Openly in 'Slave Markets' in Libya
Published: 2017
Hundreds of migrants along North African migration routes are being bought and sold openly in modern day 'slave markets' in Libya, survivors have told the United Nations migration agency, which warned that these reports "can be added to a long list of outrages" in the country.
Kamal, Baher: Resistance to Antibiotics: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Published: 2017
The growing resistance to antibiotics and other antimicrobials due to their overuse and misuse both in humans and animals has become an alarming global threat to public health, food safety and security, causing the deaths of 700,000 people each year.
Kamdar, Adi; Reitman, Rainey; Schoen, Seth: NSA Turns Cookies (And More) Into Surveillance Beacons
Published: 2013
These Google cookies - known as 'PREF' cookies - last two years and can uniquely identify you. The NSA is using this to enable remote exploitation (hacking into people’s computers) - an act aided by the ability to uniquely identify individuals on the Internet.
Kamel, Lorenzo: To stop migration, stop the abuse of Africa's resources
Europe should tackle migration not by deploying troops, but by curbing economic abuse and destablisation.
Published: 2018
On January 17, Italy's parliament approved the deployment of up to 470 troops in Niger to combat "irregular migrant flows" and the trafficking of people towards Libya, and, from there, to Europe. A number of other European countries are pursuing similar policies, including France, Germany, and Spain.
Kamins, Alexandra; Rowcliffe, Marcus; Restif, Olivier: Ebola: don't blame the bats!
Published: 2014
Bats serve as a natural reservoir for the Ebola - but we cannot blame them for the epidemic. In Ghana alone people eat over 100,000 fruit bats a year as 'bushmeat', yet the country has escaped the epidemic. Much more research is needed to discover the mechanisms of transmission, and to devise effective, appropriate interventions.
Kampfer, R. F.: Best of Random Shots
Against The Current vol. 114
Published: 2005
During the excavation of Pompeii, archaeologists found the body of a young Roman soldier who had been standing guard duty when Vesuvius erupted. He had remained at his post while being covered with molten lava. That’s the kind of discipline we need!
Kampfer, R. F.: Random Shots: New and Old Millenia
Against The Current vol. 85
Published: 2000
Kampfer prepared for Y2K by stockpiling ammunition. He figured that would get him anything else he needed.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Balkan Wars, Now and Then
Against The Current vol. 81
Published: 1999
At the NATO summit, it was decided that the organization would not tolerate genocide if practiced by non-members who did not possess nuclear weapons and were within artillery range of Europe.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Daimler and Dubya Chronicles
Against The Current vol. 91
Published: 2001
Daimler-Chrysler CEO Juergen Schrempp has pledged not to sell off the Chrysler division. Not that anyone was lining up to buy it. All the same to us on the line: If you're not the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Dubya's Many Axes of Evil
Against The Current vol. 97
Published: 2002
The concept of an Axis of Evil seems to derive from a 1942 Captain Marvel comic-book series about the Monster Society of Evil. Of course, that's a little before Dubya's time.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Go And Do Likewise
Against The Current vol. 83
Published: 1999
Most of us are glad to see a spouse commit a misdemeanor, e.g. violating a diet or a budget. It gives us license to go and do likewise.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Idle Idylls of Old Idols
Against The Current vol. 101
Published: 2002
One has to wonder how far the immortal Janis Joplin would have gotten on “American Idol.” Ever notice that the winners of the weekly votes cried more than the losers?
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Iraq and a Hard Place
Against The Current vol. 105
Published: 2003
Donald Rumsfeld says the United States will remain in Iraq until a stable democracy takes power. Or until Hell freezes over, whichever comes first.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Just Say No to Dubya
Against The Current vol. 103
Published: 2003
Dubya's waltz toward war reminds me of a TV Western I saw about fifty years ago. This cowboy is eyeballing the young schoolmarm at the barn-dance. His friend asks: “Are you looking for a reason to go over and talk to her?” The cowboy answers: “I've already got a reason, what I need is an excuse.”
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Let It All Hang Out
Against The Current vol. 109
Published: 2004
It's very thoughtful to plant a tree when you won't live to see it full grown. It's even more thoughtful to plant it far enough away from the house so that it doesn't choke the gutters.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Life Imitates Art
Against The Current vol. 100
Published: 2002
In the movie version of “The Sum of all Fears,” the terrorist nuke is hidden in a cigarette vending machine. In real life, if placed in an underground parking garage, it would have been ripped off in about twenty minutes.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Notes for Life Under Siege
Against The Current vol. 95
Published: 2001
When one thinks of of communities around the world that have been under siege for decades, one wonders how the U.S. will cope in the absence of a quick fix. Return to normal? This is normal for a lot of people. It's safety that is an aberration and an illusion.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Notes From Starr's Chamber
Published: 1999
Comments on current issues
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Now It Can Be Told
Against The Current vol. 107
Published: 2003
Not only are there no Weapons of Mass Destruction, there is no Saddam Hussein. He died of a stroke in 1993. The Baath Party concealed his death in order to preserve their power. His public appearances were staged, first by surgically altered doubles, then by computer-generated images created by the folks who gave us Yoda and Gollum. The doubles were killed, just before the fall of Baghdad, to maintain the secret. No wonder Dubya can't find him.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Of Drugs and Diamonds
Against The Current vol. 99
Published: 2002
Marx characterized religion as the opium of the people. For some cults, it seems to act more like viagra.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: People and Other Animals
Against The Current vol. 88
Published: 2000
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has taken out an ad urging college students to drink beer instead of milk, to avoid exploiting cows. Sounds like a good excuse to me.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Pirates, Gladiators and Assassins
Against The Current vol. 96
Published: 2002
Dubya may come to regret his efforts to classify his crusade against terrorism as a war. The legal ramifications of waging war against a non-governmental organization may keep the lawyers busy for generations. One would think that the 18th Century international convention on piracy, which declared pirates to be the general enemies of all mankind rather than any particular state, might be conveniently applied here.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Save That Scrap Metal
Against The Current vol. 111
Published: 2004
The Defense of Marriage Act has been characterized as the first amendment that diminishes human rights rather than expand them. Actually, that dishonor would go to the Prohibition amendment. We saw how well that worked out.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Sic Transit Gloria Bunny
Published: 1999
Comments regarding current issues
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Stranger Than Cinema
Against The Current vol. 87
Published: 2000
Looking at the Elión Gonzalez case, how many people remember “Popi,” a 1969 movie starring Alan Arkin as a poor Puerto Rican janitor who tries to put his kids on Easy Street by passing them off as Cuban flotsam?
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Teens and Other Freaks
Against The Current vol. 94
Published: 2001
Many parents are annoyed by the popularity of “freak-dancing” among today's teenagers. Of course, annoying parents is the teenagers' main purpose in life.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Tender Loving Care
Against The Current vol. 92
Published: 2001
A kinky personal ad?
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: That Was the War That Was
Against The Current vol. 82
Published: 1999
Notice how quickly the Chinese government reined in those public demonstrations at the U.S. embassy in Beijing. Perhaps they remembered Wellington's attitude towards expressions of opinions by the troops: “If you allow them to cheer, another time they will feel entitled to hiss.”
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: That Was the War That Was
Against The Current vol. 104
Published: 2003
What lesson has Boy George taught the world? “He that hath no nuke, let him sell his cloak and buy a nuke.”
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: The Kings of the World
Against The Current vol. 98
Published: 2002
Carrying on a tradition dating back to the Crimean war, they've come out with a set of trading cards for the Dubya Crusade. The cards used to come with cigarettes, then bubble gum. Now all you get is paper.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: The Prices of Progress
Against The Current vol. 93
Published: 2001
Back in 1965 you could fill your gas tank for $3. Of course, that was two hours pay back then.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: These Trading Times
Against The Current vol. 86
Published: 2000
Between Gore's slavish loyalty to Clinton's trade policies and John Sweeney's slavish loyalty to Gore, the Democrats and the unions just handed a chunk of working class votes to Pat Buchanan.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: We Have Met the Enemy
Against The Current vol. 102
Published: 2003
As Gulf War II approaches, it's well to remember that “No battle plan ever survives first contact with the enemy. That's why they call them the enemy.”
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Weird Sex and Boiled Bacon
Published: 1999
THE ERISIAN LIBERATION Front (it's safer not to know) is running the Antichrist for president in 2000. Their motto: “Why settle for the lesser evil?”
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: What Do You Worship?
Against The Current vol. 108
Published: 2004
A lot of people may be very nervous indeed about what Saddam Hussein might reveal at trial about his long connections with former U.S. (not to mention British, French, German and Russian) governments. And speaking of trials: If Saddam is getting one, there can be no excuse for denying them to his underlings by calling them “illegal enemy combatants.”
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Word Processing by Candlelight
Against The Current vol. 106
Published: 2003
Operation Iraqi Liberation (they almost called it that): Dubya has failed in his attempts to get India to send troops to help occupy Iraq. One can only wonder how Iraqi Moslems would have reacted to the presence of 17,000 Hindus and Sikhs.
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Great World Leaders on Parade
Published: 1998
Comments on world leaders
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: In Praise of Viagra Mania
Published: 1998
Comments on random current news topics
Kampfer, R.F.: Random Shots: Red Flags Over Motor City
Published: 1998
THE GOOD NEWS is that there were about a million people waving red flags in the streets of Detroit. The bad news is that it was on account of some hockey game.
Comments on random current news topics.
Kampmark, Binoy: Grand Jury Efforts: Jailing Chelsea Manning
Published: 2019
The role of Grand Juries in the persecution of Chelsea Manning and a summary of their history.
Kampmark, Binoy: Amazon's Initiative: Digital Assistants, Home Surveillance and Data
Published: 2018
A look at technological developments such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, which are less innovations than intrusive tools utilized by big data companies to mine personal information and condition human approaches to the way information is shared.
Kampmark, Binoy: Barely Legal: the Global Uber Enterprise
Published: 2022
In terms of the gig economy, there are few more ruthless buccaneers than this San Franciscan ride-share company that has persistently specialised in cutting corners and remaking them.
Kampmark, Binoy: The Case that Dare Not Speak Its Name: the Conviction of Cardinal Pell
Published: 2018
Cardinal Pell, a high-ranking official of the Catholic Church and financial grand wizard of the Vatican, was found guilty on December 11, 2018 of historical child sexual abuses pertaining to two choir boys from the 1990s. But details remain sketchy.
Kampmark, Binoy: Dances of Disinformation: the Partisan Politics of the Integrity Initiative
Published: 2019
The Integrity Initiative - a supposedly non-partisan agency aiming at dismantling state sponsored misinformation - was exposed as funded by a UK government agency to undermine the opposition. This brings into question the plausibility of an impartial or apolitical playing field.
Kampmark, Binoy: The Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge and Approved Ideas
Published: 2019
The university environment should be the last place where dangerous ideas, and views, are stifled and stomped upon. In actual fact, we are seeing the reverse; from students unions to middle- and upper-managerial parasites and administrators, the contrarian idea must be boxed, the controversial speaker silenced and sent beyond the pale.
Kampmark, Binoy: Fake News Inquiry: Old Wine in New Bottles
Published: 2017
A criticism of a recent investigation by the UK's Culture, Media and Sports committee into 'fake news' and public persuasion by false propaganda, describing the challenges of identifying or preventing the dissemination of fake news.
Kampmark, Binoy: Financial Terrorism
The Wonga Payday Lending Experiment
Published: 2014
Keeping people poor in a world of seedy abandonment. Borrowing at phenomenal rates. Loan sharks running wild, dressed by the language of assistance and salvation. All of this should be the stuff to be binned and repelled by governments, but in an age when governments forfeit, rather than affirm responsibility in the face of the economy, the phenomenon of Wonga, a deferred deposit loan operator, has come to thrive. Private indebtedness has become both a condition and a lifestyle.
Kampmark, Binoy: Hell is Other People: Pandemic Lifestyles and Domestic Violence
Published: 2020
In No Exit, the translated title of Jean-Paul Sartre’s play, Huis Clos, three deceased characters find themselves in a room, ostensibly in Hell, in what transpires as a permanent wait.
Kampmark, Binoy: Mercenary of Reaction
Lynton Crosby in Canada
Published: 2015
Lynton Crosby has a full schedule. He is the modern electoral PR hitman for parties in dire straits. He is hired to stir the pot of resentment and undermine hopes for change. His very existence suggests that democracies are shadows of their actual function, operating on traditional platforms of populism when required.
Kampmark, Binoy: Monitoring the Miners: Rio Tinto, Drones and Surveillance
Published: 2016
Management at the mining giant Rio Tinto have ambitions to take the technology of monitoring employees to another level – quite literally-drones.
Kampmark, Binoy: NATO and Serbia, 15 Years On
The Bombs that Failed
Published: 2014
As Ukraine’s situation accelerates with actions of sanctions, annexations, coups and counter-coups, it is worth noting how another compact was firstly dissolved and then subsequently tortured in the 1990s. The trends are similar – the moralising, the external interference, the bullying of powers extraneous yet obsessed with holding the levers of a disintegrating country. On NATO, the Yugoslavian Federation, and the Kosovo bombings.
Kampmark, Binoy: Papers Instead of Human Lives: The Sentencing of Daniel Hale
Published: 2021
Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in jail for telling the truth about the U.S. program of drone assassinations.
Kampmark, Binoy: Raging Against the Algorithm: Google and Persuasive Technology
Published: 2019
Fears of Google's algorithms detrimental effect on society may be well-founded but the proposed solutions are problematic.
Kampmark, Binoy: Reading Manifestos: Restricting Brenton Tarrant's The Great Replacement
Published: 2019
Attempts to censor the Christchurch shooter's manifesto hinders attempts to understand and counteract their motives. Arguments for censorship, such as enabling copycats, are based on controversial evidence.
Kampmark, Binoy: The Stupidity of Smart Devices and Smart Cities
Published: 2019
Smart phones, smart bombs, and, it follows, Smart Cities (capitalising such terms implies false authority), do not exist in that sense, whatever their cheer squad emissaries in High Tech land claim. They are merely a masterfully daft celebration of tactically deployed cults: there is a fad, a trend, and therefore, it must be smart, a model option to pursue.
Kampmark, Binoy: Surveillance USA
NSA and the PRISM Project
Published: 2013
The government is merrily going about its business of keeping tabs on you in virtually every conceivable way.
Kampmark, Binoy: The War against The Lancet
Published: 2015
"An Open letter to the people of Gaza" triggered a furious reaction within Lancet, with complainants suggesting that the publication has sided with the forces of "anti-Jewish bigotry".
Kampmark, Binoy: War Photography at the Tate Modern
Receding into Memory
Published: 2014
If photography is a record of suspended death, a suggestion that the subject is both frozen in time and rendered lifeless in the broader sense of things, then the nature of war is, in many ways, a perfect medium to capture it. It delves into a grim subject more fitting of the dry morgue than the lively art studio.
Kampmark, Binoy: WikiLeaks, Corruption and the Super Injunction
Suppression and Information
Published: 2014
In Australia, whose institutions still pride themselves on an antiquated obsession with aspects of English gagging, suppression orders do retain a certain mystique. They certainly do in the Australian state of Victoria, which is said to throw “suppression orders around like confetti”.
Kampmark, Dr. Binoy: Publicised Cruelty: Scott Morrison Visits Christmas Island
Published: 2019
Australia is reopening the immigration detention centre on Christmas Island. The prime minister made a public tour of the facilities.
Kandutsch, Carl E: The Obliteration of Privacy
Snowden and the NSA
Published: 2014
It’s remarkable how little outrage Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations have provoked in the American public. One often heard response is something like, “Well, I don’t have anything to hide, so I don’t care if the government is listening to what I say. And if they catch some terrorists, so much the better.”
Kane, Alex: Combat Proven: The Booming Business of War in Israel
Published: 2015
Arms fairs in Israel showcase the latest products the profitable Israeli weapons industry manufactures - and the demos are the perfect place to show those products off.
Kane, Alex: "It's Killing the Student Movement": Canary Mission's Blacklist of Pro-Palestine Activists Is Taking a Toll
Published: 2018
Canary Mission, a website that compiles dossiers on Palestinian rights advocates and labels them racists, anti-Semites, and supporters of terrorism has taken a toll on activists' mental health and their ability to engage in free speech and public advocacy on Palestine.
Kaplan, Esther: The Spy Who Fired Me
The human costs of workplace monitoring
Published: 2015
Kaplan discusses the growing practice of employers monitoring the internet use of their employees.
Karadjis, Michael: Bosnia's Magnificent Uprising
Heralding a New Era of Class Politics?
Published: 2014
Beginning in February 2014, mass protests led by workers, students, and other citizens, have rocked most major industrial cities in Bosnia. Whatever the current uprising is or is not, it is the largest mass outbreak of unalloyed class struggle revolt, untouched by nationalist poison, that we have seen in Bosnia since it was ripped to bits by Serbian and Croatian nationalists.
Karageorgos, Konstantina M.: Mapping the African-American Literary Left - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 160
Published: 2012
Book review of 'The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960' by Lawrence Jackson.
Karlin, Mark; Moskowitz, Peter: Gentrification Represents a Geography of Inequality
Published: 2017
What does gentrification mean for the future of American cities? It means more than the arrival of trendy shops and expensive coffee. Peter Moskowitz intertwines human narratives with incisive analysis of the systemic forces contributing to America's crises of race and inequality, in How to Kill a City. Click here now to order this book with a donation to Truthout!The following is a Truthout interview with Peter Moskowitz, author of How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood.
Karliner, Joshua: Ford & the Nazi War Efforts
Henry Ford was no Oskar Schindler
Published: 1998
The Ford Motor Company's commercial-free sponsorship of NBC's airing of Schindler's List, the epic movie about the Holocaust, was a class act. Nevertheless, it would be remiss of us here at CorpWatch, not to point out Ford's contribution to Nazi war efforts.
Karma, Omar: West lets Israel get away with genocide
Published: 2023
As the world stands aside, preparing to applaud genocide, the entire structure of the so-called post-World War II rules-based order is being reduced to rubble.
Karpel, Richard: Twittering Our Way to Tuscon
Published: 2009
AAN's executive director writes the six millionth blog post expressing skepticism about the Twitter phenomenon and then breathlessly reveals the convention hashtag.
Karunakaran , Binu: India's UID And The Fantasy Of Dataveillance
Published: 2009
The perils of establishing nationwide identity systems have always been a hot topic of debate in countries that attach great value to privacy and human rights of its citizens. In India, there is not even a whimper of protest from politicians and civil society groups.
Kashwan, Prakash: To conserve tropical forests and wildlife, protect the rights of people who rely on them
Published: 2017
Who are the best guardians of forests and other wild places? Governments? Conservation NGOs? Corporations? No, writes Prakash Kashwan, it's the indigenous peoples who have lived in harmony with their environment for millennia. But to be able do so, they must first be accorded rights to their historic lands and resources, both in law and in practice.
Kassem, Omar: The US/EU Manufactured Egyptian Nightmare has Arrived
The Ogre of Egypt Now Wants a Mandate for Wholesale Slaughter
Published: 2015
Article on the internationally-financed regime of Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt.
Kassis, Rifat: Boycott is a right and a duty
Published: 2021
Israel's efforts to demonize the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) threaten a venerable form of nonviolent resistance. These efforts push for the censoring of Palestinian voices and those of our allies, undermining free speech rights and academic freedom while falsely conflating criticism of the State of Israel with anti-Jewish bigotry.
Katbamna, Mira: Half a man beats none
In Russia and Mongolia, women don't shy away from polygamy
Published: 2009
Investigation into the socio-economic motivations behind the movement to legalize polygamy. There are fewer men than women in Russia and Mongolia due to economic migration and alcoholism. Both urban and rural women choose relationships that look like polygamy.
Katchanovski, Ivan; Baldwin, Natylie: The Maidan Massacre, Censorship & Ukraine
Published: 2023
Natylie Baldwin interviews Ivan Katchanovski, a Canadian-Ukrainian professor whose research focuses on the Ukraine coup of 2014 and the killing that year of protesters in Kiev.
Katchanovski,Ivan: The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine
Published: 2015
On the mass killing of the "Euromaidan" protesters and police in the Maidan area of Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 20, 2014.
Kates, J.: J. Kates Quotes
Katjavivi, Peter H.: The significance of the repatriation of Namibian human skulls
Published: 2012
In October 2011, the skulls of Namibian ancestors were returned to their country of origin.
Katsnelson, Ilya; Palos, Ricardo, Sandoval; ICIJ: Interpol’s Red Flag
Published: 2011
Interpol's Red Notices used by some to pursue political dissenters, opponents.
Kattenburg, David: A Hundred Years Gone: The Sack of Louvain
Published: 2014
Marie-Therese Delcom sits at an outdoor cafe in the Belgian town of Leuven, rustling through faded family photos from the First World War. In one of them, her paternal grandfather is digging his own grave, invading German soldiers standing at the ready.
Katz, Cheryl: Empty nests of the North: "Massive chick deaths" in seabird colonies; climate, oceanic changes blamed
Published: 2014
Iceland, circled by the food-rich currents of Atlantic, Arctic and polar waters, is the Serengeti for seabirds. But the nests have gone empty in the past few years, and colonies throughout the North Atlantic are shrinking.
Katz, Cheryl: A perilous journey: Seabird runs gauntlet of hazards on 40,000-mile annual trip
Published: 2014
Right around now, flocks of sooties are finishing up their summer vacations feasting in the rich, upwelling currents of the Northern Pacific and are heading south to breed. En route, they'll run a gauntlet of manmade obstacles in the ocean: fisheries that deplete their prey and snare them with hooks and long lines, drifting continents of trash and noxious industrial spume.
Kaufman, William: The Great American Sex Panic of 2017
Published: 2017
What interest of sanity or reason is served by this reckless lumping together of flicks of the tongue and forcible rapes into the single broad-brush term “sexual misconduct,” as though there is no important difference between an oafish pat or crude remark at an office party and a gang rape?
Kavanagh, Jim: Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory
Published: 2018
Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood at all, and most people who have heard or read it somewhere breeze right past it, and fall back to the taxes-for-spending paradigm that is the sticky common wisdom of the left and right.
Kavanagh, Jim: A Reader Sounds Off on PayPal's Ban on Consortium News
Published: 2022
As with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, journalism that tells some truths that might undermine the case for war can't be tolerated.
Kavanagh, Jim: Sacrificing Gaza: The Great March of Zionist Hypocrisy
Published: 2018
The Great March of Return is a startling, powerful expression of Palestinian identity and resistance. Thousands of Palestinians have come out, bravely and unapologetically, to say: “We refuse to remain invisible. We reject any attempt to assign us to the discard pile of history. We will exercise our fundamental right to go home.” They have done this unarmed, in the face of Israel’s use of deadly armed force against targets (children, press, medics) deliberately chosen to demonstrate the Jewish state’s unapologetic determination to force them back into submissive exile by any means necessary. By doing this repeatedly over the last few weeks, these incredibly brave men, women, and children have done more than decades of essays and books to strip the aura of virtue from Zionism that’s befogged Western liberals’ eyes for 70 years.
Kavanagh, Jim: Sticks and Stones: Free Speech and Punching Politics
Published: 2017
The author explains why he does not agree with those who believe that right wing 'facist' groups should be denied the right to express their views, either by physical means or force of law.
Kavanagh, Jim: Swedish Sex Pistol Aimed at Assange
Published: 2019
By asserting the extraterritorial jurisdiction of American law to demand the extradition of another country’s (Australia) citizen from a third country (Great Britain) for activities that took place entirely outside the US, the present indictment is, as Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists, points out: “a direct threat to journalists everywhere in the world….Under this rubric, anyone anywhere in the world who publishes information that the U.S. government deems to be classified could be prosecuted for espionage.”
Kavanagh, Jim: Zionism in the Light of Jerusalem
Published: 2017
Kavanagh, Jin: Fast and Furious: Now They're Really Gunning for Trump
Published: 2017
Allegations about President Donald Trump revealing highly classified intelligence are intended to bring him down.
Kawas, Hanna: A Letter to CBC: Your Biased Coverage of the Land Day Massacre
The following letter was sent yesterday to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation regarding their biased coverage of the Land Day massacre
Published: 2018
Chairperson of the Canada Palestine Association, Hanna Kawas, presents a letter to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, alleging editorial interference by pro-Israel lobbying group 'Honest Reporting Canada' in their coverage of the land day killings of unarmed civilians by Israeli government forces.
Kawzally, Saseen: Iran's democracy in the eyes of the Arab world
Published: 2009
The sentiments in the Arab world regarding Iran are often ridden with tense undertones, as the Shiite-Sunni dichotomy and the history of this division is never exempt from the political speech in the Middle East. Also considering the recent "moderate/radical" schism in the region, SASEEN KAWZALLY looks at what the Arab media has to say about the ongoing protests in Iran.
Kay, Jonathan: Why They Hate Margaret Atwood
Published: 2018
On March 9, a University of Alberta English professor named Julie Rak headlined a speaking event that was billed as a showdown on the issue of "bad feminism." A promotional poster done up in a boxing motif included a picture of Rak on one side, and legendary Canadian author Margaret Atwood on the other.
Kay, Jane: Loss of night: Artificial light disrupts sex hormones of birds
Published: 2014
Around the world, scientists seeking to answer that question have gathered mounting evidence that city lights are altering the basic physiology of urban birds, suppressing their estrogen and testosterone and changing their singing, mating and feeding behaviors. One lab experiment showed that male blackbirds did not develop reproductive organs during the second year of exposure to continuous light at night.
Kay, Jane: Twisted beaks: Scientists exploring mysterious deformities focus on new virus
Published: 2014
Today, deformed beaks have been discovered in more than 2,500 of Alaska's chickadees, or 6.5 percent of captured adults, and in 29 other species in south central Alaska. For crows, the disfigured beaks are even more prevalent, at 17 percent, the "highest rate of gross deformity ever documented in a wild bird population," according to the USGS.
Kay, Jonathan: Captiongate: How a Single Zoom Call Propelled Canada's Greens Into Pronoun Meltdown
Published: 2022
Amita Kuttner claimed that online text reading 'she' instead of 'they' illustrated a 'system of oppression.' Now the party's president has resigned, and the movement is in chaos.
Kay, Jonathan: The Ottawa Trucker Protest Was Disruptive. The Hysterical Reaction to It Was Worse
Published: 2022
Kay, Jonathan: Toronto's Meghan Murphy Meltdown: A Case Study in Media-Driven Social Panic
Published: 2019
Kaye, David: The use of encryption tools and the protection of anonymity online as safeguards for freedom of the press
Published: 2015
David Kaye is the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of expression. In his latest report, he stressed that governments are obligated to protect encryption tools and guarantee the anonymity and privacy of users so as to safeguard the right to freedom of expression online.
Kaye, Jeffrey: Declassified Documents Now Reveal There Were Two CIA Torture Programs
Published: 2019
Declassified documents expose new info about the CIA's detention and interrogation operations. This article looks at their history going back to MKUltra in the 1950s.
Kayyali, Nadia: Global Coalition to Facebook: 'Authentic Names' Are Authentically Dangerous for Your Users
Published: 2015
Facebook claims its practice of forcing users to go by their "real names" (or "authentic identities" as Facebook spins it) makes the social network a safer place. In fact, the company has often claimed that the policy protects women who use the social media platform, even when faced with community advocates pointing out that the policy facilitates harassment, silencing, and even physical violence towards its most vulnerable users.
Keeble, Richard: How Alternative Media Provide The Crucial Critique Of The Mainstream
Published: 2010
The closeness of the mainstream to dominant economic, cultural and ideological forces means that the mainstream largely functions to promote the interests of the military/industrial/political complex. Yet within advanced capitalist economies, the contradictions and complexities of corporate media have provided certain spaces for progressive journalism.
Keeble, Richard Lance: How The Press Hides The Global Crimes Of The West: Corporate Media Coverage Of Chad
Published: 2016
One of the essential functions of the corporate media is to marginalise or silence acknowledgement of the history -- and continuation -- of Western imperial aggression. The coverage of the recent sentencing in Senegal of Hissène Habré, the former dictator of Chad, for crimes against humanity, provides a useful case study. The verdict could well have presented the opportunity for the media to examine in detail the complicity of the US, UK, France and their major allies in the Middle East and North Africa in the appalling genocide Habré inflicted on Chad during his rule - from 1982 to 1990. After all, Habré had seized power via a CIA-backed coup.
Keefer, Michael: Back-Talk from the "Old Stock"
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper has been talking recently about "old stock" Canadians -- and at the same time stirring up fear and loathing against more recent arrivals in this country, notably those of Muslim faith, in order to mobilize electoral support for his Conservative Party.
Keefer, Michael: Elections Canada bungled its investigation of Michael Sona and the 2011 robocall scandal
Published: 2015
Because the 'robocalls' fraud of Canada's 2011 federal election was insufficiently investigated by state authorities and underreported by the corporate media, Canadians have yet to understand its scale, focus, and impact.
Keenan, Edward: King St. middle-finger approach seems like an odd way to deal with lost business
For people who say business is down because of streetcar traffic, the owners have chosen a really bizarre way to try to welcome riders in
Published: 2018
Toronto business owners protest Theatre District anti-congestion measures with a sculpture of a middle finger (obscene gesture).
Keene Woods, Andrew: ISIS Was Born In An American Detention Facility (And It Wasn't Gitmo)
Published: 2016
The US seems to have a knack for creating, incubating, and training its future enemies. As the late Chalmers Johnson showed in BLOWBACK, this pattern goes back quite far and includes recent struggles with Islamist terrorists. In the 1980s, of course, the US armed and trained the Taliban as well as Osama Bin Laden as part of a proxy war with Russia. Years later, Bin Laden's criminal network, sheltered by the Taliban, attacked the US in Yemen, Kenya, New York, and more. In response to those attacks, the US invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, killing and detaining hundreds of thousands of men. At the time, many people wondered -- none more forcefully than Johnson -- whether the US response to blowback would engender more blowback.
Keesmaat, Jennifer: Transit decisions must remain local, former city planner says
Published: 2017
The Toronto Region Board of Trade seeks to plunge us into a massive transit amalgamation process.Reminiscent of arguments made two decades ago touting the efficacy of the megacity, the board sees magical solutions for revenue shortages, better planning, superior service levels, and the adoption of modern technologies through the creation of a mega transit corporation, Superlinx.
Keeton-Olsen, Danielle: Senators introduce bipartisan FOIA amendment
Published: 2014
Two senators crossed party lines in support of legislation that would strengthen the current Freedom of Information Act and diminish agencies’ excuses for withholding documents.
Keiser, Richard: Gentrifying America's school system
Published: 2022
Keita, Mohamed Hassim; Clarke, Caitlin: The Malawian who harnessed the airwaves
Published: 2009
Keith, Lierre; Jensen, Derrick: The Emperor's New Penis
The Same Sexual Threats, the Same Silence for Women
Published: 2013
Right now the gender fundamentalists are doing their best to shut down dialogue. They've damaged books — books that don’t even mention their concern — pressured bookstores, and silenced speakers scheduled at universities. It should come as no surprise that they are using the final tactics of all fundamentalists: bullying, threats, assault. And they've done this with increasing frequency and intensity. How long does it take to see the pattern?
Keizer, Garret: Labor's Last Stand
Unions must either demand a place at the table or be part of the meal
Published: 2018
The slow degradation of workers' rights through the use of the courts has led to a weakening of negotiated power of unions and the retreat of organized labour.
Keizer, Garret: Left of Bernie
You say you want a revolution
Published: 2016
A commentary on the state of the far Left in America, and a look back at the formation of the anti-capitalist Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) by Bob Avakian in the late 20th century.
Kellaway, Dave: Deaths at sea: Mass media mourns the rich, ignores the poor
Published: 2024
The sinking of a super-yacht gets mass coverage, while thousands of refugees drown in darkness.
Kelley, Robin: Gaza: What Would Lincoln Do?
Sasha, Malia: Tell Your Parents About Sara al-Dalou!
Published: 2012
The point of invoking Lincoln is not to guess what he might do in Obama’s shoes, but to reflect on what he did when forced to balance political calculus, the rule of law, and moral and humanitarian considerations.
Kelley, Robin D.G; Lorraine Williams, Erica: Madiba in Palestine
Apartheid Died on the Sharp Edge of Principles
Published: 2013
The profound political ties between Palestinians and South Africans are quite strong, matched, perhaps, only by the deep connections to the black freedom movement in the U.S. Madiba’s death has generated an outpouring of mourning and remembrance from Palestinian activists.
Kelly, Frank; Kelly, Julia: Air pollution may be damaging children's brains - before they are even born
Published: 2015
Aside causing respiratory and cardiovascular damage, air pollution has also an impact on the brains and nervous systems of unborn children whose mothers suffer high levels of exposure.
Kelly, Jeanette: Robert Lepage virtual-reality show fetes 10th birthday of the Grande Bibliothèque
Inspired by author Alberto Manguel's The Library at Night, Lepage uses Oculus Rift for immersive adventure
Published: 2015
In what Robert Lepage calls the most ambitious use of Oculus Rift virtual-reality technology to date, a new exhibition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Montreal's Grande Bibliothèque takes visitors on a tour of ten of the world's most interesting libraries.
Inspired by writer Alberto Manguel's book, The Library at Night, Lepage worked with the theme of the night to create virtual visits of libraries.
Kelly, Kathy: Bombing Hospitals: 22 People Killed by US Airstrike on Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan
Published: 2015
A group of activists living in Baghdad would regularly go to city sites and string large vinyl banners between the trees outside these buildings which read: "To Bomb This Site Would Be A War Crime." We encouraged people in U.S. cities to do the same.
Kelly, Kathy: Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib, and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq
Published: 2019
Suffering caused through our wars including conditions inside US military camps, in Iraq, led to the extremism of Al-Baghdadi and his ISIS followers.
Kelly, Kathy: Death, Misery and Bloodshed in Yemen
"Strike with Creativity" proclaims Raytheon.
Published: 2019
Writing about his visit to the world's largest weapons bazaar, held in London during October, Arron Merat describes reading this slogan emblazoned above Raytheon’s stall: "Strike with Creativity." Raytheon manufactures Paveway laser-guided bombs, fragments of which have been found in the wreckage of schools, hospitals, and markets across Yemen.
Kelly, Kieran: Nazi Zombies Ate Gloria Steinem's Brain!
Why US Politics Turns Ordinary People into Drooling Morons
Published: 2016
The problem, in a nutshell, is this: when people decide to support a prospective candidate in the US primary races they are putting themselves in the position of defending the indefensible. The very nature of this politico-Darwinist death match means that once you pick your chosen leader you must reject all criticism and suppress all doubt. You must become aggressively defensive and you must, above all, prevent your own wayward brain from thinking those bad thoughts that weaken the image of the immaculate leader. Any chink in their armour will be exploited by the enemies that surround them. Loyalty must be automatic and unconditional. Vigilance must be constant.
Kelly, Sharon: Court Throws out Energy Transfer's 'Racketeering' Claims Against Dakota Access Pipeline Opponents
Published: 2019
An energy company that tried to bring RICO charges against Greenpeace and other people opposing their pipeline have had their case thrown out.
Kelly, Sharon: Oil and Gas Industry's "Endless War" on Fracking Critics Revealed by Rick Berman
Published: 2014
Leave it to Washington's top attack-dog lobbyist Richard Berman to verify what many always suspected: that the oil and gas industry uses dirty tricks to undermine science, vilify its critics and discredit journalists who cast doubt on the prudence of fossil fuels.
Kelly, Sharon: 'Time is Running Out,' American Petroleum Institute Chief Said in 1965 Speech on Climate Change
Published: 2018
In 1965 the president of the American Petroleum Institute discussed the effect of CO2 in the changing the atmosphere and the role specifically of the petroleum industry in causing climate change. More than 50 years later the science on this has become stronger but messaging from the industry has softened.
Kelly, Sharon: Top Shale Fracking Executive: We Won't Frack the Rich
Published: 2016
Fracking companies deliberately keep their wells away from the "big houses" of wealthy and potentially influential people, a top executive from one of the country's most prominent shale drilling companies told a gathering of attorneys at a seminar on oil and gas environmental law.
Kelly, Steve: Quiet, Please! The Latest Threat to the Big Wild
Published: 2018
A look at the growing problem of noise pollution in Glacier National Park in Montana, where each summer helicopters carrying tourists fly low over the landscape.
Kennard, Matt: The modern US army: unfit for service?
Published: 2012
Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is as likely to be a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit.
Kenneally, Mathew;: AUSTRALIA: Some reflections on the Anzac Day 'cyber-lynching' of a journalist
Published: 2015
The right of free speech v. the rightnot to be offended. A sports commentator has been fired over things he said on twitter, things unrelated to his job.
Kennedy, Randall: Lifting as we Climb
A progressive defense of respectability politics
Published: 2015
A defense of the morality and utility of respectability politics for black americans.
Kennedy, Randall: Old Poison, New Battles
The ongoing struggle for voting rights
Published: 2015
Kennicott, Phillip: Rooms with a View of Russian Artistic History
Published: 2012
Discussing the challenges for the small historic museums seeking to establish themselves in St. Petersburg.
Kenrick, Justin: Everyone is the Mother of Victory
Published: 2015
Everyone is the mother of victory; No one is the father of defeat. Do we claim COP21 as a success, and risk watching it being used by fossil fuel failures to carry on burning humanity, and so become complicit in defeat?
Kenworthy,Peter: Life sentence for fighting Africas last colonial power
Published: 2015
Kenworthy talks about the systematic violence, abusive treatment and torture that political prisoners and activists undergo in Western Sahara.
Kerley, Joyce: Ursula K. Le Guin - Rest in Power
Published: 2018
Obituary celebrating Le Guin's contributions as a community activist, a fighter for feminism, peace, freedom of speech, access to knowledge for everyone, and radical democracy in addition to her literary acclaim.
Kernan, Mark: The Unfair Narrative on Global Warming and Development: Why it must be challenged
Published: 2016
Industries that majorly contribute to climate change are being subsidized, while more marginalized industries receive vey little to mitigate the impact of climate change.
Kessler-Harris, Alice: Remembering David Montgomery
Against The Current vol. 158
Published: 2012
When the organization of American Historians met in Milwaukee in April, its program schedule included one very special session: a memorial tribute to David Montgomery. David, historian and political activist, died of a brain hemorrhage on Dec 1, 2011. He was 84 years old.
Ketcham, Christopher: The Business of Scenery
Why America's national parks need new management
Published: 2021
Ketcham, Christopher: F*** You, White Liberal: a Middle-Eastern American Glad Trump Won
Published: 2016
Ketcham, Christopher: The Great Republican Land Heist
Cliven Bundy and the politicians who are plundering the West
Published: 2015
Cliven Bundy and other politicans have seized public land and ravaged the area as they exploit it for their economic purposes.
Ketcham, Christopher: A Play with No End
What the Gilets Jaunes really want
Published: 2019
When I caught up with the Gilets Jaunes on March 2, near the Jardin du Ranelagh, they were moving in such a mass through the streets that all traffic had come to a halt. The residents of Passy, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Paris, stood agape and apart and afraid.
Ketcham, Christopher: The Rogue Agency
A USDA program that tortures dogs and kills endangered species
Published: 2016
A look at the disturbing and cruel animal control practices of the USDA, a branch of the US Fish and Wildlife Service at the time, which has included accidental poisonings of domestic animals as well as endangered species.
Kettle, Martin; Wedderburn, Dorothy: Eric Hobsbawm 1917-2012
Historian in the Marxist tradition with a global reach
Published: 2012
The historian Eric Hobsbawm dies at 95.
Kevin and Amanda: How to See If Your Photos Are Being Used On Another Site
Published: 2012
This trick will allow you to do a "Reverse Image Search" for any photo from your blog, or any photo you've uploaded on the internet, to see a list of all the other sites where this photo appears.
Keye, James: Which Way the Wind Blows
The Conditions of Power
Published: 2014
Billions of tons of air, moving relentlessly over the ground at 10 to 30 miles an hour (and at times gusting to higher speeds) shapes the new growth twigs, the twigs grow into limbs, the limbs become the secondary trunks and all bend to the direction of the wind. Where does the wind come from – this universally shaping presence?
Keynes, John Maynard: John Maynard Keynes Quotes
Keys, David: How the British Government subjected thousands of people to chemical and biological warfare trials during Cold War
Historians had previously thought that such operations were much less extensive
Published: 2015
During the Cold War, the British Government used the general public as unwitting biological and chemical warfare guinea pigs on a much greater scale than previously thought, according to new historical research.
Keys, David: Scientists reveal Jewish history's forgotten Turkish roots
Published: 2016
Israeli-born geneticist believes the Turkish villages of Iskenaz, Eskenaz and Ashanaz were part of the original homeland for Ashkenazic Jews.
Khadse, Ashlesha: From villages to New Delhi to Geneva: Indian farmers protest against the WTO
Published: 2009
The "liberalization" and 'corporatization' of agriculture under the World Trade Organisation would put at risk the livelihoods of more than 2/3 of India's 1 billion people.
Khalek, Rania: British Government-Funded Outlet Offered Journalist $17,000 a Month to Produce Propaganda for Syrian Rebels
Published: 2016
The Revolutionary Forces of Syria media office, a major Syrian opposition media outfit and frequent source of information for Western media, is funded by the British government as a propaganda outlet.
Khalek, Rania: The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System
Published: 2011
The United States, with just 5 percent of the world’s population, currently holds 25 percent of the world's prisoners, and for the last 30 years America’s business entrepreneurs have found a lucrative way to cash in on the incarceration surplus: private for-profit prisons.
Khalek, Rania: Syria strikes back as Israel discovers its warplanes aren't invincible
Published: 2018
The recent shooting down of an Israelli jet by the Syrian Army brings attention to the numerous recent incursions into Syrian territory by Israel. It also highlights vulnerabilities of the Israelli military which is assuredly on course for another conflict with Hezbollah, an organization that has grown in strength since 2006.
Khalek, Rania: Technocracy now: The US is working to turn Lebanons anti-corruption protests against Hezbollah
Published: 2019
The movement was spurred by the levying of regressive taxes and the persistence of a corrupt neoliberal order that has mismanaged the economy and hollowed out the public sector while enriching a handful of elites amid a looming economic collapse. Though the protests remain focused on class issues and corruption, the US is increasingly determined to co-opt the movement for its own goals.
Khalek, Rania: 12 most absurd laws used to stifle occupy movement
Published: 2011
Here are 12 desperate and unsuccessful measures the authorities are using to discourage, deter and crack down on peaceful protests.
Khalek, Rania: US media love war more than they hate Trump & egg him on to strike Syria
Published: 2018
US media outlets are recklessly promoting war with help from neocons, including Arab American right-wingers who do not represent the views of the region they are demanding Trump bomb.
Khalid, Amna: Most of All, I am Offended as a Muslim
On Hamline University's shocking imposition of narrow religious orthodoxy in the classroom
Published: 2022
Barring a professor of art history from showing a painting, lest it harm observant Muslims in class, is just as absurd as asking a biology professor not to teach evolution because it may offend evangelical Protestants in the course.
Khalifeh, Sahar: I am not that Woman in a burqa
A Palestinian novelist remembers the liberated, educated women of her life, and how their freedom has been, and is being, curtailed.
Published: 2015
Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh discusses growing up as a girl and woman in Arab culture, and how Arab women are represented in Western culture.
Khan , Muhammad: Toddler suffers severe burns from Atlanta, Georgia police raid
A police raid on a home in Atlanta resulted in the serious injury of a 19-month-old child
Published: 2014
A police raid on a home in Atlanta, Georgia early Wednesday morning has resulted in the serious injury of a 19-month-old child. Police entering the home threw a stun grenade that fell in the playpen of the sleeping child and exploded in his face.
Khan, Faisal: The Weaponization of Social Media
Published: 2018
How the online environment and social media is being used as a political weapon, notably through the use of 'Bots'.
Khan, Nyla Ali: Girls Reduced to Being Repositories of Communal and Religious Identities in Kashmir
Published: 2018
The rape and ruthless murder of an eight-year old girl in Jammu province underscores the brutal gender violence that is a consistent feature of the political thuggery that grips the subcontinent.
Khan, Shah Alam: Demonetisation: Stories Of Flesh And Blood
Published: 2016
An article about the demonetization announced by the Indian government on November 8th, 2016.
Khan, Shfaqat Abbas: 'Stable' NE Greenland ice sheet is melting away
Published: 2014
A new study has found that the NE section of the Greenland ice sheet - thought to be stable due to the extreme cold - has been losing ice since 2006 with increasing speed. And that has huge implications for global sea level rise.
Khoja-Moolji, Shenila: Why is the West praising Malala, but ignoring Ahed?
Is an empowered Palestinian girl not worthy of Western feminist admiration?
Published: 2017
Khoja-Moolji examines the lack of media response to the plight of 16 year-old Ahed Tamimi, detained for allegedly assaulting an Israeli soldier during a confrontation at her home during which Israeli soldiers shot a fourteen-year-old child.
Khoury, Jack: Israel Barring Palestinians From Entering for Medical Care Over Cellphones, Witnesses Say
Gaza women say they were turned back at border because they didn't have their cellphones, which were taken by Hamas.
Published: 2017
Palestinians from Gaza attempting to enter Israel claim that Israel's Shin Bet security service has recently begun demanding they hand over their cellphones when being questioned and that those who refuse are barred from entering.
Kibria, ASMG: As rivers re-open to shipping, oil threat to Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest continues
Published: 2015
Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest, home of incredibly rich biodiversity, is under unprecedented threat, writes ASMG Kibria. The recent oil tanker capsize on the Shela river puts the forest at risk of widespread biodiversity loss, but just this week, the authorities re-opened the Shela river to shipping with no restrictions on hazardous cargoes.
Kidron, Beeban: The women of Greenham Common taught a generation how to protest
Published: 2013
The women of Greenham Common taught a generation how to protest. Thirty years on, the lessons of their occupation are as relevant as ever.
Kidron, Beeban: The women of Greenham Common taught a generation how to protest
Published: 2013
Women in Greenham used their voice in order to advance the ordinary class, and their legacy lives on.
Kierylo, Malgorzata: 'Equality Now!': Race, Racism and Resistance in the 1970s Toronto
PhD thesis, Queen's University, 2012
Published: 2012
Kilgore, James: Big Tech Is Using Pandemic To Push Dangerous New Forms Of Surveillance
Data from new smartphone apps being used to track COVID infections can easily be weaponized against groups of people
Published: 2020
For more than two decades, the ankle shackle has remained the standard electronic monitoring (EM) device. While cellphones, tablets, smartwatches and laptop computers evolved, the black plastic band remained — bulging out under socks and scraping the skin off criminalized legs. Even at this stage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, many of these devices require a landline phone to function. They retain ancestral ties to the analog age.
Kilgore, James: The Terrifying World of Electronic Monitoring
From Drone Strikes to Martha Stewart
Published: 2013
Electronic monitoring is about tracking and marking. The GPS technology that is trending in electronic monitors tracks people’s every movement with the purpose of marking them for punishment if they deviate from the program
Kilian, Crawford: Harper's Seven-Year War on Science
Chris Turner's treatise on Tory anti-empiricism should spark outrage. But those in power won't see it.
Published: 2013
Kilian, Crawford: The Riot That Changed Canada
How rampagers against Asians in Vancouver helped launch a famous PM
Published: 2015
The race riots of September 1907 have been Vancouver's embarrassing little incident for over a century. Most of us know very little about them, and still less about the consequences -- which, Julie Gilmour shows us, were immense and persist to this day.
Kilkenny, Allison: Republicans Have Decided to Call Anything a Democrat Ever Does or Says "Nazi"
Published: 2009
The cause du jour for the Republican Party is to make as many rapid-fire comparisons between the Democrats and the Nazis as humanly possible.
Kilpatrick, Connor: Burying the White Working Class
Published: 2016
Liberal condescension towards white workers is code for a broader anti-working class agenda. The white working class is a zombie that doesn't know it's dead. Or if it's not fully zombified yet, its members are all too busy cleaning their AR-15s and posting racist comments on YouTube to vote for a progressive. That is, if they're not already on the Trump bandwagon, which they probably are. At least that's what the Democratic Party wants you to believe.
Kilpatrick, Connor: Victory Over the Sun
Published: 2017
Postwar America's greatest environmentalist Tony Mazzocchi (who passed away in 2002) was a labour leader.
Kim, E. Tammy: Myanmar's Other Reporters
The world cheered when two Reuters journalists were freed from prison. But who’s watching out for the rest?
Published: 2019
Detailed analysis of the state of freedom of speech and the press in Burma/Myanmar.
Kim, Meeri: Vision decisions: continuity fields, and why we miss subtle visual changes
MIT neuroscientist's research suggests how we see is a function of the brain's attempt to manage the world's visual chaos
Published: 2014
What you are seeing at the present moment is not a fresh snapshot of the world but rather an average of what you've seen in the past 10 to 15 seconds.
Kinder, Chris: Outrage Against Big Pharma! Activists Protest "Obscene" Conference
Published: 2016
It was in their fancy tailored suits and with suspicious eyes that Big Pharma CEO's and investors got interrupted by protestors as they came and went from the (too-big-to-fail) JP Morgan-sponsored conference on "health care" (read: profit care) at the elite Westin St. Francis hotel on Union Square in San Francisco on Monday, the 11th of January 2016.
King Jr., Martin Luther: Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
King, Angelina; Lo, Jason: Private moments captured on home security cameras being live streamed again on website
Published: 2021
Cybersecurity experts say with home security cameras becoming more popular and people working from home during the pandemic, it's vital the public is educated about how to keep their cameras secure.
King, Geoffrey: Journalist faced prison for posting media relations number
Published: 2013
Carlos Miller founder and publisher of Photography is Not a Crime, a leading blog about free speech and press rights in the U.S., Miller has made it his mission to publicize examples of government overreach and the suppression of journalists' and other newsgatherers' rights.
King, Shaun: Separating Migrant Families Is Barbaric. It's Also What the U.S. Has Been Doing to People of Color for Hundreds of Years.
Published: 2018
A look at the root of the current human rights crisis at the southern border, a crisis based primarily on racism and bigotry which has driven many American policies throughout the nation's history.
King, Tom: OCCRP Launches New Search Engine for Investigative Journalists
Published: 2016
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a non-profit network of investigative journalism centers in Europe and Eurasia, has launched a new data platform to enable journalists and researchers to sift more than 2 million documents and use the findings in their investigations. People using the new data platform, called ID Search, will be able to set up email alerts notifying them when new results appear for their searches or for persons tracked on official watchlists. They can also create their own private watchlists.
Kingman, Dave: Walmart: Black Friday and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
The “Black Friday” strike at Walmart stores surprised and elated many on the left and activists throughout labour and allied movements.
Kingston, Tom: State and mafia take their cut as Italians develop gambling habit
Published: 2012
Economic crisis and legalisation of slot machines help drive 20-fold rise in spending over a decade.
Kipling, Rudyard: Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Kipping, Katja: The Opposite of Transparency: What I Didn't Read in the TIPP Reading Room
Published: 2016
TTIP, the EU-US free trade deal, has secrecy written all over it. Those responsible for it live in dread of any public scrutiny. If it was up to me, I would give everyone who's interested the chance to make up their own minds on the text of the agreement in its current form.
Kirby, Alex: Genetically Modified Crops Can Thrive as the World Warms
Published: 2016
Genetically engineering photosynthesis in plants could take advantage of rising global temperatures and increased levels of carbon dioxide, US scientists say. They believe this could achieve much higher yields on the same amount of land and help to stave off the prospect of widespread hunger as human populations increase.
Kirby, Alex: Leave most fossil fuels in the ground, or fry
Published: 2015
For the world to meet its climate goals, a third of the world's oil, half its gas and 80% of its coal must stay underground.
Kirby, Alex: Scientists refute lower emissions claim for fracking
Published: 2014
As advanced technology triggers the boom in extraction of natural gas, a new study warns that market forces mean the cheaper fossil fuel could replace not just coal, but also low-emission renewable and nuclear energy.
Kirby, Kathleen: Eyes on Congress
Published: 2009
Democratic majorities in both chambers have improved the outlook for long-awaited media initiatives. Kathleen Kirby discusses Freedom of Information Issues pending in the 111th Congress.
Kiriakou, John: Child's Play at the FBI
Published: 2024
Why prosecute Medicare/Medicaid fraud or bank fraud or wire fraud when you can, let’s say, wait for a kid in a chat room to turn 18?
Kiriakou, John: I Was the Only U.S. Official Imprisoned Over the Torture Program - Because I Opposed It
Published: 2023
The only person associated with the CIA's global torture program who was prosecuted and imprisoned was the man who blew the whistle on it - John Kiriakou.
Kiriakou, John: I Work for Sputnik News
Published: 2022
Torture, whistleblowing, extraordinary rendition, secret prisons, solitary confinement and corruption in the justice system. Those are Kiriakou's subjects and he is happy to talk about them anywhere.
Kiriakou, John: Prison Food
Published: 2022
"Not for Human Consumption." The author, who saw that label himself when he was incarcerated, calls out a widespread human rights violation being committed in U.S. prisons.
Kiriakou, John: Robbed by Law Enforcement
Published: 2022
People who have never even been charged with a crime can have their life savings taken away. That’s civil asset forfeiture.
Kirk, Jay: Killer Bunny in the Sky
A drone war begins between vegans and hunters
Published: 2016
A look at how animal rights activists are using drones to the detriment of hunters.
Kirk, Karin: Changing minds on a changing climate
What Makes Climate Science Deniers Change Their Minds?
Published: 2017
Reddit commenters point to reasons they went from being climate contrarians to having confidence in mainstream climate science.
Kirn, Walter: Illiberal Values
Published: 2018
Walter Kirn reflects on the Liberalism of his youth and how the principles that attracted him in the 1970's have changed, and are particularly eroded in the era of Trump.
Kitamura, Katie: Literary lists: Proof of our existence
Published: 2013
Katie Kitamura on why novelists are compulsive list-makers.
Kitching, Gavin: Postmodernism: Paralysed by postmodernism
Published: 2008
A great deal of "theory" in the humanities and social sciences -- and not just postmodern theory -- involves the creating of a kind of conceptual landscape filled with curious kinds of abstract objects -- "language", "power", "justice", "state", "culture", "government", "the polity", "the economy" and a host of others, which are viewed "theoretically" from somewhere way "outside" or "above" them. But it is just this way of looking at things -- from "on high" -- that makes it so difficult to see how people in the landscape are able to create and re-create the world in which they live, and are not simply trapped or formed by it. In fashionable postmodernist treatments of identity or subjectivity, language, as the ultimately hollow and imprisoning object, is put together with the notion that anybody who uses words must be committed to the standard definition of those words, to produce the conclusion that "language" determines the meaning of "identity" words such as man, woman, gay, straight, black, white, natural, normal -- and thus "constructs" (as it is said) human identity or subjectivity itself.
Klare, Michael T.: Climate Change As Genocide
Published: 2017
Is this what a world battered by climate change will be like—one in which tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of people perish from disease, starvation, and heat prostration while the rest of us, living in less exposed areas, essentially do nothing to prevent their annihilation?
Klare, Michael T.: What Happens When Killer Robots Start Communicating with Each Other?
Published: 2021
it’s only a matter of time before the U.S. military (and presumably China’s, Russia’s, and perhaps those of a few other powers) will be able to deploy swarms of autonomous weapons systems equipped with algorithms that allow them to communicate with each other and jointly choose novel, unpredictable combat maneuvers while in motion.
Klare, Michael.; Engelhardt, Tom: Making Nuclear Weapons Usuable Again
Published: 2017
A chilling look at the urge of both President Trump and key figures in the Pentagon to normalize nuclear weapons as a basic war-fighting tool in the American arsenal.
Klarenberg, Kit: BBC secrets revealed: Leaked files indicate UK state media engaged in anti-Moscow information warfare operations in Eastern Europe
Published: 2021
Within a tranche of secret UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) papers, recently leaked by hacktivist collective Anonymous, are files indicating that BBC Media Action (BBCMA) -- the outlets 'charitable' arm – plays a central role in Whitehall-funded and directed psyops initiatives targeted at Russia.
Klarenberg, Kit: Facebook designates Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg a 'dangerous individual'
Published: 2024
The notoriously intelligence-friendly social media network appears to have imposed a ban on posting a recent report by Kit Klarenberg, and is automatically restricting users who re-publish his work.
Klarenberg, Kit: Failed ICJ Case Against Russia Backfires, Paves Way for Genocide Charges Against Ukraine
Published: 2024
As January became February [2024], the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a pair of legal body blows to Ukraine and its Western backers.
Klarenberg, Kit: Files expose Syrian 'Revolution' as Western regime change operation
Published: 2023
Throughout August and September, anti-government protests have rocked Syrian cities. While the crowds are typically small, numbering only a few hundred, they show little sign of abating. Demonstrators are motivated by increasingly unlivable economic conditions spurred by crippling U.S.-led international sanctions against Damascus. These have produced hyperinflation, mass food insecurity, and many daily hardships for the population. They also prevent vital humanitarian aid from entering the country.
Klarenberg, Kit: New witness testimony about Mariupol maternity hospital 'airstrike' follows pattern of Ukrainian deceptions, media malpractice
Published: 2022
A key witness to the widely publicized incident at the Mariupol maternity hospital has punctured the official narrative of a Russian airstrike on the facility, and raised serious questions about Western media ethics.
Klarenberg, Kit: 'Rigorous' Maidan massacre exposé suppressed by top academic journal
Published: 2023
A peer-reviewed paper initially approved and praised by a prestigious academic journal was suddenly rescinded without explanation. Its author, one of the world's top scholars on Ukraine-related issues, had marshaled overwhelming evidence to conclude Maidan protesters were killed by pro-coup snipers.
Klarenberg, Kit: Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag
Published: 2023
A massacre of protesters during the 2014 Maidan coup set the stage for the ouster of Ukraine’s elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. Now, an explosive trial in Kiev has produced evidence the killings were a false flag designed to trigger regime change.
Klarenberg, Kit; and Blumenthal, Max: Paul Mason's covert intelligence-linked plot to destroy The Grayzone exposed
Published: 2022
Leaked emails reveal British journalist Paul Mason plotting with an intel contractor to destroy The Grayzone through "relentless deplatforming" and a "full nuclear legal" attack. The scheme is part of a wider planned assault on the UK left.
Klarenberg,Kit: Leaked emails expose Paul Mason's collusion with senior British intelligence agent
Published: 2022
In leaked emails, celebrity journalist Paul Mason plots extensively with Andy Pryce of the UK Foreign Office Counter Disinformation and Media Development unit.
Klein, Naomi: Naomi Klein: To fight climate change we must fight capitalism
Published: 2015
Interview with Naomi Klein, the author of "This Changes Everything."
Klein, Naomi: What's really at stake at the Paris climate conference now marches are banned
Published: 2015
The decision to ban demonstrations at the Paris Climate Conference in the wake of the attacks will marginalize those who are most affected by climate change.
Klein, Naomi: Why US Fracking Companies Are Licking Their Lips Over Ukraine
From climate change to Crimea, the natural gas industry is supreme at exploiting crisis for private gain
Published: 2014
The way to beat Vladimir Putin is to flood the European market with fracked-in-the-USA natural gas, or so the industry would have us believe.
Klein, Naomi: W.W.E. the People
Published: 2017
An excerpt from Naomi Klein's book "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need", published by Haymarket Books.
Klein, Seth: What's Kinder Morgan's Real End Game?
Published: 2018
An ultimatum has been imposed by Texas based Energy Infrastructure company, Kinder Morgan,that they will cancel the Trans Mountain Pipeline Extension at the end of May 2018 unless clarity is provided by the government. Klein argues that Kinder Morgan knows that the pipeline is already doomed, due to external economic factors and Indigenous opposition.
Kleinman, Zoe: The computer virus that blackmails you
Published: 2015
Ransomware is the fastest growing form of computer malware, experts warn.
Kleinschmid, Horst: The absence of reconciliation
Published: 2012
Namibian-born Horst Kleinschmidt provides challenging observations and personal family history linked to the colonial era. Urging both Germany and German-speaking Namibians to confront their past honestly, he offers examples of apologies made in similar circumstances, and guidelines for reconciliation and redress.
Kleiser, Grenville: Impressive Phrases
Klikauer, Thomas: Behind the Wall of East-Germany
Published: 2023
With more than 300,000 objects, German Democratic Republic museum in Berlion probably has the world’s largest collection of GDR artifacts and historical items. The wealth of objects at the museum is due to the enormous willingness of former citizens of the GDR to donate items that they still had in their possession.
Klikauer, Thomas: The Business of Bullshit
Published: 2018
Bullshit business is about the meaningless language conjured up in schools, in banks, in consultancy firms, in politics, in the media and, of course, in thousands of business schools releasing MBA-certificated managers who are then spreading the meaningless managerial buzz-word language of bullshit business around the world. Bullshit business can indeed take over organizations crowding out their core purpose – profit-maximization.
Klikauer, Thomas: Corona and the Rise of the German Police State
Published: 2020
A few weeks ago, a German women did something illegal. She bought a book called 1984 in a local bookstore. The bookseller was crying because he had not seen a customer for ages.
Klikauer, Thomas: The Curse of the Algorithm
Published: 2022
The existence of algorithms might be a sign of civilization, but it might also be a sign of madness. As human decision-making is handed over to machines, these machines can make rather irrational, discriminatory, and outright mad decisions.
Klippenstein, Ken; Gottinger, Paul: US Provides Israel Weapons Used on Gaza
Blood on American's Hands
Published: 2014
The United States exported to Israel a substantial amount of the same types of weapons Israel is using to kill Gazans. For example, in 2013, the United States sent Israel at least $196 million in parts for military airplanes and helicopters, a category that includes F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters, both of which Israel is currently using to attack Gazan homes, offices and farmland. Between January and May 2014, the United States had already exported $92 million in parts for military airplanes and helicopters.
Kloc, Joe: Lost at Sea
Poverty and paradise at the edge of America
Published: 2019
A few miles north of San Francisco, off the coast of Sausalito, is Richardson Bay, a saltwater estuary where roughly one hundred people live out of sight from the world. Known as anchor-outs, they make their homes a quarter mile from the shore, on abandoned and unseaworthy vessels, doing their best, with little or no money, to survive.
Klovert, Heike: A Visit to Germany's Flyover Country
The AfD Heartland
Published: 2017
Knapp, Thomas: The Absurd Consequences of a "Right to Privacy"
Published: 2017
British MP David Davis’s text messages poking fun at the appearance of a female colleague make him the latest whipping boy for those determined to root out sexism and misogyny in public life, the Daily Mail reports. Curiously, they also make him the latest poster boy for exponents of an expansive "right to privacy."
Knapp, Thomas: All Vivek Murthy Wants for Christmas is a Label Maker
Published: 2024
“It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms,” Vivek Murthy writes in a New York Times op-ed, “stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents.”
Knapp, Thomas: Big Tech's Playing Monopoly. It's Going to Lose.
Published: 2021
Knapp critiques Big Tech, including Facebook and Twitter, as limiting freedom of speech in return for substantial revenue from government contracts.
Knapp, Thomas: Judicial Secrecy: Where Justice Goes to Die
Published: 2019
The trend of courts imposing gag orders and press bans on judicial proceedings is a hallmark of police states and a threat to freedom and justice.
Knapp, Thomas: Just When You Thought 'Russiagate' Couldn't Get Any Sillier
Published: 2018
The lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks is simply the latest version of what the DNC has been doing since 2016, which is trying to fob blame for its loss of an election it should have won.
Knapp, Thomas: Missing Children: The Pottery Barn Rule Revisited
Published: 2018
If one in five American parents couldn't figure out where their kids were, most people would rightly see the phenomenon as a crisis and a national scandal. Grandstanding prosecutors with visions of gubernatorial campaigns dancing in their heads would conduct mass parental perp walks. Legislators would boost their presidential aspirations by co-sponsoring legislation requiring universal implantation of GPS trackers at birth.
Knapp, Thomas: Social Media Regulation: Speak of the Devil and in Walks Zuck
Published: 2019
Social media giants such as Facebook support government regulation as a means to secure their monopolies.
Knapp, Thomas L.: Monsanto vs. Vernon Bowman's Farm
The Fiction of Intellectual Property
Published: 2013
Monsanto’s entire case against Vernon Bowman — as with Percy Schmeiser — is that their profits will be negatively affected if they’e not empowered to dictate what Vernon Bowman does on his own land and with his own stuff. The relief they’re requesting is that the state should therefore so empower them.
Knapp, Thomas, L.: Problem Isn’t 'Patent Trolls'
Published: 2014
The problem isn’t “patent trolls.” The problem is patents.
Knezevic, Milana: Young bloggers jailed for over 2 months without charge
Six members of blogging group Zone 9 and three other journalists could could face terrorism charges in one of the world's deadliest countrie
Published: 2014
Six young social/political issues bloggers were jailed in Ethiopia, the worlds 3rd worst jailer for journalists, without charge.
Knickerbocker, Nancy: The Gladys We Never Knew
Published: 2015
According to the Vital Statistics Act document entitled ''RETURN OF DEATH OF AN INDIAN,'' Gladys Chapman was 12 years, 10 months, and 12 days old on April 29, 1931, when she died in Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops. Occupation of the deceased was listed as ''Schoolgirl.'' On her death certificate, Dr. M.G. Archibald reported ''acute dilation of heart'' as the cause of death, with tuberculosis as the secondary cause. The duration of death was “several days.”
Knight, Nika: Police Blast #NoDAPL Activists With Water Cannons in Sub-Freezing Temps
Published: 2016
Law enforcement unleashed concussion grenades, rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons in sub-freezing temperatures on peaceful water protectors battling the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota late Sunday.
Knight, Sam: The incredible plan to make money grow on trees
Published: 2015
One of the most cutting-edge projects to tackle climate change is being pioneered in one of the most remote, undeveloped countries on earth. Does it have any hope of succeeding?
Knightley, Phillip: Great investigative reporters don't take no for an answer
Published: 2012
The first thing to keep in mind about investigative journalism is that it’s not glamorous. (We can blame television with its “undercover” reporters and “hidden cameras” for this mistaken image.) It’s actually hard and often boring work. I have never pretended that I was anything other than a working reporter, nor chased a single guilty person down the street. But I did spend days poring over records in the House of Lords and devoted months trying to master the intricacies of accountancy, tax law and overseas trusts.
Knoll, Andalusia: "It's not just 2 pesos; It's the country:" Mexico City's #PosMeSalto Movement Protests Rising Transit Costs
Published: 2014
The author surveys the 2 peso transit fare hike in Mexico within the context of the country's suffering ecomomy and low living wage to showcase why the decision is a mistake.
Knope, Julia: 'It was chaotic': National outage of passport kiosks causes major delays at Pearson
Published: 2019
A nationwide outage affecting the primary inspection kiosks and NEXUS of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) caused serious delays for passengers arriving on international flights.
Koch, Stephen: The Pictures
Securing Peter Hujar's place among the greats
Published: 2018
In his will American photographer Peter Hujar left his entire photographic archive to his friend Stephen Koch. In this article Koch explains why he embarked on a journey to usher Hujar's work into posthumous notoriety, and ultimately how the photographs changed his life.
Koehler, Robert: The Button, the Wall and the Myth of Nations
Published: 2018
North Korean sanctions, the border wall with Mexico, and the "toxic" role of nationalism with regards to international relations and domestically in the US are discussed.
Koehler, Robert: Poverty, Militarism and the Public Schools
Published: 2016
What's the difference between education and obedience? If you see very little, you probably have no problem with the militarization of the American school system -- or rather, the militarization of the impoverished schools ... the ones that can't afford new textbooks or functional plumbing, much less art supplies or band equipment. My town, Chicago, is a case study in this national trend.
Koerner, Lucas: The Truth About Venezuela's Opposition
Published: 2016
Western journalists can't admit that Venezuela's opposition is neither democratic nor peaceful.
Koerner, Lucas; Vaz, Ricardo: Pathological Deceit: The NYT Inverts Reality on Venezuela's Cuban Doctors
Published: 2019
Claims that the Maduro government is using Cuban doctors to coerce voters by refusing care to the opposition are based on very dubious evidence.
Kofas, Jon: Lobbying, Capitalism And The State
Published: 2015
Lobbies pose a threat to a modern democracy and alienate the majority of the people outside the services of lobbyists who have become a fixture in politics.
Kofman, Ava: The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment
Published: 2018
Various companies and government agencies aim to use technology that measures biological features such as facial expressions or tone of voice to assess individuals, such as refugee claimants or potential employees, for 'risk'. Many critics say the science behind this is dubious and can hide cultural bias under a blanket of objectivity.
Kofman, Ava: Google's 'Smart City of Surveillance' Faces New Resistance in Toronto
Published: 2018
A plan to develop 12 acres of the valuable waterfront just southeast of downtown Toronto
by the government agency Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. has sparked concerns about privacy and lack of public consultation. A recent slew of resignations from its board has made these concerns increasingly urgent and public.
Kofman, Ava: Real-Time Face Recognition Threatens to Turn Cops' Body Cameras Into Surveillance Machines
Published: 2017
For years, the development of real-time face recognition has been hampered by poor video resolution, the angles of bodies in motion, and limited computing power. But as systems begin to transcend these technical barriers, they are also outpacing the development of policies to constrain them. Civil liberties advocates fear that the rise of real-time face recognition alongside the growing number of police body cameras creates the conditions for a perfect storm of mass surveillance.
Kogan Valderrama, Andrés: The privatization of rivers in Chile
Auctioning-off rivers for private gain has severe social and environmental impacts. But there is a better way.
Published: 2020
The Chilean government has continued with the mercantile treatment of common goods, putting several rivers in the Bio Bio Region up for auction, despite ongoing social unrest.
Kogawa, Joy; Diemer, Ulli: Joy Kogawa in conversation with Ulli Diemer
Published: 2017
Ulli Diemer spoke with Joy Kogawa in Toronto on March 14, 2017. Joy Kogawa is the author of Obasan, Gently to Nagasaki, and other works of fiction and poetry.
Kokeji, Milind: Media: Agents of Brands-Not of Change
Published: 2009
Non-implementation of the Millenium Development Goals (MdG's) is akin to 100 jumbo jets crashing everyday and a tsunami hitting a country each week. Every year, 10 million children die before they reach the age of five, as 8 million people suffer from hunger. Poverty claims more victims than war does. Actually, this is enough diet for the media, which is ever hungry for sensationalism, to get attracted towards MDG's. Still, it is not, and in all probabilities it would not.
Kolhatkar, Sonali: The Attack on Our Libraries
Published: 2023
Kolhatkar, Sonali: Countering Corporate Propaganda
Published: 2024
This disconnect between capitalism’s reputation as an efficient economic system rewarding hard work and innovation and its reality as a system of mass impoverishment is endemic to our culture. At its heart, it is a system rooted in individual well-being, a seductive idea that appeals to the very human need to take sole credit for our achievements and feel shame when we fall through the cracks. The modern American economy preys on our belief in this ideal. When we can’t afford to pay for groceries it’s our fault. If we can’t pay back the cash advance, we are to blame. Those who don’t grin with joy while delivering takeout are the ungrateful ones.
Kollontai, Alexandra: Alexandra Kollontai Quotes
Komanaff, Charles, Shaw, Howard: Drowning in Noise: Noise Costs of jet skis in America
A Report for the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse
Published: 2000
An analysis of the value of the lost enjoyment that jet ski noise introduces into beach environments.
Kone, Jason: Even Wars Have Rules: a Fact Sheet on the Bombing of Kunduz Hospital
Published: 2015
Doctors Without Borders is calling for an independent fact-finding investigation to ascertain the truth about the events that led to the killing of our colleagues and patients by US.airstrikes on one of our hospitals in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
Konkel, Lindsey: Loon, interrupted: Chicks dying, social chaos. Is their comeback unraveling?
Published: 2014
It’s a scenario playing out across North America -- loons are raising fewer chicks to fledgling stage than they were two decades ago. Researchers suspect that hormone-disrupting pollutants such as flame retardants may have eroded the birds' delicate social structure and contributed to a mysterious drop in Squam Lake’s loon population. In other parts of the Northeast, scientists have implicated acid rain and mercury in declining numbers of chicks.
Konkel, Lindsey: Metal madness: Lead doesn't just poison birds, it scrambles everything they need to survive
Published: 2014
It's well-known that high levels of lead kill birds. But now it's becoming clear that amounts commonly encountered by waterfowl and raptors can mess up their digestion, brains, hearts, vision and other body processes critical for their survival in the wild.
Konkel, Lindsey: Scrambling birds' brains: Could this toxic algae offer clues to human diseases?
Published: 2014
In humans, researchers suspect that a neurotoxin may be linked to Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a lethal neurodegenerative disease that destroys parts of the brain. No one knows whether any human neurological diseases are related to the bird disease, but new clues about the poisoned birds are emerging.
Konnikova, Maria: Literally Psyched
Published: 2012
Kopczynski, Pawel: Anti-snooping app: Amnesty & partners unveil tool that detects surveillance
Published: 2014
In collaboration with privacy and civil rights organizations, Amnesty International launched Detekt, an app that enables people to scan their devices for traces of surveillance spyware, created with activists and journalists in mind.
Kopty, Abir: I'm Omar Saad and I will not be a soldier in your army
Published: 2012
Omar Saad, a young (Druze) Palestinian musician from the Galilee has received a summons to the Israeli army. The Druze citizens of Israel are forced to enlist in the Israeli military, since 1956, when conscription law applied to Druze men (not to other Palestinians).
Korb, Lawrence: Setting the Record Straight: The Beirut Barracks Bombing
Published: 2017
The White House wants to blame Iran, but they're wrong. I was there.
Kormann, Carolyn: Land of Sod
Southern California Homeowners vs Nature
Published: 2016
A look at the water crisis in Southern California, where fifty-percent of water is used to irrigate the lawns and gardens of residential properties. The freshwater shortages has brought about close media scrutiny, highlighting the differences between have and have-not neighbourhoods, as well as instances of 'water-shaming'.
Korybko, Andrew: The Catalan Chain Reaction
Published: 2017
The article discusses the chain reaction of viral social media support surrounding Catalonia's drive for "independence", which has alarmingly resurrected civil war-era rhetoric. However the most dangerous consequences are a domino effect in regions elsewhere if the separatists are ultimately successful.
Kotevska, Tamara; Stefanov, Ljubomir: Honeyland
Published: 2019
Delves into the life of Hatidze, a beekeeper in North Macedonia utilizing traditional methods of cultivation. However, new neighbors arrive and cause harm to the area. The film explores the link between survival, commercialization, and the environment.
Kovach, Bill and Rostentiel, Tom: The Elements of Journalism
What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Completely Updated and Revised
Published: 2001
The Elements of Journalism delineates the core principles shared by journalists across media, even across cultures. These principles flow from the essential function news plays in people's lives. This new edition, published April 2007, is completely updated and revised and includes a new 10th principle--the rights and responsibilites of citizens -- flowing from new power conveyed by technology to the citizen as a consumer and editor of their own news and information.
Kovacs, Edmund: Comrade and Friend: Bob Strowiss 1919-1999
Published: 1999
Work and accomplishments of Bob Strowiss
Kovalik, Dan; Sharabani, Souad: The Rise and Fall of Liberation Theology in Latin America
Published: 2016
Liberation Theology in Latin America has been an integral part of progressive movements. The Vatican, with the support and guidance from the United States, has sabotaged Liberation Theology in Latin America. Their aim has been to maintain the status quo and stop the progressive forces from taking control.
Kovalik, Daniel: How Human Rights Watch Covers for Companies in Colombia
Down Where the Death Squads Live
Published: 2013
Human Rights Watch fails to name the names in its recent report on Colombia entitled, “The Risk of Returning Home, Violence and Threats against Displaced People Reclaiming Land in Colombia.” And, this is much to HRW’s discredit.
Kovalik, Daniel: How the Colombia Trade Agreement Accelerates Human Rights Abuses
U.S.-Colombia Mass Displacement Policy Succeeding
Published: 2012
The Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would lead, indeed by design, to the immiseration and mass displacement of rural peoples, especially Indigenous and Afro-Colombian. The article explores the displacement of indigenous peoples in the last year.
Kovalik, Daniel: Massacres Under the Looking Glass
The ICC and Colombia
Published: 2012
The International Criminal Court (ICC) just published its Interim Report on Colombia. In the Report, the ICC explains that Colombia has been under preliminary examination by the ICC since June 2004. The military carried out its most notorious violations while under the ICC’s Clouseau-like scrutiny.
Kovalik, Daniel: The Selective Compassion of the Media & Human Rights Establishment
Ignoring the Victims of State Crimes
Published: 2012
“Human rights” doctrine has devolved into a mere tool used by the U.S. to carry out its imperial aims, and many times by means (such as war) which cause many more human rights violations than they purport to solve.
Kovalik, Daniel: The U.S. Empire & Modern Day Christian Martyrs
80th Priest Killed in Colombia Since 1984
Published: 2013
there has been almost no media coverage of the killings of the “two bishops, 79 priests, eight men and women religious, as well as three seminarians” killed in Colombia alone between 1984 and 2011.
Kovalik, Daniel: US Still Fighting "Threat" of Liberation Theology
The Wikileaks Revelations
Published: 2013
The assault on the Church in Colombia is both state policy of Colombia as well as the United States which is propping up that military with billions of dollars of assistance, and which views organized movements for social justice in Latin America as a threat to its economic domination of the region.
Kovalik, Daniel: Why Russia's intervention in Ukraine is legal under international law
Published: 2022
The argument can be made that Russia has exercised its right to self-defense under international law.
Kovalik, Daniel: Woke and war-crazed: Why Western liberals support Ukraine's atrocities
Published: 2023
Being compelled to believe untruths, and indeed obvious untruths which you know in your heart are untrue, and then living your life as if these untruths are true, can have a morally corrosive effect and prime you to conform with terrible crimes.
Kovel, Joel: Ecosocialism as a Human Phenomenon
Published: 2013
Two focal points configure this talk. The first denotes the structure of the world as it is, hurtling toward the abyss; the second concerns the world as I would have us struggle to bring about.
Krafft-Ebing, R. von: Étude Médico-Légale Psychopathia Sexualis Avec Recherches Spéciales sur L'inversion Sexuelle
Published: 1895
Kramer, Paul: The Water Cure
Published: 2008
A look back at the use of the torture method known as the 'water cure', which was employed by the United States on citizens of the Philippines during its occupation at the turn of the century. The article specifically examines the subsequent investigation, trial and testimonies, as well as the moral and political implications during this period.
Kramer, Rachel: Looking at the impact of investigative journalism (book review)
Review of The Journalism of Outrage: Investigative Reporting and Agenda Building in America
Published: 1999
The Journalism of Outrage examines the myths and misconceptions of investigative journalism and presents empirical research to support a model that challenges the classical theory.
Kramer, Rachel: Yesterday's News (Review)
Review of Yesterday's News: Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Published: 1999
A review of Yesterday's News: Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us.
Krasovitzky, Laura: Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Outrageous Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture
Published: 2015
Civil asset forfeiture violates civil and property rights, not to mention fundamental notions of justice. Now, finally, it's under increasing fire.
Krauss, Lawrence M.: The Real Nuclear Threat
Published: 2016
The fact that Trump has so cavalierly raised concerns about nuclear weapons may have a silver lining. It underscores how dangerous and irrational our nuclear policies already are.
Krieger, David: Imagination and Nuclear Weapons
Published: 2019
Imagining the horror of nuclear war is not enough to prevent it. Governments with nuclear weapons must be forced to disarm.
Krieger, David: U.S., UK and France Denounce Nuclear Ban Treaty
Published: 2017
The U.S., UK and France did not participate in the United Nations negotiations leading to the recent adoption of the nuclear ban treaty, and joined together in expressing their outright defiance of the newly-adopted treaty.
Krishnan, Kavita: Kavita Krishnan: 'Women's Liberation, Everyone's Liberation'
Published: 2014
Kavita Krishnan, a socialist organizer and a well-known international spokesperson for the movement against sexual violence in India, speaks on sexual violence, everyday sexism, protest, solidarity, and public space in India.
Krishnan, Murali: For India's extremist Hindus, Trump is a hero
Published: 2016
India's Hindu nationalists are celebrating Donald Trump's surprising victory in the US presidential election. Trump is being hailed as a "hero" for taking a tough line against Islamists and Muslim immigrants in the US.
Krishnan, Pramila: 'Water man of India' makes rivers flow again
Published: 2015
The revival of traditional rainwater harvesting has restored flow to rivers in India's driest state, Rajasthan - thanks to the tireless efforts of Rajendra Singh, recent winner of a Stockholm water prize.
Kristian, Bonnie: Seven Reasons Police Brutality is Systemic
Published: 2014
Darrin Manning's unprovoked "stop and frisk" encounter with the Philadelphia police left him hospitalized with a ruptured testicle. Neykeyia Parker was violently dragged out of her car and aggressively arrested in front of her young child for "trespassing" at her own apartment complex in Houston. A Georgia toddler was burned when police threw a flash grenade into his playpen during a raid, and the manager of a Chicago tanning salon was confronted by a raiding police officer bellowing that he would kill her and her family, captured on the salon's surveillance. An elderly man in Ohio was left in need of facial reconstructive surgery after police entered his home without a warrant to sort out a dispute about a trailer. These stories are a small selection of recent police brutality reports, as police misconduct has become a fixture of the news cycle.
Krol, Ariane; Nantel, Jacques: You selling to me?
Published: 2013
Individually targeted online marketing, based on unwittingly supplied consumer information and monitoring of online activities, is replacing conventional advertising media.
Kropp, Manuela; Striethorst, Anna: The Migrations of Roma in the European Union
An Ethnic Minority as the Sport of European Politics
Published: 2012
France is sending Roma back to Romania, Roma are "voluntarily" leaving the country to go to Macedonia, Czech Roma are seeking asylum in Canada -- these headlines of recent years have repeatedly drawn the eyes of the public to the migrations of Roma in Europe. The resulting debates emphasise the legal status of migrants.
Krotoski, Aleks: The internet's cyber radicals: heroes of the web changing the world
A generation of political activists have been transformed by new tools developed on the internet.
Published: 2010
Internet activists speak about censorship, the democratising impact of open source technology, and the importance of oportunities for anonimity in a post 9-11 world.
Kruh, Ulrike: Immigration Is Good, Immigration Is Bad, Migration Is (a Fact)
A Human Drama in Three Acts and a Few Ideas
Published: 2012
Immigration is bad – that is what the propagandists of populist politics are blazoning, in unison with their primitive media set on singing the same tune. Immigration is good, say the left, the greens and NGOs. I share the human-rights concerns and the socio-economic analysis of the second position, but would like to add a third and more fundamental one: immigration IS happening. Immigration is what is human, because only through migration could humankind spread from its places of origin in Eastern Africa to the entire globe. Only if we remember this can we tackle the phenomenon of migration adequately and develop an immigration policy suitable for human beings.
Kubzansky, Caroline: Nine essential tools from ICIJ's data journalism and programming experts
Published: 2018
A look at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' favorite data journalism tools, including: spreadsheets, Datawrapper, Jupyter Notebook, OpenRefine, Python and R, Talend Studio, SQL, Pandas, Neo4j + Linkurious.
Kuhlenbeck, Mike: Bela Lugosi: actor, union leader, anti-fascist
Published: 2019
On the life and career or Bela Lugosi.
Kulldorff, Martin; Bhattaacharya, Jay: The smear campaign against the Great Barrington Declaration
Published: 2021
Demonizing those who question lockdowns.
Kumar, M. Palani: Tamil Nadu's seaweed harvesters in rough seas
Published: 2019
An unusual activity of the fisherwomen of Bharathinagar in Tamil Nadu keeps them more in the water than on boats. But climate change and overexploitation of marine resources are eroding their livelihoods.
Kundera, Milan: Milan Kundera Quotes
Kundnani, Arun: Will the government's counter-extremist programme criminalise dissent?
Published: 2015
From 1 July, a broad range of public bodies - from nursery schools to optometrists - will be legally obliged to participate in the U.S. government’s Prevent policy to identify would-be extremists. Under the fast-tracked Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, schools, universities and health service providers can no longer opt out of monitoring students and patients for supposed radicalised behaviour.
Kundu, Joydip: In praise of tigers, conservation heroes of the Sundarbans
Published: 2015
The presence of the tigers is the world's greatest mangrove forest vital to its survival, writes Joydip Kundu. It's the fear of the tiger that deters people from entering the forest to cut its trees and hunt its wildlife - and so these majestic predators protect its fisheries, and guard millions of people in south Bengal from the rising seas.
Kunhardt, Philip B. III: Lincoln's Contested Legacy
Published: 2009
Great Emancipator or unreconstructed racist? Defender of civil liberties or subverter of the Constitution? Each generation evokes a different Lincoln. But who was he?
Kunin, Jason: From fear to solidarity: Canada’s Jewish community and Palestine
Published: 2021
For Jewish people who are already on edge, social media has created an echo chamber where their worst fears are affirmed and amplified by like-minded people. Suddenly, they’re seeing anti-Semitism everywhere. But it isn’t fear of rockets from Hamas that has got some people spooked. It’s the fact that Israel’s supporters were on the defensive against an unprecedented show of public support for the Palestinians, as well as a changing media landscape where critical opinions about Israel are now leaking through the cracks. Indeed, the traditional pro-Israel consensus that has long dominated the corporate media is now overwhelmingly being circumvented by new social media, where solidarity with Palestine is growing.
Kuppusamy, Baradan: Banning of Books Alarms Freedom Advocates
Published: 2010
The confiscation and banning of books by Malaysian authorities is sending alarm bells ringing among activists, who want the repeal of laws that the government is using to suppress freedom of expression.
Kurshan, Nancy: America's Own Political Prisoners
From Mandela to Oscar López Rivera
Published: 2013
Nelson Mandela's death has elicited a predictable outpouring of accolades. Glowing praise is now coming from American politicians as disparate as Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama. But this praise comes with the recasting, perhaps rebranding, of the amazing man that was Nelson Mandela.
Kurtz, Paul: Can the Sciences Help Us to Make Wise Ethical Judgments?
Published: 2004
Scientific knowledge has a vital, if limited, role to play in shaping our moral values and helping us to frame wiser judgments. Ethical values are natural and open to examination in the light of evidence and reason.
Kushner; Langat, Anthony; Chavkin, Sasha; Hudson, Michael: World Bank Projects Leave Trail of Misery Around Globe
Published: 2015
In developing countries around the globe, forest dwellers, poor villagers and other vulnerable populations claim the World Bank -- the planet's oldest and most powerful development lender -- has left a trail of misery.
Kusnetz, Nicholas: Exxon Touts Carbon Capture as a Climate Fix, but Uses It to Maximize Profit and Keep Oil Flowing
Published: 2020
A discussion of ExxonMobil's promotion of carbon capture.
Kuzmarov, Jeremy: Biden isn't ending the Afghanistan War, he's privatizing it
Special Forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain
Published: 2021
Over 18,000 Pentagon contractors remain in Afghanistan, while official troops number 2,500. Joe Biden will withdraw this smaller group of soldiers while leaving behind US Special Forces, mercenaries, and intelligence operatives — privatizing and downscaling the war, but not ending it.
Kuzmarov, Jeremy: Left and Right Join Together to Rage Against Ukraine War on Its One Year Anniversary
Published: 2023
Several thousand people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, February 19, 2023, to protest U.S. support for the war in Ukraine around the time of its one-year anniversary. The protest was organized by the People's Party and Libertarian Party. It brought together groups on the left and libertarian right which were unified in their demand that the U.S. government should not spend one more penny on the war in Ukraine.
Kuzmarov, Jeremy: National Endowment for Democracy Deletes Records of Funding Projects in Ukraine
Deletion needed to preserve big lie of an unprovoked Russian invasion
Published: 2022
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) -- a CIA offshoot founded in the early 1980s to advance "democracy promotion" initiatives around the world—has deleted all records of funding projects in Ukraine from their searchable "Awarded Grants Search" database.
Kuzmarov, Jeremy: Uncloaked: Canada's "Jekyll-and-Hyde" Masquerade as Nation that Supposedly Supports Pacifism and Progressive Principles
Published: 2022
How Canada's military-industrial complex sucks up to and serves the American one.
Kuzmarov, Jeremy: Uncloaked: Canada's Jekyll-and-Hyde Masquerade as Nation that Supposedly Supports Pacifism and Progressive Principles
Published: 2022
How Canada's military-industrial complex sucks up to and serves the American one.
Kuznia, Rob: California turns to fake grass in response to drought
Published: 2015
Despite objections from environmentalists, artificial turf is growing in Calinfornia.
Kyeyune, Malcolm: How the Left betrayed the Truckers
The convoy is despised by those who should support it
Published: 2022
Ottawa's truckers are a symptom of the massive class divide that is opening up across the West. Marxists are sticking their heads in the sand about this generational moment, or papering it over with absurd topsy-turvy leaps.
Kyeyune, Malcom: Justin Trudeau's phoney dictatorship
Relying on emergency powers reveals his weakness
Published: 2022
When Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers to quell protests against mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations this week, it was another sign that for Western liberal democracy, business as usual is over.
Kössler, Reinhart; Melber, Henning: The genocide in Namibia (1904-08) and its consequences
Published: 2012
The repatriation of human remains more than a century after they were taken to Germany from Namibia has evoked painful memories of colonial wars in which primary African resistance was crushed, and genocide perpetrated (1904–08) in what was then the colony of German South West Africa.
Kössler, Reinhart; Melber, Henning: German-Namibian denialism: How (not) to come to terms with the past
Published: 2012
Largely unnoticed by most Namibians, the local German-language daily Allgemeine Zeitung provides a forum for colonial apologetics. Reinhart Kössler and Henning Melber examine recent comments and readers’ letters in this newspaper, exposing the reactionary attitudes and privileging strategies that maintain the minority language as a barrier to national reconciliation.

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La Botz, Dan: An Experiment in Democracy - Book Review
Published: 1999
Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico by Maria Lorena Cook. (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996). Photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. 359 pages. Hardback: $55, paperback $19.95.
Labonté, Ronald: Canada's Austerity Agenda: It's About the Taxes
Published: 2013
Austerity policies pose major threats to the public's health. Ronald Labonté argues that the austerity agenda in Canada stems not from a crisis in finances, but from a crisis in fair taxation.
Labrador, Gabriel: Will El Salvador be forced to pay $301 million for valuing clean water over gold?
Published: 2015
The Central American state of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million in damages to an Australian-Canadian mining company, OceanaGold, after the company's application for a mining license was rejected on the basis of the projected environmental damage it would cause.
LaChance, Naomi: To Sell Weapons, Defense Contractors Make War Seem Fun
Published: 2016
At the Association of the United States Army's annual exposition at the new, cavernous Washington Convention Center, defense contractors are making their weapons seem fun where in order to score contracts with the Pentagon. AUSA features a who’s who of the military-industrial complex, and the extreme excess of money in the industry is evident everywhere.
Laforge, John: Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Fictions and Facts
Published: 2018
The New York Times reported that year, “Many historians believe the bombings [of] Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, which together took the lives of more than 200,000 people, saved lives on balance, since an invasion of the islands would have led to far greater bloodshed.” Many historians, perhaps; but not that many.
LaForge, John: Nuclear Weapons Spoilers Sentenced to Long Prison Terms
Injustice in Knoxville
Published: 2014
Three anti-war activists who easily snuck into what is touted as one of the United States' most secure nuclear weapons facilities were sentenced to long terms in federal prison on February 18, 2014.
Laforge, John: Worse than Obsolete: NATO Creates Enemies
Published: 2018
Twenty years' worth of "unintended" or "collateral" damage hasn't created friends in the war zones.
LaFrance, Adrienne: Online initiatives abound at the Library of Congress
Published: 2013
Card catalogues vanish from sight at the Library of Congress.
Lagoze, Miles (Director): Combat Obscura
Published: 2018
Footage of combat in Afghanistan from the Marine Corps' official videographer.
Laing, R.D.: R.D. Laing Quotes
Laird, Kevin: A Diversion We Don't Need
Against The Current vol. 158
Published: 2012
We know from our own experience that none of us wants to have the Diversity Of Tactics argument again. So why does it continue to happen? Because we radicals and anarchists have unintentionally become a Silent Majority, unwilling for whatever reason to prevent these ideologues, who are only a tiny handful of people with loud voices, from controlling the direction of our meetings.
Lakhani, Nina: Honduras and the dirty war fuelled by the west's drive for clean energy
Published: 2014
The palm oil magnates are growing ever more trees for use in biofuels and carbon trading. But what happens to the subsistence farmers who live on the lucrative land?
Lakoff, George: Conservative Frank Luntz Has Set a Trap for Progressives -- Here's How to Outsmart Him and Boost the Occupy Movement
Progressives' basic morality needs to be talked about over and over again, in every corner of the country.
Published: 2011
Luntz doesn't want progressives pointing out that corporations govern our lives far more than any government does - and for their profit, not ours. He doesn't want any discussion of corporate waste, or military waste, which is huge.
Lakoff, George: Why Trump?
Published: 2016
Donald Trump is winning Republican presidential primaries at such a great rate that he seems likely to become the next Republican presidential nominee and perhaps the next president. Democrats have little understanding of why he is winning -- and winning handily, and even many Republicans don't see him as a Republican and are trying to stop him, but don't know how. There are various theories: People are angry and he speaks to their anger. People don’t think much of Congress and want a non-politician. Both may be true. But why? What are the details? And Why Trump?
Lakshimi, Rama: The new 140-character war on India’s caste system
Social media gives India's Daltis a voice
Published: 2016
Twitter users highlight caste issues ignored by mainstream media
Lakshmi, Rama: India is taking acid attacks more seriously
Published: 2013
Women campaign for courts and public to take notice of impact of devastating assaults.
Lakshmi, Rama: The vanguard of India's assertive patriotism is a 3 million-member student group
Published: 2016
In India rightwing group combs campuses to weed out voices critical of state.
Lalh, Karamveer: I'm not sure I trust my 'rational' view of the trucker protest anymore
Published: 2022
Our reaction to the protest was narrative construction in real-time
Lam, Oiwan: How China's Online Civilization Army Turned a Youth Street Fight into a Patriotic Struggle
Published: 2015
A bystander would tell you that it was just a fight between two teens but, watching the news from home, you'd think it was a patriot defending his country. This is a story about a propaganda campaign that turned into a fist fight which was subsequently manipulated into a more effective propaganda campaign. If there's a story to be spun, China will be there to spin it.
Lam, Oiwan: Who Are the 5.5 Million Facebook Fans of Chinese State Newspaper People's Daily?
Published: 2015
Facebook has been banned in China for six years yet the Facebook account for Chinese State Newspaper People’s Daily has over 5.5 million fans. What is a state run newspaper doing on a social network that none of its consumers can access? Or, better yet, how does a state run newspaper have 5.5 million fans on a website that none of its consumers can access?
Lamb, Franklin: Australia Rejects Israeli-Ordered Media Censorship
A Little Justice for Al Manar TV
Published: 2010
Australia rejects politically motivated censorship attempts.
Lamb, Kate: Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings
Published: 2016
Thousands of people have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte became president and, according to one officer, secret police teams are partly responsible.
Lambert, Renaud: Bolivia's coup
Published: 2019
Lambert, Renaud: South Korea: the 'Land of Morning Calm' is working itself to death
Published: 2023
South Korea is often held up as a model of modern technological capitalism. But daily life for many South Koreans is much harsher than the glossy image projected by its popular culture.
Lambrick, Fran: The Legacy of Forest Defender Chut Wutty
Published: 2012
On the life, work, and death of the late Cambodian forest activist Chut Wutty, shot and killed at a logging site by military police.
Lamont, Dougald: Canadian Taxpayers Federation has 5 members -- why should we care what they think?
Published: 2016
The Canadian Taxpayers' Federation has been around since the late 1980s, selling itself as a populist "citizens advocacy group" looking to cut waste and ensure accountability in government. They get acres of free coverage in newspapers and on local and national newscasts; their spokespeople regularly get more coverage than elected officials. Perhaps the CTF gets the coverage it does because it is seen as less biased than politicians — it is seen as advocating for taxpayers against all politicians, on the right and left. The CTF's media presence is truly remarkable when you consider it has a membership of five people. You read that correctly: five.
Lampedusa, Giuseppe di: Giuseppe di Lampedusa Quotes
Lancaster, Roger: The Devil Goes to Preschool
Published: 2021
In 1983, journalists helped conjure a nationwide sex panic.
Landau, Saul: 14 Years of Injustice
Time to Free the Cuban Five
Published: 2012
Five Cubans fighting terrorism in south Florida have served 14 years of prison, more than enough time for the US public to learn from its media about the horrific injustice done by the US government to these Cuban men. But the media has barely touched the grotesque frame up of the Cuban Five.
Landau, Saul: How Chavez Changed History for the Better
A New Kind of Socialism
Published: 2013
Hugo Chavez's impact on Venezuela.
Landau, Saul: Rupert's Empire of Slime
Murdoch's Knife in the Heart of Journalism
Published: 2011
In the name of freedom of the press Rupert’s Fox News and commentators spew verbal venom on notions that smack of socialist, pink or liberal thought – like taxing billionaires and regulating their corporate and banking behavior. Indeed, the Foxers promote billionaires not paying taxes as an example of virtue and freedom. “You don’t want your government squandering taxpayers’ money.” Sure, imagine life without cops, firemen, schools, road repair service, etc.
Landau, Saul: Wikileaks and the Free Press
Exposing the Futility of US Foreign Policy
Published: 2010
Wikileaks published documents from sources US journalists should have cultivated instead of behaving like White House stenographers. Exceptions like Seymour Hersh and Dana Priest only dramatize the point: the fourth estate has become an arm of national security policy.
Landau, Susan: The Threat to Privacy in the Post-Roe Era
How Your Cellphone Could Be Used Against You
Published: 2022
Using a maps app to plan a route, sending terms to a search engine and chatting online are ways that people actively share their personal data. But mobile devices share far more data than just what their users say or type. They share information with the network about whom people contacted, when they did so, how long the communication lasted and what type of device was used.
Lando, Barry: If Gaza's Dead Were America's Dead
Imagine the Outrage Over 27,000 Dead Kids...
Published: 2014
Imagine the Outrage Over 27,000 Dead Kids...
Lando, Barry: TV News in the Age of the Super Anchor
Why Brian Williams is Just the Tip of the Scandal
Published: 2015
Super Anchor is often more actor than reporter. His or her role is to give the story a certain imprimatur, which it doesn’t always deserve. Much of the real work, digging, and investigation is done by others.
Landrevie, Barbara: Muddying the waters
Published: 2015
The by-products of aluminium extraction have been poisoning the Mediterranean for almost 20 years. But the closure of the plant that produces them would cost jobs in an underemployed region.
Lang, Andrew: The Library
Published: 1881
Lang, Chris: Forest carbon offsets, supposedly worth billions, have no climate benefit
Published: 2023
REDD projects combine false emission claims, worthless credits and human rights abuses.
Lang, Chris: 'Land Grabbing': exposing the impacts of large-scale agriculture on local communities
Film review
Published: 2016
Agriculture is big business and with the EU pumping money at the sector, the corporate profiteers are holding all the aces. The documentary 'Land Grabbing' investigates what happens when well-financed agro-investors take over rural communities' land and water.
Lapavitsas, Costas: Why They Left
Brexit wasn't the first time Europeans rejected the EU, and it won't be the last. Here's what the Left should do.
Published: 2016
The Leave victory in the British referendum represents a moment of political confusion -- a hiatus in the opposition between social classes. No class appears capable of directing events. The ruling class has no clear plans for the future, and seems temporarily stunned.
Lapham, Lewis H.: Bombast Bursting in Air
The story, so far, of the 2016 election
Published: 2015
An essay on the 2016 election as a money-driven spectacle.
Lapham, Lewis H.: The Remembered Past
On the beginnings of our stories -- and the history of who owns them.
Lapin, Andrew: Jewish doctor denied $500 payment after refusing to promise Arkansas he won't boycott Israel
Published: 2023
The state of Arkansas is refusing to pay a Jewish doctor for a talk he delivered at a public university because he declined to promise not to boycott Israel.
Lapowsky, Issie: No One Has the Data to Prevent the Next Flint
Published: 2017
Data gaps in testing and regulations of water safety in America can potentially put many citizens at risk.
Lapp, David: 'They're Out to Get You': Police Misconduct in White, Working-Class America
Published: 2020
A study by the People’s Policy Project suggests that white, working-class people are particularly vulnerable to police brutality. As Jacobin reported, the study found that the rate of police killings increased as census tract poverty increased, with the level of police killings in the highest-poverty quintile more than three times that of the lowest-poverty quintile. In layman's terms, you’re overall more likely to be killed by a police officer if you’re working-class or poor.
Lappe, Frances Moore: The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussing
Published: 2009
There's just one pathway to happiness in which this deep, human need for power is given pride of place: democracy. By this I mean democracy as a living practice that enables us to have a real say in every dimension of our public lives, from school to workplace and beyond.
Larison, Daniel: Don't Fall for the Chemical Weapons Convention Justification
Published: 2018
A look at the interventionalist arguments in support of Western air and missile attacks in Syria, and the false claim that the attack was justified under international law because it was a response to the use of banned chemical weapons.
Larson, Charles R.: The Internet: a Giant Job-Killing Machine?
Andrew Keen's "The Internet is Not the Answer"
Published: 2015
Andrew Keen's The Internet Is Not the Answer is the most frightening book I have read in years (perhaps in my lifetime), as frightful as the conservative Supreme Court justices and the deniers of climate change.
Larson, Charles R.: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism - Book Review
Edward E. Baptist’s "The Half Has Never Been Told"
Published: 2014
A review of Edward E. Baptist’s examination of slavery, presented in an entirely new way, extensively through the voices of the slaves themselves.
Larson, Rob: Cookie Monster: the Nuts and Bolts of Online Tracking
Published: 2020
Big Tech has become notorious for its hoarding of its users' personal data, collected with great breadth and down to minute details. Billions have been paid by online platforms to settle legal charges over their invasive and reckless privacy follies.
Larson, Rob: Sanitized Radicals: Whitewashing 20th Century Socialists
Published: 2018
A look at some of the 20th century's most inspiring leaders, whose socialist views have been conveniently ignored by the Right and the mainstream American media.
Larudee, Paul: Israeli Property Theft is Nothing New
Is the Custodian of Absentee Property Awaiting the Absentees?
Published: 2013
Lascaris, Dimitri: Bill C-70: Trudea's Latest Assault on Free Speech
Published: 2024
The Trudeau government’s latest national security legislation promises to cement Justin Trudeau’s legacy as the most anti-free speech Prime Minister in the post-WWII era. Bill C-70 constitutes a serious threat to democratic discourse. It is particularly dangerous for those who are critical of Canadian foreign policy.
Lascaris, Dimitri: Is Canada's Parliament Concealing Embarrassing Information about Canada's 'Allies'?
Published: 2024
Assessing what has been publicly revealed about the 'foreign interference' enquiry, Dimistri Lascaris writes "At the end of the day, I do not know whether China, Russia or Iran surreptitiously interfere in Canadian political discourse or in its 'democratic institutions'. It is possible that they do. The Canadian government, however, has failed to disclose persuasive evidence to support its allegations against them. Moreover, the Government could be protecting 'allies' of Canada who engage in these very offences.
Lascaris, Dimitri: The Nord Stream Sabotage
A New Low For Western Mainstream Media
Published: 2022
Condemning the Guardian's coverage of the recent Nord Stream sabotage, Lascaris discusses the increasing lenghts which Western media will go to promote the U.S. government's hegemonic agenda. He highlights several examples of the Guardian's exercises in propoganda-masquerading-as-journalism.
Lascaris, Dimitri: Postmedia, Paul Godfrey and the demise of journalism
Published: 2015
A criticism of the right-wing political bias expressed by outlets of the Postmedia group under direction of CEO Paul Godfrey.
Lascaris, Dimitri: Prominent lawyer says Israel's war on Gaza is 'The Most Moral War in Human History'
Published: 2024
Dimitri Lascaris responds to two high-profile supporters of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Lascaris, Dimitri: Ukraine's worst enemies are those who demand Russia's strategic defeat
Published: 2023
Lascaris, Dimitri; Hudson, Michael; Desai, Radhika: The United States sanctioned Europe, not Russia
Dimitri Lascaris in Conversation with Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai
Published: 2024
Geopolitical economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson contend that the true victim of Western sanctions on Russia is not Russia itself, but Europe.
Lasch, Christopher: Christopher Lasch Quotes
Lasker, John: Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
Published: 2009
A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
Lasker, John: US Foreign Trade Zones: Connecting Labor Exploitation in a Global Race to the Bottom
Published: 2016
As the debate over the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement continues, many Americans are unaware that hundreds of foreign trade zones are already entrenched within the US, and most likely in their own part of the country.
Latham, Jonathan: Agriculture's Greatest Myth
Published: 2021
For policymakers, the big obstacle to global promotion and restoration of small-scale farming (leaving aside the lobbying power of agribusiness) is allegedly that, "it can't feed the world". If that claim were true, local food systems would be bound to leave people hungry and so promoting them becomes selfish, short-termist, and unethical. Nevertheless, this purported flaw in sustainable and local agriculture represents a curious charge because, no matter where one looks in global agriculture, food prices are low because products are in surplus.
Latham, Jonathan: The Biotech Industry Is Taking Over the Regulation of GMOs from the Inside
Published: 2017
When a comprehensive evaluation of GMOs and the weaknesses of scientific risk assessment within the biotech industry is urgently needed, the chemical and biotech industries are forcing risk assessment in the opposite direction.
Latham, Jonathan: Extensive Chemical Safety Fraud Uncovered at German Testing Laboratory
Published: 2020
The case of an animal rights activist who infiltrated an independent German chemical testing laboratory has triggered the discovery of an apparently extensive chemical testing fraud.
Latham, Jonathan: Fakethrough! GMOs and the Capitulation of Science Journalism
Total Information Control
Published: 2014
Good journalism examines its sources critically, it takes nothing at face value, places its topics in a historical context, and it values above all the public interest. Such journalism is, most people agree, essential to any equitable and open system of government. The science media has somehow escaped serious attention. This is unfortunate because no country in the world has a healthy science media.
Latham, Jonathan: Gene Drives: A Scientific Case for a Complete and Perpetual Ban
Published: 2017
One of the central issues of our day is how to safely manage the outputs of industrial innovation. Novel products incorporating nanotechnology, biotechnology, rare metals, microwaves, novel chemicals, and more, enter the market on a daily basis. The majority of products receive no regulatory supervision at all.
Latham, Jonathan: God's Red Pencil? CRISPR and The Three Myths of Precise Genome Editing
Published: 2016
For the last seventy years all chemical and biological technologies, from genetic engineering to pesticides, have been built on a myth of precision and specificity. They have all been adopted under the pretense that they would function without side effects or unexpected complications. Yet the extraordinary disasters and repercussions of DDT, leaded paint, agent orange, atrazine, C8, asbestos, chlordane, PCBs, and so on, when all is said and done, have been stories of the steady unraveling of a founding myth of precision and specificity. Nevertheless, with the help of industry propagandists, their friends in the media, even the United Nations, we are once again being preached the gospel of precision. But no matter how you look at it, precision is a fable and should be treated as such.
Latham, Jonathan: How Millions of Farmers are Advancing Agriculture For Themselves
Published: 2012
The world record yield for paddy rice production is not held by an agricultural research station or by a large-scale farmer from the United States, but by Sumant Kumar who has a farm of just two hectares in Darveshpura village in the state of Bihar in Northern India. His record yield of 22.4 tons per hectare, from a one-acre plot, was achieved with what is known as the System of Rice Intensification (SRI).
Latham, Jonathan: How the Great Food War Will Be Won
Published: 2015
Thus the necessary shift in perception is to see that, as in most wars, the crucial struggle in the food war is the one inside people's heads. And that the great food war will be won by the side that understands that and uses it best.
Latham, Jonathan: Many European Pesticide Approvals Are 'unlawful' Says EU Ombudsman
Published: 2016
Many current pesticides in the European Union appear to have been approved illegally the Ombudsman of the EU has said. This judgment was reached on Feb 22nd by the EU Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, following an official complaint against the European Commission’s Directorate responsible for public health and consumer safety (DG SANTE).
Latham, Jonathan: Monsanto's Worst Fear May Be Coming True
Published: 2015
The Chipotle restaurant chain decides to make its product lines GMO-free -- a trend that may be a threat to Monsanto's goal of controlling the food industry.
Latham, Jonathan: Researchers Are Substantially Undercounting Gene-Editing Errors
Published: 2020
The standard gene-editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9, frequently produces a type of DNA mutation that ordinary genetic analysis misses, claims new research published in the journal Science Advances. In describing these findings the researchers called such oversights "serious pitfalls" of gene editing.
Latham, Jonathan: Rigging the Science of GMO Ecotoxicity
Published: 2019
Scientific article about dangers of GMO plants and techniques used by developers to disguise harms to get GMOs through testing.
Latham, Jonathan: There's Nothing Parochial About the Issue of GMO Food Labeling
Published: 2017
A criticism of the notion that the issue of labelling GMO foods is too narrow in focus, detailing the complexities of the issue and arguing for the broader importance of labelling.
Latham, Jonathan: The Unsettling of America - book review
Published: 2012
A book review of The Unsettling of America by Thomas Berry.
Latham, Jonathan: Way Beyond Greenwashing: Have Corporations Captured Big Conservation?
Published: 2012
The global organic food industry agrees to support international agribusiness in clearing as much tropical rainforest as they want for farming. In return, agribusiness agrees to farm the now-deforested land using organic methods, and the organic industry encourages its supporters to buy the resulting timber and food under the newly devised “Rainforest Plus” label.
Latham, Jonathan, PhD: Unsafe at any Dose? Diagnosing Chemical Safety Failures, from DDT to BPA
Published: 2016
Piecemeal, and at long last, chemical manufacturers have begun removing the endocrine-disrupting plastic bisphenol-A (BPA) from products they sell. Sunoco no longer sells BPA for products that might be used by children under three. France has a national ban on BPA food packaging. The EU has banned BPA from baby bottles. These bans and associated product withdrawals are the result of epic scientific research and some intensive environmental campaigning. But in truth these restrictions are not victories for human health. Nor are they even losses for the chemical industry.
Latham, Jonathan; Wilson, Allison: How Agriculture Can Provide Food Security Without Destroying Biodiversity
Published: 2011
According to conventional wisdom, the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte has achieved something impossible. So, too, has the island of Cuba. They are feeding their hungry populations largely with local, low-input farming methods that enhance the environment rather than degrade it. They have achieved this, moreover, at a time of rising food prices when others have mostly retreated from their own food security goals.
Latham, Jonathan; Wilson, Allison: Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
Published: 2013
How should a regulatory agency announce they have discovered something potentially very important about the safety of products they have been approving for over twenty years?
Lathem, Alexis: They Came for the Children: Truth Commission Sheds Light on Canada's Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples
Published: 2016
Imagine a village with all its children gone. For aboriginal peoples all across Canada, this was their lived reality, not the stuff of imagination. The story of what happened to the children -- who were forcibly removed from their families and sent to military-style camps that were euphemistically called "schools" -- has at last been told, compiled in the monumental six-volume Truth and Reconciliation Report on residential schools for aboriginal children released in 2015.
Laughland, John: ECHR twisted logic: You can insult Christian but not Muslim religion
Published: 2018
Two recent rulings by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) demonstrate not only that it's a political and hypocritical organization. They also show the severe structural defects of human rights law in general.
Laughland, John: 1945 Dresden bombing’s lesson is the same 75 years on: Might still makes right
Published: 2020
Dresden is like Auschwitz or Srebrenica, a terrible event elevated to almost mythical status because it is in fact the symbol of a wider phenomenon, in this case the bombing campaign conducted against a large number of German cities including Hamburg and Berlin. Dresden occupies this symbolic status because of the very high number of civilian deaths, most burned to death by incendiary bombs whose function was to set buildings alight, and because the town had little or no military significance.
Laughland, Oliver: Australia's Asylum Policy
Teenage Detainees' Plight Shines Light on Regime
Published: 2014
Human rights groups say Coalition's hardline approach to immigration flies in the face of international law.
Launchbury, Claire: Collecting the evidence
Published: 2020
Publisher and activist Lokman Slim, assassinated last month in Lebanon, spent 30 years trying to make sure that the memories of civil conflict were not forgotten.
Laurence, Bill: A Last Chance for the World's Forests?
Published: 2016
An alarming new study has shown that the world’s forests are not only disappearing rapidly, but that areas of 'core forest' -- remote interior areas critical for disturbance-sensitive wildlife and ecological processes -- are vanishing even faster.
Laurens, Sylvain: The Brussels lobbyists
Major firms seek to influence EU laws for thire own advantage long before they reach the European Parlament
Published: 2015
A look at the lobbyists who target the bureaucrats who control research budgets and make decisions for the EU's technical agencies.
Lauria, Joe: On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine
Published: 2022
A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine.
Lauria, Joe: PayPal Cancels CN Account; May Seize Balance
Published: 2022
PayPal has canceled Consortium News' account without any prior notice or due process and with virtually no explanation. As Consortium News is today launching its Spring Fund Drive, it has lost one of its most important ways for its viewers and readers to show their support through donations.
Lauria, Joe: Questions Abound About Bucha Massacre
Published: 2022
The West has made a snap judgment about who is responsible for the massacre at the Ukrainian town of Bucha with calls for more stringent sanctions on Russia, but the question of guilt is far from decided.
Lauria, Joe: Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story
Published: 2023
Without historical context, which has been buried by corporate media, it's impossible to understand Ukraine.
Lauria, Joe: US State-Affiliated NewsGuard Targets Consortium News
Published: 2022
The Pentagon and State Dept.-linked outfit, with an ex-N.S.A. and C.I.A. director on its board, is accusing Consortium News of publishing "false content" on Ukraine
Lauria, Joe: Why Putin Went to War
Published: 2022
Russia says it has no intentions of controlling Ukraine and its military operation is only to "demilitarize" and "de-Nazify" Ukraine in an action taken after 30 years of the U.S. pushing Russia too far, writes Joe Lauria.
Lauria,Carlos and Simon,Joel: Nicaragua Special Report: Daniel Ortega's Media War
Published: 2009
Driven by decades old hostilities, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has deined independent media as enemies and has moved aggressively to obstruct them. In a special report, Carlos Lauria and Joel Simon detail the government's tactics against independent media.
Laurin, Fredrik: If money is your object, journalism is the wrong industry
Published: 2013
Swedish investigative reporter Fredrik Laurin knows that power corrupts, but also that resistance in the form of journalism can have effect. In this Q&A he shares how his team identifies good investigative stories, and the value of constant networking.
Laurin, Fredrik: If money is your object, journalism is the wrong industry
Published: 2013
Swedish investigative reporter Fredrik Laurin knows that power corrupts, but also that resistance in the form of journalism can have effect. In this material he shares how his team identifies good investigative stories, and the value of constant networking.
Lauterbach, Claire: International Women's Day: How surveillance is used to assert control
Published: 2015
Looking at some of the ways surveillance technologies can be used to control women and how the fight for women's equal rights and for privacy have more in common than you might think.
Lavandera, Ed; Morris, Jason; Simon, Darran: She says federal officials took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center
Published: 2018
Under the American zero tolerance policy at the southern U.S. border hundreds of children are being separated from their mothers and families, including babies and toddlers.
Lavelle, Marianne: Good for the gander? As Alaska warms, a goose forgoes a 3,300-mile migration
Published: 2014
Scientists have documented that increasing numbers of black brant are skipping that far southern migration and staying in Alaska instead. Fewer than 3,000 wintered in Alaska before 1977. In recent years, however, more than 40,000 have remained north, with as many as 50,000 staying there last year, during the most ice-free winter that Izembek had seen in more than a decade.
LaVigne, Mark: Don't be a Time Bandit
Published: 2005
Don't waste journalists' time.
LaVigne, Mark: The Follow-Up Telephone Call
Published: 2004
Making follow-up phone calls to the media.
LaVigne, Mark: How Media Relations Helps the Marketing Plan
Published: 2002
Using media relations to support your marketing strategy.
LaVigne, Mark: How to Build a Media List
Published: 2004
Often your desired target audiences are diverse so this should be clearly defined before beginning to build your media list.
LaVigne, Mark: How to Make Your B-roll Work
Published: 2003
Getting a videographer or camera assigned to your story is a challenge to say the least. If you're lucky, you may get one or two cameras out to your news event. That leaves another three or four stations, not including the networks that will not cover your story because they are not there with a camera. PR practitioners can maximize their TV impact by investing in B-roll and hiring a news videography service.
LaVigne, Mark: How to Make Your PR Photos Work
Published: 2003
There is a real art and science to the news photo.
LaVigne, Mark: The Intangible Benefits of Media Training
Published: 2002
One of the greatest frustrations of media relations specialists, and news media, is the slow response to interview or information requests. Many times I've noticed that executives don't understand the rapid timelines that the news media operate under - they don't understand how quickly something ceases to be "news" or how quickly the media may lose interest in a proactive media relations venture.
LaVigne, Mark: It's the Law
Published: 2004
The laws of media relations.
LaVigne, Mark: Media Events - Maximizing Your Attendance & News Pick-up
Published: 2002
Maximizing your attendance and news pick-up at media events.
LaVigne, Mark: New Legal Landscape Affecting PR
Published: 2004
New laws affecting public relations.
LaVigne, Mark: PR Industry launches new standard for measurement and ROI
Published: 2006
A new standard for measuring editorial coverage and return on investment.
LaVigne, Mark: A Proverbial Needle in an Electronic Haystack
Published: 2010
A combination of the new copyright law, the trend towards subscription-based news media websites has made the media monitoring task feel like a search for a needle in an electronic haystack at times.
LaVigne, Mark: The State of the News Media
Published: 2003
Journalists are older, smarter, generally more educated, and usually more cynical than their predecessors. Cynicism often breeds distrust making the current generation of news reporters more suspicious and more formidable than ever.
LaVigne, Mark: Tips for Making the Call
Published: 2004
Tips for making follow-up calls to the media.
LaVigne, Mark: What is Public Relations?
Published: 2003
PR should be the guardian of an organization's brand, and that concept of brand is not just reserved for a private sector, product-oriented company. The concept of brand, what an organization is, what is it about, what it wants to say, is the organization's being, and PR is often its protector.
LaVigne, Mark Hunter: Create a Media Friendly Media Section on your Web site
Published: 2010
Web site media sections are an opportunity for an organization to provide the news media with an easy-to-use, multimedia platform to disseminate information about that organization and its news.
LaVigne, Mark; Hetherington, Leslie: Public Relations Strategy a Valuable Fundraising Tool
Published: 2002
A case study of using public relations to enhance a charity's fundraising activities.
Laville, Sandra: Beijing highway: $600m road just the start of China's investments in Caribbean
Jamaica's $600m highway kickstarts Chinese investments in the Caribbean
Published: 2016
Road connecting north and south Jamaca will be lined with luxury hotels and is China's largest investment in the Caribbean.
Lavoie, Joanna: Leslieville gallery cancels art show over concerns of Indigenous cultural appropriation
'It trivializes our art, our experience, and our culture', says Indigenous artist
Published: 2017
An art gallery in Leslieville has cancelled an upcoming exhibit after receiving complaints that works by a Toronto artist are offensive to Indigenous people.
Lavoie, Judith: Unimpeded Rivers Crucial as Climate Changes: New Study
Published: 2016
Gravel-bed rivers and their floodplains are the lifeblood of ecosystems and need to be allowed to run and flood unimpeded if species are to be protected and communities are to cope with climate change.
Law, Kimberly: Discover the New Way to... Dress for Success
Published: 2010
It has been suggested that 41% of Canadians now dress casually for work. With numbers that high you would think casual dressing for the workplace would be easy. Not so. Many people are even more confused than before about workplace attire.
Law, Kimberly: 5 Tiny Turn-offs that Sabotage Your Professional Image
Published: 2010
Happy about it or not, you will always be judged by others within the first few seconds of meeting them. And because you are presenting a whole package, everything has an impact - and anything distracting or out of place can sabotage your professional image.
Law, Kimberly: How to Be Smart with Your Smart Phone
Published: 2010
For many, the telephone is still the primary source of communicating with others for business, even if it is portable. With no visual cues to look for, your words and the tone of your voice are extremely important.
Law, Kimberly: How to Mingle like a Pro
Published: 2010
These days, it#s not what you know. It#s who you know or who knows you, that really counts.
Law, Kimberly: Stage your Holiday Gathering for Success
Published: 2010
Set the stage for a successful gathering by indicating what's expected and what to expect in the invitation.
Law, Kimberly: Suit Yourself in Quality this Fall
Published: 2010
When buying a suit, the label and the price tag aren't always the best way to judge value. By evaluating the construction details before you buy, you will make a wise investment that will add to your professional image.
Law, Kimberly: What Not to Do at the Dining Table
Published: 2010
Although the term dining generally refers to the act of eating, we have come to utilize dining as a means to socialise and conduct business. Unfortunately when we're unsure how to skillfully navigate a meal, the dining experience can become an awkward experience.
Law, Kimberly: What Not to Wear to the Company Picnic
Published: 2010
Sexy and frumpy have no place in the workplace. They also have no place at business gatherings, even at the park. When dressing for work or any work related activity it's important to appear credible.
Lawless, Richard: Are Credit Rating Agencies America's Secret Fifth Column?
Published: 2017
The Rating Agencies and the Banks are part of an organized criminal enterprise that include our Justice Department and our Politicians.
Lawrence, Patrick: The Casualties of Empire
Published: 2022
Diabolic methods of propaganda and perception management are at work now that have no precedent. This is war waged in a new way — against domestic populations as well as those declared as enemies.
Lawrence, Patrick: Neo-Nazis in Ukraine? No, Yes, No-Yes
Published: 2023
A New York Times' reporter's job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia and marching through Kiev in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think.
Lawrence, Patrick: The New Iron Curtain
Published: 2022
The Ukraine crisis proves to be Europe's crucible and Europe proves a profound disappointment. And here's the thing about this profoundly misguided project. The populations of the Western post-democracies will pay a far higher price for letting their leaders build the thick stone wall of Cold War II than those it is supposed to consign to the wilderness. Westerners will pay this price in blindness, in ignorance, and in isolation from the global majority.
Lawrence, Patrick: The US Bubble of Pretend
Published: 2022
The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most Americans.
Lawrence, Patrick: The War We're Finally Allowed to See
A look at the war in Ukraine that the propaganda machine has been concealing.
Laxer, Michael: Catastrophe: The NDP lost because it deserved to
Published: 2015
It is, ultimately, astounding how facile and false political narratives come back to haunt those who insist on their veracity.
Laxer, Michael: Losing Toronto: How Olivia Chow and the left may be giving away an election
Published: 2014
As we head into the Labour Day weekend that may be accurately deemed to be the start of the homestretch of Toronto's very long mayoral and council election season, the news is not good for leftists or progressives in the city.
Laxer, Michael: Shades of Grey -- A Left Chapter look at strategy, tactics and endorsements in the 2015 election
Published: 2015
With just under two weeks to go until election day, anti-capitalist leftists are in something of a quandary.
Lazare, Daniel: Hilary Clinton: Candidate of War
Published: 2016
The U.S. political/media establishment only permits the propaganda version of the Syrian conflict -- and Hillary Clinton fully embraced it in her belligerent comments in the second presidential debate.
Lazare, Sarah: Study Reveals Corporate Media's Refusal to Acknowledge Civilian Victims of US Wars
Published: 2015
Mainstream media outlets are systematically disregarding the hazardous health impacts of widespread U.S. military burn pits on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby playing a direct role in "legitimating the environmental injustices of war," a harrowing new scholarly report concludes.
Lazare, Sarah: Two out of Three Investigative Journalists in US Believe They're Being Spied On
Published: 2015
In the wake of the NSA mass surveillance scandal, a vast majority of investigative journalists believe that the U.S. government is spying on them, and large numbers say that this belief impacts the way they go about their reporting.
Le Bars, Stephanie: Bussy-Saint-Georges, the town with built-in religious harmony
Published: 2012
Planners hope construction of a multi-faith district will bring together the citizens of a new town near Paris.
Le Blanc, Paul: A Revolutionary Woman in Mind and Spirit: The Passions of Rosa Luxemburg
Published: 1999
In these comments on the spirit and mind of this great revolutionary thinker and activist, I think it makes sense to begin with a focus on her gender. It isn't clear that Rosa Luxemburg herself would be inclined to agree. She had, after all, refused to occupy a “safer”and marginalized position as a women's spokesperson in the socialist movement.
Lea, Richard: Fiction v nonfiction - English literature's made-up divide
Fiction v non: an English affliction?
Published: 2016
Some cultures do not distinguish between fiction and nonfiction - and instead talk of 'stories'. Is that a barrier to English-language writers and publishers? Or should they just learn to enjoy telling stories?
Leahy, Stephen: Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry
Published: 2009
Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday. This mega-shift in ocean productivity from south to north over the next three to four decades will leave those most reliant on fish for both food and income high and dry.
Leahy, Stephen: Earth's Life Support Systems Failing
Published: 2009
The world has failed to slow the accelerating extinction crisis despite 17 years of national and international efforts since the great hopes raised at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Leavenworth, Stuart: U.S. real estate lobbyists turn blind eye to rising sea level threats to waterfront properties
Published: 2017
All along the coast of the southeast United States, the real estate industry confronts a hurricane. Not the kind that swirls in the Atlantic, but a storm of scientific information about sea-level rise that threatens the most lucrative, commission-boosting properties.
Lebel, Audrey: Russia and the patriarchal code
Published: 2019
Lecher, Colin: A health care algorithm affecting millions is biased against black patients
A startling example of algorithmic bias
Published: 2019
A health care algorithm makes black patients substantially less likely than their white counterparts to receive important medical treatment. The major flaw, which affects millions of patients, was revealed in research published in the journal Science.
Lee, Andrew: Greece Gives Birth to Another Virulent Neo-Nazi Party - Is the U.S. Ambassador One of Its Proud Godfathers?
Published: 2020
A new neo-Nazi party, "Greeks for the Fatherland," has formed in Greece under the leadership of former Golden Dawn (GD) leader Ilias Kasidiaris as the infamous GD Party begins to fade.
Lee, Bette: MSM Cover-Up of Neo-Nazis In Ukraine
Published: 2022
In its coverage of the war in Ukraine, one of the MSM's most egregious offenses is its silence or downplaying the significance of the neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
Lee, Dianne: Holocaust survivor and activist for justice Hedy Epstein dies at 91
Published: 2016
Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, 91, died at her home in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on May 26, 2016. An internationally renowned, respected and admired advocate for human and civil rights, Hedy was encircled by friends who lovingly cared for her at home.
Lee, Micah: How Right-Wing Extremists Stalk, Dox, and Harass Their Enemies
Published: 2017
How neo-Nazis in the U.S use the online chatroom Pony Power to harass anti-facist activists.
Lee, Micah: How to Encrypt the Entire Web for Free
Published: 2014
The benefits of using HTTPS are obvious when you think about protecting secret information you send over the internet, like passwords and credit card numbers. It also helps protect information like what you search for in Google, what articles you read, what prescription medicine you take, and messages you send to colleagues, friends, and family from being monitored by hackers or authorities. But there are less obvious benefits as well.
Lee, Micah: How to Leak to The Intercept
Published: 2015
Leaking can serve the public interest, fueling revelatory and important journalism. Here are instructions for how to leak safely.
Lee, Micah: Passphrases That You Can Memorize - But That Even the NSA Can't Guess
Published: 2015
A passphrase is like a password, but longer and more secure. In essence, it's an encryption key that you memorize. Once you start caring more deeply about your privacy and improving your computer security habits, one of the first roadblocks you'll run into is having to create a passphrase. You can't secure much without one.
Lee, Micah: Secret 'BADASS' Intelligence Program Spied on Smartphones
Published: 2015
British and Canadian spy agencies accumulated sensitive data on smartphone users, by piggybacking on ubiquitous software from advertising and analytics companies, according to a document obtained by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.The document outlines a secret program run by the intelligence agencies called BADASS.
Lee, Micah: The U.S. Government Thinks Thousands of Russian Hackers May Be Reading My Blog. They Aren't.
Published: 2017
After the U.S. government published a report on Russia's cyber attacks against the U.S. election system, and included a list of computers that were allegedly used by Russian hackers, I became curious if any of these hackers had visited my personal blog.
Lee, Micah: With Virtual Machines, Getting Hacked Doesn't Have To Be That Bad
Published: 2015
Lee explains how to install and use a virtual machine, a fake computer running inside the real computer.
Lee, Micah: You Should Really Consider Installing Signal, an Encrypted Messaging App for iPhone
Published: 2015
App maker Open Whisper Systems took an important step today with the release of a major new version of its Signal encrypted calling app for iPhones and iPads. The new version, Signal 2.0, folds in support for encrypted text messages using a protocol called TextSecure, meaning users can communicate using voice and text while remaining confident nothing can be intercepted in transit over the internet.
Lee, Micah; Speri, Speri: Police Broke Into Chelsea Manning's Home with Guns Drawn - in a 'Wellness Check'
Published: 2018
A video recording of a 'wellness check' by police in Maryland, USA, shows police officers arriving with weapons drawn. The incident sheds light on a very disturbing police procedure and whether law enforcement should be called at all as first responders in matters of mental health.
Lee, Peter: China's Cyber-War: Don't Believe the Hype
Net Threat Inflation
Published: 2013
Addressing cyber-theft, U.S hypocrisy, and China.
Lee, Peter: Did the US Accidentally Give the World's Most Powerful Cyberweapon to Terrorists?
Sony Hack: Made in America?
Published: 2015
Leech, Garry: Behind the Lies About Venezuela's Protests
John Kerry: the Belligerent Diplomat
Published: 2014
US Secretary of State John Kerry recently called on the Venezuelan government to end the "terror campaign against its own citizens."
Leech, Garry: The Bias of Human Rights Watch
Promoting Injustice
Published: 2013
The reports issued by Human Rights Watch over the past decade have increasingly exhibited a bias towards certain rights over others. More precisely, Human Rights Watch repeatedly focuses on political and civil rights while ignoring social and economic rights.
Leech, Garry: Islamic Extremism is a Product of Western Imperialism
Published: 2016
So what happened to bring Islamic fundamentalism to the forefront of global politics? While there are many factors involved, undoubtedly one of the primary causes is Western imperialism.
Leech, Garry: Washington Seeks Regime Change in Venezuela
Agents of Destabilization
Published: 2014
Both the ongoing protests in Venezuela and the economic problems that the demonstrators are protesting against appear to have been orchestrated by the opposition in order to destabilize the country and bring down the government. Unable to gain power through the ballot box, the Venezuelan opposition has turned to unconstitutional means to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
Lefebvre, Henri: Henri Lefebvre Quotes
Leftist Critic: The Role of Science in Capitalist Society and Social Change
Part 1 of 2
Published: 2017
With its Republican allies in Congress, the Trump administration plans to cut scientific programs while feeding more fuel into the ravenous, murderous, and imperialistic war machine of the United States. Trump's hate of scientists is clearly universal as demonstrated by the sanctioning of 271 Syrian scientists by the Treasury Department despite the fact these scientists have not engaged in any hostile acts aimed at the United States.
Legner, Julia: Torture casts a shadow over the G20
Published: 2020
This year, Saudi Arabia is holding the rotating presidency of the Group of 20 (G20), the world's largest economies. The kingdom will use its presidency as a PR opportunity to expand its economic influence and attract foreign investment. However, Legner argues that the proven practice of systemic torture and human rights abuses should disqualify Saudi Arabia from holding the presidency of the G20.
Leicht, Justus: Berlin Tax Office withdraws charitable status from Nazi victims' organisation
Published: 2019
The Berlin Tax Office has withdrawn the charitable status of one of the largest and most long-established anti-fascist associations in Germany jeopardizing its abillity to continue its work.
Leigh, Caroline: Strippers' greatest protection is each other
Published: 2022
Caroline Leigh describes her experience working in the stripping industry and the urgency of organizing it.
Leigh, David: Don't Be Boring, Just Because You Have To Get the Facts Right
Published: 2012
The Guardian's investigations editor lists the essential skills to get a journalism job, the right mindset for investigative reporters, and the most important lesson he's learned over the years.
Leighton, Jared E: Freedom indivisible: Gays and Lesbians in the African American Civil Rights movement
PhD Thesis, University of Nebraska, 2013
Published: 2013
Leighton, Ron: Endarkenment: Postmodernism, Identity Politics, and the Attack on Free Speech
Published: 2017
Many today find the idea of free speech appalling -- an awful fact to those who believe in freedom, quaint as it sounds. Left-liberals agitate to prevent disagreeable expression. Their masked street allies physically attack those who engage in it.
Leitko, Aaron: Museum of Endangered Sounds enshrines audio from bygone era
Saved from the silence
Published: 2012
A website preserves outmoded electronic sounds that are lost to the world.
Lemaître, Frédéric: Prisoners' Pictures review -- exploring science and propaganda amid conflict
Published: 2014
A photography exhibition in Frankfurt examines first world war propaganda attempts to stir revolt among Muslim soldiers.
Lemoine, Maurice: Latin American coups upgraded
These days the military go back to their barracks
Published: 2014
The classic Latin American coup used to put the military in direct command and control of a country. That doesn’t work well on the world stage, and is being replaced by more clever manipulation, however the same people end up in power.
Lenin, Ilyich Vladimir: Ilyich Vladimir Lenin Quotes
Lennon, John: John Lennon Quotes
Leonard, Aaron J.: The FBI's Maoist Faction
Published: 2018
The following is based on research by Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher for their book, A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974, (London: Repeater Books, 2018).
Leonard, Ralph: Black or White, It's the Same Old Anti-Semitic Pathology
Published: 2020
2019 closed with a number of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York City area—including the killing of three people at a Jersey City kosher market by two shooters who had expressed interest in the fringe Black Hebrew Israelite movement, and a machete attack at a rabbi's home in Monsey, NY by a suspect who appears to have referenced the same anti-Semitic hate group in his rambling manifesto.
Leonard, Ralph: Racial categories are reactionary
One of the most banal and vulgar ways to think about humanity is to classify by 'race'
Published: 2020
Racial thinking, no matter how 'progressively' arrived at, can only be reactionary. It is irrational, anti-scientific and anti-humanist. It is a fetter on the social development of human beings and their flourishing. Racialism and racism are twin brothers. Solidifying racial categories in mainstream discourse is a grave mistake. Real progress should mean challenging racial thinking at its root and ultimately transcending it.
Leonard, Ralph: Why the West isn't racist
Published: 2021
The Enlightenment gave us individual freedom -- yet Kehinde Andrews blames it for anti-black bigotry
Leopold, Jason: CIA Torture Architect Breaks Silence to Defend 'Enhanced Interrogation'
Published: 2014
The psychologist regarded as the architect of the CIA's “enhanced interrogation” program has broken a seven-year silence to defend the use of torture techniques against al-Qaida terror suspects in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Lepper, Laura: Six Nations and Dundalk Fight Corporate Crap
Why We Should All Support Their Struggle
Published: 2012
Dundalk is situated at the highest elevation in Ontario, the headwaters of both the Grand and Saugeen rivers, and sits on land deeded to the Six Nations through the Haldimand Proclamation of 1763. Despite the ecological importance of the region and the outstanding land claim, the municipal council and a corporation are attempting to force through a plan to build a “bio-solids” processing facility just a stone’s throw from the town.
Lerer, Yael: Selective indignation on the streets of Israel
Who are 'the people' and what is social justice?
Published: 2011
Middle-class Israelis, aware they have lost social security and affordable housing, are protesting by pitching tents and demonstrating in city streets. But will they demand equality for all? For now, they seem intent only on their own lost privileges.
Lerner, Rabbi Michael: Netanyahu: Have You No Shame?
Published: 2015
Israel’s Prime Minister attributing the Holocaust to Palestinian influence over Hitler is a "Blood Libel" level lie.
Lerner, Sharon: DuPont May Dodge Toxic Lawsuits By Pulling a Disappearing Act
Published: 2016
First DuPont spun off much of its environmental liability into a new company known as Chemours. Now the company plans to merge with Dow.
Lerner, Sharon: How the Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Massive Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything
Published: 2020
Chevron has hired private investigators to track Donziger, created a publication to smear him, and put together a legal team of hundreds of lawyers from 60 firms, who have successfully pursued an extraordinary campaign against him. As a result, Donziger has been disbarred and his bank accounts have been frozen.
Lerner, Sharon: The Plant Next Door
A Louisiana Town Plagued by Pollution Shows Why Cuts to the EPA Will Be Measured in Illnesses and Deaths
Published: 2017
When the Environmental Protection Agency informed people in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, last July that the local neoprene plant was emitting a chemical that gave them the highest risk of cancer from air pollution in the country, the information was received not just with horror and sadness but also with a certain sense of validation.
Lerner, Sharon: The Plastic Industry's Fight to Keep Polluting the World
Published: 2019
An in-depth look at the failure of recycling intiatives and the plastics industry's PR efforts that put the onus on small scale efforts to reduce waste while they fight any initiatives that curb production at the industry level.
Lerner, Sharon: Poisoning the Well
Special Report: Toxic Firefighting Foam Has Contaminated U.S. Drinking Water With PFCS
Published: 2015
Lori Cervera had always been an active person. She liked camping, playing outdoors with her kids, and practically lived in her running shoes. She didn’t have much patience for illness. So when she developed a dull ache on her right side in May 2014, Cervera took a few Tylenol and did her best to ignore it. But after a few days in which the pain grew sharper and more intense, she went to the hospital, where a CT scan revealed a mass. To her complete surprise, Cervera, a mother of four and grandmother of two who was 46 at the time, was diagnosed with stage 2 kidney cancer. That July she underwent surgery to remove both the tumor and almost half her right kidney.
Lester, George W.: Why Bad Beliefs Don't Die
Published: 2000
Because beliefs are designed to enhance our ability to survive, they are biologically designed to be strongly resistant to change. To change beliefs, skeptics must address the brain's "survival" issues of meanings and implications in addition to discussing their data.
Leterme, Cedric: Global business of bytes
Published: 2019
Leupp, Gary: CNN: "Russia is an Adversary, Ukraine is Not."
Published: 2017
Monday morning. David Chalian, CNN Political Director, on CNN's "New Day" program. News ticker: "How do Trump-Russia and DNC-Ukraine compare?" New Day co-anchor Alysin Camerota (former Fox anchor) puts the question to her Political Director. Chalian's mechanical reply: "Russia is an adversary, Ukraine is not."
Leupp, Gary: Immanuel Kant on Electoral Interference
Published: 2017
Historically the United States has been far more inclined to engage in politcal interference than Russia.
Leupp, Gary: The Intelligence Apparatus Is Checking Out Your "Intimate Body Parts"
Privates Eyes
Published: 2014
According to the latest Snowden revelation, Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which works in close collaboration with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), has been intercepting and storing images of millions of Yahoo webcam-chat users in a program appropriately code-named "Optic Nerve."
Leupp, Gary: Profiting from Christian Credulity
Manufacturing the Jesus Legend
Published: 2014
A brand-new book, entitled The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus’ Marriage to Mary the Magdalene, is receiving a lot of attention. How could it not? The authors of the book declare that it proves that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married, with two children. The media eats this stuff up.
Leupp, Gary: The Skripal Poisonings and the Ongoing Vilification of Putin
Published: 2018
Pinning the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter by a nerve agent on the Russian state makes little sense, and is an attempt by the West to futher villify Putin who actually had little to gain by ordering such an action.
Leupp, Gary: Standing Rock and Imperialism Itself
Published: 2016
An article about the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Leupp, Gary: A Useful Prep-Sheet on Syria for Media Propagandists
Published: 2015
State Department talking points on Syria for cable news anchors.
Leupp, Gary: What Motivated the Boston Bombers
Why It's Not a Chechen Thing, But All About the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Published: 2013
Two young men, brothers who emigrated from Kyrgyzstan twelve years ago with their parents and sisters — high-achieving, “well-assimilated” immigrant men — planted bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring well over 250.
Leupp, Gary: Why Hillary Won the Debate (Even though She Didn't)
Published: 2015
CNN and Facebook co-sponsored last week’s Democratic presidential frontrunners' "debate." After the event, CNN conducted a poll. "Who won the debate?" it asked. The result: 83% Bernie Sanders; 12% Hillary Clinton.
Leupp, Gary: Why It Just Makes Sense for the U.S. to Withdraw from the UNHRC
Published: 2018
Having withdrawn from the Paris Accord, and the Iran deal; having broken with the world to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital; having provoked allies and rivals with trade war-triggering tariffs and personal insults; having shocked the world with talk of a Great Wall to keep out Mexicans (paid for by Mexico).
Leupp, Gary: Why the Ruling Class is So Upset About Edward Snowden
The Damage to Our Intelligence is Gut-Wrenching to See
Published: 2013
Is Snowden a hero, or a villain? The tiny power elite that controls the mainstream press and cable channels, the corporations that dutifully hand over meta-data to the state, the twin political parties, are sick to their stomachs that they’ve been so exposed.
Leveritt, Alan: Why Should My Newspaper Pledge Not to Boycott Israel?
Published: 2019
An editorial by the publisher of an Arkansas newspaper expected to sign a pledge promising to not boycott Israel in exchange for the ability to sell advertising.
Levin, Jamie; Treleaven, Sarah: House Hunters Transnational
Israel's economic settlers in the West Bank
Published: 2017
Settlement developers in Israel are seizing upon the country's economic woes and high cost of living as an opportunity to expand housing on the disputed West Bank, putting further into question a two state solution.
Levine, Andrew: Putting Socialism Back on the Agenda
Daring to Hope
Published: 2013
Is Socialism Capitalism's future?
Levine, Bruce: How 7 Historic Figures Overcame Depression Without Doctors
Drugless Antidotes
Published: 2012
While Sylvia Plath and Ernest Hemingway received extensive medical treatment for depression but tragically committed suicide, other famously depressed people — including Abraham Lincoln, William James, Georgia O’Keeffe, Sigmund Freud, William Tecumseh Sherman, Franz Kafka, and the Buddha — took different paths.
Levine, Bruce E.: Killing 'Schizophrenics': Contemporary U.S. Psychiatry Versus Nazi Psychiatry
Published: 2017
In the United States in the earlier part of the twentieth century, there was widespread compulsory sterilization of those diagnosed with serious mental illness; and from the 1970s through the early 1990s, dehumanizing experiments that ignored the Nuremberg Code of research ethics were administered on this population by prominent American psychiatrists.
Levine, Bruce E.: Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived
Published: 2018
A brief look back at the life and work of world reknowned linguist, philospher and social activist Noam Chomsky, who turns 90 on December 7, 2018.
Levine, Bruce E.: Psychiatry's 'Defect Model of Mental Illness:' a Path for Those it Has Failed
Published: 2016
For some depressed, anxious, and substance-abusing people, it feels better to believe that they are essentially defective, as it provides them with a defense of sorts against insulting accusations that they are malingering. But the defect model of mental illness doesn't work for everyone.
Levine, Bruce E.: Psychiatry's Manufacture of Consent
The Chemical Imbalance Theory and the Antidepressant Explosion
Published: 2014
Starting in the 1990s — despite research findings that levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin were unrelated to depression — Americans began to be exposed to highly effective television commercials for antidepressants that portrayed depression as caused by a “chemical imbalance” of low levels of serotonin and which could be treated with “chemically balancing” antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).
Levine, Bruce E.: School Shootings: Who to Listen to Instead of Mainstream Shrinks
Published: 2018
Clinical psychologist Bruce Levine discusses the prevailing cynicism and hopelessnes among young people in the United States -- about their country and their future. In particular the article focuses on troubled young people who have lost any connection with adults and view the world as an uncaring place, and are commonly prescribed medication such as anti-depressants.
Levine, Carol: The Power of public relations
Published: 1999
An overview of the role of public relations practitioners.
Levine, Joseph: NYT op-ed describing Israel as a place of refuge is missing the word, Palestinians
Published: 2018
A rebuke by author Levine to the New York Times op-ed written by Susan Silverman titled "How Did Israel Become A Place of No Refuge?".
Levine, Michael: Michael Levine's Ten commandments for Dealing with the Media
Published: 2003
Rules for dealing with the media.
Levine, Yasha: Know your history: Google has been a military-intel contractor from the very beginning
Published: 2018
But the fact that Google helps the military build more efficient systems of surveillance and death shouldn't have been surprising, especially not to Google employees. The truth is that Google has spent the last 15 years selling souped-up versions of its information technology to military and intelligence agencies, local police departments, and military contractors of all size and specialization -- including outfits that sell predictive policing tech deployed in cities across America today.
Levine, Yasha: Shocker: US state propaganda outlets censor Black Lives Matter protests
Published: 2020
On the history of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty of promoting the interests of the American Empire, and downplaying issues related to police brutality and racism.
Levinovitz, Alan Jay: It's Not All Relative
Published: 2017
Can a devotion to cultural tolerance lead to the triumph of alternative facts?
Levitan, Tyler: Harper's Relationship With the Jewish Defense League Is Disturbing
Published: 2015
With Canada's federal election less than two weeks away, Levitan addresses a highly topical matter: the Conservatives' close relations with the controversial Jewish Defense League (JDL).
Levitz, Eric: Liberals Need to Stop Writing Off Non-College Educated Workers -- Before the White Working Class Writes Off Liberals
Published: 2016
Article focuses on American elections and candidate's strategy on providing economic security for the working class and uneducated citizens.
Levy Zumwalt, Rosemary: Freedom Summer, 50 Years After
The Power of Stories
Published: 2014
In his memoir, Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers, Memories of Mississippi 1964-65, Jim Dann put to paper the stories from his time in Mississippi 50 years ago, working as a young college student for fifteen months in Sunflower County to establish Freedom Schools and to help register African-Americans to vote.
Levy, Gideon: Coronavirus gives Israelis a tiny taste of what life is like for Palestinians
Published: 2020
Will Israelis emerge from the virus with a newfound sympathy for Palestinian suffering? Not likely.
Levy, Gideon: A Heartfelt Apology to Haaretz Readers
To all offended readers, I apologize for the one-sidedness. How could I not maintain a balance between the murderer and the murdered; the thief and his victim; and the occupier and the occupied?
Levy, Gideon: Israel does not want peace
Published: 2014
Rejectionism is embedded in Israel's most primal beliefs. There, at the deepest level, lies the concept that this land is destined for the Jews alone.
Levy, Gideon: The Last Refuge
Neve Gordon and the Boycott of Israel
Published: 2009
Let us admit the truth: The occupier deserves to be boycotted. As long as the Israelis pay no price for the occupation, the occupation will not end, and therefore the only way open to the opponents of the occupation is to take concrete means that will make the Israelis understand that the injustice they are perpetrating comes with a price tag.
Levy, Gideon; Levac, Alex: 'Call me a terrorist, but I'm no different from Israeli troops defending their homeland'
Published: 2016
Some thoughts on the true source of incitement against and hatred of Israelis from a Palestinian who spent 23 years in jail for killing one. In 1990, Muqbel was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Yaakov Shalom in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Karem. Released after 23 years, he is now a key activist in Fatah, talking on the movement's behalf in West Bank schools.
Levy, Howard: Now a Canadian view of media ethics (book review)
Review of Morals and the Media: Ethics in Canadian Journalism
Published: 1995
Levy, Sarah: "Delegitimize Zionism," says Israeli filmmaker
Published: 2014
An interview with Israeli filmaker Lia Tarachansky, whose film "On the Side of the Road" confronts the reality of the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine, and examines how Israelis deal with that past today, how it is taught to youth, as well as which facts are included or deliberately ignored.
Lewin, Kurt: Kurt Lewin Quotes
Lewis, Avi (director); Klein, Naomi (narrator): This Changes Everything
Published: 2015
Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything, the film presents portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Klein suggests that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
Lewis, Charles: Spiked: Fighting In-House Censorship When Media Managers Can't Handle The Truth
Published: 2015
Working in mainstream print media can be very frustrating. Between the corporate and editorial red tape and censorship, it might be more worthwhile to become an independant journalist.
Lewis, Jim: The Culture That Created Donald Trump Was Liberal, Not Conservative
Published: 2016
Now that Donald Trump, the candidate, has become both widely popular and deeply loathsome, we're seeing a cataract of editorials and commentary aimed at explaining how it happened and who's to blame. The predictable suspects are trotted out: the Republican Party, which had been too opportunistic and fearful to stand up to its own candidate, Fox News, which inflamed the jingoes, and white working-class voters, unhinged by class envy and racial resentment.
Lewis, Nathaniel: Mass Incarceration
New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both?
Published: 2018
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, Lewis analyzes racial and class disparities in incarceration.
Lewis, Norman: Lockdowns, curfews. Troops on the streets. Governments handing out free cash. This utter madness was entirely avoidable
Published: 2020
What happens when governments confuse worst-case scenarios with reality? They transform a health crisis into a social crisis and an economic tsunami, with consequences more severe than the virus could produce in the first place.
Lewis, Norman: Yes, mobile technology can help solve the Covid-19 crisis - but can also fuel the authoritarian virus sweeping across the world
Published: 2020
When it comes to technology innovation, the saying that if you are not solving a real problem you are creating one, could not be truer with regard to the use of mobile apps and data to tackle coronavirus.
Lewis, Paul; Evans, Rob; Taylor, Matthew: Police log 'domestic extremists' and keep database on activists
Forces survey and file details of peaceful protests and political activities
Published: 2009
'Domestic Extremists' are persons involved in political meetings and protests who are photographed and added to a national database by the UK police. This surveillance falls under the purview of "terrorism and allied matters" and these police tactics are now the subject of an internal review. They have been widely criticized for lacking accountability.
Lewis, Paul; Rushe, Dominic: Revealed: how Whisper app tracks ‘anonymous’ users
Published: 2014
The company behind Whisper, the social media app that promises users anonymity and claims to be “the safest place on the internet”, is tracking the location of its users, including some who have specifically asked not to be followed.
Lewis-Kraus, Gideon: A Grand Juror Speaks
The inside story of how prosecutors always get their way
Published: 2015
Lewis-Kraus recounts his inside story as a member of a grand jury in New York.
Lexchin, Joel: Involuntary Medication
Published: 2016
This study examines the possible effects of the TPP on how Canada regulates medicines and how much the country spends paying for them. It finds that the TPP would require Canada to extend patent terms to compensate brand-name pharmaceutical firms for regulatory delays in approving drugs. This policy change alone could add hundres of millions of dollars annually to the price of drugs in Canada. The agreement will restrict future policy options in these areas in ways that benefit brand-name producers over consumers and the broader public interest. The TPP could also have profound effects on the criteria that Canada uses to decide on drug safety and effectiveness, how new drugs are approved (or not) for marketing, post-market surveillance and inspection, the listing of drugs on public formularies, and how individual drugs are priced in the future.
Lexier, Roberta: "The Backdrop Against Which Everything Happened"
English-Canadian Student Movements and Off-Campus Movements for Change
Published: 2007
Examines the relationship between the 1960s' student movements at English-Canadian universities and provincial, national, and international movements for change.
Libongani, Eric: Southern African Media Directory 2006-2007
Published: 2006
Libretti, Tim: Review: Moving Beyond Black and White? - Book Review
Published: 1999
Beyond Black and White:Transforming African-American Politics by Manning Marable (New York: Verso, 1995). Paperback, $17.
Licata, Nick: How Urban Planners Promote Gentrification
Published: 2019
A review of Samuel Stein's book "Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State" which looks at how private interests and government promote gentrification.
Lichtenstein, Nelson: A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics and Labor
Published: 2013
Compilation and updates of many of Lichtenstein's most provocative and controversial essays and reviews. The author offers perspectives on the relationship of labour and the state, the tensions that sometimes exist between a culture of rights and the idea of solidarity, and the rise of conservatism in politics, law, and intellectual life.
Liddle, Rod: How right wing the left sounds after its moment of racial truth
Published: 2006
We are not born with a gene that insists we become Muslim or Christian or Rastafarian. We are born, all of us, with a tabula rasa; we are not defined by the nationality or religion or cultural assumptions of our parents.
Lieberman, Amy: Could urban farming provide a much-needed oasis in the Tulsa food desert?
Published: 2016
Oklahoma is one of the most food insecure states in the US, where families struggle to buy enough healthy food. Locals are trying to ease poverty with community farming, but face difficulty in a city with a complex racial history
Lieberman, Dan: Palestine Museum of Natural History
Published: 2017
The Palestine Museum of Natural History provides testimony to the Palestinian attachment to the land, for preservation of plant and animal life, as well as cultural expression and identity to the Palestinian community.
Lieberman, Robbie: Post-war Left Feminism - review
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
A review of 'Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture' by Kathlene McDonald.
Liebman, Alex; Wallace, Rob: A Lethal Industrial Farm Fungus is Spreading Among Us
Published: 2019
Agricultural fungicides are creating strains of drug-resistant fungi.
Liechti, Felix; Witvliet, Willem; Weber, Roger; Bächler, Erich: First evidence of a 200-day non-stop flight in a bird
Published: 2013
For several decades ornithologists have claimed that some swifts may stay airborne for almost their whole lifetime. Here we present the first unequivocal evidence that an individual bird of the Alpine swift (Tachymarptis melba) can stay airborne for migration, foraging and roosting over a period of more than 6 months. To date, such long-lasting locomotive activities had been reported only for animals living in the sea.
Lieven, Anatol: Canceling talks with Russia won't achieve anything
Published: 2022
The United States and its European partners have no vital interests in Ukraine — and therefore should be prepared to compromise.
Light, Bob: He's a right royal knockout
Published: 2014
At the Invictus Games Harry will be centre stage in his uniform - no, not the Nazi one - as the Warrior Prince. Yeah, right.The PR story will be about a princely "hero" who served "on the front line" in Afghanistan. Except "Harry Wales" actually spent his four months in Afghanistan entirely at Camp Bastion, several hundred miles from the Helmand "front line" .
Lilburne, John; Walwyn, William; Prince, Thomas; Overton, Richard: An Agreement of the Free People of England
Manifesto of the Levellers
Published: 1649
The Levellers were an informal alliance of agitators and pamphleteers who came together during the English Civil War (1642-1648) to demand constitutional reform and equal rights under the law. Levellers believed all men were born free and equal and possessed natural rights that resided in the individual, not the government. They believed that each man should have freedom limited only by regard for the freedom of others. They believed the law should equally protect the poor and the wealthy.
Lim, Audrea: We Shall Not Be Moved
Collective ownership gives power back to poor farmers
Published: 2020
On the Community Land Trust (CLT) model implemented in Georgia to help build economic power among Black farmers.
Lin, Htun: The boss is spying
Published: 2013
The data mining by large U.S. corporations gets less attention than U.S. government surveillance. It goes beyond the tracking of every mouse-click, purchase and "like" registered by every consumer on the internet, and relies not only on sophisticated electronic devices, but on the currency of fear and sheer intimidation which would make a Big Brother tyrant proud, the kind depicted in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984.
Lin, Htun: Judging workers for control and profit
Published: 2013
The computer with its air of objectivity has come to dominate human beings. The usurping of human judgment pervades all of society, from healthcare and education to manufacturing and the judicial sphere. Human empathy and understanding have been replaced by automated thinking that mimics the computer. Reclaiming our own minds is a step towards human freedom.
Lin, Htun: Workshop Talks: Do job, get fired
Published: 2016
Under the Affordable Care Act, it’s standard HMO practice to offer patients the opportunity to fill out an advance directive as an exercise in considering one's quality of life, not just its prolongation. Frontline healthcare providers have a concrete reason for quality-of-life care concerns. But in the HMO business campaigns promoting quality of life over quantity, things are not really what they appear.
Lin, I-fan: Made-in-China fake news overwhelms Taiwan
Published: 2018
Since 2016, when Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was elected as Taiwan's president relations between Taiwan and China have been increasingly strained. In parallel, a series of fake news campaigns have captured Taiwanese media, with experts tracing several of these stories back to China.
Lincoln, Abraham: Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Lindorff, Dave: Are US Troops Targeting Journalists?
Incidents Raise Suspicions on Motive
Published: 2012
It is dangerous in the extreme to be a journalist covering America’s wars, at least beginning with Vietnam.
Lindorff, Dave: As Police Killings of Minorities Mount, Attacks on Police Like the One in Dallas, While Awful, Are Also Sadly Predictable
Published: 2016
The tragedy that is America has deepened with the news of a sniper attack targeting police in Dallas during a protest march and rally against police brutality and killings of black people in that city. The murder of anybody, whether it's a police officer or someone who is simply stopped by a cop for a minor traffic violation and is then shot because a jumpy officer mistakes reaching for a wallet to be reaching for a gun, as happened just two days ago in Minnesota, is a dreadful thing.
Lindorff, Dave: The Big Lie About the Tax Bill: Why Bosses Will Never Raise Wages
Published: 2017
The big lie underlying the $1.5-trillion Trump/Republican Congressional tax bill is that Corporations will pass much of it on to workers in the form of higher wages, and to consumers in the form of lower prices.
Lindorff, Dave: Confessions of an Alleged Russian Propagandist: A Pentagon Hit?
Published: 2016
While our corporate media don't talk about it, the US does run a vast propaganda operation, which includes the spawning and spreading of, guess what?, fake news stories! This kind of thing has gone on for years abroad, but since 2001, under both the Bush and Obama administrations, both the Pentagon and the US Information Agency have done away with an earlier ban on spreading such lies posing as news inside the US. Now we’re all fair game for US propaganda, which by the way the mainstream media routinely parrot.
Lindorff, dave: Crimes and Punishment (or Not)
Manning Get's Slammed; A Mass-Murderer Got Sprung
Published: 2013
William Laws Calley, a second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, was convicted of slaughtering 22 innocent men, women and children, including babies, during a day-long slaughterfest in which he and his men massacred over 500 unarmed Vietnamese.
Lindorff, Dave: Empty Lectures About the Sanctity of the 'Rule of Law'
Washington Has No Sense of Shame
Published: 2013
US is threatening Hong Kong, China, Russia and now little Ecuador with all manner of reprisals if they don't respect the "rule of law" and hand over whistleblower Edward Snowden to the US national security apparatus.
Lindorff, Dave: Facing Facts in Wisconsin
Progressives and Workers Were Sold Out by Obama and the Democratic Party
Published: 2012
The time has long since come for labor and progressives to bolt the Democratic Party and coalesce around a new genuinely progressive, working people’s party.
Lindorff, Dave: FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers
US Intelligence Machine Instead Plotted with Bankers to Attack Protest Movement
Published: 2012
Dcuments show that the FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies began a campaign of monitoring, spying and disrupting the Occupy Movement at least two months before the first occupation actions began in late September 2011.
Lindorff, Dave: Freedom of Information Takes Another Hit in the United States
Keeping Americans Safe
Published: 2013
The United States is a land of ill-informed sheep and the home of a bunch of cowards — cowards in government who are afraid of the truth and the open debate over facts and ideas, and cowards among the broader public who willingly allow these steady encroacments on our freedom in the name of “fighting terror.”
Lindorff, Dave: Gen. John Campbell, Commander in Afghanistan and Serial Liar
Published: 2015
After weeks of lies, the Obama administration and the Pentagon, unable to find any way to explain their murderous hour-long AC-130 gunship assault on and destruction of a Doctors Without Borders-run hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, have turned to a new lie: they bombed the wrong building.
Lindorff, Dave: Information Overload
Driving a Stake Through the National Security State
Published: 2012
Here’s an idea. Let’s all start salting all of our conversations and our written communications with a selection of those 300 key words. If every liberty-loving person in America virus were to do this, the NSA would have to employ all 15 million unemployed Americans just to begin to look at all those transcripts!
Lindorff, Dave: Information Terrorists?
The Vile Campaign Against Julian Assange and Wikileaks
Published: 2010
WikiLeaks is under concerted attack from the US government. Also under attack by the US government is the whole idea of freedom of thought and of information. It needs to be clearly understood that the attacks on WikiLeaks by the US government could as easily be used against news organizations and political organizations.
Lindorff, Dave: Kurt Vonnegut and the American Police State
Just Say "Hi-Ho!" as They Strip Search You
Published: 2012
The country seems to have crossed over a dark threshold. We are now a police state in all but name. Cops and wannabe cops are shooting innocent people and nothing gets done.
Lindorff, Dave: Looming Climate Catastrophe: Extinction in Nine Years?
Published: 2017
Reports from the Arctic are getting pretty grim.
Lindorff, Dave: Metastasizing of the Police State of America
NY Times Report Documents
Published: 2014
The latest news on the burgeoning police state in the US -- a page-one investigative report in the New York Times disclosing that at least 40 agencies of the US government from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Supreme Court (!) are using undercover agents to spy on and even to entrap law-abiding American citizens -- suggests that we have passed the tipping point.
Lindorff, Dave: No News is Not Good News
Cops Taping Protesters & Journalists
Published: 2010
If cops photograph and videotape protesters and journalists, it's news if it happens in China, but when it happens in the U.S., as it routinely does, the media are silent.
Lindorff, Dave: Now it's Israel's IDF Leveling Gaza
Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto
Published: 2014
Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto, Now it’s Israel’s IDF leveling Gaza.
Lindorff, Dave: Obama's Sinister Crackdown on the Press
Detention of Greenwald Partner in London Clearly Came on US Orders
Published: 2013
David Miranda was placed on such a watch list by the US because of his relationship with Greenwald and was detained and held, without access to a lawyer, for nine hours.
Lindorff, Dave: The Perils of Embedded Journalism: 'Afghan Papers' Wouldn't Be Needed If We Had a Real Independent News Media
Published: 2019
If the Post and other major news media outlets had been pursuing the truth over the years about these all the wars, and the so-called "War" on Terror, instead of leaving the hard work of exposing all the lies to the likes of whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden and journalist/whistleblower publisher Julian Assange, we'd already know about the venality and culpability of our government.
Lindorff, Dave: Police Militarism in America
In Many Communities Cops are the Terrorists
Published: 2014
The apparent murder by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, of Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black youth who was shot a number of times while he was allegedly on his knees with his hands up in the air, pleading “Don’t shoot, I’m not armed,” is exposing everything that is wrong with policing in the US today. What we need today is community resistance to police abuse, and a demilitarization of policing.
Lindorff, Dave: President Trump's War Crime is Worse than the One He Accuses Assad of
Published: 2018
The single most important thing that happened Friday night when the US military on President Trump's orders launched a wave of over 100 cruise missiles against Syria was that once again the US violated the most profound international law of war: initiating a war of aggression against a nation that posed no threat, imminent or otherwise, to the US or its allies.
Lindorff, Dave: Press Freedom is Under Threat in the Land of its Birth
Published: 2019
The US was not among the conulates protesting controversial new extradition bill in Hong Kong. They can't with a straight face object to Hong Kong passing an act that endorses extradition for political crimes while Washington is pursuing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Lindorff, Dave: Press Freedom is Under Threat in the Land of its Birth
Published: 2019
The author draws parallels between the US and Hong Kong's treatment of freedom and individual rights.
Lindorff, Dave: Profiles in Courage, and in the Lack of Courage
Published: 2013
The White House's press release of Malala's meeting with Barack Obama further diminished the import of her visit, and her remarkable courage, by failing to note that she had taken the opportunity of her visit to tell the president directly to his face that he should halt the drone attacks that he has been ordering on suspected Taliban “leaders” in western Pakistan — drone attacks that have often been calculated to kill not just targeted individuals but many innocent men, women and children in the vicinity of the blasts.
Lindorff, Dave: Shamelessness, Thy Name is Blinken
Published: 2021
It was only eight years ago that it was the US that was forcing down a plane, only in that case it was not just any plane but rather one carrying a head of state, Bolivian President Evo Morales. But as with this latest incident the goal was harassing an "independent media' and nabbing a critic. In that 2013 incident the real target was Edward Snowden, source for one of the biggest stories of the century: the disclosure thousands of documents from a global spying program by the top secret US National Security Agency where he had been employed as a private contractor.
Lindorff, Dave: Shooting to Kill Immigrants on the Mexican Border
A Border Agent Fired First at Immigrant Smugglers?
Published: 2012
Sometimes it takes a small tragedy to call attention to expose a much bigger one.
The small tragedy happened when Nicholas Ivie, a US Border Patrol agent, was shot dead on a dark night in rough terrain along the border with Mexico in Arizona, a state that has been obsessing about illegal border crossers coming into the US from Mexico seeking jobs.
Lindorff, Dave: Striking a Blow for Disarmament in Maine Shipyard
Fury Punches Out Early
Published: 2014
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have protested America’s bloated, out-of-control military, and millions more are outraged that the US spends upwards of $1 trillion a year on war and preparing for war.
Lindorff, Dave: The TSA's Role as Journalist Harasser and Media 'Watchdog'
Published: 2019
An American journalist whose work opposes the US government is openly marked for extra screening and inspections when travelling.
Lindorff, Dave: Two Acts of Terror, Only One Investigation
The Real Terrorists are the Corporate Execs Who've Bought the Regulators
Published: 2013
Two acts of terrorism in the US this week, the first took place at the end of the historic Boston Marathon, when two bombs went off near the finish line, killing three and seriously injuring dozens of runners and spectators; the second happened a couple days later in the town of West, Texas, where a fertilizer plant blew up, incinerating or otherwise killing at least 15, and injuring at least 150 people, and probably more as the search for the dead and the injured continues.
Lindorff, Dave: US Cyber Attack on Russia's Power Grid is an 'Act of War' (According to the US)
What about Venezuela's hacked power grid?
Published: 2019
The New York Times reports that the US has hacked Russia's power grid. Reporting on the issue has failed to mention any call for consequences or the fact that the US has already been accused of doing the same to Venezuela.
Lindorff, Dave: US Dispatched a Murderous AC-130 Airborne Gunship to Attack a Hospital
Published: 2015
Evidence continues to mount that the US committed a monstrous war crime in attacking and destroying a fully operational hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on the night of Oct. 3, 2015, killing at least 22 people including at least 12 members of the volunteer medical staff of Medicine Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), the French based international aid organization that operated the hospital.
Lindorff, Dave: US 'Outrage' Over Slaying of US Residents Depends on the Nation Responsible
Published: 2018
This article takes a look at the reasons why the US media managed to be outraged at the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia's government, yet there was no such reaction when Israel killed Furkan Dogan, a 19-year-old American citizen.
Lindorff, Dave: US Propaganda Campaign to Demonize Russia in Full Gear over One-Sided Dutch/Aussie Report on Flight 17 Downing
Published: 2016
If the danger of the anti-Putin, anti-Russian disinformation propaganda campaign out of the Pentagon and promoted by the US corporate media weren’t so serious, the effort itself might be laughable.
Lindorff, Dave: Washington and the Oil Industry Know the Truth About Climate Change
Short-Term Profits Trump Survival
Published: 2014
Climate skeptics in Congress, and oil and coal industry lobbyists like the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Coal Council (ACC) may be preventing any significant action in the US on reducing this country’s emissions of carbon into the atmosphere, but at the Pentagon, and in the executive suites of the oil industry giants, there is no doubt about the reality of climate change.
Lindorff, Dave: What If America's Leaders Actually Want Catastrophic Climate Change?
Thinking the Unthinkable
Published: 2012
Our leaders, political and corporate, may be puerile, egocentric greed-heads, but they are not stupid. They surely for the most part recognize that the Earth is heating up and heading at full speed towards ecological, social and political disaster. How else to explain, then, their astonishing unwillingness to take action?
LINDORFF, Dave: What the Snowden Affair Reveals About US Journalism
Corporate Media shown to be Rank Propaganda Arms
Published: 2013
The national corporate media is little more than unofficial propaganda arms of the US government.
Lindorff, David: Gassing Immigrants in Detention with a Highly Toxic Industrial Disinfectant
Published: 2020
What is being done to immigrant detainees by the US is a grotesque chemical assault on America's "undesirables."
Lindorff, David: Journalistic Malpractice at the Post and the Times
Rejecting the Offer of Evidence of US War Crimes
Published: 2013
Wikileaks source Bradley Manning is evidence that the USA’s two leading news organizations, the Washington Post and the New York Times, are not willing to report critically of the government.
Lindroff, Dave: Fascism On The March
Published: 2020
It’s been less than two weeks since the murder by cop of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and in that short time, an astonishing rebellion has sprung up from the angry grass roots. It began among a black population for whom this vicious videotaped slow and casual killing of a non-violent black suspect of a minor alleged crime by a calm and clearly unthreatened white police officer was the last straw.
Lindroff, Dave: How Can the US Accuse Russia of Violating International Law?
Not Funny, But it's Still Hard Not to Laugh
Published: 2014
If you want to make moral or legal pronouncements, or to condemn bad behaviour, you have to be a moral, law-abiding person yourself.
Lindroff, Dave: US Media Keep Saying Iran is "In Violation" of a Nuclear Agreement the US Withdrew From
Published: 2019
US Media portray Iran as having violated the US-Iran nuclear agreement. That's because the Trump administration, acting on its own, foolishlypulled out unilaterally from that agreement, and has been imposing sanctions on Iran, all of which has been in violation of the agreement, and which, by violating its terms, effectively terminates the agreement.
Linebaugh, Peter: Archiving With May Day Rooms
From the Marx Memorial Library to Cold Bath Fields
Published: 2013
In our day, as the traces of our radical movements are being thrown into rubbish pits, as state sponsored “austerity” demands the commodification of every inch of space, and with sinister intent destroys the evidence of our past, its joys, its victories. Clear out the closets, empty the shelves, toss out the old footage, shred the underground press, pulverize the brittle, yellowing documents! Thus neo-liberalism organizes the transition from the old to the new; they must silence alternatives.
Linebaugh, Peter: The Earth vs. Monsanto
A Peoples' Tribunal
Published: 2014
Here are a few brief notes about A People’s Hearing, held on 10 May 2014, in Greene County, Ohio, The Indivisible Living Entity of the Planet Earth v. Monsanto Corporation, Defendant.
Linebaugh, Peter: Liberties and Commons for All
Preface to the Korean Edition of Magna Carta Manifesto
Published: 2012
Liberties and Commons for All expresses two aspects of the ancient English Charters of Liberty; first is the restraint on political power of the King, second is the protection of subsistence in the commons.
Ling, Justin: Canada considers preventive detention in wake of Ottawa attack
Prime minister Stephen Harper says he plans to strengthen counter-terrorism efforts as parliament returns day after shooting
Published: 2014
The Canadian government indicated on Thursday that it intends to speed up proposals to toughen the country’s anti-terror laws in the wake of the attack on Parliament in Ottawa, including a measure that would allow “preventative detention”.
Links, Justus: Turkey's Tiananmen in Context
Published: 2015
At 9:30 Saturday morning Turkish citizens opposed to their government’s war policies gathered at the Ankara Train Station for a demonstration organized by a broad alliance of organizations.
Linn, Dave; Weissman, Susan: After Stalinism: An Exchange
Published: 1999
I FOUND SUSAN Weissman's piece “The Russian Revolution Revisited” (ATC 75, July/August 1998) a refreshingly readable synopsis of a complex historical problem. While I agree with most of her analysis (with one exception noted), I do not think her conclusion follows from this analysis.
Linnet, Carol: Alberta - tar sands emissions linked to health damage
Published: 2014
A report by Alberta's energy regulator links emissions from tar sands oil production with serious health impacts that have forced families to flee their homes in the Peace River region.
Lipps, Jere: Judging Authority
Published: 2004
We are often required to accept the word of another person, but how can we best judge whether or not that person is a legitimate authority?
Lisa: How to Understand Someone With Chronic Pain
Published: 2016
Chronic pain is pain that continues for weeks, months and even years. The experience of acute pain is the nervous system’s natural response to possible injury. With chronic pain, however, pain signals continue abnormally. This can be both distressing and exhausting for chronic pain sufferers. In some cases of chronic pain, there was an injury, illness or infection that first caused the pain. In other people, though, chronic pain appears and continues without a history of these events. To understand chronic pain sufferers, you should learn about chronic pain, be supportive and know what to say and what not to.
Liston, Bonnie May: Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your bush
Published: 2019
The interesting thing about feminine depilation: though it is a symptom of the patriarchy, it spreads, is held up and is passed along by women of their own free will. Like many parts of the patriarchy it is something we swallow and reproduce sometimes without the input of men at all.
Lithgow, Michael: Activist archiving in Toronto
Published: 2013
People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
Lithgow, Michael: Archives under siege: Ottawa gathering calls for national action
What We Have Lost, What We Stand to Lose: The Future of Archives and Archivists in Canada
Published: 2013
Report about a public meeting about the state of archives in Canada today.
Lithwick, Dahlia: When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee
Published: 2014
Amid all the tributes and accolades to Pete Seeger today, it’s easy to paper over the extent to which his career was almost destroyed by associations with communism and his refusal to testify to Congress about his time in the Communist Party.
Lithwick, Dalia; Vasvari, Raymond: You Can't Occupy This
Published: 2012
The U.S. government says the anti-protest bill was just a small tweak of the existing law. Don't believe it.
Littlewood, Stuart: Israel Continues to Cripple Gaza with its Sea Blockade
Published: 2015
The Jerusalem Post reports that the Swedish boat Marianne with 18 passengers has been "interdicted" by Israeli commandos 85 miles from the Gaza coast and towed to Ashdod. The three other vessels in the flotilla turned back and another big-hearted mission ended "with a whimper". Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon called his operation to deprive desperate, poverty stricken Gazans a "success". The Marianne‘s passengers would be be deported. "There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza," he added.
Littlewood, Stuart: Message from the High Court: Carry on arming the Saudis
Published: 2017
Campaigners are furious with a High Court decision in London allowing the UK Government to carry on exporting arms to Saudi Arabia for use against Yemenis.
Littlewood, Stuart: Palestine: Another Desperate Cry for Help
Published: 2017
The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine (NCCOP) has just issued a final plea for help in the form of an open letter to the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement.
Littlewood, Stuart: The sad, sad world of Israel's big-time liars
Published: 2011
Stuart Littlewood views Israel’s propaganda minister, the self-confessed racist and squatter Yuli Edelstein, and takes a close look at the manual to which Edelstein and other Zionist propagandists work, the “Global Language Dictionary”.
Littman, Lisa; Kay, Jonathan: An Interview With Lisa Littman, Who Coined the Term 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria'
Published: 2019
In 2018, Lisa Littman, Assistant Professor of the Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health, published an article in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE entitled Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Study of Parental Reports. The article drew attention to a phenomenon that had attracted widespread concern among parents, but which had not yet been studied systematically in the scientific literature. Following publication, Dr. Littman and her study became the subject of intense criticism from some activists.
Littman, Shany: After Losing Hope for Change, Top Left-wing Activists and Scholars Leave Israel Behind
Published: 2020
They founded anti-occupation movements and fought for the soul of Israeli society, but ultimately decided to emigrate. The new exiles tell Haaretz how they were harassed and silenced, until they had almost no choice but to leave.
Litvin, Yoav: AntiFa's Moral Superiority and the Potential for Left-Wing Unity
Published: 2017
On the tragedy at Charlottesville and its aftermath.
Litvin, Yoav: A Jewish Atonement for Zionism
Published: 2017
A review of “Not by Might, nor by Power": The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism, by author Moshe Menuhin. Drawing from personal experience, the book is a methodical and chronological survey of Jewish nationalism.
Litwin, Yoav: The anatomy of Zionist genocide
Published: 2023
What are the motivations behind Israel's genocidal acts in Gaza, and what is the way forward?
Lively, Penelope: The books that made me
Published: 2023
Lively explores the role of reading in her writing process. She explains that every library is autobiographical, with its potential to shape and define its readers.
Livesey, Bruce: A labour newspaper: Pipe dream or possibility?
Published: 1999
Discusses the possibility of Canada's labour movement having its own newspaper. Support for the project from union leaders; concerns about the expense and resource requirements of an independent labour newspaper.
Livesey, Bruce: The tawdry fall of the Postmedia newspaper empire
Published: 2015
It was the morning of Friday, June 22, 2012. Murphy, The Province's long-time staff cartoonist, was meeting with Moriarty in the editor's office on the fifth floor of the paper's headquarters on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver. The discussion between Murphy and Moriarty was heated; after all, Moriarty was informing Murphy that an animation the cartoonist had produced was being pulled off the web.
Livingston, James: How the Left has Won
Published: 2012
Capitalism was the unintended consequence of bourgeois revolutions, whereas socialism has been the avowed purpose, or at least a crucial component, of every revolution since 1911. This difference has become so important that when we think about the transition from capitalism to socialism, we take the short view: we look for ideological extremes, social movements, vanguard parties, self-conscious revolutionaries, radical dissenters, armed struggles, extra-legal methods, political convulsions – as if the coming of socialism requires the abolition of capitalism by cataclysm, by insurgent, militant mass movements dedicated to that purpose.
Llanes-Ortiz, Genner: First Steps of Participatory Research Project: Indigenous Languages and Digital Media
Published: 2016
The rapid development of digital media, which began during the last decade of the 20th century, has had unanticipated effects at the beginning of the 21st century. Peoples, whose cultures and languages were marginalized and displaced by the Nation-State, have appropriated -- slowly, but surely -- these media to reassert their cultural and linguistic presence in cyberspace.
Lloyd, Richard; Postol, Theodore A.: Possible Implications of Faulty US Technical Intelligence in the Damascus Nerve Agent Attack of August 21, 2013
Published: 2014
An analysis of US Intelligence reports on the chemical agent attack in Damascus in August of 2013, demonstrating several errors and inconsistencies in the intelligence data.
Loannidis, John P. A.: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Published: 2005
There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. For many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. In this essay, the implications of these problems for the conduct and interpretation of research is discussed.
Lobe, Jim: Chevron Wins Latest Round in Ecuador Pollution Case
Published: 2014
In the latest twist in a 21-year-old environmental pollution case, a U.S. federal judge Tuesday ruled that the victims of massive oil spillage and their U.S. attorney could not collect on a nine-billion-dollar judgement by Ecuador’s supreme court against the Chevron Corporation.
Loevy, Debra: Do Indian Lives Matter? Police Violence Against Native Americans
Published: 2015
With all our talk about police violence aimed at poor and minority communities, we have yet to talk about the group most likely to be killed by law enforcement: Native Americans.
Native American men are incarcerated at four times the rate of white men and Native American women are sent to prison at six times the rate of white women.
Loew, Karen: How Communal Singing Disappeared From American Life
And why we should bring it back
Published: 2012
Singing together as a comuunity building event has largely disappeared from American life.
Loffredo, Jeremy; Blumenthal, Max: Public health or private wealth?
How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism
Published: 2021
Loftus, Elizabeth: Remembering Dangerously
Published: 1995
Like the witch-hunt trials of old, people today are being accused and even imprisoned on 'evidence' provided by memories from dreams and flashbacks -- memories that didn't exist before therapy.
Logue, Christopher: Christopher Logue Quotes
Loha, Tanuka; Malik, Kenan: A debate on ‘Who speaks for me?’ - Tanuka Loha vs. Kenan Malik
Published: 2006
Kenan Malik says: I reject representation by identity not only because the idea that one should be represented only by one’s own kind is, and always has been, at the heart of the racist agenda, but also because such representation acts as an obstacle to what you call ‘a genuinely participatory democracy’. Why? Because it encourages the pursuit of sectional interests, rather than of common goals. The very system of ethnic representation that encourages people to see their problems in narrow, sectional terms.
Lokot, Tetyana: Russia Launches 'Predictive System' for Monitoring Protest Activity Online
Published: 2015
The Russian government is implementing a monitoring system which will identify and monitor protest groups and network on the Internet through analyzing blogs and social media.
London, Eric: Military, Trump administration ready plans for domestic crackdown as virus spreads across US
Published: 2020
According to a Politico report published Saturday, the Trump administration, through Attorney General William Barr, is urging Congress to pass legislation that would allow for the suspension of due process during the coronavirus crisis.
London, Eric: NSA, GCHQ mapping "political alignment" of cellphone users
New report reveals
Published: 2014
New information made public by Edward Snowden reveals that the governments of the United States and United Kingdom are trawling data from cellphone “apps” to accumulate dossiers on the “political alignments” of millions of smartphone users worldwide.
London, Jack: London, Jack - Writings - Index
Writings of Jack London (1876-1916).
London, Scott: In the footsteps of Gandhi: an interview with Vandana Shiva
Published: 2016
Vandana Shiva is more than just a leading scientist, author and campaigner on green issues and anti-globalisation. She is also among the most prominent of Mahatma Ghandi's intellectual heirs. In this interview, she discusses how this led her to be an outspoken voice on such crucial environmental issues as seed legacy, biopiracy and economic injustice.
Long, Phillip: Internet Mental Health
A free encyclopedia of mental health information created by a Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. Phillip Long.
Longenecker, John: How to Market Yourself to Talk Radio
Longo, Fio: Colonial conservation - a 'cycle of impunity'
Published: 2020
A UN investigation has suggested that rangers funded by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have beaten up, abused and murdered people in the forests of Congo. These atrocities were committed in the name of conservation.
Looney, Margaret: Designing a journalism curriculum for millennials
Published: 2014
This article explores what skills are needed to succeed in freelance journalism, and about how some universities are adjusting their curricula to adapt to this rising form of journalism.
Looney, Margaret: Global data journalism resources
Published: 2014
An list of resources that have been compiled by IJN using their readers' suggestions. This list is organized by country, and covers a variety of subtopics under data journalism.
Lopez, Alfredo: Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Information Freedom
They Can't Stop the Movement
Published: 2013
Aaron Swartz was a target of a deliberately vicious, sadistic government campaign in which the federal government wanted to make his pain an example to the entire progressive techie community. What's more, his death was the outcome of a policy that is a threat to human freedom.
Lopez, Alfredo: Barrett Brown's Partial Victory: Crowd-Sourcing and Crowd Support
If They Drop These Charges, Why Aren't They Dropping All of Them?
Published: 2014
Federal prosecutors last week dropped several of the most significant charges facing Internet activist and journalist Barrett Brown — charges that could have drawn a jail sentence of 105 years.
Lopez, Alfredo: FCC Wants to Give Corporations Their Own Internet
The New Proposal Mocks Net Neutrality
Published: 2014
When a federal court trashed its “net neutrality” compromise policy in January, the Federal Communications Commission assured us that the Internet we knew and depended on was safe. Most activists didn’t believe federal officials and this past week the FCC demonstrated how realistic our cynicism was.
Lopez, Alfredo: Internet Hackers and the Real Threat They Expose
Government and Corporations are the Real Problem
Published: 2013
There were nearly ten major cyber attacks in August 2013 against very prominent targets such as The New York Times.
Lopez, Alfredo: Lessons of the Snowden Revelations
You are the Target!
Published: 2013
We in the Left have long worried about “police state tactics”. Now we have to confront the police state structure. It’s here and it can morph into a real police state with very little effort. Opposing and dismantling it should now be among our top priorities.
Lopez, Alfredo: The NSA Has Effectively Destroyed Internet Privacy
Snowden's Latest
Published: 2013
Whistle-blower Edward Snowden prove that the NSA, working with its British counterpart the Government Communications Headquarters has conducted an intentional and largely sucessful campaign to destroy all privacy on the Internet.
Lopez, Alfredo: The NSA's Invasion of Google and Yahoo Servers
Your Email is Likely Being Monitored
Published: 2013
The American National Security Agency (NSA) has been intercepting information coming in and out of Google and Yahoo servers over non-public, internal network fibre optic lines. In December, 2012 alone, the program (revealingly called “MUSCULAR”) processed 181,280,466 Google and Yahoo records that included email, searches, videos and photos.
Lopez, Alfredo: Social Networking and the Death of the Internet
How Do You "Like" That?
Published: 2013
Social Networking is, by its nature, a capture environment. The companies that offer the services, particularly Facebook, host your site and control all the information on it. Facebook — a group of linked pages on a giant website — is constraining and not very powerful. In order to use it, you have to use it the way they want you to and that’s not a whole lot of “using”. But there is a comfort in having one’s options limited, being able to use something without learning anything about it or making many choices about how you use it. That alluring convenience is a poisoned apple, however.
Lopez, Alfredo: Stallman, FOSS and the Adobe Nightmare
Don't Say Stallman Didn't Warn You!
Published: 2013
If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. Free Open Source Software gives control to users, whereas proprietary software gives control to the corporations that own the software.
Lopez, Alfredo: Yahoo's Tumblr, Google's Makani and Noah Cross's Future
Designing Software, Wings and Your Life
Published: 2013
Corporations, in seeking to control markets, become the custodians and designers of our culture and our future. For them, the future is a communication limited to outbursts and pithy comments, a data-base that includes all our personal information available to governments who request it or advertisers who pay for it and lives that are, in large part, directed toward consumption.
Lordon, Frederic: Narrative of the dispossessed
Published: 2015
Discussion of conspiracies tends to be polarised: people see them everywhere, or nowhere.
Lorea, Eduardo: Improving Accuracy
Creating a Newsroom System
Published: 2008
Eduardo Lorea describes how eight newspapers in southern Brazil are working to identify and avoid their most common errors, using a common process and database application.
Love, Kary: If John Bolton Is Right, Pearl Harbor Was Perfectly Legal
Published: 2018
Michigan attorney Kary Love explores the legal basis for a pre-emptive attack on North Korea by the USA.
Lovins, Amory B.: "Low-carbon" Misses the Point: Arguments Favoring Nuclear Power as a Climate "Solution" are Fundamentally Misframed
Published: 2021
The climate argument for using nuclear power assumes that since nuclear power generation directly releases no CO2, it can be an effective climate solution. It can’t, because new (or even existing) nuclear generation costs more per kWh than carbon-free competitors -- efficient use and renewable power -- and thus displaces less carbon per dollar (or, by separate analysis, per year): less not by a small margin but by about an order of magnitude (factor of roughly ten).
Lowe, Peggy: 10 Failed Levees In Midwest Flood Zone Were Not Inspected By Federal Government
Published: 2019
Many of the levees that failed during flooding of the Missouri River had not been inspected since the early 2010s. Some people say the Army Corps of Engineers has mismanaged levees under their responsibility.
Lowenthal, Tom: China's Great Cannon: New weapon to suppress free speech online
Published: 2015
Chinese censorship of the internet is a well known fact but the tactics that the Chinese government uses -- and how similar those tactics are to the ones used by the NSA -- points to an international state of cyberwarfare.
Lowy, Michael: Surrealism Against Racism - Book Review
Published: 1999
THE WELL-KNOWN antiracist journal Race Traitor—whose motto is “Treason to whiteness is loyalty to Humanity”—published in the form of a small book a special issue (number 9, Summer 1998, ISBN # 0-88286-235-T) on the topic “Surrealism: Revolution Against Whiteness.” (Order from Race Traitor, P.O. Box 603, Cambridge, MA 02140-0005, $6 postpaid.)
Lozo, Fredric: Sequential Problem Solving
The Project Gutenberg Book
Published: 2005
Lubofsky, Evan: Commercial Ships Could Be Quieter, but They Aren't
Shipbuilding economics and lack of regulations are getting in the way of a quieter ocean
Published: 2016
As the ocean drowns in sound, the number of studies showing the harmful effects of noise on marine life has surged. And so, too, have the projections for how loud things might soon become.
Luce, Stephanie: CPE: Demystifying Economics--Interview with Elissa Braunstein
Published: 1999
Luce, Stephanie: Living Wage Campaigns, Part 2: Challenges Facing the Movement
Published: 1998
IN THE PREVIOUS article (see ATC 76), I discussed the basic concepts, advocates and goals behind living wage campaigns, as well as some of the movement's successes. These include a positive ideological effect on legislators and other organizations' agendas; the creation of strong and lasting coalitions; the development of new worker organizations; and the growth of existing worker organizations.
Luce, Stephanie: The Misogyny of Welfare "Reform" - Interview
Published: 1999
Randy Albelda teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and is active in several welfare rights organizations. She is co-author of Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's Poverty (South End Press, 1997) and author of "What Welfare Reform Has Wrought," Dollars and Sense, January/February 1998. She was interviewed by Stephanie Luce from the ATC editorial board.
Luchte, James: American Wasteland
The Most Urgent Challenge for America is Its Poorly Hidden Mental Health Crisis
Published: 2016
Hearing the phrase "mental health crisis," one may think of the epidemic of mass shootings plaguing the country since the Reagan era. Or, images may erupt of home grown terrorist attacks or the plunge toward right-wing extremism in contemporary politics. Yet, suicide outranks both homicides and car accidents as the number one killer of our fellow citizens.
Ludwig, Mike: From Somaly Mam to ''Eden'': How Sex Trafficking Sensationalism Hurts Sex Workers
Published: 2014
Most activists, regardless of ideology, are trying to do the right thing. But when it comes to human rights and sex work, doing the right thing is often much more complicated than calling the cops or donating 75 cents a day to a starving child on TV.
Ludwig, Mike: Inside the Sensational Business of "Rescuing" Sex Workers
Published: 2015
For years, the sex worker movement has been at odds with a conservative wing of the anti-human trafficking movement.
Luhn, Alec: Game of trolls: the hip digi-kids helping Putin's fight for online supremacy
Published: 2015
The inner workings of St Petersburg's "troll factory" have been exposed by Lyudmila Savchuk, a former employee.
Luiselli, Valeria: Forty Questions
Published: 2017
An excerpt from Valeria Luiselli's book "Tell me How it Ends", a damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children in the United States.
Lukacs, Martin: Canadian government 'knew of plans to dump iron into the Pacific'
Chief executive of company responsible for controversial geoengineering test implicates several departments
Published: 2012
As controversy mounts over the revelations that an American businessman conducted a massive ocean fertilisation test, dumping around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off Canada's coast, it has emerged the Canadian government may have known about the geoengineering scheme and not stopped it.
Lukianoff, Greg; Haidt, Jonathan: The Coddling of the American Mind
Published: 2017
For their own emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection in the classroom from words and ideas they don't like. It is a movement that is problematic for academic institutions, and likely damaging to student development and mental health.
Lundgren, Jonathan; Fausti, Scott: Biodiversity is the best defence against corn pests
Published: 2015
Farmers' first line of defence against pests is the ecosystem in and around their fields. With widespread or indiscriminate use of pesticides essential biodiversity is lost - and the result is more frequent and serious infestations, and a decline in food security.
Luxemburg, Rosa: Rosa Luxemburg Quotes
Lyman, Brian: 'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, 9 slave testimonies
The voices of five men and four women, once held in human bondage, interviewed in Alabama in 1937.
Published: 2019
Testimonies of several victims of slavery collected in the 1930s tell of separation from family, overwork, and abuse.
Lynch, Jennifer: The Face Off: Law Enforcement Use of Face Recognition Technology
Published: 2018
Face recognition is poised to become one of the most pervasive surveillance technologies, and law enforcement's use of it is increasing rapidly. However, the adoption of face recognition technologies like these is occurring without meaningful oversight, without proper accuracy testing of the systems as they are actually used in the field, and without the enactment of legal protections to prevent internal and external misuse.
Lynch, Jennifer; Bibring, Peter: Los Angeles Cops Should Release Automatic License Plate Reader Records, EFF & ACLU Argue in Opening Brief
Published: 2014
On Friday, EFF and the ACLU of Southern California filed the opening brief in their lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department for information on how the agencies are using Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPR). They argue the departments are improperly withholding these records, keeping important information about this invasive surveillance technology from the public.
Lynch, Tim: SEO Trends: A link removal scam that could destroy your rankings
Published: 2014
A report surfaced early in June on YouMoz about a scam going around using some pretty shady SEO tactics.
Lynfield, Ben: Keys, comb and a plant: Palestinians tell of their past through cherished belongings
Published: 2015
The first national museum for the geographically dispersed and exiled Palestinian people is taking shape, not only physically but conceptually. The goal is "to connect the Palestinians and present different narratives to the world of who we are, where we come from and what we aspire." Since the Israeli occupation authorities prevent many Palestinians from travelling to their homeland, the Palestinian Museum seeks to become the hub connecting a network of institutions in Jordan, Beirut, Gaza, Haifa and elsewhere.

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M-Perron, Mathieu: No more easy scapegoats
Published: 2021
On Niki Ashton and our collective loss of compassion and critical thought.
Maass, Dave: Why Facebook Failed Our Censorship Test
Published: 2015
If you click around Facebook's "Government Request Report," you'll notice that, for many countries, Facebook enumerates the number of "content restrictions" the company has fulfilled. This is a sanitized term for censorship.
Maass, David: San Diego's Facial Recognition Program Shows Why We Need Records on Police Use of Mobile Biometric Technology
Published: 2015
The New York Times has a story out on how San Diego police use mobile facial recognition devices in the field, including potentially on non-consenting residents who aren't suspected of a crime. One account from a retired firefighter is especially alarming.
Maass, Peter: Inside NSA, Officials Privately Criticize 'Collect It All' Surveillance
Published: 2015
As Members of Congress struggle to agree on which surveillance programs to re-authorize before the Patriot Act expires, they might consider the unusual advice of an intelligence analyst at the National Security Agency who warned about the danger of collecting too much data.
Maass, Peter: Petraeus Plea Deal Reveals Two-Tier Justice System for Leaks
Published: 2015
David Petraeus, the former Army general and CIA director, admitted today that he gave highly-classified journals to his onetime lover and that he lied to the FBI about it. But he only has to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor that will not involve a jail sentence thanks to a deal with federal prosecutors.
Maass, Peter: The Whistleblower's Tale
How Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA — and Lost Everything
A CIA officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for whistleblowing and filing lawsuits of racial discrimination against the CIA. This is a story of a man who was beaten down and stood back up just to be beaten down again.
Maass, Peter: The Whistleblower's Tale
How Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA-- and Lost Everything
Published: 2015
This is how it ended for Jeffrey Sterling. A former covert officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, Sterling sat down in a federal courtroom with a lawyer on either side, looking up at a judge who would announce in a few moments whether he would go to prison for the next 20 years.
Maass, Peter; Poitras, Laura: Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany
Published: 2014
The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use “physical subversion” to infiltrate and compromise networks and devices, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
Maathai, Wangari: Wangari Maathai Quotes
Mabie, Nora: Rural Americans and the Language Too Many People Use to Talk About Them
Published: 2017
With the rural-urban divide more pronounced now than it has been in generations, the author takes a closer look at the derogatory language too many people use, as well their meaning and contradictions.
Macan-Markar, Marwaan: Thailand: With Censorship, Thais Turn to Websites and Foreign Media
Published: 2009
When the Thai government imposed an emergency law cracking down on rampaging red-shirted protesters on the streets of Bangkok, the military, in combat gear, was not its only weapon. The state#s censors were given liberty to silence critical media.
Macaray, David: America Soon to Become a Corporate North Korea?
Stacking the Deck Against Working People
Published: 2013
Given the power American corporations have, anyone who believes he couldn’t be turned into a North Korean is lying to himself.
Macaray, David: Are These the Keystone Cops?
Published: 2016
The CIA owes its vaunted reputation to one source: Hollywood’s movie studios. The way the movies portray America's clandestine services goes so far beyond mere "exaggeration" or embellishment, it verges on outright hero worship, stubbornly confusing James Woolsey with James Bond. Alas, if our intel-gathering networks were a fraction as accomplished as Hollywood portrays them to be, we wouldn’t have been mired in Vietnam or Iraq.
Macaray, David: The Art of Lying
"Yes, That Was My Penis" and Other Ticklish PR Challenges
Published: 2013
People in the public eye should have learned enough from past blunders to come up with a different strategy when asked potentially damaging questions.
Macaray, David: In Ten Years, We Will Have Zero Privacy
Spying on Consumers
Published: 2014
When we consider the “progress” that has been made in the ability to delve into the private lives of consumers, it’s terrifying. They know where we shop, where we vacation, what we buy, what we read, what we watch on television, and what we visit on the Internet.
Macaray, David: Mental Illness in the Workplace
It Still Haunts
Published: 2013
Macaray, David: They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders
Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders
Published: 2012
Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on more than one occasion, already threatened his life - attempts to get the country’s underpaid, under-benefited workers to join a labor union? Answer: They kill him.
Macaray, David: Where It All Began: The Dawn of 'Fake News'
Published: 2018
While today's political smear campaigns and propaganda have gotten more sophisticated and subtle, the underlying ethics remain as maggoty as ever.
MacDonald, Bryan: Confessions of a (verified) Russia-linked Twitter Bot
Published: 2017
Twitter's defines any user who has "ever logged in, at any time, from Russia" as being "Russia-linked." This is taking the new McCarthyism to ridiculous levels.
MacDonald, Bryan: Facebook’s 'anti-fake news' plan looks like effort to curb alternative media
Published: 2016
Examines the problems of how 'fake news' is defined, and how Facebook's strategy to limit exposure to 'fake news' might also impact any alternative media.
Macdonald, David: Tim's + BK = $ for Canada right? Wrong! (in one table)
Published: 2014
Big news today that Burger King, a US company, is planning to buy Tim Horton's, a Canadian one. This is another in a string of 'tax inversion' deals where US corporations move their corporate headquarters from the US to elsewhere to avoid US taxation. They don't actually change anything or move anyone outside of their accounting fairyland. Instead, they just check some different boxes on their income tax forms and 'poof' save millions in taxes.
Macdonald, Dwight: The Book-of-the-Millennium Club
Published: 1952
For $249.50, which is (for all practical purposes) $250, one could buy, in 1952, a hundred pounds of Great Books: four hundred and forty-three works by seventy-six authors, ranging chronologically and in other ways from Homer to Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, the whole forming a mass amounting to thirty-two thousand pages, mostly double-column, containing twenty-five million words squeezed into fifty-four volumes.
MacDonald, Michael: 3 adults in polyamorous relationship declared legal parents by N. L. court
St. John's court ruling believed to be legal first for Canada
Published: 2018
In what is believed to be a legal first in Canada, a court in Newfoundland and Labrador has recognized three unmarried adults as the legal parents of a child born within their "polyamorous" family. Polyamorous relationships are legal in Canada, unlike bigamy and polygamy, which involve people in two or more marriages.
MacDonald, Neil: Call me radical, but journalists should be able to pledge support for Palestinian journalists: Neil Macdonald
Published: 2018
Journalist Neil MacDonald defends journalistic freedom and safety following a statement issued by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), an organization that faltered in carrying out its mandate.
Macdonald, Neil: Ottawa cites hate crime laws when asked about its 'zero tolerance' for Israel boycotters
Published: 2015
Blaney's office cites 'comprehensive' hate laws for new zero tolerance plans.
Macdonald, Neil: Updated flood plain maps will send the housing market underwater
Eventually, entire communities will find themselves publicly identified as at-risk
Published: 2019
The federal government will soon be posting maps of places at risk of flooding. This will have serious consequences for the housing markets in those areas.
MacDougall, Ian: Empty Suits
Defamation law and the price of dissent
Published: 2018
A look at lawsuits filed by companies that are intended to censor, intimidate, and silence dissenters by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense- known as SLAPP or strategic lawsuits against public participation.
MacDougall, Kate: How to Lobby Like a Pro
Published: 1997
To reach government with your message you need to lobby like the professionals do.
MacEgan, Matthew: Police State: US Government-Funded Database Created to Track "Subversive Propaganda" Online
Published: 2014
The creation of the Truthy database by Indiana University researchers has drawn sharp criticism from free-speech advocates and others concerned over government censorship of political expression.
Macha, Ndesanjo: Kenyan Blogger Bogonko Bosire is Still Missing, Nearly Two Years After His Disappearance
Published: 2015
Two years ago, a Kenyan blogger went missing. As a critic accusing government officials and celebrities of corruption, foul play is very much suspected. Kenyans have turned to social media to revive the search for Bogonko Bosire.
Mackaman,Tom: An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times' 1619 Project
Published: 2019
I was surprised, as many other people were, by the scope of this thing, especially since it's going to become the basis for high school education and has the authority of the New York Times behind it, and yet it is so wrong in so many ways.
Mackay, Anson: The Vanishing of the Aral Sea
From Lake to Wasteland
Published: 2014
The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively. New satellite images from NASA show that, for the first time in its recorded history, its largest basin has completely dried up.
Mackey, Aaron; Schoen, Seth; Cohn, Cindy: Unreliable Informants: IP Addresses, Digital Tips and Police Raids
How Police and Courts are Misusing Unreliable IP Address Information and What They Can Do to Better Verify Electronic Tips
Published: 2016
An explanation of the pitfalls of use of IP addresses as electronic evidence by law enforcement, and how law enforcement and courts can use IP addresses responsibly in criminal investigations with specific suggestions to assist each of them.
Mackey, Robert: Images of Militarized Police in Baton Rouge Draw Global Attention
Published: 2016
Photographs and video of heavily armed police officers wearing body armour and helmets arresting protesters in Baton Rouge over the weekend reverberated on social networks and in the world's media, focusing new attention on the militarization of police forces across the United States.
MacKinnon, Hannah: Lockdown: the end of growth in the tar sands
Published: 2015
Climate change is here and now. And if world leaders had heeded scientific warnings 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, or even as recently as the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 -- it's possible we would be well on our way to securing the decarbonized future that the world desperately needs.
Mackler, Jeff: Demonizing Edward Snowden
Obama Goes Beyond Orwell
Published: 2014
Edward Snowden’s revelations have gone a long way to lifting the veil of secrecy and foul play that is the norm in capitalist America. He has hastened the time when BIG BROTHER’S rules of engagement — and all forms of ruling-class oppression — are brought to an end forever.
Mackler, Jeff: The Extraordinary Lynne Stewart
Published: 2017
Remembering Lynne Stewart, who died on March 12, 2017.
Mackler, Jeff: The National Security State Exposed
Obama v. Snowden
Published: 2013
Snowden disclosed orders demanding that all of the nation’s internet providers allow for secretly conducted, and ongoing government sweep of phone calls, audio and video chats, e-mails, photographs, and other communications used daily by American citizens.
MacLeod, Alan: ADL Data on the rise of anti-semitism doesn't add up
Published: 2023
A new, highly publicized report from the Anti-Defamation League claims that anti-Semitic incidents across the United States have skyrocketed by more than 400%. But these ADL numbers do not add up -- unless one equates opposition to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza with hatred of Jews.
Macleod, Alan: As Coronavirus Grips The US, Americans Get A Taste Of Life Under Sanctions
Published: 2020
Across fifty states, Americans are collectively bracing for the incoming COVID-19 pandemic to hit. In the face of the virus, people are resorting to panic buying, stocking up on vital foods and goods, leading to pressing shortages of key products like hand sanitizer and toilet paper.
Macleod, Alan: Big Tech Firms Are Using Automation To Censor News About Coronvirus
Published: 2020
Big tech is again attempting to define the range of acceptable political discussion on its platforms; this week YouTube announced a number of changes in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, chief among those being that automated systems, rather than humans, will predominantly be authorizing or removing content in the foreseeable future.
Macleod, Alan: Big Tech Firms are Using Automation to Censor News About the Coronavirus
Published: 2020
Big tech is again attempting to define the range of acceptable political discussion on its platforms; this week YouTube announced a number of changes in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, chief among those being that automated systems, rather than humans, will predominantly be authorizing or removing content in the foreseeable future.
MacLeod, Alan: Everyone Washington Supports, by Definition, Is a Moderate Centrist
Published: 2019
Many right-wing movements and leaders are described as moderate or even left-leaning by politicians and corporate media. In these cases the terms no longer have a political definition but is a way to convey approval.
Macleod, Alan: The Faux Generosity of the Super-Wealthy: Why Bill Gates is a Menace to Society
Published: 2019
While the media may be full of stories singing Gates' praises, presenting him as a good billionaire (as opposed to the current president), the reality is that one man with that amount of power, be it political (like Trump) or economic (like Gates and Bezos) has a highly corrosive effect on democracy and society more generally.
Macleod, Alan: The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents
Published: 2022
Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of employment and recruitment websites, MintPress has ascertained that the social media giant has, in recent years, recruited dozens of individuals from the national security state to work in the fields of security, trust, safety and content.
Macleod, Alan: Harvesting the Blood of America's Poor: The Latest Stage of Capitalism
Published: 2019
In today’s wretched economy, where around 130 million Americans admit an inability to pay for basic needs like food, housing or healthcare, buying and selling blood is of the few booming industries America has left.
MacLeod, Alan: The Homeless 8-Year-Old Chess Champion and Other Horrific 'Uplifting' Stories
Published: 2019
Stories in US media of people overcoming adversity are only inspiring if you ignore the unjust systems that create their oppression.
MacLeod, Alan: An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
Published: 2022
Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Macleod, Alan: An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
Published: 2022
Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
MacLeod, Alan: Key Assange Witness Recants - With Zero Corporate Media Coverage
Published: 2021
Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson confessed to Icelandic outlet Stundin that he used his position to steal money from Wikileaks and received immunity from the FBI in a quid pro quo. This article critiques the lack of coverage about this in corporate media, and argues thatthe global corporate press long ago decided to side with the US national security state.
Macleod, Alan: Media Cry Wolf for Third Time on Afghan 'Bounties'
Published: 2021
Macleod raises questions about credibility of media reports that have relied heavily on anonymous spies.
Macleod, Alan: Media's Deficit Hawks Fly Again -- Soon as a Democrat Takes Office
Published: 2021
On corporate media's predictions on government spending since a Democrat has assumed office.
Macleod, Alan: The NATO to TikTok Pipeline: Why is Tiktok employing so many national security agents?
Published: 2022
Macleod, Alan: Project Venezuela: Right-Wing Activists Push Wikipedia to Blacklist MintPress, other Alternative Media
Published: 2020
A group of right-wing Venezuelans has managed to ban the use of a range of alternative media outlets covering Venezuela, including MintPress News.
MacLeod, Alan: 'Sexy tricks': How journalists demonize Venezuela's socialist government, in their own words
Published: 2019
The United States has labeled Venezuela's government a "dictatorship" and part of a "troika of tyranny," and has sponsored multiple coup attempts there, including one in November. The corporate media has dutifully ignored the US role in the country's economic woes, laying the blame squarely at the feet of Maduro, omitting crucial political context on Venezuela's economic crisis while keeping up a constant flow of content presenting the country as a socialist hellhole.
Macleod, Alan: Study Reveals How UK Intelligence Works with Media to Smear Jeremy Corbyn
New research from Matt Kennard has shown how the British intelligence establishment works with the UK media to smear Jeremy Corbyn.
Published: 2019
Academic studies of the Corbyn coverage have also shown that corporate media have shown a profound hostility to him and his project. One report from the London School of Economics included an entire section called "Delegitimization through Ridicule, Scorn, and Personal Attacks."
Macleod, Alan: Trump's Twitter Ban May Be Justified, but That Doesn't Mean Tech Giants' Power Isn't Scary
Published: 2021
On the implications of mixed media response to social media companies taking measures against Trump, after the storming of the US Capitol.
MacLeod, Alan: Worthy & Unworthy Victims: Navalny & Lira
Published: 2024
While Alexey Navalny's death commanded 24-hour news coverage, Gonzalo Lira's death in Ukraine was virtually ignored.
Macleod, Alan: Worthy vs. unworthy victims: Study reveals media's selective coverage of Navalny and Lira
Published: 2024
A new MintPress News study of media coverage of the deaths of American journalist and commentator Gonzalo Lira and Russian political leader Alexey Navalny has found that the establishment U.S. press overwhelmingly ignored the former and focussed on the latter.
Macmillen, Daniel: Latin American progressives and environmental duplicity
Published: 2014
Left wing governments across the Americas are faced with a dilemma - high social spending programs financed by income from destructive mining and hydrocarbon extraction - or a slower but sustainable development path that puts ecology, equity and justice first. Their answer - a constant pushing back of the resource frontier.
MADA-Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms: Under Fire: Documentary details attacks on journalists during Gaza offensive
Published: 2015
In the summer of 2014, Israel launched a military operation on Gaza dubbed "Operation Protective Edge". By the time Israeli forces withdrew from the strip, 17 journalists were confirmed dead. No one has been held accountable for their deaths so far.
Madden, Gerald: Defending the Faith
The Catholic Church waged a century-long war against the Irish left.
Published: 2016
Ireland's foremost socialist knew that the British Empire and Irish capitalists weren't the only challenge he and his comrades faced. "In dealing with Ireland," James Connolly wrote in 1910, "no one can afford to ignore the question of the attitude to the clergy." Connolly's subject of discussion was a 1830s Owenite cooperative that enjoyed brief success, in large part because nearby clergymen didn't oppose it.
Madsen, Wayne: Media spies put all journalists in danger
Published: 2014
The increasing tendency of the Central Intelligence Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies to disregard previous prohibitions against the use of journalists as agents puts every legitimate reporter around the world in jeopardy.
Magazines Canada Staff: How to Start a Magazine
The Basics
Published: 2012
A list of practical suggestions for starting a magazine via several frequently asked questions by new and would-be publishers.
Magdoff, Fred: Twenty-First-Century Land Grabs
Accumulation by Agricultural Dispossession
Published: 2013
Land grabs -- whether initiated by multinational corporations and private investment firms emanating from the capitalist core, sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East, or state entities such as China and India -- are now in the news constantly.
Magloire, Marina: Book of the Living
House museums of New Orleans
Published: 2022
Maguire, Gil: Obama's role model to journalists — Dorothy Thompson — turned against Zionism and was silenced
Published: 2015
Dorothy Thompson, whose truly stellar career ended in false charges of antisemitism made by Zionists.
Maguire, Mairead; EsquivalS, Adolfo Perez; Falk, Richard; Sponeck, Hans; Bhatt, Keane: The Revolving Door at Human Rights Watch
An Open Letter to Kenneth Roth
Published: 2014
Maharidge, Dale: Bumpy ride
Why America's roads are in tatters
Published: 2017
A look at America's negleced infrastructure of roads and bridges. Despite declining conditions, particularly on secondary roads, Republicans continued to press for less State funding- which they termed "devolution".
Mahdawi, Arwa: The 712-page Google doc that proves Muslims do condemn terrorism
When a classmate told 19-year-old Heraa Hashmi that “all terrorists are Muslims” she began to compile a dossier of all instances of Muslims
Published: 2017
Muslims are constantly denouncing atrocities that have been committed in the name of Islam. Yet many people seem to think Muslims don't condemn terrorism enough. So Heraa Hashmi decided to put the notion to the test.
Mahieux, Viviane: Brutal, opaque, illegal: the dark side of the Tres Santos 'mindfulness' eco-tourism resort
Published: 2016
A small fishing community in Mexico's Baja California is playing involuntary host to a gigantic tourism and real estate development. And while the branding of the Tres Santos resort is all about mindfulness, ecology and sustainability, the reality is one of big money, high level politics, and the unaccountable deployment of state violence against those who dare oppose it.
Mahmood, Mona; O'Kane, Maggie; Madlena, Chavala; Smith, Teresa: Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres
Published: 2013
The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents.
Mahon, Karen: In the battle of people vs. pipelines, round one went to the people
Published: 2014
Last Wednesday I was arrested. I crossed a police line intended to mark the area where Kinder Morgan plans to drill into a mountainside as part of the survey work for an expanded Trans Mountain pipeline to carry diluted bitumen from the tar sands to the ocean.
Mahoney, Robert: Free Speech Protection Act could slow 'libel tourism'
Published: 2009
Free press advocates in Britain are looking to a bill stuck in the U.S. Congress for moral support in the fight to reform England#s draconian defamation laws. The U.S. bill, the Free Speech Protection Act 2009, is itself the product of those laws, which have made London the capital of #libel tourism.#
Mahoney, Robert: Toronto's Citizen Lab uses forensics to fight online censors
Published: 2009
Citizen Lab's team of academics and students investigate in real time governments and companies that restrict what we see and hear on the Internet. They are also trying to help online journalists and bloggers slip the shackles of censorship and surveillance.
Mahoney, Robert: A year after James Foley and Steven Sotloff murders, more awareness of risks
Published: 2015
Journalists who regularly cover violence are considered a hard-boiled bunch. But a year ago this month, even the toughest were crying. There was no emotional body armour to deflect the horror of the beheading videos of freelancers James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and other Westerners held hostage in Syria by the self-styled Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ISIL, or IS.
Maier, Thomas: Never Forget You Have Only One Boss: the Truth
Published: 2013
Find subjects where you can break new ground. Record key interviews on video or audio. And remember that a lot of your own faults can be overcome by sheer reporting effort. Stellar tips for investigative reporting from award-winning author and journalist Thomas Maier.
Maimann, Kevin: National Novel Writing Month defended the use of AI. Now authors are stepping down from its board
Published: 2024
Organization under fire after saying it's 'classist' and 'ableist' to condemn artificial intelligence. Writers are storming off the board of National Novel Writing Month, a popular literary non-profit that challenges writers to pen a novel in 30 days, after it posted a statement supporting the use of some types of artificial intelligence (AI).
Majfud, Jorge: Rescuing Memory: the Humanist Interview with Noam Chomsky
Published: 2016
Makori, Henry: Why we must stop this gay witch-hunt now
Published: 2014
President Yoweri Museveni has done it. Against widespread expectation raised by his earlier pledge, the Ugandan leader turned around this week and signed into law the contentious Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed last December by a parliament his ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), controls.
Malandra, Ocean: The Irish Potato Famine Was Caused by Capitalism, Not a Fungus
Published: 2017
While the blight did strike and take down most of Ireland’s potatoes, the truth is that Ireland was exporting more than enough food to feed everyone at the same time as the famine was happening.
Malarek, Victor: Former students allege psychological, physical and sexual abuse at Ont. Christian school
Published: 2016
Alumni of Grenville Christian College in Brockville, Ontario recount disturbing stories, including allegations of physical, sexual and psychological abuse during the 1970s, 80's and 90's.
Malcolm, Jeremy: All Rights Reserved: Now We Know the Final TTP is Everything We Feared
Published: 2015
The release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement.
Malcolm, Jeremy: Anatomy of a Copyright Coup: Jamaica's Public Domain Plundered
Published: 2015
A bill extending the term of copyright by an additional 45 years -- almost doubling it, in the case of corporate and government works -- sailed through the Jamaican Senate on June 26, after having passed the House of Representatives on June 9.
Malcolm, Jeremy: By Accepting Chinese Censorship of Domains, Registry xyz.com Invites More
Published: 2015
Industry news site Domain Incite has reported that this puts perhaps close to 12,000 banned words and expressions onto the blacklist, thereby preventing terms such as the Chinese words for 'democracy' and 'human rights' from being registered within any of the company's top-level domains"
Malcolm, Jeremy: Payment Processors are Still Policing Your Sex Life, and the Latest Victim is FetLife
Published: 2017
The adult social network FetLife just lost its ability to process credit card payments because it offers a platform for members to discuss and to post depictions of consensual BDSM practices.
Malcolm, Jeremy: South African Copyright Review is Overdue, Pioneering, and in Parts Completely Absurd
Published: 2015
In our campaign against the TPP's Copyright Trap, we are fighting back against a proposal to extend the term of copyright in six countries around the Pacific rim from 50 to 70 years after the death of the author. But there is one country that is currently proposing to extend the copyright term to last even a bit longer than that. To be precise, as part of a wholesale review of its Copyright Act, South Africa is proposing that copyright should last... forever. This goes one better than Jack Valenti of the MPAA asked for -- he only asked Congress to extend copyright to last forever less one day.
Malcolm, Jeremy: Users Have Been Betrayed in the Final TPP Deal -- Help Us Tell Washington How You Feel
Published: 2015
Trade negotiators from the U.S. and its 11 Pacific Rim partners announced their agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) today, concluding the final round of closed negotiations in Atlanta and marking the culmination of seven years of secrecy.
Malcolm, Jeremy;: Africa's Worst New Internet Censorship Law Could be Coming to South Africa
Published: 2015
Only once in a while does an Internet censorship law or regulation come along that is so audacious in its scope, so misguided in its premises, and so poorly thought out in its execution, that you have to check your calendar to make sure April 1 hasn't come around again.
Malcolm, Jeremy; Stoltz, Mitch: How Threats Against Domain Names Are Used to Censor Content
Published: 2017
A summary of a whitepaper released by EFF titled "Which Internet registries offer the best protection for domain owners?", outlining important points to consider, such as the policies of the registry that operates the domain.
Malcolm, Jeremy; Sutton, Maira: Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users' Rights
Published: 2015
Trade offices involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have finally released all 30 chapters of the trade deal today, a month after announcing the conclusion of the deal in Atlanta. Some of the more dangerous threats to the public's rights to free expression, access to knowledge, and privacy online are contained in the copyright provisions in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter. Now that the entire agreement is published, we can see how other chapters of the agreement contain further harmful rules that undermine our rights online and over our digital devices and content.
Malet, Jean-Baptiste: Amazon - the future of retail?
A smile is the logo: we're not smiling
Published: 2013
Amazon's warehouses are run like colonial enterprises - the staff are treated with contempt, paid badly, disciplined brutally, and set in competition against each other, often as temporary workers or on short-term contracts.
Malhotra, Ravi: Honoring Marta Russell (1951-2013)
Published: 2014
A tribute to the life and work of the late disability rights advocate Marta Russell.
Mali, Malhar: My Stealthy Freedom: The Hijab in Iran and in the West
Published: 2017
An interview with Masih Alinejad, an outspoken critic of the forced hijab policy in Iran, about how the Islamic Revolution affected women, compulsory hijab laws, and her activism.
Malic, Nebojsa: Freedom for Me But Not for Assange (or Thee): The Breathtaking Hypocrisy of CNN's Christiane Amanpour
Published: 2020
CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour has some strange ideas about democracy and journalism, believing her colleagues to be above elected officials – but only if they have the correct politics and serve the right masters, obviously.
Malic, Nebojsa: It's not oppression if a 'pro-Western democrat' does it? Montenegro's 'religious freedom' law is a vile, lawless travesty
Published: 2019
Adopting a 'religious freedom' law that opens the door to persecuting a particular faith would normally be seen as a horrifying breach of human rights, but when done to Orthodox Serbs in Montenegro, the West doesn’t seem to mind.
Malic, Nebojsa: The road to Ukraine started with 1999's Kosovo War
Published: 2022
On March 24, 1999, NATO launched an air war against Serbia and Montenegro, then known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Malic, Nebojsa: Western media clubs together to white-wash Ukrainian Neo-Nazis
Published: 2022
Multiple outlets use the same talking points, quotes, and 'experts' to whitewash Ukraine's notorious Azov regiment.
Malik Kenan: Blasphermy, Religious and Secular
Published: 2018
An essay on a European Court of Human Rights ruling and on changing forms of blasphemy law.
Malik, Kenan: Abortion and Conscience
Published: 2012
I am as in favour of a woman’s right to abortion as I am hostile to Creationism. I recognize, however, a fundamental difference between insisting that all biology teachers teach the theory of evolution and forcing a doctor to perform an abortion against his or her will. I recognize, too, a fundamental difference between defending a woman’s right to choose and insisting that this includes the right to compel a doctor to perform an abortion. Not to recognise such distinctions is to distort the very idea of morality.
Malik, Kenan: Abortion, Infanticide, Humanity, Free Speech
Published: 2012
Abortion is right, and infanticide is wrong, because there IS a moral boundary between the fetus and the newborn.
Malik, Kenan: After Paris
Published: 2015
Some have seen the terrorism as the consequence of French foreign policy in Syria. Yet we should be wary of seeing these attacks as a response, however perverted, to French, or Western, foreign policy. The terrorists did not target symbols of the French state, or of French militarism. They did not even target tourist spots. They targeted, rather, the areas and the places where mainly young, anti-racist, multiethnic Parisians hang out. What the terrorists despised, what they tried to eliminate, were ordinary people, drinking, eating, laughing, mixing. That is what they hated - not so much the French state as the values of diversity and pluralism.
Malik, Kenan: Against multiculturalism
Published: 2002
Multiculturalism is an authoritarian, anti-human outlook. True political progress requires not recognition but action, not respect but questioning, not the invocation of the Thought Police but the forging of common bonds and collective struggles.
Malik, Kenan: Against the Cultural Turn
Published: 2016
The starting point of this debate is the failure of multiculturalism. It has become fashionable today to criticise multiculturalism. The trouble is, many of the criticisms are as problematic as multiculturalism itself. And I say that as someone who's been a critic of multiculturalism for more than 20 years, from well before it was fashionable to be so.
Malik, Kenan: All cultures are not equal
Published: 2002
A common thread binds contemporary Western radicalism and fundamentalist Islam. On the surface the two seem poles apart: fundamentalists loathe Western decadence, Western radicals fear Islamic presumptions of certainty. But what unites the two is that both are rooted in contemporary nihilistic multiculturalism; both express, at best, ambivalence about, at worst outright rejection of, the ideas of modernity, universality, and progress; and both see no real alternative to Western power.
Malik, Kenan: An Annotated Bibliography of Nonsense
Published: 1998
Academic critics today not only question the impact of science upon society, but they also question the very idea of scientific rationality.
Malik, Kenan: Anti-Muslim Bigotry and Far-Right Terror
Published: 2019
Far-right ideology is fuelled by such a large mishmash of ideas that censoring anti-Muslim rhetoric is futile for stopping attacks.
Malik, Kenan: Away with the gatekeepers!
The bane of cultural appropriation
Published: 2016
On the the controversies over 'cultural appropriation' and what they reveal about the degradation of contemporary campaigns for social justice.
Malik, Kenan: Banned in Pakistan
Published: 2018
Pakistan's decision to censor 'blasphemous' websites provides a new perspective on the attitudes of many Western liberals towards Charlie Hebdo.
Malik, Kenan: Before Facebook Was The Coffee House
Published: 2016
Kenan Malik writes about the issue of fake news.
Malik, Kenan: Between Rage and Terror
Published: 2016
On the nature of comteporary terror.
Malik, Kenan: Beyond a Boundary - 50th anniversary
Published: 2013
This year marks the 50th anniversary of CLR James’ wonderful, groundbreaking work Beyond a Boundary. Beyond a Boundary blends politics and memoir, history and journalism, biography and reportage, in a manner that transcends literary, sporting and political boundaries.
Malik, Kenan: Beyond the Sacred
Published: 2012
A transcript on Malik's talk "Beyond the Sacred" at a conference on blasphemy.
Malik, Kenan: Beyond the Veil
Published: 2013
The question of the Muslim veil seems never to leave the headlines for long. The latest controversies have erupted in Britain after a defendant in a criminal trial demanded the right to wear a niqab in court and a college attempted to proscribe it.
Malik, Kenan: Buddhist Pogropms and Religious Conflicts
Published: 2013
Most observers would, rightly, reject the idea that there is something inherent in Buddhism that has led to the violence. Rather, most would recognize that the anti-Muslim violence in both Myanmar and Sri Lanka has its roots in the political struggles that have engulfed the two nations. The importance of Buddhism in the conflicts in Myanmar and Sri Lanka is not that the tenets of faith are responsible for the pogroms, but that those bent on confrontation have adopted the garb of religion as a means of gaining a constituency and justifying their actions.
Malik, Kenan: The changing meaning of race
Published: 2011
If the proverbial anthropologist from Mars were to land in Britain today, he would probably regard us as schizophrenics when it comes to the question of race. He would find a population within which there is a general consensus that racism is morally abhorrent and yet is keen to define itself in terms of its ethnic or racial background.
Malik, Kenan: CLR James, Frantz Fanon And The Meaning of Liberation
Published: 2012
A look at the Haitan Revolution and its place in history.
Malik, Kenan: Conforming, Not Transforming
Published: 2014
Brendan Eich, CEO of Mozilla Corporation, the technology company that, among other things, is responsible for the Firefox browser, resigned after it was revealed that in 2008 he had given a $1000 donation to Proposition 8, the Californian campaign against gay marriage.
Malik, Kenan: Cultural Appropriation and Secular Blasphemy
Published: 2017
On the controversies over 'cultural appropriation'.
Malik, Kenan: Democracy was never intended for degenerates
Published: 2016
This is not a left vs right debate -- today, as a century ago, the anti-democratic impulse comes from both left and right, from both reactionaries and self-defined progressives.
Malik, Kenan: The dirty d-word
Diversity has become more than simply a way of describing the expansion of our experiences. It has also become a dogma about how we should live that has become as stultifying as old-fashioned racism - and often as divisive.
Malik, Kenan: Don't Incite Censorship
Published: 2007
Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
Malik, Kenan: Echoes From the Past: the Racial View of Class
Published: 2016
How the Victorian elite saw class in racial terms. Malik challenges conventional ways of thinking about the historical roots of racial ideas, and demonstrates how much of racial thinking originated not in the context of perceptions of non-Europeans but to a large extent at home out of the relationship between the elite and the masses. And that is what makes this material important in thinking about contemporary discussions of the working class. Today, elite views of the working class are rarely racialized, at least in an overt fashion. Yet, many of the themes, especially about the character of the 'unrespectable' working class, remain, though they necessarily have to be expressed in a different language. What is of interest here is to understand what has changed as well as what remains the same in thinking about democracy and the working class.
Malik, Kenan: Europe's new faultine
Published: 2014
The Front National is expected to win next week’s European election in France; UKIP may well do so in Britain. Both parties combine a visceral hostility to immigration with an acerbic loathing of the EU, a virulent nationalism and deeply conservative views on social issues such as gay marriage and women’s rights. The problems that such parties pose for mainstream politics goes, however, far beyond the odiousness of their policies. What their success expresses is the redrawing of the political map in Europe, and in ways in which mainstream parties often do not understand. The new populists seem to thrive on different political rules to mainstream parties.
Malik, Kenan: failing to see the deeper causes of social tragedies
Published: 2019
In both cases, the roots of the tragedies are manifold. But in both cases we seem more interested in laying instant blame than in excavating the wider causes that might help us prevent such catastrophes happening again.
Malik, Kenan: Fake News and the Gatekeepers of Truth
Published: 2018
A look at misinformation or 'fake news' and how it has changed from the past; while only governments and prominent figures could once manipulate public opinion, today it is anyone with online access.
Malik, Kenan: A Film from a Land with No Cinemas
Published: 2020
"This is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection" is a film from Lesotho, where no film industry exists.
Malik, Kenan: Free Speech in a Plural Society
Published: 2006
The argument against free speech is really an argument in defence of particular sectional interests. And that is the best reason for rejecting restraints on speech. We can build a plural society in which free speech provides the means of engagement and dialogue between different parts of society.
Malik, Kenan: Free Speech in an Age of Identity Politics
Published: 2015
Transcript of Malik's TB Davie Memorial lecture on academic freedom at the University of Cape Town.
Malik, Kenan: Free Speech and Unsafe Spaces
Published: 2017
Malik criticizes "the blinkered, self-centred, indeed narcissistic, attitudes that shape much contemporary discussion on speech and its limits. Free speech, from this perspective, requires not a robust exchange of ideas but the validation of my views. I should have the right to denounce anyone I wish, but criticism of my views is a denial of my free speech. Vigorously defending oneself against criticism is to deny safe space for one's critics."
Malik, Kenan: Germany and Britain: Memory and Myopia
Published: 2014
Ernst Barlach was one of Germany's great expressionist artists of the early twentieth century. A virulent nationalist in the run-up to the First World War, Barlach found that his experience of the Western Front stripped him of his jingoism. Much of his subsequent work explored the sorrow and suffering that he saw as the human condition.
Malik, Kenan: Gilroy and Reed on Race, Class & Culture
Published: 2017
The common theme has been the way that those who call themselves 'progressive' or 'anti-racist' often draw upon ideas that are deeply regressive and rooted in racial ways of thinking; and that the consequences of identity politics and of concepts such as cultural appropriation is to bring about not social justice but the empowerment of those who would act as gatekeeprs to particular communities. The articles have inevitably drawn much hostility, especially from would-be gatekeepers, who insist that to challenge such ideas is to challenge antiracism, even to 'defend white supremacy'.
Malik, Kenan: Grasping Diversity, Embracing Democracy
Published: 2017
Can Diversity Embrace Democracy? Can Democracy Acknowledge Diversity?
Malik, Kenan: The Great British Empire Debate
Published: 2018
Malik discusses the complex issues of British colonialism, its many painful legacies and how it should be dealt with in such fields as academia and politics.
Malik, Kenan: Hate speech in a plural society
Published: 2005
One of the ironies of living in a more inclusive, more diverse society appears to be that the preservation of diversity requires us to leave increasingly to leave less room for a diversity of views. So, it is becoming increasingly common these days for liberals to proclaim that free speech is necessary in principle – but also to argue that in practice we should give up that right.
Malik, Kenan: Here We Go Again
Published: 2012
One thing should be clear. The violence across the Muslim world in response to an American anti-Islamic film has nothing to do with that film. Yes, The Inocence of Muslims is a risibly crude diatribe against Islam, but the violence is being driven less by religious fury than by political calculation. In Libya, Egypt and elsewhere, the crisis is being fostered by hardline Islamists in an attempt to seize the political initiative in a period of transition and turmoil. The film is almost incidental to this process. The real struggle is not between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between different shades of Islamists, between hardline factions and more mainstream ones.
Malik, Kenan: Hollowing out democracy and law
Published: 2017
The recent actions of the Catalan government are not those of politicians respecting democracy. The reaction of the Madrid government, which criminalize political dissent, are equally disturbing.
Malik, Kenan: How Culture Came to Appropriate Race
Published: 2017
Racism has historically played a major role in shaping adoption practices.
Malik, Kenan: How green are your ethics?
Published: 2007
The assumption that underlies much of the discussion on carbon neutrality is that any activity that emits CO2 - and that means virtually every human activity - is something to apologise for. All human activities must be judged by their carbon content, and the morality of an action gauged principally by its carbon count. Carbon calculators have become the moral barometers of our age.
Malik, Kenan: I Don't have to be what you want me to be
Published: 2016
'A strange fate befell Muhammad Ali in the 1990s', Mike Marqusee writes in Redemption Song, his wonderful, illuminating study of 'Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties'. ‘The man who had defied the American establishment was taken into its bosom. There he was lavished with an affection which had been strikingly absent thirty years before, when for several years he reigned unchallenged as the most reviled figure in the history of American sports.' The global outpouring of grief, affection and tribute to Ali this weekend has been moving and heart-warming. Yet, there is a part of me that thinks that, as affection has washed away the old contempt with which he once was greeted by large sections, especially of American society, we have also lost something of the sense of Ali's true greatness.
Malik, Kenan: 'I KNEW I WAS WITNESSING A TERRIBLE EVIL'
Published: 2016
Today marks 50 years since the South African apartheid government declared District Six, in the heart of Cape Town, a 'whites only' area from which all non-whites would be forcibly removed.
Malik, Kenan: Identity is that which is given
Published: 2008
In this age of globalisation many people fret about Western culture taking over the world. But the greatest Western export is not Disney or McDonalds or Tom Cruise. It is the very idea of culture.
Malik, Kenan: Ideological Violence and Sociopathic Rage
Published: 2017
‘How can we distinguish violence driven by ideology from sociopathic rage?
Malik, Kenan: Immigration and Cultural Loss
Published: 2018
While immigration has brought major changes in the physical character of British cities and in the rhythm of social life, it is not alone in driving social changes nor is it even the most important driver of social change.
Malik, Kenan: In Defence of Democracy
Published: 2012
On Jacques Berlinerblau's book How to Be Secular.
Malik, Kenan: In Defence of Diversity
Published: 2013
An essay on immigration.
Malik, Kenan: In Defense of Cultural Appropriation
Published: 2017
It is just as well that I’m a writer, not an editor. Were I editing a newspaper or magazine, I might soon be out of a job. For this is an essay in defense of cultural appropriation. In Canada last month, three editors lost their jobs after making such a defense.
Malik, Kenan: In search of the common good
Published: 2017
This essay examines the historical change in the meaning and understanding of the 'common good', particularly between ancient times and the modern world, and also takes a look at the social and political changes of recent decades that have shaped how we look at the issue.
Malik, Kenan: In the Shadow of the Fatwa
Published: 2014
Twenty five years ago not even death threats, bombings, and murders could not stop the publication of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. Today, all it takes is for one person to shout ‘offence’ for liberals to haul out the metaphorical burqa to protect our sensitivities. But in defending one's right to say what they wish, even if it is deemed by some to be offensive, what we are truly defending is the necessity for a plural world.
Malik, Kenan: Intellectual Charlatans & Academic Witch-Hunters
Published: 2012
Butler’s work has always divided critics. While some view her as a courageous and innovative thinker, others view her as an intellectual charlatan.
Malik, Kenan: The Islamophobia Myth
Published: 2005
Pretending that Muslims have never had it so bad might bolster community leaders and gain votes for politicians, but it does the rest of us, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, no favours at all. The more that the threat of Islamophobia is exaggerated, the more that ordinary Muslims come to accept that theirs is a community under constant attack. It helps create a siege mentality, stoking up anger and resentment, and making Muslim communities more inward looking and more open to religious extremism.
Malik, Kenan: Je Suis Charlie? It's a Bit Late
Published: 2015
Hardly had news begun filtering out about the Charlie Hebdo shootings, than there were those suggesting that the magazine was a 'racist institution' and that the cartoonists, if not deserving what they got, had nevertheless brought it on themselves through their incessant attacks on Islam. What is really racist is the idea only nice white liberals want to challenge religion or demolish its pretensions or can handle satire and ridicule. Those who claim that it is ‘racist’ or ‘Islamophobic’ to mock the Prophet Mohammad, appear to imagine, with the racists, that all Muslims are reactionaries. It is here that leftwing ‘anti-racism’ joins hands with rightwing anti-Muslim bigotry.
Malik, Kenan: Just because they hunt witches doesn't mean we have
Published: 2010
The Big Brother defence of WikiLeaks is that if everyone had a camera upon them, society would be a better place. This is a view that fails to distinguish between the need to control those who possess power, and the need to prevent those who possess power from controlling us.
Malik, Kenan: Law and the wives of others
Published: 2008
How does a modern, plural democratic society deal with the desire of some minority groups to observe cultural norms at odds with the law of the land?
Malik, Kenan: The Lost Revolution
Published: 2014
A discussion of the Haitian revolution, read through the lens of Julia Gaffield's paper on the lost and found Haitian Declaration of Independence.
Malik, Kenan: The Making of the Muslim World
Published: 2017
Review of Christopher de Bellaigue's 'The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason', Cemil Aydin's 'The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History' and Tariq Ramadan's 'Islam: The Essentials'.
Malik, Kenan: Kenan Malik Quotes
Malik, Kenan: The Many Roots of Christian Europe
Published: 2014
This is a transcript of a I talk I gave yesterday at the LSE Literary Festival. My thanks to Arthur Bradley who also took part and responded to many of the themes I raised here and to Danielle Sands of the Forum for European Philosophy for organising the discussion.
Malik, Kenan: The many shades of Ukraine
Published: 2014
When is an invasion not an invasion? When is sovereignty not sovereignty? When is an unelected regime more legitimate than an elected government? The answer, it seems, is when we are discussing Ukraine.
Malik, Kenan: Maradona, Muhammad Ali, and me
Published: 2020
For an Asian kid growing up in a Britain that was viscerally racist to a degree barely imaginable now, Maradona was more than a footballer. As with Ali, what mattered was not just his sublime skills, but his attitude, too. The defiance and pride that both men symbolised spoke to me in a world in which every day was a day of having to defend my dignity, often in the face of physical attack.
Malik, Kenan: The Meaning of Heritage in an Age of Identity
Published: 2018
A discussion of the meaning of heritage in the current age of identity politics, and why there is a need to reject the nativist, or clash of civilizations, and the multicultural approaches to heritage.
Malik, Kenan: Merry Christmas from an Atheist
Published: 2006
I probably represent one of Archbishop John Sentanu's worst nightmares - I am not just an 'aggressive secularist' but a militant atheist to boot. But I have a Christmas tree in the house, I've sent out my Christmas cards, bought my Christmas presents and I will cook goose on Christmas Day. And I will probably listen to Bach's Christmas Oratorio or to Mahalia Jackson's wonderful gospel singing while I am doing so. Yet I don't have a religious bone in my body.
Malik, Kenan: Migration and Morality
Published: 2013
Paul Collier's book Exodus has been welcomed as a humane and rational intervention in an often toxic debate. It seems to tell us more about the character of the contemporary immigration debate than it does about the merits of Collier’s arguments.
Malik, Kenan: Mistaken Identity
Published: 2008
Historically, antiracists challenged both the practice of racism and the process of racialisation; that is, both the practice of discriminating against people by virtue of their race and the insistence that an individual can be defined by the group to which he or she belongs. Today's multiculturalists argue that to fight racism one must celebrate group identity. The consequence has been the resurrection of racial ideas and the imprisonment of people within their cultural identities. Racial theorists and multiculturalists, the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut observes, have 'conflicting credos but the same vision of the world'. Both fetishise difference. Both seek to 'confine individuals to their group of origin'. Both undermine 'any possibility of natural or cultural community among peoples'. Challenging such a politics of difference has become as important today as challenging racism.
Malik, Kenan: The Monster That Israel Helped Create
Published: 2014
There is a terrible irony in Israel’s current assault on Gaza. More than 200 Palestinians have died in an onslaught supposedly aimed at weakening Hamas and degrading its capacity to fire rockets into Israel. It was Israel itself, however, that helped Hamas to power in Gaza.
Malik, Kenan: Multiculturalism fans the flames of islamic extremism
Published: 2005
Multiculturalism as lived experience enriches our lives. But multiculturalism as a political ideology has helped create a tribal Britain with no political or moral centre.
Malik, Kenan: Natural Pathogens and Social Affliction
Published: 2020
On how focus on COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a lack of attention and resources to other diseases, particularly in developing nations.
Malik, Kenan: The new language of diversity
Published: 2009
Racial talk today is as likely to come out of the mouths of liberal anti-racists as of reactionary racial scientists.
Malik, Kenan: No platform or no democracy?
Published: 1996
Rather than promoting themselves as vehicles for broadening access to discussion and debate, universities now seek to present themselves as highly regulated institutions in which students will be protected from unsolicited or offensive ideas.
Malik, Kenan: NO SOCIAL JUSTICE WITHOUT FREE SPEECH
Published: 2014
Fredrik deBoer, who teaches at Purdue University in Indiana, recently wrote a passionate polemic about the way that what he calls the ‘social justice left’ has abandoned the struggle for free speech, and indeed take up the struggle for censorship.
Malik, Kenan: The Not-So-Secret History of Capitalism
Published: 2013
This is a coda to my review of Paul Collier’s book Exodus. I questioned the moral and social arguments that Collier employs to justify his arguments, and suggested that there is often a chasm between that evidence and Collier’s more contentious arguments, while many of his policy prescriptions are morally questionable.
Malik, Kenan: On Democracy As A Good
Published: 2013
Is democracy good in itself? Exploring the impact of democracy during and after the Arab Spring.
Malik, Kenan: On Describing the Other
Published: 2012
My criticism is not primarily about Judith Butler’s style; it is principally about the substance of her arguments and, more broadly, of poststructuralist arguments. I am not opposed to ‘difficult’ writing. There are many philosophers with whom it repays to work through the difficulties, the obscurities and the obtuseness; Hegel, for instance, even Heidegger in parts. Butler, in my eyes at least, is not such a philosopher.
Malik, Kenan: On Morality and Moralism
Published: 2014
Comments in a discussion about moralism at the recent Battle of Ideas conference.
Malik, Kenan: On the degradation of political debate
Published: 2019
Today, political debates have become vacuous and insipid because politicians have become contemptuous of the electorate. Voters, many believe, are ignorant, swayed more by emotion than by reason, happy to accept lies and drawn to politicians with easy answers.
Malik, Kenan: On the ethics of immigration
Published: 2014
Malik, Kenan: On the Importance of the Right to Offend
Published: 2014
There is something truly bizarre that someone should become the focus of death threats and an international campaign of vilification for suggesting that an inoffensive cartoon was inoffensive. What gives the reactionaries the room to operate and to flex their muscles is, however, the pusillanimity of many so-called liberals, their unwillingness to stand up for basic liberal principles, their fear of causing offence, and their reluctance to call so-called community leaders to account. Such backsliding liberals need reminding of some basic points about liberalism, free speech and the giving of offence.
Malik, Kenan: On the Second Coming of Religion
Published: 2012
The question we should ask is not just: ‘What is it about religion that makes people believe or behave in certain ways?’ It is also: ‘What is it about contemporary societies that draws many people, both religious and non-religious, towards nihilistic, narcissistic, anti-modern forms of belief?’
Malik, Kenan: Orientalism and ahistoricism
Published: 2021
The ahistoricism of Orientalism leads Said to mimic the very discursive structures against which he polemicises. Said creates a “Western tradition” which runs in an unbroken line from the Ancient Greeks, through the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to modernism. It is a tradition which defines a coherent Western identity through a specific set of beliefs and values which remain in their essence unchanged through two millennia of European and Western history. This, of course, is the myth of “Western civilization” propagated by many an advocate of Western superiority.
Malik, Kenan: Out of Bounds
Published: 2012
Why do we talk so much about hate speech these days? Largely because hate speech has become a way of rebranding extremist ideas to stress their moral content; in other words, of rebranding obnoxious political claims as immoral arguments. Where once we might have challenged such sentiments politically, today we are more likely to seek criminal sanctions to outlaw them.
Malik, Kenan: A Picture of How Power Works
Published: 2020
On normalisation of corruption and incompetence in the appointed heads in both public and private systems.
Malik, Kenan: A Policy without a Conscience
Published: 2013
The tragedy and the horror of Lampedusa did not come out of the blue. Much of the responsibility lies with the policies pursued by European nations. The only policy that could prevent more tragedies like that is that no European politician will countenance: the liberalization of border controls, and the dismantling of Fortress Europe.
Malik, Kenan: The politics of identity, left and right
Published: 2019
One of the consequences of the bifurcated debate is historical amnesia about the origins of identity politics. Most people imagine that its roots are on the left. In fact, they lie on the reactionary right, in the counter-Enlightenment of the late 18th century. It wasn’t then called the politics of identity. It was called racism. It is, however, in the concept of race -- the insistence that humans are divided into a number of essential groups, and that one’s group identity determines one’s moral and social place in the world -- that we find the original politics of identity, out of which ideas of white superiority emerged.
Malik, Kenan: The politics of rebranding
Published: 2021
How politics and social activism have too often become exercises in rebranding not material change.
Malik, Kenan: Populism: What, Why, How?
Preface to European Populism and Winning the Immigration Debate
Published: 2014
Preface to a new book on European Populism and Winning the Immigration Debate.
Malik, Kenan: The problem is more than integration
Published: 2017
Polls show that minorities, and Muslims in particular, have a greater attachment to Britain than does the population at large. They also show that nine out of ten Britons think that their community is cohesive, and local area a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together. According to Casey this figure has increased (from 80 per cent to 89 per cent) since 2003. Britons, in other words, have become more positive about social cohesion in the very period in which ‘uncontrolled immigration’ has supposedly eroded peoples’ sense of community and belonging.
Malik, Kenan: Protect the Freedom to Shock
Published: 2001
Far from being the cornerstone of a diverse, plural society, the refusal to give offence shows respect neither for oneself nor for others. Respect for oneself requires self-belief, a willingness to take a stand, to be unpopular, to refuse to see oneself as a victim easily disturbed by provocative beliefs. Respecting others means not ignoring them but engaging with them by putting them on their mettle and challenging their ideas and arguments. Without heated, entrenched debate a plural society becomes but a hollow shell.
Malik, Kenan: Race, Class, and White Privilege: A response
Published: 2020
Underlying the "white privilege" thesis are two basic claims. First, that being "white" is a useful category in which to put everyone from the CEOs of multinational corporations to the cleaners in an Amazon warehouse. And, second, that being in such a category imbues people with privileges denied to those not in that category. Are either of these claims true?
Malik, Kenan: The race debate: nothing to do with race
Published: 2008
Genetic differences are not the same as racial differences. Race divides human beings into a small set of discrete groups, defined usually by skin colour, appearance, or descent, sees each group as possessing a fixed set of traits and abilities and regards the differences between these groups as the defining feature of humanity. None of these ideas make scientific sense. But if the idea of race doesn't make scientific sense, why have scientists suddenly become so keen to talk about racial categories? They haven't. What they have done is become much more adept at defining genetic differences between populations.
Malik, Kenan: Race Obsession harms those it is meant to help
Published: 2009
Ethnic monitoring does not just produce misleading data. The process of classification often creates the very problems it is supposed to solve. Local authorities have used ethnic categories not only as a means of collecting data but also as a way of distributing political power - by promoting certain 'community leaders' - and of disbursing public funds through ethnically-based projects. Once the allocation of power, resources and opportunities becomes linked to membership of particular groups, then people inevitably begin to identify themselves in terms of those ethnicities, and only those ethnicities.
Malik, Kenan: Race, pluralism and the meaning of difference
Published: 1998
Far from establishing a critique of racial thinking, the politics of difference appropriates many of its themes and reproduces the very assumptions upon which racism has historically been based. Most critically, the embrace of difference has undermined the capacity to defend equality.
Malik, Kenan: Racial divisions
Published: 2008
The debate about race is not about whether genetic differences exist between human populations, but about the significance of such differences.
Malik, Kenan: Racism, Privilege, and Anti-Asian Hostility
Published: 2021
Anti-Asian hostility is real. Asian privilege is not. Nor is hostility towards Asians merely the product of “white supremacy”; it emerges from a complex interplay of racism and identitarian politics. Whatever the reasons behind the Atlanta shootings, it’s time we stopped using myths about Asian Americans to sustain both racism and cartoonish views about racial differences.
Malik, Kenan: Radical Islam, Nihilist Rage
Published: 2015
Muslims are not the only religious group involved in perpetrating horrors. From Christian militias in the Central African Republic reportedly eating their foes to Buddhist monks organizing anti-Muslim pogroms in Myanmar, there is cruelty aplenty in the world. Nor are religious believers alone in committing grotesque acts. We need to ask why political rage against the West takes such nihilistic forms today. And why has radical Islam become its principal vehicle?
Malik, Kenan: The Real Value of Diversity
Published: 2002
The real failure of multiculturalism is its failure to understand what is valuable about cultural diversity. There is nothing good in itself about diversity. It is important because it allows us to compare and contrast different values, beliefs and lifestyles, make judgements upon them, and decide which are better and which worse. It is important, in other words, because it allows us to engage in political dialogue and debate that can help create more universal values and beliefs. But it is precisely such dialogue and debate, and the making of such judgements, that multiculturalism attempts to suppress in the name of 'tolerance' and 'respect'.
Malik, Kenan: Recolonized by the Past
Published: 2016
It began as a campaign at the University of Cape Town to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes that stood on the campus. For the protestors, the statue represented everything that Rhodes himself stood for: racism, colonialism, plunder, white supremacy, and the oppression of black people.
Malik, Kenan: Religous Freedom and Authoritarian Atheists
Published: 2012
Many contemporary atheists adopt an unpleasantly authoritarian stance. Many now demand, in the name of ‘reason’ or ‘science’, state restrictions or bans on views that might cause ‘harm’. It is a strange attitude for those who supposedly believe in free speech and free thought.
Malik, Kenan: Rethinking the challenge of anti-Muslim bigotry
Published: 2017
In 1997 the British anti-racist organisation the Runnymede Trust published its highly influential report Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All. Twenty years on, the Runnymede Trust has brought out a follow-up report Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us All, which is a stock-take on current views, and facts, about the issue.
Malik, Kenan: Rethinking The Idea Of 'Christian Europe'
Published: 2011
Looking to the traditional, moral and identity platform of Christianity in Europe.
Malik, Kenan: The return of religion - and other myths
Talk at a conference on 'Post-secularism', Utrecht, Netherlands, 11 January 2009
Published: 2009
Politics has became less about competing visions of the kinds of society people than a debate about how best to manage the existing political system. As the meaning of politics has become squeezed, so people have begun to view themselves and their social affiliations in a different way. Social solidarity has become increasingly defined not in political terms - as collective action in pursuit of certain political ideals – but in terms of ethnicity or culture. The politics or ideology, in other words, gave way to the politics of identity. It’s not faith, but identity, that has created the faultlines of contemporary conflicts.
Malik, Kenan: Science, Myth, and History
Published: 2012
The story of ‘Kennewick Man’ - the debate around a 9000-year old skeleton and what it reveals about current ideas of culture, race and science.
Malik, Kenan: Socially Polarised, Politically Paralysed
Published: 2019
An essay on the peculiar character of contemporary social polarisation illstrated through the discussion of Brexit.
Malik, Kenan: Talking about radicalization
Published: 2016
One of the problems with discussing the concept of radicalization is that it can mean all things to all people. In one sense it simply means 'the process by which terrorists become terrorists'. But, radicalization, particularly as it is discussed in political and popular discourse, has also come to embody certain ideas about how that process takes place: For instance, that the acceptance of extremist religious ideas is the first step in leading people to violence; that there are certain stages through which people move from belief to terror; that there are certain tell tale signatures of radicalization; and so on.
Malik, Kenan: The Terrorists that are and the Terrorists that Aren't
Published: 2012
When is a terrorist not a terrorist? When, apparently, he is 'our' terrorist.
Malik, Kenan: The Theology of Respect
Published: 2006
What the new theology demands is, in fact, not respect but obedience. 'You will only say or do what we think is acceptable' has become the credo of the multiculturalist censor. It is an attitude that turns the notion of respect on its head.
Malik, Kenan: Thinking Outside the Box
Published: 2007
Ignoring racism on the grounds that all citizens are equal and hence that racial or cultural differences are immaterial is clearly unacceptable. But so is labelling individuals by race, culture or faith and creating conflicts by institutionalising such differences in public policy.
Malik, Kenan: Thou Shalt Not Give Offence
Published: 2017
Kenan Malik looks at the free speech debates around the Danish cartoons and Charlie Hebdo.
Malik, Kenan: Three Myths of Immigration
Published: 2012
Kenan Malik sets out to explain to a Canadian audience, for whom multiculturalism has a very different meaning than it does to a European one, the contours of the European debate, as well as his disagreements with both sides. In particular he shows why both multiculturalists and many of their critics (particularly their rightwing critics) buy into the same set of myths about the history of immigration into Europe.
Malik, Kenan: To Live in a Plural Society
Published: 2021
No one has a right not to be offended. All of us have a duty to challenge bigotry. These two claims are not just compatible, they are often interconnected. Today, though, many view these as conflicting perspectives. To give offence to other cultures or faiths, they argue, is to foment racism; to challenge racism, one should refrain from giving offence.
Malik, Kenan: To Name The Unnameable
Published: 2012
Discussing Salman Rushdie's non-appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Malik, Kenan: Translation and Identity
Published: 2021
If the issue was simply about racism and marginalisation, the argument would not have been that a black poet needs a black translator but that there should be more black translators, whatever the skin colour of the writer being translated.
Malik, Kenan: Trump, Namazie, Islam, Free Speech and the Left
On the odd relationship that many on the left have with Islam. They view all Muslims as helpless victims, and regard any criticism of Islam as a form of bigotry.
Malik, Kenan: Using diversity to eviscerate diversity
Published: 2023
On a controversy over an image depicting Muhammad.
Malik, Kenan: VAR, technology and human judgment
Published: 2019
VAR aims to eliminate 'clear and obvious errors' by referees by using TV replays to allow officials to view contentious incidents from different camera angles and by reconstructing the movement of the ball or players to check whether a goal was actually scored and whether a player was offside. The trouble is, what constitutes a 'clear and obvious error' is itself a judgment call.
Malik, Kenan: Warning: This May Injure Your Modesty
Published: 2016
Ahmed Naji is an Egyptian novelist and journalist who, in February, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for "injuring public modesty". In August 2014, Akhbar al-Adab, a state-funded literary magazine, had published an excerpt from his third novel, Istikhdam al-Hayah (Using Life), which had been previously approved by Egypt's censorship authority. In the excerpt, the narrator smokes hashish, drinks alcohol with his friends, and enjoys a sexual relationship with a woman. Hani Saleh Tawfik, a 65-year-old Egyptian, filed a case against Naji, alleging that reading the excerpt had caused him to experience heart palpitations, sickness, and a drop in blood pressure.
Malik, Kenan: What Does Science Tell Us About Race?
Published: 2015
Six points about the complex relation between scientific research and the reality of human group differences.
Malik, Kenan: What Is Wrong With Multiculturalism? [Part 1]
Published: 2012
Thoughts about iimmigration, identity, diversity and multiculturalism.
Malik, Kenan: What may be lost with Rojava
Published: 2019
300,000 people displaced. Villages and infrastructure destroyed. Allegations of white phosphorus use. The costs of the Turkish invasion of northern Syria to create a 'safe zone' are immense, the latest twist in the seemingly intractable Syrian war.
Malik, Kenan: What's Wrong With Multiculturalism?
Published: 2012
My view is that both multiculturalists and their critics are wrong. And only by understanding why both sides are wrong will we be able to work our way through the mire in which we find ourselves.
Malik, Kenan: When Does Criticism of Islam become Islamophobia?
Published: 2013
Basic points that undergird about the relationship between criticism, Islam and Islamophobia. We should stop being so obsessed by the distinction between legitimate criticism and Islamophobia, and start thinking about how an obsession with both Islam and Islamophobia distorts our culture and our debates.
Malik, Kenan: Who is appropriating what?
Published: 2016
Last week the novelist Lionel Shriver gave the keynote address at the Brisbane Writers Festival. It did not go well. She addressed the question of 'Fiction and identity politics' (apparently the organizers had originally asked her to talk about 'community and belonging', but she had submitted to them a different topic), providing a robust critique of identity politics and of the idea of ‘cultural appropriation’.
Malik, Kenan: Why both sides are wrong in the race debate
Published: 2008
For all the talk about culture as fluid and changing, multiculturalism, no less than old-fashioned racism, invariably leads people to think of human groups in fixed terms.
Malik, Kenan: Why Do Jihadis Seem So Evil?
Published: 2015
The day before the Paris carnage, two suicide bombers killed at least 40 people in a Shia district of Beirut. The week after, two suicide bombings of street markets in Nigeria killed 49 people. Faced with such atrocities, we can often do little but reach for adjectives such as 'barbarous', 'depraved', or even 'evil'. But what is it that makes people act in such depraved, evil ways?
Malik, Kenan: Why do we still believe in race?
Published: 2007
Races are difficult to define and there are no objective rules for deciding what constitutes a race or to what race a person belongs. People can belong to many races at the same time.
Malik, Kenan: The Wrong Solution To The Wrong Problem
Published: 2012
What is it to have free press?
Malik, Kenan; Pike, Duncan: Free Speech and Double Standards
Published: 2016
Malik, Kenen: Disagreement is not hatred
Published: 2018
An essay on the transgender debate which argues that debate ends when we label views we simply disagree with as 'hatred''.
Malik, Shiv: The Dependent Generation
Half Young European Adults Live with their Parents
Published: 2014
Almost half of Europe's young adults are living with their parents, new data suggests – a record level of dependency that has sobering social and demographic implications for the continent.
Malloy, Mary C.; Post, Charlie: A Reply to Robert Brenner
Published: 1999
WHAT HAS ALWAYS distinguished serious economic analysis from mere ideological cheerleading is the effort to understand the general economic laws that govern capitalist societies, and how these laws have manifested themselves through capitalism's historical development.
Malm, Andreas; Landstrom, Rasmus: Without a Popular Movement We Don't Stand a Chance: Andreas Malm on Climate Change
Published: 2018
An interview with the author of "Fossil Capital and The Progress of This Storm", who says there are reasons to be hopeful but significant progress will require a global movement of unprecedented scale.
Malone, Barry: Why Al Jazeera will not say Mediterranean 'migrants'
Published: 2015
There is no "migrant" crisis in the Mediterranean. There is a very large number of refugees fleeing unimaginable misery and danger and a smaller number of people trying to escape the sort of poverty that drives some to desperation.
Maloof, F. Michael: Indictment of Russians over US election meddling is case of pot calling the kettle black
Published: 2018
WorldNetDaily writer and former US Department of Defense official F. Michael Maloof recalls past US foreign policy adventures in light of claims of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
Maloof, John; Siskel, Charlie: Finding Vivian Maier
Published: 2013
A 2013 documentary film about the photographer Vivian Maier, written, directed and produced by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel.
Mamon, Marcin: The Cross and the Sword: The Making of a Christian Taliban in Ukraine
Published: 2015
The recruitment point for volunteers in Dmytro Korchynsky's holy war is located in the basement of a building in central Kiev, on Chapaev Street, in what used to be a billiard club. Anyone can sign up, and the location isn't secret -- its address and phone number is on the Internet.
Mamun Rashid, Mohammed: 'Slaves of the sea'
The long-forgotten Jaladas community and their need for policy inclusion
Published: 2019
Due to socio-econimical, political, and geographical reasons, the Jaladas community has been negelected and they are vulnerable. Relevant sectoral policies enacted by the government of Bangladesh would address these issues.
Manach, Jean-Marc: Fifteen minutes of online anonymity
Published: 2013
Making sure that your communications and data are confidential is not easy. Jean-Marc Manach, a journalist specialized in digital privacy and security, has an interesting alternative – how to have 15 minutes of online anonymity.
Mancini, Emma: Farming Under the Wall
Stories of Palestinian Farmers in the West Bank
Published: 2013
The difficulties of Palestinian farmers as their lands are placed behind the Wall.
Mandel, Charles: How Big Oil seeps into Canadian academia
Canada's oily universities
Published: 2016
For years, Royal Dutch Shell has tried to portray itself as one of the good guys in the battle against climate change. It recently completed improvements to an oil upgrader in Fort Saskatchewan, near Edmonton, to capture up to a third of its greenhouse gas emissions - equivalent to removing the annual pollution of about 250,000 cars.
Mandel, Charles: While you were distracted climate change warning arrived
Published: 2016
With dire warnings of catastrophic sea level rise and superstorms capable of pitching 1,000 tonne mega-boulders onto shorelines, scientist James Hansen sounded an alarm over continued global warming.
Mandel, David: Ukraine Between 'Popular Uprising for Democracy' (Canadian Government) and 'Fascist Putsch' (Russian Government)
Published: 2014
That movement is characteristic of the present period which has seen a series of similar popular uprisings – in the Arab countries, but also in the former Soviet territory – (Georgia in 2003, Ukraine in 2004, and Kirgizstan 2005). An atomized population is fed up with the political regime. It mobilizes through the social media, but without a clear programme. The fruits of the mass mobilization are then reaped by forces that are organized and that have a clear programme. The lack of a clear analysis and programme explains the role that fascist forces were able to play in the events. These forces rejected any compromise with the contested government, presenting themselves as unyielding adversaries, not only of the current leaders, but of the ‘system’ itself. And they call for a ‘national revolution.’ This intransigent position attracted demonstrators who were aware of the bitter fruits of the Orange Revolution and who did not understand the real meaning of the proposed ‘national revolution.’
Mandel, Kyla: Brussels 'Revolving Door' Keeps Relationship Cozy Between Big Energy and EU Decision Makers
Published: 2015
The Brussels 'revolving door' has allowed Big Energy to remain close to European climate and energy decision makers ahead of December's Paris COP21 climate talks, a new report shows.
Mandela, Nelson: Address by President Nelson Mandela at the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Published: 1997
It behoves all South Africans, themselves erstwhile beneficiaries of generous international support, to stand up and be counted among those contributing actively to the cause of freedom and justice. All of us need to do more in supporting the struggle of the people of Palestine for self-determination; in supporting the quest for peace, security and friendship in this region.
Mandela, Nelson: Nelson Mandela Quotes
Mandhai, Shafik: Half of UK sees The Sun tabloid as 'negative influence'
Published: 2017
Half of Britons see one of the UK's largest tabloids, The Sun, as a negative influence on society, according to a new poll.
Mandhai, Shafik: Cambridge slammed for 'censoring' Palestine BDS event
Published: 2017
Cambridge University is accused of censorship after it threatened to ban a meeting about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, unless the Palestinian academic chairing it was removed and replaced with its own choice.
Mandhai, Shafik: Double standards: Do all journalist lives matter?
Published: 2017
Little attention is paid to reporters from the Global South who are killed, abused, or left stranded by foreign media.
Mandhai, Shafik: Trump threat to cut Palestine aid could 'unravel Oslo'
Published: 2018
US President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) would deprive Washington of its influence on the body, and could cause the Oslo accords to unravel, analysts say.
Manduca, Paola; Chalmers, Iain; Summerfield, Derek; Gilbert, Mads; Ang, Swee: Lancet: an Open Letter for the People of Gaza
The Massacre Must Stop
Published: 2014
A public letter from doctors and scientists to stop the massacre.
Manek, Haseena: Tracking Harper's 9-year-long assault on unions
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper has been Prime Minister of Canada for almost a decade. In that time, the system of protections that were put in place by decades of advocacy by labour organizations and unions has been partly dismantled. The attacks have been extremely strategic. Ground Zero for these attacks has been the House of Commons, where piece after piece of legislation has taken aim at unions and collective bargaining.
Mangla, Ravi: The Secret History of Jaywalking: The Disturbing Reason It Was Outlawed - And Why We Should Lift the Ban
Published: 2015
Mangla narrates the origins of jaywalking and the reason why it was made illegal.
Mann, Eric: Prelude to Paris: Four Tragic Tactics by President Obama and Four Climate Justice Proposals He Must Support
Published: 2015
In December 2015 the world's governments meet in Paris for a truly historic event -- the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference. (UNFCCC). The objective of the conference is to protect Mother Earth from the assault of its most ungrateful inhabitants. The challenge is whether Homo sapiens, especially those of the ruling classes of the United States and Europe, can be civilized by the rest of the world before it is too late for all of us.
Mann, Thomas: The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries
Published: 2007
An examination of the overall principles and practices of both reference service and cataloguing operations in the promotion of scholarly research, pointing out important differences not just in content available onsite and offsite, but also among necessary search techniques. It specifies the differences between scholarship and quick information seeking.
Mann, Thomas: What is Distinctive about the Library of Congress In Both its Collections and its Means of Access to Them
And The Reasons LC Needs to Maintain Classified Shelving of Books Onsite, And A Way to Deal Effectively with the Problem of "Books on the Fl
Published: 2009
The Library cannot solve its space problems by adoption of a "digital strategy"
without seriously damaging our larger mission to promote scholarship of unusual scope and
depth. If the Library’s own access to its own general book collection were to be dumbed
down to only the levels of subject access provided by Google, Amazon, or Internet search
mechanisms, we would effectively be endorsing, and institutionalizing, the level of
ignorance exemplified by the Six Blind Men of India.
Mann, Thomas: What is Going on at the Library of Congress?
Published: 2006
What is going on at the Library of Congress? Several recent decisions by the current LC
administration have produced firestorms of protest, both inside and outside the Library, that LC is abdicating its professional responsibilities to the national system of shared cataloging, as well as undermining its core mission to acquire, catalog, make accessible, and preserve its own unparalleled holdings – especially its book collections.
Mann, Thomas: Will Google's Keyword Searching Eliminate the Need for LC Cataloging and Classification?
Published: 2005
Google Print does not "change everything" regarding the need for professional cataloging and classification of books; its limitations make cataloging and classification even more important to researchers. Google’s keyword search mechanism, backed by the display of results in "relevance ranked" order, is expressly designed and optimized for quick information seeking rather than scholarship.
Manning, Richard: Bakken Business
The price of North Dakota's fracking boom
Published: 2013
Manning the widespread fracking in the Bakken formation (North Dakota), and the environmental and social repercussions it causes.
Manning, Richard: Over the River
Returning home to Flint
Published: 2017
Author Richard Manning returns to his childhood home of Flint, Michigan and recounts the city's decline from thriving industry into an economic depression, from which the city has never recovered. Flint is left with an eroded infrastructure, neighbourhoods rife with crime and public health emergencies, and the decades old question of how will it ever recover.
Manning, Richard: The Trouble with Iowa
Corn, corruption, and the presidential caucuses
Published: 2016
While a state of only three million Iowa plays an outsized role in American politics, speaking to such central issues as healthcare and obesity, poverty and income inequality, waste and pollution, and the entrenchment of corporate oligarchy.
Manning, Richard; Sayare, Scott: As the World Burns
Combustion Engines; There Will Always Be Fires
Published: 2018
A two essay report that examines the causes and costs of large wildfires. The first essay titled "Combustion Engines" takes a look at a 'mega-fire' that raged across Montana in 2017, placing blame on global warmimg, mismanagement by authorities, and the building of houses in high rish areas. The second essay, "There Will Always Be Fires", describes the conditions that led to huge blazes in Portugal which are largely attributed to the introduction of of the highly flammable eucalyptus.
Mannix, Veronica Alice: Through a Blue Lens
Published: 2003
A National Film Board of Canada documentary that chronicles the interactions between police officers and drug addicts.
Manson, William: The Enthronment of Illogic
Daring to Know
Published: 2013
It is not that the average U.S. citizen is incapable of critical thinking, but that there is little incentive to exercise it. He is suppressed, blocked from the free exercise of his principles and values.
Marcetic, Branko: Why Is There No 'Saudi-Gate'?
Published: 2017
For decades, the DC establishment has been on the payroll of a foreign terror state. But because it's Saudi Arabia, you won't hear a peep.
March, John: Women refugee photographers who changed how post-war Britain saw itself
Published: 2020
An exhibition on the lives and work of the two dozen women photographers who sought refuge in Britain from Nazi Europe after 1933.
Marche, Stephen: Canada's Impossible Acknowledgment
Published: 2017
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its final report in 2015 with ninety-four calls to action, and renewed hope that the nation would finally confront its darkest history with tangible action. This article looks at why this process has yet again stalled, one which repeats the cycle of promises and yet again does not deliver.
Marchitelli, Rosa: Against the odds: Why customers often lose in battles with banks
Complaint system wears people down and usually rejects claim, consumer advocate says
Published: 2018
Banking customers with complaints about lost deposits face significant obstacles, with those looking for help dealing with a complaints system that is designed to wear people down and usually siding in favour of the banks.
Marchitelli, Rosa: RBC surveillance camera shows someone else took cash, but bank says customer is to blame
Bank says she was careless, but tech expert says chip-and-PIN cards can be compromised
Published: 2020
An Ontario woman says she is out thousands of dollars after her bank blamed her for two unauthorized withdrawals from her account, despite surveillance photos that show another person taking the cash right under the noses of RBC tellers.
Marchitelli, Rosa: Sequencing fraud on 9 CIBC Visa cards like 'Groundhog Day' for Ottawa man
Published: 2015
Alex Pavlovic has been living what he calls "a Groundhog Day with the bank," after his CIBC Visa card was compromised and cancelled nine times in just a few months — sometimes before Pavlovic could activate or use it — and no one could explain why.
Marchitelli, Rosa: TD Visa customers' browsing activities open to 'surveillance' by bank
Bank denies collecting general information about what customers do online
Published: 2015
A B.C. man decided to Go Public after discovering Canada's second-biggest bank can access and collect information on all of its customers' online activities, including those that aren't banking-related.
Marchitelli,Rosa: 'No right to make money off us that way': Woman targeted by baby product marketing after miscarriage
Go Public test reveals Motherhood Maternity not always transparent about how personal information is shared
Published: 2019
Information shared with companies and social media is often shared in ways that seem unethical. This is very upsetting to people who suffer miscarraiges and continue getting marketing directed at new parents.
Marcos, Subcomandante: To Look and Communicate
Published: 2013
We Zapatistas know that just as there are many worlds in this world that we inhabit, there are also many forms, modes, times, and places to struggle against the beast, without asking, nor hoping, for anything in exchange.
Marder, Michael: Poland's Bialowieza: Losing the forest and the trees
Published: 2017
Article takes a closer look at official explanations for the Polish government's decision to log a primaeval forest, a practice which sacrifices the long-term wellbeing of ecosystems for short-term pragmatic concerns.
Mariam, Alemayehu G.: Chinese neocolonialism in Africa
The Dragon eating the African Lion and Cheetah? (Part I)
Published: 2017
China has literally invaded Africa with its investors, traders, lenders, builders, developers, labourers and who knows what else. The fancy phrase for that is win-win cooperation. The "cooperation" has opened up Africa as a source of raw materials for China and a dumping ground for cheap Chinese manufactured goods. It is Chinese neocolonialism.
Marieme, Helie Lucas: New Zealand - Open letter: Betraying women and free thought in the name of Christchurch massacres
Published: 2019
An open letter questioning shows of solidarity with Muslims after the Christchurch massacre, specifically non-Muslim women wearing head coverings and a Canadian university that disinvited an ex-Muslim atheist speaker.
Marik, Soma: The Struggle Against Rape and Sexual Assault
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
Soma Marik discusses how to advance the struggle against sexual assault in the wake of the bus gang rape of last December, which led to massive demonstrations throughout India.
Mariner, Joanne: One Thousand Years of Solitude
Life in the SHU
Published: 2012
Indefinite solitary confinement: a large-scale experiment in sensory deprivation and social isolation.
Mark, Monica: Cuba leads fight against Ebola in Africa as west frets about border security
Published: 2014
The island nation has sent hundreds of health workers to help control the deadly infection while richer countries worry about their security – instead of heeding UN warnings that vastly increased resources are urgently needed.
Mark, Monica: The Nigerians Who Dare to Speak of Love as a Tide of Anti-gay Hatred Rises
Published: 2014
A new crackdown on gender minorities has led to arrests and fears of mob violence. But a brave few are still fighting for sexual freedom.
Mark, Monica: Slavery still shackles Mauritania, 31 years after its abolition
Published: 2012
Rigid caste system and ruling elite have enabled a centuries-old practice to continue into the 21st century.
Marken, G.A.: Amateurism Hurts PR Field
As the main connection between customers and companies, the degredation of modern public relations communications is appalling. These are the most common PR mistakes and how to fix them.
Markham, Lauren: If These Walls Could Talk
The strange history of our futile border fortifications
Published: 2018
From ancient times to the present day, the article takes a look at the reasoning behind physical barriers that society's construct to divide nations, and the historical fact that they usually fail.
Markus, Bethania: Media Gets Targeted by Obama, Discovers No One Cares Except the Media
Welcome to the Freakshow
Published: 2013
The news media has a role to play and it’s not entertainment. Instead of informing people what their government is doing abroad, news organizations are making up fiction about food stamps breaking the budget and digging through Michael Jackson’s grave.
Marosi, Richard: Product of Mexico: Child Labor
In Mexico's fields, children toil to harvest crops that make it to American tables
Published: 2014
About 100,000 children under 14 pick crops for pay at small- and mid-size farms across Mexico, where child labor is illegal. Some of the produce they harvest reaches American consumers, helping to power an export boom.
Marosi, Richard: Product of Mexico: Company Stores
Company stores trap Mexican farmworkers in a cycle of debt
Published: 2014
The company store is supposed to be a lifeline for migrant farm laborers. But inflated prices drive people deep into debt. Many go home penniless, obliged to work off their debts at the next harvest.
Marosi, Richard: Product of Mexico: Harsh Harvest
Hardship on Mexico's farms, a bounty for U.S. tables
Published: 2014
Farm exports to the U.S. from Mexico have tripled to $7.6 billion in the last decade, enriching agribusinesses, distributors and retailers. But for thousands of farm laborers south of the border, the boom is a story of exploitation and extreme hardship.
Marosi, Richard: Product of Mexico: No Way Out
Desperate workers on a Mexican mega-farm: 'They treated us like slaves'
Published: 2014
A raid exposes brutal conditions at Bioparques, one of Mexico's biggest tomato exporters, which was a Wal-Mart supplier. But the effort to hold the grower accountable is looking more like a tale of impunity.
Marquis-Boire: Inside the Spyware Campaign Against Argentine Troublemakers
Published: 2015
Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor known for doggedly investigating a 1994 Buenos Aires bombing, was targeted by invasive spy software downloaded onto his cellular phone shortly before his mysterious death. The software masqueraded as a confidential document and was intended to infect a Windows computer. An investigation by The Intercept indicates that this targeting was likely not an isolated event.
Marquis-Boire, Morgan; Greenwald, Glenn; Lee, Micah: XKEYSCORE: NSA's Google for the World's Private Communications
Published: 2015
The NSA's XKEYSCORE program, first revealed by The Guardian, sweeps up countless people's Internet searches, emails, documents, usernames and passwords, and other private communications. XKEYSCORE is fed a constant flow of Internet traffic from fiber optic cables that make up the backbone of the world’s communication network, among other sources, for processing.
Marquis-Boire, Morgan; Oberlander, Lynn: First Look Media Publishes Warrant 'Canary,' Releases Software for Managing Canaries
Published: 2015
Today The Intercept’s parent company, First Look Media, published a warrant "canary" -- a statement that attempts to assure readers that the company has not been compelled to comply with a secret government order like a National Security Letter. In addition to this, First Look is publishing AutoCanary: simple, free, open-source software to easily create and manage warrant canaries.
Marqusee, Mike: Fifty years ago, Cassius Clay ‘shook up the world’ by winning the heavyweight title – and
Published: 2014
The victory of the underdog who became Muhammad Ali – and how it wasn't just sport's hierarchies that were rocked by it. On the night of February 25, 1964, the 22 year old Cassius Clay defeated the supposedly undefeatable Sonny Liston to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
Marqusee, Mike: Held hostage by Big Pharma: a personal experience
Published: 2013
Mike Marqusee looks at how drug firms can make huge profits from their state-enforced monopoly on an essential good.
Marqusee, Mike: "If not now, when?" On BDS and 'singling out' Israel
Published: 2014
This is an edited version of a letter I've sent to a relative in the US who's been trying to figure out the BDS issue in the wake of the recent onslaught against the American Studies Association's decision to support the academic boycott.
Marriott, Hannah: Penises on the fashion catwalk - a flesh flash too far?
Published: 2015
The sight of men's genitals at the Rick Owens menswear show in Paris on Thursday caused a bit of a stir on the front row.
Marsden, Chris: George Monbiot: NATO's witchfinder
Published: 2022
In everything he writes George Monbiot accepts what pro-Western sources report as gospel and on this basis alone denounces his opponents.
Marsden, Rachel: Canada's 'shocking' new report on foreign interference has found none
Published: 2023
The idea that the US -- the most powerful country on Earth -- has absolutely no influence on its resource-rich next-door neighbor is absurd. The fact that the influence is so systemic that it's not even worth a glance or a mention in a report into foreign interference is glaring. Does the Canadian government care to look under that rock? Or are they just going to keep scapegoating Russia and China when the most existential, insidious threat to Canadian independence lies inward and southward?
Marsden, Rachel: Define 'Nazi': Western media muddies history to cover up Canada's SS scandal
Published: 2023
"Fighting against the USSR didn't necessarily make you a Nazi," Politico says. Maybe. But Yaroslav Hunka definitely was one.
Marsden, Rachel: The EU's best weapon against free speech isn't working
Published: 2023
The European Union has just realized that it can't rule the internet with an iron fist by throwing around the 'Kremlin propaganda' label.
Marsden, Rachel: The EU's freeze of Russian media assets is a perversion of its own principles
Published: 2022
There's a big difference between actual disinformation or misinformation, and information or analysis that you just don't like.
Marsden, Rachel: 'Extremists stoking rage': The German government seeks to downplay protesting workers' plight
Published: 2024
Farmers, truckers, train drivers – numerous workers are making it known that they are fed up, as the chancellor’s approval drops to 20%.
Marsden, Rachel: The US has The Hague Invasion Act, but wants The Hague to target Russia
Published: 2022
Washington wants Putin in the International Criminal Court, but its law allows "all means necessary" to prevent cases against USA.
Marsden, Rachel: Western cancel culture has gone nuclear in targeting an entire country
Published: 2022
By now, we're all used to righteous people pitching fits and ganging up, mean-girl style, on those they feel have committed transgressions against the status quo. But amid the conflict in Ukraine, some are actually trying to deplatform the world's largest country by attacking anyone and anything even remotely associated with it.
Marsden, Rachel: Western media suddenly hates Twitter's 'government-funded' labels
Published: 2023
Establishment outlets were perfectly fine with the social media scarlet letter when it was handed to their 'undesirable' counterparts. Recently, some media outlets have quit Twitter over what they see as unjust labeling, which leads to the question 'where was their outrage when the same rules were being applied to their competition?'
Marsh,Calum: Can you really make a living by selling used books on Amazon for a penny?
Published: 2015
Secondhand book sales online not only make millions but also offer demanding customers rare – or simply cheap – titles that might otherwise rot in landfill.
Marshall, Andrew Gavin: Turkey's Urban Uprising
The Struggle for Democracy against Inequality, Oligarchy, Oppression, and Tyranny
Published: 2013
In Turkey, a wave of urban uprisings had spread across the country, involving hundreds of thousands of protesters, in dozens of cities, met with massive state repression and violence, resulting in a few deaths and thousands of injuries and arrests.
Marshall, George; Linnitt, Carol: Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change
Published: 2014
Is our inability to tackle climate change the fault of politicians? Corporations? Governments? Or is it because that's the way our brains have evolved, able to hold six contradictory ideas at once, and believe them all?
Marshall, Jonathan: Coal Miners' Futures in Renewable Energy
Published: 2017
If President Trump wants to earn a rare legislative victory and take political credit for reviving hard-hit regions of rural America, he should take a close look at how one Kentucky coal company is creating jobs.
Marszalek, Bernard: The Maypole's Revolutionary Heritage
Time to Replant Trees of Liberty
Published: 2014
Martens, Pam: The Koch Whisperers
Big Brothers Buy in at Big Media
Published: 2011
A review of documents and tax records for the dizzying, interconnected web of corporate front groups, frequently created, supported and influenced by Charles or David Koch, shows just how dangerous these groups espousing free markets and liberty have become to a free society. The game plan is to devalue the rights of actual citizens by seeking human voices dangling from a corporate marionette string, that might be willing for the right amount of cash incentive to broadcast the Orwellian reverse-speak: liberty means more liberty for corporations (corporate serfdom for real citizens); freedom means corporate freedom to privatize national resources, pollute the environment and fleece the consumer with impunity; free market means the freedom to draw a dark curtain around how the corporations are actually screwing us and stealing our liberty.
Martens, Pam; Martens, Russ: WikiLeaks Bombshell: Emails Show Citigroup Had Major Role in Shaping and Staffing Obama's First Term
Published: 2016
According to emails released by WikiLeaks, which came from a hack of the email account of John Podesta, a co-chair of Obama's 2008 Transition Team, we learn that despite the obvious fact that Citigroup was both corrupt and derelict in handling its own financial affairs, Barack Obama gave executives of that bank an outsized role in shaping and staffing his first term.
Martenson, Chris: The Return of Crisis: Everywhere Banks are in Deep Trouble
Published: 2016
Financial markets the world over are increasingly chaotic; either retreating or plunging. Our view remains that there’s a gigantic market crash in the coming future -- one that has possibly started now.
Marthoz, Jean-Paul: French surveillance law passes National Assembly, but it's not the last word
Published: 2015
After the Chalie Hebdo and Hyper Catcher killings, the French National Assembly authorized clandestine intelligence operations for mobile devices and the internet. While the french patriot act has already been set in place, so too are movements to repeal these laws.
Martin, Abby: Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Free Information
His Blood is on the Hands of the US Government
Published: 2015
It’s been just over two years since computer prodigy Aaron Swartz took his own life. He was the target of a merciless witch-hunt by the Department of Justice, ultimately choosing death over 35 years behind bars for the crime of releasing information. As someone who transformed the way we all use and love the internet, Aaron should have gotten a medal of honour, not a death sentence.
Martin, Patrick: Time magazine honors journalists facing repression - but snubs Julian Assange
Published: 2018
A look at Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' award for 2018, which did not list any journalist who exposed state secrets or government misconduct in the United States, nor whistleblowers from Israel, Egypt, India or any of the NATO countries.
Martin, Patrick: Top 1 percent own more than half of world's wealth
Published: 2015
A new report issued by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse finds that global wealth inequality continues to worsen and has reached a new milestone, with the top 1 percent owning more of the world’s assets than the bottom 99 percent combined. Of the estimated $250 trillion in global assets, the top 1 percent owned almost exactly 50 percent, while the bottom 50 percent of humanity owned collectively less than 1 percent. The richest 10 percent owned 87.7 percent of the world's wealth, leaving 12.3 percent for the bottom 90 percent of the population.
Martinez, Elizabeth; Garcia, Arnoldo: What is Neoliberalism?
A Brief Definition for Activists
Published: 1996
Neo-liberalism is a set of economic policies that have become widespread during the last 25 years or so. Although the word is rarely heard in the United States, you can clearly see the effects of neo-liberalism here as the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer.
Martinot, Steve: The "Fundamentalism" in Police Operations
Published: 2016
As police murders accumulate, and police chiefs get fired and replaced because they cannot stop it (as in Oakland and San Francisco), the notion that this represents a political crisis becomes a truism. It is not a "crisis of policing," which would suggest a situation beyond the capacities of the police. It is the police who have become the crisis. In Oakland, on July 7, 2016, 5000 people came to demonstrate on one day's notice against the two police killings that had occur the previous two days out of a profound awareness of the malignity afoot – and they shut down the Interstate. The magnitude of this crisis is represented by its insidious repetitiveness.
Martinot, Steve: Police Torture and the Real Militarization of Society
Published: 2015
What rights can we still say we have, if we find ourselves trapped in a military structure? A person has the right to remain silent if arrested, but one does not have the right to remain silent if approached by the police on the street with the demand that one respond. That would constitute being "uncooperative." Neither does one have the right to protect one's property from the police.
Martirosyan, Lucy: A Children's Book Introduces German Kids to the True Story of Syrian Refugees
Published: 2016
Germany has received more than 1 million refugees, mostly from Syria and Iraq. Despite supporters initially celebrating Chancellor Angela Merkel's actions, many Germans have begun voicing concerns about when this acceptance of migrants will come to an end. But while the adults in Germany have expressed mixed reactions to the refugees, German author Kirsten Boie wants children at least to realize that a refugee child is just like any other kid in the world.
Martyn, Amy: Spokane vs. the Border Patrol: How Immigration Agents Stake Out a City Bus Station
Published: 2019
Amid the Trump administration's immigration enforcement crackdown, the Border Patrol has stepped up raids on Greyhound buses nationwide, combatting what the agency claims is a "growing threat" of "alien smuggling and drug trafficking organizations to move people, narcotics, and contraband to interior destinations."
Marusek, Sarah: Marching to Jerusalem
Searching for Dignity in Occupied East Jerusalem
Published: 2013
46 years ago, Israel seized East Jerusalem. Since then, Israel has undertaken measures to restrict Palestinian movement.
Marx, Karl: Comments on The Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction
Published: 1842
The real, radical cure for the censorship would be its abolition; for the institution itself is a bad one, and institutions are more powerful than people.
Marx, Karl: Karl Marx Quotes
Marx, Karl: On Freedom of the Press (5)
Censorship
Published: 1842
A censorship law is an impossibility because it seeks to punish not offences but opinions, because it cannot be anything but a formula for the censor, because no state has the courage to put in general legal terms what it can carry out in practice through the agency of the censor. For that reason, too, the operation of the censorship is entrusted not to the courts but to the police.
Marx, Karl: On Freedom of the Press (1)
Prussian Censorship
Published: 1842
Apart from the catchwords and commonplaces which fill the air, we find among these opponents of press freedom a pathological emotion, a passionate partisanship, which gives them a real, not an imaginary, attitude to the press, whereas the defenders of the press in this Assembly have on the whole no real relation to what they are defending. They have never come to know freedom of the press as a vital need. For them it is a matter of the head, in which the heart plays no part.
Marx, Karl: On Freedom of the Press (2)
Opponents of a Free Press
Published: 1842
What an illogical paradox to regard the censorship as a basis for improving our press!
Marx, Karl: On Freedom of the Press (3)
On the Assembly of the Estates
Published: 1842
Precisely because freedom of discussion, the speaker concludes, is desirable in our Assembly - and what freedoms would we not find desirable where we are concerned? - precisely for that reason freedom of discussion is not desirable in the province. Because it is desirable that we speak frankly, it is still more desirable to keep the province in thrall to secrecy.
Marx, Karl: On Freedom of the Press (4)
As a privilege of particular individuals or a privilege of the human mind?
Published: 1842
From the standpoint of the idea, it is self-evident that freedom of the press has a justification quite different from that of censorship because it is itself an embodiment of the idea, an embodiment of freedom, a positive good, whereas censorship is an embodiment of unfreedom, the polemic of a world outlook of semblance against the world outlook of essence; it has a merely negative nature.
Marx, Karl: On Freedom of the Press (6)
Freedom in General
Published: 1842
Some want a full censorship, others a half censorship; some want three-eighths freedom of the press, others none at all. God save me from my friends!
Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels Quotes
Marx, Paris: Uber Has Always Been a Criminal Organization
Published: 2019
Uber's whole business model was premised on criminality -- the willful, systematic flouting of local taxi regulations, based on a wager that the company could retroactively absolve itself by getting the laws changed via big-money lobbying. With that kind of mission, it's not surprising its executives had blood on their hands long before they started taking Saudi blood money.
Maslin, Sarah: Burning History in San Salvador
Destruction of Historical and Human Rights Archives
Published: 2013
On Thursday, Nov. 14, three armed men broke into the offices of Pro-Búsqueda. The attack on Pro-Búsqueda was not a random crime. We should be worried about what is happening in El Salvador.
Maslow, Abraham: Abraham Maslow Quotes
Masnick, Mike: Google's Ridiculous AdSense Morality Police Strike Again
Published: 2015
The morality police at AdSense argued that this news story -- which was about a legal dispute concerning the video -- somehow violated AdSense's terms against putting the ads on content including "strategically covered nudity" and "lewd or provocative poses." Apparently, the AdSense team has no "newsworthy" exception to these idiotic policies.
Mason, David: The Secret is Purposeful Action
Published: 2007
Don't let fear and hesitation, both common causes of procrastination, hold you back from taking purposeful action and getting started on your better life.
Mason, Wyatt: You Are Not Alone Across Time
Using Sophocles to treat PTSD
Published: 2014
Article on "Outside the Company," a theatre company that performed in a project called Theatre of War, where actors played the Greek drama "Ajax" by Sophocles.
Massad, Joseph: The future of the Nakba
Published: 2018
If the Nakba’s most salient features are the theft of Palestinian land and the expulsion of the Palestinians from their land, and subjecting the lands that could not be stolen and the people who could not be expelled to systematic control and oppression, then, it would be most inaccurate to consider the Nakba as a discrete event that refers to the war of 1948 and its immediate aftermath. Rather, it should be historicized as a process which spanned the last 140 years, beginning with the arrival of the first Zionist conquerors to colonize the land in the early 1880s. In addition, Israeli leaders continue to regale their own people and the world with assurances that the Nakba is not just a past and present process of dispossessing the Palestinian people of their lands and expelling them, but rather one that must continue to preserve the future survival of Israel. The Nakba then turns out to be not just a past event and an ongoing process in the present, but a calamity that has a decidedly planned future ahead of it. If so, what might that future be?
Massey, Brian: Wendell Berry's Radical Skepticism
The celebrated farmer and poet shares a message of love in a time of unrest
Published: 2016
When the celebrated writer, farmer, and elder statesman of the local food movement sat down in front of a sold-out audience at Johns Hopkins University last week, the crowd seemed even more eager than usual to soak in Berry's wisdom in this particularly fraught national moment. The event was a public conversation between Berry and Eric Schlosser, investigative journalist and author of Fast Food Nation, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. And many in the audience -- made up of people who care about the work the Center does to study the intersections between food systems, the environment, and human health -- were likely feeling a great deal worried about the fate of the issues about which they care deeply.
Massis: ISIS Destroys Memorial & Church of Armenian Genocide in Der Zor, Syria
Published: 2014
ISIS has destroyed the on-site monument to the Armenian people who perished in the deserts of Der Zor in the Genocide of 1915. The church and memorial contained irreplaceable bones of the martyred dead.
MassPrivate1: Smart Faucets And Toilets Use Alexa To Listen To Your Conversations
Published: 2019
It is hard to imagine a more intrusive home surveillance device than a faucet or toilet that listens to everyone’s conversations, but that is just what Delta Faucet and Kohler have done. Delta Faucet's "Voice IQ" takes advantage of where lots of people like to congregate and turns it into an Alexa eavesdropping centre.
Mast, Meghan: Still Surviving: Reconciliation Through Everyday Rebellion
Published: 2015
Residential school survivors rebuild through small acts of hope and resistance.
Masters, Jeff: The Manufactured Doubt Industry And The Hacked Email Controversy
Published: 2009
The fossil fuel industry has been working for years to create a smokescreen of doubt to obscure the facts of global warming.
Mastracci, Davide: Exposing How Pro-Israel Groups Manufacture Antisemitism Narratives
Published: 2021
These narratives attempt to have the public, media and politicians focus on bogus allegations of antisemitism instead of Israel’s actions.
Mastracci, Davide: The Globe and Mail Just Published Neo-Nazi Propaganda
Published: 2022
A profile in the newspaper focusing on a Ukrainian neo-Nazi group uncritically includes its subject's description of them as 'heroes.'
Mastracci, Davide: A List Of Some People In Canada Fired For Pro-Palestine Views
Published: 2023
Mastracci, Davide: Uncovering Canadian Media's Devastating Pro-Israel Bias
Published: 2020
The bias is enforced at every level of the media, from editorial boards all the way to ownership.
Mate, Aaron: Crippling New Sanctions Punish Syrian Civilians For U.S. Defeat In Proxy War
Published: 2020
As Syria tries to recover from a nearly decade-long war, the US has imposed crippling new sanctions under the Caesar Act that target reconstruction.
Mate, Aaron: US, EU sacrificing Ukraine to 'weaken Russia': former NATO adviser
Published: 2022
As the Russia-Ukraine war enters a new phase, former Swiss intelligence officer, senior United Nations official, and NATO advisor Jacques Baud analyzes the conflict and argues that the US and its allies are exploiting Ukraine in a longstanding campaign to bleed its Russian neighbour.
Matiashe, Farai: Zimbabwe farmers turn to smart solutions to fight climate change
Published: 2020
Having suffered poor harvests due to drought, Lupane small-scale farmers find solutions in climate-smart agriculture.
Matisons, Michelle Renee: Bobby Hutton's Hands Were Up
The Search for Justice
Published: 2014
The death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has catalyzed intense U.S. anti-policing/ police demilitarization movement activity, with Ferguson serving as an urgent training ground and meeting point for anti-policing thinkers, writers, artists and activists.
Matisons, Michelle Renee: Freedom, Valor, Love: On Snowden's Permanent Record
Published: 2019
Edward Snowden's life reveals it's not just "the computer guy" (or other non-male folks) at tech's helms, but the general U.S. public that bears witness to corporatized data surveillance state violations, or the data industrial complex. This secretive sprawling network is the invasive rule today; it involves regular media outlets, telecommunications, social media platforms, Internet service providers, and government agencies.
Matthews, Jeff: Is Canada's government trying to kill off the wild salmon?
Published: 2015
Matthews discusses how the Canadian government's actions and legal changes threaten the wild salmon.
Mattis, Kristine: GMO Propaganda and the Sociology of Science
Published: 2015
In August of 2014, the website Gawker revealed documents that demonstrated the lengths to which the global chemical giant Monsanto would go in order to control the narrative about their products – in particular, their genetically modified crops. While we all like to believe that our scientific/rational brains see through the transparent marketing, public relations rhetoric exists because it greatly sedates critical thought.
Mattis, Kristine: Superunknown: Scientific Integrity Within the Academic and Media Industrial Complexes
Published: 2018
Mattis provides an analysis of the competing priorities of scientists, funders and the media that together, create a perfect storm of "unscientific science".
Mattis, Kristine: Toxic Curve Ball: Why Outdated Assumptions to Determine "Safe Levels" of Toxicants Forfeit the Game
Published: 2016
By now, a large number of consumers are aware of the hazards of the synthetic compound bisphenol-A (BPA). Effective May 11, 2016, under California state law Proposition 65, products containing BPA must possess a warning label indicating that exposure could result in female reproductive impairment. Independent research on the endocrine disrupting effects of the chemical, commonly used in plastic bottles, the lining of metal cans, and customer receipts, among other applications, has consistently demonstrated toxic effects at low dose exposures. Two recent robust studies from Denmark concur, finding deleterious effects in rats exposed to BPA at doses lower than those considered safe for human ingestion, yet not at several higher doses. Nevertheless, regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) conclude that BPA is safe at the levels at which it is currently in use.
Maté, Aaron: Gabor Maté on the misuse of anti-Semitism and why fewer Jews identify with Israel
Published: 2019
Talking today about antisemitism, particularly posing it as a problem on the left.
Maté, Aaron: Israel's relentless violence on Gaza met by global silence
Published: 2019
A ceasefire has been reached in Gaza after Israel launched a wave of airstrikes that killed 34 Palestinians, including eight members of one family. Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada discusses Israel's latest bombings, which come after more than one year of weekly, deadly Israeli attacks on non-violent Palestinian demonstrators.
Maté, Aaron: Leaks reveal FBI helps Ukraine censor Twitter users and obtain their info
Published: 2023
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal.
Maughan, Philip: "I think the dead are with us": John Berger at 88
Published: 2015
A brief biography and recounting of a meeting by the author with the late author John Berger.
Mavroudeas, Stavros: Blatant Hypocrisy: the Latest Late-Night Bailout of Greece
Published: 2016
The new late night deal in the Eurogroup on the new bailout for Greece is another blatant hypocrisy by the dominant European Union powers, their partner-cum-competitor IMF (aka the US) and the Greek establishment (now represented by the SYRIZA government). The new deal is an uneasy compromise subject to a continuing tug-of-war between the US (through its proxy, the IMF) and the EU.
May, Elizabeth: Fighting the TPP
Published: 2016
Canada has a choice and should decide to reject the TPP. We shouldn’t sign. In that, the new government would have a solid argument – the agreement was concluded in secret by the previous Conservative government in the midst of the election.
Maybury, Greg: All Fire and Fury in Ukraine
Published: 2018
Using Oliver Stone's 'portentious' documentary film 'Ukraine on Fire' as a basis for discussion, the article looks beyond the mainstream media and public discourse on the events and developments in the country which ultimately framed the public's view of the situation.
Mayer, Arno J.: The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire
The Wages of Hubris and Vengeance
Published: 2014
Israel is in the grip of a kind of collective schizophrenia. Not only its governors but the majority of its Jewish population have delusions of both grandeur and persecution, making for a distortion of reality and inconsistent behaviour. Israeli Jews see and represent themselves as a chosen people and part of a superior Western civilization.
Mayer, Jonathan: The Turn-Verizon Zombie Cookie
Published: 2015
Discussion of Verizon's "supercookie," a header that tracks mobile subscribers, even if they have opted out, cleared their cookies, or entered private browsing mode.
Maynen, Nick: Concrete, or beaches? World's sand running out as global construction booms
Published: 2017
A crucial component of concrete, sand is vital to the global construction industry. China alone is importing a billion tonnes of sand a year, and its increasing scarcity is leading to large scale illegal mining and deadly conflicts. With ever more sand fetched from riverbeds, shorelines and sandbanks, roads and bridges are being undermined and beaches eroded. And the world's sand wars are only set to worsen.
Mayu, Chang: Details Of Tax Avoidance Schemes For Wealthy HSBC Clients Revealed
Published: 2015
A cache of secret documents has thrust HSBC into the limelight for helping international clients dodge taxes.
Mazelis, Fred: New report documents "a living death" in US prisons
Published: 2013
The American Civil Liberties Union has issued a massive report that meticulously documents the unconstitutional practice of life imprisonment without parole in federal and state prisons in the US.
MC, Ali: Maubere Timor: Keeping East Timor's songs of resistance alive
Published: 2020
Presumed dead for years, musician and independence fighter Berliku returns to pay tribute to his nation through music.
McAllister, Joe: Revealing My Sources
McAnarney, Alexandra: Memory and Repression in El Salvador
Published: 2013
The raid on Pro-Busqueda happened three days after the Salvadorean Supreme Court heard testimony from survivors of a 1982 raid carried out by government forces.
McBrayer, Justin: What Is Diversity? And Why Is It Valuable?
Published: 2021
Suppose I just get back from vacation, and you ask me how it went. "Oh, it was wonderful," I say, "There was such diversity." That wouldn’t answer your question at all. Instead, you'd want to know two things: Diversity of what? And why would that sort of diversity make the vacation better? It doesn't make sense to speak about diversity, full stop. There's only diversity of this or that. And diversity isn't always valuable. Despite this, higher education continues to talk about diversity in the abstract.
McCain, Greg: Hondurans Walk for Dignity and Sovereignty
Step by Step
Published: 2013
About the Walk called 'Caminata Dignidad y Soberanía Paso a Paso' (Walk for Dignity and Sovereignty Step by Step), which culminated with over 400 people from various groups representing the social movements in Honduras reaching the National Congress in Tegucigalpa with various demands.
McCann, Craig: Expelled from a Progressive Think Tank - for the Crime of Denouncing Antifa Violence
Published: 2022
McCarthy, Barbara: By pretending the world is uniquely cruel to women, smug feminists only enrage men who risk & sacrifice their lives each day
Published: 2019
The kind of feminism sees women as victims, oppressed by evil men is not just deeply offensive to women, but also totally unhelpful to those who buy into it.
McCarthy, Donnachadh: Responsible advertisers must boycott climate-sceptic Mail, Sun, Times, Telegraph, Express
Published: 2016
A handful of right wing media billionnaires have been using their newspapers as propaganda rags to attack climate science and oppose climate action, writes Donnachadh McCarthy. Yet even 'climate leader' companies like M&S are fuelling their profits by advertising with them. Now a new #Deadvertisment campaign is demanding them to stop, right now.
McCarthy, Donnachadh: UK Tax Dodgers PLC - Google outrage is the tip of an iceberg
Published: 2016
Why are we so surprised at the Google tax heist? It's not because there's anything new about it. It's because our own political class have long had their noses in the trough, and the tax-dodging billionaires that own our mainstream media are anxious to hide the swindle that's keeping them rich, and us poor.
McCarthy, Kieren: Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer
Published: 2018
Google has admitted that its option to "pause" the gathering of your location data doesn't apply to its Maps and Search apps – which will continue to track you even when you specifically choose to halt such monitoring.
McCarthy, Mary: Mary McCarthy Quotes
McCarthy, Tom: Snowden and Ellsberg hail leak of drone documents from new whistleblower
Published: 2015
American whistleblowers hailed the release of a collection of classified documents about US drone warfare as a blow on behalf of transparency and human rights. The documents anchored a multi-part report by the Intercept on the Defense Department assassination program in Yemen and Somalia.
McCarthy, Tom: The uncounted: why the US can't keep track of people killed by police
Published: 2015
After a year of high-profile police killings, calls for a national database have gained traction. But how would that work? Tom McCarthy investigates the challenges for law enforcement and government officials alike.
McChesney, Robert: Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles
An interview with Robert McChesney
Published: 2009
Robert McChesney talks about contemporary media capitalism and 21st century media democracy struggles to understand and change it.
McChesney, Robert W.; Nichols, John: The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
Published: 2009
Journalism is collapsing, and with it comes the most serious threat in our lifetimes to self-government and the rule of law as it has been understood here in the United States.
McCluskey, Molly: Crow Nation is a place where one could vanish - and many have
Bureaucratic loopholes, jurisdictional gaps, discrimination foster an epidemic of missing and murdered Native Americans.
Published: 2019
It is an epidemic impacting land-based tribes across the country and is particularly acute in Montana, where Native Americans are five times more likely to be reported missing than any other group in the state. Here in Crow Nation, disappearances from this sovereign territory have become so commonplace that nearly every member of the Crow tribe has a close friend or blood relative who has gone missing.
McConnell,Tristan: Witness Projection
How Ushahidi is mapping crises around the world
Published: 2013
Article about 'Ushahidi', an online platform that allows for real-time reporting on humanitarian crises anywhere in the world.
McCook, Alison: Philosophy journal spoofed, retracts hoax article
Published: 2016
A philosophy journal that focuses on the teachings of philosopher Alain Badiou has apparently fallen victim to yet another Sokal hoax, and has retracted a fake article submitted by authors trying to expose the publication's weaknesses. The paper, "Ontology, Neutrality and the Strive for (non-)Being-Queer," attributed to Benedetta Tripodi of the Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza in Romania, is apparently the work of two academics, who submitted the absurd article to Badiou Studies to expose its lack of rigor in accepting papers.
McCracken, Krista: Archives As Activism
Published: 2017
Last week was archives awareness week in Ontario, a week to raise awareness about what archivists do, what archives are, and just generally celebrate all of the good stuff associated with archives. In addition to general archives promotion this week it is also about the connection between archives and activism.
McCree, Keith and Barbra: Trail Damage Caused by Irresponsible Mountain Bikers
The damage caused by each mountain biker is much greater than that caused by a hiker, firstly because of the extra weight of the bike, and secondly because the soil is impacted continuously along the trail, while a hiker's feet hit the soil only at intervals.
McCrummen, Stephanie: Slumming in Kenya's back streets
A young TV crew is chronicling a life of dirt, violence and hope
Published: 2008
Slum TV is a group of young people from Mathare, one of the slums of Kenya, who chronicle life in their community during times of peace and unrest.
McCurry, Justin: Internet addiction driving South Koreans into realms of fantasy
Government caught between promoting gaming and restraining its use in world's most wired nation
Published: 2010
Two million South Koreans are thought to be addicted to Internet games as the government struggles to deal with the problem.
McDermott, Vincent: Sámi: Looking for lost elements of night skies
Published: 2022
Over the past couple centuries, much of Sámi sky lore has been lost, but what is known shows a culture that is intimately in tune with the land.
McDonald, Henry: Endemic rape and abuse of Irish children in Catholic care, inquiry finds
Published: 2009
Beatings and humiliation by nuns and priests were common at institutions that held up to 30,000 children, Ryan report states.
McDonald, Henry: The unrecognised truth behind that 'spontaneous' Belfast riot
Violence was planned by manipulative, self-interested individuals
Published: 2011
An analysis of sectarian violence in Belfast between the loyalists and republicans and the international media coverage of this violence, which often frames it as political.
McDonnell, John: The noble cause of the Heathrow 13
Published: 2016
With the 'Heathrow 13' protestors expecting custodial sentences today for their occupation of a Heathrow runway last July, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP writes that their direct action followed years of official lies and broken promises, and forms part of a long tradition of direct action protests in defence of democracy.
McElrath, K.J.: The Volkswagen Scandal Wasn't Exposed by Regulators, but by Two Engineers Working at a Small Non-Profit Lab
Published: 2015
German automaker Volkswagen was recently exposed for perpetrating a massive deception by installing a small device on as many as 11 million diesel-powered vehicles designed to cheat emissions tests.
McElroy, Wendy: On Handcuffed and Felonious Children
Published: 2005
Arresting young children for a crayon drawing, not unlike the games of hangman we once all played, is the ultimate meaning and logic of Zero Tolerance. Zero tolerance involves the application of law in an extreme and uncompromising manner to any activity, violent or not, that is deemed to be anti-social.
McElwee, Sean: The Threat of Just-in-Time Scheduling
Published: 2014
One of the most unnoticed labour trends in the past few decades has been the rise of "just-in-time scheduling," the practice of scheduling workers' shifts with little advance notice that are subject to cancelation hours before they are due to begin.
McGhee, Robert: Aboriginalism and the Problems of Indigenous Archealogy
Published: 2008
Article in American Antiquity, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Oct., 2008), pp. 579-597 (19 pages).
McGhee, Robert: Aboriginalism and the Problems of Indigenous Archeology
This paper contends that proponents of various forms of Indigenous Archaeology base their argument on a paradigm of Aboriginal essentialism ("Aboriginalism") that is derived from the long-discarded concept of Primitive Man. The development of Aboriginalism is explored as a mutually reinforcing system.
McGill, Abby: From Slavery to Debt-Bondage: Big Tobacco's Addiction to Cheap Labor
Published: 2015
Cigarette manufacturers and leaf buyers perpetuate a global system of inequity that bolsters corporate profits at the expense of those who labor at the bottom of the tobacco supply chain. It is long past time for that system to end, and be replaced by a more fair tobacco trade that respects the workers who harvest this toxic crop.
McGill, Abby: Respect, not restraints, for workers in Thailand's seafood industry
Published: 2015
A report on a year-long investigation into forced labour in the global seafood supply chain in Thailand.
McGlinchey, Brian: No Country Has a "Right to Exist"
Published: 2023
No country has a 'right to exist.' After all, what is a country -- or, in more precise terminology, a state -- other than a political arrangement? And why would any political arrangement be deemed as having 'rights,' much less a supposed right to never be altered or cancelled?
McGovern, Ray: Conditioned for War with Russia
Published: 2022
Most Americans are oblivious to the reality that Western media are owned and operated by the same corporations that make massive profits by helping to stoke small wars and then peddling the necessary weapons. Corporate leaders and Ivy-mantled elites, educated to believe in U.S. 'exceptionalism,' find the lucre and the luster too lucrative to be able to think straight. They deceive themselves into thinking that (a) the U.S. cannot lose a war; (b) escalation can be calibrated and wider war can be limited to Europe; and (c) China can be expected to just sit on the sidelines.
McGovern, Ray: Conditioned for War with Russia
Published: 2022
Discusses the American role in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and the Establishment media's part in keeping the truth from Americans.
McGovern, Ray: The Humiliation of Bradley Manning
Kangaroos Missing
Published: 2012
It is a bitter irony that Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, whose conscience compelled him to leak evidence about the U.S. military brass ignoring evidence of torture in Iraq, was himself the victim of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment while other military officers privately took note but did nothing.
McGrath, Cam: Bloggers Name and Shame Torturers in Egypt
Published: 2009
Egyptian bloggers use the Internet to expose police abuse and torture.
McGrath, Cam: Desert Winds Stir New Hope
Published: 2009
With oil and gas reserves running dry, Egypt is eyeing wind power as a solution to its looming energy crunch.
McGreal, Chris: America's poorest border town: no immigration papers, no American Dream
Colonia Muniz: a world cut off from rights and citizenship
Published: 2016
Chris McGreal visits one of the Texas border townships that are home to hundreds of thousands of often-undocumented Latino immigrants and where the Amarican dream seems a remote fantasy.
McGreal, Chris: America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs
Published: 2015
Chris McGreal reports from one of the most economically deprived places in the United States, and talks to people who are trying to cope with being left behind by the American Dream.
McGreal, Chris: A reservation town fighting alcoholism, obesity and ghosts from the past
Blackwater: Arizona town fighting obesity and gohsts
Published: 2016
Chris McGreal completes his series on the most disadvantaged towns in the United States by finding out how life in a Native American community has been affected by modern eating habits and revenue from newly built casinos.
McGreal,Chris: American drought: California's crisis
Published: 2014
California is undergoing its worst drought in a generation. Chris McGreal explains how it is affecting the state.
McInerney, Lisa: Don't tell me that working-class people can’t be articulate
Published: 2017
When writing dialogue, the idea that a drug dealer must be portrayed as verbally hesitant is daft -- language is not a tool issued by the nobility.
McKay, Ian: A Different Location in the World: A Reconnaissance of Socialist Feminism in Canada, 1965-1990
Unpublished paper, 2002
Published: 2002
McKeigue, Paul; Robinson, Piers: Doubts about 'Novichoks'
Published: 2018
Briefing notes developed from ongoing research and investigation into the use of chemical and biological weapons during the 2011-present war in Syria conducted by members of the "Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda".
McKenna, Brian: Cancer is Capitalist Violence
Anthropology Against Oncology
Published: 2013
It’s been two decades since the publication of Martha Balsham’s landmark study, “Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority (1993).” Balshem, a hospital-based anthropologist, documented how a Philadelphia “lay community” rejected medical advice to stop smoking, eat fruits and vegetables and schedule regular screening tests. The working class community of Tannerstown (a pseudonym) instead blamed air pollution from highway traffic and nearby chemical plants, as well as fate, for their cancers.
Mckenna, Brian: The Predatory Pedagogy of On-Line Education
New Techno-peasants of the Latifundia
Published: 2013
Distance learning amounts to the erosion of the traditional face-to-face classroom.
McKenna, Brian: Wild West Journalism
Outlaws, Cowpokes and a Eunuched Press
Published: 2010
Journalism is not dead nor is anthropology. Both are undergoing seismic transformations while under attack from a neoliberal culture that devalues the public and disparages the truth.
McKenna, Tony: Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory
Published: 2019
Conspiracy theories in general tend to be crude and simplistic, more often than not reflecting the nature of the people who indulge them. But when the conspiracy theory is mingled with antisemitism – as with the Rothschild rot – it represents a particular failure of the imagination, a particularly null and void exercise in dehumanisation.
McKenzie, Lisa: The Culture War is nothing but a bourgeois distraction from the only war that really matters - Class War
Published: 2020
Middle-class squabbling over statues and outdated anthems only serves to fill up the political discourse with meaningless hot air and to perpetuate a system that keeps them comfortable and the working-classes quiet.
McKibben, Bill: Scandal! Exxon knew about climate change, boosted denialism, misled shareholders, went carbon heavy
Published: 2016
One of the world's biggest energy companies has been caught out in what may be the biggest ever climate scandal. Way back in the 1980s ExxonMobil knew of the 'potentially catastrophic' and 'irreversible' effects of increasing fossil fuel consumption, but chose to cover up the findings, spread misinformation on climate change, and go for high carbon energy sources.
McKie, Robin: Gene wars: the last-ditch battle over who owns the rights to our DNA
Published: 2013
A US biotech company is fighting to protect the patents it took out on a test for a cancer-causing gene. Scientists say a win for the firm would set back a growing ability to detect diseases.
McKie, Robin: Nature's last refuge: climate change threatens our most fragile ecosystem
Published: 2015
An Arctic voyage through the awe-inspiring Northwest Passage shows that, with oil drilling in the far north on the way, rapid action is needed to protect the region.
McKie, Robin; Thorpe, Vanessa: Digital Domesday Book lasts 15 years not 100
Published: 2002
It was meant to be a showcase for Britain's electronic prowess but 16 years after it was created, the £2.5 million BBC Domesday Project has achieved an unexpected and unwelcome status: it is now unreadable.
McKinnon, Charlie: The radical Robert Burns
Published: 2018
For many people the only association they have with the work of Robert Burns is singing Auld Lang Syne at New Year celebrations or at annual Burns Supper events. The real Burns, the radical, revolutionary Burns, is rarely even hinted at in these events. Instead what we have is a sentimentalised, romanticised portrayal of Burns as what Henry Mackenzie called "that heav'n taught ploughman". MacKenzie was a lawyer, novelist and editor of The Lounger magazine in which he reviewed Burns's work. Burns admired some of Mackenzie's work; indeed one of his favourite novels was his Man of Feeling (1771). Mackenzie, however, was scornful of Burns's use of vernacular Scots "which greatly damps the pleasure of the reader".
McLaren, Karla: Bridging the Chasm Between Two Cultures
Published: 2004
A full-on clash of cultures makes communication extremely difficult between the skeptical community and the metaphysical/new age community.
McLaren, Stephen: RoboCop is real -- and could be patrolling a mall near you
K5 robot, the new sheriff in the valley
Published: 2016
Automated security has cameras, microphones and costs $7 an hour.
McLaughlin, Jenna: The Big Secret That Makes the FBI's Anti-Encryption Campaign a Big Lie
Published: 2015
McLaughlin discusses how hacking techniques and their increasing use are justified in a prevalent way by the American government.
Mclaughlin, Jenna: CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
Published: 2015
Over 60 inmates at New York's Clinton Correctional Facility have complained of abuse by prison guards in the wake of the June escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
McLaughlin, Jenna: CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
Published: 2015
Over 60 inmates at New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility have complained of abuse by prison guards in the wake of the June escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
McLaughlin, Jenna: U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks, Regardless of Snowden Leaks
Published: 2015
Despite the intelligence community's attempts to blame NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for the tragic attacks in Paris on Friday, the NSA's mass surveillance programs do not have a track record of identifying or thwarting actual large-scale terrorist plots.
McLaughlin, Jenna: Verizon Lawyer Argues for Greater Legal Protection for Customer Location Data
Published: 2016
Verizon's general counsel and head of public policy made a public case for reconsidering legal protections on customer data in light of evolving technology that allows companies to almost continuously track cell phone users' location.
McLaughlin, Jenna; Cooper, Talya: New Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose
Published: 2016
Oliver Stone's latest film, "Snowden," bills itself as a dramatized version of the life of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed the global extent of U.S. surveillance capabilities.
McLauglin, Jenna: Is Law Enforcement "Going Dark" Because of Encryption? Hardly, Says New Report
Published: 2016
Unbreakable encryption -- which prevents easy, conventional surveillance of digital communications-- isn’t a big problem for law enforcement, says a report published by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The report, titled "Don’t Panic," finds that we are probably not "headed to a future in which our ability to effectively surveil criminals and bad actors is impossible" because of companies that offer end-to-end encryption, such as Apple.
McLean, Jesse: Popular airlines flagged for safety system non-compliance
Published: 2018
The regulatory breach was uncovered by Transport Canada agents during a 2016 visit to the airline's Etobicoke offices, where inspectors reviewing maintenance records also found planes had not received required work.Sunwing is one of several popular commercial airlines that have been flagged for widespread non-compliance by Transport Canada, the details of which are contained in government surveillance reports that are not public and must be obtained through Access to Information legislation.
McLeod, Alan: The BBC to NATO Pipeline
How the British state broadcaster serves the powerful
Published: 2022
The death of Queen Elizabeth II, where the BBC dropped programming to run endless, wall-to-wall coverage, has underlined the fact to many Britons that the network is far from impartial, but the voice of the state.
McLeod, Alan: 'Here Are the Superheroes To Come and Save Us'
Media Waste No Time Fawning Over Biden
Published: 2021
McLeod discusses the celebration of the Biden administration by prominent corporate media that has come at a cost of little scrutiny. He argues that the country's journalists should see themselves as the government's adversaries, rather than their allies.
McLeod, Donald W.: Lesbian and gay liberation in Canada: a selected annotated chronology, 1964-1975
Published: 1996
This authoritative reference guide covers the first twelve years of the organized homophile/gay liberation movement in Canada, from 1964 (when the Association for Social Knowledge [ASK], Canada's first large-scale homophile organization, was formed in Vancouver) through 1975 (the year of the founding of the National Gay Rights Coalition [NGRC], the first truly national coalition of Canadian lesbian and gay groups).
Mcleod, Donald W.: Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1976–1981
Published: 2016
This authoritative reference guide is a continuation of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964–1975. It starts where the first volume left off, and highlights some of the seminal events and people involved in the fight for gay rights in Canada to the end of 1981.
McMahon, Barbara: Australia's 'stolen' children get apology but no cash
Published: 2008
The stolen generations were Aboriginal children - mainly mixed race - who were removed from their families and sent to institutions or adopted into white families during the last century. Some children were snatched from their mother's arms, others were taken under the guise of court orders.
McManus, John H.: Detecting Bull
How to Identify Bias and Junk Journalism in Print, Broadcast and on the Wild Web
Published: 2009
This book helps teach students how to view the news and find trustworthy information. It takes the lessons learned from his years leading GradeTheNews.org, a website that rated the news in San Francisco.
McMillan, Stephanie: NGOs Are Cages
How Capitalists Control Mass Movements
Published: 2014
We really need to understand the methods used by NGOs to undermine radical political organizing efforts and divert us into political dead ends.
McMillan, Stephanie; Kelley, Vincent: The Useful Altruists: How NGOs Serve Capitalism and Imperialism
Published: 2015
NGOs are far from revolutionary organizations, but many of us would think that their work still seems more helpful than not. Political differences with them aside, it seems dogmatic to denounce free health care and anti-poverty programs. Short of more radical measures, NGOs seem to serve an important interim function. In fact, though, it can be argued that many NGOs are destructive, both in their current work and in their preclusion of an alternative future beyond the capitalist present. They undermine, divert, and replace autonomous organizing and erase working class struggle and organizing.
McMurtry, John: The Canadian Elections: Cover-Up and Steal (Again)
Published: 2015
The opposition parties in Canada's 2015 federal election are sticking to a careful PR-driven script, refusing to even mention the fact that Stephen Harper's Conservatives broke the law and committed fraud in winning the 2006, 2008, and 2011 elections. The mainstream media and the political parties scrupulously ignore this reality.
McMurtry, John: The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule
Published: 2001
The deepest and most systemic threat to civil and planetary life the world has ever faced is underway. Behind the disasters of regional economies and planetary ecosystems melting down, the threat is driven by an underlying meta-program, in terms of which every decision, every policy, every regulation and implementation is demanded and instituted by servant governments.
McMurtry, John: Lawless Trump-Canada Connections
Published: 2019
Canada recently seized and sold $30 million worth of Iranian properties in Ottawa and Toronto, a gross hypocrisy explains Yves Engler in light of oversights of more flagrant US and Israel terror victims. But the behaviour of Canada Foreign Affairs in joining the lawless US war of sanctions, embargos and military threats against Iran goes deeper than hypocrisy.
McNamara, Tom: The Return of COINTELPRO?
Time to Target the Real Terrorists
Published: 2013
The FBI was using its offices and agents across the country as early as August 2011 to engage in a massive surveillance scheme against Occupy Wall Street. The documents show a government agency at its most paranoid.
McNamara, Tom: The War Crimes of a Sergeant, the War Crimes of a Nation
A Double Standard of Justice
Published: 2012
It is alleged that on the evening of March 10-11, 2012, US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales left his base in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, fully armed and loaded, and murdered 16 civilians in a nearby village.
McQuillan, Laura: Americans are being urged to delete period tracking apps. Should Canadians do the same?
Published: 2022
Health apps' promises to protect users' data should be taken with a grain of salt, privacy experts say.
McSheffrey, Elizabeth: Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold fired whistleblower. Then it spilled cyanide into five rivers
Published: 2016
Toronto-based mining giant, Barrick Gold, spilled cyanide solution into five Argentina rivers shortly after firing an engineer who raised serious safety concerns about the mining operation responsible for the contamination.
McSherry, Corynne: Finally! Victory for Free Speech in Garcia v. Google
Published: 2015
Free speech must remain free; regardless of how nasty the message may be. This is a story about the peservation of free speech and the abuses of copyright law.
McSorley, Tim: Montreal spends $110,000 on private lawyers to fight challenge to anti-protest bylaw
There's room for austerity around everything except repression
Published: 2014
As the city of Montreal tightens its belt-buckle and is cutting budgets, two Montrealers who are challenging the city's regulations around demonstrations are questioning the amount of resources the city is putting in to defend the bylaws.
McTaggart, Ursula: Occupy Cincinnati as a Case Study
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
Occupy Cincinnati was "an event, not a movement." It is argued that viewing Occupy — both in Cincinnati and nationally — as a movement, causes it to be seen as something that is now over, diminishing its significance.
McVicar, Jackie: Canada's Deadly Diplomacy and the Plight of Political Prisoners in Honduras
Published: 2018
A look at the political crisis in Honduras since the Nov. 26 election, which has led to brutal and deadly government crack-downs by military police and other state forces of Honduras. Described as state-led terrorism, it is being tacitly supported by funding from Canadian taxpayers.
Mead, Nick: How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
Published: 2015
The author provides an overview of how bicycle use has monopolized the streets in Amsterdam to create an overall safer and environmentally city.
Mearsheimer, John: The Situation in Russia and Ukraine
Published: 2022
Mearsheimer, John J.: The causes and consequences of the Ukraine war
A lecture by John J. Mearsheimer
Published: 2022
Mearsheimer, John J.: Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault
The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin
Published: 2014
The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia's orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU's expansion eastward and the West's backing of the pro-democracy movement in Ukraine -- beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004 -- were critical elements, too.
Media Giraffe Project; Clark, Thom: The New News
Jouralism we want and need
Published: 2009
With support from the Chicago Community Trust, the Community Media Workshop released "the New news: Journalism We Want and Need." This 36-page report is co-authored by giraffe prospect Thom Clark and includes a ranking of their top sixty news websites in Chicago, topping the list is the Chi-Town Daily News. An assessment of news coverage in the Chicago area due to economic pressures and crucial development in communication such as the importance of the online realm.
Media Lens: Death By A Thousand Cuts: Earth Enters The 'Danger Zone'
Published: 2015
2014 was the warmest year on record for the world; possibly the warmest in 5000 years. Even worse, this warming will soon double the pollution levels of our planet. Meanwhile, corporate media couldn't care less.
Media Lens: Feral Journalism - Rewilding Dissent
Published: 2015
Media censorship from corporations and politicians are distoring our view of reality but most of us aren't so far gone that we can't recognize the need for non-corporate media.
Media Lens: Sick Sophistry: BBC News On Afghan Hospital "Mistakenly" Bombed by United States
Published: 2015
One of the defining features of the corporate media is that Western crimes are ignored or downplayed. The US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on the night of October 3, 2015, is an archetypal example.
Media Lens: The Syrian Observatory: Funded By The Foreign Office
Published: 2018
The UK funded a project worth £194,769.60 to provide the 'Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' with communications equipment and cameras.
Media Lens: When Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence – The Israel Lobby And A Cowed Academia
Published: 2015
The Israeli government works hard to shut down academic conferences on Palestine.
Media Lens Editor: Menwith Menace: Britain's Complicity In Saudi Arabia's Terror Campaign Against Yemen
Published: 2016
The 'mainstream' Western media is, almost by definition, the last place to consult for honest reporting of Western crimes. Consider the appalling case of Yemen which is consumed by war and an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Since March 2015, a 'coalition' of Sunni Arab states led by Saudi Arabia, and supported by the US, Britain and France, has been dropping bombs on neighbouring Yemen. The scale of the bombing is indicated in a recent article by Felicity Arbuthnot - in one year, 330,000 homes, 648 mosques, 630 schools and institutes, and 250 health facilities were destroyed or damaged.
Media Lens editor: Some Deaths Really Matter
The Disproportionate Coverage of Israeli And Palestinian Killings
Published: 2014
Israeli deaths matter much more than Palestinian deaths. This has long been a distinguishing feature of Western news media reporting on the Middle East. The recent blanket coverage afforded to the brutal killing of three Israeli teenagers highlights this immutable fact.
Media Lense: Noam Chomsky And The BBC: A Brief Comparison
Published: 2017
A recent interview with 88-year-old Noam Chomsky once again demonstrates just how insightful he is in providing rational analysis of Western power and the suffering it generates. By contrast, anyone relying on BBC News receives a power-friendly view of the world, systematically distorted in a way that allows the state and private interests to pursue business as usual.
MEE staff: Named: 112 companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements by the UN
United Nations Human Rights Council lists firms it says likely connected to Israel's colonisation of the occupied West Bank
Published: 2020
The United Nations Human Rights Council produced a list on Wednesday of 112 companies it has concluded have ties to illegal Israeli settlements. Ninty-four of the firms named are domiciled in Israel, the other 18 are in other states.
Mehaffy, Michael W; Salingros, Nikos A: The biological basis of resilient cities
Published: 2014
Biological systems offer design strategies for successfully adapting to an age of climate change and resource depletion. Insights from nature will be essential in creating a green and sustainable future for humankind.
Mehari, Milen: My Mother, Stopped for Driving While Black
Published: 2016
When the police pulled their guns on my mother, I reached for my phone and told her to be calm and do as they say. My parents and I had just been swarmed by police cars, sirens blaring, as we drove on I-64 through Virginia. Shock and fear consumed my family as we came to a stop and were ordered out of the vehicle at gun point. A third car even showed up to stop traffic. The officers then arrested my mother without any explanation. I felt helpless.
Mehrpouya, Afshin: Six Ways the Media Has Misreported Syria
How One-Sided Reporting is Facilitating Escalation
Published: 2012
The Western mainstream media’s coverage of the Syrian conflict has been mostly simplistic and black & white with a Hollywoodian good (opposition) and evil (Syrian government) story.
Meili,Ryan: What We Don't Know Will Hurt Us: Ignorance In The Information Age
Canada Has Changed
Published: 2015
The war on knowledge is a war on the health of Canadians. We need a government that will embrace the information age and use evidence to improve our lives. We need a government that has the health of Canadians as its greatest priority. Ten years in, it’s clear that that government is not Stephen Harper’s.
Meisel, Duncan; Jackson, Janine: The Goal of These Ads Is to Distract From Their Actual Business Model
Published: 2021
CounterSpin interview with Duncan Meisel on oil industry greenwashing.
Melchett, Peter: A tale of two farming conferences: the future is 'real' and organic
Published: 2015
Lord Krebs, self-appointed spokesman for industrial agriculture, used the Oxford Farming Conference to attack organic systems for causing more climate change - a claim as demonstrably false as it is ludicrous, writes Peter Melchett. But across the city, the upstart 'real farming' conference was showing the way to a cleaner, greener and healthier future.
Melissa del Bosque: Checkpoint Nation
Border agents are expanding their reach into the country's interior
Published: 2018
Even if you never leave the United States, you can encounter Border Patrol at the thirty-five fixed checkpoints and dozens of temporary checkpoints they operate deep in the interior. The locations of these checkpoints are not made public, but the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, has developed a project to track them.
Mellen, Matt: The Invention of Nature: adventures of Alexander Humboldt, lost hero of science
Published: 2016
Andrea Wulf's book about the remarkable 19th century explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt is welcome, opportune and a pleasure to read, packed as it is with high adventure and amazing discoveries. We have much to learn from him today in tackling the world's environmental crises; reading this book is an excellent - and enjoyable - way to begin.
Meloney, Nic: Alt-right group posts names, photos of 'potentially dangerous' Cornwallis protesters
28 people 'doxed' by national socialist group, some labelled as mentally ill
Published: 2017
A group of self-described national socialists in Nova Scotia has posted personal information about people who have shown interest in protests calling for the removal of an Edward Cornwallis statue in Halifax, labelling them as "potentially dangerous."
Meltzer, Tom: Are our household appliances getting too complicated?
Published: 2013
Tom Meltzer explains why function inflation is such a turn-off.
Melville, Toby: Bullied BBC? Alternative media returns fire on claims it's waging 'war' on the corporation
Published: 2017
Alternative media accused of waging "guerilla warfare" against the BBC by its former political editor Nick Robinson say they are just providing balance to the 'biased' government-funded corporation.
Mencken, H. L.: H. L. Mencken Quotes
Mendes, Kaitlynn: How the 'SlutWalk' Has Transformed the Rape Culture Conversation
Published: 2015
It is amidst this wider rape culture, and the ways feminists are fighting back, that SlutWalk not only emerged, but exploded as a global grassroots movement. What is significant about SlutWalk is not the premise; after all, women have been protesting against sexual violence for decades. What is striking about SlutWalk was its ability, despite its feminist roots, to capture the mainstream media's attention.
Mendes-Franco, Janine: The 'Civic Death' of Dominicans of Haitian Descent
Published: 2015
Imagine being born in a country and then being told you have no rights as a citizen; that you're not wanted there. That is exactly what has been happening to Dominicans of Haitian descent.
Mendoza, Kerry-Anne: Israel put up a £1,000,000 bounty for Labour insiders to undermine Corbyn
Published: 2017
A second release from an Al Jazeera undercover sting operation has revealed the existence of a £1,000,000 plot designed by the Israeli government to undermine Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Mengesha, Simegnish: With limited independent press, Ethiopians left voting in the dark
Published: 2015
In a country where journalists are often imprisoned or exiled for 'inciting terrorism', Ethiopians are finding it difficult to stay informed for the upcoming election.
Mensing, Alex: Taking Back What's Ours
The Struggle of the Townspeople of Venustiano Carranza, Chiapas
Published: 2014
The morning sun was just above the horizon when San Cristóbal’s cobblestone streets and colonial houses gave way to crumbling pavement and deep green cornfields. Our combi, a small minibus bursting with passengers, wound its way downwards out of the highlands of Chiapas, down into the warmer climate of the lowland valleys.
Mercer, Rick: Experimental Lakes Area Cuts
Published: 2012
Rick's Rant for October 30th, 2012.
Merchant, Brian: Click Here To Kill
The dark world of online murder markets
Published: 2020
Explores dangers of both real and fraudulent online assassination markets on the dark web.
Merchant, Nomaan: ACLU sues US over separation of mother, child seeking asylum
Published: 2018
American Civil Liberties Union accused the U.S. government of unlawfully separating a Congolese woman and her 7-year-old daughter by holding them in different immigration facilities 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) appart.
Merchant, Nomaan: Hundreds of children wait in large metal cages with foil blankets at Texas Border Patrol facility
Published: 2018
Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of immigrant children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.
Merelli, Annalisa: A history of American anti-immigrant bias, starting with Benjamin Franklin’s hatred of the Germans
Published: 2017
In the 1750s, the United States of America was not yet a country, but its trouble with immigrants already had begun. People of non-WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) descent were crossing the ocean to start new lives in the new world, and earlier Colonial settlers were none too happy about it.
Merelli, Annalisa: A taxonomy of American far-right hate groups
Published: 2017
An overview of the attitudes of various far-right groups in the United States.
Meronek, Toshio: YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market "Solutions" to the Nation's Housing Crisis
Published: 2018
Anti-displacement activists hate them. Tech firms and big developers love them -- and shower them with cash.
Merrifield, Andy: Good To Know You! - John Berger's ways of seeing
Published: 2017
A tribute to the life and work of John Berger, author of the influential 'Ways of Seeing'.
Mervis, Jeffrey: Researcher loses job at NSF after government questions her role as 1980s activist
Published: 2014
Valerie Barr was 22 and living in New York City in 1979 when she became politically active. A recent graduate of New York University with a master’s degree in computer science, Barr handed out leaflets, stood behind tables at rallies, and baked cookies to support two left-wing groups, the Women’s Committee Against Genocide and the New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence. Despite her passion for those issues, she had a full-time job as a software developer that took precedence.
Mesbahi, Mohammed: Commercialisation: The Antithesis Of Sharing
Published: 2014
Sharing is the key to solving the world’s problems’. Such a statement is so simple that it may fail to make an appeal, so we must go much deeper into this subject if we want to comprehend what this means.
Messersmith-Glavin, Paul: Remembering the Earth Day Wall Street Action
Published: 2015
In 1989 the Greens held their national gathering in Eugene, Oregon. That was before they had entered national electoral politics, when they still focused on grassroots organizing, and what we now call 'movement from below.'
Metta, John: The danger of the white American liberal
What a team of 10-year-olds building a robot can teach us about sexism and racism in the US.
Published: 2017
The Liberal white American reaction to the sexism and racism exeplified in the Google manifesto and the killing of nine innocent people at Emanuel AME church in Charleston shows how remarkably how easy it is to condemn the evil other when we can use that to avoid facing our responsibility for the society we ourselves have created and work to maintain.
Meyer, Gerald: Proportional Representation: The Urgency of Real Reform
Published: 1996
The introduction of an electoral system based on proportional representation would allow the left to be represented in government, because it allows for representation without requiring a majority vote.
Meynen, Nick: 'They stole the beach' - the major mafia that almost nobody wants to talk about
The building boom in China and worldwide demand for consumer goods containing ilmenite has enriched criminals who specialise in stealing san
Published: 2018
Increasing demand for sand has led to targeting of sandy beaches by organised crime. Community members who speak out or protest the destruction of beaches are often victims of intimidation, harrassment and violence.
Miah, Malik: African Americans Ignored in the Age of Obama
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
A truly equal and diverse United States is not possible unless all Americans come to grips with the origins of the race issue, its centrality to U.S. politics, and why African-American issues must be central to revitalizing the civil rights and labour movements — which also requires rebuilding the dream for full equality by direct action.
Miah, Malik: Final Blow to Affirmative Action?
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
The current state of affirmative action in the United States.
Miah, Malik: Lincoln, Django and Abolitionism
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
Two important films have brought the issues of slavery, emancipation and equality to the public’s attention as many Americans look back at our history.
Miah, Malik: The Murder of Trayvon Martin
Against The Current vol. 158
Published: 2012
Popular anger, mass protests and leadership from Trayvon Martin’s parents, the African-American community and its organizations have exposed the racial divisions that run throughout U.S. society.
Miah, Malik: Race and Politics
Published: 1999
THE MID-TERM NOVEMBER elections brought two surprises according to the pundits: the demise of Newt Gingrich and the likely survival of the Clinton presidency. A major reason for this striking turn of events had much to do with the Black voter turnout. It is a sidebar that was briefly commented on before and right after the elections but since has been buried by the impeachment hearings.
Miah, Malik: Race and Politics: A Color-Blind America?
Published: 1998
THROUGHOUT U.S. HISTORY “race” has been a major factor in all politics—beginning with the English occupation and the Westward drive of settlers to conquer and slaughter the native peoples. The justification: advancement of civilization. Racism is as American as apple pie, yet race itself is a political (economic) concept having little to do with biology or science.
Miah, Malik: Race and Politics: Blacks in Corporate America
Published: 1999
A Concern of old-line civil rights leaders is how to remain relevant to the vast majority of African Americans. Since the victories won by the civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this has been an issue facing the NAACP, Operation PUSH, the SCLC, Urban League and every other group formed in that period and since.
Miah, Malik: Race and Politics: Indonesia's Ethnic Conflicts
Published: 1999
IF YOU READ only the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, or watched CNN, your view of the fourth most populous country in the world, Indonesia with its 210 million people, would be of Muslims (ninety percent of the population) and Christians killing each other, as well as pogroms against ethnic Chinese, Dayaks attacking migrants and the people of the "Spice Islands" engaging in communal violence.
Miah, Malik: Rolling Back Reconstruction
Against The Current vol. 159
Published: 2012
The 'Reconstruction Amendments” — the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution — are targeted in many of the Tea Party and far-right Republican campaigns against the rights of immigrants and women, marriage equality and LGBT rights, and voting rights for African Americans and other minority ethnic groups.
Micallef, Shawn: Ghosts of Spadina Expressway haunt us still
Published: 2017
More than 45 years after the Spadina Expressway was cancelled, its ghosts exist among us in the form of expropriated properties.
Michael, Wambi: To Silence a Poet, and a Nation: What Stella Nyanzi's Conviction Means for Uganda
Published: 2019
Dr. Stella Nyanzi has been convicted under internet obscenity laws for criticizing Uganda's president. The style of her writing may be as much an issue as the criticism itself.
Michael, Wambi: Uganda: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
Published: 2009
Carbon trading schemes are causing the displacement of indigenous persons as western companies rush to invest in tree-planting projects in developing countries.
Michaels, Walter Benn: The Myth of 'Cultural Appropriation'
Published: 2017
Arguing that certain people don’t have the right to tell certain stories is a distraction from the real menace: inequality.
Mickleburgh, Rod: Olympic torch stokes warm pride and fiery protest among aboriginals
Published: 2009
Differing opinions between aboriginal groups towards the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Torch Relay.
Middle East Eye: Iranian police arrest 29 women over protests against compulsory hijab
Published: 2018
Iranian police have arrested 29 women in the capital, Tehran, after they protested against a law that makes wearing the hijab compulsory.
Mientka, Matthew: Genes of Most Ashkenazi Jews Trace Back To Indigenous Europe, Not Middle East
Published: 2015
A genetic study of Ashkenazi Jews shows a "whiter" heritage drawn more from prehistoric Europe than from the Levant, home to the modern state of Israel.
Mikulka, Justin: Stanford Study Says Renewable Power Eliminates Argument for Using Carbon Capture with Fossil Fuels
Published: 2019
A study in the peer-reviewed journal Energy and Environmental Science, concludes that carbon capture technologies are inefficient at pulling out carbon, from a climate perspective, and often increase local air pollution from the power required to run them, which exacerbates public health issues. Replacing a coal plant with wind turbines, on the other hand, always decreases local air pollution and doesn't come with the associated cost of running a carbon capture system, says Jacobson.
Miliband, Ralph: September 11, 1973: The Coup in Chile
Published: 1973
How the reasonable men of capitalism orchestrated horror in Chile.
Milkman, Ruth: Remembering Rosalyn Baxandall
Published: 2015
Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall was a pioneering figure of socialist feminism in the United States.
Millar, Matthew: Harper government's extensive spying on anti-oilsands groups revealed in FOIs
Published: 2013
The National Energy Board, supposedly an independent federal agency, has directly coordinated efforts between CSIS, the RCMP and private oil companies against environmentalist groups and indigenous-rights activists.
Miller, Alicia: Eating your ethics: Halal meat
Published: 2014
Halal ritual slaughter has raised huge controversy in the UK press. But the far greater issue is farm animals' entire quality of life - as reflected in the Qu'ranic principle that meat must be 'tayyib' - good, wholesome and from well-treated, healthy animals. Is this something we can all agree on?
Miller, Henry K.: Save the feature before it explodes
Several films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1920s are being fully restored
Published: 2011
Nine films Hitchcock directed during the 1920s will be restored by archivists at the British Film Institute before the volatile nitrate reels combust. The film archivists' work and the hirstory of the profession are chronicled in this article.
Miller, Jeremy: Bounty Hunters
A clandestine war on wolves
Published: 2017
The centuries old killing of wolves has extirpated the species throughout most of the United States, yet there remains a strong anti-wolf lobby which continues to threaten even a modest recovery.
Miller, Mike: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
The Civil Rights Movement in the Rural South Reconsidered
Published: 2013
Is it possible to both win substantial benefits for people who are on the lower rungs of the socio-economic status ladder while at the same time building forms of democratic people power that can continue to challenge the present political oligarchy and the economic plutocracy whose interests it generally serves?
Miller, Todd: Bringing the Battlefield to the Border
The Wild World of Border Security and Boundary Building in Arizona
Published: 2012
The U.S.-Mexican border has not only become Ground Zero for every experiment in immigration enforcement and drug interdiction, but also the incubator, testing site, showcase, and staging ground for ever newer versions of border-enforcement technology that, sooner or later, are sure to be applied globally.
Milley, Danielle: Quilt gives peace a chance
Published: 2001
Now more than ever people need to try to understand one another. That is what Miriam Garfinkle believes in the aftermath of Sept. 11 and why she feels it is even more important for people to come out and view the Middle East Peace Quilt when it comes to North York.
Milne, A.A.: A.A. Milne Quotes
Milne, Seamus: Seamus Milne Quotes
Milton, John: John Milton Quotes
Milway, Dan: Don't believe the rumours. Universal Grammar is alive and well.
Published: 2016
According to a recent article in Scientific American, however, the community I just described doesn’t exist, and maybe couldn’t possibly exist in linguistics today, because the kind of work that I just described has long since shown the Universal Grammar hypothesis (UG) to be flat-out wrong. But such a community does exist.
Mincy, Grant: After the oil spill: ode to the Yellowstone River
Published: 2015
In the face of environmental atrocities like the recent spill of crude oil into the Yellowstone River, quiescence be damned! To stop more of the same, we must reclaim from the corporate-captured state the rights of commons and community to decide on how local resources are used.
Mincy, Grant: Appalachia Rising
Which Side Are You On?
Published: 2014
On January 9, 2014, a dangerous toxin, 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, leaked from a busted tank and into the Elk River in West Virginia. It is believed that nearly 7,500 gallons of the toxin made its way from the 40,000-gallon tank into the river. This is a story too often told in Appalachia.
Mincy, Grant: Reclaiming the Commons in Appalachia
Property is Theft
Published: 2014
The extractive resource industry has a firm hold on the wild, wonderful, but wounded Appalachians. The use of eminent domain and compulsory pooling has robbed communities of their cultural and natural heritage. Capital is the authority of the Appalachian coalfields, and has created systemic poverty and mono economies. Instead of prosperity in the commons, the mechanism of authority has spawned tragedy.
Miners, Zach: Will Full Encryption Sideline Google's Targeted Ads?
Published: 2014
Mining personal data to deliver targeted ads is the lifeblood of Google’s business—and of many other online firms. But what if that data dries up at the source?
Minto, Robert: A Smuggling Operation: John Berger's Theory of Art
Published: 2017
Examining the theories put forth in 'Landscapes' by John Berger.
Minton, Anna; Aked, Jody: Indefensible design: the high social costs of 'security'
Published: 2013
The pedlars of gates, alarms and CCTV have an ever-growing business. It’s the community that pays.
Mire, Abdullahi: 'I wish I was a boy': The Kenyan girls fighting period poverty
Published: 2020
In Kenya, one million girls miss school each month because they cannot afford sanitary pads, while some share used ones.
Mirovalev, Mansur: Evictions, trials as Russian Church claims property
With the resurgence of a Kremlin-endorsed monastery, islanders on Valaam have endured trials, evictions and arson.
Published: 2017
With the resurgence of a Kremlin-endorsed monastery, islanders on Valaam have endured trials, evictions and arson.
Mirovalev, Mansur: Tracing ancient Asia-America migration in language
Published: 2016
Kets are Siberia's last hunters and gatherers with linguistic links to Native North Americans as far away as Arizona.
Mirza, Munira: How 'diversity' breeds division
Published: 2004
Diversity training is supposed to help 'promote good relations' between different ethnic groups and capitalise on workforce diversity. However, there is warranted scepticism about whether such training alleviates tensions or exacerbates them. Much of the content of this training is overreliant on pop sociology and pseudo-therapeutic techniques. Participants are expected to talk about stereotypes they harbour deep in their subconscious, and disclose feelings of harassment and victimisation. Trainers claim to eliminate stereotypes in the workplace, yet in talking about 'different cultural perspectives' they end up generating new and more insidious stereotypes in their stead.
Mischi, Julian; Solano, Valerie: The great train robbery
Published: 2016
Privatised networks of European railways have neglected safety, community and environmental issues in pursuit of profit.
Misser, Francois: Threat to Africa's parks
Published: 2021
Powerful oil companies have set their sights on the huge potential reserves under Sub-Saharan Africa's wildlife sanctuaries, which will be far cheaper to exploit than deep ofshore desposits.
Missmeh, Roaa Aladdin: What will Gaza's children remember?
Published: 2023
Gaza children grow up thinking bombing is normal, creating shelter space is normal, having plans disrupted by war is normal.
Mitchel, Amy; Gottfried, Jeffrey; Matsa, Katerina: Millennials and Political News
Published: 2015
Obama has often been dubbed 'the first social media president' but this title has more implications than you think. This report looks at the sources of political news across generations. Spoiler alert: Millennials get significantly more news from Facebook than local television.
Mitchell, Alanna: New generation: Growing up reading Rachel Carson, scientists unravel risks of new pesticides
Published: 2014
Like biologist Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring warned about the devastating effects of DDT, a new generation of scientists is trying to figure out if new pesticides -- which are being used in ever-increasing numbers, quantities, and combinations -- are harming living things they’re not intended to kill, including birds.
Mitchell, Alanna: Winged Warnings: Built for survival, birds in trouble from pole to pole
Published: 2014
Globally, one in eight -- more than 1,300 species -- are threatened with extinction, and the status of most of those is deteriorating, according to BirdLife International.
Mitchell, Charlotte: For the love of books: Mobile libraries around the world
Published: 2018
A look at the people behind mobile libraries serving communities from Nigeria to the Netherlands.
Mitchell, Joni: Joni Mitchell Quotes
Mitchell, Mitch: Are You Getting Bad Un-Linking Advice?
Published: 2013
Incompetent SEO advisors are getting websites to remove good and legitimate links that are directly related to their business. they’ve been convinced by someone that those links are bad, that suddenly getting a backlink from everyone is bad, and thus those links have to go. When companies suggest an all or nothing strategy, bad things are going to occur. Getting backlinks with no regard to who they were linking to was stupid. Removing all links without reviewing whether some of those links might be legit is idiocy.
Mitrovica, Andrew: Canada is a wholly owned subsidiary of Benjamin Netanyahu and company
Published: 2023
It is clear that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his diplomats care more about satisfying Israel's requests than attending to the dire circumstances of hundreds of Canadian citizens in Gaza.
Mittal, Devika: The Sinicization Of Tibet
Published: 2013
In 1950s, China incorporated Tibet into its territory and since then, it has began a major reform of all aspects of Tibetan life - social, religious, political and economic. The Tibetans had organised an armed resistance but it could not challenge the Chinese army. As a result of this, thousands of Tibetans fled from Tibet and seek asylum in nearby countries like India, Nepal and Bhutan where they have created refugee or exile communities. But other forms of resistance had been continued and is still continued by Tibetans in Tibet and in exile.
Mobbs, Paul: Engineering consent for fracking: Chris Smith and the 'astroturf' consultancy
Published: 2015
Edelman, the global PR group, has a history of 'consent engineering' for the fossil fuel industry in North America.
Mobbs, Paul: Fracking is the death spasm of a defunct economic order
Published: 2014
Political support for fracking is not just about energy, writes Paul Mobbs. It reflects the greater ecological and resource crisis at the root of our current economic woes - and only postpones the essential shift to a new kind of economy.
Mobbs, Paul: Noise, the 'ignored pollutant': health, nature and ecopsychology
The sonic backdrop to our lives is increasingly one of unwanted technospheric noise, writes Paul Mobbs.
Published: 2017
For those who like to enjoy the natural environment, noise is something to be escaped from within the relative sanctuary of the landscape. These days that's getting harder and harder to accomplish. That's not only because of noise from all around - in particular from urban areas, roads and the increasing mechanisation of agriculture - but also due to the increasing level of air traffic overhead.
Mock, Brentin: Democracy rezoned
Republicans fix polls in US elections
Published: 2014
By employing techniques that take advantage of the extreme polarisation of the US electorate, the Republican Party is able to fix polls.
Moghissi, Haideh: Arab Uprising & Women's Rights: Lessons from Iran
Published: 2013
The aftermath of the ''Arab Spring" revolutionary activity is bringing forth changes that run counter to the ideals and visions of the original change-seeking forces. Most notably, the swift turn in favor of Islamist parties in the wake of these uprisings -- for example, in Egypt and Tunisia -- while not unexpected, is worrisome indeed. For women in particular, a revolution whose mobilizing demands were freedom, democracy and social justice turned into a huge prison under the self-appointed guardians of Shari'a.
Mohan, Rohini: A Template for Hate
Polarized politics and mainstream intolerance
Published: 2018
The rise of Hindu nationalist politics has led to communal violence, particularly around the status of cows, as they are considered sacred by Hindus. Inter-communal violence has increased with killings perpetuated by vigilantes and the mainstreaming of intolerance.
Moiola, Paolo: Kichwa community commits to eco-sustainable tourism
Published: 2017
In Ecuador the Sani Isla Indignenous community runs a sustainable eco-tourism business. Although in close proximity to oil companies they do not cooperate with them and are in legal disputes with them due to the impact of pollution.
Moiola, Paolo: When oil is more important than life
Oil exploitation leaves trail of pollution and death in the Peruvian Amazon
Published: 2014
The dumping of oil waste into the waters of the Marañón, Corrientes, Pastaza and Tigre rivers and the Amazon forest is producing fatal consequences for the local population, mostly to the Kukama ethnic group. The responsible are well-known oil companies, but the Peruvian authorities have not acted with timeliness, making them responsible as well. For years, victims have protested against pollution and violence, but the oil business has always had the upper hand.
Mojumdar, Aunohita: Nepal: Journos Analyse Challenges of New Media
Published: 2009
Kathmandu was abuzz as journalists from Asia began arriving in Nepal's capital for a conference on #Old Challenges, New Media# organised by Panos South Asia on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day on May 3.
Mokhiber, Russell: The Boeing Way: Blaming Dead Pilots
Published: 2019
The House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing about the recent crashes of Boeing 737 MAXs. The Representatives (many of whom received campaign contributions from Boeing) actively tried to shift blame from the company and place it on the dead pilots.
Mokhiber, Russell: Corporate Terrorism in West Texas
The Full Weight of Justice
Published: 2013
Make no mistake, if it becomes clear that the Texas explosion was triggered by a terrorist attack, a la the Oklahoma City bombing, then Obama will begin talking about “the full weight of justice.”
Mokhiber, Russell: Lissa Lucas Dragged Out of West Virginia House Judiciary Hearing For Listing Oil and Gas Contributions
Published: 2018
Mokhiber's article summarizes the case of political candidate Lissa Lucas, whose testimony against a bill "that would allow companies to drill on minority mineral owners' land without their consent" was censored by the court.
Mokhiber, Russell: Meet the Real Death Panels
44,000 Americans a Year Die From Lack of Health Insurance
Published: 2009
Harvard-based researchers found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.
Mokhiber, Russell: Narcs Versus Big Pharma
Behind the Meth Curtain
Published: 2013
Communities in the heartland of America are fighting an epidemic of methamphetamine labs.
The driving force behind the scourge? Big Pharma.
Mokhiber, Russell: Not Your Mother's Electrolux
Planned Obsolescence
Published: 2014
Documentary goes on to present new evidence on the school of engineers who were driven by the market and who were clearly interested in making the most disposable product that they could. Electrolux began selling its vacuum cleaners in the UK.
Mokhiber, Russell: Single-Payer Health Care and the Case Against Clicktivism
Published: 2015
What’s the next step in the campaign for single-payer universal health care in the United States? Single Payer Now's Don Bechler says we have to hit the streets.
Mokhiber, Russell: Time to Jail Auto Executives?
Still Unsafe at Any Speed
Published: 2015
Rather than allowing automobile industry debacles to float by without inspiring systemic change that will save lives, criminal prosecutions should become an integral part of -- even a priority for -- both federal and state governments.
Mokhiber, Russell: VW, GM and Takata: the Case for Jailing Corporate Executives
Published: 2016
Making the case that executives at VW, Takata and General Motors should be jailed for corporate crime. The crimes committed by the corporations they head are extremely serious, and have caused and will cause hundreds of deaths. Why are the perpetrators allowed to get off simply by writing a cheque to cover the fine, instead of going to jail the way other criminals do?
Mokhiber, Russell: Why Not Jail for Corporate Criminals?
When Regulation Fails to Restrain Corporate Villainy
Published: 2014
It's time to focus on corporate criminal prosecution. Get rid of deferred and non prosecution agreements. Criminally charge corporations and their top executives.
Monbiot, George: Advertising is a poison that demeans even love – and we're hooked on it
Published: 2011
We are subjected to ever more pervasive messages to consume, encouraging dissatisfaction. Yet this column depends on it.
Monbiot, George: Big business is not to blame
Corporations would act on global warming but are stalled by government in the name of the market
Published: 2005
Innovative technologies are available to improve the energy efficiency of residential and commercial properties. Businesses who want to adopt these new technologies would be placing themselves at a disadvantage to do so, unless governments mandate improved efficiency standards -- which they refuse to do.
Monbiot, George: Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
Published: 2009
Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush. Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.
Monbiot, George: Career advice
Published: 2013
Career advice given by George Monbiot for those who have a genuine choice of careers, which means, regrettably, that it does not apply to the majority of the world’s workforce.
Monbiot, George: The Climate Denial Industry Is Out To Dupe The Public. And It's Working
Published: 2009
The climate denial industry consists of people who are paid to say that man-made global warming isn't happening.
Monbiot, George: Evidence Meltdown
Published: 2011
The green movement has misled the world about the dangers of radiation.
Monbiot, George: A freedom that we can't afford
Rightwing thinktanks profess a love of freedom, but their refusal to reveal who funds them is deeply undemocratic
Published: 2011
Freemarket thinktanks vastly outnumber those arguing for public spending. The author suggests that these thinktanks allow corporations to exert influence on public life without showing their hand, he advocates for legislation that would insure their funding is transparent.
Monbiot, George: Housebroken
Published: 2012
There’s a second environmental crisis, just as potent as the first.
Monbiot, George: How Big Tobacco's lobbyists get what they want from the media
Published: 2014
With cigarette packs on the agenda, the BBC must be asked why it lets thinktanks argue the tobacco companies' case without revealing who their paymasters are.
Monbiot, George: I was wrong on veganism
Traditional livestock production makes ecological sense
Published: 2010
An environmental reporter reviews the environmental impacts of meat production in the developed world. He finds that First World meat production is incredibly wasteful but that this is not a requirement of livestock rearing so much as an entrenched practice, and offers suggestions for greening the industry.
Monbiot, George: Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?
Published: 2015
Fire is raging across the 5,000km length of Indonesia.It is hard to convey the scale of this inferno, but here’s a comparison that might help: it is currently producing more carbon dioxide than the US economy. And in three weeks the fires have released more CO2 than the annual emissions of Germany.
Monbiot, George: It makes economic sense to kill people
Britain's approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. And the richer you are the more yours is worth
Published: 2008
A study of the economics of climate compares the costs of halting runaway climate changewith the costs of inaction. The "costs" of climate change are calculated in part by calculating the reduction in consumption that would result from death and disease in the third world. Monbiot challenges the ethics of this economic model.
Monbiot, George: Land of Impunity
Published: 2010
If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there's no justice in Britain.
Monbiot, George: Nuclear opponents have a moral duty to get their facts straight
Published: 2011
My request to Helen Caldicott was a simple one: I asked her to give me sources for the claims she had made about the effects of radiation. Helen had made a number of startling statements during a television debate, and I wanted to know whether or not they were correct. Scientific claims are only as good as their sources.
Monbiot, George: The problem with education? Children aren't feral enough
Published: 2013
The 10-year-old Londoners I took to Wales were proof that a week in the countryside is worth three months in a classroom.
Monbiot, George: Tainted politics of a nuclear umbrella
Published: 2008
A review of the US Pentagon's Missile Defence program since its incepton in 1946.
Monbiot, George: This Is About Us
Published: 2009
The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity.
Mongaya, Karlo Mikhail: After "Grossly Distorting" UN Views on the Internally Displaced Ata-Manobos, the Philippine Military Apologizes
Published: 2015
Human rights activists and politicians have criticized the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for distorting a statement by Chaloka Beyani, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally-Displaced Persons (IDPs).
Montague, Brendan: Greenpeace 'peer review' climate sting's first scalp?
Published: 2015
A leading member of the climate change-skeptic Global Warming Policy Foundation has resigned from his post in the wake of a Greenpeace investigation that exposed its phoney 'peer review' process. But he insists: 'nothing going on here!'
Montague, Brendan: How ExxonMobil's Spending Bonanza Helped Two British Climate Sceptics Set-Up An International Free Market Think Tank
Published: 2015
Roger Bate and Julian Morris of the British free-market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), decided to catch ExxonMobil's gravy train across the Atlantic as they began working for US think tanks.
Montague, Brendan: Let Them Eat Climate Change
Published: 2015
The winds are changing for the energy giants. And so the black plumes of smoke emitted by the climate deniers in an attempt to provide cover for the coal, oil and gas industry have already been refined.
Montesanti, Edu: The War on Democracy in Latin America: Interview with John Pilger
Published: 2016
Journalist, writer and filmmaker John Pilger granted this exclusive interview where he talks about the US war on democracy in Latin America. "Modern era imperialism is a war on democracy. Genuine democracy is a threat to unfettered power and cannot be tolerated", he says.
Moody, Daniel: Why You Shouldn't Use Transgender Pronouns
Published: 2016
You don't need to be a psychology professor to realize than an attempt to transplant pronouns from the body to the mind is an attempt to destroy our ability to communicate.
Moody, Kim: On Workers in A Lean World
Published: 1999
IN HIS GENERALLY positive review of my Workers in a Lean World (ATC 78, January-February 1999), Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval accuses me of "too many broad generalizations," of dismissing globalization as "nothing more than `globaloney'," and arguing that all labor needs to address internationalized production is "rank-and-file democracy."
Moody, Kim: Worker Resistance in Telecommunications
Published: 1998
LABOR RESISTANCE SEEMS to be spreading, capturing public support, and even winning some gains here and there. Such diverse groups as New York cabbies and construction workers, California nurses and transit workers, UPS and GM workers have gone to the streets against the affects of work intensification and industry reorganization.
Less and less are today's strikes characterized by tiny dispirited picket lines, and more and more by mass actions. Job security, work time, work loads and...
Moon of Alabama: Israel Again Bombs Gaza - But Is It "In Response"?
Published: 2019
In this case it is undoubtedly the Palestinian side that is responding to Israeli violence. But even if Palestinians would fire missiles without an immediate cause it would be within the full rights of the Palestinian people. In its 1982 Resolution 37/43 the General Assembly of the United Nations reaffirmed:
"the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;"
The UN GA resolution is standing international law. The Palestinian people have the right to resist against the occupation force. In practice as well as legally Israel is a colonial entity that occupies Palestinian land, especially in Gaza and the West Bank. Any armed struggle by Palestinians against the occupation, provoked or not, is thus morally and legally justified.
But do not expect that any 'western' mainstream media will ever point that out.
Mooney, Pat: Big Data is Accelerating Corporate Control of the Global Food Supply
Published: 2017
A summary of the report "Too Big to Feed: Exploring the Impacts of Mega-Margers, Consolidation and Concentration of Power in the Agri-Food Sector," published by The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems.
Mooney,Chris: The bird that travels 29,000km a year
Published: 2014
The Rufa red knot's epic annual migration from Tierra del Fuego to the Canadian Arctic risks being grounded by climate change.
Moore Gerety, Rowan: Downstream
The afterlife of American junk
Published: 2019
The squat warehouse at Miami’s 5th Street Terminal was nearly obscured by merchandise: used car engines; tangles of coat hangers; bicycles bound together with cellophane; stacks of wheelbarrows; cases of Powerade and bottled water; a bag of sprouting onions atop a secondhand Whirlpool refrigerator; and, above all, mattresses -- shrink-wrapped and bare, spotless and streaked with dust, heaped in every corner of the lot -- twins, queens, kings. All this and more was bound for Port-de-Paix, a remote city in northwestern Haiti.
Moore, Jack: Gaza Crisis: Far-Right Israelis Chant 'There's No School Tomorrow, There's No Children Left in Gaza!'
Published: 2014
Right-wing Israelis have been filmed chanting "There's no children left there [in Gaza]" and "Gaza is a cemetery" in celebration of their military's attacks on Gaza.
Moore, Mike: Even without environmental approval, N.L.'s 1st wind-to-hydrogen project seems to be full steam ahead
Published: 2024
Lack of government signoff hasn't stopped World Energy from securing millions in funding and buying assets.
Moore-Backman, Chris: A New Way of Life and the New Underground Railroad
Making a Break for Freedom During the Era of Mass Incarceration
Published: 2014
This radio documentary is the third segment in Truthout's serialization of Chris Moore-Backman's Bringing Down the New Jim Crow based on Michelle Alexander's book of the same name. The series explores and gives voice to the continuing struggle for racial justice in the United States during the era of mass incarceration.
Mora, Jean-Sebastien: Privatising the Oceans
Fished out in our Lifetimes
Published: 2013
Long-range fishing with the backing of the EU deprives countries elsewhere in the world of employment and a crucial food source. And it is depleting the seas to the point of ecological collapse.
Morales, Evo: 20 Ways to Save Mother Earth and Prevent Climate Change
Published: 2008
Capitalism's glorification of competition and thirst for limitless profit are destroying the planet.
Moran, Jessica: To spread the revolution: anarchist archives and libraries
Published: 2016
Notes on why anarchists have created libraries (past and present) and some of the challenges they face, drawing on a survey of current anarchist libraries, anarchist history, and the author's own experiences at the Kate Sharpley Library.
Moran, Max: The Issue Dividing Democratic Candidates Is Hidden in Plain Sight
Published: 2020
Takes came in hot and heavy last weekend after the New York Times editorial board endorsed both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for the Democratic presidential nomination, mercifully ending the paper's self-aggrandizing pseudo-event widely compared to … that's right … "The Apprentice."
Morday, Alastair: The Ever-Expanding Definition of Trauma
Published: 2023
In diluting the word's meaning mental health professionals are creating a generation of victims.
Morelli, Peter: 84-year-old ex-librarian arrested protesting Kinder Morgan, calls NEB a "sham"
Published: 2014
Barbara Grant criticized the NEB hearings of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion as a "sham" and spoke out about the danger before crossing the police line to be arrested. At 84, she's the oldest person arrested on Burnaby Mountain so far.
Morgan, Chris: Hippalos: Early Navigation of Deep Sea Routes Between India and Egypt - Part I
Published: 2016
On the south-east or Coromandel Coast of India, about two miles (3.2km) south of the former French enclave of Pondicherry, there is a tract on the east known locally as Arikamedu, near the village of Virampattanam. After 1937 it was gradually revealed as an Indo-Roman trading station.
Morgan, Hiba: South Sudan archivists fear loss of historical texts
Published: 2018
South Sudan doesn't have a museum, so thousands of archival documents are sitting in a small building in the capital, Juba, waiting for a national archives to be built. The project will also need the help of international donors to get off the ground, and the ongoing conflict has made it difficult to secure funding.
Morgan, Kelli: The Life and Memory of Elizabeth Catlett
Against The Current vol. 160
Published: 2012
In January 2011 The Bronx Museum presented “Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists” to explore what art historian Isolde Brielmaier describes as the “beauty, aesthetic excellence, conceptual strength, and inventive stance of Catlett’s work throughout time.”
Morillon, Lucie; Julliard, Jean-François: Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0
Published: 2010
The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attemptimg to tighten their control of the Net, but at the same time, increasingly inventive netizens demonstrate mutual solidarity by mobilizing when necessary.
Morlin-Yron, Sophie: Lead poisoning - fighting industrial pollution in Kenya is a dangerous business
Published: 2015
Lead poisoning from industrial pollution has imposed a terrible toll on Kenyans, and single mother Phyllis Omido is no exception -- lead from a nearby metal refinery badly damaged her own son's health. But it was when she decided to fight back against the polluters that a whole new realm of threats and dangers opened up.
Morlin-Yron, Sophie: Securing communal land rights for Tanzania's Indigenous Peoples
Published: 2016
Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite. That ability to straddle the two very different worlds he inhabits has been key to his success at having 200,000 acres of land registered into village and community ownership.
Morlin-Yron, Sophie: Winner of the 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize for Asia: Prafulla Samantara
Published: 2017
Prafulla Samantara, winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for his relentless efforts, has made it his life's work to fight injustice by lending a voice to Indigenous communities and small scale farmers.
Morlin-Yron, Sophie; Tickell, Oliver: Africa's Farm Revolution - Who will Benefit?
Published: 2014
A farming revolution is under way in Africa, pushed by giant corporations and the UK's aid budget. It will surely be good for the global economy, but will Africa's small farmers see the benefit?
Morozov, Evgeny: How much for your data?
What you whistle in the shower
Published: 2014
Rapacious financialisation risks turning everything we are and have into a productive asset. And the foremost asset is our personal data, mined by digitalised technology.
Morozov, Evgeny: Internets Past
Published: 2017
This article discusses the Internet and the problems with prevailing public concern over Net neutrality. The author advocates for an alternate way forward, and a need to bring political economy back to the agenda by viewing corporations as political actors and the technology corporations as powerful commercial players with their own agendas.
Morozov, Evgeny: The name's changed; the game's the same
Published: 2015
Google cannot even claim that much - at heart, it remains an advertising company that happens to employ a lot of computer scientists.
Morozov, Evgeny: The rise of data and the death of politics
Published: 2014
Why is it that the infomation collected from our ever-smarter devices can only measure effects, and not deal with causes?
Morozov, Evgeny: Who's the true enemy of internet freedom - China, Russia, or the US?
Published: 2015
Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their citizens' online access – but it's the US that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital sovereignty.
Morris, Brett S.: Laos After the Bombs
Published: 2015
From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped two million tons of bombs on Laos. The horrendous effects are still being felt.
Morris, David: Occupy Giving Why do the 1% give less than the rest of us?
Published: 2011
Nearly two thirds of Americans donate to charities each year. This year we will send more than $225 billion to charities. This year, when the stark divide between the 1% and the 99% has begun to inform our thinking and our approach, it might be instructive to examine the world of giving through that lens.
Morris, David: Public Disinterest: Information Commons Dismantled
Published: 2010
Seventy-five years after the Federal Radio Commission declared there was no room on the public airwaves for “propaganda stations” and denied a license renewal to a station that attacked Jews and law enforcement agencies, the airwaves are filled with both propaganda and venom. Today the airwaves, stripped of commons rules, feed hatred.
Morris, William: William Morris Quotes
Morrison, Blake: Black day for the blue pencil
Published: 2005
Morrison, Derrick: An Unfinished Revolution - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 159
Published: 2012
Review of An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln, by Robin Blackburn.
Morrison, Roy: Facebook: A Cooperative Transformation
Published: 2018
Facebook represents a standard for a global model of concentration of wealth and power in the 21st century, joined by companies like Google, Amazon, and Uber. Entrepreneurs with computer skills and good or lucky timing have privatized and enclosed the global information commons and have enriched themselves by providing services for free or for reduced prices to the billions.
Morrow, Will: As lies on Syrian gas attack unravel, US and UK shift to claims of Russian "cyber war"
Published: 2018
An examination of the alleged gas attack in Syria as pretext for yet another war against a Middle Eastern nation, the suppression of anti-war sentiment, and the legitimization and crackdown on democratic rights and censorship of the Internet under the banner of combating Russian cyber warfare.
Morrow, Will: Facebook announces latest step in censorship campaign, prioritizing "local news"
Published: 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media giant will prioritize news from 'local sources' in the News Feed displayed to users. This is the third move this year in a roll-out of updates by Facebook aimed at censoring online information.
Morss, Alex: Moving past climate denial
Deniers feel that the impacts of climate breakdown don't matter, but the solutions pose an imminent threat, new research shows.
Published: 2019
Katharine Hayhoe, a climate researcher and political science professor argues that it's more productive to show climate change skeptics that solutions are beneficial to them rather than trying to make them believe in the science of climate change.
Morton, Brian: All Shook Up: The Politics of Cultural Appropriation
Published: 2020
In the era of global capitalism, imagining the lives of others is a crucial form of solidarity.
Moser, Richard: Doubling Down: The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not In Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way
Published: 2019
The two most important narratives imposed on us are climate change as a "threat to national security" and as a "business opportunity" - the twin rationales for military and corporate power. They want to focus us on how to manage the crisis, profit from it, or adapt to it, instead of opposing it.
Moser, Richard: Dumbass Democrats
Published: 2016
The Democrats were oblivious to the deep discontent among the American people because that simply does not figure into their clever and cunning calculations. Why should it? Fear, lesser of two evils, scapegoating, palace politics -- all these things worked in the past, didn't they?
Moses, Art: South Riverdale approves NIP program
Published: 1976
The South Riverdale Community Centre is scheduled to open in mid-October after an 18-month fight against apparent obstacles posed by Queen’s Park and organized medicine. Unlike most health facilities, it will be run by a board chosen by the people who use it.
Moss, Stephen: The man behind the great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax
Published: 2013
When writer AD Harvey invented an 1862 meeting between Dickens and Dostoevsky, it was for years accepted as fact. So why did he do it – and why did he also create a series of fake academic identities?
Moss, Stephen: Noah's ark was round – so the ancient tablet tells us
Published: 2014
Irving Finkel, curator of the British Museum's 130,000 Mesopotamian clay tablets, has spent 20 years investigating one that challenges the story of Noah and the flood.
Motherboard Staff: The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked
Published: 2017
Do you want to stop criminals from getting into your Gmail or Facebook account? Are you worried about the cops spying on you? Motherboard Staff have answers on how to protect yourself. This is Motherboard's comprehensive guide to digital security, which will be regularly updated and replaces some of our old guides. This guide is also available as a printable PDF.
Mountain, Thomas: The Gangster Head of the WHO
Published: 2020
The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, was a senior capo for the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) gangster mafia that ruled Ethiopia from 1991-2018. During that time he served as Health Minister and Foreign Minister, cementing his credentials as a member of the inner circle of what was one of if not the most corrupt, brutal and genocidal regimes to set foot on this planet in the past 30 years.
Mountain, Thomas: Mali, Wahabis, and Saudis
Following the Money
Published: 2013
The impact of the Wahabi movement in Mali.
Mousa, Aseel: "It Surpassed Tragedy": The Horrors of Being Pregnant and Giving Birth in Gaza
Published: 2024
Women in Gaza are giving birth in a health care system that is on the brink of collapse, with little access to prenatal or postnatal care.
Moyers, Bill: A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail
Published: 2016
Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.
Moyers, Bill: The Fiery Cage and the Lynching Tree, Brutality's Never Far Away
Published: 2015
They burned him alive in an iron cage, and as he screamed and writhed in the agony of hell they made a sport of his death. After listening to one newscast after another rightly condemn the barbaric killing of that Jordanian air force pilot at the bloody hands of ISIS, I couldn’t sleep.
Moyers, Bill: How the Nazis Used Jim Crow Laws as the Model for Their Race Laws
Published: 2017
An interview with James Q. Whitman about his new book "Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law".
Mueller, Gavin: Gimme the Loot
Published: 2012
Once the heroes of nations, pirates went from being state-sponsored champions to tolerated annoyances to the basest sort of criminals. Henry Morgan was knighted after plundering Panama in 1674; fifty years later hundreds of pirates were dangling from the gibbet at remote trading posts along Africa’s Gold Coast.
Mughal, Aftab Alexander: Pakistan's blasphemy laws – The Supreme Court, Asia Bibi and the laws' historical background
Published: 2018
A description of a blasphemy case in Pakistan. Also includes a history of blasphemy laws going back to British India.
Mukherjee, Ritayan: 'The happy days are now just nostalgia'
Published: 2019
Along with the temperatures, the Brokpa say, the entire weather pattern has become increasingly unpredictable in the past two decades in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh, which border the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Bhutan and Myanmar.
Mulligan, Joseph E.: Artistry, Life and Revolution: The Best of What We Are - Book Review
Published: 1998
The Best of What We Are—Reflections on the Nicaraguan Revolution by John Brentlinger (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995), $18.95 paperback.
Mullin, Malone: Something in the water?
Published: 2022
One Deer Lake crusader believes a corporate giant knew about debris sullying the town’s water supply. He’s on a mission to prove it.
Mumford, Lewis: Lewis Mumford Quotes
Mundi, Amor: You Are Not An Experience
Published: 2017
A growing number of intellectuals are arguing that free speech needs to be subordinated to the goal of protecting the feelings of people who don't want to hear views that they find threatening. They are wrong.
Mundy, Martha: Yemen as Laboratory: Why is the West So Silent About This Savage War?
Published: 2015
What is at stake in Yemen that far more systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions than in any of the recent wars which Western powers have supported in the Arab world (Iraq, Syria, Libya and Gaza) are met with resounding silence? For six months there has been a blockade of food and fuel, and management of aid (even that through the UN) as part of war strategy, bombing of civilian, historical, educational, religious and medical targets, destruction of infrastructure from roads to electricity and water, and use of prohibited weapons.
Mundy, Toby: The Price of Books, The Value of Civilization
Published: 2014
I have come to think that books occupy this valuable position in our civilisation because they are the only medium for thick descriptions of the world that human beings possess. By ‘thick’ description, I mean an extended, detailed, evidence-based, written interpretation of a subject. If you want to write a feature or blog or wikipedia entry, be it about the origins of the first world war; the authoritarian turn in Russia; or the causes and effects of the 2008 financial crisis, in the end you will have to refer to a book. Or at least refer to other people who have referred to books. Even the best magazine pieces and TV documentaries – and the best of these are very good indeed – are only puddle-deep compared with the thick descriptions laid out in books. They are ‘thin’ descriptions and the creators and authors of them will have referred extensively to books to produce their work.
Munoz, Eduardo: Fake cell phone 'towers' may be spying on Americans' calls, texts
Published: 2014
More than a dozen 'fake cell phone towers' could be secretly hijacking Americans' mobile devices in order to listen in on phone calls or snoop on text messages, a security-focused cell phone company claims. It is not clear who controls the devices.
Muralidharan, Kavitha: 'Today we seek those fish in Discovery Channel'
Published: 2019
Kadal Osai, a community radio of and for fisherfolk on Pamban island of Tamil Nadu's Ramanathapuram district, turns three this week. And it's making waves – with climate change as its latest focus.
Murfin, Patrick: Samhain to Halloween - The Sacred, the Profane, and the Silly
Published: 2016
Patrick Murfin review the orgin of Hallowe'en and the Celtic harvest festival Samhain.
Murphy, Dylan: Abandoned in the Cold and Dark
Living Under Siege people of Gaza
Published: 2013
The world has forgotten Gaza, its women and children. The people of Gaza are being crushed under the Israeli blockade which severely restricts essential supplies coming into the strip. The blockade is as bad as the war; it’s like a slow death for everyone in Gaza.
Murphy, Lily: A Flame Gone Out - obituary
The Legacy of Stephane Hessel
Published: 2013
Obituary for Stephane Hessel.
Murphy, Maureen Clare: Cruelty against Gaza patients enabled by US and EU
Published: 2022
The cruelty of the siege of Gaza and the depravity of those who prolong it cannot be overstated.
Murphy, Maureen Clare: Israeli army shuts down prominent Palestinian rights groups
Published: 2022
Israeli occupation forces have raided, sealed and imposed closure orders on the offices of several prominent Palestinian human rights, feminist and social services organizations in the West Bank.
Murphy, Maureen Clare: Israeli exports hit hard by Palestinian boycott, World Bank says
Published: 2015
The Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli goods has exacted a major cost on Israel's exports to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Even though the World Bank's report has modestly recognized so, they have failed to address any trace of occupation.
Murphy, Megan: The Yaniv scandal is the end-product of trans activism
Published: 2019
Does inclusivity mean the Canadian state should compel women to handle a penis?
Murphy, Meghan: Historic Speaker's Corner Becomes Site of Anti-feminist Silencing and Volence
Efforts to silence feminist speech have taken a violent turn
Published: 2017
The "What is gender" debate at the historic Speaker's Corner in London turned vitriolic and violent when opposing organizations accused the discussion of potentially inciting "transmisogyny."
Murphy, Pauline: Killing Children: From Ireland to Palestine
Published: 2018
The most tragic casualty in a conflict is that of a child, the most disturbing casualty in a conflict is that of a child killed purposely. In Palestine there is a disturbingly tragic high rate of children killed by those sporting the uniform of Israeli armed forces.
Murphy, Richard: How are you going to pay for it?
Published: 2017
Debates on how government will pay for new programs suffer from a fundamental fallacy: the assumption that the government spends other people's money. It doesn't.
Murphy, Terry: The Availability of Utopian Thought - Book Review
Published: 1999
The War of Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America by Michael Lowy (Verso, 1996) 163 pages, $18 paperback. In this comparatively short book, Michael Lowy offers an analysis of the history, theories and struggles of liberation theology in Latin America since the late 1950s.
Murray, Craig: Activating the Genocide Convention
Published: 2023
There is no doubt that Israel's actions amount to genocide. Numerous international law experts have said so and genocidal intent has been directly expressed by numerous Israeli ministers, generals and public officials. I can see no room to doubt whatsoever that Israel's current campaign of bombing of civilians and of the deprivation of food, water and other necessities of life to Palestinians amounts to genocide.
Murray, Craig: Active Participants in Genocide
Published: 2024
In obedience to Israel, the Western political and media class is isolating itself from public opinion on Gaza in ways hard to believe.
Murray, Craig: The Balance of Probabilities
Published: 2017
Unlike the famous chemical weapons "attack" portrayed by the BBC in Saving Syria's Children, it does appear that in the latest incident at Idlib there was real horror inflicted by chemical attack of some kind. The question is who did it and why?
Murray, Craig: Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak
Published: 2016
Whoever leaked the Mossack Fonseca papers appears motivated by a genuine desire to expose the system that enables the ultra wealthy to hide their massive stashes, often corruptly obtained and all involved in tax avoidance. These Panamanian lawyers hide the wealth of a significant proportion of the 1%, and the massive leak of their documents ought to be a wonderful thing.
Unfortunately the leaker has made the dreadful mistake of turning to the western corporate media to publicise the results. In consequence the first major story, published today by the Guardian, is all about Vladimir Putin and a cellist on the fiddle. As it happens I believe the story and have no doubt Putin is bent.
But why focus on Russia? Russian wealth is only a tiny minority of the money hidden away with the aid of Mossack Fonseca. In fact, it soon becomes obvious that the selective reporting is going to stink.
Murray, Craig: Craig Murray: Your Man in Saughton Jail Part 2
Published: 2022
Think of every sensible thing you think you know about prison. Think of education, training, rehabilitation. It is all completely ignored by the Scottish Prison Service.
Murray, Craig: Dangers of AI Revealed as Israeli Bullet Decides to Kill Somebody
Published: 2023
This use of the passive in describing Israeli crimes is absolutely typical of the Guardian, and of the entire mainstream media. A more naturally expressed and honest headline would have been "Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinian journalist in the head for filming demolition of Ramallah homes".
Murray, Craig: Donziger: a Tale for Our Times
Published: 2022
This case shows how we are all, in a sense, the prisoners of corporations which dictate the terms on which we live, work and share knowledge.
Murray, Craig: The Empire Strikes Back
Published: 2016
If you argue a case strongly on the internet you must expect to receive robust argument back. Plus the odd insult. There has been plenty of both in reaction to my posts about corporate media control of access to the data in the Panama Papers. But I believe it is fair to say that the overwhelming public feeling I have picked up through monitoring online discussion worldwide, is that the full data should be made available online in searchable form so that the public can look through it and form their own conclusions.
Murray, Craig: Fascism in the West to Enable Genocide in Palestine
Published: 2023
The UK and the US are both sending military assistance to Israel to commit a calculated and deliberate act of genocide, which is already underway.
Murray, Craig: The Great Clutching at Pearls
Published: 2022
Tt turns out Marx was right. The crisis of capitalism is now upon us. Neoliberalism (another word for designing state systems deliberately to lead to incredible concentrations of wealth amid general poverty) is coming to the end of its course.
Murray, Craig: Has Western Democracy Now Failed?
Published: 2023
Keir Starmer's determination to use his refusal to alleviate child poverty as the issue with which to demonstrate his macho Thatcherite credentials, has provided one of those moments when blurred perceptions crystallise. A Labour government in the UK under Starmer will bring no significant changes in economic or foreign policy and will make no difference whatsoever to the lives of working class people.
Murray, Craig: Human Rights Watch Confirms Israel is an Apartheid State
Published: 2021
The forthright branding of Israel as an apartheid state by Human Rights Watch could be a watershed moment in mainstream acceptance of what Israel has become. Human Rights Watch is not an outlier or left wing organisation. It is very much a part of the establishment in the United States and is not generally associated with hard hitting criticism that conflicts with the promoted interests of the American state. Kenneth Roth, the Human Rights Watch CEO who has been in power longer than Putin, is a darling of the New York liberal and Democratic Party Establishment. That is an important financial source for HRW and includes many members of New York’s highly altruistic liberal Jewish community.
Murray, Craig: Incredibly, I Face Investigation for Terrorism - Defence Funds Appeal
Published: 2023
My phone is not being returned to me by police as, astonishingly, I am now formally under investigation for terrorism. Whether this relates to support for Palestine or for Wikileaks has currently not been made clear.
Murray, Craig: It's Still the Iraq War, Stupid.
Published: 2016
No rational person could blame Jeremy Corbyn for Brexit. So why are the Blairites moving against Corbyn now, with such precipitate haste? The answer is the Chilcot Report. It is only a fortnight away, and though its form will be concealed by thick layers of establishment whitewash, the basic contours of Blair’s lies will still be visible beneath. Corbyn had deferred to Blairite pressure not to apologise on behalf of the Labour Party for the Iraq War until Chilcot is published.
Murray, Craig: Modern Life
Published: 2023
Trying to collect on an insurance claim -- and finding it impossible to know what insurance company one is dealing with. This is just a small personal story, but it seems to illustrate how impossible it has become for ordinary people to interact effectively with the hypercapitalism that orders so much of our lives.
Murray, Craig: Neo-Liberalism Under Cover of Racism
Published: 2016
Brexit and Trump represent the continuance of neo-liberalism, but with popular discontent diverted into added racism.
Murray, Craig: No Trump, No Clinton, No NATO
Published: 2018
Murray explains why the notion that those who do not want Clinton in power are therefore supporters of Trump is intellectually risible and politically dishonest.
Murray, Craig: Of a Type Developed by Liars
Published: 2018
Porton Down scientists are not able to identify the nerve gas as being of Russian manufacture, and have been resentful of the pressure being placed on them to do so. Porton Down would only sign up to the formulation "of a type developed by Russia" after a rather difficult meeting where this was agreed as a compromise formulation.
Murray, Craig: Pre-Emptive Murder
Published: 2022
The lives of the latest fifteen Palestinian children to be murdered by Israel in Gaza, lives ripped from their small, terrified bodies with devastating violence, do not seem of much concern to the powerful in the West, or indeed anywhere.
Murray, Craig: Pure: Ten Points I Just Can't Believe About the Official Skripal Narrative
Published: 2021
A lie repeated often enough enters the public consciousness, so I am republishing this in the hope of stimulating the honest and the intellectually awake.
Murray, Craig: Pure: Ten Points I Just Can’t Believe About the Official Skripal Narrative
Published: 2019
Murray, Craig: Quality and Propaganda
Published: 2024
An obviously fake video created and circulated by the Australian Jewish Association, which purported to show protesters chanting 'Gas the Jews,' received massive media coverage and went viral, even though it was immediately shown to be fake. Hundreds of mainstream journalists reported it as if it were true.
Murray, Craig: Quality and Propaganda
Published: 2024
Murray, Craig: Save the Fat Cats
Published: 2014
Very few charities are in any sense independent any more. Save the Children Fund gets 176 million pounds – over half its income - in grants from various governments, including over 80 million from the British government. That compares to 106 million in donations from the public. In 2012 over 70 million pounds was spent by Save the Children UK on its own staff costs.
Murray, Craig: The Scottish Gestapo
Published: 2023
If you are on the 'wrong' side in the culture wars, you will get prosecuted for an innocuous tweet or a remark in the street. If you are on the 'right' side, you can punch women in the face or parade a sign calling for the decapitation of those who disagree with you, and face no legal jeopardy.
Murray, Craig: The Slow Motion Execution of Julian Assange
Published: 2023
Murray, Craig: Snowden and Texeira: Ten Years of Disaster
Published: 2023
The idea that the legacy media in any way serves the truth or the public interest is now completely buried. The legacy media serves the state, and the state serves the billionaires. It is a shame the Washington Post, New York Times, Guardian and Bellingcat each had no interest whatsoever in the journalistic pursuit of the truth behind this extraordinary episode. We live entirely in security states: there is no doubt about it.
Murray, Craig: Striving to make sense of the Ukraine war
Published: 2022
Murray, Craig: Sy Hersh & The Way We Live Now
Published: 2023
Coverage of the sabotage of the Nordstream pipelines helped Murray realize something important about how the Big Lie works.
Murray, Craig: The Twilight of Freedom
Published: 2023
Three British journalists I know personally - Johanna Ross, Vanessa Beeley and Kit Klarenberg - have each in the last two years been detained at immigration for hours on re-entering their own country, and questioned by police under anti-terrorist legislation. This is plainly an abuse of the power to detain at port of entry, because in each case they could have been questioned at any time in the UK were there legitimate cause, and the questioning was not focused on their travels. They were in fact detained and interrogated simply for holding and publishing dissident opinion on foreign policy, and in particular for supporting a more collaborative approach to Russia.
Murray, Craig: Why the "Two State Solution" is Apartheid
Published: 2018
Murray, Craig: Your Man in Saughton Jail Part 1
Published: 2022
Murray, Douglas: It's time Europeans demanded reparations for slavery
Over a million people from across the continent were taken by Moorish pirates — when will their descendents receive justice?
Published: 2020
Let's make people pay for what their ancestors did. What could possibly go wrong?
Mushtaq, Sameer; Nazir, Aijaz: 'I lost four sons': In Kashmir, women suffer brunt of conflict
Women's Day is a grim reminder of atrocities and hardships faced by the women of the region in decades-long conflict.
Published: 2019
Women in Kashmir suffer the loss of their sons, husbands, and fathers in ongoing conflict.
Musseau,François: Tailbacks in Panama
China sponsors rival east-west canal routes
Published: 2014
Despite the expansion works in the Panama Canal, the number and size of ships are getting too large for it. Other Latin American countries, backed by China, want some of the action.
Mustonen, Tero; Rhoades, Hannibal: Ecologist Special Report: From fish to forests and conflicts to coffee ... how humans are affected by climate-driven species shifts
Published: 2017
Climate change has species on the move, with major consequences for biodiversity and human communities. Building resilience has never been more important and Indigenous Peoples are showing the way.
Mutch, Thembi: Maybe we can all learn from smaller islands?
Published: 2014
Europe's periphories are meant to be in a state of collapse - but not so the Shetland Isles, where it can be found a land of open skies, howling storms, historic traditions, and an active, growing community of notable individuals.
Muzaffar, Chandra: The Blockade Against Cuba: An Assault Upon Humanity's Conscience
Published: 2013
On 29 October 2013, for the 22nd consecutive year, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) called for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba. 188 states supported the Resolution, 2 voted against it, namely the US and Israel.
Muñoz, Monica; Tremlett, Giles: Pamplona's locksmiths join revolt as banks throw families from their homes
Published: 2013
In the years of the housing boom, Spain's banks offered 100% mortgages. Now, while receiving millions in public aid, they are throwing people out of their homes. But there's a rebellion under way.
Myers, Fraser: Chemical weapons and cover-ups: the Western media's Syrian shame
Published: 2020
How Western media shapes public perception with regards to chemical weapons in Syria.
Myers, Paul: Try and find Narnia in the wardrobe: inside the work of a research specialist
Published: 2014
Paul Myers is an internet research specialist working in the U.K. media. He talks about the role of the researcher in the investigative story and tools journalists can use.
Mykytyn, Eve: Arthur Topham's Political Beliefs May Just Be Illegal
The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham: Part 3
Published: 2015
On November 7, 2015, Arthur Topham was convicted of inciting hatred against a racial group, the Jewish people. Mr. Topham maintains a website, Radical Free Press, in which he publishes and comments upon various documents. These documents include The Elders of the Protocols of Zion, various anti-Zionist texts, and a tract entitled Germany Must Perish, first published in 1941 and then satirized by Mr. Topham as Israel Must Perish.
Mykytyn, Eve: The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham
Part I
Published: 2015
Five security guards, members of the RCMP, two in bulletproof vests, all entrants pass through metal detectors, undergo a wand search, check all electronics including cell phones and have their bags meticulously scrutinized. Why all the security? The crown was presenting its criminal case against Arthur Topham, for the crime of "hate."
Mykytyn, Eve: The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham
Part II
Published: 2015
On November 12th, 2015 the jury found Arthur Topham guilty of "inciting hate." This leads to a few questions.
Márquez, Humberto: Women Recycle for Income and Environment
Published: 2009
The women of this town in northern Venezuela no longer say "garbage" but rather "secondary raw material," and instead of referring to recycling, they talk about "separation at point of origin."
Métraux, Julia: The new Jewish left
In Canada, young Jews are fighting antisemitism while opposing the Israeli occupation
Published: 2019
Young Jewish people in North America are fighting antisemitism while opposing Israel's occupation of Palestine.

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N/A: Stop & search app will 'hold police to account'
Published: 2015
Individuals who are stopped and searched by police will now be able to record and report their experience using a new app designed to hold officers to account.
Nabiyeva, Komila: Uzbekistan Rediscovers Lost Culture in the Craft of Silk Road Paper Makers
Published: 2014
A Samarkand craftsman revives thousand-year-old paper production methods in Central Asian workshop.
Nader, Ralph: Big Crony CEO Pay Grab: Effects Beyond Greed!
Published: 2016
Over the past fifty years, the pay gap between many highly-paid CEOs and their employees has increased dramatically. In 1965, when they also liked to be rich, CEOs made approximately twenty times as much as their average employee, meaning they would earn their workers' average pay by the third week of January, and since the 1980s, the average difference and greed have increased. Highly-paid CEOs now make 303 times as much as their employees in a year, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute.
Nader, Ralph: The Censorious Vortex of the "Flash News" Barons
Published: 2017
For decades, the factors that decided what noteworthy stories would not find their way into print or on the air came down to the media's ignorance, laziness or from advertising restraints. For too long, the explosive material for good journalism in these and other areas had remained hidden in plain sight.
Nader, Ralph: Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash
Published: 2018
Consumer freedom and privacy are examined as coercive commercialism quickly moves toward a cashless economy, when all consumers are forced into corporate payment systems from credit/debit cards, mobile phones and perhaps even through facial recognition technology.
Nader, Ralph: The Corporate State of Surveillance
Opting Out
Published: 2013
America was founded on the ideals of personal liberty, freedom and democracy. Now mass spying, surveillance and the unending collection of personal data undermine civil liberties and our privacy rights. We find ourselves in the midst of an all-out invasion on what’s-none-of-their-business and its coming from both government and corporate sources. Snooping and data collection have become big business. Nothing is out of their bounds anymore.
Nader, Ralph: Corporations Spy on Nonprofits with Impunity
Dow Chemical vs. Greenpeace
Published: 2014
Here's a dirty little secret you won't see in the daily papers: corporations conduct espionage against US nonprofit organizations without fear of being brought to justice.
Nader, Ralph: The Destructive Power Trips of Amazon's Boss
Published: 2017
Pointed criticism of online retailer Amazon and its Boss Jeff Bezos, whose practices include avoiding state taxes, erosion of traditional retail and small business, and undermining the tax base in communities.
Nader, Ralph: Driverless Cars: Hype, Hubris and Distractions
Published: 2017
The driverless personal car is quickly emerging without a legal, ethical and priorities framework, when priorities should be placed on safer, more efficient and less polluting means of transport.
Nader, Ralph: Enduring Security
Volunteer Fire Departments
Published: 2014
Ralph Nader on the history, structure, and challenges faced by the United States' volunteer firefighters, who make up two-thirds of the nation's fire-fighting force.
Nader, Ralph: Ethics and Whistleblowing for Engineers Affects Us All
Published: 2018
Some engineering professors worry that their students' busy course schedules prevents them from adequately exploring the liberal arts. Without exposure to the liberal arts, engineering students will lack the broad context that will help them approach their work as a profession, not just a trade.
Nader, Ralph: The Funny Business of Farm Credit
Published: 2016
In May of 1998 we held a conference dedicated to two Government-sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In my statement to that assembly, I noted that both corporations had been enjoying good times, but cautioned that one of the unintended consequences of fat profits over a long period is the tendency of both government and private corporations to start believing in the fantasy of ever-rising profits. GSEs often escape the accountability that Congress or regulatory agencies should impose.
Nader, Ralph: The Left/Right Challenge to the Failed "War on Drugs"
Published: 2017
More and more conservatives and liberals, from the halls of Congress to people in communities across the country, are agreeing that the so-called "war on drugs" needs serious rethinking.
NADER, Ralph: Let the People Know
Put Full Texts of Government Contracts Online
Published: 2013
Openness in our government is essential for a healthy democracy
Nader, Ralph: Let's Call Out Institutional Insanities
A Grotesque Inversion of Priorities
Published: 2014
What are the signs that an institution is clinically insane? For over thirty-five years I have been trying to persuade psychological and psychiatric specialists and their professional associations to take up this serious subject for study and corrective suggestions. Alas, to no avail.
Nader, Ralph: The Media and the Far Right
Showcasing the Crude, the Violent and the Aberrant
Published: 2010
The right-moving trend of the mainstream media, absurdly deemed liberal by successfully intimidating corporatists and ideological aggressors, continues year after year.
Nader, Ralph: Monsanto and Its Promoters vs. Freedom of Information
Published: 2015
Next year, the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary as one of the finest laws our Congress has ever passed. It is a vital investigative tool for exposing government and corporate wrongdoing.
Nader, Ralph: One of the Greatest Environmentalists of the 20th Century
Barry Commoners RIP
Published: 2012
Dr. Barry Commoner, equipped with a Harvard PhD in cellular biology, used his knowledge of biology, ecosystems, nuclear radiation, public communication, networking scientists, political campaigning, and community organizing to become the greatest environmentalist in the 20th century.
Nader, Ralph: The Perpetual Punitive Machine Backfires
Not Very Smart
Published: 2015
Our nation has a penchant for creating unnecessary complexity and obstacles for its people in areas such as the tax, health insurance and student debt miasmas. The prison industry adds to this with what it euphemistically calls "collateral consequences."
Nader, Ralph: Self-Censored Questions by Career Questioners
Published: 2017
I've always been intrigued by the major questions not asked by reporters at press conferences, not asked by legislators at public hearings or even the questions citizens at town meetings don't ask public officials. It's not that they do not know about or could not easily become informed enough about a given issue and ask substantive questions. It's just that so many taboos are packed into these questioners' ideological mindset, career goals or concern with what other people over them might think. Maybe it is a culturally-rooted fear of challenging entrenched power brokers.
Nader, Ralph: The Serious Price of the Hyperconvenient Economy
Published: 2017
The rapid "progress" towards greater convenience will induce dependency, ignorance of the product and service and more loss of voice, self-determination and self-reliance.
Nader, Ralph: Suing for Justice
Your lawsuits are good for America
Published: 2016
Arguing for the importance of tort law to protect the populace and the importance of restoring and maintaining the tort system after past reforms that have placed it at risk.
Nader, Ralph: 10 Reasons I Don't Have a Credit Card
Why Cash is Better
Published: 2014
The ability of cash and checks to compete with the credit card industry and its strict controls on merchants. This obvious point becomes less obvious when one takes into account the expanding exclusion of cash/check payments due to the overwhelming expansion of goods and services that you cannot buy unless you have a credit card or a friend with one whom you can reimburse.
When sending some types of express mail, renting a car, or paying for the services of airlines/trains or hotels, you either cannot pay with cash/check or it is a real hassle of inquiries and conditions. The overall trend is to limit more and more what legal tender can actually buy in America because of exclusionary fine print contracts (see faircontracts.org).
Nader, Ralph: Vanishing the People's Wealth to Make the Bosses Richer
Published: 2016
Imagine you are a shareholder in a big company and the top executives are sitting on huge amounts of cash and are not interested in putting it to work through productive capital investments, research and development, reducing company debt or paying employees a higher wage. What would you want done about it? Since you and other shareholders are the owners of the company, you'd likely say "give us back our money in cash dividends."
Nagata, Kai: Why I quit my job
Published: 2011
Nahem, Ike: Another Vote on Washington's Anti-Cuba Policy at the United Nations
The Politics of Isolation
Published: 2013
Resolution A/68/L.6, sponsored by Cuba, passed this year, for the 22nd year in a row, with Washington once again in humiliating political loneliness. The vote this year was 188-2 in favor, with 3 abstentions. Washington’s formal political isolation over its anti-Cuba policy can hardly be more complete. Is it possible to imagine any significant political issue in world politics uniting so many disparate entities often in significant conflict with each other.
Nahem, Ike: The 2019 UN Vote Against the US Blockade of Cuba
Trump's Washington Remains Cornered
Published: 2019
On November 7, 2019, for the 28th year in a row, the entire United Nations General Assembly, gathered in one room, voted overwhelmingly against "the Economic, Commercial, and Financial Embargo Imposed on Cuba by the United States." The final tally was 187 in favor, 3 opposed (Brazil, Israel, US), 2 abstentions (Colombia, Ukraine), 1 not voting (Moldova).
Naiman, Robert: WikiLeaks Reveals How the US Aggressively Pursued Regime Change in Syria, Igniting a Bloodbath
Published: 2015
In 2010, WikiLeaks became a household name by releasing 251,287 classified State Department cables. The essays that make up The WikiLeaks Files shed critical light on a once secret history.
Nair, Yasmin: Bourgeois Feminist Bullshit
The Rebecca Traister view of gender and the world...
Published: 2017
Nair, Yasmin: Can We Talk?: Censorship, Pedophilia, and Panic
Published: 2005
Pederasty and pedophilia have been topics of debate in works about gay and straight history, given long-standing traditions of intergenerational sex between and among men and women. The right uses that fact to condemn all queers, particularly gay men, as predators of children.
Nair, Yasmin: Fuck Love
Published: 2012
Nair, Yasmin: What's Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World
Published: 2012
We need to refuse the narratives of abjection that are routinely forced upon us. They only render us immobile creatures, begging for help. We are all neoliberals now. We're all selling our bodies, our lives, our stories to the media and to provide comfort to ourselves. Those stories have to be challenged and reworked or we lose sight of the larger story of economic exploitation, at our peril.
Najjar, Farah: '54 Palestinians die' as Israel refuses medical permits
Published: 2018
According to Rights groups, Israel is responsible for 54 deaths in the besieged Gaza Strip in 2017 due to a lack of medical permits.
Najjar, Farah: Village demolition based on Israel's 'racist' plan
Published: 2017
In the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, residents say the closing of an investigation into the killing of Yacoub Abu al-Qiyan is evidence of a wider strategy to drive residents out of the rural community.
Nall, Jeffrey: John Holt: Homeschooling Pioneer and Visionary Progressive
Published: 2014
The stereotype of homeschooling as the haven for conservative, religious ideologues overshadows the movement's radically progressive roots. One of the movement's foremost pioneers, John Holt, was an egalitarian atheist who explicitly opposed patriarchy, corresponded with progressive thinkers including Paul Goodman and Noam Chomsky, and helped initiate the still emerging children’s rights movement.
Namazie, Maryam: Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISIS
Published: 2015
The right to religion comes with a corresponding right to be free from religion.
Namazie, Maryam: Ayatollah BBC and #ExMuslimBecause
Published: 2015
Whilst we mourn our dead in Paris, we must not forget the countless others killed by ISIS and Islamists, including this very month in Lebanon, Nigeria, Mali, Iraq, Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan... as well as those executed perfectly legally via Sharia laws in Iran, Saudi Arabia... The refugee crisis is in large part due to this unbridled brutality. In fact, if there ever was a "right" time to challenge Islam and Islamism, it is now.
Namazie, Maryam: CEMB march at Pride 2018 in London: A Victory against Islamism
Published: 2018
Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain marched in Pride in London on 7 July for LGBT rights in countries under Islamic rule; in 15 states or territories, homosexuality is punishable by death. The march was a victory against Islamist forces in Britain like Mend and East London Mosque that tried and failed to stop CEMB from marching with accusations of 'Islamophobia' aimed at imposing de facto blasphemy and apostasy laws.
Namazie, Maryam: Demand for atheism rises in countries under Islamic rule
Published: 2018
The rise of atheism in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia is something we have been speaking about for some time now. The Iranian Baztab Now website warned of a tsunami of atheism amongst Iranian youth. The #ExMuslimBecause hashtag initiated by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain became viral overnight with over 120,000 Tweets from 65 countries.
Namazie, Maryam: Ex-Muslims: A community in protest
Published: 2018
I see ex-Muslims as a community in protest: insisting on freedom from religion, and freedom of conscience. For the right to apostasy and blasphemy, without fear. Like the LGBT, anti-slavery, anti-colonialist, anti-apartheid, suffragette or civil rights movements, it’s a movement which insists upon our common humanity and equality – not upon difference or superiority. It’s a movement of people who refuse to live in fear and in the shadows, and who are speaking out for social change in unprecedented ways.
Namazie, Maryam: Gender segregation is humiliating and damaging
Published: 2017
The author looks at gender segregation, drawing on her own personal experiences in Iran but also in a broader context and the resulting psychological damage done to girls from a very young age.
Namazie, Maryam: God: A Human History - a rescue attempt by Reza Aslan
Book review
Published: 2017
Gods and religions have caused so much distress that even those who have spent a lifetime apologising for and ignoring the doctrinal foundations of their abuses must make a rescue attempt.
Namazie, Maryam: The hijab: "preventing common impositions"
Published: 2019
Children are not the property of their parents. They are individuals with rights and bodily integrity. And just because their parents believe in child veiling or FGM and male circumcision doesn't mean they should be automatically entitled to impose their views on their children, especially when these views are harmful.
Namazie, Maryam: I will be nude, I will protest, and I will challenge you to your core!
Published: 2014
A nude woman is the antithesis of the idealised veiled and submissive woman. Whilst nude protest is not the only way to resist Islamism and the veil, it is a very modern, practical and appropriate way of doing so. It also challenges discrimination against women and a system which profits from the commodification and sexualisation of women’s bodies.
Namazie, Maryam: Pret-A-Patriarchy – on "modest" fashion
Published: 2018
"Modest" fashion is a fast growing industry with companies like Dolce & Gabbana, H&M, Marks and Spencer, DKNY, Zara and others all rushing to cash in. But while more choice is undoubtedly good, I have a problem with the labelling.
Namazie, Maryam: The rise of humanism and secularism in Iran
Published: 2005
The backlash and opposition in Iran is at its essence strongly humanist, secularist and modern. You can see it clearly in the rational, popular, and spontaneous acts and the
establishment of hundreds of organisations outside government structures and restrictions that are non-religious and purely for the defence of the human being via reliance on human will.
Namazie, Maryam: UK: Walking a tightrope: Between the pro-Islamist Left and the far-Right
Published: 2013
Opposing Sharia and Islamism in the west is like walking on a tight rope most of the time -- thwarting attacks from the Left, refuting cultural relativism, preventing alliances with the far-Right, explaining the issues ignored by government and the media, mobilising support for secularism and citizenship whilst opposing racism and xenophobia, and making linkages with the many fighting Islamism on the ground in countries across the world.
Namazie, Maryam: The Veil and Violence against Women in Islamist Societies
Published: 2007
The ongoing battle between the Islamic authorities and women over the veil clearly reveals why it has become a symbol like no other of the violence women face under Islam and why 'improper' or 'bad' veiling and unveiling have become a symbol of resistance to Islam in power and its violence against women. It is for this very reason that the slogan 'neither veil nor submission' has become a rallying cry ever since the regime imposed compulsory veiling on women after expropriating and crushing the revolution to consolidate its rule.
Namazie, Maryam: What isn't wrong with Sharia law?
Published: 2010
To safeguard our rights there must be one law for all and no religious courts.
Namazie, Maryam: What's all the fuss about the veil?
Published: 2007
It is impossible to address the status of women under Islamic laws and defend women’s rights without addressing and denouncing the veil. And this is why the veil is the first thing that Islamists impose when they have any access to power.
Namazie, Maryam: Why I had to face down the bullies trying to silence my supposedly 'offensive' stance on Islam
Published: 2016
This week marked the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. The atrocity was a brutal attack not just on human life but also on the principle of free speech, one of the pillars of human civilisation. In the aftermath of the killings, people across the world united to express their support for that essential liberty.
Namazie, Maryam: Why is Inclusive Mosque so Afraid of Secularism?
Published: 2018
Secularism is merely a framework that separates religion from the state to ensure that religion cannot influence the state and public policy and impose itself on private lives. After all, not everyone in a given society is a believer and even if they are, they don’t usually want the state to tell them how to believe. Only a secular framework can ensure the equal rights of all citizens before the law and not different rights for different categories of communalised groups. It is only a secular framework that can ensure one law for all via changeable laws made by people versus unchangeable ‘divine’ laws imposed by clerics. It is a secular framework which can allow for multi-ethnic, multi-religious and plural societies and is a minimum precondition for the rights of women and minorities. It is a secular framework that can ensure freedom of conscience, including freedom of and from religion.
Namazie, Maryam; Gupta, Rahila: One woman's brush with Sharia courts in the UK: "It ruined my life forever"
Published: 2016
The UK government is conducting an inquiry into the operation of Sharia courts which is being boycotted by a number of women's organisations because its remit is too narrow, and the panel of judges is not seen as 'independent' enough. Parallel to this, the Home Affairs Committee has also launched an inquiry into whether the principles of Sharia are compatible with British law.
Nangwaya, Ajamu: Pan-Africanism, feminism and finding missing pan-Africanist women
Published: 2016
There are numerous women in the African Diaspora who have worked for the liberation of Africans under the banner of Pan-Africanism. They must be rescued from political obscurity. Pan-Africanism as a revolutionary ideology must firmly embrace feminism.
Napolitano, Andrew: The Torturers' Poor Memories
Published: 2024
The Bush/Cheney torture regime and its Devil's Island at Gitmo are among the darkest events perpetrated by a modern American presidency.
Narco News School of Authentic Journalism: The Day the Internet Died
An Oral History of the Egyptian Revolution
Published: 2012
When Hosni Mubarak Shut Off Cell Phones and the Internet in January 2011 Was the Moment When More Egyptians than Ever Went Out into the Streets.
Narwitz , Sophia: Trans woman Debbie Hayton is accused of transphobia after expressing view that we are biologically attached to our sex at birth
Published: 2019
A transgender physics teacher by the name of Debbie Hayton is facing disciplinary action and potential expulsion from her seat on the Trades Union Congress LGBT committee, for stating trans people are biologically attached to the sex they are born as.
Nash, Andrew: Mandela's Democracy
Published: 1999
Nelson Mandela's ideological legacy — in South Africa and globally — is startlingly complex. He has provided inspiration for the struggles of oppressed people throughout the world, and he has made himself a symbol of reconciliation in a world in which their oppression continues. To understand his historical role, and come to terms with his legacy, we need to see how his greatness and his limitations stem from the same source.
Nash, Michael (ed.): How to Keep Union Records
Published: 2010
Nasr, Edwin: On the Uprisings in France
Published: 2016
At the beginning of March 2016, France's now ultra-liberal Socialist Party (PS) government officially revealed a labour reforms bill whose objective was to promote the competitiveness of businesses operating in France. The bill, commonly referred to as the El Khomri (the country's Labour Minister) law, was instantly perceived by most leftist factions as a fundamental attack on workers rights and a downright sabotage of the French Labour Code ("Code du Travail"), considered one of Europe's most progressive. The law allows for companies to reach "agreements" with its staff over working conditions without the need to negotiate with trade unions, subjecting workers to employers' arbitrary decisions (in regards to longer hours and lower overtime pay) without any legal protection. It also facilitates mass sackings and individual lay-offs by relaxing French law's constraint on firing and hiring, and casts aside the sacrosanct 35-hour work week in favour of a lengthened, more "flexible" one.
Nassar, Maha: History of the Gaza Strip
Published: 2023
Maha Nassar provides historical context to the current violence in the densely populated and besieged enclave.
Nassar,Tamara: Israel uses Palestinian land to illegally dump toxic waste
Published: 2017
Israel dumps unknown waste and military garbage in a disposal site in Kisan village, in the occupied West Bank.
Nasser, Alan: How Inequality Kills
Published: 2017
The Global March of Neoliberalism: The World Inequality Report 2018
Natoli, Joseph: Thoughtcrimes and Stupidspeak: Our Assault Against Words
Published: 2016
We are tortured with repetitions. How many bloggers do we have in cyberspace, opining in a Duckspeak that gets a Bellyfeel response because those who have an opposing Bellyfeel response listen only to their Duckspeak bloggers. 152 million bloggers as of 2013. 500 million tweets per day. 1.71 billion active users on Facebook. 4 billion YouTube views per day. A Pandora’s Box opened that cannot be closed, perhaps because what cybertech installs can neither be abjured nor rejected. "It's all good" apparently. Perhaps not.
Naureckas, Jim: Facebook Wants You to Know if You’re Getting Your News From the Wrong Government
Published: 2019
Media outlets owned by a company with ties to the Russian government are forced to disclose their affiliation on Facebook. Media outlets owned or funded by the US government are not held to the same standard.
Naureckas, Jim: Mental Illness Doesn't Explain Mass Violence -- but Neither Does 'Islamic Extremism'
Published: 2015
With the latest mass shooting in Chattanooga, corporate media followed the usual pattern of being ready and willing to label violence as "terrorism" so long as the suspect is Muslim.
Naureckas, Jim: Underexposure Exposed
Published: 2023
If you want people to think that a country resistant to US leadership is a festering doomscape, just underexpose the hell out of your photographs.
Naureckas, Jim: What Was Missing From Coverage of Netanyahu's Speech
Published: 2015
Reading the lead stories on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress about Iran in five prominent US papers – the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today (all 3/3/15) – what was most striking was what was left out of these articles.
Naureckas, Jim: When Is Direct Military Intervention Not Direct Military Intervention?
Published: 2016
Since 2014, according to official Pentagon figures, the US has carried out 5,337 airstrikes in Syria. Yet the New York Times continues to pretend that the U.S. has not intervened militarily in Syria.
Naureckas, Jim: 'Wrong as Often as Right' Is Good Enough When Reporting on an Official Enemy
Published: 2015
When reporting on enemy states, Washington Post would rather use misleading and flashy headline. A North Korean general has supposedly been executed by anti-aircraft weapons but he could just as well be safe and sound.
Nava, Victor: Protect Students from Corporate Data-Mining in the Classroom
Published: 2015
Across the political spectrum there is debate as to whether data should be collected about students.
Navarro, Santiago F., Bessi, Renata: The Dark Side of Clean Energy: Industrial Wind Plantations in Mexico
Published: 2016
Navarro, Vicente: The Enormous Limitations of U.S. Liberal Democracy and Its Consequences
The Growth Of Fascism
Published: 2023
Explores the "baked-in bias" towards the far right in the United States and the threat it poses to the democratic system of governance.
Navarro, Vincente: What is Meant by 'Single-Payer' in the Current Discussion of Health Care Reforms During the Primaries?
Published: 2016
Single-payer means that most of the funds used to pay for medical care are public, that is, they are paid with taxes. The government, through a public authority, is the most important payer for medical care services and uses this power to influence the organization of health care. The overwhelming majority of developed countries have one form or another of a single-payer system.
Nawajah, Nasser: No child should be afraid to drink a glass of water ...
Published: 2014
Nasser Nawajah wrote this open letter to Israel's economics minister Naftali Bennett - leader of The Jewish Home - about the water starvation suffered by Palestinians.
Nayar, Varun: Reframing Migration: A Conversation With Historian Sunil Amrith
Published: 2017
The 2017 MacArthur Genius Fellowship recipient's interdisciplinary work on the Bay of Bengal teaches us that movement and migration are central forces in the making of Asian -- and global -- history.
Nazakat, Syed: No story is worth dying for but some stories are worth taking a bit of risk
Published: 2012
ICIJ member Syed Nazakat of The Week talks about the risks and benefits of conflict reporting in "the most dangerous place on earth".
Nazakat, Syed: Social Media and Investigative Journalism
Published: 2012
In this extract from the new book The Social Media (R)evolution: Asian Perspectives on New Media, ICIJ member Syed Nazakat outlines different ways investigative reporters are harnessing social media around the globe.
Nazari, Hossein: When America Downed an Iranian Airliner and Celebrated It!
Published: 2018
Every 3rd of July Iranians commemorate the killing of 299 innocent people, including 66 children, by the US Navy. Adding to the tragedy is the American attitude towards this catastrophic event.
Nazer, Daniel: Stupid Patent of the Month: HP Patents Reminder Messages
Published: 2017
A recent patent to HP on 'Reminder messages' provides more evidence that the Patent Office takes an overly rigid approach to evaluating whether or not a patent application is obvious, and speaks poorly for its ability to determine whether patent applications actually reflect new inventions.
Nazer, Daniel: Stupid Patent of the Month: Infamous Prison Telco Patents Asking Third-Parties for Money
Published: 2015
Plenty of businesses rely on third-party payers: parents often pay for college; insurance companies pay most health care bills. Reaching out to potential third-party payers is hardly a new or revolutionary business practice. But someone should tell the Patent Office. Earlier this year, it issued US Patent No. 9,026,468 to Securus Technologies, a company that provides telephone services to prisoners. The patent covers a method of "proactively establishing a third-party payment account." In other words, Securus patented the idea of finding someone to pay a bill.
Nazer, Daniel; Ranieri, Vera: Bad Day for Bad Patents: U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down Abstract Software Patent
Published: 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank today, striking down an abstract software patent. Essentially, the Court ruled that adding “on a computer” to an abstract idea does not make it patentable. Many thousands of software patents — particularly the vague and overbroad patents so beloved by patent trolls — should be struck down under this standard.
Neale, Jonathan: At COP21, the world agreed to increase emissions
Published: 2015
Some countries will reduce emissions a little, but other countries will increase them a lot. You would never know this from UN and media reports.
Nease, Kristy: Deadly weapon? Ottawa police assault gloves scrutinized after officer charged in death
Published: 2017
A man dies after being struck by a police officer wearing assault gloves.
Neason, Alexandria: Class Dismissed
When a state divests from public education
Published: 2017
A look at education in the state of Arizona where Empowerment Education Accounts (ESA's), money otherwise used to fund public education, are upheld by conservatives as a successful means of advancing private alternatives to traditional schooling.
Neate, Rupert: America's trailer parks: the residents may be poor but the owners are getting rich
Published: 2015
It's an unusual but potentially lucrative investment: Warren Buffett is prompting people to attend Mobile Home University, a 'boot camp' in trailer park ownership.
Neate, Rupert: Scandal of Europe's 11M Empty Homes
Published: 2014
More than 11 million homes lie empty across Europe – enough to house all of the continent's homeless twice over – according to figures collated by the Guardian from across the EU. Housing campaigners denounce the 'shocking waste' of vacant homes.
Needham, Fraser: NDP campaign enters panic mode
Published: 2015
If in politics a week can be a lifetime, a month can be an eternity -- especially in an election campaign.
Nefertari Ulen, Eisa: Even the Machines Are Racist. Facial Recognition Systems Threaten Black Lives.
The use of surveillance technology for "security" comes at the expense of civil liberties for Black and Brown people.
Published: 2020
Politicians and companies pushing facial recognition technology say that, like the near-certainty of DNA and the exactness of fingerprint matches, the software is a precise, unbiased alternative to human bigotry in policing. Yet in reality, facial recognition technology is prone to false positives that target Black and Brown people, and then tracks them when they're on parole.
Neiman, Ofer: Most US Jewish students don't see Israel as 'civilized' or a 'democracy,' Luntz tells secret anti-BDS conference
Published: 2016
Minister Gilad Erdan has organized a secret conference in Jerusalem, with 150 top supporters of Israel.
Neiman, Susan: The true Left is not woke
Published: 2023
Progressive activists have forgotten their roots.
Neiwert, David: Onetime Antiwar, Environmental Protester Veers Into the Seamy World of Anti-Semitism
Published: 2015
While most American-born activists who become involved in defending Palestinian rights avoid becoming overt anti-Semites even while steadfastly criticizing Israel, Kenneth O'Keefe is not one of them.
Nelson, David A.; Gantt, Edwin E.: Every Gender Identity Is 'Authentic' - Until It Isn't
Published: 2023
Faddish forms of self-identification often reflect subjective feelings that shift over time. Let's stop treating them as sacred truths.
Nelson, Joyce: Bank of Canada Lawsuit
Published: 2016
One of the most important legal cases in Canadian history is slowly inching its way towards trial. Launched in 2011 by the Toronto-based Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER), the lawsuit would require the publicly-owned Bank of Canada to return to its pre-1974 mandate and practice of lending interest-free money to federal, provincial, and municipal governments for infrastructure and healthcare spending.
Nelson, Joyce: Canadian Cities Hit By Pandemic Lockdown. Vulnerable To BlackRock's Privatization Agenda
Published: 2020
On May 20, CUPE Ontario (representing 80,000 municipal employees) and the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (representing about 440 municipal councils) joined forces to appeal for immediate federal and provincial emergency funding. Their appeal backs a similar call put out by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in mid-April, urgently asking the federal government for $10 billion in emergency aid.
Nelson, Joyce: The Dangers of Privatized Intelligence
Published: 2020
Ray McGovern once again effectively demolishes (as he has several times over the past three years) the flimsy props holding up Russiagate, especially the "Intelligence Community Assessment" (ICA) prepared in January 2017 by "handpicked analysts" from the FBI, CIA and NSA (not 17 intelligence agencies, as first claimed by National Intelligence Director James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan).
Nelson, Joyce: The military's carbon bootprint
Published: 2020
As the biggest single user of fossil fuels, why is the military exempt from the climate discussion?
Nelson, Joyce: Missing from the Paris Agreement: the Pentagon's monstrous carbon boot print
Published: 2015
How much of the mainstream media coverage given to COP21 and the Paris Agreement mentioned the mysterious exemption given to the US's massive military and security machine? None, writes Joyce Nelson. Not only are these emissions entirely outside the UNFCCC process, but a 'cone of sillence' somehow prevents them from even forming part of the climate change discourse.
Nelson, Joyce: Monsanto and Ukraine
GM Food, Ukraine and the Return of Hill + Knowlton
Published: 2014
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under terms of their $17 billion loan to Ukraine, will force that country to permit genetically-modified (GM) crops and genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture.
Nelson, Joyce: The NED's Useful Idiots
Published: 2018
On Friday, June 8, 2018, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow augmented her nightly Russiagate fetish by extolling the merits of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), telling her huge audience that the NED, created in the 1980s by the Ronald Reagan administration, still does the "non-partisan hard work around the world, of promoting small D democracy and promoting the institutions of civil society that any culture needs in order to have a functioning democracy."
Nelson, Joyce: Paris Climate Agreement Threatened by Trade Deals
Published: 2015
Pope Francis' visit to the U.S. has galvanized discussion about climate change and raised hopes for the upcoming December COP21 Paris climate change talks. Those talks are intended to lead to a multilateral agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with serious pledges from the many participating countries.
Nelson, Joyce: Petroleum Disaster in the Great Bear Rainforest
Published: 2016
Outrage is the only word for what people are feeling after a tug and fuel barge, owned by Texas-based Kirby Offshore Marine, crashed on rocks in the heart of B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest on October 13, 2016. It’s been leaking 200,000 litres (59, 024 gallons) of diesel fuel into the sensitive marine ecosystem ever since.
Nelson, Joyce: Putin's Question and the Ambassador's Answer
Published: 2015
A fascinating, if brief, verbal exchange recently took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1987 – 1991), Jack Matlock.
Nelson, Joyce: Reversing Enbridge & Big Oil's Pipeline Plans
Published: 2015
The National Academy of Sciences is skewering the industry's 'oil is oil' talking point -- making it clear that diluted bitumen is a different beast altogether and needs to be treated as such. The agonizingly slow and costly Kalamazoo River spill cleanup in Michigan made many of these points clear. Yet, the tar sands industry has continued to insist that diluted bitumen creates no deeper environmental threat as they push for unsustainable growth. While Keystone XL is off the table, there are numerous other projects being considered that extend the unique pipeline problems of dilbit into communities across North America.
Nelson, Joyce: Rooming Houses in Toronto -- 1960s & 1970s
Published: 2020
Rooming houses in Toronto became a big issue in the late 1960s and early 1970s as housing priorities were changing rapidly. These dwellings were usually old houses that had been converted for single-room-occupancy tenants, who typically paid weekly rent and shared the bathroom and kitchen facilities with four or more (unrelated) tenants.
Nelson, Joyce: Saugeen Ojibway Nation Has Saved Lake Huron From a Nuclear Waste Dump
Published: 2020
A major victory for Canada's First Nations has just been won in Ontario. On January 31, 2020, the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON) overwhelmingly voted down the proposed deep geological repository (DGR) for storage of low- and intermediate-level radioactive nuclear waste next to Lake Huron.
Nelson, Joyce: Tax Havens and the Other Paris Agreement
Published: 2018
Paradise & Panama papers, Canada & red herrings, and the international agreement on tax havens with "enough loopholes to drive a fleet of Ferraris through"
Nelson, Joyce: TPP: Big Pharma's Big Deal
Published: 2015
We still don't know all the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal tentatively agreed to on Oct. 5 by negotiators from 12 Pacific Rim countries, but already critics are slamming it for many reasons, including its generous concessions to the pharmaceutical industry.
Nelson, Joyce: The Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX): Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the Russians
Published: 2020
There has long been fierce opposition to the TMX project (owned at the time by Texas-based Kinder Morgan), which will nearly triple the pipeline’s capacity to bring Alberta diluted bitumen (dilbit) to the West Coast.
Nelson, Joyce: Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare
What the heck is really going on in Venezuela? A complex story lies behind the offical narrative.
Published: 2017
The article examines elements of Venezuala's economic warfare, role as global provider of oil, and the country's relationship with the Trump administration, to provide a multi-faceted picture of the country's recent violent events.
Nelson, Joyce: Wall Street Invading Wet’suwet’en Territory
Published: 2020
While protesters have rightly condemned the RCMP actions in arresting Wet’suwet’en First Nation land defenders, they (and the corporate media) have largely overlooked the role of a major player in this whole debacle: Wall Street titan Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., better known as KKR.
Nelson, Marissa: Private-school debate grows
Published: 2001
Proposed legislation to aid private schools amounts to a subsidy for rich parents, opponents to Bill 45 say.
Nesbit, Jeff: Google's true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
Published: 2017
Two decades ago, the US intelligence community worked closely with Silicon Valley in an effort to track citizens in cyberspace. And Google is at the heart of that origin story. Some of the research that led to Google's ambitious creation was funded and coordinated by a research group established by the intelligence community to find ways to track individuals and groups online.
Neslen,Arthur: Polish farmers threaten uprising over opencast coalmine
Published: 2014
Heinz unites with farmers in rebellion against plan to build a vast lignite mine and power plant on farming land in western Poland.
Nestel, Cheryl: The Use and Misuse of Antisemitism Statistics in Canada
Published: 2021
Sheryl Nestel of IJV-Toronto has published a detailed analysis B’nai Brith’s audit, and found that their interpretation of the state of antisemitism in Canada is misleading at best, perhaps deliberately so.
Nestel, Sheryl: The B'nai Brith Audit of Antisemitic Incidents: An Unreliable and Dangerous Document
An Unreliable and Dangerous Document
Published: 2024
Allegations of widespread antisemitism in Canada have penetrated the media and the political sphere. But a careful analysis of these claims shows that while there is a rise in antisemitic incidents, claims of imminent danger to Canadian Jews are fueling a moral panic that is both disingenuous and dangerous.
Netizen Report Team: Netizen Report: Why Did YouTube Censor Your Videos? You May Never Know.
Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights ar
Published: 2017
Amid an apparent shift in YouTube’s approach to monitoring for rules violations and staying in the good graces of advertisers, a wave of YouTube users have found their work either blocked or relegated to "restricted" mode in recent months.
Neumann, Osha: Apocalypse and the Left
Endgame or Business as Usual?
Published: 2013
Nevins, Joseph: Convicts, Collateral Damage, and the "War on Drugs"
The Real Crime is the War Itself
Published: 2012
Two recent court cases in southern California provide insight into the identity of those smuggle drugs across the international boundary between the two countries. But more importantly what they do is highlight how the ludicrous “war on drugs” produces casualties of many sorts.
New Internationalist: Brazil's Quilombola Hit by Major Land Tax
Published: 2012
For decades, marginalized ethnic communities in Brazil have fought for--and won--land rights. But this victory is turning into something of a poisoned chalice for some remote Quilombola communities, who are now facing a giant tax bill.
Newitz, Annalee: Finding Cahokia
Finding North America's lost medieval city
Published: 2016
Recounting the author's experiences on an archaeological dig examining the city of Cahokia, found under the suburbs of St. Louis.
Newitz,Annalee: Dangerous Terms: A User's Guide to EULAs
Published: 2005
We've all seen them – windows that pop up before you install a new piece of software, full of legalese. To complete the install, you have to scroll through 60 screens of dense text and then click an "I Agree" button.
Newman, Lenore: Deconstructing The Locavore's Dilemma
A response to Pierre Desrochers
Published: 2012
The book 'The Locavore's Dilemma' constructs a straw man argument while ignoring what the locavore movement really has to say.
News24: Find out how these 800 ducks contribute to wine making
Published: 2016
Find out how these 800 ducks contribute to wine making.
Newsom, Jennifer and Acquaro, Kimberlee: Miss Representation
Published: 2011
Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.
Newswatch Desk: Broad consensus that violent media increases child aggression
Published: 2015
It seems that children can not only learn violence from adult role models but also through the media.
Ng, Fae Myenne: Orphan Bachelors
Exclusion and Confession, the two slamming doors of America
Published: 2019
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law to ban a nationality, as well as a victory for labor. Since the 1840s, whites moving to California considered the state to be for whites only and thought that any job held by a non-white was stolen from them.
Nicholson, Katie; Marcoux, Jacques: Most Canadians killed in police encounters since 2000 had mental health or substance abuse issues
More than 460 people have died in encounters with police in Canada since 2000
Published: 2018
More than 460 people have died in encounters with police across Canada since the year 2000, and a substantial majority suffered from mental health problems or symptoms of drug abuse, a CBC News investigation has found.
Nickel, Joe: Investigative Files: Benny Hinn: Healer or Hypnotist?
Published: 2002
Benny Hinn tours the world with his "Miracle Crusade," drawing thousands to each service, with many hoping for a healing of body, mind, or spirit.
Nickell, Joe: In the Stars? Personal Investigations of Astrology
Published: 2016
Nickell details his experience with the "science" (actually pseudoscience) of astrology.
Nickell, Joe; McGaha, James: The Search for Negative Evidence
Published: 2015
Everyone loves a mystery. Solve one in science, and accolades are forthcoming. Not so, however, in the realm of the paranormal, where evidence, logic, and theories are often stood on their heads. Whereas forensic scientists, say, begin with the evidence and let it lead to the most likely solution to a mystery, "parascientists" typically begin with the desired answer and work backward to the evidence, employing confirmation bias: They look for that which seems to confirm their prior-held belief and seek to discredit whatever -- or whoever -- would argue against it.
Nicol, Elizabeth Mullaney: Keeping Books Safe
A Bad Law Threatens Our Past
Published: 2009
Imagine a dystopian horror tale in which virtually all books from the past were destroyed...Books that did not meet the ideologies of the publishers, the demands of the mass market, the trends of the day would be destroyed...That incredible scenario is actually playing out in terms of children's books under a law meant to protect toddlers from lead contaminant in toys. Called the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), the law was passed in August 2008 -- quickly, without scrutiny and nearly unanimously.
Nicolson-Owens, Jeff: The Software Freedom Movement
Published: 2013
Nicolson-Owens thinks that Alfredo Lopez’s article, "Stallman, FOSS and the Adobe Nightmare," gets some of Richard Stallman’s message wrong and ends up giving the open source movement credit for a freedom-based philosophy the open source movement disagrees with.
Nicolson-Owens, Jeff: Why We Need "Free Software" Voting Machines
Published: 2004
Argues that voting machines can’t be made more trustworthy by making source code to them available. The benefits for sharing and modifying voting machine source code lie elsewhere. Voting machine software should not be proprietary.
Nieftagodien, Noor: The Black Student Rebellion of 1976
Published: 2016
A defining feature of the 1976 uprising was the decisive entry of black students onto the stage of history. Until the 1960s, the number of Africans in schools remained relatively low. But the urban African population was growing, especially the number of young people. And industry required a larger pool of industrial labour. So there was a rapid expansion of schooling for Africans. In 1976 there were 3.8 million Africans in schools. Nearly 10% percent of those were in secondary schools. In Soweto alone the number of secondary school students increased from approximately 12,500 to more than 34,000.
Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis: A creeping quiet in Indian journalism?
Published: 2017
How a combination of government pressure, harassment by political activists, commercial actors including both advertisers and some media owners, is exercising a chilling effect on Indian journalism.
Niemoller, Martin: Martin Niemoller Quotes
Niemuth, Miles: The cancellation of professor Adolph Reed, Jr.'s speech and the DSA's promotion of race politics
Published: 2020
The New York Times published a lengthy news article last week highlighting an instructive incident that took place earlier this year within the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). A speech by professor emeritus of political science Adolph Reed, Jr. was cancelled due to objections by the AFROSOCialist and Socialists of Color Caucus over his "reactionary and class reductionist form of politics."
Niemuth, Niles: Google's Eric Schmidt admits political censorship of search results
Published: 2017
Recent remarks by the Executive Chairman of Google's parent company confirm charges that the company has been deliberately altering its search algorithms and taking other measures to prevent the public from accessing information that is critical of the US government.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes
Nikiforuk, Andrew: Alberta's Problem Isn't Pipelines; It's Bad Policy Decisions
Bitumen prices are low because the province has ignored at least a decade of warnings.
Published: 2018
A 2007 Alberta government report indicates that the provincial government has been aware for more than a decade that its oilsands policies were setting the stage for today's price crisis.
Nikiforuk, Andrew: Canada's Science Library Closures Mirror Bush's Playbook
Similar moves by US Republican president met sharp backlash from 10,000 scientists.
Published: 2014
The Harper government is now eliminating seven Department of Fishery libraries containing one of the world's most comprehensive collections of information on fisheries, aquatic sciences and nautical sciences.
Nikiforuk, Andrew: The Curse of Energy Efficiency
Published: 2018
The more 'efficient' our technology, the more resources we consume in a downward spiral of catastrophe.
Nikiforuk, Andrew: Dismantling of Fishery Library 'Like a Book Burning,' Say Scientists
Harper government shuts down 'world class' collection on freshwater science and protection
Published: 2013
The Harper government has dismantled one of the world's top aquatic and fishery libraries as part of its agenda to reduce government as well as limit the role of environmental science in policy decision-making.
Nikiforuk, Andrew: Eric Marshall laments closure of namesake Fisheries library
Published: 2014
The government seems to be saying 'We want to exploit our natural resources, whether it's natural gas or oil sands, and basically to heck with environmental impacts.'
Nikiforuk, Andrew: Four Harsh Truths for Canada's Lovestruck Pipeline Politicians
A reality check for our bitumen-besotted leaders.
Published: 2016
There are four obvious (and very conservative) reasons why more pipelines don’t make any kind of economic, energy or climate sense. These truths also explain the growing opposition to the corrupt National Energy Board that still approves pipelines without due process and ignores their impact on global pricing, let alone the science on climate change.
Nikiforuk, Andrew: How the Tar Sands Threaten Canada's Economic Fate
Published: 2010
The $200-billion tar sands energy mega-project has not only changed Canada's economic life but also diminished the nation's economic diversity and resilience.
Nikiforuk, Andrew: Secret Memo Casts Doubt on Feds' Claims for Science Library Closures
Goal stated is 'culling' research, not preserving and sharing through digitization
Published: 2013
A federal document marked "secret" obtained by Postmedia News indicates the closure or destruction of more than half a dozen world famous science libraries has little if anything to do with digitizing books as claimed by the Harper government.
Nikiforuk, Andrew: Stephen Harper's Covert Evangelicalism
Published: 2015
How an apocalyptic strain of Christianity guides Stephen Harper's policies and campaigning.
Nikiforuk, Andrew: Understanding Harper's Evangelical Mission
Published: 2012
Signs mount that Canada's government is beholden to a religious agenda averse to science and rational debate.
Nikiforuk, Andrew: What Those Who Killed the Tar Sands Report Don't Want You to Know
Published: 2010
Why did a parliamentary committee suddenly destroy drafts of a final report on tar sands pollution? Here's what they knew.
Nikiforuk, Andrew: What's Driving Chaotic Dismantling of Canada's Science Libraries?
Scientists reject Harper government claims vital material is being saved digitally
Published: 2013
Scientists say the closure of some of the world's finest fishery, ocean and environmental libraries by the Harper government has been so chaotic that irreplaceable collections of intellectual capital built by Canadian taxpayers for future generations has been lost forever. Many collections ended up in dumpsters while others such as Winnipeg's historic Freshwater Institute library were scavenged by citizens, scientists and local environmental consultants. Others were burned or went to landfills.
Nikiforuk, Andrew: Why Scientists Are Amazed at Oilsands Smog Levels
Air pollution report in Nature shocks even Canada's top researchers
Published: 2016
On any hot day Shell and Syncrude tour guides used to call the gasoline-like vapours that wafted from Fort McMurray's huge open-pit bitumen mines "the smell of money." But a new study in Nature has another name for the stench: air pollution and megacity volumes of it.
Niman, Michael I.: Weaponized Social Media Is Driving the Explosion of Fascism
Social media platforms give governments, extremists, haters and propagandists the ability to excite and incite hate amplified by algorithms.
Published: 2019
Describing how social media wages war on reality by spreading propaganda. With examples from ISIS to Alex Jones.
Nisbet, Matt: Evolution in the College Classroom
Facilitating Conversations about Science and Religion
Published: 2017
New approaches embedded in introductory biology courses about science and religious belief point to promising models for instructors to adopt, and offer insight on strategies for encouraging more constructive dialogue about science and religion.
Njobvu, William: Prostitution ban won't hit England, 'too many politicians' visit sex workers
Published: 2015
Northern Ireland’s sex trade ban has left prostitutes in fear of "danger and poverty." In an in-depth interview with RT, one sex worker challenged the idea of the law spreading to England, claiming "too many" influential people visit prostitutes.
Nkosi, Redge: Failed neo-liberalism sees SA sleepwalking into a revolution
Published: 2013
Two decades into democracy the outcomes of our economic system and its policy framework are unambiguous: increased poverty, increased inequality, increased unemployment, escalating costs of living and doing business. How else does one measure the success of any economic model if not on its ability to provide sustainable increases in the well-being to the majority of its citizens?
Noakes, Susan: If the doctor is listening, you have 11 seconds
Published: 2018
U.S. study found that just 36% of doctors posed an open-ended question to get patients to talk.
Nobani, Ayman: Mourning a home filled with memories, destroyed by Israel's army
Published: 2023
Nablus, occupied West Bank -- rubble, destroyed window frames, remnants of a couch shrouded in dust and debris -- that is all that was left of the 130sq-metre home of the al-Jouri family. Overnight, Israeli soldiers, backed by armoured vehicles and bulldozers, surrounded the three-bedroom apartment in Nablus, filling it with explosives and blowing it to smithereens.
Noble, Doug: A Tale of Two Atrocities: Douma and Gaza
Published: 2018
Compare the intense media coverage of an alleged Syrian chemical attack to the near silence accorded the horrific civilian massacre perpetrated by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, at the very same time.
Noh, K.J.: Semantic Warfare: Words as Guided Missiles
Published: 2015
Over half a century ago, the South Korean government banned the word "labour" from the Korean language. This is the back story.
Nolan, Daniel: Hungary Law Requires Photographers to Ask Permission to Take Pictures
Published: 2014
Civil code that outlaws taking pictures without permission of everyone in the photograph is 'vague and obstructive' say critics.
Nomani, Asra Q.: Anti-racism attacks my American Dream
Published: 2022
Why do Democrats condemn hardworking immigrants?
Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com: Advice and Tips for Nonprofits Creating a Marketing Team
This is an instructional guide for non-profits to create marketing teams and developing them into the intermediate stages.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com: Advice and Tips for Nonprofits on Social Media
This is an instructional guide for non-profits to improve their online presence via social media. This guide is helpful for small businesses and non-profits in the beginning and intermediate development stages of social media accounts.
Noppen, Van: America's corporate revolt against clean energy
Published: 2014
The US's fossil fuel industry is scared at the growth of solar power, and its ever-declining market cost. So it's fighting back, doing its best to quash solar growth by imposing new costs and restrictions.
Nordberg, Jenny: It pays to look beyond so-called ‘experts’ in the field
Published: 2012
New York-based Jenny Nordberg discusses how she applies knowledge of human behaviour to her interviews, the thrill of finding disturbing things just under the surface, the pretentiousness of the term ‘investigative journalist’, and how global networks like the ICIJ help expose "juicy" stories.
Nordquist, Richard: The Spell Checker Poem
The Facts Behind "Candidate for a Pullet Surprise"
Published: 2017
"The Spell Checker Poem." originally was composed in 1991, its first official appearance was in The Journal of Irreproducible Results in 1994. Since then, it has made its way around the Internet under various titles, including "Spell Checker Blues," "Owed to a Spelling Checker," and "Spellbound." Almost always the poem is attributed to Anonymous or, more playfully, "Sauce unknown."
Norin, Evgeny: Not worth your sympathy: The story of Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov battalion
Published: 2022
Much less than the heroic defenders they are made out to be, the extremist regiment’s many crimes are well documented.
Norman, Jeremy: From Cave Paintings to the Internet
Published: 2013
Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media.
Norr, Henry: Some Things NPR Doesn't Tell Its Listeners About the "Iranian Nukes" Controversy
Lost in the Spin Zone
Published: 2015
Norr looks at Benjamin Netanyahu's speech in the Congress regarding Iran's nuclear program. Aside from the lack of coverage by media, he discusses the undisputed facts that are essential to understanding the situation, for instance Israel having nuclear weapons.
Norrell, Brenda: Lazy Journalists are the Darlings of the Corporations
Indian Country and the Lessons of McCarthyism
Published: 2009
Lazy journalists are great friends of the corporations. They are known as "armchair journalists" because they sit in comfort and rewrite press releases from politicians and corporations. To spice it up a bit, they dial a few numbers, get a few comments and call it a news story. They are the "darlings of the energy companies," as Buffy Sainte Marie says.
Norrell, Brenda: Russell Means: Warrior for the People
Published: 2012
The life of Russell Means, Lakota warrior for the people whose stance of never backing down inspired a generation of Native American rights, was celebrated on Wednesday, Oct. 24, in Kyle, South Dakota. Means' piercing words and clarity of style on American Indian rights, placed him at the forefront of the struggle of the American Indian Movement that spans four decades.
Norris, Pippa: U.S. elections rank last among all Western democracies
Published: 2017
Are US elections fair and democratic? A detailed look at the data and methodology that questions the integrity of elections.
North, James: The end of hasbara? NYT readers question US support for apartheid
Published: 2015
The New York Times published a remarkable discussion yesterday. Alongside an article about Israel cancelling a plan to segregate buses going to the West Bank so as to keep Palestinians off settlers' buses, it published readers' comments, and in both the editors' selection and the readers' selection, the comments were running against Israel.
North, James: Israel deliberately provoked the latest violence in Gaza, but you won't learn that in the NY Times
Published: 2018
The Times breathlessly and at length recounts Israeli anxiety over the limited attacks from Gaza: "Sirens blared again;" "cellphones were buzzing with alerts of incoming rockets."
North, James: Israel deliberately provoked the latest violence in Gaza, but you won't learn that in the NY Times
Published: 2018
The Times breathlessly and at length recounts Israeli anxiety over the limited attacks from Gaza: "Sirens blared again;" "cellphones were buzzing with alerts of incoming rockets." The Times has a reporter in Gaza, Iyad Abuheweila, but the paper had nothing to say whatsoever about how Gazans were reacting to being under assault. Maybe their cellphones were also buzzing, and their children were also afraid?
Norton, Ben: Al Qaeda Is Attacking Major Syrian Cities with US Weapons -- but You Wouldn't Know That from the Media
Published: 2017
Norton analyzes media coverages of attacks linked to Al-Qaeda in the West to highlight how this emphasis on Muslim extremism is used to justify Islamophobia.
Norton, Ben: Canada Adopts America First Foreign Policy US State Dept Boasted in 2017
Published: 2019
A declassified cable from the US embassy in Ottawa titled "Canada Adopts 'America First' Foreign Policy" notes that the Canadian government would be "Prioritizing U.S. Relations, ASAP."
Norton, Ben: Chances Are the FBI Has Files on Your Favorite Human Rights Activist
A Safe Bet
Published: 2014
If you have ever openly challenged and mobilized against the structural inequality of capitalism and concomitant imperialism, you definitely have an FBI record.
Norton, Ben: Charleston Massacre Media Coverage: Recognizing the Crime, Downplaying the Causes
Published: 2015
Dylann Roof is a white male who killed nine people; targeting African Americans. Elliot Rodger was a white male who killed six people; targeting women. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (The Boston Bomber) is a non-white male who killed three people; targeting Americans. According to the media, only one is a terrorist. Can you guess which? Why is that that the media is so hesitant to call some people terrorists when they clearly are?
Norton, Ben: Fight to Defend Trans Fats Funded With Dark Money
Published: 2015
A conservative Washington think tank that opposed a federal ban of trans fats has also actively campaigned against climate science and environmental regulation, and is funded by secret donors.
Norton, Ben: Hollywood's 'Captain Marvel' Blockbuster Is Blatant US Military Propaganda
Published: 2019
Captain Marvel is the latest in a long line of movies made with the cooperation and approval of the US military.
Norton, Ben: How A-historical Journalism Serves Power
A Calendar of Infamy
Published: 2013
Contemporary journalism has a horrendous habit of considering history superfluous.
Norton, Ben: How the US helped push Lebanon to the brink of collapse, and now threatens more sanctions
Published: 2020
While the media blames the crisis in Lebanon solely on corruption, the US government unleashed a “maximum pressure” campaign to push regime change and crush Lebanese resistance with sanctions and aggressive hybrid warfare.
Norton, Ben: Israel will imprison soldier, 19, for publicly criticizing the occupation
Published: 2015
The Israeli government is imprisoning Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Shachar Berrin for criticizing its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Norton, Ben: Media Are Blamed as US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Is Covered Up
Published: 2015
After the US airstrikes that hit an MSF (Medecins Sans Frontières) hospital, many news outlets have depicted the event in a way that evades any American responsibility.
Norton, Ben: New York Times Admits it Sent Story to Government for Approval
The American paper of record just provided a major example of the symbiotic relationship between U.S. corporate media and the government
Published: 2019
The NY Times' seeking approval for a recent story is part of a history of the mainstream media's collaboration with the US government.
Norton, Ben: Operation Condor 2.0: After Bolivia coup, Trump dubs Nicaragua 'national security threat' and targets Mexico
Published: 2019
One successful coup against a democratically elected socialist president is not enough, it seems. Immediately after overseeing a far-right military coup in Bolivia on November 10, the Trump administration set its sights once again on Nicaragua, whose democratically elected Sandinista government defeated a violent right-wing coup attempt in 2018.
Norton, Ben: Russiagate media smears against Corbyn brought to you by US and UK military-intelligence apparatus
Published: 2019
The popular socialist leader of Britain's Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, could be on the verge of becoming prime minister of the United Kingdom. And the mere possibility is terrifying British intelligence services and the US government.
Norton, Ben: Twitter spreads paid US government propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads
Published: 2020
Twitter says it bans ads from state-affiliated media outlets. However, US government propaganda organs like Voice of America’s VOA Persian pay the social media corporation huge sums of money to spread disinformation against Iran and other foreign adversaries.
Norton, Ben: Twitter spreads paid US government propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads
Published: 2020
On allegations that Twitter has demonstrated bias in favor of US government and its interests, with regards to policies on state-backed media outlets.
Norton, Ben: Under Israeli Apartheid, Palestinians Cannot Ride Israeli Buses
Never Equal
Published: 2014
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has officially banned Palestinians from traveling on Israeli-run public transportation in the West Bank. The new apartheid law dictates that Palestinians cannot take buses that go from central Israel to the West Bank.
Norton, Ben: Venezuela Coup Leader's Oil Plans Revealed: Guaidó Hopes to Privatize State-Controlled Industry
Published: 2019
Juan Guaidó and his economic advisers have a plan to privatize the country's petroleum industry. This privatization scheme will be difficult to implement, however, since he is not in power.
Norton, Ben: Wikipedia formally censors the Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing
Published: 2020
On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates and right-wing Venezuelan opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media outlets like The Grayzone on explicitly political grounds, violating the encyclopedia’s guidelines.
Norton, Ben: Wikipedia formally censors the Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing
Published: 2020
On the blacklisting campaign of certain independent new sites launched by a small group of Wikipedia editors.
Norton, Ben; Blumenthal, Max: Meet Wikipedia's Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation's regime-change operative CEO
Published: 2020
Wikipedia has become a bulletin board for corporate and imperial interests under the watch of its Randian founder, Jimmy Wales, and the veteran US regime-change operative who heads the Wikimedia Foundation, Katherine Maher.
Norton, Ben; Greenwald, Glenn: Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group
Published: 2016
The Washington Post on Thursday night promoted the claims of a new, shadowy organization that smears dozens of U.S. news sites that are critical of U.S. foreign policy as being "routine peddlers of Russian propaganda."
Norton-Taylor, Richard: MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal
Published: 2015
MI5 targeted the Nobel prize-winning author Doris Lessing for 20 years, listening to her phone conversations, opening her mail and closely monitoring her movements, previously top secret files reveal. The files show the extent to which MI5, helped by the Met police special branch, spied on the writer, her friends and associates.
Nosheen, Habiba; Rosen, Ira; Whitaker, Bill: 60 Minutes: Stolen Data Shakes Swiss Banking to its Core
Published: 2015
60 Minutes' Bill Whitaker investigates the biggest leak in Swiss banking history and examines HSBC's business dealings with a collection of international outlaws.
Nosowitz, Dan: What Are Your Options Now For Secure Email?
Published: 2014
It's shockingly, disturbingly easy for the government to snoop on your emails. Here are your weapons in the fight for your email privacy.
Notopoulos, Katie: 19 Cats Who Need To Check Their Privilege
Social justice isn’t just for humans.
Social justice isn’t just for humans.
Novis, Melanie: Mastering the Teleprompter
Published: 2010
Mastering the teleprompter can be learned by using ten easy steps.
Noy, Orly: The roots of Israel's most racist law
Published: 2016
Israel’s most draconian laws may have been passed by the current right-wing government, but the stage was set long ago by the Israeli Left. With a majority of 65 votes, the Knesset approved last week the extension of an order to prevent family reunification in Israel. Of Palestinian families, of course. Jews are welcome to continue and reunify as much as they please.
Noy, Orly: What would you do if soldiers dragged your son out of bed in the middle of the night?
Published: 2018
After more than half a century of occupation, most Israelis can no longer imagine themselves in the place of the Palestinians. But if we cannot imagine what it is like to live under occupation, we must at least confront its brutal reality.
Null, Gary; Polonetsky, Richard: Seeds of Death: Unveiling The Lies of GMOs
Published: 2012
An exposition of the massive public health dangers associated with genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Nunes, Rodrigo: The Realist's Dilemma
Published: 2016
Brazil's Workers' Party thought accommodating capital could save them. That was a grave mistake.
Nunns, Alex: The one thing that won't stop terror is more war
Published: 2015
Provoking retaliation is a key part of the jihadists' strategy, writes Alex Nunns - we need a different approach.
Nunns, Alex: The unspun Jeremy Corbyn
Nobody expected a veteran, rebel leftwing MP to be elected to lead the UK labour Party. It's going to be hard for him to manage his own
Published: 2015
A look at the rise in popularity of Jermey Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party, and the challenges he faces from the broader British public and from within his own party.
Nunns, Cain: Riding a wave of economic growth
Asian charities, awash with cash, are filling the gap left by the west
Published: 2011
Asian charitable organizations have grown in number and capacity in recent years, partly filling the gap left by western organizations and donors that have been crippled by the recession.
Nussbaum, Martha: The Professor of Parody
Published: 2000
It is difficult to come to grips with Judith Butler’s ideas because it is difficult to figure out what they are.
Nutall, Jeremy J.: Canada Should 'Get Tough' on Political Crimes, Say Watchdogs
Four needed crackdowns, starting with illegal surveillance and electoral crime.
Published: 2015
A new round of Conservative Party advertisements return to a familiar tough-on-crime refrain.
Nuttall, Jeremy J.: TPP a Gift to Plutocrats? Canada's Trade Minister Wrote the Book on Them
Published: 2015
Canada's new trade minister has sitting on her desk the sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal some say will accelerate the gap between rich and poor by protecting corporations' interests over those of workers and governments.
Nyabola, Nanjala: Wangari Maathai was not a good woman. Kenya needs more of them.
Published: 2015
25 September, 2015 marked four years since the passing of Kenyan environmentalist and feminist icon, Wangari Maathai. In Kenya, the celebrations were notably muted as her standing in the country has been ambiguous. Maathai challenged the notion of Kenyan women, who are forced to pretend to be "good" to satisfy societal expectations.

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O Croidheain, Caoimhghin: Language Wars
Published: 2017
Issues of language are examined, in particular the maintenance of power by a linguistic or political majority through imposition of linguistic norms and beliefs on a minority.
O'Brien, Aidan: Ireland Continues to Remember 1916 and Continues to Betray It (With Some Canadian Help)
Published: 2016
Do you remember Ireland’s 1916 commemorations in late March? Do you remember the spectacle? Do you remember all those fighting words and strong images of national independence and national justice? The attention of the world was on Dublin for a few days and Dublin played the part of the rebel city. Well it was all a bit too real and too popular. And for that reason it had to be officially repressed as soon as possible.
O'Brien, Aidan: Mao: Monster or Model?
Published: 2016
The world’s premier business newspaper the Financial Times (Japanese owned) has the answer: Mao was the worst ever. The worst ever what? If he was a monster that would be fine because monsters don't exist. Revolutions do though and that's the gripe of the Financial Times. That's the story. Revolution or Maoism is back in the Chinese air – if it ever went away. So Mao is still a threat even if he has been dead for forty years. He's still a model.
O'Brien, Aidan: The Politics of Terror Mirrors the Politics of Heroin
Published: 2017
While terrorist activities of ISIS in the West are describes as blowback. a more sinister connection than ‘guilt by association’ comes to the surface if we analyse Western elite behaviour elsewhere.
O'Brien, Danny: For journalists, danger lurking in your email
Published: 2012
Citizen Lab provided a disturbing look into the likely use of a commercial surveillance program, FinFisher, to remotely invade and control the computers of Bahraini activists. After the software installs itself onto unsuspecting users' computer, it can record and relay emails, screenshots, and Skype audio conversations.
O'Brien, Danny: Mexican Protest Site Censored by GoDaddy -- with the U.S. Embassy's Help
Published: 2014
The Mexican website 1dmx.org, was set up in the wake of a set of controversial December 1st 2012 protests against the inauguration of the new President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto. For a year, the site served as a source of information, news, discussion and commentary from the point of view of the protestors.
O'Brien, Danny: Microsoft, piracy, and independent media in Kyrgyzstan
Published: 2010
Selective enforcement of alleged software infringement is being used with some frequency in the former Soviet republics as cover to harass independent media. Local law enforcement officials have been given broad powers, in the name of fighting piracy, to raid premises and seize hardware. For the most part, Western companies and governments have encouraged this broadening of powers.
O'Brien, Danny: No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans' Privacy
Published: 2015
The spread of knowledge about the NSA's surveillance programs has shaken the trust of customers in U.S. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple: especially non-U.S. customers who have discovered how weak the legal protections over their data is under U.S. law.
O'Brien, Danny: Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance
Published: 2013
One of the trends we've seen is how, as the word of the NSA's spying has spread, more and more ordinary people want to know how (or if) they can defend themselves from surveillance online. With a few small steps, you can make that kind of surveillance a lot more difficult and expensive, both against you individually, and more generally against everyone.
O'Brien, Danny: The 10 Tools of Online Oppressors
Published: 2011
The world’s worst online oppressors are using an array of tactics, some reflecting astonishing levels of sophistication, others reminiscent of old-school techniques. From China’s high-level malware attacks to Syria’s brute-force imprisonments, this may be only the dawn of online oppression.
O'Brien, Danny: Your Apps, Please? China Shows how Surveillance Leads to Intimidation and Software Censorship
Published: 2016
Now China has taken the next step. In November, a select group of Xinjiang residents found their mobile phone service abruptly terminated. Their phone service providers told them to visit their local police station to have the service restored. When contacted, the police told them that they had been detected using a VPN, or downloading foreign messaging software. Remove the software, the police said, and you'll get your connection back.
O'Connor, Billy: The Death of the Fourth Estate
8000 Channels With One Corporate Message
Published: 2014
According to a recent Gallup survey, only 40 percent of Americans believe what they read in newspapers. After scanning today’s tabloids, one only wonders why the percentage is that high.
O'Connor, Jenny: Colombia's Agent Orange?
Roundup Not Ready
Published: 2012
A core element of U.S. anti-drugs policy in Colombia has been the destruction of coca fields by aerial chemical fumigation thus impacting the cocaine trade at its source. The continuation of this policy is based on three core myths: (1) That fumigation can target coca fields with pinpoint accuracy; (2) That the chemical used is harmless to humans and the environment; and (3) that aerial chemical fumigation is an effective method of eradicating coca cultivation.
O'Connor, Mike: Special Report: Reporting, and Surviving, in Ciudad Juarez
Published: 2009
In one of Mexico#s most dangerous cities, reporting the news requires extreme caution. Self-censorship and manipulation of the news are constants.
O'Connor, Roisin: Cambridge University students given trigger warnings for Shakespeare plays
Academics say degree of sensitivity will 'curtail academic freedom'
Published: 2017
Warnings to Cambridge students regarding violence in course materials brings about discussion over student development and ultimately academic freedom and censorship.
O'Doherty, Cahir: Galway historian reveals truth behind 800 orphans in mass grave
Published: 2014
There is a growing international scandal around the history of The Home, a grim 1840's workhouse in Tuam in Galway built on seven acres that was taken over in 1925 by the Bon Secours sisters, who turned it into a Mother and Baby home for "fallen women." The long abandoned site made headlines around the world this week when it was revealed that a nearby septic tank contained the bodies of up to eight hundred infants and children, secretly buried without coffins or headstones on unconsecrated ground between 1925 and 1961.
O'Grady, Cathleen: Migration to America took long enough for evolution to happen on the way
Published: 2017
Similarities in Native American genomes suggest adaptation in ancient history.
O'Keefe, Derrick: Alarm sounded as TransCanada set to drill in Bay of Fundy
Published: 2015
An open letter was released by 20 groups in New Brunswick opposed to TransCanada's plans to begin drilling in the Bay of Fundy. The procedure has the potential to hurt resident's foundations and drinking water, along with the natural environment.
O'Keefe, Derrick: Proof of concept: An insurgent left can achieve electoral success - even in Canada
Published: 2017
The article looks at Vancouver's current political climate on the municipal level. Jean Swanson's recent support placed her in second place in a civic election, and demonstrates the city's shift to the centre - left.
O'Keefe, Derrick; Hussain, Jahanzeb: The radical legacy of Nelson Mandela
Published: 2013
In 1964, Nelson Mandela along with many other comrades in the struggle for the liberation of South Africa from racist white domination under apartheid was sentenced to life in prison. A voice for justice has gone silent. But the words and example of Mandela will live as long as people struggle against injustice and oppression.
O'Neil, Luke: Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead
Published: 2015
On Wednesday, 12 human beings were massacred in Paris. The motivation for the attack, it appears, was retaliation for the typically religiously offensive cartoons published by the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo. But if you listen to our leaders, they weren't the real targets here. It was something ineffable and harder to define: freedom of speech.
O'Neill, Brendan: How the trans ideology dehumanises women
Grace Lavery's bonkers book shows just how sexist trans thinking has become.
Published: 2022
I've seen some gaslighting in my time, but the new book from transgender professor Grace Lavery takes the biscuit. It is almost entirely about Lavery's penis - as confirmed by its title, Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis - and yet if any of you dare to refer to Lavery as a man you will be branded a bigot.
O'Neill, Kirstie; Friday, Adrian: Crossing a chasm slowly, in ten small steps? Sustainable living demands big changes
Published: 2015
A call to re-engineer our infrastructure, re-imagine society and re-think the ways we live for disruptive, transformative change - rather than tinkering at the margins of 'normality'. Transitioning to sustainability will require profound changes in our everyday ways of living, particularly in westernised countries. It requires changes that are much more significant than simply doing the things that we currently do, but more efficiently.
O'Toole, Megan; Wilson, Nigel: Broken Homes
Published: 2017
In East Jerusalem, home to 300,000 Palestinians, Israel has been using home demolition as a tool to control the population. Following what some have described as a "third Intifada" in 2015, Al Jazeera started monitoring the policy of home demolitions in occupied East Jerusalem and how it was being enforced -- 2016 was documented to be a record year. Al Jazeera presents an extensive month by month report with graphs, video and photographs.
Oakes, James: The War of Northern Aggression
Published: 2012
A leading Civil War historian challenges the new orthodoxy about how slavery ended in America.
Oberg, Jan: Just How Gray Are the White Helmets of Syria?
Published: 2016
While thousands of humanitarian organisations around the world are struggling fiercely with diminishing support from governments and the public, one has achieved a surprising amount of support from Western governments in a surprisingly short period of time and gained a surprising attention from mainstream media and ditto political elites: The Syrian Civil Defence or White Helmets.
Oberst, Lindsay: Why India's first 100% organic state matters
Published: 2016
In a mountainous region in eastern India, Sikkim is now a 100% organic state, with no chemical pesticides or fertilizers and no GMOs. This matters because it shows that organic food in an entire region is possible. Now, other people in India and throughout the world are learning from Sikkim's success, and beginning to ask, "Could organic food succeed in other areas, too?"
Oborne, Peter: It's time to judge Assad's Aleppo campaign by the standards that we set ourselves in Mosul
Published: 2016
We judge Assad by one set of rules, and ourselves and our own allies by another.
Ocampo, Daniel: Golden Rice ignores the risks, the people and the real solutions
Published: 2013
'Golden Rice' is being promoted by GM advocates as a solution to malnutrition. But Daniel Ocampo says it is for the 'target populations' in the Philippines and elsewhere to decide whether to accept the technology - and they don't want it!
Ochs, Richard: The 16 Biggest Lies the U.S. Government Tells America About the Ukraine War
Published: 2022
In any war, the first casualty is truth. Here, according to Richard Ochs, are the biggest lies.
Ofir, Jonathan: Israeli rabbi who advocated rape of 'comely gentile women' during war becomes chief army rabbi
Published: 2016
“New IDF Chief Rabbi: in times of war it is permissible for soldiers to "have sex with comely gentile women against their will".
Ofrias, Lindsay: Ecuadoreans Won't Back Down in Fighting Chevron-Texaco Over Amazon Oil Disaster
Published: 2017
A class-action lawsuit first filed in 1993 against Chevron-Texaco has taken its toll on the lawyers and Ecuadorean people seeking justice for environmental damage. Hope for justice and healing drives people to not give up.
Ohlmann, Hans-Armin: My Longest Day: How World War II Ended for My Family
Published: 2018
An essay excerpted from Hans-Armin Ohlmann's memoirs, which recounts his experiences growing up in Germany during the Second World War.
Oldham, Taki (director): The Billionaires' Tea Party
Published: 2010
Both a journey through a unique moment in American history and a thoroughly researched piece of investigative journalism. Through an examination of astroturfing and disinformation, we see how citizen democracy has been captured by powerful corporate interests that threatens not only the heath of American democracy, but that of its citizens and the planet as a whole.
Oliveira, Marlene: Ten ways your nonprofit can start - or might already be - delivering content marketing
Published: 2014
This is a list of several ways in which non-profits can promote their message. This article also contains some information on the effectiveness of each method. There are some tips on creating a marketing plan as well.
Ollman, Jewish: Letter of Resignation from the Jewish People
Olsen, Dave: Next Door to BC, the Bus Is Free
Published: 2007
Olsen writes about his experience with fare-free transit on Whidbey Island, debunking myths about the inefficiency, impracticality, and unsustainability of such a system.
Olsen, Dave: No Hassle Transit? Try Hasselt
Published: 2007
A consideration of Belgium's transit infrastructure and fare-free system implementation as a model for BC to draw upon.
Olsen, Dave: Paying for 'Free' Transit
Published: 2007
Olsen discusses the politics surrounding funding options for transit systems outside of passenger fare to support a fare-free system and proposes shifting spending costs towards avenues that favour riders and transit needs rather than corporate needs, in order to improve service.
Olsen, Dave: 17 Reasons (or More) to Stop Charging People to Ride the Bus
Published: 2007
Olsen outlines a proposal for how to implement a fare-free transit system using already existing examples from around the world that are supported by their level of success and positive effects on their societies, environment, and customer satisfaction.
Olsen, Dave: 17 Reasons (or More) to Stop Charging People to Ride the Bus
The case for Fare-Free Transit
Published: 2007
The time has come to stop making people pay to take public transit. Why do we have any barriers to using buses, trolleys, SkyTrain? The threat of global warming is no longer in doubt. The hue and cry of the traffic jammed driver grows louder every commute.
Olsen, Gunar: Media Rally Around 'Forever War' in Afghanistan
Published: 2019
A round up of some of the alarmist reporting on supposed withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
Olson, Peter: What Los Angeles Teachers Won
Published: 2019
A Los Angeles teacher's take on the successful strike.
Oltermann, Philip: Bug spotting: Germans hold 'nature walks' to observe rare NSA spy
Published: 2014
'Nature' walks leading protests against digital surveillance.
Oltermann, Philip: Revealed: how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis
German historian shows how news agency retained access in 1930s by promising not to undermine strength of Hitler regime
Published: 2016
The Associated Press news agency entered a formal cooperation with the Hitler regime in the 1930s, supplying American newspapers with material directly produced and selected by the Nazi propaganda ministry, archive material unearthed by a German historian has revealed.
Omatsu, Maryka: My Husband Died With Dignity. Everyone Should Have That Right.
Published: 2022
Frank Cunningham, the love of my life for over fifty years, died of acute leukemia on February 4, 2022, at age eighty-one. Frank died as he wished: through the Canadian medical assistance in dying (MAID) program, at home in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), lying on our living room sofa, with me holding his hands.
Omer, Mohammed: Gaza: Israel bombs water and sewage systems
If this situation continues Gaza residents will be subjected to a humanitarian crisis even worse than the immediate one of trying to survive
Published: 2014
Israel's armed forces have destroyed vital water and sewage infrastructure in their bombing campaign of the besieged territory. This constitutes a severe breach of the 1977 Protocol to the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the part of Israel and all those conceiving, planning, ordering and perpetrating the attacks.
Operaista, Gayge: A critique of anti-assimilation
Published: 2011
In this piece, Gayge Operaista critiques how anti-assimilation politics of many radical queer tendencies ignores class struggle, and recasts queer liberation in terms of the class struggle, countering the worst excess of identity politics with an introduction to models of class struggle.
Ophan, Kenn: Humans Nature and the Illusion of Separateness
Published: 2021
One of the biggest lies that people in the global north were sold and have largely internalized is that we are separate from the biosphere from which we evolved and on which we depend upon for our very survival. Even as we stand on the precipice of ecological collapse, human supremacy over nature has been the unchallenged narrative.
Opoku, Kwame: Return of stolen skulls by Germany to Namibia: Closure of a horrible chapter?
Published: 2012
The Namibia-Germany case is being keenly observed by other African peoples and states with unresolved issues relating to the colonial era.
Oppenheimer, Marty: Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview
Published: 2015
The Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, better known as "Freedom Summer," brought in volunteers to help with attempts to register Black voters who had long been prevented by chicanery and terror from doing so. At the same time, in view of the miserable conditions in the state's segregated public schools, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) planned to create "freedom schools" in which volunteers (mostly the whites from the North) would, that summer, teach Black young people in subjects ranging from basic education to Black history and leadership skills.
Opsahl, Kurt: Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein's "Responsible Encryption" Demand is Bad and He Should Feel Bad
Published: 2017
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein delivered a speech about what he calls "responsible encryption" today. It misses the mark, by far.
Opsahl, Kurt: Warrant Canary Frequently Asked Questions
Published: 2014
A warrant canary is a colloquial term for a regularly published statement that a service provider has not received legal process that it would be prohibited from saying it had received. The following are some frequently asked questions about warrant canary.
Orange, Michelle: How Photography Can Destroy Reality
Published: 2015
It may be that some of the great philosophical work of our time is taking place, hidden and unheralded, in the field of image forensics. Where but under the scrutiny of digital experts who draw a line separating false representations of the world from truthful ones are contemporary questions of perception and reality brought so keenly to bear? Who but these detectives of the real pursue as explicitly-- as intricately-- our crime wave of the fake, the contrived, the uncanny, the exponential image?
Oransky, Ivan: Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
Published: 2016
The world, it seems, cannot get enough of Sokal-type hoaxes. A French journal, Sociétés, has retracted an article allegedly penned by one Jean-Marc Tremblay but actually written by two sociologists, Manuel Quinon and Arnaud Saint-Martin, who spoofed the work of the journal's editor, Michel Maffesoli.
Orphan, Kenn: The Amazon Chernobyl is a Warning for Us All
Published: 2021
From the Athabasca to the Niger Delta to the Ecuadorian Amazon, the fossil fuel industry, along with other extractive industries, are drenched in the blood of countless innocent people and responsible for ecological annihilation on a scale that is unimaginable.
Ortega, Oliver: As Pipeline Construction and Repression Grows, DAPL Protest is Looking More Like a Mass Movement
Published: 2016
A look at the escalating conflict between the DAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, and the native tribes and activists who are resisting it. The issue is centered around the construction of a pipeline which risks the destruction of a river that serves as a main water source to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and the more than 17 million people downriver.
Ortiz, Angelica: Indigenous resistance: my fight for land and life in Colombia
Published: 2017
On World Day of Indigenous Resistance, Wayúu woman ANGELICA ORITZ shares her experience as a human rights defender, living and fighting for the future of her community in the shadow of the largest opencast mine in Colombia.
Ortiz, Deigo Arguedas: Costa Rican Farmers Become Climate Change Acrobats
Published: 2014
José Alberto Chacón traverses the winding path across his small farm on the slopes of the Irazú volcano, in Costa Rica, which meanders because he has designed it to prevent rain from washing away nutrients from the soil.
Ortiz, Fabiola: Mundurukú Indians in Brazil Protest Tapajós Dams
Published: 2013
10 Mundurukú chiefs and 30 warriors made the trek to the capital of Brazil to demand the demarcation of their territory and the right to prior consultation in order to block the Tapajós hydroelectric dam, which could flood several of their villages.
Ortiz, Lu: One Woman Is Behind the Most Up-to-Date Interactive Map of Femicides in Mexico
Published: 2017
The interactive 'Femicides in Mexico Map' is a "citizen-led, civic, independent initiative based on open data which, using geographical coordinates, has been mapping cases of femicide since 2016.
Orwell, George: The Freedom of the Press
George Orwell's Proposed Preface to Animal Farm
Published: 1971
This essay was written as a preface to the first edition of Animal Farm but was never included in the published book and only discovered in the author's original typescript in 1971.
Orwell, George: George Orwell Quotes
Orwell, George: Such, Such Were The Joys
Published: 1952
George Orwell describes his experiences at an English boarding school which he attended from the age of eight to thirteen. According to Orwell, the school experience involved continual bullying, violence and sexual sadism, malnutrition, and hypocritical profession of moral principles which were contradicted by practice.
Osava, Mario: Indigenous People, the First Victims of Brazil's New Far-Right Government
Published: 2019
Anti-Indigenous sentiment in Brazil is emboldened by Bolsonaro's regime. This is leading to greater efforts by the government and agribusiness to seize Indigenous Lands.
Osava, Mario: Native Seeds Sustain Brazil's Semi-Arid Northeast
Published: 2017
More than a thousand homes that serve as "seed banks", and 20,000 participating families, make up the network organised by ASA to preserve the genetic heritage and diversity of crops adapted to the climate and semi-arid soil in Brazil’s Northeast.
Osborne, Samuel: 5 of the worst atrocities carried out by British Empire, after 'historical amnesia' claims
Published: 2017
A YouGov poll found 43 per cent of Brits thought the British Empire was a good thing, while 44 per cent were proud of Britain's history of colonialism. The Independent looks at five of the worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire.
Osman, Laura: Unhappy customer asked to sign legal agreement not to write a bad review
Contracting company offered cash rebate to Ottawa couple, but only if homeowners sign
Published: 2019
After a major kitchen renovation, an Ottawa couple say the contractor has refused to reimburse money they're owed unless they sign a legal agreement preventing them from publishing a negative review.
Ospina, Hernando Calvo: Dirty Water, Dirtier Practices
Ecuador's Battle with Texaco's Legacy Pollution
Published: 2014
Texaco (now owned by Chevron) left polluted soil and ground water after 20 years of oil extraction in the Amazon in Ecuador. The legal claims and counter-claims over responsibility and reparation continue.
Ostergaard, Anders: Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
Anders Ostergaard's award-winning documentary assembles footage smuggled out of Burma/Myanmar by an underground journalist group known as Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). The film explores how DVB members regularly put their lives at risk to reveal the realities of living under a brutal military occupation despite the government crackdown on free media and internet.
Otis, John: Fabricated attacks by Colombian journalists mask real dangers
Published: 2015
In a profession climate of threats, criminals and corrupt politicians, two journalists attempted to capitalize on the situation by sending fake death threats to their fellow reporters.
Ottenberg, Eve: Amid Plague, Sanctions are Genocide
Published: 2020
Sanctions have long been indefensible; now in the time of Covid-19, more so than ever. Nor are they some minor phenomena.
Ottenberg, Eve: The Case of Steven Donziger: Supreme Court Liberals Help Turn Judges into Prosecutors
Published: 2023
Criticizes the decision from seven of the nine justices of the Supreme Court of the United States to decline to hear Steven Donziger’s appeal of a criminal contempt decision involving his representation of Indigenous Ecuadorians against Chevron.
Ottenberg, Eve: How the Elites Use Identity Politics to Wage Class War
Published: 2022
I fail to perceive how this ideology menaces an established order that its identity-activists have unctuously and sedulously wooed. Worse, identity politics weakens worker solidarity, because it never mentions class.
Ottenberg, Eve: The Judicial Persecution of Steven Donziger
Published: 2021
in the U.S., a judge acts as prosecutor and jury on behalf of a giant oil company, Chevron, as it destroys the life and career of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger. His crime? Daring to win a judgment against Chevron in an Ecuadorian court. For those less enchanted with the U.S. justice system, this is no surprise.
Ottenberg, Eve: The "Kill a Leftist" Law
Published: 2021
So now it’ll be legal in some Neolithic U.S. states to run over leftists with your car.
Ottenberg, Eve: The West Can't Stop Pillaging Other Countries' Bank Accounts
Published: 2022
Leave your nation's money in a western bank, and it might not be yours for very long, especially if you in any way displease the U.S. and its client states.
Ouyang, Helen: Where Health Care Won't Go
A tuberculosis crisis in the Black Belt
Published: 2017
A look at the outbreak of tubercolosis in Alabama, where a significant proportion of the population lacks proper health care. While State reaction was swift the lack of attention to some communities persists, as do the conditions for outbreaks to reoccur.
Overbeek, Winnie; Pazos, Flavio: Disputed Territory
The green economy versus community-based economies
Published: 2012
A story of the peoples of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil, looking at what happens when so-called "green economy" projects move into the area, clearning the forest, and taking over the land.
Owolade, Tomiwa: The narcissism of America's race politics
The realities of black British lives were eclipsed by BLM
Published: 2022
in the aftermath of Floyd’s death, the catch-all framework of "Black Lives Matter" was imported to every corner of the planet, even though race relations are not the same throughout the world. They are instead mediated by a country's unique history and culture.
It was bizarre, watching the majority of liberal democracies use the example of America to make sense of race in their own countries.
Oxenham, Simon: Meet the Robin Hood of Science
Published: 2016
The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world. On September 5th, 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan, created Sci-Hub, a website that bypasses journal paywalls, providing access to nearly every scientific paper ever published immediately to anyone who wants it.
Ozkan, Kermal: Rio Tinto's 'sustainable mining' claims exposed
Rio Tinto uses its sustainability reporting to bolster the argument that it is a responsible company and therefore entitled to a license to
Published: 2014
Global mining giant Rio Tinto markets itself as a 'sustainable company'. But serious failures in its reporting, and its attempt to hold an Australian indigenous group to ransom, reveal a very different truth: the company is driven by a reckless pursuit of profit at any cost.

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Pablo, Carlito: Advocates Argue Free Transit Benefits Us All
Published: 2014
Pablo analyzes the economic, environmental, and social benefits that a fareless public transportation system would provide Canadian cities.
Padukone, Neil: The Unique Genius of Hong Kong's Public Transportation System
Published: 2013
Examining Hong Kong's "Value Capture" approach to public transportation.
Paine, Thomas: Thomas Paine Quotes
Pal, Amitabh: Indian Journalist Offers Harsh Critique of Globalization
Published: 2014
Palast, Greg; O'Kane, Maggie; Madlena, Chavala: UK urged to prevent vulture funds preying on world's poorest countries
Campaigners demand Jersey legal loophole be closed as financiers seek $100m from the DRC
Published: 2011
Britain is being urged to help close down a legal loophole that lets financiers known as "vulture funds" use courts in Jersey to claim hundreds of millions of pounds from the world's poorest countries.
Palast, Greg; O'Kane, Maggie; Madlena, Chavala: Vulture funds await Jersey decision on poor countries' debts
26 companies hope to double $1bn haul
Published: 2011
Pressure grows to end trade that has made $1bn for speculators but has been blamed for delaying recovery of war-torn countries.
Palatino, Mong: Pope Francis' Call to 'Hear Both the Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor' Resonates in the Philippines
Published: 2015
After Pope Francis' well publicized statement on the ecological crisis, his visit to Hurricane-stricken Philippines was met with applause and amazement. It's not everyday that a Pope breaks conservative conventions so publically.
Paley, Dawn: Guatemala: Peaceful Resistance in the Face of Violence
Published: 2012
Anti-mining activist speaks out for first time since being shot.
Palfrey, Jack: The Ancient Game That Saved a Village
Published: 2017
The village of Marottichal in India was rife with alcoholism and illicit gambling, but everything changed after one man taught the town to play the ancient game of chess.
Palley, Thomas: Ukraine: What Will Be Done and What Should Be Done?
Published: 2022
Palmer, Bryan D.: A Life Beyond Imagination - review of Searching for Sugar Man
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
A review of “Searching for Sugar Man”, Malik Bendjelloul directing.
Palmer, J. D.: Canada's state broadcaster CBC peddles lies and slanders about jailed journalist Julian Assange
Published: 2023
Following the calamitous ruling on December 10, 2021 by a British court to extradite Julian Assange to face espionage charges in the US, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired two reports, densely packed with hideous deceptions that lend support to Washington's efforts to persecute and silence the award-winning journalist.
Palumbo-Liu, David: Today's Trumbo: Try telling academic critics of Israel McCarthyism is behind us
Published: 2015
"Trumbo," starring Bryan Cranston as Academy Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, tells the sordid and tragic story of the anti-communist witch hunt commonly referred to as the "Red Scare," which involved the interrogation and prosecution of suspected communists. Its instrument in Congress was the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), created in 1938 and not officially disbanded until 1975, which subpoenaed individuals, put them on the stand, and demanded that they answer one key question, "Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?"
Panigrahi, Subhashish: Odia Wikipedia Set to Celebrate 13 Years of Volunteer Contributions
Published: 2015
Odia Wikipedia, one of the first of several Indian language Wikipedia projects, is ready to celebrate 13 years of free knowledge contribution on June 3.
Panigrahi, Subhasish: Eight Challenges Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to Overcome
Published: 2016
Even after a decade of existence, Indian language Wikipedias are not yet known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia, the largest available encyclopedia made in the human history, is what it is today because of the hundreds and thousands of volunteer editors. But while native-language Wikipedias are becoming game-changers in other corners of the world, the scenario in India is skewed.
Pappas, Michael: Capitalism is an Incubator for Pandemics: Socialism is the Solution
Published: 2020
Coronavirus is wreaking havoc across the world. Capitalism cannot adequately respond to a global health crisis. That's why we need socialism.
Pappe, Iian; Jaber, Samer: Ethnic Cleansing by All Means: The real Israeli 'peace' policy
Published: 2014
This policy of ethnic cleansing, by different means since 1948, is a consensual issue in Israel and thus leaves very little hope for peace and reconciliation. The current Israeli left, the self-acclaimed 'peace bloc', is willing to oppose new settlements but refuses to acknowledge the historical injustice inflicted on Palestinians in 1948 and denies displaced Palestinians their right to return to their homes and their homeland.
Pappe, Ilan: Finding the truth amid Israel's lies
Published: 2018
The famous – and by now overused – expression that history is written by the victors can be countered in many ways. One way is by unpacking the victors’ publications in order to expose the lies, fabrications and misrepresentations, as well as their less conscious actions. A rereading of these open sources about the Nakba, mostly written by Israelis themselves, unlocks fresh historiographical perspectives on the big picture of that period – while declassified documents allow us to see that picture in a higher resolution. This reprise could have been done at any moment between 1948 and today – as long as historians were willing to employ the critical lens needed for such an examination. Rereading these open sources, especially in tandem with the numerous oral histories of the Nakba, reveals the barbarism and dehumanization that accompanied the catastrophe. The barbarism is common to settler communities in the formative years of their colonization projects and can sometimes be obscured by the dry and evasive language of military and political documents.
Pappe, Ilan: To the family of the one thousandth victim of Israel's genocidal slaughter in Gaza
Published: 2014
This is 2014 — the destruction of Gaza is well documented. This is not 1948 when Palestinians had to struggle hard to tell their story of horror; so many of the crimes Zionist committed then where hidden and never came to light, even until today. So my first and simple pledge is to record, inform and insist on the truth. But surely this is not enough. I pledge to continue the effort to boycott a state that commits such crimes.
Papper, Bob: Future of News
Future of News Survey 2006
Published: 2006
A Study by The Radio Television News Directors Foundation, the report shows statistics for the use of television, radio and the internet.
Parameswaran, Gayatri; Gaedtke, Felix: Turning darkness to light in rural Romania
Published: 2016
Amidst reports of bribery and corruption in the energy sector, an estimated 100,000 households in Romania, a member state of the European Union since 2007, lack electricity.
Parampil, Anya: US State Department Publishes, then deletes sadistic Venezuela hit list boasting of economic ruin
Published: 2019
A fact sheet put out by the US State Department listing its "accomplishments" in Venezuela reads more like a confession of atrocities. The document was later withdrawn.
Parampil, Anya: Weaponizing human rights: UN chief Bachelet's Venezuela report follows US regime change script
Published: 2019
A report from the UN High Commissioner on the situation in Venezuela has been condemned by many sources as a political tool to justify the US's attempted regime change in that country.
Parent, Rachel; Mundie, Jessica: Meet the truckers: The men and women of the Freedom Convoy 2022
Published: 2022
The National Post spoke to truck drivers and supporters as they were driving to Ottawa for this weekend's "Freedom Convoy 2022" to protest vaccine mandates. Here is what they said about their jobs, their frustrations with government measures during the pandemic, and the rule that could kill their livelihoods.
Parenti, Christian: The Surprising Geography of Police Killings
Back-of-the-Napkin Calculations on Race, Region, and Violence
Published: 2020
Parenti, Enrico; Liberti, Stefano: Mozambique's farmers battle to keep land in Nakarari
Published: 2018
Parenti and Liberti examine the Nakarari community's ongoing resistance to commercial agricultural planning.
Parenti, Michael: Keeping the Rich Invisible: How Census Bureau Hides the Super-rich
Published: 1998
Of late much media attention has been given to the CEOs who rake in tens of millions of dollars annually in salaries and perks. But little is said about the tens of billions that these same corporations distribute to their affluent shareholders each year.
Parenti, Michael: Media Evasions
Published: 1998
We often think of the news media as sensationalistic and intrusive. In fact, the press's basic modus operandi is evasive rather than invasive.
Parker, Mike: The Election's Broader Impact
Published: 1999
THE HOFFA VICTORY in the Teamsters may be a bigger defeat, and in the long run potentially more disorienting, for the reform forces in the rest of the U.S. labor movement than in the Teamsters.
Parker, Mike: Soldiers of Solidarity - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 159
Published: 2012
From 1998 to 2009, Gregg Shotwell put out a series of leaflets entitled “Live Bait and Ammo” for workmates in response to immediate threats. Gregg’s writings grew in popularity and spread to other plants as workers sought to answer the flood of company, media, and politicians’ propaganda that blamed autoworkers for the seeming implosion of the industry. In the vacuum left by the union, Gregg provided a union viewpoint.
Parker, Mike: A Tribute to Mario Savio and the FSM
Published: 1997
Mario Savio was a brilliant leader because he was careful to lay out the principles and choices before you. To follow Mario was to make your own choice, to know what you were doing and take responsibility for yourself.
Parker, Nicholas: A Short History of Black Voter Suppression
Published: 2012
The Right's organized movement to suppress the votes of African Americans and Latin Americans, and the urban and rural poor by means of the passing of voter ID (Poll Tax) laws in states receives no mention in the dominant media.
Parkin, Scott: The liberal climate agenda is doomed to failure
Published: 2014
Liberal environmentalism represents a dangerous delusion, writes Scott Parkin - that 'playing nice' with Earth-destroying corporations and politicians can yield results worth having. Radical change on climate will only result from bold, confrontational direct actions against the fossil fuel industries and their apologists.
Parkin, Scott: Reflections on the Corporate Security State
"He's nuts. Like out there."
Published: 2013
Wikileaks began releasing millions of emails from anonymous hacks of the intelligence firm Stratfor, a global intelligence provider. Stratfor staff are very interested in organizations such as the Rainforest Action Network (RAN).
Parkin, Scott: When We Fight, We Fuck Shit Up: Keystone XL and Delegitimizing Fossil Fuels
Published: 2015
Keystone XL had become a household name when over 1200 people participated in two weeks of sit-ins at the White House demanding that Barack Obama reject the pipeline.
Parkin, Simon: 1,000 Days of Syria – Turning War Journalism into a Game
Published: 2014
How an American journalist is attempting to tell the story of Syria’s conflict through an online adventure game.
Parks, Rosa: Rosa Parks Quotes
Parr, Nora: Moving forward while celebrating Palestinian art's past
Published: 2016
Unlike Other Springs, on display at the Birzeit University Museum in the occupied West Bank through the end of June, pulls off the heavy feat of looking back while moving forward. Conceived as both a celebration and retrospective, the exhibition is guest curated by the museum's formidable founder, the renowned artist Vera Tamari, who oversaw its transformation from the Ethnographic and Art Museum at Birzeit University into the center of contemporary Palestinian and international art that it is today.
Parrish, Will: Cap and Clear-Cut
Published: 2016
Jerry Brown basked in adulation during his whirlwind trip to Paris, and the evening of December 8 figured to offer more of the same. Standing alongside governors of states and provinces from Brazil, Mexico, and Peru, California's governor planned to tout his state's leadership role on global climate policy. The event was one of 21 presentations that Brown delivered during a five-day swing through France during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21). His busy schedule included a stately private meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and presentations at events organized by the French, German, Chinese, and US governments.
Parry, Max: Democrats impeach Trump for Withholding Arms to Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Published: 2020
That the Democrats are not impeaching Trump for an actual unconstitutional offense like the diverting of military funds to his border wall without congressional approval is revealing of its true motivations. Trump only crossed a line when he went after another member of the political establishment and fleetingly halted the U.S. war machine in its aggression toward Moscow.
Parry, Max: Fact-Checking the Establishment's 'Fact-Checkers': How the 'Fake News' Story is Fake News
Published: 2018
A look at the introduction of "Fake News" in the US and how is was used by both political parties in the lead-up to the 2016 US election, and moreover how it was propogated by the mainstream media and fact-checked by dubious verification sources.
Parry, Nat: Anti-Trump Anxiety Ignores History
Published: 2024
Given the track record of U.S. authoritarianism, Nat Parry says it’s not surprising that Democrats’ calls for resisting the incoming Trump dictatorship ring hollow for many Americans.
Parry, Robert: Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
Published: 2017
The U.S. government and the mainstream media have rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities, reports Robert Parry.
Parry, Robert: NYT Advocates Internet Censorship
Published: 2016
The New York Times wants a system of censorship for the Internet to block what it calls "fake news," but the Times ignores its own record of publishing "fake news."
Parry, Robert: Russia-gate Breeds 'Establishment McCarthyism'
Published: 2017
Russia-gate provides cover for an Establishment attack on Internet freedom and independent news, while traditional defenders of a free press and civil liberties are joining the assault or staying on the sidelines.
Parry, Robert: Wretched US Journalism on Ukraine
Published: 2015
The most dangerous violation of journalistic principles has occurred in the Ukraine crisis, which has the potential of a nuclear war.
Parsons, Renee: NATO - New York Times Convoy Fabrications
Published: 2014
On Saturday, the entire humanitarian convoy of 227 trucks crossed back into Russia without incident after having successfully delivered its contents to the Luhansk distribution centre. The unwavering round trip project from Russia surmounted considerable bureaucratic delays and political obstacles including wild assertions that the convoy’s true purpose was to ‘smuggle weapons’ to the east Ukraine rebels.
Parvaz, D: Journalists allege threat of drone execution by US
Published: 2017
Fearing assassination, Al Jazeera's Ahmad Zaidan and independent journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem file US legal complaint.
Passaro, Vince: Framing The Shadows
The luminary vision of W. Eugene Smith
Published: 2017
A look at the life and work of American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith, who is particularly noted for his brilliant photo essays that chronicled suffering and injustice.
Pasti, Liberti: Israeli spyware being used to monitor Indonesian LGBT community, religious minorities
Published: 2018
A look at the company and spyware product that is used by various institutions to monitor the activities of the LGBT community and religious minority groups in Indonesia.
Patankar, Prachi: Adivasi Movements in India: An Interview with Poet Waharu Sonavane
Published: 2012
Waharu is a Bhil Adivasi, long-time poet and activist. Since the 1970s, he has been organizing for Adivasi self-sufficiency among his community near his hometown in western India.
Patel, Nisha: Is your boss tracking you while you work?
Some Canadians are about to find out
Published: 2022
In Ontario, employers must now disclose if they have been using productivity tracking software to keep tabs on their employees. Experts say while this may address transparency concerns, businesses should be tracking output instead.
Patel, Pragna: Sharia 'Courts': Why Regulation is Not the Answer
'Sharia' and other religious systems of arbitration are back in the news once again. There appears to be growing recognition of the profoundly discriminatory nature of religious arbitration systems which relegate Muslim and other minority women to second rate systems of justice. But is regulation the answer?
Patel, Pragna: The Sharia debate in the UK: who will listen to our voices?
Published: 2016
Over 300 abused women have signed a statement opposing Sharia courts and religious bodies, warning of the growing threat to their rights and to their collective struggles for security and independence.
Patel, Pragna: 'Shariafication by stealth' in the UK
Published: 2014
Access to justice is being denied in the UK in the shadow of neoliberalism and religious fundamentalism. Minority women are being denied the right to participate in the wider political community as citizens rather than subjects.
Patel, Raj: Martin Luther King Jr's Radicalism Muted by MLK Archives' Corporate Sponsors
Published: 2014
The MLK Archive, sponsored by JPMorgan Chase and Co., omits Martin Luther King Jr's speech delivered at Carnegie Hall on February 23, 1968 on the 100th anniversary of W.E.B Du Bois' birth. The speech is included in its entirety here.
Patel, Yumna: 'Beita is undefeatable': Inside the struggle to save this Palestinian village from Israeli settlers
Published: 2021
In early May, a group of Israeli settlers arrived with caravans and set up an illegal outpost on the top of Jabal Sabih on the outskirts of Beita, in the northern occupied West Bank. Every single day since then, protests in the village have been nonstop.
Patel, Yumna: 231 Palestinians were killed in 2022. These are their stories.
Published: 2022
2022 was the deadliest year for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in decades. We kept a record of all those who were killed by Israeli state and settler violence. These are their names, faces, and stories.
Paterson, Kent: The Old Braceros Fight On
Published: 2016
Dozens of men assemble to remember their lives as contract guest workers in the United States and discuss the latest news or lack thereof in their decades-old movement to recover the 10 percent that was deducted from their paychecks and supposedly deposited in a savings account created for the return to Mexico under the old Bracero Program.
Patrick, Ed; Jones, Keith: Canada facilitated NSA spying on 2010 G8 and G20 summits
Published: 2013
Top secret US National Security Agency (NSA) briefing notes leaked by the former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden reveal that Canada’s Conservative government permitted the NSA to spy on the June 2010 G8 and G20 summits held in Huntsville, Ontario and Toronto.
Patrizio, Andy: Why you shouldn't trust Geek Squad ever again
The government reportedly pays Geek Squad technicians to dig through your PC
Published: 2017
The Orange County Weekly reports that the company's repair technicians routinely search devices brought in for repair for files that could earn them $500 reward as FBI informants. That, ladies and gentlemen, is about as blatant a case of unconstitutional search and seizure as it gets.
Patterson, Brent: TransCanada hires controversial PR firm to derail opposition to Energy East pipeline
Published: 2014
There are now multiple news articles that report Calgary-based TransCanada hired the controversial public relations firm Edelman in an attempt to derail growing public opposition to its proposed 1.1 million barrels per day Energy East tar sands pipeline.
Patterson, Thomas E.: Doing Well and Doing Good
How Softnews and Critical Journalism are Shrinking the News Audience and Weakening Democracy- And what News Outlets can do about it
Published: 2000
The News has changed greatly in the past two decades. In response to the intensensely competitive media environment created by cable, news and entertainment, news outlets have softened their coverage. Their news has also become increasingly critical in tone.
Patterson, Thomas E.: The Internet and the Threat it Poses to Local Media
Lessons from News in Schools
Published: 2007
Internet news is trumping both television news and local newspapers as a daily mode of classroom instruction. Furthermore, national and international news site, such as nytimes.com and bbc.com. are trumping local news sites in American news. These developments threaten the economic viabilityof local news outlets but also the special contribution they make to American democracy.
Patterson,Thomas E.: Creative Destruction
An Exploratory Look at News on the Internet
Published: 2007
Examines trends in Internet Based news traffic for the purpose of predicting future trends of news in America.
Paul, Ari: Censorship at a Jewish School Part of a Crisis for Free Expression
Published: 2024
The staff of the Boiling Point don’t consider themselves student journalists. They consider themselves journalists.
Paul, Ari: Foreign Agents Designation Causes Media Cold War
Published: 2022
Media based in countries the United States regards as enemies, such as Russia and China, even if they are privately owned, are required to register as "foreign agents." So are media which run reports critical of U.S. foreign policy, like Al Jazeera. Other state owned-media, like the BBC, CBC, Deutsche Welle, let alone Voice of America, are not required to register.
Paul, Ari: Georgia's RICO Law Is in the News -- but Its Use to Silence Protesters Gets a Pass
Published: 2023
Georgia’s RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) law, modeled on the federal statute designed to attack mob bosses, has been in the news a lot, ever since Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis used Georgia's law to charge former President Donald Trump and his associates with attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Paul, Ari: Stop-and-Frisk as a Policy of State Control Over Blacks and Latinos
Hobbes on Trial in New York City
Published: 2013
Nicholas Peart is one of the plaintiffs in the federal class action lawsuit against the New York Police Department’s policy of stop-and-frisk, where officers use their power to roam the streets and stop, search and question people they believe may be connected to crime. Their allegation is that the application of this method is racially biased and unconstitutional.
Paul, Ari: WSJ Rage at 'Woke' China Foreshadows New Redbaiting of Social Justice Activists
Published: 2021
The Wall Street Journal editorial board has accused a major Chinese newspaper, and by extension the People’s Republic of China, of exploiting progressive rhetoric around racial justice to create division in the United States.
Paul, Joan: Selling Skills for Contemporary Professionals
Published: 2008
Traditional sales training and for that matter, all learning and development is reinventing itself.
Paul, Katherine: Nine Out of 10 Americans Tested Positive for Monsanto's Cancer-Linked Weedkiller Glyphosate
A probable human carcinogen is found in far too many foods
Published: 2016
If you participated in the glyphosate test project launched last year by the Detox Project (formerly Feed The World) and Organic Consumers Association, you probably failed. A staggering 93 percent of Americans tested positive for glyphosate, according to the test results, announced on May 25, 2016.
Paul, Katherine; Cummins, Ronnie: US food industry: labelling laws are 'unconstitutional'
Published: 2014
A leaked document reveals plans by the US's Grocery Manufacturers Association to sue the first state that passes a GMO labeling law.
Paul, Radu: Open up as much dialogue with reporters in other countries as possible
Published: 2012
Paul Radu of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project walks his talk when it comes to sharing information and know-how. Here the Investigative Dashboard creator shares how he tracks down the money across borders.
Pauwels, Jacques: How General Winter Did Not Save the Soviet Union in 1941
Published: 2023
Pauwels, Jacques R.: Foreign Interventions in Revolutionary Russia
Published: 2018
All over Europe, the First World War had brought about a potentially revolutionary situation as early as 1917. In countries where the authorities continued to represent the traditional elite, exactly as had been the case in 1914, they aimed to prevent the realization of this potential by means of repression, concessions, or both.
Pauwels, Jacques R.: 75 Years Ago, the Battle of Stalingrad
Published: 2018
The impact of the Battle of Stalingrad was enormous. In Germany, the public was henceforth painfully aware that their country was heading towards an ignominious defeat, and countless people who had previously supported the Nazi regime now turned against it.
Pavlova, Radostina: Spread of knowledge in peril as Canada shuts federal department libraries
Published: 2014
Pazameta, Zoran: The Laws of Nature
A Skeptics Guide
Published: 2000
Pearce, Brad: Western Media's Blackout of Israel's "Hannibal Directive"
Published: 2024
In the time since the October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel there have been suggestions both from within Israel and from alternative media elsewhere that Israel used a version of a military protocol known as "The Hannibal Directive" that day, and perhaps has continued to operate upon that protocol since.
Pearson, Tamara: Clickbait v Political Impact: Alternative Journalism as Social Media Becomes the New News Source
Published: 2016
In first world countries, Facebook and Twitter are fast becoming the main places where people come across their news -- ahead of television and news sites. "Success" is becoming about the number of reads, shares, likes, upvotes, and re-tweets -- making it easy to lose sight of what really defines the usefulness of an article: political impact.
Peck, Raoul (Director): Fatal Assistance
Published: 2012
Documentary of the failures of aid to post-earthquake Haiti.
Peebles, Graham: Corporate India Versus Indigenous People
Violent in the Name of Development
Published: 2013
The state has more or less abandoned rural people (70% of the population) and turned the countryside over to corporate India. Mineral extraction, dam building, infrastructure projects, water appropriation and industrial farming make up their burgeoning business portfolios.
Peebles, Graham: Daughters of India Violated and Abused
A Woman's Lot
Published: 2013
Widespread sexual abuse rapes the land and inflicts harm upon the women of India who are isolated from the emerging "New India".
Peebles, Graham: Filthy, deadly mayhem in India
Published: 2014
Along with the choking fumes and piles of putrid waste, sound systems and a constant bombardment of honking horns from cars, lorries and screaming buses assault residents and the unprepared in towns and cities throughout India.
Peebles, Graham: Grenfell Tower: A Disaster Waiting to Happen
Published: 2017
The Grenfell tower disaster is a consequence of social housing policies dating back to the 1980's.
Peebles, Graham: India: Growing Inequality and Destructive Development
Misery for the Many, Benefits for the Few
Published: 2013
Under the careful guidance of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund the Indian government has for the last twenty years or so, embraced market liberalization and the global market; garlanded corporations with all manner of subsidies and damned the poor to greater poverty, destitution, suffering and, suicide in the case of farmers.
Peebles, Graham: Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia
Killed Beaten Raped
Published: 2013
With few opportunities at home, millions of poor, desperate men and women from South East Asia and the horn of Africa migrate annually to Saudi Arabia. Vulnerable at home and vulnerable abroad where many are enslaved and badly abused, some killed.
Peebles, Graham: Public Spaces, Private Control
Published: 2018
A look at the commercialization of public spaces in Britain and elsewhere in the industrialized world, where gentrification and increasingly troubling privatization of public spaces goes largely unnoticed by a populace caught up in the day-to-day grind of living.
Peebles, Graham: The tragedy of being a girl in India
Published: 2015
India is the "most dangerous country in the world in which to be a girl". This is stated in a controversial United Nations finding based on a range of distressing social statistics rooted in gender and caste prejudice, much of which can be traced back to 18th century colonialism and the destructive 'divide and rule' methodology employed by the British.
Pelaez Vicky: GM crops: Hunger as the key to world domination
Published: 2013
Weapons and energy resources are apparently insufficient for total control over the world's nations, power-hungry globalists like David Rockefeller have come up with the idea of using people's daily need for food as a means to achieve global dominance.
Peled, Miio: Will Shireen Abu Akleh's Murder Mark a Turning Point in the Liberation of Palestine?
Published: 2022
As I write these words, the world is trying to make sense of the brutal assassination of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was targeted by Israeli forces while covering yet another Israeli assault on Jenin. Furthermore, Israeli forces have now attacked the funeral procession leading Shireen to her final resting place. One wonders why is anyone surprised.
Peled, Miko: My Nelson Mandela is dead
Published: 2022
The way to liberate the Palestinians from Israel requires replacing the apartheid regime known as "Israel" with a free, democratic Palestine – and not expecting that Israel itself will allow Palestinians to be free. Israel isn't just the perpetrator of the crime, it is, in and of itself, the crime. The existence of Apartheid Israel is the crime.
Peled, Milo: The Paradoxical Seeds of The Holocaust
Oppression and Death Live On in the Apartheid State
Published: 2022
It is becoming increasingly difficult for Israel and the agencies that promote Zionism around the world to portray Zionism in rosy colors. This is primarily because there is a history of close to 100 years of Zionism; and the actions of the Zionist State, Israel, have a history of seven and a half decades of violence and racism. To add to that, in February, Amnesty International came out with a damning report demonstrating in no uncertain terms that Israel is engaged in the crime of apartheid and has been since the day it was established.
Pelley, Chad: An Open Letter to CanLit about the Derogatory Term, "Small Press"
Published: 2012
We need the government to value Canadian publishing houses, and calling them “small presses” is not helping that cause.
Pelley, Lauren: How climate change gave added urgency to a $1.25B project to prevent flooding in Toronto
New river system being developed amid concerns about flooding, climate change
Published: 2019
For Toronto, preventing the next potentially disastrous flood is increasingly urgent. And it's a reality facing many Canadian communities as they try to brace for the impacts of a changing climate in the years ahead.
Pelley, Lauren: Parkdale tenants' campaign blames real estate agent for loss of rooming houses
Published: 2018
A look at 'displacement realty' in the Parkdale area of Toronto, where the selling affordable homes at inflated prices pushes new landlords into forcing out old tenants in order to increase rents.
Peltier, Leonard: 41 Years Since Jumping Bull (But 500 Years of Trauma)
Published: 2016
Leonard Peltier writes about his own case and about the 500 years of violence and injustice directed at indigenous peoples.
Peltier, Leonard: I Am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now
The Denial of My Parole
Published: 2009
Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence.
Pemberton, Nick: The Internet is Already Broken
Published: 2017
Nick Pemberton's article on the already broken internet.
PEN International: Chinese Efforts to Quash Human Rights Campaigns Rippling Out of Control, says PEN
Published: 2015
A string of disappearances and arrests of over 100 human rights lawyers in China in the past week is the boldest move yet in Beijing's sprawling campaign to destroy China's human rights movement.
Pen International: International press freedom organizations call on Burundi authorities to investigate attacks on journalists and human rights defenders
Published: 2015
Press freedom, media development and human rights organizations denounce the continued attacks on and threats to journalists, media workers and human rights defenders in Burundi, most recently the serious incidents in which human rights defender Pierre Claver Mbonimpa survived an attempt on his life while journalist Esdras Ndikumana was the victim of a brutal attack by police and intelligence officials.
PEN International: Kyrgyzstan: Anti-LGBTQI law passes second reading
Published: 2015
News that a law which will restrict positive discourse around sexual orientation has been passed in a second reading by the Kyrgyzstan parliament is deeply disappointing, PEN International and Central Asian PEN said today. PEN called on the Parliament not to pass the bill at its final reading.
PEN International: Reflecting on the plight of African journalists on World Refugee Day
Published: 2015
Two Ethiopian writers in exile; two victims of the repression of freedom of speech.
Pena, Devon G.: Ghostbusters, GMOs and the Feigned Expertise of Nobel Laureates
Published: 2016
Last week a controversy erupted just as the Roberts-Stabinow Digital Divide GMO labeling law was being discussed in the Senate. It involves a letter signed by 100+ Nobel laureates attacking Greenpeace for being "anti-scientific" in its stance against the proliferation and continued use of genetically engineered organisms.
Penner, David: American Teaching Hospitals: Where Pelvic Exams Under Anesthesia Happen
Published: 2017
Before undergoing a liver biopsy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, I asked my surgeon's nurse whether I was to be catheterized for the procedure. In response to this perfectly legitimate question the knave sardonically replied: "I'm really not supposed to say this, but what difference does it make? You're going to be under general anesthesia."
Penner, David: Humans and Subhumans: Weill Cornell and the Death of the American Soul
Published: 2017
All patients that walk through the door of Weill Cornell are put into two categories: the humans, who are deemed by Cornell to have "good insurance," and the subhumans, who are deemed by Cornell to have "bad insurance." If you fall into the category of the former, they will generally make a grudging effort to provide you with good care. If you fall into the category of the later, they will literally bend over backwards to see to it that you are provided with truly awful and atrocious care.
Pentz Gunter, Linda: Climate Deniers are More Dangerous Than Trump and More Deadly Than ISIS
Published: 2015
So Rep. Lamar Smith (D-Tx.) finally got his NOAA emails. What he really should get is a jail sentence for crimes against humanity. He, and the other climate deniers like him who hold positions of power, are arguably more dangerous than Donald Trump and more deadly than ISIS.
Penworthy, Peter: Royal greed and oppression sold as culture in Swaziland
Published: 2016
Swaziland’s King Mswati III passes suppression, unaccountability and royal opulent spending in the face of drought, starvation and poverty, as traditionally "Swazi" values. Sonkhe Dube, a young exiled activist, begs to differ.
Peppe, Matt: Alan Gross's Improbable Tales on 60 Minutes
Published: 2015
In a dramatic segment on CBS News' 60 Minutes titled "The Last Prisoner of the Cold War," former United States Agency for International Development (USAID) subcontractor Alan Gross tells of horrifying experiences in captivity: "They threatened to hang me, they threatened to pull out my fingernails, they said I'd never see the light of day."
Peppe, Matt: The Astounding Violence Of Israeli Colonialism
Published: 2014
Recently the world watched the horrific violence perpetrated inside Gaza, as 2,159 Palestinians - including 577 children, 263 women and 102 elderly - were killed during Israel's Operation Protective Edge over the course of 50 days. Zionist supporters, as usual, managed to rationalize the killing by blaming the victims, best exemplified by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nauseating claim that Hamas "want(s) to pile up as many civilian dead as they can because ... they use telegenically-dead Palestinians for their cause."
Peppe, Matt: Benign State Violence vs. Barbaric Terrorism
Published: 2015
The US and UK target for assassination civilians that allegedly have a connection with ISIS. Such operations are performed without a trial. Peppe discusses how the governments of these countries justify one form of extrajudicial killing while demonizing the murders that ISIS commits.
Peppe, Matt: The Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria
Published: 2015
Fair-and-balanced Fox News reported on Wednesday that "Cuban military operatives reportedly have been spotted in Syria, where sources believe they are advising President Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers and may be preparing to man Russian-made tanks to aid Damascus in fighting rebel forces backed by the U.S." Fox's claim of an imaginary enemy alliance relies on two sources: the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and an anonymous U.S. official.
Peppe, Matt: Israeli Cease Fire Violations and Media Propaganda
The Conquest of Palestine
Published: 2014
The Israeli conquest of Palestine has always been a difficult issue for Western mainstream media to cover. The difficulty lies not in the task of reporting the facts on the ground and transmitting an accurate depiction of them to the public, but in refraining from doing so.
Peppe, Matt: Media More Outraged by Possible Murder by Putin Than Definite Murder by Obama
Published: 2016
The British government, whose foreign policy is overtly hostile to their Russian counterpart, declared last week that their investigation into the killing of a former Russian intelligence agent in London nearly a decade ago concluded there is a "strong probability" the Russian FSB security agency was responsible for poisoning Alexander Litivenko with plutonium. They further declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin "probably approved" of the act.
Peppe, Matt: Media Promote Baseless Assertions By Government Officials Of Russian Interference As Facts
Published: 2017
The headline of a New York Times article published April 6, 2017, "C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed," misleadingly implies not only that there was an effort by the Russian government to help Donald Trump win the American presidential election but that it is a settled fact that the CIA was in possession of hard evidence to that effect.
Peppe, Matt: The New York Times Outrage at Trumps Refusal to Demonize Russia
Published: 2016
Donald Trump is criticized by the American media for behaving in a diplomatic manner towards Russia, as opposed to vilifying Russia.
Peppe, Matt: The New York Times Suddenly Embraces International Law To Condemn Russia
Published: 2016
As the Syrian Arab Army dug in for a fight against the self-declared Islamic State on September 17, they were struck by an air raid that killed 62 soldiers and injured 100 more. The culprit was a foreign military that has never been attacked by, and has not declared war on, Syria. Two weeks later, that same nation’s military killed 22 soldiers in a strike inside Somalia, another country which it had never been attacked by nor declared war on. The very next day the New York Times published a stinging editorial decrying flagrant violations of international law by an "outlaw nation."
Peppe, Matt: Political Prisoners Remain Behind Bars as Obama's Term Nears End
Published: 2017
In the last full week of Barack Obama's eight year tenure as President of the United States of America, dozens of political prisoners still sit in cages across the nation's prisons, rotting away as Obama consciously chooses not to exercise the power to simply free them with the stroke of a pen.
Peppe, Matt: The U.S.’s Terrorism Double Standard
The Vicious Campaign Against Cuba
Published: 2014
During the last 50 years, the United States has suffered from a constant stream of vicious terrorist acts.
Perelman, Michael: A Short History of Primitive Accumulation
From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel
Published: 2013
In Capital, Smith’s concept of “original accumulation” appeared as a word that could mean either original or primitive. Then in the English translation of the English translation of Capital “primitive accumulation” first appears.
Perez Eaquivel, Alfredo; Maguire, Mairead: Human Rights Watch's Revolving Door to US Government
A Letter from Nobel Peace Laureates
Published: 2014
Human Rights Watch characterizes itself as “one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.” However, HRW’s close ties to the U.S. government call into question its independence.
Perez-Rocha, Manuel: COP27
Corporate Courts Versus Developing World
Published: 2022
As rich countries move away from dispute-settlement mechanisms that give corporations power to block environmental protections, Manuel Pérez-Rocha says they keep imposing them on developing countries through trade pacts.
Peries, Sharmini; Hudson, Michael: The Financial Invasion of Greece
Published: 2016
Greece's economic crisis has perhaps been eclipsed by Europe's refugee crisis, terrorist attacks, and by the forthcoming Brexit referendum. But it has not gone away. Greece's Syriza coalition faced violence on the streets and a 3-day general strike last week that brought much of the country to a halt. In spite of the protests the government of Alexis Tsipras pushed through legislation to amend the country's tax and pension system with the backing of 153 MPs, a measure required by the lenders in order to continue the debt negotiations.
Peries, Sharmini; Hudson, Michael: The Wages of Neoliberalism
Poverty, Exile and Early Death
Published: 2016
Economist Michael Hudson says neoliberal policy will pressure U.S. citizens to emigrate, just as it caused millions to leave Russia, the Baltic States, and now Greece in search of a better life. A research team from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York estimates 875,000 deaths in the United States in year 2000 could be attributed to social factors related to poverty and income inequality.
Perlroth, Nicole: Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents
Published: 2012
Morgan Marquis-Boire works as a Google engineer and Bill Marczak is earning a Ph.D. in computer science. But this summer, the two men have been moonlighting as detectives, chasing an elusive surveillance tool from Bahrain across five continents.
Perpel, Rosie: Israeli hackers reportedly gave Cambridge Analytica stolen private emails of two world leaders
Published: 2018
Israeli hackers reportedly gave information from the hacked emails of two world leaders to Cambridge Analytica, the political-research company at the centre of a massive Facebook-data scandal.
Perrons, Diane; De Henau, Jerome: Investing in the care economy: a gender equitable alternative to austerity
Published: 2016
A new report by the United Kingdom (UK) Women’s Budget Group for the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) shows that sustained investment of public funds in childcare and eldercare services is worthwhile and that it is more effective in reducing public deficits and debt than austerity policies.
Perry, Charlie: 100,000 California Indians Killed During Gold Rush Genocide
Bloody Gold; the California Gold Rush and state sponsored genocide
Published: 2016
Legislation with roots in Manifest Destiny and dehumanization helped lead Euro-Americans to commit the greatest act of genocide in American history.
Perry, Hayden: The Fight for Leonard Peltier
Published: 1999
LEONARD PELTIER, A Native American class-war prisoner, has served twenty-three years in federal prisons for a crime he did not commit—and authorities admit they do not know who did it.
Perry, Hayden: Saga of the Neptune Jade
Published: 1998
ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1997, a container-ship sailed through the Golden Gate into San Francisco Bay and tied up at the Yusen Terminal in the port of Oakland. This precipitated an international drama that ranges from Liverpool, England, Vancouver, Canada, and on across the Pacific to Japan. The battle involves British, American, Canadian and Japanese longshoremen, college students, labor supporters, and the bosses' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA).
Perry, John; Sterling, Rick: How 'Virtual Crime Scenes' Became a Propaganda Tool in Nicaragua, Ukraine, and Syria
Published: 2022
Creating "virtual crime scenes" is a tool which enables establishment media such as the New York Times, the BBC or (in Spain) El Pais, to convey interpretations of the events which conveniently coincide with the way they are seen by the US government and its allies.
Perry, Megan: Bethlehem: 'No matter how many olive trees they destroy, will will plant more!'
The destruction of these ancient trees is the destruction of both the history and future of the Palestinian people.
Published: 2014
Since 1967, Israeli soldiers and 'settlers' in occupied Palestine have destroyed 800,000 olive trees in an attempt to force Palestinian farmers from their land, writes Megan Perry. 'Our response to this injustice will never be with violence, and we will never give up and leave.'
Peterman, Anne: The Need for Clear Demands at the Peoples' Climate March
Published: 2014
In New York City on September 21st, a major climate march is planned. It will take place two days before UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's UN Climate Summit -- a one-day closed door session where the world's "leaders" will discuss "ambitions" for the upcoming climate conference (COP20) in Lima Peru.
Peterman, Anne; Taylor, Steve: The Wild American Chestnut is on its Way Back
Published: 2022
There is a petition in front of the US Department of Agriculture requesting permission to release genetically engineered American chestnut trees into wild forests. However, naturalist Bernd Heinrich finds clear evidence of a natural revival of the nostalgic chestnut tree, and many fear that GE trees would threaten this natural comeback.
Peters, Diane: Becoming Natalie Davis
Published: 2014
As a young historian, she treated obstacles as things to understand rather than to skirt. The attitude persisted during her entire, stellar career.
Petersen, Kim: Frame of Reference and Journalistic Integrity
Published: 2014
A criticism of the article, "Journalism and the Illusion of Objectivity" by Michael Holtzman, challenging Holtzman's claims on the nature of objectivity and bias in reporting.
Petersen, Kim: Who to Believe: The CIA and Corporate Media or WikiLeaks?
Without Substantiation, Media Integrity Suffers
Published: 2017
Imagine if justice were administered mainly on hearsay (ignoring the fact that justice is too often lacking in society). It is a cardinal rule of justice that rendering a decision of guilty must only be done when such guilt is beyond a reasonable doubt. Medical schools state they follow evidence-based practices. Nursing schools do the same. Science progresses through the scientific method which demands evidence. When observations and experimental results contravene theory, the theory is tossed. There is academia, and then there is politics and the corporate media. Politics and its corporate media has long since become risible within the sphere of serious contemplation.
Petras, James: The Demonology School of Journalism
Putin and the press
Published: 2015
The major influential western print media are engaged in a prolonged, large-scale effort to demonize Russian President Putin, his politics and persona. There is an article (or several articles) every day in which he is personally stigmatized as a dictator, authoritarian, czar, 'former KGB operative' and Soviet-style ruler; anything but the repeatedly elected President of Russia.
Petras, James: Empire Building, the Debt Ceiling, the Budget Deficit, and the Samson Solution
Published: 2013
Raising the debt ceiling allows the State to keep borrowing and pay its billionaire creditors.Financing the budget deficit requires borrowing, which involves the sale hundreds of billions of dollars worth of US government bonds through Wall Street — but at a cost to the taxpayer. The common denominator is that the entire edifice of finance capital and all of its support structures depend on debt financing by the State. By borrowing and then taxing its citizens the Treasury extracts wealth from the vast majority of Americans.
Petras, James: The Logic behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
Published: 2013
Revelations about the long-term global, intrusive spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other allied intelligence apparatuses have provoked widespread protests and indignation and threatened ties between erstwhile imperial allies.
Petras, James: The Politics of Bombing
Wholesale, Retail, and Improvised
Published: 2016
Bombs, domestic and foreign, are defining the nature of politics in the United States, the European Union and among radical Islamist groups and individuals. The scale and scope of bomb-politics varies with the practitioner. 'Wholesale bombers' are state actors, who engage in large-scale, long-term bombing designed to destroy adversary governments or movements. 'Retail bombers' are groups or individuals engaging in small-scale, sporadic bombings, designed to provoked fear and secure symbolic outcomes. In this paper we will focus on the nature of 'wholesale' and 'retail' bombings, their frequency, political consequences and long-term impact on global political power.
Petrusich, Amanda: Fear of the light: why we need darkness
Published: 2016
Light pollution conceals true darkness from 80% of Europe and North America. What do we lose when we can no longer see the stars?
Pheko, Motsoko: The ICC is now an instrument of imperialism
Published: 2015
The Rome Statute is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC was to be an international tribunal and intergovernmental organisation that would prosecute all individuals for international crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Phelps, Christopher: Eugene Genovese (1930-2012) - obituary
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
After his death last year at the age of 82, most obituaries of Eugene Genovese — the historian of American slavery whose masterpiece, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, was published in 1974 — stated that he traveled from left to right, from Marxism to conservatism.
Philip, Bruno: Myanmar's forgotten guerrillas in the mist
A battle for self - determination continues among the country's ethnic groups
Published: 2016
An examination of Myanmar's complex ethnic makeup and the rivalries that exist between these groups.
Philips, Leigh; Rozworski, Michal: Walmart's planned economy
Published: 2020
The mighty global chain operates according to highly efficient, constantly reactive, yet long-term plans, which leftwing government can only envy.
Phillips, Adam: Red Light Therapy
Published: 2016
A traffic light experiment in the Netherlands forms the basis of a discussion on how we interpret 'rules' and morality and what they mean to us.
Phillips, David L.: ISIS-Turkey Links
Research Paper
Published: 2015
Is Turkey collaborating with the Islamic State (ISIS)? Allegations range from military cooperation and weapons transfers to logistical support, financial assistance, and the provision of medical services. Columbia University's Program on Peace-building and Rights assigned a team of researchers in the United States, Europe, and Turkey to examine Turkish and international media, assessing the credibility of allegations.
Phillips, Henry: Why Junior Won-and What Next?
Published: 1999
WHAT DO YOU call a labor lawyer who has worked on management's side of the table and never made a living as a rank-and-file union member? In these sorry days, you call him Teamster General President.
Phillips, James: Where Are They? The Disappeared: When Remembering is a Political Act of Resistance
Published: 2021
Every day, people disappear in many parts of the world. Some of these disappearances are investigated by police and the family of the disappeared. But too often the perpetrator is not a criminal or a gang, but rather the police or other agents of a nation state or a government.
Phillips, Karen: Special Report: Journalists in Exile 2009
Published: 2009
Sri Lankan journalists flee under severe pressure in the past year. Iraq and Somalia, two deadly countries for the press, also rank high in numbers of journalists forced into exile. Hundreds of journalists have been driven into exile this decade
Phillips, Peter: Twenty-First-Century Fascism: Private Military Companies in Service to the Transnational Capitalist Class
Published: 2015
Globalization of trade and central banking have propelled private corporations to positions of power and control never before seen in human history. Under advanced capitalism, the structural demands for a return on investment require an unending expansion of centralized capital in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
Phillips, Steve: Jobs and industry in the Hunter Valley: Context for a conversation about a Just Transition away from coal
Published: 2017
The development of employment opportuniteis outside the coal miniing industry is both possible and necessary.
Phillips, Stevens Jr.: Magical Thinking in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Published: 2001
Homeopathy and other popular therapies demonstrate ancient and universal principles of magical thinking, which some recent research suggests are fundamental to human cognition, even rooted in neurobiology.
Phillips, Tom: Amazon defenders face death or exile
Published: 2012
Ordinary Brazilians who report illegal logging face threats to their lives.
Phillips, Tom: A human rights activist, a secret prison and a tale from Xi Jinping's new China
Published: 2017
Peter Dahlin tells the story of his incarceration and expulsion from the People's Republic of China, where he spent 23 days in a 'black prison' in Beijing and was deprived of sleep and questioned with a 'communication enhancement' machine.
Phillips, Utah: Utah Phillips Quotes
Philo, Greg: Greg Philo on BBC News: 'The Palestinian Perspective is just not there'
Piaguaje, Humberto: Your investment in Chevron will never be safe!
Humberto Piaguaje traveled from Ecuador's rainforest to Texas to deliver this Open Letter from Texaco's victims to Chevron-Texaco shareholde
Published: 2014
We are those who Chevron is constantly trying to silence. We come to you, the shareholders, looking for the most basic empathy and respect we deserve as human beings. We ask but a minute of your time to read this brief letter in its totality.
You have been told - and will be told again and again - that the trial in Ecuador is but a fraud. However, no one has been able to deny the damage oil drilling has done to our land and lives. A great many of us are sick; others have already passed away.
Pickard, Victor and Joseph Torres: Saving America's Democracy Sustaining Journalism
Published: 2009
The current newspaper crisis isn't just about the future of the printed product, write authors Victor Pickard and Joseph Torres, it's about the survival of democracy-sustaining journalism. We now have an opportunity to overhaul our media system and advocate for policies that would serve the informational needs of diverse communities.
Pickard, Victor; Stearns, Josh; Aaron, Craig: Saving the News
Toward a National Journalism Strategy
Published: 2009
This 48-page document lays out a plan for preserving journalism that is centered on government guidance. The report says that journalism is too vital to be left open to market forces. They argue that while the changes brought on by the internet and the industry's financial troubles will be innovative and necessary, there should be a larger guiding strategy:
Picotte, Tristan: Opinion: Lakota values soar with the eagles
Published: 2014
In the defense of eagles, people came together. In respect of them, they remembered their values. In sight of them, they felt the pride of a nation.
Pidd, Helen: Why is India so bad for women?
Published: 2012
Of all the G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman. How is this possible in a country that prides itself on being the world's largest democracy?
Piddock, Laura J V;Meek,Richard;Wells,Victoria;Vyas,Hrushi: Restrict antibiotics to medical use, or they will soon become ineffective
Published: 2015
Antibiotics have saved hundreds of millions of lives since they came into use in the 1930s, but their power is running dry thanks to their massive use in factory farming, horticulture, aquaculture and industry.
Pieiller, Evelyne: Inventing the future
A tradable commodity in the huge, globalised ideas market
Published: 2014
Experts and writers are competing publicly to offer their visions of what is to come in the future.
Pierce, Rebecca: Alice Walker's Conspiracy Theories Aren't Just Anti-Semitic - They're Anti-Black
Published: 2018
White supremacy relies on different stereotypes of Black and Jewish people. Alice Walker's adoption of anti-semitic conspiracy theories points to the need for solidarity between the Black and Jewish communities - which are not mutually exclusive.
Pierce, Todd: Cognitive Warfare: Israel Targets Journalists Who Threaten Its Reality-Creation Tactics
Published: 2022
The evidence shows Israeli military/intel forces see journalists as 'lawful targets,' as part of the 'Cognitive War' they wage against the Palestinians, but more particularly against the global population in an attempt to legitimize their military oppression of the Palestinians in their ongoing effort of 'population expulsion' of the Palestinians from Palestinian territory.
Pierscionek, Tomasz: We have legal age limits for driving, voting, and having sex, why not for transgender treatment?
Published: 2020
Piety, M.G.: Academic Bullying the Vacuum of Moral Leadership in the Academy
Published: 2017
Workplace bullying is an increasing problem. Books are being written about it, and there is even a Workplace Bullying Institute. The problem isn't restricted to the business world. Books such as Faculty Incivility: The Rise of the Academic Bully Culture and What to Do About It, Bully in the Ivory Tower: How Aggression and Incivility Erode American Higher Education, and Workplace Bullying in Higher Education suggest that bullying is a particular problem among academics.
Piety, M.G.: Martin Luther the Man-Devil
Published: 2017
A review of the book 'Manteuffel' by Danish author and public intellectual Peter Tudvad, a work of popular fiction that also takes on religious and social-political issues.
Pigeon, Martin: Keeping us in the dark
Published: 2014
The TIPP negotiations are being conducted almost in secret, with governments and the European Parliament deliberately denied essential information. However, business lobbyists can access all areas, and do.
Pikulicka-Wilczewska, Agnieszka: Nazi-inspired jewellery, trinkets wiped from auction site
Polish anti-racist group convinces auction site to punish sellers and buyers trading goods bearing fascist symbols
Published: 2018
The anti-facist group Never Again has convinced an auction site to punish sellers and buyers trading Nazi memorabilia and other goods bearing fascist symbols.
Pilger, John: Australia's Day for Secrets, Flags and Cowards
Published: 2016
In my lifetime, non-indigenous Australia has changed from an Anglo-Irish society to one of the most ethnically diverse on earth. Those we used to call "New Australians" often choose 26 January, "Australia Day", to be sworn in as citizens. The ceremonies can be touching. Watch the faces from the Middle East and understand why they clench their new flag.
Pilger, John: The Biggest Lie
From Hiroshima to Syria, the Enemy Whose Name We Dare Not Speak
Published: 2013
Whether or not Bashar al-Assad or the “rebels” used gas in the suburbs of Damascus, it is the US not Syria that is the world’s most prolific user of these terrible weapons.
Pilger, John: Breaking the last taboo - Gaza and the threat of world war
Published: 2014
Pilger discusses the attack on Gaza and the denial of justice to Palestinians. He warns against the threat of a new world war growing by the day.
Pilger, John: Clinton, Assange and the War on Truth
Published: 2017
An overview of an interview with Hilary Clinton by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to promote her score-settling book about why she was not elected President of the United States.
Pilger, John: Down Where Apartheid Lives
Where are the Condemnations of Australia?
Published: 2013
John Pilger documentary Australia - “discover what lies behind the sunny face” . Aboriginal people comprise barely three per cent of the Australian population. Unlike the US, Canada and New Zealand, which have made treaties with their first people, Australia has offered gestures often wrapped in the law.
Pilger, John: Eyewitness to the Trial and Agony of Julian Assange
Published: 2020
John Pilger has watched Julian Assange's extradition trial from the public gallery at London's Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia.
Pilger, John: Fear of the People's History
England's Two Countries
Published: 2013
England is two countries. One is dominated by London, the other remains in its shadow. They were another nation with a different history, different loyalties, different humour, even different values. At the heart of this was the politics of class.
Pilger, John: The Forgotten Coup
How the Same Godfather Rules from Canberra to Kiev
Published: 2014
Washington’s role in the fascist putsch against an elected government in Ukraine will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore the historical record. Since 1945, dozens of governments, many of them democracies, have met a similar fate, usually with bloodshed.
Pilger, John: The Forgotten Coup
How America and Britain Crushed the Government of Their "Ally" Australia
Published: 2014
Across the political and media elite in Australia, a silence has descended on the memory of the great, reforming prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died. His achievements are recognised, if grudgingly, his mistakes noted in false sorrow. But a critical reason for his extraordinary political demise will, they hope, be buried with him.
Pilger, John: Freeing Julian Assange: the Final Chapter
Published: 2016
One of the epic miscarriages of justice of our time is unravelling. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention -- the international tribunal that adjudicates and decides whether governments comply with their human rights obligations -- has ruled that Julian Assange has been detained unlawfully by Britain and Sweden.
Pilger, John: From Yellow Journalism to China Bashing, the Media's Enduring Role in Promoting War
Published: 2023
Pilger, John: Getting Assange: the Untold Story
Published: 2017
The witchhunt against Wikileaks founder Jullian Assange.
Pilger, John: How Truth Slips Down The Memory Hole
Published: 2007
John Pilger, applies to current events Orwell's description in '1984' of how the Ministry of Truth consigned embarrassing truth to a memory hole. He highlights the killing of a Palestinian cameraman by the Israelis as an example of how "we" are trained to look on the rest of the world as quite unlike ourselves: useful or expendable.
Pilger, John: The Issue is Not Trump, It is Us
Published: 2017
Until real politics return to people's lives, the enemy is not Trump, it is ourselves.
Pilger, John: How the liberal class enabled the election of Donald Trump
Published: 2016
In a filmed interview with Afshin Rattansi, John Pilger describes how the collusion and silence of America's 'enlightened' liberal elite, notably its journalists, helped create President Trump.
Pilger, John: John Pilger on Class Vs "Identity"
Published: 2016
Award-winning journalist & film-maker, John Pilger describes the corrosive impact of "identity" politics and the loss of "class" as a tool to understand the world we live in.
Pilger, John: John Pilger: The dirty war on WikiLeaks
Published: 2012
War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception is essential for starting an unpopular colonial war.
Pilger, John: Journalism as a Weapon of War
John Pilger address to Columbia University
Published: 2006
On 14 April 2006, the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University in New York brought together John Pilger, Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk and Charles Glass for a discussion entitled 'Breaking the Silence: War, lies and empire'. The following is a transcript of John Pilger's address - 'War by Media'
Pilger, John: Justice for Julian Assange is Justice for All
Published: 2021
Following the final High Court hearing to decide whether or not Julian Assange is to be extradited to the United States - for the 'crime' of revealing a landscape of government crimes and lies -- John Pilger looks back on the decade Assange has been fighting for his freedom, and the implications for independent journalists and the very notion of justice.
Pilger, John: The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now
Published: 2019
Newspapers and other media in the United States and Britain have recently declared a passion for freedom of speech, especially their right to publish freely. They are worried by the "Assange effect".
Pilger, John: Media Lies And The War Drive Against Iran
Published: 2009
Iran's crime is its independence. Having thrown out the US's favourite tyrant, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Iran remains the only resource-rich Muslim state beyond US control. As only Israel has a 'right to exist' in the Middle East, the US goal is to cripple the Islamic Republic. This will allow Israel to divide and dominate the region on Washington's behalf, undeterred by a confident neighbour.
Pilger, John: On Israel, Ukraine and Truth
The Return of George Orwell and Big Brother's War
Published: 2014
As advanced societies are de-politicised, the changes are both subtle and spectacular. In everyday discourse, political language is turned on its head, as Orwell prophesised in 1984. "Democracy" is now a rhetorical device. Peace is "perpetual war". "Global" is imperial. The once hopeful concept of "reform" now means regression, even destruction. "Austerity" is the imposition of extreme capitalism on the poor and the gift of socialism for the rich: an ingenious system under which the majority service the debts of the few.
Pilger, John: Only When We See the War Criminals In Our Midst Will the Blood Begin to Dry
Published: 2015
In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything that moves". As Barack Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger's murderous honesty.
Pilger, John: The Persecution of Julian Assange
The Farcical Siege of Knightsbridge
Published: 2014
The siege of Knightsbridge is a farce. For two years, an exaggerated, costly police presence around the Ecuadorean embassy in London has served no purpose other than to flaunt the power of the state. Their quarry is an Australian charged with no crime, a refugee from gross injustice whose only security is the room given him by a brave South American country. His true crime is to have initiated a wave of truth-telling in an era of lies, cynicism and war.
Pilger, John: The Prisoner Says No to Big Brother
Published: 2019
A tribute to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Includes details of some of the corruption they have exposed.
Pilger, John: The pursuit of Julian Assange is an assault on freedom and a mockery of journalism
Published: 2012
Four years ago, a barely noticed Pentagon document, leaked by WikiLeaks, described how WikiLeaks and Assange would be destroyed with a smear campaign leading to "criminal prosecution". We are witnessing the implementation of that plan.
Pilger, John: The real first casualty of war
Published: 2006
Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US - and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.
Pilger, John: The Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth
Published: 2015
Pilger discusses the challenges that we encounter as Western governments and media actively seek to supress any political consciousness and independent thought.
Pilger, John: Silencing America as It Prepares for War
Published: 2016
The 2016 election campaign is remarkable not only for the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders but also for the resilience of an enduring silence about a murderous self-bestowed divinity. A third of the members of the United Nations have felt Washington’s boot, overturning governments, subverting democracy, imposing blockades and boycotts.
Pilger, John: Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works
In my lifetime, the United States has overthrown or attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, mostly democracies. It has interfered in democratic elections in 30 countries. It has dropped bombs on the people of 30 countries, most of them poor and defenceless. It has attempted to murder the leaders of 50 countries. It has fought to suppress liberation movements in 20 countries. The extent and scale of this carnage is largely unreported, unrecognized; and those responsible continue to dominate Anglo-American political life.
Pilger, John: The Stalinist trial of Julian Assange
Pilger, John: The struggle of Venezuela against 'a common enemy'
Published: 2015
John Pilger discusses the reasons that the United States continues to work continuously to overthrow Venezuela's left-learning government. The U.S. government makes absurd claims that Venezuela poses a grave 'threat' to the United States, but the truth is the opposite: the U.S. government poses a grave threat to Venezuela and its people.
Pilger, John: Terror in Britain: What Did the Prime Minister Know?
Published: 2017
Why did the Manchester bombing occur? How does it relate to British relations with Middle Eastern countries?
Pilger, John: Trump and Clinton: Censoring the unpalatable
Published: 2016
A virulent if familiar censorship is about to descend on the US election campaign. As the cartoon brute, Donald Trump, seems almost certain to win the Republican Party's nomination, Hillary Clinton is being ordained both as the "women's candidate" and the champion of American liberalism in its heroic struggle with the Evil One.
Pilger, John: Under the Influence
Published: 1999
For the few of us who reported East Timor long before it was finally declared news, the "disclosures" last weekend that Washington had trained Indonesia's death squads are bizarre. That the American, British and Australian governments have underwritten proportionally the greatest savagery since the Holocaust has been a matter of unambiguous record for a quarter of a century. All it needed was reporting.
Pilger, John: US and British officials told us that at least 100,000 were murdered in Kosovo. A year later, fewer than 3,000
Published: 2000
After more than a year, the silence of those who wrote and broadcast the propaganda for Nato's "humanitarian war" over Kosovo remains unbroken: they who answered the Prime Minister's call to join "a great moral crusade" against a regime that was "set on a Hitler-style genocide equivalent to the extermination of the Jews during World War Two".
Pilger, John: War by media and the triumph of propaganda
Published: 2014
The world is facing the prospect of major war, perhaps nuclear war -- with the United States clearly determined to isolate and provoke Russia and eventually China. This truth is being turned upside down and inside out by journalists, including those who promoted the lies that led to the bloodbath in Iraq in 2003. The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an "invisible government". It is the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of us: our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies.
Why are young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and to challenge the high claims and low purpose of fake objectivity? And why are they not taught that the essence of so much of what's called the mainstream media is not information, but power?
Pilger, John: War in Europe and the Rise of Raw Propaganda
Published: 2022
Pilger, John: The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies
Published: 2019
Maduro, like Chavez before him, is a fairly elected leader with support from the people. Talk of his 'illegitmacy' is propaganda in service of the coup.
Pilger, John: We need to be told
Published: 2005
When journalists report propaganda instead of the truth, the consequences can be catastrophic - as one largely forgotten instance demonstrates.
Pilger, John: Why Palestine is Still the Issue
Published: 2017
The longest occupation and resistance in modern times is a crime that has been suppressed in the intellectual and political culture of the West.
Pilger, John: A World War has Begun: Break the Silence
Published: 2016
How many people are aware that a world war has begun? At present, it is a war of propaganda, of lies and distraction, but this can change instantaneously with the first mistaken order, the first missile.
Pilger, John: A World War is Beckoning
Break the Silence
Published: 2014
Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a “brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis”, as if the truth “never happened even while it was happening”.
Pilger, John: Would as Many as 1 Million Be Alive if the Media Had Done Its Job
Published: 2014
This is a transcript of John Pilger's contribution to a special edition of BBC Radio 4's 'Today' program, guest-edited by the artist and musician PJ Harvey.
Pilger, John: You are all suspects now. What are you going to do about it?
Published: 2012
A state of permanent war has been launched by the United States and a police state is consuming western democracy.
Pilger, John; Halper, Katie: John Pilger's Guide to Propaganda
Published: 2023
Journalist, author and filmmaker John Pilger, who has spent decades studying governments’ nefariousness, tells Katie Halper how to spot propaganda.
Pilger, John; Platt, Steve: Beyond the dross
Published: 2010
Pilger and Platt discuss the state of journalism.
Pilger, John; Platt, Steve: Beyond the dross
Published: 2010
Pilger and Platt discuss the craft of journalism.
Pilkington, Ed: Jailed for a MySpace parody, the student who exposed America's cash for kids scandal
Published: 2009
Judges receive kickbacks for imprisoning youths; slapping a friend or having tantrum leads to prison.
Pilkington, Ed: Pharmageddon: how the US got hooked on prescription drugs
White House declares prescription drug abuse in US 'alarming' as thousands flock to Florida – the home of oxycodone pill mills
Published: 2011
An investigation into the underground trade of oxycodone, a widely abused prescription drug. Ninety-eight percent of prescriptions in the United States come from southern Florida, where doctors at "pill-mills" can see up to one hundred patients in a sitting.
Pilkington, Ed: Protesters cast shadow over US billionaires' rally in the sun
Koch brothers to host rightwing politicians and business leaders to discuss how to influence politics
Published: 2011
The Koch brothers' annual rally of rich Americans and rightwing media figures was hosted to raise money for anti-government think tanks and climate change denial. This year a counter rally was orgnaized by Common Cause.
Pinsker, Joe: Why Can't Public Transit Be Free?
Published: 2015
Pinsker analyzes perceptions of what "free" means when it comes to fare-free transit and how the public's worries regarding what type of people such an offer would attract is standing in the way of implementing progress.
Pinter, Harold: Harold Pinter: Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth & Poetics
Art, Truth & Poetics
Published: 2014
A lecture given by the 2005 recipient of the Nobel Pize for Literature, Harold Pinter. The lecture reflects on the concept of "truth" in regard to a creative process.
Pirie, Reg: Enhance your image in novel ways
Published: 1998
Soft marketing supports and image enhancement strategies require as much consideration as any other portion of your marketing plan.
Pithouse, Richard: Marikana, Gaza, Ferguson - 'You Should Think of Them Always As Armed'
Published: 2014
In colonial wars the occupying power invariably reaches a point where it has to acknowledge that its true enemy is not a minority - devil worshipers, communists, fanatics or terrorists - subject to external and evil manipulation, but the people as a whole. Once this point is reached every colonised person is taken as a potential combatant and the neighbourhood and the home are cast as legitimate sites of combat.
Pitron, Guillaume: African Odyssey Turns to the South
The Great Migrations
Published: 2012
Chronicles the economic hardships faced by Africans and the means they take to alleviate their suffering.
Pitron, Guillaume: African odysseys turn to the south
Published: 2012
Fewer than 5% of African migrants now want to reach Europe or America. They’re looking instead to neighbouring countries, or the continent’s dreamland, South Africa. It’s a long, hard way there, and they may be no better off if they reach it.
Pitzer, Andrea: Some Suburb of Hell: America's New Concentration Camp System
Published: 2019
New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referred to US border detention facilities as "concentration camps," spurring a backlash in which critics accused her of demeaning the memory of those who died in the Holocaust. Debates raged over a label for what is happening along the southern border and grew louder as the week rolled on.
Piva, Aline; Mills, Frederick B.: What is a Coup? Analysing the Brazilian Impeachment Process
Published: 2016
The debate over whether the regime change in Brazil constituted a coup hinges on whether the impeachment process used to depose President Dilma Rousseff had democratic legitimacy or was an illicit use of formal procedures to undermine the popular mandate granted to the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) by the Brazilian people in the last presidential election. Proponents of the view that the impeachment was legal and that this legality confers democratic legitimacy tend to abstract the impeachment process from its lived context. This abstraction leaves the politics behind the regime change opaque and even irrelevant.
Piña, Christy: Oscars: Read Joaquin Phoenix's Best Actor Speech
The best actor winner received multiple standing ovations and teared up during his acceptance speech.
Published: 2020
In his speech, he called out injustices in the world. During multiple moments throughout his acceptance, Phoenix received applause from the audience and even teared up toward the end when he spoke about a lyric his brother wrote.
Platt, Brian: The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax Collectors
Published: 2015
The criminal justice system has increasingly become the preferred way to fund city governments in the modern neoliberal nightmare that is the United States. The police target the poor for petty infractions that produce fines. When predictably these fines cannot be paid additional fines are piled on top and the person is thrown in prison.
Platt, Brian: The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax Collectors
Published: 2015
Last week Biloxi, Mississippi became the latest city to be sued by the ACLU for running a "modern-day debtors’ prison."
Pluckrose, Helen: How French 'Intellectuals' Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained
Published: 2017
Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself.
Podur, Justin: Ali Mustafa
Published: 2014
Ali Mustafa was a Canadian freelance journalist and activist. He died with seven Syrians in an airstrike by the Assad government in the Hadariya neighbourhood of Aleppo on March 9, 2014.
Podur, Justin: For Free Expression on Palestine
Published: 2009
Podur, Justin: Israel/Palestine Lexicon For Mainstream Media
Published: 2014
If you are writing for mainstream media, you need to learn special uses of words and phrases that are specific to Israel/Palestine. If you use common usage, you will run into confusions, paradoxes, and hostile responses from pro-Israel people. Please follow these guidelines and you will have no problems with editors, politicians, or organized pro-Israel groups. For each phrase, this guide will present first (a) the common usage, and then (b) the specific Israel/Palestine usage that you must use in order to write for major US (and UK and Canadian of course) media (NYT, Toronto Star, BBC, CBC, etc.)
Podur, Justin: Science and liberation
Science as human curiosity, as authority, and as business
Published: 2014
The conservative movement’s attack on science has several prongs. Where they can attain government office, as in Canada, they use the highly effective tools of funding and de-funding, and regulation and de-regulation, to control government scientists and embolden private interests. The goal is to transfer power and resources from public services and public science to private institutions, while often appealing to moral and religious doctrines in the process.
Podur, Justin: "Sovereign" Deportations: The Dominican Republic deportations cannot occur without US blessing
Published: 2015
People born to undocumented Haitian parents in the Dominican Republic have left under threat of violence. "Voluntary" deportations have had a strong US influence given the political and economic power that the North American country exerts on the island.
Podur, Justin: Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
Published: 2009
If you want to have the first idea what is happening in Israel/Palestine (or most of the rest of the world), the best thing to do would be to turn the Canadian media off completely.
Podur, Justin: US: The State Murder of an Activist
Published: 2015
The murder of Sandra Bland, an activist with the Black Lives Matter movement, exposes the impunity of U.S. police.
Podur, Justin: Why Won't American Media Tell the Truth About What's Happening in Venezuela?
Published: 2017
Unlike Brazil and Argentina, Venezuela has been victimized by a number of factors outside of its control, but especially a precipitous drop in the price of oil, the country's main source of revenue.
Podur, Justin; Cummings, Joan Joy Grant: Women Rise Up Against Gender Violence in the Caribbean
Published: 2017
Podur interviews Joan Joy Grant Cummings, a women's right activist, regarding the severity of sexual violence towards women and girls in Jamaica.
Poe, Ryan: Destruction of Labor History Archives at Ruskin College, Oxford
Published: 2012
The archives of Ruskin College, pioneer institution of working-class education, have been partly destroyed, on the instructions of the college principal and despite protests and an offer from the Bishopsgate Institute to take everything.
Pohoryles, Yaniv: Why the Jewish vote is to important to US presidential candidates
Published: 2016
Examining the reasons why US presidential candidates focus on the vote of the Jewish community despite US Jewry constituting only two percent of the electorate, and examining the alignment of the Jewish community with the American political parties and candidates.
Poisson, Tyler: Climate Change: Why we can't trust mainstream media
Published: 2021
A Q&A on capitalism, media, and climate. Explains How and why mainstream media minimizes climate change.
Poitras, Laura; Rosenbach, Marcel; Sontheimer, Michael; Stark, Holger: How the NSA Helped Turkey Kill Kurdish Rebels
Published: 2014
On a December night in 2011, a terrible thing happened on Mount Cudi, near the Turkish-Iraqi border. One side described it as a massacre; the other called it an accident.
Pollack, Norman: Edward J. Snowden and the Exposure of Voyeuristic Fascism
Self-Pacification of the American Citizenry
Published: 2013
Snowden make a difference in the affairs of state in an environment where individuals do not appear to matter.
Pollack, Norman: Evolving Geopolitical Economic Framework: US vs. China
Published: 2015
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a game changer in what had been since World War II and Bretton Woods American global financial dominance in facilitating US unilateral market penetration via the preponderant voice in IMF and World Bank operations and policy making, and, equally significant, integrating expanding economic power with an interventionist military underpinning.
Pollack, Norman: Guernica, 1937 / Gaza, 2014
Only the Insignias Change
Published: 2014
I invoke the Guernica example, not for spurious comparison or analogy, but because its occurrence is inscribed in the very DNA of modern historical oppression, in this case possessing precisely the same elements of overwhelming force on a largely defenseless population, in this case, having less to do with stopping rockets than a) terrorizing a people into abject submission, and b) testing out aerial warfare to soften an enemy and perhaps even clear the way for ground action—beyond consolidating settlement gains in the territories, also serving notice on Iran and whomever else (viz., Arab democracy) is viewed as a real or potential threat down the road.
Pollack, Norman: Israel's Exterminatory Impulse Toward Gaza
A Protracted Genocide
Published: 2014
Disproportionate power yields the psychopathology of sadism.
Pollack, Norman: NSA's Path to Totalitarianism
Ever-Shrinking Democracy in America
Published: 2013
The American National Security Agency (NSA) appears as a “rogue” organization, extremism in the putative service of liberty. Or better, call it, stripped of all cosmetics, the unerring mark of a Police State, itself become identical with Fortress America, the National-Security State.
Pollack, Norman: The Slippery Slope: Rolling Downward, No Brakes, Nuclear War
Published: 2016
Policy is not a discrete entity; indeed, instead, it is a cumulative force, broadening in scope and direction, as it -- in this case -- plunges toward self- and global-annihilation. Destruction is in the very air we breathe, as though Thanatos looming overhead, because exceptionalism is reaching a point of satiety and feelings of emptiness and alienation make other than war and dominance meaningless.
Pollack, Norman: US Military Globalization
Interlocking Spheres of Influence
Published: 2014
Americans are implicated in deceit and denial, purchasing their comforts and self-righteousness at the expense of the collective human privation their military and paramilitary forces, their CIA operatives and private contractors, their support of repressive regimes and death squads have brought to much of the world’s population.
Pollak, Norman: US Intimidated by Its Own Mercenaries
A Silence on Atrocities
Published: 2014
So much for transparency, civil liberties, and prosecuting the crimes of a predecessor (the cardinal rule of presidents, at least this one, cover-up WAR CRIMES past and present, a solemn command of the National Security State). Silence and deniability, in all matters large and small, characterize the responses of United States government and private principals.
Poludenko-Young, Anna: Ukraine Is Banning 'Communist Symbols' and the Kremlin Is Peeved
Published: 2015
Ukraine is pushing to erase all evidence the Soviet Union and its defeat of Nazi Germany from its history books.
Polychroniou, C.J: Blueprint for a Progressive US: A Dialogue With Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
Published: 2017
In the Trump era, what would an authentically populist, progressive political agenda look like? What would a progressive US look like with regard to jobs, the environment, finance capital and the standard of living? What would it look like in terms of education and health care, justice and equality? In an exclusive interview with C.J. Polychroniou for Truthout, world-renowned public intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin tackle these issues.
Polychroniou, C.J.: Noam Chomsky: Moral Depravity Defines US Politics
Published: 2018
An interview with Noam Chomsky where he discusses the political parties' lack of focus on crucial issues. Though made hopeful by young progessive candidates winning in the midterms, electoral politics should not be the focus for radical political change.
Polychroniou, C.J.: Trump in the White House: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Published: 2016
Noam Chomsky shares his thoughts on the aftermath of this election in an interview.
Polychroniou,C.J.: Can Civilization Survive "Really Existing Capitalism"? An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Published: 2014
On the occasion of the release of his latest book, Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013, Noam Chomsky gave an exclusive and wide-ranging interview to C.J. Polychroniou.
Poole, Steven: Why bad ideas refuse to die
Published: 2016
How disproven or easily dismissed ideas and beliefs can still endure in the population.
Pope Francis: Encyclical Letter Laudato Si' of the Holy Father Francis on the Care for our Common Home
Pope's statement on environment and exploitation
Published: 2015
The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together; we cannot adequately combat environmental degradation unless we attend to causes related to human and social degradation.
Pope, Kyle: Looking back on the coverage of Trump
Published: 2023
Seven and a half years ago, journalism began a tortured dance with Donald Trump, the man who would be the country's forty-fifth president, first dismissing him, then embracing him as a source of ratings and clicks, then going all in on efforts to catalogue Trump as a threat to the country (also a great source of ratings and clicks).
Popova, Maria: The Heart and the Bottle (Book Review)
A Tender Illustrated Fable of What Happens When We Deny Our Difficult Emotions
A review of Oliver Jeffers' book The Heart and the Bottle.
Popova, Maria: In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective: A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times
Perspective to lift the blinders of our cultural moment
Published: 2017
Maria Popova has found solace in taking a more telescopic view - not merely on the short human timescale of her own life, looking back on having lived through a Communist dictatorship and having seen poems composed and scientific advances made under such tyrannical circumstances, but on far vaster scales of space and time.
Popova, Maria: The Neurochemistry of Empathy, Storytelling, and the Dramatic Arc, Animated
What cortisol and oxytocin have to do with a 19th-century German playwright.
Popova, Maria: Seasons in a Pandemic: Mary Shelley on What Makes Life Worth Living and Nature's Beauty as a Lifeline to Regaining Sanity
Published: 2020
Porter, Gareth: Did John Bolton Light the Fuse of the UK-Iranian Tanker Crisis?
Evidence suggests he pressured the Brits to seize an Iranian ship. Why? More war.
Published: 2019
The details of the UK's seizure of the Grace 1 point to involvement by John Bolton and the Trump administration to put pressure on Iran.
Porter, Gareth: Facts Back Russia on Turkish Attack
Published: 2015
Turkey claims its November 24, 2015 shoot-down of a Russian warplane along the Syrian border was justified -- and the Obama administration is publicly siding with its NATO ally -- but a review of the evidence supports Russian accusations of an "ambush." The evidence from the Turkish authorities themselves thus leaves little room for doubt that the decision to shoot down the Russian jet was made before the Russian jets even began their flight.
Porter, Gareth: Hamas Rocket Launches Don't Explain Israel's Gaza Destruction -- Israeli Forces' Manipulated Figures and Fake Evidence
Published: 2014
Israel and its supporters abroad have parried accusations of indiscriminate destruction and mass killing of civilians in Gaza by arguing that they were consequences of strikes aimed at protecting Israeli civilians from rockets that were being launched from very near civilian structures.
Porter, Gareth: IDF Knew Real Hamas HQ While Lying About al-Shifa
Published: 2023
While telling the world that Hamas HQ was under al-Shifa Hospital, the IDF had already found the actual command center 8.5km away.
Porter, Gareth: Why "Coercive Diplomacy" is a Dangerous Farce
Offering to talk while threatening military force hasn't worked in 30 years.
Published: 2018
In the context of rising tensions between the USA and North Korea 2017-2018, historian and journalist Gareth Porter, details the history of failure of "Coercive Diplomacy" as a tool in US foreign policy.
Porter, Gareth: Wikileaks Exposes Complicity of the Press
Documents Show NYT and Washington Post Shilling for US Government on Iran Missile "Threat"
Published: 2010
A key Wikileaks document which should have resulted in stories calling into question the thrust of the Obama administration's ballistic missile defense policy in Europe based on an alleged Iranian missile threat has instead produced a spate of stories buttressing anti-Iran hysteria.
Porter, Gareth; Blumenthal, Max: U.S. State Department accusation of China 'genocide' relied on data abuse and baseless claims by far-right ideologue
Published: 2021
Both President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Anthony Blinken have endorsed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s last-minute accusation of "genocide" against the Muslim Uyghur population in China's Xinjiang province. But an investigation of published work by the researcher Pompeo relied on to level his genocide allegation reveals a pattern of data abuse and fraudulent assertions that substantially undermines the incendiary charge.
Porter, Lawrence: Retired GM worker speaks on three years of the Flint water crisis
Published: 2017
The poisoning of the city of Flint continues three long years after the decision was made by politicians and financial speculators to switch city residents to Flint River water. As the world now knows, the corrosive Flint River water leached lead from the antiquated piping system into the homes of residents. Lead is a deadly neurotoxin. Because next to nothing has yet been done to fix the city’s infrastructure, even after the switch back to Detroit water, there is no safe water supply for thousands of residents.
Post, Charlie: Building Identify Through Struggle - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 158
Published: 2012
Socialists seeking to win support among working people in the United States today face twin obstacles. A conservative, pro-business officialdom, tied to the capitalist Democratic Party and opposed to any manifestation of working class militancy, dominates the labor movement.
Post, Charlie: Inside the Capitalist Crisis
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
The bi-partisan austerity offensive — corresponding to the logical of capitalist profitability and accumulation — continues.
Postol, Theodore: Droning Russia's nuke radars is the dumbest thing Ukraine can do
Published: 2024
Attacks on the early warning system actually highlights the fragility of peace between the world's nuclear powers
Postol, Theodore A.: How the Obama Administration Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
US nuclear policy is undermining our safety and national security
Published: 2014
When Barack Obama was campaigning for president in 2008, he famously pledged to place nuclear disarmament at the center of his national-security strategy. Why, then, we must ask, is the Obama administration moving forward with an ambitious nuclear-weapons modernization program that could dramatically raise the threat of nuclear war?
Potet,Frédéric: France’s libraries discovering a new lease of life beyond just books
Published: 2015
Seminars, events and cafes are helping some formerly staid institutions reinvent themselves as social 'third spaces' beyond work and the home.
Pouille, Jordan: Costa del Cam Ranh
250,000 Russian budget tourists hit Vietnam's beaches
Published: 2014
Expat Russian entrepreneurs, budget Russian tourists, and a government hoping the post-Vietnam war exiles will come back home rich to retire: Vietnam is a demonstration model for change.
Poulsen, Regin Winther: Greenlanders shipped to Denmark as children seek compensation
Published: 2021
Inuit children were sent to the former colonial power as part of a failed social experiment that left them traumatised.
Poupeau, Franck: Water is more than a common good
Published: 2023
As the ready availability of fresh water is threatened around the world, attention has focused on minimising water use. But that obscures how deeply political the issue of universal access to water is.
Powell, Thomas: The Dirty Secret of the Korean War
Published: 2017
There is a much darker denial at work in forgetting the specifics of history, and this unwillingness to honestly examine the Korean War is at the root of our ongoing conflict with North Korea.
Powell, William: I wrote the Anarchist Cookbook in 1969. Now I see its premise as flawed
Published: 2013
Forty-four years ago this month, in December 1969, I quit my job as a manager of a bookstore in New York City's Greenwich Village and began to write the Anarchist Cookbook. My motivation at the time was simple; I was being actively pursued by the US military, who seemed single-mindedly determined to send me to fight, and possibly die, in Vietnam.
Prabhu, Maya: India's Dalit cattle skinners share stories of abuse
Published: 2016
From hospital wards to skinning fields, India's Dalit cattle skinners share stories of abuse and fears for their future.
Prange, Astrid: First register; then turn tricks
Published: 2017
A new prostitution law to include compulsory registration meant to fight human trafficking and exploitation is not popular in the industry, and may lead to a return of prostitution going underground.
Prasad, Vinay: 5 Errors Made by Public Heath/ Science During The Pandemic
A Doctor Reflects
Published: 2021
Prasad, Vinay: How Democracy Ends
Published: 2021
The pandemic events of 2020-2021 outline a potential pathway for a future democratically elected President of the United States to systematically end democracy.
Prashad, Vijay: The Death of a Reporter
Published: 2014
Serena Shim, who leaves behind a family that includes her two young children, found herself chasing the truth in a highly charged situation.
Prashad, Vijay: Gaza in Ruins
Published: 2015
Gaza is a ruin, populated by nearly two million people. The July-August 2014 bombardment of this tiny enclave by Israel resulted in over 2,500 dead Palestinians and an infrastructure -- already weak -- utterly destroyed. A garrotted sliver of land that sits on the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza cannot import goods to survive, let alone to reconstruct the damage. Oxfam says that it would take over a hundred years to bring Gaza back to the conditions in June 2014 because of the ongoing Israeli siege. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), an agency tasked with the provision of relief to the Palestinian refugees, complained that "people are literally sleeping amongst the rubble; children have died of hypothermia." Pledges for relief are not delivered, and even if they would be handed over to the United Nations (UN), the Israeli embargo makes it impossible for goods to enter Gaza. Gaza, like the rest of Palestine, is condemned to purgatory.
Prashad, Vijay: How the Chinese Authorities and the World Health Organization Handled the Coronavirus
Published: 2020
On April 14, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump addressed a news conference at the White House, where he said that his administration would “halt [all] funding” for the World Health Organization (WHO).
Prashad, Vijay: In These Days of Great Tension
Published: 2022
Rather than allow this war to escalate and for positions to harden, it is important for the guns to go silent and the discussions to recommence. writes Vijay Prashad.
Prashad, Vijay: Inside Bahrain After the Crackdown
Published: 2013
An interview with Nada Alwadi, one of the journalists who reported honestly about the events on the streets of Manama, Bahrain’s capital, and in the rest of the small kingdom. She founded the Bahraini Press Association as a vehicle to fight for the right of journalists to report stories freely.
Prashad, Vijay: Living in Pitiless Times: Baghdad, Beirut and Paris
Published: 2015
A week of horrible carnage -- bomb blasts in Beirut and Baghdad and then the cold-blooded shootings in Paris. Each of these acts of terror left dead bodies and wounded lives. There is nothing good that comes of them – only the pain of the victim and then more pain as powerful people take refuge in clichéd policies that once again turn the wheel of violence. How does one react to these incidents? Horror and outrage come first. They are instinctual.
Prashad, Vijay: A Reading List for the Delhi Police
Published: 2023
When they raided the Tricontinental Research Services' office in early October, investigators took, among other things, 12 dossiers featured here. Vijay Prashad recommends they study them all.
Prashad, Vijay: Saudi Royal Family: Protecting VIPs, While Letting Ordinary Pilgrims Die
Published: 2015
In the wake of a stampede in Mecca which killed close to 1,000 Haj pilgrims, it is being reported that the columns of pilgrims ran into each other because Saudi police had closed off key roads in the vicinity so as to accommodate VIPs who are whisked through without having to mingle with the masses.
Prashad, Vijay: A Tale of Two Islands
Published: 2017
A look at the two island nations of Cuba and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes; one is a poor socialist state and the other a territory of one of the richest countries in the world.
Prashad, Vijay: Those who violated the Geneva Conventions at Guantánamo are free, while the man who helped expose their crimes languishes in prison
Published: 2022
Pravit, Rojanaphruk: Thailand: Junta orders pro-democracy leaders charged with inciting rebellion
Published: 2018
The junta has ordered seven of the most prominent pro-democracy activists charged with crimes including sedition after they launched a protest campaign calling for general elections to be held in November.
Preece, James: The secrets of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Published: 2019
Close analysis of 1984, including biographical details of Orwell, defending it as a work of leftist literature.
Press, Alex: Beltway to English Dictionary
Because sometimes words mean other words.
Published: 2016
A list of words that have special meaning in the world of U.S. politics.
Preston, Peter: In Scotland or Catalonia, the pitch is for difference without much difference
Published: 2014
In the referendums in Scotland and Catalonia, the idea is for bracing, defining change that won't be greatly noticed.
Pretty, Jules: Manifesto for the Green Mind
Jules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone.
Published: 2017
Jules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone. The first call to action is: "Every child outdoors every day".
Pretty, Jules: The Way of the White Cloud
Published: 2015
In his search for alternatives to consumerism and industrialism, Jules Pretty travelled around the world to find surviving nature-based cultures. In this extract from his book 'The Edge of Extinction', he tells of the Tuva people of the Siberian steppe - proud of their traditions and closeness to the land, but very much part of the modern world - strictly on their own terms.
Price, David: Privacy tapped out
Published: 2013
For over a century, Americans and their judiciary fiercely fought any attempt by security agencies and law enforcement to listen in on private electronic communications. Now they’ve stopped fighting, and the surveillance is out of control.
Price, David: A Social History of Wiretaps
Memory's Half-Life
Published: 2013
American’s century-long distrust of electronic surveillance is shifting to Americans accepting and internalizing new levels of state surveillance.
Price, David H: How the Media Gets It Wrong
On Asking the Wrong Questions and Mapping Media Dead Zones
Published: 2014
Price, David H.: One Who Raged Against the Machine
Remembering Gerald Berreman
Published: 2014
Remembering anthropologist Gerald Berreman on the occasion of his December 2013 death. Barreman became an important voice of dissent in the 1960s and 1970s, speaking out against anthropologists’ interactions with the CIA and other intelligence agencies and championing openness in science.
Price, Matt: Unions Should Go Big on a Green New Deal for Canada
Published: 2018
Canada's unions need to play a much larger leadership role on climate change, not just because it deals with economic policies directly affecting members but also because it will be difficult to get where we need to go without them.
Price, Steven: Leave Leslie Spit alone
Published: 1979
The Leslie Street Spit offers fresh air, rugged scenery, waves, shoreline and wildlife.
Price, Susan: Australia: Worst drought ever, but don't mention climate change!
Published: 2018
Despite record drought conditions in Australia and the numerous climate related disasters around the globe, the Australian goverment still refuses to acknowledge human-induced climate change.
Pringle, Ramona: If you work for Uber or DoorDash, your boss isn't a person but an algorithm
App-driven jobs in the gig economy can mean constant surveillance
Published: 2019
Gig-economy apps claim that their workers are contractors or even another kind of customer but human-devised algorithms strictly control their work conditions.
Pringle, Ramona: Why we should be thanking Burger King for hijacking our smart home devices
Published: 2017
Pringle analyzes the social impact of Burger King's advertising tactic and the hidden vulnerabilities our smart devices are capable of bringing us.
Pritsker, Kei: US Foists 'Humanitarian Aid' on Venezuela, Helps Create a Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen
Published: 2019
The US-backed Saudi Arabia war on Yemen is causing the worst humanitarian crisis of the modern era. The lack of concern from politicians should belie this justification for U.S. intervention in other countries.
Privacy International: Complaints filed against telecom companies for their role in UK mass surveillance programme
Published: 2013
On 5 November 2013, Privacy International filed formal complaints with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the UK against some of the world's leading telecommunication companies, for providing assistance to British spy agency GCHQ in the mass interception of internet and telephone traffic passing through undersea fibre optic cables.
Privacy International: Surveillance company Hacking Team's relationships with repressive regimes exposed
Published: 2015
A 400 gigabyte trove of internal documents belonging to surveillance company Hacking Team has been released online. Hacking team sells intrusive hacking tools that have allegedly been used by some of the most repressive regimes in the world.
Project for Excellence in Journalism: The State of the News Media 2009
An Annual Report on American Journalism
Published: 2009
Some of the numbers are chilling. Newspaper ad revenues have fallen 23% in the last two years. Some papers are in bankruptcy, and others have lost three-quarters of their value. Nearly one out of every five journalists working for newspapers in 2001 is now gone, and 2009 may be the worst year yet. In local television, news staffs, already too small to adequately cover their communities, are being cut at unprecedented rates; revenues fell by 7% in an election year # something unheard of # and ratings are now falling or are flat across the schedule. In network news, even the rare programs increasing their ratings are seeing revenues fall. The report also includes our in-depth content analysis, based on a study of nearly 80,000 news stories and television and radio segments in A Year in the News. This year we also offer some Special Reports. There is one on citizen-based media, including a university study of 363 citizen websites in 46 markets. There is a backgrounder on the growing models of entrepreneurial journalism, new Web news organizations run by professional journalists outside the mainstream press.
Provost, Claire: Ethiopia's seed banks - under threat from G8 plan to 'develop' Africa
Published: 2014
Ethiopia leads the way in preserving crop seeds by engaging farming communities in the effort, and making the exchange of seeds part of village life and culture, reports Claire Provost. But now it's all at risk from a G8 plan to open Africa to corporate agriculture.
Provost, Claire: Migrants' billions put aid in the shade
Published: 2013
Money transfers from workers abroad to family back home have tripled in a decade and are three times larger than global aid budgets.
Provost, Claire; Harris, Rich: China commits billions in aid to Africa as part of charm offensive
Published: 2013
China has committed $75bn (£48bn) on aid and development projects in Africa in the past decade, according to research which reveals the scale of what some have called Beijing's escalating soft power "charm offensive" to secure political and economic clout on the continent.
Provost, Clare; McClanahan, Paige: Sierra Leone: local resistance grows as investors snap up land
Farmers and activists more transparent about large-scale land deals with foreign firms and t
Published: 2012
Ten years after the end of civil war in Sierra Leone, the government is taking great pains to attract large-scale agribusiness investments, which it says will help boost exports and employment opportunites.
Proyect, Louis: COVID-19 and the "Just-in-Time" Supply Chain: Why Hospitals Ran Out of Ventilators and Grocery Stores Ran Out of Toilet Paper
Published: 2020
On March 25th, 2020, N.Y. Times op-ed columnist Farhad Manjoo wrote about “How the World's Richest Country Ran Out of a 75-Cent Face Mask.” The subtitle certainly went against the grain of what you’d read from a page dominated by Thomas Friedman: "A very American story about capitalism consuming our national preparedness and resiliency."
Proyect, Louis: The Descent of the Left Press: From IF Stone to The Nation
Published: 2016
Just about fifty years ago when I was becoming politicized around the war in Vietnam, I began searching desperately for information and analysis that could explain why this senseless war was taking place. After taking out a subscription to I.F. Stone’s Weekly that an old friend had recommended, the scales began to fall from my eyes.
Proyect, Louis: The End of Academic Freedom in America: the Case of Steven Salaita
Published: 2015
In the years I spent at Columbia University, there was always some professor or another coming under attack from the Israel lobby. But no matter the intensity of the witch-hunt, I was always proud to see my employer stand up for the free speech rights of the faculty.
Proyect, Louis: Flint's poisoned water and capital's second contradiction
Published: 2016
The politicians who poisoned the water supply in Flint are as bad as they come, but it's the system they serve that makes such disasters inevitable.
Proyect, Louis: How Stieg Larsson Exposed the Swedish Far Right
Kicking the Hornets' Nest
Published: 2014
But after reading Jan-Erik Pettersson’s “Stieg Larsson: the real story of the man who played with fire”, I felt a keener loss, that of a man who I never met but now miss as a comrade in the fight against a decaying capitalist system.
Proyect, Louis: How the System Got Trumped: Cambridge Analytica's Electoral Psyops Campaign
Published: 2018
Available from Cinema Libre Studios, "Trumping Democracy" provides the key to understanding how we have ended up with the most unpopular president in history.
Proyect, Louis: Memoir From the Underground
Published: 2018
A review of the film "Memoir of War", directed by Emmanuel Finkiel, a semi-fictional memoire of writer Marguerite Duras who lived under a facist regime in Vichy France.
Proyect, Louis: A Pervert's Guide to Zizek
Elvis is on the Screen!
Published: 2013
Full disclosure: I have written at least ten critiques of Slavoj Zizek over the years so I approached the new documentary “A Pervert’s Guide to Ideology” with some skepticism. Despite this, I found much of it entertaining and even a little enlightening. At two hours and thirty minutes, however, it begins to lose its charm especially since the film is essentially one long lecture by the man called the Elvis of cultural theory. As is the case with all super-stars, critical self-reflection goes by the wayside when adoring fans surround you all the time telling you how great you are.
Proyect, Louis: When Madness Swept the Mediterranean
A Review of “Smyrna: the Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City”
Published: 2013
What was so unique about this Mediterranean port in the Ottoman Empire, which even today, 90 years after the Destruction is still linked to a joie de vivre during the good times and dirges for the Destruction that came so suddenly in September 1922?
Pruitt, Gary: Public's Access to Government Records Faces Roadblocks Aplenty
Published: 2015
Legally, all governent documents in the United States are supposed to be publicly accessible. It seems, however, that there is a work-around censor. Documents that prove embarassing to the organization or its members are effectively censored through bureaucratic inefficiency.
Prupis, Nadia: $88 billion a year in subsidies for climate disaster
Global governments spend more than double what energy companies invest to find new regions for oil and gas drilling, despite climate change
Published: 2014
Despite pledging in 2009 to phase out public subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, G20 countries have disregarded those promises and are currently spending $88 billion a year in taxpayer money to fund the discovery of new gas, coal, and oil deposits around the world.
Prystupa, Mychaylo: Burnaby Mountain battle: our notes from the courts, the woods and 100 arrests
Published: 2014
History unfolded on Burnaby Mountain. This is the Vancouver Observer's account of what we saw.
Prystupa, Mychaylo: Kitimat mayor flash mobbed by 'No Enbridge' protesters at Haisla basketball game
Published: 2014
In an increasingly explosive political climate in the Kitimat area over a controversial vote on the Northern Gateway pipeline, the Mayor of Kitimat was flash mobbed by a group of mostly First Nations people, donning "No Enbridge" shirts at a Haisla girls basketball championship on Sunday.
Prystupa, Mychaylo: Oil field fumes so painful, Alberta families forced to move
Published: 2014
Severe headaches, dizziness, rashes and loss of memory: all symptoms reported to a new hearing examining health effects of Alberta's rapidly expanding heavy oil industry.
Prystupa, Mychaylo: SFU scientist worries she'll lose home, over Kinder Morgan lawsuit
Published: 2014
She was the woman everyone on Burnaby Mountain was waiting for. The accidental media star -- SFU professor Lynne Quarmby -- was immediately surrounded by cameras as she gave her reaction Friday to the injunction brought down against her and other pipeline protesters. She vowed to continue her fight.
Prystupa, Mychaylo: Waterloo woman finds NEB e-mail lauding public's inability to question pipelines
Published: 2014
A Waterloo "citizen investigator" finds NEB memo boasting about Harper government changes at pipeline hearings designed to speed project approvals.
Pulaski, Stosh: Anti-Science: Left and Right Together?
A Systematic Attack on Rationality
Published: 2012
The suggestion that left and right thinking may be converging on matters scientific will, no doubt, be offensive to some on the left. After all, the right chooses myth over evolution, and oil profits over climate science.
Pullman, Joy: World-Class Scientist Calls Out Medical Journal For Smearing Lockdown Critics Instead Of Proving Them Wrong
Published: 2021
A respected vaccine safety researchers says that scientific institutions are killing their own legitimacy by enabling and perpetrating lies, distortions, smears, and unwarranted hysteria about COVID-19. "Open and honest discourse is critical for science and public health. As scientists, we must now tragically acknowledge that 400 years of scientific enlightenment may be coming to an end," writes Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard University and coauthor of the Great Barrington Declaration.
Pushkin, Alexander: Alexander Pushkin Quotes
PYLE , Christopher: Edward Snowden: Profile in Courage
Whistleblowing in the Name of the Constitution
Published: 2013
29-year-old former technical assistant to the CIA and employee of a defense intelligence contractor admitting to disclosing top secret documents about the National Security Agency’s massive violation of the privacy of law-abiding citizens.
Pynchon, Thomas: Thomas Pynchon Quotes

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Qadir, Shaukat: Shaukat Qadir Quotes
Qazi, Moin: The Enduring Myth Of Microfinance
Published: 2017
When microfinance-provision of financial services tailored to fit the needs of low income people – made its first appearance, everyone was infatuated by its narrative.
Qazi, Moin: Microfinance or Debt Trap? What the Poor Don't Know
Published: 2018
Qazi's article outlines how poorly designed microfinance initiatives harm rather than help low income borrowers.
Quarante, Olivier: Fish, Phosphates and Tomatoes
Morocco Exploits Western Sahara's Natural Resources
Published: 2014
Morocco is making considerable profits from the land and waters of the annexed Western Sahara, and no external power, including the UN, has challenged this.
Quiggin, John: John Locke Against Freedom
Published: 2015
John Locke's classical liberalism isn’t a doctrine of freedom. It's a defense of expropriation and enslavement.
Quigley, Bill: 40 Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People
It's Not Just About Crime!
Published: 2015
Quigley provides a list of reasons why the majority of prisoners in US jails are Black and poor people.
Quigley, Bill: The Katrina Pain Index, 2013
New Orleans Eight Years Later
Published: 2013
Eight years after Katrina, New Orleans has lost about 86,000 people, and the city remains incredibly poor.
Quigley, Bill: Major Challenges of New Orleans Charter Schools Exposed at NAACP Hearing
Published: 2017
New Orleans is the nation's largest and most complete experiment in charter schools. After Hurricane Katrina, the State of Louisiana took control of public schools in New Orleans and launched a nearly complete transformation of a public school system into a system of charter schools.
Quigley, Bill: Reverse Robin Hood: Six Billion Dollar Businesses Preying on Poor People
Published: 2016
Many see families in poverty and seek to help. Others see families in poverty and see opportunities for profit. Here are six examples of billion dollar industries which are built on separating poor people, especially people of colour, from their money, the reverse Robin Hood.
Quigley, Bill: A Shameful Situation
Millions of Soldiers and Veterans in Serious Trouble
Published: 2014
Millions of US soldiers and veterans are in serious trouble, in the areas of suicide, homelessness, unemployment, poverty, disability, medical care, and mental health.
Quigley, Bill: Spying by the Numbers
Hundreds of Thousands Subject to Government Surveillance and No Real Protection
Published: 2013
Thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden many more people in the US and world-wide are learning about extensive US government surveillance and spying. There are publicly available numbers which show the reality of these problems are bigger than most think and most of this spying is happening with little or no judicial oversight.
Quigley, Bill: 13 Things the Government is Trying to Keep Secret From You
Constitutional Black Out
Published: 2013
The President and the Government are intentionally keeping massive amounts of information about surveillance secret.
Quigley, Bill: Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us
Published: 2012
Privacy is eroding fast as technology offers government increasing ways to track and spy on citizens. Here are thirteen examples of how some of the biggest government agencies and programs track people.
Quigley, Bill; Warren, Vince: Obama's Liberty Problem
Why Indefinite Detention By Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People
Published: 2010
The proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order will threaten the liberty of every single US citizen who is not in Guantanamo because it will damage the due process guarantees which have built up over the years to protect each one of us.
Quigley, Fran: The Senseless Death of Tobeka Daki
Auctioning Health and Life to the Highest Bidders
Published: 2016
Details the circumstances of the death of Tobeka Daki of South Africa, implicating the exorbitant drug prices of pharmaceutical corporations.
Quigley, J.T.: Japan Is Getting An Anonymous Whistleblowing Platform, But Will Journalists Use it?
Published: 2015
In a country with a strong anti-whistleblower sentiment and strict state-secret laws, a university professor has created an annoymous whilstleblower website.
Quiley, Bill: Top Ten Examples of Welfare for the Rich
Making a Killing Off the Tax Code
Published: 2014
Here are the top ten examples of corporate welfare and welfare for the rich. There are actually thousands of tax breaks and subsidies for the rich and corporations provided by federal, state and local governments but these ten will give a taste.
Quilty, Andrew: The Man on the Operating Table
Published: 2015
Baynazar Mohammad Nazar was a husband and a father of four -- and a patient killed during the attack on the MSF hospital in Kunduz. This is his story.
Quinley, Caleb: Attacks in Thailand's deep south: Who, why and what's next?
Burst of violence deepens concerns the situation in the conflict-hit region could deteriorate in the coming months.
Published: 2019
Fatal attacks by Malay separatists have brought what some feel are overly punitive retaliation from Thailand's military. This could lead to a deterioration in diplomacy and more violence.
Quinn, Kelly: The New Monument on the Mall
Against The Current vol. 157
Published: 2012
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is the first devoted to an African American individual on the Washington Mall, a solemn civic space heretofore reserved for presidents and warriors.
Quinn, Mark: Beothuk remains returned to Newfoundland after 191 years in Scotland
Mi'kmaq chief says remains are 'almost home' at St. John's museum, far away from gravesite
Published: 2020
The remains of a Beothuk couple who were taken from a grave in central Newfoundland and sent to Scotland almost two centuries ago have been returned to their home province.
Quinn, Tristan: Agroecology leading the fight against India's Green Revolution
Published: 2015
For the women farmers of Tamil Nadu life has long been a struggle, all the more so following the advent of 'Green Revolution' industrial agriculture. So now women's collectives are organising to restore traditional foods and farming methods, resulting in lower costs, higher yields, improved nutrition, and a rekindling of native Tamil culture.
Quintin, Cooper: Tor is for Everyone
Why You Should Use Tor
Published: 2014
EFF recently kicked off their second Tor Challenge, an initiative to strengthen the Tor network for online anonymity and improve one of the best free privacy tools in existence. This is great news, but how does it affect you? To understand that, we have to dig into what Tor actually is, and what people can do to support it.
Quintin, Cooper: Worried About AI Voice Clone Scams? Create a Family Password
Published: 2024
Your grandfather receives a call late at night from a person pretending to be you. The caller says that you are in jail or have been kidnapped and that they need money urgently to get you out of trouble. Perhaps they then bring on a fake police officer or kidnapper to heighten the tension. The money, of course, should be wired right away to an unfamiliar account at an unfamiliar bank.
Quraishi, Ibrahim: The Hijab as a Billboard for Islamist Propaganda
Published: 2022
Let's not fool ourselves about what is actually happening in Iran now and for the last five weeks. These women are not just merely "celebrating" or marching for their freedom of expression in general political terms, no! They are fighting a piece of cloth that has come to symbolise an all-encompassing religious intolerance and zealotry as the core of a disintegrating Islamist ideology.
Qureshi, Bilal: A Lavish Bollywood Musical Is Fueling A Culture War In India
Published: 2018
Review of the controversial 2018 Bollywood film "Padmaavat". Qureshi summarises the politically charged campaign of misinformation and resulting sectarian violence that has dogged its release.
Qurratulain, Zaman (Annie): Pakistani Company Accused of Running Fake Degree Scam Has a History of Silencing Critics
Published: 2015
On immoral companies and small voices. A Pakistani company has been silencing accusations of illegality through the intimidation of big law suits.
Qvortrup, Matt: The 'Neverendum'? A History of Referendums and Independence
An overview of the history of independence referendums
Published: 2014
Next year's referendum on Scottish independence raises many questions. Do countries have the right to hold referendums? Should they hold them? Does the wording of the question determine the outcome? Who wins?

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Raban, Jonathan: Curiouser and curiouser
Tea Party members aren't foaming at the mouth racist bigots
Published: 2010
A journalist travels to the first National Tea Party Convention in Tennessee as a delegate and finds the other delegates privately share his disdain for the racism and conspiracy theories the group fosters. He describes the delegates as average voters baffled by Obama's health care bill and economic policies.
Rabi, Ayman: Water Apartheid in Palestine
A Crime Against Humanity
Published: 2014
Ayman Rabi on the 2.1 million Palestinians who suffer an artificial water scarcity deliberately created and sustained by Israel’s military occupation and the private Israeli water company Mekorot.
Rabinowitz, Paula: Subversive Viewing/Viewing Subversives - Review
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
Reviews of 'Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship' by Jonathan Auerbach and old 'War Femme: Lesbianism, National Security, and Hollywood Cinema' by Robert J. Corber.
Rabkin,Yakov M.: A serious newspaper should not confuse Jews and Zionists
Published: 2010
On the eve of the 62th anniversary of Israel, it is important to remember that it was the Zionist minority of Palestine's inhabitants that issued the unilateral declaration of independence. Israel is a Zionist state, not a Jewish one, another important distinction to make in future articles on this burning subject.
Radack, Jesselyn: Is the Vault 7 Source a Whistleblower?
Published: 2017
Historically, the criminal justice system has been a particularly inept judge of who is a whistleblower. Moreover, it has allowed the use of the pernicious Espionage Act – an arcane law meant to go after spies – to go after whistleblowers who reveal information the public interest.
Radford, Benjamin: The Futility of Race-Naming Mass Shooters
Published: 2021
As simplistic and satisfying as it would be, no single demographic emerges from the data as “the typical mass shooter.” It depends on what type of mass shooting you’re looking at. In the end, focusing on the race of mass shooters is not helpful; it is not predictive of who is likely to engage in gun violence. Singling out any specific race as being dangerous is likely to do more harm than good. While race is not a useful or predictive prism through which to understand or identify mass shooters, mental illness is no better and is in many ways a distraction from the deeper issues. As with other mass shooter demographics, there is little insight to be gained by focusing on the mental health history of mass shooters. There are several reasons for this, perhaps most prominently that most mass shooters across all categories do not have a prior history of mental health treatment.
Radford, Leslie: Foreclosures and the Police State
Hernandez Family Foreclosure Sparks Anti-Eviction Outrage
Published: 2012
The story of the Hernandez family, who became local heroes in their determination to keep their Van Nuys home from foreclosure.
Radford,Tim: Future dustbowl? Fracking ravages Great Plains land and water
Published: 2015
The fracking boom has caused massive vegetation loss over North America's rangelands, as 3 million hectares have been occupied by oil and gas infrastructure and 34 billion cubic metres of water have been pumped from semi-arid ecosystems.
Radio-Canada's Brigitte Bureau: Devices that track, spy on cellphones found at Montreal's Trudeau airport
Published: 2017
CBC Radio-Canada investigation already found electronic surveillance devices near Parliament Hill.
Radovitz, Jon Von: Recession led to 260k extra cancer deaths, experts claim
Published: 2016
Unemployment and austerity were associated with more than 260,000 extra deaths of cancer patients in countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD), a study has shown. Those countries with universal health coverage , such as the UK, and a record of increased public health spending had fewer casualties.
Raffensperger, Carolyn; Butler, Kaitlin: Economics As If Future Generations Mattered
Published: 2014
We have turned a corner on climate change-- a wrong turn-- and it is happening more rapidly than we have predicted. Climate change is already disrupting society, ecosystems, and national economies. We have altered so much of our Earth that we now threaten our own survival.
Rafia, Zakaria: Pakistan: The hell of sexual harassment in the workplace
Published: 2016
In increasingly competitive Pakistani work situations, women continue to be targets for men with power.
Raghavan, Maanasa, Skoglund, Pontus, et. al.: Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans
Published: 2013
Our findings reveal that western Eurasian genetic signatures in modern-day Native Americans derive not only from post-Columbian admixture, as commonly thought, but also from a mixed ancestry of the First Americans.
Rahman, Mowdud; Aitken, Greg: Coal plant threatens world's largest mangrove forest - and Bangladesh's future
Published: 2015
As COP21 reaches its endgame, there are plans to build 2,440 coal-fired power plants around the worl. Their completion would send global temperatures, and sea levels, soaring. Yet Bangladesh, the world's most 'climate vulnerable' large country, has plans for a 1.3GW coal power plant on the fringes of its World Heritage coastal wetlands.
Rahnema, Saeed: The Perils of Faith-Based Multiculturalism
The Case of Shari'a in Canada
Published: 2006
Conservative religious leaders have become more vocal and demanding, and governments are giving in to their demands without much regard for the serious consequences for democracy and citizens’ rights.
Rai, Nanky; Majeed, Abeer; Deutsch, Jim; Bailey, Brendan; Garfinkle, Miriam: Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful
Published: 2013
Imagine getting injured at work, and instead of going to a hospital or seeing your health-care provider, you are deported from Canada.
Rai, Nanky; Majeed, Abeer; Deutsch, Jim; Bailey, Brendean; Garfinkle, Miriam: Negar la cobertura de salud a los trabajadores migrantes lesionados es vergonzoso
Published: 2013
Raimondo, Justin: Antiwar.com vs. the Decline of American Journalism
Published: 2017
What is the "alternative" media? If we look at the phrase itself, it seems to mean the media that presents itself as the alternative to what we call the "corporate media," i.e. the New York Times, the Washington Post, your local rag – in short, the Legacy Media that predominated in those bygone days before the Internet. And yet this whole arrangement seems outdated, to say the least. The Internet has long since been colonized by the corporate giants: BuzzFeed, for example, is regularly fed huge dollops of cash from its corporate owners. And the Legacy Media has adapted to the primacy of online media, however reluctantly and ineptly. So the alternative media isn’t defined by how they deliver the news, but rather by 1) what they judge to be news, and 2) how they report it. And that’s the problem.
Raimondo, Justin: 'Freedom of the Seas' Means American Global Hegemony
The US should stay out of the South China Sea dispute
Published: 2015
There ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough to keep us from our sacred duty to protect the world from itself. From the South China Sea to the shores of the Black Sea, America stands guard over Freedom. This tweet from Foreign Policy magazine, the organ of the Council on Foreign Relations, states our mission bluntly: "The Obama administration will finally send a destroyer to uphold freedom of navigation in the South China Sea."
Raimondo, Justin: Where the Anti-Russian Moral Panic is Leading Us
Published: 2017
This is how the smear campaign scores points: you don't have to be on the Russian payroll -- you can be a "useful idiot" just because of your political views, which condemn you as an "unwitting" agent, as former CIA director Mike Morell described Trump. This is how the parameters of "respectable" opinion are policed: this is how the War Party criminalizes those who think that the cold war is over and shouldn't be revived.
Raimondo, Justin: Where's the Evidence?
The CIA-FBI-NSA report on the hacking of the 2016 election is pure baloney
Published: 2017
We are told from the outset that the actual evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC and John Podesta's emails as part of a wide-ranging campaign to put Donald Trump in the White House cannot be revealed: "source and methods" must be kept secret. This in spite of DNI director James Clapper's pledge that he would declassify as much of the evidence as possible in the interests of transparency: but then again, Clapper is an admitted liar.
Raimondo, Justin: Why Progressives Love the New Cold War
The anti-Russian hysteria coming from the left isn't surprising
Published: 2016
The Clinton campaign's effort to turn the 2016 US election into a referendum on Vladimir Putin is causing some liberals to question how the tactic appears contradictory to Clinton's other goals and beliefs. Examining support for US war efforts since WWI shows the current Cold War tactics of Clinton have many precedents from liberal politicians.
Raimondo, Justin: The Witch-Hunters
Published: 2016
Washington Post pushes campaign to censor alternative media.
Rain: Thankstaking in the Trumpfederacy: Terminate the Tribe That Aided the Pilgrims
Published: 2018
A look at the hostile climate that exists under the Trump Administration for America's first peoples. The article looks at the further erosion treaties and protective laws, and the belief among indigenous communities that the administration's policy is a return to 'termination'.
Rainford, John: 'But the banks are made of marble' -- how banks screw the world
Published: 2015
Across Africa, western Asia and Latin America in the 1980s, the growth of per capita GDP was brought to a halt. This was not a recession, it was a severe depression. And its cause was reckless lending by banks in the ’70s. A decade earlier, the euro currency had been invented. US dollars deposited in non-US banks and held there to avoid restrictions of US laws became negotiable financial instruments. These formed the basis for an unregulated market specialising in short-term loans.
Rainford, John: How Australian bank financed the heroin trade
Published: 2013
Rakotomalala, Lova: How Boko Haram Is Changing International Politics in Western and Central Africa
Published: 2015
Two suicide attacks on June 22 in Maroua, northern Cameroon, left several people dead and many others wounded. Ten days earlier, 15 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack at a crowded market in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad. The attack came exactly three weeks after a similar bombing claimed the lives of 27 people in the same town.
Rall, Ted: America's Long History of Meddling in Russia
Published: 2020
Setting aside the question of whether it's smart to take the U.S. government at its word — it isn't — if Russia were to meddle in our domestic politics, we would have it coming. To say the least.
Rall, Ted: The Digital Dark Ages: Movies and Books Get Deleted as Selfies Pile Up
Published: 2015
Historians and archivists call our times the "digital dark ages." The name evokes the medieval period that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which led to a radical decline in the recorded history of the West for 1000 years. But don't blame the Visigoths or the Vandals. The culprit is the ephemeral nature of digital recording devices. Remember all the stuff you stored on floppy discs, now lost forever? Over the last 25 years, we've seen big 8" floppies replaced by 5.25" medium replaced by little 3.5" floppies, Zip discs and CD-ROMs, external hard drives and now the Cloud -- and let's not forget memory sticks and also-rans like the DAT and Minidisc.
Rall, Ted: How the Media Manipulated the Democratic Primary
Published: 2016
Though it might not always seem like it, the news media is composed of human beings. Humans aren't, can’t be, and possibly shouldn't be, objective. Still, there's a reasonable expectation among consumers of political news that journalists of all political stripes strive to be as objective as possible. At their minimum, media outlets ought to be straightforward about their biases. They certainly shouldn't have, or appear to have, their thumbs on the scales.
Rall, Ted: The New York Times Called a Famous Cartoonist an Anti-Semite. Repeatedly. They Didn’t Ask Him for Comment.
Published: 2019
Rall, Ted: Security Is Ruining the Internet
Published: 2017
How the need for cybersecurity has made the internet less convenient for users.
Ramahi, Omar M.: The Salaita Affair
Lessons Heard and Lessons Learned
Published: 2014
Professor Steven Salaita was to begin his new faculty appointment in Fall 2014 as a tenured Associate Professor in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His appointment was vetted through the multi-layer levels that are a mainstay of North American universities faculty appointment process. However, on August 1, 2014, the chancellor of UIUC Phyllis Wise informed Salaita that he did not have a faculty job at UIUC. The storm this di-hiring created amongst North American academics was unprecedented.
Ramesh, Randeep: Knicker protest targets Hindu militants
Published: 2009
The socially conservative Hindu Sri Ram Sena (Lord Ram's Army) a group of vigilantes has attacked women in pubs and unwed couples, in an effort to protect what they call "Indian Culture". Indian women fought back by sending 40,000 pairs of pink underwear to their offices.
Ramesh, Randeep: NHS Patient Data to be Made Available for Sale to Drug and Insurance Firms
Published: 2014
Drug and insurance companies will from later this year be able to buy information on patients once a single English database of medical data has been created. Privacy experts warn there will be no way for public to work out who has their medical records or how they are using it.
Ramirez, Rachel: Dam it all: More than half of the world's long rivers are blocked by infrastucture
Published: 2019
But with the increasing demand for more water, energy generation, and flood management, the construction of dams, levees, reservoirs, and other river-obstructive infrastructures is becoming ubiquitous.
Ramirez-Franco, Juanpablo: Indian Country: The Situation is Bleak, But Not Hopeless
Published: 2018
Discusses how even though issues such as the Dakota Access Pipeline have received lots of public attention people are unaware of how Indigenous dispossession is deeply ingrained in the fabric of the US.
Ramirez-Franco, Juanpablo: Indian Country: The Situation is Bleak, But Not Hopeless
Published: 2018
A discussion of Stephanie Woodard's book "American Apartheid: The Native Struggle for Self-Determination and Inclusion" and looking at how present-day colonial practices impact Native people in the US.
Ramm, Benjamin: The 1,000-year-old lost Arab poetry that lives on in Hebrew
Published: 2017
A thousand years ago, the Iberian peninsula was a cultural oasis-- until a million of its Arabic manuscripts were destroyed. Benjamin Ramm explains how its poetry lives on.
Ramm, Benjamin: The 'war on drugs' is a war on culture and human diversity
Published: 2016
The 'war on drugs' is presented as a necessary battle against social evils. But from the Andes to the Caribbean, prohibition has criminalised both religious and cultural expression. And it's a war that is strictly for the global poor: people in Colorado can grow pot - so why not Colombians?
Rams, Dagna: Agbogbloshie: Ghana's 'trash world' may be an eyesore - but it's no dump
Published: 2015
Most accounts of Agbogbloshie, the e-waste site in Accra, Ghana, persistently miss the point. Far from being a simple 'dump' for the world's trash, it is a huge recycling operation that pays for the wastes it receives, employs thousands of young men who would otherwise lack jobs, and plays a huge role in the national and global economy.
Rancourt, Denis: How Defamation Law has Developed and is Applied in Canada
Canadian Defamation Law is Noncompliant with International Law (Part Two of a Two Part Series)
Published: 2016
This article was prepared for the Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA). Overall Defamation law in Canada is contrary to international law, in both design and practice.
Also, Canada’s practice of its defamation law materially aggravates the noncompliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (eleven impugned rules and practices are described).
Rancourt, Denis: No Grades in Higher Education Now!
Is the Revolution any closer?
Published: 2015
Author and social scientist Stuart Tannock has recently published a historical and critical overview of the practice of grading in education.
Randall, Kate: New York Times, Obamacare and the war on the elderly
Published: 2013
“On Dying After Your Time” by Daniel Callahan advances the notion that the burning issue vexing the US health care system is that people are living too long. The cost of keeping them alive, Callahan argues, is threatening a social catastrophe.
Randi, James: A Consistently Erroneous Technology
A Magician in the Lab
Published: 2017
A look at the polygraph, or lie detector technology, and why it is unreliable.
Ranieri, Vera: In Patent Litigation, Justice Delayed Ensures the Entire Public Can Be Denied
Published: 2016
When courts fail to quickly address serious defects in a patent litigation complaint, it can harm not only the parties to the case, but also the public at large. EFF and Public Knowledge have filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a case where the Eastern District of Texas is allowing expensive litigation to drag on even though the defendant has already fully briefed validity issues that almost surely will dispose of the case, and stop the patent owner from suing on them in the future.
Ranieri, Vera: Once Again, Megaupload User Asks Court for His Files Back
Published: 2015
When the government seized Megaupload's assets and servers, Goodwin, like many others, lost access to video files containing months of professional work. After years he hasn't been able to get them back.
Rao, Kavitha: How three Indian villages saved the Amur falcon.
A new grassroots conservation model takes root
Published: 2013
In the eastern Indian state of Nagaland, three villages worked together to save the Amur falcon from mass slaughter with the help of governments, green groups and the church.
Rashid, Frank: Arab Detroit, Targeted Community
Against The Current vol. 157
Published: 2012
Since September 11, 2001, the Detroit area’s Arab-American community has become a convenient source of media reports, an object of investigation by government agencies, and a target of hatred for Americans looking for someone to blame for the 9/11 attacks.
Raskin, Ben: The seed saving rebellion is growing - and banging at the Commission's door
Published: 2015
A year ago today, Europe-wide protests defeated an EU regulation that would have outlawed many seed saving activities. Now growers are taking matters into their own hands, saving and developing open-pollinated seeds - and campaigning for a seed regulation that supports them, not the monopolist seed corporations.
Raskin, Jonah: The Public Library: Antidote to Everyday American Banality
Published: 2019
A celebration of the local library that includes conversations with librarians and patrons.
Rasmus, Jack: The Check-the-Box Loophole
The Great Corporate Tax Shift
Published: 2013
Corporate taxes in America have been in decline now for more than three decades. Contrary to the drumbeat of corporate media throughout this year, and their false claims that US corporations are paying far more than their foreign capitalist cousins.
Rasmus, Jack: The Great Corporate Tax Shift
The $10 Trillion Heist
Published: 2013
The great corporate myth-making machine has been hard at work of late, attempting to create the false impression that US corporations are increasingly uncompetitive with their foreign rivals due to the fact they allegedly pay higher corporate taxes.
Rasmus, Jack: The Pensions Funding Gap
Against The Current vol. 159
Published: 2012
A pension crisis of major dimensions is growing in the United States across all three forms of defined benefit plans (DBPs) — public, private single-employer, and private multi-employer plans. Corporate America and its political friends have begun to use the economic crisis that commenced in 2007 as an opportunity to initiate and expand yet another offensive, aimed at further undermining defined benefit pensions.
Rasmus, Jack: Trump & the Fed: US Shadow Bankers About to Deepen Control of US Economy
Published: 2018
What's sometime referred to as 'shadow bankers' have been running the economy and drafting US domestic economic policy since Trump took office. 'Shadow' banks include such financial institutions as investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, insurance companies, finance companies, asset management companies, etc. They are outside the traditional commercial banking system (e.g. Chase, Bank of America, Wells, etc.) and virtually unregulated. Shadow banks globally now also control more investible liquid assets than do the world's commercial banks.
Rasmus, Jack: Ukraine's IMF Deal
Heading Toward a Greece-like Depression?
Published: 2014
On March 27, 2014, the IMF released the broad outlines of its terms and conditions for loans and other measures for the Ukrainian economy. What those terms and conditions mean is less a rescue of the Ukrainian economy than the onset of a Greece-like economic depression for the Ukrainian populace.
Rasmus, Jack: What's the True Unemployment Rate in the US?
Published: 2019
The real unemployment rate is probably somewhere between 10%-12%. The 3.7% is the U-3 rate, per the labor dept. But that’s the rate only for full time employed. What the labour depatment calls the U-6 includes what it calls discouraged workers (those who haven’t looked for work in the past 4 weeks). Then there's what's called the 'missing labour force' - i.e. those who have'’t looked in the past year. They're not calculated in the 3.7% U-3 unemployment rate number either. Why? Because you have to be 'out of work and actively looking for work' to be counted as unemployed and therefore part of the 3.7% rate.
Ratnavel, Roy: An Immigrant's Ode to Canada
Published: 2023
A survivor of Sri Lanka's civil war who found safety and prosperity on Canadian shores wonders why his well-to-do white neighbours seem so fixated on racism.
Raventos, Daniel; Wark, Julie: The X-Rated Free Market
On Pornography, Royal Spermatozoa and the Free Market
Published: 2014
Is the pornography market the only free one? The question might seem provocative. Or a gross oversimplification. But it might also shed some light on certain points, namely those related with the political shaping of markets.
Rayher,Fiona; Gillis, Damien: Fractured Land
Published: 2015
In Fractured Land, we follow Caleb Behn, a young Dene lawyer who may become one of this generation's great leaders, if he can discover how to reconcile the fractures within himself, his community and the world around him, blending modern tools of the law with ancient wisdom.
Read, Daniel: History and Hypocrisy: Why the Korean War Matters in the Age of Trump
Published: 2017
The DPRK's recent missile test is a "provocation" according to US state sources. A provocation indeed. Firing things into the air that go bang is clearly not a nice thing to do. People really should ease up on things that explode. I mean somebody could get hurt.
Read, Rupert: The Precautionary Principle: the basis of a post-GMO ethic
Published: 2016
GMOs have been in our diets for about 20 years. Proof that they are safe? No way - it took much, much longer to discover the dangers of cigarettes and transfats, dangers that are far more visible than those of GMOs. On the scale of nature and ecology, 20 years is a pitifully short time. To sustain our human future, we have to think long term.
Read, Rupert; Rughanl, Deepak: Heartbreaking Genius of Staggering Over-Simplification
Published: 2020
Planet of the Humans is a deeply frustrating work: for it is both seminal and deeply problematic. Its foes have missed or tried to drown out the seminal importance it potentially has or had. Its fans have missed or tried to paper over its profound flaws. In this review we explore the fundamental insights it offers as well as illuminate — as the film sadly does not — a path for the constructive use of renewable energy going forward. A path that is rather more limited and specific than most of those who are excoriating the film would like to believe.
Readfearn, Graham: Marc Morano's Climate Hustle Film Set For Paris Premiere With Same Old Denial Myths
Published: 2015
Marc Morano is never short of a superlative or two, but when it has come to promoting his long-gestating documentary Climate Hustle, the climate science denialist extraodinaire has been outdoing himself.
Reavis, Dick J.: Amid the Tumult in Durham
Published: 2017
Peter Gilbert (a rights attorney) and his wife Elena Everett,a non-profit organizer, had their house searched by Sheriff's officers in Durham when nobody was at home. It had to do with a demonstration of some 200 on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017.
Rebecca: Sex and Gender: A Beginner's Guide
An introductory overview to contemporary debates in sex and gender.
Rechtenwalk, Michael: Postmodernism, the Academic Left, and the Crisis of Capitalism
Published: 2013
Over the past fifty years, postmodern theory — an umbrella term generally used to refer to such diverse theoretical movements and paradigms as post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and others — has generally dominated most fields in the humanities and some in the social sciences. But the economic meltdown in 2008 and the subsequent chronic crisis in capitalism have dealt a fatal theoretical blow to the varied and nearly ineffable assemblage of perspectives that are often grouped under the rubric of “postmodernism.” postmodernism was indeed tragedy. It was tragedy for the massive amounts of “cultural capital” that it wasted; it was tragedy for the defrauding of intellectual integrity that it represented; it was tragedy for the abandonment of reality that it recommended. Further, like the financial fiasco, it was criminal.
Rechy, John: Political Incorrectness: Female Actors and Trojans
Published: 2005
In an excess of purported equality, some Hollywood actresses want to be called "actors." How sad and self-defeating. Doesn't opting for the male-designated noun, actor, imply superiority of that male form? If not, why not seek equality by extending the female form -- actress -- to actors; e.g., "Actress Tom Cruise". That would assert the prominence of the female-designated noun.
Rector, Meredith: The War Over Mangoes
Published: 2017
Growing mangoes in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has racked up an enormous socio-political expense for the region far greater than the price tag on the fruit in the supermarket. For a Mexican drug cartel desperate to move product, hiding illicit drugs in mango shipments is a risky but viable cover for getting them to the U.S. market. For the people of Oaxaca, however, the infiltration of one of the region’s most important industries indicates the threat of a life controlled by drug violence and its wide-ranging effects on society.
Reed Jr.,Adolph: Nothing Left
The long, slow surrender of American liberals
Published: 2014
On the gradual decline of the U.S. liberal-left party and its principles.
Reed, Adolph: The James Brown Theory of Black Liberation
Published: 2015
After decades of frustration with what Selma filmmaker Ava DuVernay calls "white saviour" narratives, antiracist progressives appear to have settled on an ideologically more appealing alternative - what Adolph Reed calls the James Brown Theory of Black Liberation.
Reed, Adolph J.: The limits of anti-racism
Published: 2009
The contemporary discourse of 'antiracism' is focused much more on taxonomy than politics. It emphasizes the name by which we should call some strains of inequality -- whether they should be broadly recognized as evidence of 'racism' -- over specifying the mechanisms that produce them or even the steps that can be taken to combat them. And, no, neither 'overcoming racism' nor 'rejecting whiteness' qualifies as such a step any more than does waiting for the 'revolution' or urging God's heavenly intervention.
Reed, Adolph Jr.: Beyond the Great Awokening
Reassessing the legacies of past black organizing
Published: 2020
Discourse about race and politics in the United States has been driven in recent years more by moralizing than by careful analysis or strategic considerations. It also depends on naïve and unproductive ways of interpreting the past and its relation to the present.
Reed, Adolph Jr.: Django Unchained, or, The Help: How "Cultural Politics" Is Worse Than No Politics at All, and Why
Published: 2013
On reflection, it's possible to see that Django Unchained and The Help are basically different versions of the same movie. Both dissolve political economy and social relations into individual quests and interpersonal transactions and thus effectively sanitize, respectively, slavery and Jim Crow by dehistoricizing them. The problem is not so much that each film invents cartoonish fictions; it's that the point of the cartoons is to take the place of the actual relations of exploitation that anchored the regime it depicts.
Reed, Adolph Jr.: From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much
Published: 2015
As is ever clearer and ever more important to note, race politics is not an alternative to class politics; it is a class politics, the politics of the left-wing of neoliberalism. It is the expression and active agency of a political order and moral economy in which capitalist market forces are treated as unassailable nature. An integral element of that moral economy is displacement of the critique of the invidious outcomes produced by capitalist class power onto equally naturalized categories of ascriptive identity that sort us into groups supposedly defined by what we essentially are rather than what we do.
Reed, Adolph Jr.: The Obamas' "Rustin"
Fun Tricks You Can Do on the Past
Published: 2023
When I learned that the Obamas were producing a biopic on Bayard Rustin, I shuddered a bit in apprehension of what such a project would be.
Reed, Adolph Jr.: The Retrograde Quest for Symbolic Prophets of Black Liberation
Moving beyond the Moses Complex
Published: 2021
One little-examined legacy of the broader intellectual embrace of race-reductive thinking is something we might call the Quest for Moses(es)—the shorthand branding exercise of privileging the content of individual characters in our debates on racial injustice. We see this tendency in much of today’s wokeness-inflected discourse, which leans heavily on appealing to the authority individuals considered to be exemplary, from differing times or historical contexts, in lieu of empirical arguments to support assertions concerning how we should understand racial injustice.
Reed, Dave: Keep seeing Mondoweiss in your news feed following changes at Facebook
Published: 2018
As most of you by now know, Facebook has recently made big changes to how users see content from publishers like Mondoweiss.
Reed, Drew: The weird afterlife of the world's subterranean 'ghost stations'
Published: 2014
With plans afoot to transform disused London tube stations into tourist attractions, Drew Reed digs into how they get abandoned in the first place and what could become of them in the future.
Reed, Fred: On Going Seriously Boom
Published: 2022
On what nuclear war would mean.
Reed, Kevin: Broadband monopolies to censor Internet content
Behind the FCC plan to abolish net neutrality
Published: 2017
The recently released plan by the American Federal Communications Commission to abolish net neutrality has evoked mass opposition across the US and around the world.
Reed, Rex: Denmark's 'Land of Mine' Is a Harrowing Look at Life After War
Published: 2017
A film review for Denmark's "Land of Mine," written and directed by Martin Zandvliet.
Reed, Wyatt: With the right-wing coup in Bolivia nearly complete, the junta is hunting down the last remaining dissidents
Published: 2019
A brutal military junta that seized power from Bolivia's democratically elected President Evo Morales is violently repressing a working-class indigenous-led uprising, and the country is rapidly falling under its control. Soldiers in military fatigues prowl the streets, enforcing a series of choke points around the seat of power.
Rees, Phil: Are Myanmar secret agents still playing 'dirty tricks'?
Published: 2015
Al Jazeera investigates whether crushing dissent and monitoring the opposition has continued after military rule.
Reese, Debbie: A Copy of Tucson's Banned Book List
Published: 2012
People involved in the Mexican American Studies struggle in Tucson, Arizona recently compiled a list of the banned books from the district, as well as released a letter signed by many organizations expressing concern over First Amendment rights, given the Tucson Unified School District’s removal of these texts. Here is the letter and here is the list, also reproduced below.
Regencia, Ted: Philippines: when the police kill children - Kulot, Carl, Kian...
Published: 2017
Murders of several teenagers in the Philippines suspected to have been killed as part of the government's war on drugs.
Reich, Robert: How the New Flexible Economy is Making Workers Lives Hell
Published: 2015
Whatever it's called – just-in-time scheduling, on-call staffing, on-demand work, independent contracting, or the "share economy" -- the result is the same: No predictability, no economic security.
Reichard, Lawrence: The Seemingly Endless Indignities of Air Travel: Report from the Losing Side of Class Warfare
Published: 2016
For most of my alleged adult life I have wanted to live in a third world country, and now that my native United States has kindly accommodated this wish, all I do is bitch. It's bad enough that our income and wealth disparity rivals that of Guatemala, now our tax dollars are actively promoting this ever-deepening caste system.
Reichard, Lawrence: Witness to a War Crimes Trial: My Heart is Sepur Zarco
Published: 2016
A frail, elderly woman, covered from head to toe in bright, colorful clothing approaches the witness chair. Her face is almost entirely covered. She is no more than five feet tall, and under all that clothing she can't weigh more than 100 pounds. She sits next to her translator. She speaks only Q’eqchi, one of Guatemala’s 24 officially recognized languages – no Spanish.
The witness speaks quietly into a microphone, and her testimony is harrowing.
Reid Ross, Alexander: 2,500 Years of Class Hatred
Published: 2016
Class struggle never existed without hatred of the poor. And neither has racism. Boots Riley's recent article, posted in The Guardian, systematically dispels the myth of black-on-black crime advocated by Bill Clinton. Rather than pointing the image of failure at black people in the US, Riley insists, the mirror should be redirected to class war and the failure of liberal democracy. The condition of black people will advance with economic prosperity, not punitive drug laws.
Reid, Nick; Nunn, Patrick: Deep time: Aboriginal stories tell of when the Great Barrier Reef was dry land
Published: 2015
Stories told by Australia's Aboriginal peoples tell of the time, over 10,000 years ago, when the last Ice Age came to an end, and sea levels rose by 120 metres. The narratives tally with the findings of contemporary science, raising the question: what is it about Aborigines and their culture than so accurately transmitted their oral traditions across thousands of generations?
Reif, Evan: What the U.S. Government and The New York Times Have Quietly Agreed Not to Tell You About Ukraine
Published: 2022
The narrative that portrays Ukraine as a democratic state - no matter how beloved by U.S. corporate media or endlessly repeated by the State Department - is a fantasy. History has shown us that the Ukrainian government's commitment to democracy is dubious or non-existent. Ukraine currently has more banned political parties than legal ones; political repression and imprisonment of dissidents has been commonplace ever since its independence; and both the government and its affiliated party militias routinely resort to violence to quell peaceful protests while turning a blind eye to violence inflicted on Jews and other racial and ethnic minorities.
Reith, Terry: At least 33 Canadian churches have burned to the ground since May 2021. So far, 24 are confirmed arsons
Published: 2024
CBC investigation finds steep rise in church fires since reports of potential graves at residential schools.
Rekacewicz, Philippe: The airport malls
Published: 2013
An airport is a zombie zone between two worlds. The retail spaces are seductive, yet you didn't choose to shop here. You didn't choose to be here. They are controlling you, guiding you, harassing you: will you be able to resist a purchase?
Rempel, Terry M.: Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
Published: 2006
The Palestinian refugee situation is one of the most protracted cases of forced displacement in the world today (UNHCR, 2006). The largest group of Palestinian refugees originate from areas inside the state of Israel and were displaced during the 1948 Israeli-Arab war. A smaller number of Palestinians remain internally displaced from this period and are citizens of Israel.
Remón, Cecilia: Illegal logging behind deaths of indigenous leaders
Assassination of forest defenders highlights extensive network of logging and the illegal timber trade.
Published: 2014
"In the forest, the silence at night is absolute," says Sara, a settler who owns a plot of land in the middle of Peru's central jungle. "But suddenly, at 9 p.m. you start hearing chainsaws in the distance. I get up immediately and go quietly with my gun and my dogs to see where they are cutting down my trees. But I don’t find the loggers. They hide. In the morning I find felled trees and cut planks that they were unable to take away."
Ren, Hao; Li, Zhongjin; Friedman, Eli: The Life and Resistance of a Chinese Worker
Published: 2016
Under China's labour management system, independent unionism is strictly banned, and the state's official trade union body monopolizes worker representation. That means that all of China’s 806,498,521 workers are barred from forming independent organizations to agitate for their interests -- in an economy where the poorest 25 percent of households own just 1 percent of the country’s total wealth, and where long hours, safety hazards, and authoritarian management define life in the factories. This official antagonism has not stopped the emergence of workers' resistance. The number of strikes has been increasing over the past two decades, and as Eli Friedman wrote last year, "on a typical day anywhere from half a dozen to several dozen strikes are likely taking place."
Rennie, John: Seven Answers To Climate Contrarian Nonsense
Published: 2009
Within the community of scientists and others concerned about anthropogenic climate change, those deny climate change are commonly referred to as contrarians, naysayers and denialists. Not everyone who questions climate change science fits that description, of course - some people are genuinely unaware of the facts or honestly disagree about their interpretation. What distinguishes the true naysayers is an unwavering dedication to denying the need for action on the problem, often with weak and long-disproved arguments about supposed weaknesses in the science behind global warming.
Rensin, Emmett: The smug style in American liberalism
Published: 2016
The smug style in American liberalism has been growing these past decades and in 2016 it has even found expression in media and in policy, in the attitudes of liberals both visible and private.
Renton, Alex: War on the seabed: the shellfishing battle
Published: 2013
In the fertile inshore waters of the west coast of Scotland, a battle is brewing between small-boat fisherman and industrial trawlers.
Repo, Marjaleena: Why aren't people voting?
Published: 2011
There is much ado about "voter apathy", with a focus on young people, who in creative and desperate ways are urged and "mobbed" to vote. Unfortunately, much of this effort is barking up the wrong tree: unless we can guarantee that hundreds of thousands of Canadians who are eager to vote can actually do so, we are subjecting them to a nasty piece of Catch 22 where the victims of voter obstruction get the blame for being apathetic and not doing their civic duty.
Repo, Marjaleena: The Young Cree Man from Saskatchewan
Without Truth There Is No Reconciliation: Two Colten Boushie Stories
Published: 2018
It seems there are two versions of the August 2016 death of Colten Boushie, the young Cree man from Saskatchewan.
Repo. Marjaleena: Changes to voting system leave Canada worse off
Published: 2015
How did we end up with this convoluted and discriminatory method of voting when we once had perhaps the best method in the world - door-to-door enumeration and no hard-to-get voter ID requirement?
Reporters Without Borders: Any future for Burundi's media after presidential election?
Published: 2015
Burundi's privately-owned radio stations are still silent although President Pierre Nkurunziza succeeded in forcing the country to hold an election giving him a third term. Reporters Without Borders calls for the rapid and unconditional reopening of the media and guarantees for the safe return of all journalists who fled abroad.
Reporters Without Borders: Cyber-security workshop held successfully, despite police harassment
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns repeated attempts by local police to harass and interrupt a digital security workshop that RSF and Defend the Defenders (DTD), a Vietnamese human rights group, successfully organized for 23 Vietnamese rights activists near Hanoi last weekend.
Reporters Without Borders: Journalists and media outlets hounded as tension mounts
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Journalists in Danger (JED) are worried about a decline in the environment for journalists as Democratic Republic of Congo holds local elections, starts early campaigning for national elections, and overhauls its system of government.
Reporters Without Borders: Leaders who publicly threaten journalists
Published: 2015
As a state leader, public criticism is inevitable. How you deal with it, however, is entirely up to you. When journalists put leaders in a negative light, they can choose to correct their mistakes or the can choose to respond with violence and repression. They can also react emotionally with insults, defamation and racism. This is the state of global leaders who, instead of permitting the freedom of speech, decide to slander journalists who were just doing their job.
Reporters Without Borders: Opposition radio and TV station's regional office ransacked
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about an attack on a regional branch of Viva, a radio and TV broadcaster owned by former transitional President Andry Rajoelina, the leader of the opposition party Mapar.
Reporters without borders: Reporters without Borders reinforces its safety provisions for journalists
Published: 2009
Two years after UNESCO#s Medellin Declaration, which reaffirmed UN Security Council resolution 1738 on the obligation to protect journalists in war zones, violence against journalists continues to be one of the biggest threats to freedom of expression. A total of 60 journalists were murdered and 29 were kidnapped in 2008. More than 1,500 were arrested, threatened or physically attacked in connection with their work. The war in Iraq, which has caused the death of more than 200 journalists and media workers, is the most dramatic example.
Reporters Without Borders: RSF backs Moroccan NGO targeted by interior ministry
Published: 2015
It’s ironic. Moroccan journalists and human rights activists who have been the targets of government spying would be justified in bringing complaints against the authorities over the violation their privacy.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF): Postmedia and Torstar deal results in "largest closure of newspapers on single day in Canadian History
Published: 2017
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned by the deal between Canada's two largest newspaper publishers, Postmedia and Torstar, which have decided to swap more than forty local newspapers with each other, and subsequently shut down most of these newly acquired newspapers in regions where they compete with other existing publications.
Reuters: Spelling mistake prevented hackers taking $1bn in bank heist
Published: 2016
New York Fed reveals spelling of 'foundation' as 'fandation' prompted bank to seek clarification and stop transfer, but hackers still got away with about $80m.
Reuters, Thomson: This ancient cave art is the oldest known 'storytelling'
Art found in Indonesia shows humans with animal characteristics hunting animals with spears and ropes
Published: 2019
A cave painting found on Indonesia's island of Sulawesi, depicting human-like figures hunting animals, appears to be the earliest known pictorial record of storytelling, according to a study by a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers.
Revesz, Rachael: Southwest Airlines kicks Muslim off a plane for saying 'inshallah', meaning 'God willing' in Arabic
Published: 2016
A Muslim man was told to leave a Southwest Airlines flight after another passenger overheard him speaking Arabic on his mobile phone.
Reyes, Oscar: Rooted in the neighbourhood: what happened to Spain's assemblies?
Published: 2012
Oscar Reyes reports on the successes and setbacks of neighbourhood assemblies in Spain.
Reynolds, John: Israel and the A-Word
Published: 2017
Israel's apartheid foundations were laid in its dispossession of the Palestinians in 1948. They were reinforced by the immediate erection of colonial constitutional structures that cemented the exclusion of the colonised. Since then, Israeli law and policy has only deepened the state apparatus of separation and segregation, discrimination and domination. Over the years, countless activists, authors and artists, as well as leading anti-apartheid figures from South Africa, have referred to Israel’s particular brand of structural discrimination as akin to apartheid. In the last decade, international lawyers have also begun to do likewise, but with reference to the definition of apartheid under international law rather than by analogy to southern Africa.
Riben, Mirah: Why is Surrogacy Illegal in Most of the World?
Ethics and Risks
Published: 2020
The infertility and surrogacy multi-billion-dollar industries, those who benefit from it, and others, too often attempt to out-shout any criticism of surrogacy by conflating surrogacy with LGBTQ+ rights and labeling all opposition to surrogacy as homophobic. Opposition to surrogacy has nothing to do with the sexual preference, sexual orientation, gender identification or marital status of those who use anonymous gamete and/or hire a surrogate. It is contractual anonymous conception and surrogacy which is at question, regardless of who contracts for such services.
Rice, Mathew: Pakistan: Intelligence agency sought to tap all communications traffic, documents reveal
Published: 2015
Every government seems to want to spy in Pakistan. The US National Security Agency (NSA) tapped the fibre optic cables landing in Karachi, among others, and used 55 million phone records harvested from Pakistani telecommunications providers for an analysis exercise. The United Kingdom's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) had a store of SIM keys from Mobilink and Telenor networks, two of the country's biggest providers.
Rice, Xan: The treasures of Timbuktu
The race is on to preserve papers dating back to a west African golden age
Published: 2007
West African scholars are quickly discovering the wealth of manuscripts burried in and near Timbuktu dating from the 11th century. Governments and universities are building archives in which to house and digitize these important relics.
Rich, Nathaniel: The Man Who Saves You from Yourself
Going Undercover with a Cult Infiltrator
Published: 2013
An account of the life and work of David Sullivan, a San Francisco-based private investigator who specializes in cults.
Richard, Helene: Russia's truckers protest
Published: 2016
Russian government leniency towards protesting truckers indicates that the country's social crisis could overshadow its noisy diplomacy.
Richards, Renee: UK Pornstars Fight Back
Published: 2014
The Stop Porn Culture circus represents a coalition of the loudest anti-sex and pro-censorship voices in the English-speaking world. Former pornstar Renée Richards calls on UK pornstars, strippers, models, sex workers and their supporters to take a stand and join us to protest against those who have, for so long, labelled and lied about the women in the sex industries.
Richardson, Jill: How to Help Someone With a Disability: Listen to Them
Published: 2020
If you know someone with a disability, the best thing you can do is listen to them. Let them tell you about their strengths, and weaknesses, and needs.
Richardson, Jill: Stop Calling Harmful Bigotry "Religious Freedom"
Published: 2020
The Supreme Court is considering a case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, that once again pits LGBTQ rights against so-called religious liberty. In this case, one of the plaintiffs, Catholic Social Services, is arguing that it has the right to discriminate against same sex couples when placing children in foster care.
Richardson, Joseph: When Plutocrats Blame the Poor
Hard Times Redux
Published: 2012
The image of the self-made man has always been a fiction concocted for the edification of the poor, not a concrete policy prescription, as should be clear by now from the behavior of our very own ‘self-made’ caste of plutocrats.
Richie, Chip (director): Our Spirits Don't Speak English
Published: 2008
A documentary film about the Native American boarding schools.
Richman, Sheldon: Airbrushing Barbarity
The Warped Language of Public Policy
Published: 2013
Couching moral/political matters in technocratic language helps us forget the unpleasantness of the underlying incivility and brutality of political measures. Political discourse is fundamentally dishonest in that it airbrushes barbarity.
Richman, Sheldon: The American Sniper Was No Hero
Assassin-for-Hire
Published: 2015
Despite what some people think, hero is not a synonym for competent government-hired killer.
Richman, Sheldon: Let's Make Sure the Nazis Killed in Vain
Published: 2019
I don't know how many times I've heard that if we don't stand by Israel, the victims of the Nazi Judeocide will have died in vain. I knew something was wrong with that claim, but for the longest time I couldn't put my finger on it. Now I think I can.
Richman, Sheldon: The NSA Apologists
It's Not Snowden Who Betrayed Us
Published: 2013
The NSA controversy is about whether we should trust people with institutional power.
Rickson, Jane: Conserving soil: precious, finite and under threat
Published: 2015
Human existence relies on healthy soils. But all over the world soils are being lost and degraded by inappropriate land use, reducing their capacity to produce food and store water, nutrients and carbon. Sustainable land management must be incentivised to conserve this essential resource.
Rickwood, Lisa: 7 Rituals to Improve Life and Business
Published: 2008
Rituals give life meaning and help us celebrate milestones in our lives. They offer security, stability and routine and a sense of calmness to an otherwise chaotic existence.
Riddell, Fern: The Weaker Sex? Violence and the Suffragette Movement
Published: 2015
Fern Riddell investigates the campaign of terror orchestrated by the Edwardian suffragette movement before the First World War and asks why it has been neglected by historians.
Ridenour, Jon: Julian Assange Show Trial Resumes: Why the U.S. Government Wants Him Silenced
Published: 2020
Julian Assange has been held in isolation (23 hours per day) at Belmarsh high-security prison since he was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London on April 11, 2019.
Rider, David: The risks of becoming a Google city
Published: 2018
Plans for a high tech custom-connected community by US company Google raises significant concern from experts. With sensors monitoring and recording daily life there are troubling questions in matters of freedom and privacy, as well as potentially negative implications for the poor and less privileged residents of the city who stand little to gain from efficient privately operated communities.
Ridgeway, James: Black Sites across America
Health Care in US Prisons: a Human Rights Issue Hiding in Plain Sight
Published: 2014
There are 2.3 million people in US prisons in conditions that are often inhumane and at worst life threatening. The most striking aspect of this scene is the lack of decent medical care for prisoners, whether in solitary confinement or in the general prison population.
Rifai, Ryan: State of emergency in US city after water poisoned
Published: 2016
Flint has faced a lead-saturated drinking water disaster affecting almost 100,000 residents over the past 18 months.
Riggins, Thomas: Lenin On The Need For Political Compromise
Published: 2013
Considering the nature of compromises and how to deal with them.
Rimbert, Pierre: Don't expect tech giants to build back better
Published: 2021
Tech giants need to quantify human behaviour to make money from it. The pandemic, by forcing much of our lives online, has shown just how much money they can make.
Rimbert, Pierre: An enemy within
There are terrible precedents for attacking immigrant culture - like the well organised and sponsored US campaign during the first world war
Published: 2016
A look at the persecution and campaign against Americans of German origin within the United States during WWI.
Rimmer, Sandra: Maps of Britain and Ireland's ancient tribes, kingdoms and dna
Published: 2016
Looks into the various territories and DNA evidence in Britan and Ireland and analyzes maps of these territories.
Rinsum van, Leila: Twiga Farm: The story of a Kenyan land grab
Published: 2014
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, the residents of Twiga Farm marched through the streets of Nairobi to hand in a petition to the National Assembly. Their demand was an investigation in the unlawful eviction from their lands, the Twiga Farm, and recognition of their right to return.
Riordon, Michael: Michael Riordon Quotes
Riordon, Michael: Zatoun: a Life story in four parts
Published: 2007
In four audio documentaries (17–19 minutes each), Zatoun - a life story explores the genesis and evolution of a unique grassroots initiative to bring fair trade organic olive oil from farmer co-operatives in Palestine to North America. Zatoun is the Arabic word for olive.
Rippingale, James: 'Consumers are not aware we are slaves inside the greenhouses'
Exploitation plagues Spain's farming province, with migrant workers paid below minimum wage and living in squalor.
Published: 2019
What is referred to as Almeria's "economic miracle" among Spanish economists is almost exclusively dependant on an invisible, expendable and often illegally employed migrant workers like Maruf, toiling under 40-degree heat and extreme humidity.
Ritchie, Kevin: The View from the Press Room
Published: 2001
How charities can sell their stories to the media.
Rite, Simon: RT's ban from media freedom conference shows British irony is alive and well
Published: 2019
RT has been banned from a conference on media freedom for reportedly 'spreading disinformation.' They find this accusation and its source an ironic juxtoposition.
Ritter, Scott: Cancel Culture
Published: 2022
I think it goes without saying that the United States is undergoing a crisis of democracy. As a nation, we are deeply divided along partisan political lines, so much so that what once passed for legitimate political debate and discourse has been diminished to the point that any dissent is characterized as a threat against democracy. Once, fact-based debates took place to ascertain the truth of a matter. Now, opposing parties embrace their own unique 'fact sets' which are derived more from political belief than reality, and anyone holding a different opinion is derided and condemned as a practitioner of 'disinformation.'
Ritter, Scott: Here we go again! US intelligence saying IRAN is paying bounties to kill Americans in Afghanistan is pure parody
Published: 2020
It was Russia in June, now it’s Tehran. Don’t US analysts understand that Taliban fighters really don't need any more motivation to target American troops? This is simply politicized (un)intelligence that isn't fooling anyone.
Ritter, Scott: Life, Preempted
Published: 2024
Policymakers in both the U.S. and Europe are undertaking increasingly brazen acts of escalation in Ukraine designed to bring Russia to the breaking point.
Ritter, Scott: The Missiles of April
Published: 2024
The "Missiles of April" represent a sea-change moment in Middle Eastern geopolitics — the establishment of Iranian deterrence that impacts both Israel and the United States.
Ritter, Scott: No 'End of History' in Ukraine
Published: 2023
Francis Fukuyama's triumphalist post-Cold War vision of liberal democracy - published in 1989 - had a major blindspot. It omitted history.
Ritter, Scott: Pity the Nation
Published: 2022
Fact-based arguments Scott Ritter made challenging the case for war against Iraq were effectively silenced. Today he sees the same template in play towards anyone challenging the dogma of 'Putinism.
Ritter, Scott: Russia, Ukraine & the Law of War: Crime of Aggression
Published: 2022
Ritter, Scott: Russia, Ukraine and the Law of War: War Crimes
Published: 2022
Scott Ritter lays out what the law says about war crimes and how it applies to the conflict in Ukraine.
Ritter, Scott: 72 Minutes
Published: 2024
Our future is held hostage by a madman in Kiev, backed by lunatics in Europe. The question is -- what are we going to do about it?
Ritter, Scott: Step to Nuclear Doomsday: US Puts Low-Yield Nukes on Submarines in Response to Made-up Russian 'Escalate to Deescalate' Strategy
Published: 2020
The US has deployed “low-yield” nuclear missiles on submarines, saying it’s to discourage nuclear conflict with Russia. The move is based on a “Russian strategy” made up in Washington and will only bring mass annihilation closer.
Ritter, Scott: The Trouble with Defectors
What informants taught an intelligence officer
Published: 2017
Author and former U.S. Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter writes about his experiences working with informants and defectors. Recounting first hand experiences he discusses the problems and issues working with informants, notably their motivation, quality of information, and its reliabitlity and currency. While quality control is a recurring problem with informants Ritter further discusses why intelligence professionals still keep using them.
Ritter, Scott: Twitter Wars: My Personal Experience in Twitter's Ongoing Assault on Free Speech
Published: 2022
Ritter, Scott: Ukraine and its Western backers should be held accountable for the 'suicidal' attack on Europe's largest nuclear powerplant
Published: 2022
Even as UN Secretary-General António Guterres addressed survivors of the World War Two US atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, halfway around the world, the armed forces of Ukraine seemed hellbent on unleashing a modern-day nuclear holocaust on Europe by firing artillery rockets at the Zaporozhye power plant.
Ritter, Scott: Wag The Dog -- How Al Qaeda Played Donald Trump And The American Media
Responsibility for the chemical event in Khan Sheikhoun is still very much in question.
Published: 2017
Once upon a time, Donald J. Trump, the New York City businessman-turned-president, berated then-President Barack Obama, back in September 2013, about the fallacy of an American military strike against Syria. At that time, the United States was considering the use of force against Syria in response to allegations (since largely disproven) that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against civilians in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Trump, via tweet, declared "to our very foolish leader, do not attack Syria - if you do many very bad things will happen & from that fight the U.S. gets nothing!"
Ritter, Scott: The 'White Helmets' and the Inherent Contradiction of America's Syria Policy
Published: 2016
The danger faced by the White Helmets is not a fiction -- to date, 141 first responders affiliated with the Syrian Civil Defense have been killed while performing their duty. And although their claims of having saved more than 60,000 lives are unverifiable, there can be no doubt that many lives have, in fact, been saved as a result of their work. But let there be no doubt -- despite their oft-cited claims of being neutral and impartial, that the White Helmets are very partisan.
Riviere, Philippe: Shoot the Messenger
WikiLeaks: Journalism or Espionage?
Published: 2011
In setting up WikiLeaks, Julian Assange wanted to bring to light secret agreements between countries. That he succeeded is clear from the number of companies and governments who have tried to shut him down.
Rivlin, Gary; Rey, Marcos Garcia; Hudson, Michael: Leak Ties Ethics Guru to Three Men Charged in FIFA Scandal
Secret documents show how deeply the world of soccer has become enmeshed in the world of offshore havens
Published: 2016
Four of the 16 FIFA officials indicted in the United States used offshore companies created by Mossack Fonseca. Files show offshore companies used by some soccer players to hold money from image rights deals. Offshore revelations extend beyond soccer to other sports including hockey and golf.
Rivlin-Nadler, Max: Newly Released FOIA Documents Shed Light on Border Patrol’s Seemingly Limitless Authority
Published: 2019
More than 1,000 pages of previously unseen Customs and Border Protection training documents, shed light on the details of the Amercian Border Patrol’s seemingly limitless authority.
Roach, Kent; Forcese, Craig: Canada's Proposed Anti-Terrorism Law
An Assessment
Published: 2015
A Statement to the Standing Committee on National Security & Public Safety regarding the dangers Bill C-51 poses to many of Canada's democratic freedoms.
Roache, Trina: Mikmaq say Bay of Fundy developments could harm endangered fish
Published: 2016
In Nova Scotia, people are concerned about the impacts of big projects on endangered fish in one of the world’s most famous waterways. Two projects are being considered by the province on the Bay of Fundy. Its high and low tides are also home to a number of fish that are on the endangered species list.
Robbins, Annie: Obama to sign AIPAC-promoted trade bill that legitimizes Israeli occupation and fights BDS
Published: 2016
The U.S. Senate has passed the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 by a 75-20 veto proof margin. The large trade policy bill includes anti- BDS trade legislation promoted by AIPAC and introduces new U.S. policy language by including all "Israeli-controlled territories" as part of Israel.
Robert, Anne-Cecile: Demonstration model for the 'democratic deficit'
National decisions made by Brussels technocrats
Published: 2016
Exposing the technocrat-led bureaucracy within the EU and its impact on national decisions by member states.
Roberts Biddle, Ellery; Myers West, Sarah: Netizen Report: Rights at Risk Under Trans-Pacific Trade Deal
Published: 2015
The controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement may soon become reality after years of high-level trade deliberations that have been held almost entirely behind closed doors.
ROBERTS, PAUL CRAIG: Lawlessness is the New Normal
The Lust for Washington's Money
Published: 2013
No country has been willing to stand up to Washington and to give Snowden asylum.
Roberts, Dan; Booth, Robert: Leave Yemen, US tells citizens
Published: 2013
The United States and Britain on Tuesday told their citizens to leave Yemen in the light of intelligence apparently gathered from overseas communications intercepts showing a serious but unspecified threat against western and US interests. The US was reported to have begun evacuating citizens immediately on military flights.
Roberts, Gareth: Judith Butler's toxic nonsense
Published: 2021
Roberts, Mark: 9-11 Loose Change Second Edition Viewer Guide
Debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories.
Roberts, Paul Craig: And More Fraud Is in the Works
Virtual Economy's Phantom Job Gains are Based on Statistical Fraud
Published: 2014
Washington can't stop lying. Don't be convinced by a recent job report that it is your fault if you don't have a job. Those 288,000 jobs and 6.1% unemployment rate are more fiction than reality.
Roberts, Paul Craig: Call the Cops at Your Own Peril
Bullies in Blue
Published: 2014
“Live free or die” is the motto of the state of New Hampshire. I hope the residents are prepared to die, because living free is not what they do. NH is merely a cog within the Amerikan Stasi State.
Roberts, Paul Craig: A Case Study in the Creation of False News
Published: 2017
Paul Craig Roberts discusses a classic case in the creation of false news.
Roberts, Paul Craig: Cecily McMillan and the Police State
Justice is Dead in Amerika
Published: 2014
Cecily McMillan is an Occupy protester who was seized from behind by a goon thug cop–a goon thug with a long record of abuse of authority – by her boobs. One was badly bruised. Cecily McMillan’s elbow reflexively and instinctively came up, and Cecily was arrested for assaulting a goon thug. The goon thug was not arrested for sexually assaulting a young woman.
Roberts, Paul Craig: The Cultivation of Hate
The Lies Grow More Audacious
Published: 2014
If there were any doubts that Western “leaders” live in a fantasy make-believe world constructed out of their own lies, the G-7 meeting and 70th anniversary celebration of the Normandy landing dispelled the doubts.
Roberts, Paul Craig: The Destruction of Inlet Beach
Published: 2017
As Inlet Beach undergoes development to turn the site into a tourist vacation spot and with no support from the county government or develepment laws, the local community is slowly driven away.
Roberts, Paul Craig: Employment Lies
Published: 2016
On June 3, 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the US economy only created 38,000 new jobs in May and revised down by 59,000 jobs the previously reported gains in March and April. Yet the BLS reported that the unemployment rate fell from 5.0 to 4.7 percent, a figure generally regarded as full employment. The May jobs increase only covers a small fraction of the monthly growth in the labor force and, therefore, cannot account for the drop in unemployment.
Roberts, Paul Craig: The Financial System is a Larger Threat Than Terrorism
Published: 2016
Trillions of dollars have been added to the taxpayers' burden and many billions of dollars in profits to the military/security complex in order to combat insignificant foreign "threats," such as the Taliban, that remain undefeated after 15 years. All this time the financial system, working hand-in-hand with policymakers, has done more damage to Americans than terrorists could possibly inflict.
Roberts, Paul Craig: Greece again Can Save the West
Published: 2015
The 'Greek crisis' is not about debt. Debt is the propaganda that the Empire is using to subdue sovereignty throughout the Western world.
Roberts, Paul Craig: The Institutionalization of Tyranny
When Victory Has Nothing to do With Justice
Published: 2013
Republicans and conservative Americans are still fighting Big Government in its welfare state form. Apparently, they have never heard of the militarized police state form of Big Government, or, if they have, they are comfortable with it and have no objection.
Roberts, Paul Craig: Is Democracy Dead In The West?
Published: 2015
This is the "New Democracy." It is a resurrection of the old feudal order. A few super-rich aristocrats and everyone else serfs obliged to support the ruling order. The looting that began in Greece has spread into Ukraine, and who knows who is next?
Roberts, Paul Craig: Is Peace or War at Hand?
Published: 2015
Roberts discusses the outcomes of the meeting in Moscow between Merkel, Hollande, and Putin as a result of Washington's aggressive position toward Russia.
Roberts, Paul Craig: Laughing on the Way to Armageddon
Published: 2017
Roberts argues that he real threat is not from foreign powers like Russia, but from corruption and power games within US politics, and the military/security complex that truly undermine democracy.
Roberts, Paul Craig: The Lie Machine
The Media and the TTIP
Published: 2014
I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests. Consider, for example, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnership.
Roberts, Paul Craig: The Looting Machine Called Capitalism
Published: 2017
I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment. In other words, capitalists make profits because their costs are externalized and born by others. In the US, society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.
Roberts, Paul Craig: The Looting Stage of Capitalism: Germany's Assault on the IMF
Published: 2016
Having successfully used the EU to conquer the Greek people by turning the Greek "leftwing" government into a pawn of Germany's banks, Germany now finds the IMF in the way of its plan to loot Greece into oblivion.
Roberts, Paul Craig: Only in America: an Indiscreet Selfie Can Put A Kid in Prison
Published: 2016
Did you know that if you are an American under 18 years old and you use your cell phone to send a nude "selfie" of yourself to a friend, you can be convicted of manufacturing and distributing "child pornography" and sent to prison? This is how expansively prosecutors, whose main purpose in life is to ruin as many people as possible, interpret laws passed to protect children from sexual exploitation.
Roberts, Paul Craig: Out Lickspittle Press
Doorkeepers to the House of Lies
Published: 2010
Today no one believes that our country’s success depends on an informed public and a free press. America’s success depends on its financial and military hegemony over the world. Any information inconsistent with the indispensable people’s god-given right to dominate the world must be suppressed and the messenger discredited and destroyed.
Roberts, Paul Craig: The Police State is Real
It Has Happened Here
Published: 2013
The Bush regime’s response to 9/11 and the Obama regime’s validation of this response have destroyed accountable democratic government in the United States. So much unaccountable power has been concentrated in the executive branch that the US Constitution is no longer an operable document.
Roberts, Paul Craig: The Shoot First Mentality of American Police
Ferguson, Reconsidered
Published: 2014
The US justice system is no longer concerned with justice, but with the careers of prosecutors, punishing the powerless, and protecting the powerful. As justice has largely departed the justice system, it is hardly surprising that police lack any concept of justice.
Roberts, Paul Craig: The Social Cost of GMOs
Published: 2014
Ecological economists such as Herman Daly write that the more full the world becomes, the higher are the social or external costs of production. Social or external costs are costs of production that are not captured in the price of the products. For example, dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico that result from chemicals used in agriculture are not included as costs in agricultural production. The price of food does not include the damage to the Gulf.
Food production is a source of large social costs. Indeed, it seems that the more food producers are able to lower the measured cost of food production, the higher the social costs imposed on society.
Roberts, Paul Craig: TIPP
Advancing American Imperialism
Published: 2016
Greenpeace has done that part of the world whose representatives are so corrupt or so stupid as to sign on to the Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic "partnerships" a great service. Greenpeace secured and leaked the secret documents that Washington and global corporations are pushing on Europe. The official documents prove that my description of these "partnerships" when they first appeared in the news is totally correct.
Roberts, Paul Craig: TTIP: the Corporate Empowerment Act
Published: 2015
The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. "Free trade" is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use law suits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.
Roberts, Paul Craig: Unintended Consequences
Beware the Hate Crimes Bill!
Published: 2009
It will prove difficult to separate speaking against members of protected classes, or criticizing their practices, from hate. The two things are easily conflated. Once enacted, hate crimes will become independent of specific violent acts. An eventual likely outcome will be that speaking against members of specially protected classes will itself become a violent act of inciting violence.
Roberts, Paul Craig: The US Economy Has Not Recovered and Will Not Recover
Published: 2016
The US economy died when middle class jobs were offshored and when the financial system was deregulated. Jobs offshoring benefitted Wall Street, corporate executives, and shareholders, because lower labour and compliance costs resulted in higher profits. These profits flowed through to shareholders in the form of capital gains and to executives in the form of "performance bonuses." Wall Street benefitted from the bull market generated by higher profits.
Roberts, Paul Craig: Virtual Economy's Phantom Job Gains are Based on Statistical Fraud
And More Fraud Is in the Works
Published: 2014
Washington can't stop lying. Reports of job gains are more fiction than reality.
Roberts, Paul Craig: Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie
One After Another After Another
Published: 2014
The latest Washington lie, this one coming from NATO, is that Russia has invaded Ukraine with 1,000 troops and self-propelled artillery.
Roberts, Paul Craig: Washington Threatens The World
Published: 2014
The consequence of Washington’s reckless and irresponsible political and military interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria has been to unleash evil. The various sects that lived in peace under the rule of Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad are butchering one another, and a new group, ISIS, is in the process of creating a new state out of parts of Iraq and Syria.
Roberts, Paul Craig: The West Is Reduced To Looting Itself
Published: 2016
Third World countries were and are looted by being enticed into development plans for electrification or some such purpose. The gullible and trusting governments are told that they can make their countries rich by taking out foreign loans to implement a Western-presented development plan, with the result being sufficient tax revenues from economic development to service the foreign loan.
Roberts, Paul Craig: The West's Looting of Ukraine Has Begun
Shackled by the IMF
Published: 2014
It is now apparent that the "Maidan protests" in Kiev were in actuality a Washington organized coup against the elected democratic government. The purpose of the coup is to put NATO military bases on Ukraine's border with Russia and to impose an IMF austerity program that serves as cover for Western financial interests to loot the country. The sincere idealistic protesters who took to the streets without being paid were the gullible dupes of the plot to destroy their country.
Roberts, Paul Craig: Why American Financial Markets Have No Relationship to Reality
An Economic House of Cards
Published: 2014
The bullion banks (primarily JP Morgan, HSBC, ScotiaMocatta, Barclays, UBS, and Deutsche Bank), most likely acting as agents for the Federal Reserve, have been systematically forcing down the price of gold since September 2011. Suppression of the gold price protects the US dollar against the extraordinary explosion in the growth of dollars and dollar-denominated debt.
Roberts, Stella: The Attack on the People of Gaza
Go ahead and stop us...
Published: 2014
According to the conventional wisdom, the purpose of Israel’s assault on Gaza is self-defense, i.e., to stop rocket fire and to destroy “terror tunnels”. However, the facts include repeated attacks on hospitals, an open air market, UN schools designated as safe refuges, playgrounds, zoos, Gaza’s only power plant, etc.) by means of high-tech “smart weapons”, and these attacks are inconsistent with the notion of self-defense. These are calculated, deliberate attacks on civilians and the numbers speak for themselves: about 80% of Israel’s victims are non-combatants, including at least (for now) 318 kids.
Roberts, Wayne: Bottling peace in a jar
Buying Palestinian olive oil is a tasty way to protest the tree uprootings of the occupation
Published: 2007
Robert Massoud, born in Jerusalem of Christian Palestinian parents and now living just north of Toronto, developed the Zatoun project as "a people-sized initiative for those who want to make a difference" but who "throw up their hands and walk away" in despair from seemingly hopeless cycles of retaliation in the Middle East.
Roberts, Wayne: Designs on equality
City planning is a mechanism of discrimination - it mainly serves the able-bodied
Published: 2012
The idea of “universal design” is to stop creating public infrastructure that privileges one particular group, whether it’s car drivers, the able-bodied or those with paycheques, and start envisioning people with parallel but not identical mobility and sociability needs: children, teens, seniors, new immigrants, those on low incomes, parents, those with sports injuries or with physical and mental limitations, and those who care for any of the above.
Roberts, Wayne: Good Accounting is M.I.A
City budget system is obsolete: daycare is as much a capital item as bridges
Published: 2011
The author calls on Toronto's city hall to recognize that environmental and social programs are a kind of infrastructure in that they create stakeholders in the community. He advocates that the municipal budget treat these as such and consider them an investment rather than an expenditure.
Roberts,David: None of the world's top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use
Published: 2013
The notion of "externalities" refers to costs imposed by businesses that are not paid for by those businesses. Roberts argues that, although the term is useful in folding ecological concerns into economics, it has its downsides.
Robertson, Ann; Leumer, Bill: Who Is An Objective Journalist?
Agents of the Status Quo
Published: 2013
The false dichotomy between journalists and activists.
Robicheau, Colette: Attending a Meeting - How you can Play a Role in its Success
Published: 2010
From job interviews to strategy sessions, it's important to make a good impression in any meeting. Making a good impression starts with careful planning and preparation.
Robicheau, Colette: Business Card Basics
Published: 2010
Your business card is a miniature representation of your business: your style, your focus, your unique selling proposition.
Robicheau, Colette: How to Handle Phone Interviews
Published: 2010
For some people, doing a phone interview - whether for a job or with the press - can be more unnerving than face-to-face. Being unable to read someone's expressions, or look them in the eye, can throw a person off track.
Robicheau, Colette: The Low Cost of Marketing
Published: 2010
Marketing is not about selling, it's about getting your message out there.
Robicheau, Colette: Making the Most of Your Media Interview
Published: 2010
Being prepared for an interview will make you less nervous and more confident, and with confidence comes increased credibility.
Robicheau, Colette: Proven Methods for Planning more Efficient, Productive Meetings
Published: 2010
Meetings can be highly effective for addressing issues or achieving your organization's goals. They also have the potential to consume time and energy better spent elsewhere without careful planning and management.
Robicheau, Colette: The Rules of Disengagement
Ending Conversations Gracefully and Tactfully
Published: 2010
Some conversations don't just end naturally they need to be closed or disengaged.
Robicheau, Colette: VIP: Very Inventive Procrastinator
Published: 2010
Robin, Corey: The Gonzo Constitutionalism of the American Right
Published: 2020
Robin, Maxime: Louisiana's For-Profit Prisons
How Long Jail Sentences for Trivial Offences Enrich Local Sheriffs' and Police Departments
Published: 2013
In Louisiana, writing a cheque that bounces still carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, and the minimum sentence for a repeat burglary offender is 24 years without parole.
Robin, Maxime: Louisiana's profitable prisons
Inside America
Published: 2013
Long jail sentences for trivial offences enrich local sheriffs' and police departments in the state of Louisiana -- and keep the local economy going.
Robin, Maxime: Unregulated oil fracking boom does permanent damage
Published: 2013
We know about the dangers of pollution from fracking. But its lethal, long-term byproducts and the ease with which they leak or are dumped may be causing worse problems in a state that can’t even question them.
Robinson, Barry; Hatt, Charles; Campbell, Karen: Liberals' interim pipeline measures fall short
Band-aid solutions cannot fix deeply flawed pipeline reviews, environmental assessments
Published: 2016
The Harper government’s 2012 environmental law rollbacks were a blunt-force trauma to the environmental assessment of pipelines. Last week, the new federal Liberal government prescribed band-aids for an ailing patient that needed more.
Robinson, Danielle: The Streets Belong to the People
Expressway Disputes in Canada, c. 1960 - 75
Published: 2012
PhD Thesis, McMaster University, 2012
Robinson, James: UK press targets middle India
Associated's Mail Today is one of many British titles targeting the growing market
Published: 2008
International publishing groups have recently rushed to publish and market Indian versions of their publications. They are taking advantage of the booming market the growing middle class demographic has created and the recent elimination of restrictions on foreign ownership of national media.
Robinson, Marilynne: Save Our Public Universities
In defense of America's best idea
Published: 2016
This essay looks at the role of public universities in democratizing diverse and thoughtful thinking, and why the importance of these institutions seems to be getting lost in the aggressive capitalism of modern America.
Robinson, Nathan J.: The Clintons Had Slaves
But the prison labor system is also rotten to the core...
Published: 2017
The prison labour system in the United States has long been an unacknowledged scandal and is in fact as a form of slavery; among the beneficiaries of this prison labour system were Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Robinson, Nathan J.: What We'll Tolerate, And What We Won't
Published: 2017
It wasn't that he told a woman there was something wrong with her for wearing a hijab in America. It wasn't that he encouraged people to "Purge the Illegals" and gave out ICE's hotline number at a presentation. It wasn't that he mocked a transgender college student in front of a crowd, saying he'd still almost bang her because she looked like a man. Instead, it was his discussion of the complexities of his sexual experiences with adults as a gay teenager that caused Milo Yiannopoulos to lose his $250,000 book deal with Simon and Schuster.
Robinson, William I.: Latin America's Pink Tide
Published: 2011
Current governments in Latin America – not quite red and hardly cresting the wave – are discovering that policies of redistribution, for which they were elected, now have limits.
Robson, Elly: The government's attempt to eradicate the travelling way of life
Published: 2012
Elly Robson explores the deliberate criminalisation of the travelling way of life by Britian's coalition government.
Rocha, Anne: Brazil: Amazon's Indians, rainforest under attack
Published: 2017
Attacks on Amazon Indians and on their land rights threaten vital areas of rainforest. FUNAI, the agency responsible for safeguarding indigenous tribes is being forced to withdraw due to underfunding, while Indians' attempts to assert their rights are met with state violence.
Rochat, Gui: How to Grow Up Under Occupation
A Childhood Under the Nazi's
Published: 2012
Rochat illustrates the effect adult wars and occupations have on children, and how the relative safety of the Anglo-Saxon world make it hard to comprehend what effect these wars have on children in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan and so many other countries under attack.
Rockhill, Gabriel: The CIA Reads French Theory
On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left
Published: 2017
A recently unclassifed CIA documents reveals that in the 1980s, the agency had its analysts devote substantial time and resources to studying trends in French theory, and specifically, the work that writers like Michel Foucault, Jacques, and Roland Barthes were doing in undermining the Marxist left. The CIA saw this trend as beneficial to the maintenance of American power, and capitalism generally, because it undermind the idea that there could or should be fundamental revolutionary change.
Rodriguez, Jared: "Alexa, Drop a Bomb": Amazon Wants in on US Warfare
Published: 2018
A look at US comapany Amazon and its involvement with the US military in creating an artificial 'brain' called JEDI. It demonstrates a new level of US determination for global domination, and would represent the creation of a weapon that would dramatically up the level of global military rivalry and ensure more human conflict.
Rodriguez, Sal: Solitary Confinement FAQ
Published: 2012
Solitary confinement is the practice of isolating inmates in closed cells for 22-24 hours a day, virtually free of human contact, for periods of time ranging from days to decades.
Roediger, David: Waiting to Inhale: Culture Wars or Unfinished Gratification?
Published: 1999
With the end of the impeachment proceedings, it is surely time for the left to offer analyses of the crisis which press far beyond those on offer in the mainstream press, and which do considerably more than offer a hold-your-nose defense of the President's "privacy." Here is one such attempt.
Roediger, David: Who's Afraid of the White Working Class?: On Joan C. Williams's 'White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America'
Book Review
Published: 2017
A book review on White Working Class Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America (Written By Joan C. Williams).
Rogers, Melvin: Keeping the Faith
Published: 2017
A book review: We Were Eight Years In Power (written by Ta-Nehisi Coates)
In Ta-Nehisi Coates's work, we encounter white supremacy not as a political ideology, but as the defining feature of the U.S. polity -- its essential nature.
Rogers, Nicholas: Fox Attacks Obama For Calling Climate Change An Immediate National Security Threat
Published: 2015
President Obama annouced that the climate change crisis is a matter of national security and Fox News mocked the claim by saying that the statement detracts from 'real threats'
Rogers, Thomas: Heil Hipster
The Young Neo-Nazis Trying to Put a Stylish Face on Hate
Published: 2014
Inside the tote-bag friendly, "Harlem Shake"-happy world of Germany's "nipsters".
Roget, Peter Mark; Roget, John Lewis; Roget, Samuel Romilly: Roget's Thesaurus of Words and Phrases
Published: 1947
Rogoff, Zak: Protect your freedom and privacy; join us in creating an Internet that's safer from surveillance
Published: 2013
In order to defang surveillance programs like PRISM, we need to stop using centralized systems and come together to build an Internet that's decentralized, trustworthy, and free "as in freedom."
Rohricht, Alyssa: The NSA's Mantra
Collect It All
Published: 2014
This is the world we’re living in now. One where privacy is quickly becoming a thing of the past – where the government collects our metadata using dragnet surveillance. Who you talked to, where, when, and for how long are collected with each and every phone call. Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Microsoft, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, and numerous other corporations partner with the NSA to subvert your right to privacy. The NSA has even been physically intercepting packages containing servers and switches, taking it from FedEx or the US Postal Service, opening the package, and planting a device that redirects information sent over these servers back to the NSA.
Rohricht, Alyssa: An Ode on Whistleblowers and Revolutionaries
Give Thanks
Published: 2014
May 27th marked exactly four years of prison time for whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
Four years for releasing documents disclosing torture and abuse by US and allied forces: rape, whippings, electric drills used on body parts, waterboarding, beatings, murder. Four years for disclosing previously unreported civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan – deaths that number in the tens of thousands. Four years for pulling back the fog of war and exposing US wars abroad for what they are - not the clean, surgical, tactical operations that we hear about on the news but dirty, bloody, and filled with the bodies of innumerable civilian victims: the bodies of men, women, and children who did nothing more than appear in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the ‘wrong’ skin color and the ‘wrong’ god.
Rohricht, Alyssa: This is Genocide
On Israel/Palestine
Published: 2014
To call what is going on in Israel and Palestine a “conflict” is to partake in the racist and blatantly false narrative that is being pushed by Israel. When one side fights with stones and homemade rockets, and the other side fights with a military backed by the full force of the United States military industrial complex, it is not a “conflict.” When civilian casualties – including hundreds of children – amass on only one side, it is not a “conflict.” When one side sets up with lawn chairs and popcorn to watch and cheer as their government bombs another country, it is not a “conflict.”
Rohricht, Alyssa: Torture: Thou shalt not bear honest witness
Published: 2014
To date, only one person has been jailed in connection to the US torture program - the man who blew the whistle. His sentence must now be quashed and this true American hero set free and compensated.
ROHRICHT,ALYSSA: The Prosecution and Persecution of Bradley Manning
Setting An Example
Published: 2013
The desire to strip Manning of careful intent has been a tactic of the government that is prosecuting him and the mainstream media who parrot their propaganda from the start.
Roiphe, Katie: The Other Whisper Network
How Twitter feminism is bad for women
Published: 2018
Katie Roiphe takes a closer look at the #MeToo movement, particularly the use of Twitter and social media which can dangerously be used to rouse extremes in a similar way that Trump has energized his supporters.
Rojas, René: Chile: Of Movements and Mayors
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
Chileans went to the polls on October 28, 2012 to elect mayors and city council.
Rojas, René: Chile: Return of the Penguins!
Against The Current vol. 157
Published: 2012
The struggle to democratize Chile’s educational system has, for the first time since the country’s return to bourgeois democracy in 1990, challenged the very foundations of its neoliberal model.
Rolland, Romain: Romain Rolland Quotes
Romaine, Suzanne: Endangered languages: There's nothing benign about benign neglect
Published: 2004
in many cases, language death occurred not because of an increase in the available choices, but because of a decrease in choice brought about by the exercise of undemocratic power. Such power is almost always wielded by denying access to resources from which communities make their living. Languages can only exist where there is a community to speak and transmit them. A community of people can exist only where there is a viable environment for them to live in, and a means of making a living. Where communities cannot thrive, their languages are in danger. When languages lose their speakers, they die. The idea that linguistic diversity should be preserved is not a sentimental clinging-on to some idealized past as critics suggest, but part of the promotion of sustainable, appropriate, empowering development.
Rooke, John: John Rooke Quotes
Roos, Jerome: Puerto Rico's default is fine, as long as Wall Street is repaid
Published: 2015
On August 1, 2015, Puerto Rico defaulted on part of its enormous $72 billion debt, paying back only $628,000 on a relatively small $58 million loan that was due at the start of the month. The default, which marks the most serious credit event in US public bond markets since the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy in 2013, has led many to draw obvious comparisons to Greece – and understandably so.
Rose, Julian: Occupy agriculture! Polish farmers sit in for land and freedom
Published: 2015
At the heart of Poland's capital, Warsaw, farmers have founded a flourishing encampment known as the 'Green City', writes Julian Rose. It's a focus of protest against the sell-off of their land to agribusiness, the arrival of GMO crops, and the imposition of a failed 'Western' model of farming that's creating huge corporate profits while debasing food and bankrupting small farmers.
Rose, Julian: Organic certification - inorganic bureaucracy
Today's certifiers arrive in patent leather shoes and get no further than the office - and this is meant to be an improvement?
Published: 2014
Rose, Steve: Squatters are not home stealers
Published: 2012
The criminalising of squatters in Britain is part of a Europe-wide backlash. But with at least 10% of the world population squatting, can they really be a menace to society?
Roselle, Mike: Poor West Virginia? Think Again
Resistance in the Valley of Death
Published: 2014
The chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia has once again put Appalachia on the map. This is what it usually takes. People have to not just die at the hands of the coal and chemical industry, they have to die dramatically. The long slow death spiral West Virginia has been in for over a hundred years is not news unless they do.
Rosen, Brant: Why I Support the Palestinian Right of Return
Published: 2017
The repatriation of Palestinian refugees is is a very real and practical concept for which there is ample historical precedent as well as practical means of implementation.
Rosen, David: Banned Love: Trump, Pocahantas and the Lovings
Published: 2017
The author looks at the history of interracial relationships, from thier legalization 50 years ago, to their future during the Trump administration.
Rosen, David: Birth-Control Wars: Two Centuries of Struggle
Published: 2016
The birth-control wars have reached a new level of contestation. On June 27th 2016, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law -- Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt -- that sought to restrict a woman’s right to an abortion and other birth-control medical services.
Rosen, David: Corporate Corruption And The Special Interest State
Regulatory Capture at the FCC
Published: 2013
With Tom Wheeler's nomination, expect pro big-telecom policies such as ending net neutrality, further industry consolidation, limiting meaningful competition and increasing user fees, among other policies.
Rosen, David: Crime & Public Shaming
Published: 2016
Shaming is one of the oldest forms of social regulation and, in the U.S., has long been employed to enforce social order -- specifically to fight crime and suppress unacceptable beliefs and practices. Today, there is an apparent rise of public shaming either as an alternative or supplement to incarceration. On February 8th, 2016, Pres. Obama signed the “International Megan’s Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking” (H.R. 515), the first law in U.S. history in which a special symbol will be placed on a citizen's U.S. passport to identify that the individual was convicted of a sex crime.
Rosen, David: An End to Conversion Therapy?
Published: 2017
Nevada is the latest of eight states that officially ended the practice of sexual "conversion therapy" of minors.
Rosen, David: From Moral Outrage to Moral Panic: the Limits of Public Rage
Published: 2018
There has been forceful break from the culture of silence that has long protected men from being held accountable for their misdeeds. While rage emerges against male sexual abuse, some progressive feminists have raised concerns that this movement may slip into 'moral panic' and a possible conservative, neo-puritan anti-sex campaign.
Rosen, David: The New Police Surveillance State
The Rising Price of Political Assembly
Published: 2012
Police are increasingly being deployed to restrict if not prevent mass political actions, especially directed at the banks.
Rosen, David: The Other Police State
Private Cops vs. the Public Good
Published: 2013
A revealing study on "Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits" written by Gary Ruskin confirms one’s worst suspicions about the ever-expanding two-headed U.S. security state. It details how some companies use the security apparatus, including questionable espionage tactics, against anyone who challenges their authority.
Rosen, David: Passion, Perversion, and Politics
Published: 2012
The Folson Street Fair is the centerpiece of a growing number of gatherings of formally illicit or deviant sexual practices that are taking place across the country. In the 2012 election, sexuality - especially abortion and homosexuality - is a critical issue. The election is about values, a choice between two ethical standards. Once again, Americans have to choose between the humane, the secular, and the religious.
Rosen, David: The Sex Offender: the 21st Century Witch
Published: 2017
Looks at the status of a "sexual offender" in America, including sexual offender registries, as well as groups working against false accusations.
Rosen, David: What's the Sexual Health of the Nation?
Sex, Lies and the Great Recession
Published: 2013
What happens to pleasure during a period of social crisis? Sex may be the best way to determine the true pulse of the nation.
Rosen, David: Why Do Establishment Feminists Hate Sex Workers?
Published: 2018
On March 21st, 2018, U.S. Senate Republicans and Democrats joined together to overwhelmingly pass the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA); the House had earlier passed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA).
Rosen, Jay: A miss bigger than a missed story: my final reflections on Trump and the press in 2016
Published: 2016
A shift in political culture away from journalism's grasp.
Rosenbaum, Ron: The Shocking Savagery of America's Early History
Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation's Dark Ages
Published: 2013
A discussion with reknowned historian Bernard Bailyn whose recent book "The Barbarous Years" examines a particularly violent period of America's early history which has since been almost erased.
Rosenberg, David: Marek Edelman: A True Mensch
Published: 2009
To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.
Rosenberg, Martha: The Drug Store in American Meat
We're Eating What?
Published: 2012
Food consumers seldom hear about the drugs oestradiol-17, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate and the names are certainly not on meat labels. But those synthetic growth hormones are central to U.S. meat production, especially beef, and the reason Europe has banned a lot of U.S. meat since 1989.
Rosenberg, Martha: How Big Pharma Infiltrated the Boston Museum of Science
Published: 2018
Mental illness is a highly stigmatized, life-long condition, that millions do not even realize they have and only a pharmaceutical drug can fix says Pharma and its operatives.
Rosenberg, Martha: How Slick Consulting Firms Get Us on Drugs
Published: 2019
A look at some of the techniques drug companies use to get doctors to prescribe their products.
Rosenberg, Martha: Pfizer's Elixir of Youth?
Tamoxifen Makes Women Live Longer (Says Manufacturer of Tamoxifen)
Published: 2012
It was a great moment in Pharma funded physician “education.” At a symposium at the American Psychiatric Association’s 2010 meeting called “Mood, Memory and Myths: What Really Happens at Menopause,” two Wyeth/Pfizer funded speakers tried to resurrect the benefits of cancer-linked hormone therapy. But the mostly-female audience was having none of it: what can we do about our “tamoxifen brain” from the cancer we already have, they wanted to know.
Rosenberg, Martha: Pharma Funded "Patient" Groups Keep Drug Prices Astronomical
Published: 2017
Rosenberg, Tina: How one of the most obese countries on earth took on the soda giants
Published: 2015
As debate rages about whether to introduce a sugar tax, this is the story of how Mexico defied its own powerful fizzy drinks industry to impose a tax on soda.
Rosenblum, Mort; Cabra, Mar; Guevara, Marina, Walker; Salazar, Milagros; and others: Plunder in the Pacific
Published: 2012
Chilean legislators clear the way for legally binding international measures to protect threatened fish across the southern Pacific, after an ICIJ investigation.
Rosenfield, Kat: America's racial fairytales
Are those with the power to cancel people wielding that power responsibly?
Published: 2021
The practice of cancelling ordinary people for minor public rudeness or crudeness has been a common practice for nearly 10 years now.
Rosenfield, Kat: The case for getting naked
Published: 2023
Non-sexual nudity is being erased
Rosenfield, Kat: The death of intimacy
Sex positivity has created a cult of celibacy
Published: 2022
What's happening in heterosexual couplings now is also, crucially, about what isn't happening: a sexual famine amongst Gen Z, who are upending the entire romantic landscape as they come of age. There is less sex, but also less dating, less social interaction writ large without the intermediary of a screen.
Rosenstiel, Tom and Mitchell, Amy: Thinking Clearly
Cases in Journalistic Decision Making
Published: 2003
Working with academic advisors and a team of long-time journalists, the Project for Excellence in Journalism created a case study curriculum for teaching journalistic process and practice. This textbook offers students the opportunity to discuss eight case studies in decision-making # including: Watergate, online journalism, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, and the Columbine school shooting. An accompanying set of teaching notes is available online.
Roser, Max: The global decline of extreme poverty - was it only China?
Published: 2017
The share of the world population living in extreme poverty has fallen very substantially in the last 200 years: from over 80% in 1820 to 10% in the latest estimates. In recent decades, extreme poverty has declined faster than ever before in human history. Often when I point this out – in conversation or on social media – I hear the response 'Yes, but this is only because of China.' This post asks whether this statement is true. Is the substantial decline of global poverty only due to the poverty decline in China?
Ross, Alexander Reid: Burkina Faso: climate change, land grabs, and revolution
Published: 2014
The economic tensions between local producers and international powers that have contributed to the revolutionary dissatisfaction with the establishment in Burkina Faso can be found in virtually any country subject to the harsh and cruel conditions of the global land grab and the crisis of climate change.
Ross, Alexander Reid: FBI harassing fossil fuel activists in the Pacific northwest
Published: 2015
A grassroots movement of eco-activists is achieving unprecedented success in challenging fossil fuel developments in the Cascadia region of the US's Pacific northwest, writes Alexander Reid Ross. And that has attracted the wrong kind of attention - from local police, FBI and right-wing legislators determined to protect the corporate right to exploit and pollute.
Ross, Alexander Reid: The KXL's Big Fail
An Empty Victory
Published: 2014
The Keystone XL bill failed to pass Congress. The Big Fail marks a huge success for groups who have been struggling to expose the KXL for the dirty policy it represents. The actions taken on the day of the vote, including disrupting the Senate vote in the chamber and blocking Senators Bennet (D-Col.) and Carper (D-Del.) from leaving their offices, speak to the dedication and tirelessness of the movement to stop the pipeline.
Ross, Alice K; Serle, Jack: Most US drone strikes in Pakistan attack houses
Drone strikes in Pakistan
Published: 2014
Domestic buildings have been hit by drone strikes more than any other type of target in the CIA’s 10-year campaign in the tribal regions of northern Pakistan, new research reveals.
Ross, Heather Kathryn: Environmental racism in the US - black communities fight for justice
Published: 2015
Landfill sites, giant hog farms, incinerators and other 'bad neighbor' industries in the US tend to be situated in African American communities. The Environmental Protection Agency is legally obliged to prevent 'environmental racism', but from California to Michigan, low-income communities of color have been waiting years for it to take a stand. Now, backed by Earthjustice, they are forcing the issue - in the courts.
Ross, Jonmarc: Off the Rails - The Rise and Fall of the Streetcar
Published: 2016
A history of the streetcar in the United States, beginning with the need for a modern, cost-efficient form of public transit, to its surging popularity, and ending with the General Motors conspiracy that sought to destroy rail-based public transit.
Ross, Mariam: UK 'aid' is financing a corporate scramble for Africa
Published: 2014
The corporate power-grab will be disastrous for the small-scale farmers who feed at least 70% of Africa's people.
Ross, Sherwood: Pentagon Trained Terrorists In Nevada To Use Against Iran
Published: 2012
The Pentagon trained members of the dissident Iranian terrorist group M.E.K. in Nevada starting in 2005, after which they returned to Iran and may have engaged in covert activities, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh reports.
Ross, Sherwood: PFC Bradley Manning, Patriot
Why Manning was Within His Rights to Give Secrets to Wikileaks
Published: 2010
Rosselson, Leon: Leon Rosselson on Gaza
Published: 2018
In Gaza the slaughter was premeditated and calculated. The snipers were primed to kill. They had their orders. They used the protesters, men women, children, for target practice. According to the latest reports, 109 Palestinians?—?including children, one an 8 month old baby -- have been killed and over 6,000 wounded, including nearly 1000 children. The wounds were particularly debilitating because Israeli soldiers used dumdum bullets which expand when they enter the body. The bullets used are causing injuries local medics say they have not seen since 2014. The entrance wound is small.The exit wound is devastating, causing gross comminution of bone and destruction of soft tissue.
Rossini, Carolina: Copyright policies threaten internet use in Panama and Colombia
Published: 2012
After years of being one of the most progressive regions in the world in terms of balanced copyright policy, Latin America is unfortunately sliding into copyright maximalism, enacting increasingly restrictive copyright enforcement measures into their federal laws.
Roth, Natasha: Gunning for destruction in Gaza: 'You want to see people in pieces'
Published: 2015
36,000 artillery shells, tank shells, mortars, anti-tank missiles and munitions, alongside an ubiquitous use of armored bulldozers, razed streets and districts to the ground during last summer's Gaza war. According to a newly published Breaking the Silence report, this is exactly what the Israeli army wanted.
Rothbard, Murray N.: The Massacre
Published: 1982
All other news, all other concerns, fade into insignificance beside the enormous horror of the massacre in Beirut. All humanity is outraged at the wanton slaughter of hundreds of men (mainly elderly), women, and children in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. The days of the massacre -- September 16 to 18 -- shall truly live in infamy.
Rothbard, Murray N.: The Myths of Reaganomics
Published: 1988
How well did Reagan succeed in cutting government spending, surely a critical ingredient in any plan to reduce the role of government in everyone's life? In 1980, the last year of free-spending Jimmy Carter the federal government spent $591 billion. In 1986, the last recorded year of the Reagan administration, the federal government spent $990 billion, an increase of 68%. Whatever this is, it is emphatically not reducing government expenditures.
Rothchild, Alice: Climate Justice and Palestine: the New Intersectionality
Published: 2016
The repeated failures of international and governmental agencies to effectively deal with the disastrous changes that threaten the entire planet have sparked local indigenous and small farmer activism from Bolivia to Palestine.
Rothenberg, James: The Persecution of Wikileaks
Burning the Messenger
Published: 2012
There is a landmark case, actually more of an affair, involving the US government and WikiLeaks, the online organization that provides anonymity for sources to leak information. The US feels it has leaked too much information about the wrong country, the US.
Rothenberg, Mel: A Rejoinder: Strategy or Doctrine?
Published: 1999
MIKE GOLDFIELD HAS presented above a succinct left critique of the popular front line of the Communist Party, both of its principles and of its practice. He echoes the accusations of James P. Cannon that in promoting this line the Communists diverted the working-class movement into the arms of the Democratic Party, thus fundamentally betraying both the class struggle and the Afro-American struggle.
Rothery, Tina: Cuadrilla versus The Nanas - #IamTinaRothery
Published: 2016
Thanks to fracking company Cuadrilla, grandmother Tina Rothery will be in court tomorrow over a £55,000 'debt' imposed on her for joining a peaceful occupation of a fracking site in Lancashire. But as she explains, she can't pay, she won't pay, and even if she could pay, she wouldn't. Someone has to stand up to corporate vandalism and abuse of justice - and in this case, it's her, no matter what the consequences.
Rothrock, Kevin: Russian Censors Falsify Evidence Against Newspaper to Uphold Ban on Political Coverage
Published: 2015
Almost a year ago, the Kremlin's media watchdog agency, Roskomnadzor, warned a series of news outlets against publishing reports about a protest that took place in Siberia on August 17, 2014. Last weekend, in an appeals case by one newspaper against the government, state censors finally revealed specifically why they banned several news stories last year about the rally in Siberia.
Rothschild, Matthew: Rest in Peace Pete Seeger, A True Progressive Hero
Published: 2014
In the wake of his death, a look back at Pete Seeger's music and activism.
Rothstein, Al: After the interview
Published: 1999
What to do after being interviewed by a reporter.
Rothstein, Al: Backing it Up
Published: 1999
If you say something in a media interview, make sure you can back it up.
Rothstein, Al: How many spokespersons?
Published: 1998
Speaking with one voice means your spokespersons should deliver the same message. It does not mean use only one spokesperson. If the news media representative knows your experts are available and reliable, you are more likely to be called and more importantly, to be believed.
Rothstein, Al: How the Media Can Be Positive For Your Business
Published: 2001
If both you and the reporter benefit, the chances are you will do business with that reporter again, good business.
Rothstein, Al: Involve Your Audience During TV Interviews
Published: 2000
People who are watching the news are usually doing something else as well, like washing clothes, eating dinner or helping the kids with homework. It's up to you to get their attention.
Rothstein, Al: Message Development: Rules of Engagement
Published: 2015
This blog is an instructional guide for dealing with media. It gives tips on how to speak in front of the reporter, organizing your message, what to say and what not to say.
Rothstein, Al: Off the Record
The reporter always has the upper hand when you make an 'off-the-record' statement.
Rothstein, Al: A Reporter's mindset
Published: 1999
Remember that reporters have a job to do. If you help the reporter, you are really helping yourself.
Rothstein, Al: Watching the News
Published: 2000
Watching the news to learn what the media are interested in.
Rotta, Thomas: Brazil 2013: Mass Demonstrations, the World Cup, and 500 Years of Oppression
Bread, Circuses and Discontent
Published: 2013
Deep inequality lies in Brazil where the masses lack basic public goods. Billions of dollars being spent on the upcoming 2014 World Cup have triggered nation-wide mass demonstrations.
Rottenberg, Catherine; Gordon, Neve: The Coronavirus Conundrum and Human Rights
Published: 2020
These are strange times. From left to right, no one quite knows what to do or who to believe. While the rapid spread of the coronavirus has rendered many of us bewildered and confused, the edict to physically distance ourselves from others has managed to highlight both just how vulnerable and interdependent we all are.
Rousset, Pierre: Pakistan, hostage of the religious - The radical left in resistance
Published: 2018
Radical leftists strive amid fundamentalist hostility in Pakistan where blasphemy is a serious charge with its roots in colonial religious divisions.
Rovics, David: The Gaza Ghetto Uprising
Published: 2023
From the Warsaw Ghetto uprising to the Gaza Ghetto uprising, the basic situation is the same: If half-starving people with no clean water or the ability to travel outside of their ghetto launch any kind of uprising, the obvious context is the fact that they were under siege, living in a walled ghetto, prevented from importing the things they need to survive and prevented from traveling. This is the obvious reason for any people living in such conditions to rise up against their occupying power. But instead, we are fed a narrative that begins with the ghetto uprising, without any explanation for the basic nature of the situation, that is, that an occupying army is forcing people to live and starve in a walled ghetto.
Rovics, David: The Pattern (Musically Annotated)
From the Annals of Occupation
Published: 2014
The war of words heats up. Israeli and US leaders are all over the airwaves, saying Israel has a right to defend itself and that Hamas is responsible for all deaths on both sides. The news organizations feel they have to have some reporters in Gaza for a change. They keep trying to spin the news in Israel’s favour, but once they’re showing even a little bit of the reality on the ground, it all starts looking really bad for the Israelis with each new dead Palestinian child buried beneath the rubble.
Rovics, David: Through the Labyrinth of Steel Doors
A Weekend in Texas
Published: 2012
Visiting a friend in a Texas prison.
Rowbotham, Sheila: Feminism and Rescue Work
Chapter 10 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
Rowell, Andy: Boycott BP's Baku games
Published: 2015
Baku, the oil capital of Azerbaijan, is set to host the 2015 European games. However, it's not just fun and games in this city. Azerbaijan is a country famous for oppressing freedom of speech, abusing journalists and keeping political prisoners. Furthermore, the main sponsor for the European games is oil tycoon BP. The 2015 games are a slew of political and environmental controversies.
Rowell, Andy: Lancashire County Council under pressure from fracking lobbyists
Published: 2015
Lancashire County Council is coming under intense pressure from fracking lobbyists to approve two controversial shale gas sites in the county, a week after its own planning officers recommended refusal.
Rowell, Andy: UK Fracking Task Force calls for improved safety standards
Published: 2015
A report by the UK Task Force on Shale Gas has called for greater safety and transparency measures to be implemented before widespread fracking occurs across the country.
Rowlatt, Justin: Tungsten: The perfect metal for bullets and missiles
Published: 2014
Imagine a lump of iron the size of a tennis ball. Weigh it in your hand. Now let it drop on to your foot. How does that feel? Now imagine an identical object three times as dense. How would that feel if you dropped it? Would you ever walk again?
Rowse, Darren: 5 Ways to Make Money Blogging (Once You Have Traffic)
Published: 2009
While it is possible to make some money with a blog of any size - your chances of earning income from a blog do generally increase as you increase your readership numbers.
Roy, Arundhati: Arundhati Roy Quotes
Roy, Eleanor Roy: On the hunt for illegal miners as a new gold rush hits New Zealand
Published: 2017
A look at the black market in gold in New Zealand and the efforts to thwart opportunists who sneak onto private farm land and national parks without permits to mine illegally.
Roy, Sara: On Equating BDS With Anti-Semitism: a Letter to the Members of the German Government
Published: 2019
An open letter to the German government by a Jew arguing against a motion equating BDS with anti-Semitism.
Royle, Camilla: Marxism and the Anthropocene
Published: 2016
As you read this article every breath you take in contains about 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide, around a third more than your great grandparents breathed 100 years ago. As well as leading to potentially catastrophic global warming, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has changed the way plants photosynthesise and has also made seas and lakes more acidic, more so than they have been for the last 800,000 years. The effect human activity is having in the world is on such a huge scale that, for a growing number of thinkers, Earth has entered a new geological epoch defined by human activity. Using the Greek word Anthropos (human) they propose to name this epoch the Anthropocene.
Royte, Elizabeth: Drinking Poblems
A Kansas town confronts a tap-water crisis
Published: 2018
A look at the health crisis in Pretty Prairie, Kansas, where Nitrate from farms has polluted the water supply for three decades. Elizabeth Royte takes a look at the town's history and social climate in order to understand why the problem was left for so long.
Royte, Elizabeth: The Hidden Rivers of Brooklyn
Published: 2016
A look at the extensive drainage and sewer system under the streets of Brooklyn, NY. When pipes fill up and plants reach capacity, untreated water containg sewage flows into local rivers and bays. However a bold green infrastructure initiative hopes to reduce such overflows by 3.8 billion gallons a year.
Rozmyslowicz, Marta: Fighting fracking in Poland: the farmers resistance movement
An improverished farming community in Zurawlow is using creative tactics to stop Chevron's shale gas plans
Published: 2014
When Chevron arrived in Zurawlów, a small village in Poland's rural Grabowiec county, it was like a UFO landing in the open wheat fields. In June last year a high-tech surveillance caravan appeared in the village to stake the firm's claim to the shale gas below.
Rozworski, Michael: Beware of Basic Income
Published: 2016
Wouldn't it be great to get a cheque every month just for being you? This is the sweet, fuzzy vision the Ontario and federal Liberals are counting on to sell their latest idea, a basic income. Just this year, the Ontario government laid the groundwork for a pilot project to test the idea. Any actual large-scale program is far off into the future, however, and that's a good thing. We need to take a hard look at the idea, especially in Liberal clothing.
Rozworski, Michael: Climate and competitiveness in the tar sands
Published: 2015
Anytime the oil barons and baronesses are smiling for the cameras with NGOs and politicians, we should at least be interested, if not outright worried. Was the release of Alberta’s new climate change strategy just an occasion for the oil execs to ham it up for the cameras pretending all is well or do they have truly something to be smiling about?
Rozworski, Michael: Uber and the Luddites
Published: 2015
The fight against the sharing economy, and Uber in particular, can be disorienting. Opposition is often painted as techno-phobia. The good guys in this story are Uber and progress; on the other side are opponents afraid of flexibility and smartphones, kicking and screaming against a future already here. In many ways, this is like the fight of the Luddites (machine smashers) 200 years ago at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. While the Luddites were fighting the way technology was used to further exploit rather than liberate workers, they were and are misrepresented as simply afraid of and opposed to technology.
RT: Maple syrup farmers lose fight against fracking pipeline
Published: 2016
A family of maple syrup farmers in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania cannot stop their trees being cut down to make way for a new fracking pipeline project owned by billion dollar oil companies, a federal judge ruled Friday. The Holleran family opposes the seizure of their maple grove to make way for the new 124-mile-long Constitution Pipeline. The group faced contempt of court charges for obstructing tree cutting on their property.
Ruane, Michael E.: Diaries reveal Jewish suffering during Holocaust in Hungary
Published: 2014
Diary reveals how doctor hid Jewish boy and his aunt from Nazis in her Budapest home during the late stages of the Second World War.
Ruark, Jennifer: Bait and Switch
An oral history by Jennifer Ruark
How the physicist Alan Sokal hoodwinked a group of humanists and why, 20 years later, it still matters.
Rubenstein, Alexander: "Legitimate target" - Bellingcat defends terror attack at St. Petersburg cafe
Published: 2023
Christo Grozev of the US government-sponsored Bellingcat endorsed the terror attack that killed a Russian war reporter and injured many others during a public event in St. Petersburg. He also defended Ukraine's attempt to assassinate a Russian philosopher because he was a 'propagandist.'
Rubenstein, Alexander: UN envoy admits fabricating claim of Viagra-fueled rape as 'Russian military strategy'
Published: 2022
UN Special Representative Pramila Patten has been exposed for fabricating her claim that Russia was supplying its troops with Viagra as a part of its 'military strategy' in the Ukraine conflict. The widely publicized lie was recycled from baseless NATO propaganda deployed during its 2011 Libyan regime change war.
Rubin, Michael; Thompson, Linda: The Green Party Campaign
Against The Current vol. 160
Published: 2012
War, civil liberties and racism aren’t even part of the Democratic-Republican debate. When addressing issues of the economy, the two major parties present competing versions of austerity for the working class. The Green Party is showing that their party is willing to confront these issues head on.
Rubinkam, Michael: A library without books? OSU and other universities purging dusty volumes
Published: 2018
A library without books? Not quite, but as students abandon the stacks in favour of online reference material, university libraries are unloading millions of unread volumes in a nationwide purge that has some print-loving scholars deeply unsettled.
Rubinstein, Alexander: Blowback
Italian police bust Azov-tied Nazi cell planning terror attacks
Published: 2022
The arrest of Italian neo-Nazis affiliated with the Ukrainian Azov Battalion highlights the terrifying potential for blowback from the Ukraine proxy war.
Ruby, Clayton; Nader R.,Hasan: Bill C-51: A Legal Primer
Overly broad and unnecessary anti-terrorism reforms could criminalize free speech
Published: 2015
Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, would expand the powers of Canada's spy agency, allowing Canadians to be arrested on mere suspicion of future criminal activity.
Rudolph, Jeffrey: Can You Pass The US Christian Right Quiz?
Published: 2012
An understanding of the Christian Right, a loose coalition of politically conservative congregations and organizations, is critical to understanding the US. This quiz seeks to explore the political influence of the Christian Right, and to highlight the threat its radical fundamentalists pose to the majority of Americans who value pluralism and tolerance.
Ruff, Allen: What the Mainstream Misses: Observations on the Ukraine Crisis
Published: 2014
Observations on the Ukraine events of February-March 2014 leading to the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych.
Ruggiero, Greg: Toward a Literacy of Rebellion
Compañeros of the Word
Published: 2013
The words dignity, dream, democracy, justice, struggle and liberty are among those central to the Zapatista vision, but perhaps it is the word compañero, the building block of the community and the organization, that holds and contains all of these other words in it.
Rugh, Peter: Scientists Protest Canada's War on Science
Published: 2014
The Harper government is closing libraries, trashing documents and firing thousands of scientists — while handing out billions in subsidies to oil companies.
Ruiz, Cedric: How to Create a Horizontal Dropdown Menu with HTML, CSS and jQuery
Published: 2011
Ruiz, Irene Banos: The financial system killing environmental activists
Published: 2017
A Global Witness report reveals 2016 as the deadliest year yet for environmental defenders. International investors are accused of bankrolling the projects that hundreds of people have been killed protesting.
Ruiz-Marrero, Carmelo: Toward the Agro-Police State
You'll Need an iPad if You Want to be a Farmer
Published: 2014
The main problem with precision agriculture -- and the hype that surrounds it -- is the faulty assumptions that it rests on. The problems of agriculture are not caused by a lack of technology, or even by a lack of productivity (overproduction has as a matter of fact been a more frequent problem for farmers). The root problems are political and economic in nature.
Rumold, Mark: New Documents and Reports Confirm AT&T and NSA's Longstanding Surveillance Partnership
Published: 2015
Reports today in the New York Times and ProPublica confirm what EFF's Jewel v. NSA lawsuit has claimed since 2008 -- that the NSA and AT&T have collaborated to build a domestic surveillance infrastructure, resulting in unconstitutional seizure and search of of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of Americans' Internet communications.
Runciman, David: How climate scepticism turned into something more dangerous
Published: 2017
The motley array of candidates who ran for the Republican presidential nomination was divided on many things, but not on climate change. None of them was willing to take the issue seriously.
Rupert, Bob: Hanging On: Native media are surviving
Published: 1992
Native media are struggling to survice.
Rupp, Sharon: Social Media for Academics
Published: 2016
An introduction to Mark Carrigan’s how-to guide, Social Media for Academics, with its lessons on how to be aware of your audience.
Ruptly: Caught in the act: German state channel accused of faking Russian soldiers in Ukraine
Published: 2015
A Russian television channel alleges a German state broadcaster hired actors to show Russian involvement in the eastern Ukraine conflict. The scandal centers around a Russian '‘volunteer' paid by the German company to say he was fighting in Ukraine.
Rusbridger, Alan; MacAskill, Ewen: I, spy: Edward Snowden in exile
Published: 2014
The Guardian interviews Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked thousands of classified documents to media outlets. Snowden shares his views on the events that have occured since his exile, and describes his life in Moscow.
Rush, Elizabeth: Down on the disappearing bayou
Published: 2015
A look at the destruction of wetlands along the Louisiana Coast as a result of rising sea levels and the practices of the hydrocarbon industry.
Rush, Elizabeth: How not to grow a new town
Published: 2013
For years the governments of Peru, and the municipality of Lima, had a working deal with rural migrants who flocked to the city: we'll plan the place, you build it, amenities will arrive. Then came the cheap neoliberal substitute of granting land titles -- and the speculation began.
Rushe, Dominic: Google: don't expect privacy when sending to Gmail
Published: 2013
People sending email to any of Google's 425 million Gmail users have no "reasonable expectation" that their communications are confidential, the internet giant has said in a court filing.
Rushton, Steve: David Graeber's Utopia of Rules: Why Deregulation Is Actually Expanding Bureaucracy
Published: 2015
Book review: David Graebe, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy.
Ruskin, Gary: Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations
Published: 2013
This report is an effort to document something about corporate espionage against nonprofit organizations. Law enforcement should prioritize investigating and prosecuting corporate espionage against nonprofits.
Russell, Andrew: Black Bloc Warning Urges More Violence Against Canadian Journalists
Published: 2017
Black Bloc anti-fascists whose members assaulted two Global News journalists at a demonstration in Quebec last weekend defended their actions Thursday and threatened more violence against journalists covering future protests in order to, according to the post, "make demonstrations safer" for the group.
Russell, Bertrand: Bertrand Russell Quotes
Russell, Bertrand; Einstein, Albert: Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Published: 1955
We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties?
Russell, Marta: Targeting Disability
Published: 2005
In addition to old-age benefits, it is often forgotten that Social Security provides survivor and disability insurance protections as well. The privatization debate has overlooked the fate of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) as a part of the program's family of benefits.
Rust-D'eye, George: Many bridges have spanned the Don River
Published: 1976
A history of early bridges spanning Toronto's Don River.
Rust-D'Eye, George: The Riverdale Zoo
Published: 1975
A history of the Riverdale Zoo from its founding it the 1890s to its closing in 1974.
Rustin, Susanna: Cotton trade: where does your T-shirt grow?
Published: 2014
Growers of the world's most important non-food crops are learning how to raise it without harmful chemicals.
Rutherford, Scott: Canada's Other Red Scare
Rights, Decolonization, and Indigenious Political Protest in the Global Sixties
Published: 2011
PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 2011
Ryan, Danielle: Coverage of sexual harassment claims carelessly blurs lines between minor misconduct and real abuse
Published: 2017
It is undeniably a great thing that abusers like Harvey Weinstein are finally receiving their comeuppance, however overdue it may be. But in the aftermath of Weinstein’s downfall, we’re at risk of broadening the definition of sexual harassment too widely.There is a vast difference between genuine sexual harassment, abuse or rape — and minor misconduct, flirting or otherwise inappropriate behavior in the workplace (or anywhere else). Yet, in recent weeks, the two have been dangerously conflated.
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Have we just decided to do away with the presumption of innocence, or at the very least the idea that these matters should be dealt with through lawyers and courts, not on Facebook and Twitter? Are we supposed to completely ignore the possibility that just maybe, an accusation could be false?

This kind of trial by social media is dangerous. A simple tweet can brand a person as a rapist who deserves to lose their job and have their lives utterly destroyed in an instant — on nothing more than the say-so of another person.
Sterile culture

A couple of weeks ago, Adam Sandler found himself in the firing line when he touched actress Claire Foy’s knee twice during The Graham Norton Show. Some viewers were so outraged by the contact Sandler had made with Foy’s knee that she was forced to release a statement saying she was not angry or offended by Sandler’s gesture. If this kind of behavior is classed as sexual harassment or as outrageously inappropriate as some viewers suggested, we appear to be on our way toward living in a completely sterile, robotic and puritanical world where nobody can say or do anything for fear of pious backlash from the political correctness police.

There is also an insulting, sexist and patronizing element to all of this which makes women out to be weak-minded, overly sensitive creatures who can’t even handle a sexual joke being told in their presence. Or who are so vulnerable that they simply can’t be left alone to fend for themselves. One POLITICO journalist recently suggested that a good way to limit sexual harassment would be to make closed-door meetings in the workplace a fireable offense.
Ryan, Danielle: Facebook plans to curate 'high quality' news for its users from 'trusted outlets'
Published: 2019
Facebook is considering hiring human editors to hand-pick 'trustworthy' news to display on its site. Facebook's track record of bias and censorship make its motives suspect.
Ryan, Danielle: Google's de-ranking of RT in search results is a form of censorship and blatant propaganda
Published: 2017
A commentary on the recent admission by an executive of Google's parent company (Alphabet) that special algorithms are being created to filter RTs news in order to make it appear less prominently in Google's search results.
Ryan, Danielle: Irony alert: Firm that warned Americans of Russian bots...was running an army of fake Russian bots
Published: 2018
The co-founders of cybersecurity firm New Knowledge warned Americans in November to "remain vigilant" in the face of "Russian efforts" to meddle in US elections. This month, they have been exposed for doing just that themselves.
Ryan, Danielle: It's not a 'defense' of Alex Jones to argue that we're on a slippery slope of internet censorship
Published: 2018
The celebration on the Left at the quick-fire purge of Alex Jones and InfoWars from social media has been disturbing -- not because Jones' views deserve to be defended, but because his banning is a warning shot against dissent.
Ryan, Danielle: Revolution in Ukraine? Yes, please! Revolution in France? Rule of law!
Published: 2018
Western media coverage has differed with reports describing French protesters as rioters, while Ukrainian protesters were described as revolutionaries. The contrasting reaction has prompted many to ask: If a so-called revolution is allowed to happen in Ukraine, why not in France?
Ryan, Danielle: US media tries another 'Bernie blackout' after New Hampshire win, but their game is not working
Published: 2020
Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary, but it appears this is such a hard pill for US media to swallow, that they've simply decided to ignore it -- or at least frame it in a way that somehow makes winning sound bad.
Ryan, Howard: Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Published: 2002
Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
Ryan, Tim: US Contractors Accused of Funding Taliban Attacks Against American Troops
Published: 2019
On lawsuit filed by military personnel against group of companies, alleging funding attacks on Americans by making protection payments to Taliban.
Ryan, Tricia: The 4 hour Workweek
Published: 2009
Ryan, Tricia: How to brand yourself
Published: 2009
Besides the self-marketing benefits of a biography, an advantage to writing this document is the actual writing of it. The process of thinking through, prioritizing, characterizing and expressing your career profile forces you to review everything you know about yourself -- and make it explicit.
Ryan, Tricia: Selling the Invisible: Book Review
Published: 2009
Ideas for research, presentations, publicity, advertising and client retention
Ryan, Tricia: 7 Essentials for a Great Website
Published: 2009
If you want your website to generate action, think about how each component of your website will get your customer through the sales lifecycle # to capture their interest, create desire and generate action.
Ryan, Tricia: 10 Perfectly Promotable Ideas
Published: 2009
As a small business marketer you are often looking for ideas to promote your business.
Ryan, Tricia: What Guerrillas Know About USPs
Published: 2009
A USP is a unique selling proposition: your proprietary competitive edge stated in clear, concise terms.
Ryle, Gerard: The extraordinary range of people using offshore hideaways
Published: 2013
Secret records obtained by ICIJ represent the biggest stockpile of inside information about the offshore system ever obtained by a media organisation, and lay bare an extraordinary range of people using offshore hideaways. The leaks illustrate how offshore financial secrecy has aggressively spread around the globe.
Ryle, Gerard; Fitzgibbon, Will: Banking Giant HSBC Sheltered Murky Cash Linked to Dictators and Arms Dealers
Published: 2015
Team of journalists from 45 countries unearths secret bank accounts maintained for criminals, traffickers, tax dodgers, politicians and celebrities. Secret documents reveal that global banking giant HSBC profited from doing business with arms dealers who channeled mortar bombs to child soldiers in Africa, bag men for Third World dictators, traffickers in blood diamonds and other international outlaws.
Ryle, Mads: Classic Book: Frankenstein
Published: 2012
A look at the continuing relevance of Mary Shelley's classic to debates about science, technology and nature today.
Rylel, Sarah: The NYPD Is Kicking People out of Their Homes, Even If They Haven't Committed a Crime
And it's happening almost exclusively in minority neighborhoods.
Published: 2016
The morning of May 4, 2011, Jameelah El-Shabazz watched out the window of her Bronx apartment as a team of police officers fanned across the rooftop of Banana Kelly High School. The 43-year-old mother of five said she didn’t think much of the scene -- drug raids were common in her neighbourhood.
Rynard, Su: The Messenger
Published: 2015
Documentary. A powerful reflection and intimate investigation that reaches from the northern point of the Boreal Forest to the base of Turkey's Mount Ararat to the urban streets of New York. As songbirds take flight and fight to survive in our changing world, The MESSENGER delivers a visually thrilling ode to the beauty and importance of these imperiled creatures.

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S., George: The Central Park Five - review
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
A review of 'The Central Park Five', a documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon.
Sabbour, Omar: German guiltwashing in times of genocide
Published: 2024
We have experienced the full severity of Germany’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism. We know it is not about historic guilt.
Sachs, Jeffrey D.: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked
Published: 2023
The Biden administration's insistence on NATO enlargement has made Ukraine a victim of misconceived and unachievable U.S. military aspirations.
Sacks, Sam: Proposed Torture Ban Includes New Transparency and Oversight Mechanisms
Published: 2015
The US senate has approved the ban for government torture. Along with this move, they have also implemented transparency and oversight policies into government agencies like the NSA and FBI.
Sadowski, Jathan: Google wants to run cities without being elected. Don't let it
Published: 2017
A new initiative will see Alphabet – the parent company of Google – take charge of redeveloping a waterfront district in Toronto. Here's why that's troubling.
Safi, Michael: Indian journalist critical of Hindu extremists is shot dead in Bangalore
Police say Gauri Lankesh was shot and killed by three assailants as she was entering her home
Published: 2017
Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist who was killed by three assailants was the senior editor of the tabloid known to be critical of Hindu extremists. The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that 27 journalists have been killed since 1992 with impunity.
Sahni, P. S.; Aggarwal, Shobha: In India Any Social Activist Can Be Arrested, Charged And Tried - Sans Evidence - For Terrorism: Kobad Ghandy's Case
Published: 2017
In 2009, the Government of India announced a new nation-wide initiative viz. "Integrated Action Plan" (IAP) for broad coordinated operations to deal with the 'Naxalite' problem. This plan included increased funding for special police for better containment and reduction of Naxalite influence. Kobad Ghandy’s arrest in September 2009 was a direct fall out of this IAP.
Said, Hammad: Relevance of Hannah Arendt's "A Report On The Banality Of Evil" To Gaza
Self-Deception, Lies And Stupidity
Published: 2014
Hannah Arendt, philosopher, writer, academic of Jewish heritage, went to Jerusalem in 1961 to cover the trial of Eichmann, one of the actors in the Final Solution, for the New Yorker magazine. Her account of the trial became a basis for the book, Eichmann In Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil.
Sainath, P: Diarrhea, Dehydration, Hunger, Exhaustion: India's Rural Poor Suffer Most Under Lockdown
Published: 2020
India just saw its biggest spike in coronavirus cases in 24 hours with 6,000 new reported infections, as an estimated 3 million seek shelter from a powerful cyclone and tens of thousands have no work or food.
Sainath, P: Rural India - a living journal, a breathing archive
The everyday lives of everyday people
Published: 2015
Project on rural India consisting of an archive which depicts its diverse and complex countryside.
Sainath, P.: The Cashless Economy of Chikalthana
Published: 2016
An article about the cash crisis in the Indian village Chikalthana.
Sainath, P.: Follow the Money, Find the Leader
Billion Dollar Candidates
Published: 2012
The point is not whether Barack Obama wins re-election as President. The point is not whether Mitt Romney can win. The point is that you can’t dream of contesting without a billion dollars. That figure merely ensures you can run, not win.
Sainath, P.: India, Where Corporate Socialism is a Growth Industry
$608 Billion in Write-Offs
Published: 2014
It was business as usual in 2013-14. Business with a capital B. This year’s budget document says we gave away another $88.6 billion to the corporate needy and the under-nourished rich in that year.
Sainath, P.: It's Raining Sand in Rayalaseema
Published: 2019
In the Rayalaseema region in India, changing agriculture has reduced biodiversity, depleting the soil and leading to aridity and sandstorms.
Sainath, P.: The Loneliest Library in the World
Published: 2014
At 73, P.V. Chinnathambi runs one of the loneliest libraries anywhere. In the middle of the forested wilderness of Kerala’s Idukki district, the library’s 160-books — all classics — are regularly borrowed, read, and returned by poor, Muthavan adivasis.
Sainath, P.: Patent Folly
Published: 1995
The misuse of patents rights and associated dangers.
Sainath, P.: Patent Folly: Another Point of View
Published: 1995
Sainath, P.: Pay-to-Print
"News" Stories for Cash Scandal Rocks India
Published: 2009
On "paid news".
Sainath, P.: Saving photos and memories from a flood
Published: 2020
Sainath, P.: Uproar in India: And You Thought It Was Only About Farmers?
Published: 2020
Surely the 'mainstream' media (a strange term for platforms whose content excludes over 70 per cent of the population) cannot be unaware of these implications of the new farm laws for Indian democracy. But the pursuit of profit drives them far more than any notion of public interest or democratic principles. Shed any delusions about the conflicts of interests (in plural) involved. These media are also corporations. The Big Boss of the largest Indian corporation is also the richest and biggest media owner in the country.
Sainath, P.: When 'Salihan' took on the Raj
Published: 2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
Sainath, P.: When War Passes for Foreign Policy
Who Will Pay the Price?
Published: 2012
“Take the profit out of war,” said activist Kevin Zeese, “and you take out war.” His audience was made up mainly of U.S. war veterans gathered in New York to observe — and protest — the 11th anniversary of the conflict in Afghanistan.
Sainato, Michael J.: State Department Condemns Attacks on Russian Peaceful Protests, Ignores Those in America
Published: 2017
On March 26, the State Department tweeted, "U.S. condemns detention of 100s of peaceful protesters in Russia today. Detaining peaceful protesters is an affront to democratic values."
Saito, Kohei: The Emergence of Marx's Critique of Modern Agriculture
Ecological Insights from His Excerpt Notebooks
Published: 2014
Examining Marx’s notebooks, one realizes that he first attained a truly critical and ecological comprehension of modern agriculture in the middle of the 1860s. Although Marx was at first optimistic about the positive effects of modern agriculture based on the application of natural sciences and technology, he later came to emphasize the negative consequences of agriculture under capitalism precisely because of such an application, illustrating how it inevitably brings about disharmonies in the transhistorical “metabolism” (Stoffwechsel) between human beings and nature.
Sakellari, Maria: Climate justice and migration in the media
Published: 2018
A climate justice narrative is needed to communicate and enhance public understanding of migration induced by climate change. Key components must include human rights protection, greater equity in burdens sharing, and participation in decision-making processes.
Saker, The: New weapons and the new tactics which they make possible: three examples
Published: 2019
Sakirko, Elena; Fomin, Konstantin: Siberia's Heavenly Lake and 'small peoples' of the High North at risk from oil drilling
Published: 2016
A vital nature preserve in western Siberia, and the indigenous peoples that inhabit it, are at risk from oil development. Oil giant Surgutneftegas is already active in the Numto Park, but now they want to extend operations into its fragile wetlands, putting at risk snow cranes, the Heavenly Lake, and the survival of the Nenet and Khanty peoples.
Salaff, Stephen: Hans Blumenfeld 1892-1988
Published: 1988
A look at the accomplishments of Hans Blumenfeld, a German-Canadian architect and city planner who was also active throughout his life in promoting peace.
Salazar, Milagros: Guinea Pigs Spell Independence for Women
Published: 2009
Raising guinea pigs has become an important means for Peruvian women to earn money to support their families, as well as to learn how to defend their rights.
Saleem, Sana; Khan, Sheema: Finally, a Wall to Unite People, Not Divide Them
Published: 2016
Throughout history, walls have been a symbol of separation, segregation, and division. However, a new phenomenon called "walls of kindness" (Deewar-e-Meherbani) is doing just the opposite. Faced by cold weather, Iranians began outdoor charity drives for the homeless and needy by building "walls of kindness." The walls feature clothing hooks beside the phrase, "Take one if you need it. Give one if you don't." Iran's campaign to clothe the poor has developed into an international onslaught of donations, coats, hats, trousers, and warm apparel.
Saliba, Frédéric: Deforestation of Central America Rises as Mexico's War on Drugs Moves South
Published: 2014
Swaths of Central American rainforest are affected by 'narco-deforestation', caused by landing strips and roads built by and for drug traffickers.
Salim: Understand the Israeli – Palestinian Apartheid In 11 Images
Published: 2014
All the graphics are from the site Visualizing Palestine, a site dedicated to creating informative and impactful graphics about the troubled region.
Salim, Heba: A database for the displaced
Published: 2021
The Kushan Baladi initiative (literally: land title initiative) was founded to create an official register of Palestinian land ownership inside the 1948 boundaries of historic Palestine, now Israel.
Salina, Irena: FLOW
For Love of Water
Published: 2008
A critical expose of the privatization of water infrastructure. 'Flow' confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.
Salutin, Rick: ChatGPT is the best thing to happen to teaching since the Socratic method
Published: 2023
Can there be another way to teach and learn? ChatGPT is a reminder that the oral tradition is still fitfully around.
Salvatori, Paul: Promoting Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Abroad
Regavim in Toronto
Published: 2022
Salzman, Lorna: Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing Battle
Published: 2009
Because of the flimsy comprehension of science and evolution of most writers in the mass media, those who venture to write about evolution feel constrained to present "alternative" views. But "alternative" views are not necessarily credible or true. The cliimate change deniers' arguments are no less articles of faith than those of the creationists. In the case of the former, the faith is not in a god but in the free market and capitalism. Almost without exception, those who are in staunch denial are those connected to, involved in or supportive of the traditional capitalist model of economic growth, and by implication opposed to anything that might constrain this model.
Sam Biddle: For Owners of Amazon’s Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching Too
Published: 2019
Amazon's Ring security cameras have a history of lax, sloppy oversight when it comes to deciding who has access to some of the most precious, intimate data belonging to any person: a live, high-definition feed from around -and perhaps inside- their house.
Sameh, Catherine: The Rebel Girl: A Question of Rape
Published: 1999
ON JUNE June 27, 1996, a United Nations court indicted eight Bosnian Serb military and police officers for the rapes of Muslim women in the Bosnian war. According to a New York Times article on June 28, 1996, investigators of the European Union and Amnesty International “calculated that in 1992, 20,000 Muslim women and girls were raped by Serbs.”
Sameh, Catherine: The Rebel Girl: Barbara Kingsolver's Triumph - Book Review
Published: 1999
IT IS A distinct pleasure to witness a favorite novelist become an even better storyteller, without losing her politics. Such is the case with Barbara Kingsolver and her new novel The Poisonwood Bible (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), arguably her strongest work yet, the story of the Price family commandeered by the evangelical Reverend Nathan Price.
Sameh, Catherine: The Rebel Girl: Death of Our Hoop Dreams
Published: 1999
DECEMBER 22, 1998 will sadly be recorded in the pages of women's sports history. On that day the American Basketball League, one third of the way into its third season, announced it was suspending operations and would immediately file for bankruptcy.
Sameh, Catherine: The Rebel Girl: The New Sex Police
Published: 1998
IN AN INTERVIEW for the “Hungry Mind Press Newsletter” (Issue Number 3, Summer 1998), Leslie Brody, author of Red Star Sister: Between Madness and Utopia (Hungry Mind Press, l998), a memoir of her stint in the White Panthers (a short-lived anti-racist radical youth group—ed.), responds to Dallas Crow's question “Why a memoir of the sixties now?”
Sample, Ian: Mobile reserves could save marine species
Published: 2012
Mobile marine nature reserves have been advanced as a tool to protect highly mobile marine mammals such as seabirds, turtles and sharks. These would protect migratory routes and mating grounds during certain times of the year.
Samsel, Anthony; Seneff, Stephanie: Glyphosate's Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases
Published: 2013
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup®, is the most popular herbicide used worldwide. The industry asserts it is minimally toxic to humans, but here we argue otherwise. Residues are found in the main foods of the Western diet, comprised primarily of sugar, corn, soy and wheat. Glyphosate's inhibition of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes is an overlooked component of its toxicity to mammals. (This article belongs to the Special Issue Biosemiotic Entropy: Disorder, Disease, and Mortality)
Samuels, Julie: A Closer Look at Patent Troll Demand Letters: A Dangerous Problem that Must Be Fixed
Published: 2013
We've been talking a good deal lately about the promising Innovation Act. And with good reason — it looks like the best chance we've had for real patent reform that would actually help those getting crushed by the patent system. The bill is not perfect, though, and has at least one glaring error: it does not address the serious harm that comes from patent troll demand letters.
San Juan, E. Jr.: The Limits of Postcolonial Criticism: The Discourse of Edward Said
Published: 1998
ONE OF THE fundamental discoveries of Marxist historiography is that capitalism as a world system has developed unevenly, with the operations of the “free market” determined by unplanned but (after analysis) “lawful” tendencies of accumulation of surplus value.
With the rise of merchant capitalism, diverse modes of production with varying temporalities and “superstructural” effects have since then reconfigured the planet. In a new cartography, we find...
San Juan, E. Jr.: Race from the 20th to the 21st Century: Multiculturalism or Emancipation?
Published: 1999
WHEN I WAS first invited here for a talk three years ago, I had no idea what Pullman looked like. For me, as well as for many students of American history, Pullman was associated with Pullman, Illinois, where the great railroad strike of 1894 against the Pullman Company began. In that strike of the American Railway Union, organized by the now legendary Eugene Debs, he and other union leaders were ultimately arrested and the strike in Chicago suppressed by 14,000 soldiers and police.
Sanchez, Dan: The Long Game for the Long War
Published: 2015
Fourteen years in, and the Terror War is raging on, mass-producing exactly what it was supposed to eliminate: terrorism and chaos. Western intervention has racked up at least six jihadi-overrun failed states throughout the Greater Middle East: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen. The scope and scale of the imposed civilizational meltdown have become so great that the West itself has been increasingly inundated by its wreckage (in the form of refugees) and stung by its shrapnel (in the form of terrorist attacks).
Sanchez, Dan: They Sow the Cyclone - We Reap the Blowback
How Uncle Sam Seeded Global Jihad & Cultivates It to This Day
Published: 2015
It may be surprising to hear, but it is a plain historical fact that modern international jihad originated as an instrument of US foreign policy. The "great menace of our era" was built up by the CIA to wage a proxy war against the Soviets.
Sanchez, Dan: War Is Realizing the Israelizing of the World
Divide, Conquer, Colonize
Published: 2015
As US-driven wars plummet the Muslim world ever deeper into jihadi-ridden failed state chaos, events seem to be careening toward a tipping point. Eventually, the region will become so profuse a font of terrorists and refugees, that Western popular resistance to "boots on the ground" will be overwhelmed by terror and rage. Then, the US-led empire will finally have the public mandate it needs to thoroughly and permanently colonize the Greater Middle East.
Sanchez, Dan: Where Does ISIS Get Those Wonderful Toys?
Published: 2015
Indeed where do ISIS and al-Qaeda get those wonderful toys we so often see these days triumphantly bedecked with black flags? The ultimate source of virtually all of the jihadists' gear are the deep pockets of the United States government and its client states. Uncle Sam is the veritable Bruce Wayne of Jihad. This was basically admitted in a recently disclosed Defense Intelligence Agency report. But anyone who bothered looking into it could have known this long ago, even if restricting one's self to mainstream sources.
Sanchez, Julian: This Is the Real Reason Apple Is Fighting the FBI
If the FBI wins, it could open the door to massive surveillance
Published: 2016
The first thing to understand about Apple’s latest fight with the FBI -- over a court order to help unlock the deceased San Bernardino shooter's phone -- is that it has very little to do with the San Bernardino shooter's phone.
Sand, Shlomo: A Fetid Wind of Racism Hovers Over Europe
Je Suis Charlie Chaplin
Published: 2015
After Charlie Hebdo's assassinations, is it obligatory to identify oneself with the victims' actions? Must people be Charlie because the victims were the incarnation of the 'liberty of expression'?
Sandate, Jovta (director): Farming Without Water
Published: 2014
This film explores Palestinian agriculture in the Jordan Valley in the context of limited access to water.
Sanders, Carol: The Barnardo Boys
Thousands of British 'Home Children' were shipped to Canada as child labourers in a plot right out of Dickens
Published: 2012
Between 1868 and the 1930s, more than 100,000 destitute children in Great Britain were shipped off to Canada. An estimated two-thirds of the Home Children, as they were known, were under the age 14.
Sandhu,Sukhdev: The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries by Jeremy Seabrook – review
Published: 2014
A review of the book "The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries", an account of the clothing industry and the exploitative conditions that workers undergo as they work for international firms.
Sandler Clarke, Joe; Cowie, Sam: Brazil: Increase in land killings as political crisis threatens Amazon
Published: 2017
Cuts to Funai, the agency meant to protect Brazil's indigenous tribes, have encouraged land barons to expand their land holdings into indigenous territories.
Sandronsky, Seth: Bill Gates and the Push to Privatize Public Education
An Interview With Mercedes K. Schneider
Published: 2014
Saner, Emine: From political coups to family feuds
how WhatsApp became our favourite way to chat
Published: 2016
How the WhatsApp messaging app has grown in popularity due to it's security and privacy benefits.
Saner, Emine: Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho: 'I don't scare easily'
Published: 2012
Lydia Cacho is one of Mexico's most fearless journalists. Her investigations have led to attempts on her life, and now she has been forced to flee her country. What next?
Sanger, David E.: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
Published: 2012
Sanjour, William: Designed to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don't Work
Published: 2012
The way to achieve true regulatory reform is to give regulatory agencies less money, less authority, fewer people but more intelligent regulations. By dispersing regulatory authority, rather than concentrating it, we would make corruption more difficult and facilitate more sensible regulation.
Santina, Don: Working Hard in America's Twilight Economy
The Gleaners
Published: 2015
Over in the west side of town, gleaners hustle toward the recycling center on Peralta which will pay them cash for their collected goods. They push and pull their rusty supermarket carts filled with bottles, cans and odd goods toward the building before the steel rollup door rumbles down and ends that day's possibility of cash transactions.
Saragih, Henry: Why We Left Our Farms to Come to Copenhagen
Speech of Henry Saragih, general coordinator of Via Campesina at the opening session of Klimaforum
Published: 2009
Climate change is already seriously impacting us. It brings floods, droughts and the outbreak of pests that are all causing harvest failures. I must point out that these harvest failures are something that the farmers did not create. Instead, it is the polluters who caused the emissions who destroy the natural cycles. So, we small scale farmers came here to say that we will not pay for their mistakes. And we are asking the emitters to face up to their responsibilities.
Saraswati, Jyoti: Outsourcing in India and the US Election
Thus Spake the Cyber-Coolies
Published: 2012
When Romney criticized outsourcing in his election campaign, he broke with Republican tradition. Outsourcing had been one of the few topics in which both parties appeared to genuinely disagree on, the one issue in which the underlying class dynamics of the pro-business Republicans and labour-backed Democrats were laid bare.
Sarhan Afif, Burke Jason: How Islamist gangs use internet to track, torture and kill Iraqi gays
Published: 2009
Iraqi militias infiltrate internet gay chatrooms to hunt their quarry and hundreds are feared to be victims.
Sarin, Ritu: I have never felt disadvantaged being a woman reporter
Published: 2014
Ritu Sarin is the investigations editor of the Indian Express group, and is the winner of several awards including the Ramnath Goenka Award and the Prem Bhatia award for excellence in journalism. ICIJ recently spoke to her about some of her most prominent investigations and her career as an investigative editor.
Sarkar, Urvashi: The bookseller saving Jerusalem's Palestinian identity
Published: 2016
Stripped of their rights, the last wall of Palestinian resistance is culture, says owner of a Jerusalem bookshop.
Sarkar, Urvashi: Sundarbans: 'Not a blade of grass grew...'
Published: 2019
People in the Sundarbans of West Bengal, for long living on the edge, are now facing climate change – recurring cyclones, erratic rain, growing salinity, rising heat, depleting mangroves and more.
Sarkouhi, Faraj: Iran: Book Censorship The Rule, Not The Exception
Published: 2007
Censorship in Iran has intensified over the last two years, with many books appearing only in expunged versions, while others previously available have had subsequent print runs banned.
Saro-Wiwa, Ken: Statement to the Court
Published: 1996
I have no doubt at all about the ultimate success of my cause, no matter the trials and tribulations which I and those who believe with me may encounter on our journey. Nor imprisonment or death can stop our ultimate victory.
Sasitharan, Kirthana: University of Toronto student app takes you back in time in Kensington Market
Published: 2017
The app uses augmented reality to tell the story of a historic Toronto neighbourhood.
Satter, Raphael: International undercover agents target Toronto-based digital rights group Citizen Lab
Group targeted following its reports on Israeli software used to spy on Jamal Khashoggi
Published: 2019
Members of the internet watchdog group Citizen Lab have been contacted by men masquerading as investors who seem to be trying to dig up dirt on them.
Saverin,Diana: Cape Town's death industry: 'If you’re buried here, it's as if they threw you away'
Published: 2015
The Xhosa people make up the vast majority of Cape Town's black population, spending most or all of their lives in the South African city. Saverin narrates why the people living there don't want to be buried there.
Savio, Mario: Mario Savio Quotes
Saxby, David: Building on the Emotional Experience of the Brand
Linking Individual Brands With the Brand of a Convention or Event
Published: 2010
As professional speakers, we each seek to create our own brand. However, in today's marketplace, aligning everything we do with the brand of the convention or event will assist us in fulfilling the expectations of those who hire us.
Saxby, David: New Media... Endless Possibilities
Published: 2000
Using new media to get your message out.
Sayare, Scott: The Ultimate Terrorist Factory
Are French prisons incubating extremism?
Published: 2016
Since the passage of the broad anti-terrorism statute in France, authorities claim that it has prevented dozens of terror killings; yet arrests under the controversial statute also assumes guilt before any crime has taken place as well as inferring guilt by mere association. Are French prisons ultimately pushing those who are unjustly jailed into associations with those with extremist views?
Sayers, Dorothy: Dorothy Sayers Quotes
Scahill, Jeremy: The Assassination Complex
Secret military documents expose the inner workings of Obama's drone wars
Published: 2015
There has been intense focus on the technology of remote killing, but that often serves as a surrogate for what should be a broader examination of the state's power over life and death.
Scahill, Jeremy: Blackwater Founder Remains Free and Rich While His Former Employees Go Down on Murder Charges
Published: 2014
A federal jury in Washington, D.C., returned guilty verdicts against four Blackwater operatives charged with killing more than a dozen Iraqi civilians and wounding scores of others in Baghdad in 2007.
Scahill, Jeremy: But What About Hamas's Rockets?
Published: 2021
We must be clear: What started this immediate horror was the intensification of Israel’s ethnic-cleansing campaign against Palestinians in East Jerusalem.
Scahill, Jeremy: The Counterinsurgency Paradigm: How U.S. Politics Have Become Paramilitarized
Published: 2018
Bernard Harcourt argues in his recent book "The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens" that the same counterinsurgency paradigm of warfare used against post-9/11 enemies has now come to the US as the effective governing strategy.
Scahill, Jeremy: Find, Fix, Finish
For the Pentagon, creating an architecture of assassination meant navigating a turf war with the CIA
Published: 2015
Obama was urged by Michael Hayden, the CIA director, and his counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to adopt small footprint counterterrorism operations and drone strikes. In one briefing, Hayden told Obama that covert action was the only way to confront al Qaeda and other terrorist groups plotting attacks against the U.S.
Scahill, Jeremy: Mercenaries on the make
Iraq is now awash with unaccountable 'security contractors'
Published: 2007
Contracted mercenaries now outnumber American troops in Iraq. These contractors are immune to prosecution for any wrongdoing in Iraq thanks to provisional laws that came into effect after the invasion. Most of these contractors are not American, the war is being outsourced.
Scahill, Jeremy: Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story
Published: 2017
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview that he does not believe the U.S. intelligence community proved its case that President Vladimir Putin directed a hacking campaign aimed at securing the election of Donald Trump. He blasted news organizations for lazily broadcasting the assertions of U.S. intelligence officials as established facts.
Scahill, Jeremy; Begley, Josh: The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
Published: 2015
American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Scavia, Donald: Nutrient Runoff is Killing American Waters and Voluntary Actions Aren't Working
Published: 2017
The ongoing causes and devastating effects of nutrient pollution on American lakes, bays and waterways is examined.
Schaffauser, Thierry: The sex work debate - a response to Jess Edwards
Published: 2010
Contribution to the debate on sex work which has been taking place in the International Socialism journal.
Schalk, Owen: Ottawa shrugs off ICJ genocide verdict while cutting funds to Palestinian refugees
Many Western powers are now plausibly complicit in the genocide of Palestinians
Published: 2024
The ICJ’s ruling puts the lie to the dominant claims by Western media and government officials that Israel is simply defending itself against terrorism, and its actions in Gaza, however excessive, are nonetheless justified. In short, the global majority has rejected the West’s framing of the Israeli war on Gaza.
Schapiro, Mark: Conning the Climate
Inside the carbon-trading shell game
Published: 2010
The carbon is, in essence, an elaborate shell game, a disappearing act that nicely serves the immediate interests of the world's governments but fails to meet the challenges of our looming environmental crisis.
Scheaffer, Robert: Recovered Memories Cross the Oceans
Psychic Vibrations
Published: 1995
The American practice of "recovering memories" of all manner of unspeakable abuse has leaped the Atlantic, and the Pacific as well.
Schei, Tonje Hessen: Drone
Published: 2014
This documentary covers diverse and integral ground from the recruitment of young pilots at gaming conventions and the re-definition of "going to war", to the moral stance of engineers behind the technology, the world leaders giving the secret "green light" to engage in the biggest targeted killing program in history, and the people willing to stand up against the violations of civil liberties and fight for transparency, accountability and justice.
Schenk, Anne: El Salvador's New War: Lesbian/Gay Activism Confronts "Social Cleansing"
Published: 1999
Queer activism and visibility are on the rise in El Salvador and throughout Latin America, coupled with an alarming increase in repression against queers and queer activists. In May of this year, Karla, a seventeen-year-old transvestite active in El Salvadors gay rights movement, was abducted off the street and assassinated death-squad style.
Schenk, Anne: Hurricane Mitch and Disaster Relief: The Politics of Catastrophe
Published: 1999
THE LEVEL OF destruction wrought by Hurricane Mitch is hard to overstate. While there is no way to know exactly how many lives were affected by the category-five hurricane that devastated the region between October 26 and November 1, early reports indicated that across Central America 11,000 people are reported dead, 15,000 are missing and at least 2.4 million made homeless.
Scherrer, Christoph and Shah, Anil: The Return of Commercial Prison Labour
Published: 2017
Prisons are seldom mentioned under the rubric of labour market institutions such as temporary work contracts or collective bargaining agreements. Yet, prisons not only employ labour but also cast a shadow on the labour force in or out of work. The early labour movement considered the then prevalent use of prison labour for commercial purposes as unfair competition. By the 1930s, the U.S. labour movement was strong enough to have work for commercial purposes prohibited in prisons.
Schiavoni, Christina; Camacaro, William: Hunger in Venezuela? A Look Beyond the Spin
Special Report
Published: 2016
Venezuala has food shortages when it comes to specific foods, but there have been grassroots and governmental responses.
Schieder, Elsa: Breaking the Spell of Stupid Opinions
Published: 2006
When someone is outside the hold of a stupid opinion, its inanity is so apparent that one wonders how it could ever be held by anyone. But when people are caught believing something that isn't reality-based, most believe it far more rigidly than they believe facts.
Schieder, Elsa: Stupid Opinion #1: All Opinions are Equal
Published: 2006
People say, "Don't be judgmental" - as if we shouldn't evaluate behaviour, from amazingly loving to atrocious. Many intone, "No one has the right to judge opinions" - as if racist opinions, say, had the same validity as anti-racist opinions.
Schilis-Gallego, Cecile: Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
Published: 2015
Schilis-Gallego discusses Australian mining companies' involvement in violence and human rights violations in Africa.
Schiller, Dan: Masters of the Internet
The Political Economy of Cyberspace
Published: 2013
The Internet’s unbalanced control structure provides an essential basis for US corporate and military supremacy in cyberspace. While the US government exercises an outsized role, other states possess scant opportunity — individually or collectively — to regulate the system.
Schiller, Dan: We've got our eye on you
US wants to control, and own, the world online
Published: 2014
Edward Snowden not only told the world about US state surveillance of national and personal secrets, he reminded us that almost all the companies surveying us for commercial gain are American.
Schkolne, Maya: The UK Is Among the World's Largest Suppliers of Weapons -- and Is Making Arms Boycotts Illegal
Despite human rights abuses, the UK continues to sell arms to Israel and crack down on dissent.
Published: 2017
Through 'open' trade conventions such as the Security & Policing (S&P) exhibition and closed events such as the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) fair, the UK allows local and international companies to showcase some of the world's most lethal weapons.
Schmidt, Susan; Lowenthal, Andrew; Wyatt, Tom; Orfaela, Matt: Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know
Published: 2023
A citizen's starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel
Schneider, Howard: A Guided Tour of AI and the Murky Ethical Issues It Raises
In "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans," Melanie Mitchell explores the workings and ethics of AI.
Published: 2019
Mitchell's goal is to give a thorough (and I mean thorough) account not only of the ethical issues artificial intelligence raises today (and tomorrow), but of how the various branches of AI that the Dartmouth group pursued actually work. She is a good writer with broad knowledge of the topic (unsurprising, since she has a Ph.D. in computer science), and a canny mindfulness of both the merits and problems of AI.
Schneiderman, Dan: Time for a national conversation on TPP's Investment Chapter
Published: 2015
Now that the legal text of the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) has been released it is time for a national discussion to begin. The new Liberal government has announced that there will be a 'full and open public debate in Parliament' regarding its terms. Much of the controversy has turned on questions of supply management and the auto sector. Yet there is much more in this pact that is not about trade and this includes conferring upon foreign investors special rights, many of which are well beyond those available under Canadian law. For investors making their home in TPP signatory countries outside of Canada, they are entitled to sue Canada for damages when their rights are adversely affected.
Schneier, Bruce: Government Secrets and the Need for Whistle-blowers
Published: 2013
Whistle-blowing is vital, even more broadly than in government spying. Whistle-blowing is the moral response to immoral activity by those in power. What's important here are government programs and methods, not data about individuals.
Schoen, Seth: Location Tracking: A Pervasive Problem in Modern Technology
Published: 2013
NSA is tracking people around the Internet and the physical world. These newly-revealed techniques hijacked personal information that was being transmitted for some commercial purpose, converting it into a tool for surveillance. One technique involved web cookies, while another involved mobile apps disclosing their location to location-based services.
Schorr, Douglas: Cricket, the war game
Published: 2015
Wherever England went, the army went. Wherever England left, cricket stayed. Schorr discusses the legacy of cricket after the British Empire travelled around the globe conquering territory.
SCHREINER, Ben: The Chemical Weapons Pretext for War on Syria
The Latest Pack of Lies?
Published: 2013
Washington is digging deep to conjure up a pretext for yet another war of aggression in the Middle East. The White House claims that the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against rebel fighters.
Schreiner, Ben: NYT Hypes Russian Threat to the Internet
Published: 2015
As if Americans didn't already have enough to worry about in regards to the recently resurrected Red Menace, we can now add the fear that those devious Russians are threatening to -- horror of horrors -- bring down the Internet.
Schult, Christoph; Wiegrefe, Klaus: Breedlove Network Sought Weapons Deliveries for Ukraine
Published: 2016
Working with dubious sourcing, a group close to NATO's chief military commander Philip Breedlove sought to secure weapons deliveries for Ukraine, a trove of newly released emails revealed. The efforts served to intensify the conflict between the West and Russia.
Schultz, Connie: Here We Go Again, Trash-Talking The Working Class
Published: 2016
This column begins with a brief story about the author's two grandmothers who lived in trailer homes.
Schultz, David: Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court, and the End of Legal Neutrality
Published: 2018
The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings destroyed any surviving myth of legal neutrality. Shultz explains why this may be a good thing, because it is time to recognize that the Supreme Court and its Justices are not politically neutral and that neither should they be.
Schultz, David: Justice Kennedy and the Myth of the Legal Neutrality
Published: 2018
The enduring myth in America that law and politics are separate is put into question at the end of 2017 with 5-4 decisions upholding President Trump's travel ban, the striking down mandatory public sector union fees, and the resignation of Justice Kennedy.
Schultz, David: Less Than Fundamental: the Myth of Voting Rights in America
Published: 2018
The story of voting rights in America is one of exceptionalism. In 1787 when the US Constitution was drafted the right to vote was absent from the text.
Schulz, Kathryn: The Perilous Lure of the Underground Railroad
Hardly anyone used it, but it provides us with moral comfort-and white heroes.
Published: 2016
The Underground Railroad entered our collective imagination in the eighteen-forties, and it has since been a mainstay of both national history and local lore. But in the past decade or so it has surged into "the popular literature of this nation" -- and the popular everything else, too.
Schumann, Molly: CBC has whitewashed Israel's crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand
Published: 2024
Working for five years as a producer at the public broadcaster, I witnessed the double standards and discrimination in its coverage of Palestine -- and experienced directly how CBC disciplines those who speak out
Schumann, Molly: CBC has whitewashed Israel's crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand
Published: 2024
Working for five years as a producer at the public broadcaster, I witnessed the double standards and discrimination in its coverage of Palestine -- and experienced directly how CBC disciplines those who speak out
Schwalbe, Michael: Class Struggle at the Waistline
Published: 2013
The obesity rate has soared not because lower income earners lack the knowledge to eat wisely, but because they have lost power over the economic conditions of their lives.
Schwalbe, Michael: Deskilling and the Terrain of Social Justice
Published: 2015
A look at why it is important to form an understanding of what it means to be 'skilled', and why capitalist economies waste a vast amount of human potential.
Schwalbe, Michael: The Lockdown Society Goes Primetime
Published: 2013
Michael Schwalbe ponders the influence on society of incorporating authoritarian jargon into everyday use, with specific reference to the use of 'Lock down' normalizing the concept of restrictions on movement in non-prison situations.
Schwalbe, Michael: The Politics of Repair
Published: 2015
The politics of repair are often invisible, hidden by the idea that repair is no more than the mundane practice of putting what is broken or worn-out back in good working order.
Schwalbe, Michael: Things My Students Don't Know
Published: 2016
One of the discussion exercises I use in my course on corporate power begins with the bare text of the First Amendment projected on screen at the front of the room. I tell students that this is a recently proposed piece of federal legislation and invite their comments. I also say that if anyone has heard of the proposal, they should remain quiet for the time being and let others speak first.
Schwartz, Aaron: Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
Published: 2008
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for
themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries
in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of
private corporations.
Schwartz, Barry: Don't Be Scammed Into Removing Links
Published: 2012
There may be a new competitive sabotage scam going around the SEO industry around link removals: emails advising webmasters to ask other sites to remove good and legitimate links to their websites.
Schwartz, John: "Black Americans for a Better Future" Super PAC 100% Funded by Rich White Guys
Published: 2016
New FEC filings show that all of the $417,250 in monetary donations to a Super PAC called "Black Americans for a Better Future" comes from conservative white businessmen-- including $400,000, or 96 percent of the total, from white billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer.
Schwartz, Jon: Luxembourg Puts Journalist and Whistleblowers On Trial for Ruining Its "Magical Fairyland" of Tax Avoidance
Published: 2016
Luxembourg istrying to throw two French whistleblowers and a journalist in prison for their role in the "LuxLeaks" exposé that revealed the tiny country’s outsized role in enabling corporate tax avoidance.
Schwartz, Madeleine; Booth, Heather; Kaplan, Laura; Galatzer-Levy, Jeanne; Arcana, Judith: Jane Does
Published: 2017
Conversations between journalist Madeleine Schwartz and members of the Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation, later known as Jane, an underground reproductive care service that was started in 1969.
Schwartz, Mattathias: DEA Lied to Congress About Deadly Raid That Killed Four Hondurans, Government Report Says
Published: 2017
The Drug Enforcement Administration repeatedly lied to Congress about fatal shooting incidents in Honduras, including the killing of four civilians during a DEA-led operation, according to a devastating 424-page report released today by the inspectors general for the State and Justice departments.
Schwartz, Nancy: NEW Nonprofit Marketing Plan Template—Right-Things, Right-Now Marketing
This is a detailed outline and guide for developing an effective marketing plan in the non-profit sector. Outline includes information on aspects of finance, marketing tactics, and finding the right target audience.
Schwarz, Jon: The Assassination of Orlando Letelier and the Politics of Silence
Published: 2016
In 1976, agents working for the Chilean secret service attached plastic explosives to the bottom of Orlando Letelier's Chevrolet as it sat in the driveway of his family's home in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. There are still many unanswered questions about this time. Exactly how complicit was the U.S. in the overthrow of the Chilean government? Why did the CIA ignore a cable telling it that Chile's agents were heading to the U.S.? Why did Henry Kissinger, then Secretary of State, cancel a warning to Chile not to kill its overseas opponents just five days before Letelier was murdered?
Schwarz, Jon: The History Channel Is Finally Telling the Stunning Secret Story of the War on Drugs
Published: 2017
The US government's involvement with the drug cartels is examined in a new documentary on The History Channel.
Schwarz, Jon: Legendary Journalist in Private: 'It Is All Fraudulent, All of It, Everywhere'
Published: 2015
Politico recently ran a fantastic historical profile of journalist Theodore H. White by the writer Scott Porch... he wrote to a close friend on August 31, 1960 during the Kennedy-Nixon campaign: … it is all fraudulent, all of it, everywhere, up and down, East and West. The movies, radio and state and books and TV — all of them are fraudulent"
Schwarz, Jon: The North Korea Standoff, Like the Cuban Missile Crisis, Exposes the Reckless U.S. Worldview
Published: 2017
The confrontation between the U.S. and North Korea has cooled off slightly with Kim Jong-un's announcement that, at least for the time being, he will not attack Guam with an "enveloping fire." A good place to start is with the repeated comparisons U.S. politicians have made between the situation with North Korea and the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962.
Schwarz, Jon: Russian Oligarch Wanted to Turn My Joke Into Reality
Published: 2015
One of my core political beliefs is that there would still be a Soviet Union if they'd been smart enough to have two communist parties that agreed on everything except abortion.
Obviously that's a joke about the U.S., where we have two capitalist parties that largely agree on everything.
Schwarz, Jon: A Short History of U.S. Bombing of Civilian Facilities
Published: 2015
The U.S. has repeatedly attacked civilian facilities in the past. This is a sampling of such incidents since the 1991 Gulf War.
Schwarz, Jon: Tea Party Oddsmaker Has Best Campaign Finance Reform Idea Yet (Really)
Published: 2015
Liberals always say we need to get money out of politics. But there are three big problems with that: (1) the Supreme Court has made it near-impossible without amending the Constitution; (2) no matter what barriers you erect, money will always find ways to influence politics; and (3) maybe most importantly, politics costs money.
Schwarz, Jon: "Yes, We're Corrupt": A List of Politicians Admitting That Money Controls Politics
Published: 2015
Schwarz gives a list of examples where politicians acknowledge that money has an impact on what they do.
Schwarz, Peter: Pro-European Union protests mount in Kiev
Published: 2013
Over 100,000 demonstrators protested in Kiev on Sunday to demand the resignation of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich. They were protesting Yanukovich’s abandonment of an association agreement with the European Union (EU.
Schweitzer, Albert: Albert Schweitzer Quotes
Scim, Leslie; Maremont, Mark: Insurers Test Data Profiles to Identify Risky Clients
Published: 2010
Data-gathering companies have such extensive files on most U.S. consumers—online shopping details, catalog purchases, magazine subscriptions, leisure activities and information from social-networking sites—that some insurers are exploring whether data can reveal nearly as much about a person as a lab analysis of their bodily fluids.
Sciortino, Raffaele: Chicken Game: Eurocrisis, Again.
Washington vs. Berlin
Published: 2012
How does one take an autonomous position against the European policies of social butchery without falling into nationalist, anti-German nostalgia or into rhetoric against “Anglo-Saxon speculation”? How do we put together struggles about rights, work and life with a constitutive struggle on the issue of debt, while avoiding any recourse to solutions “from above” to the risk of default?
Scipes, Kim: The National Endowment for Democracy in Venezuela
The Stealth Destabilizer
Published: 2014
As protests have been taking place in Venezuela the last couple of weeks, it is always good to check on the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the US Empire’s “stealth” destabilizer.
Scism, Leslie: As Wildfires Raged, Insurers Sent in Private Firefighters to Protect Homes of the Wealthy
Published: 2017
Another manifestation of extreme inequality in the United States: fire protection for the rich only.
Scott, Howard: Howard Scott Quotes
Scott-Clark, Cathy: The mass graves of Kashmir
India's dirty war unmasked
Published: 2012
For 22 years this contested region has endured a regime of torture and disappeared civilians. Now a local laywer is discovering their unmarked graves and challenging India's abuses.
Scribe, Abel: Dr. Abel Scribe's Guide to Chicago-Turabian Style and Documentation
Guides to Chicago style specifically for research papers.
Scutti, Susan: The government owns your DNA. What are they doing with it?
Published: 2014
Some US states have created biobanks of genetic material left over from patient screening tests, with specimens potentially used for purposes that have not granted informed consent, bringing up disturbing ethical and privacy concerns.
Seale, Bobby: Bobby Seale Quotes
Sears, Alan; Cairns, James: Austerity U
Preparing Students for Precarious Lives
Published: 2014
Policy-makers are introducing big changes to university systems under the banner of an austerity agenda. Globally common themes in this agenda include rapid increases in tuition fees, new models of university governance, new ways of teaching, a significant shift in subject matter, an attempt to depoliticize campuses, and major alterations in employment relations.
Seattle, Chief: Chief Seattle Quotes
Seeger, Pete: Pete Seeger Quotes
Seeger, Pete; van Gelder, Sarah: How Can I Keep From Singing
Published: 2014
Excerpts from an interview with Pete Seeger.
Segnini, Giannina: Biggest criminals write laws that make their crimes legal
Published: 2013
Giannina Segnini discusses her bribery investigations that helped put two former presidents of Costa Rica in jail, and offers advice to aspiring investigative journalists.
Segnini, Giannina: The biggest criminals write laws that make their crimes legal
Published: 2013
Giannina Segnini is the director of the investigative team at La Nación newspaper in Costa Rica. This month she was awarded one of Latin America's most prestigious distinctions, the Gabriel Garcia Marquez award for excellence in journalism. In this interview, she discusses her bribery investigations that helped put two former presidents of Costa Rica in jail, and offers advice to aspiring investigative journalists.
Seguiin, Eve: Academic mobbing, or how to become campus tormentors
Published: 2016
If you’re a university professor, chances are fairly good that you have initiated or participated in mobbing. Why? First, because mobbers are not sadists or sociopaths, but ordinary people; second, because universities are a type of organization that encourages mobbing; and third, as a result, mobbing is endemic at universities. Unlike bullying, an individual form of harassment in which a typical scenario consists of a boss victimizing an assistant, mobbing is a serious organizational deficiency.
Segura, Liliana: What Justice Breyer's Dissent on Lethal Injection Showed About the Death Penalty's Defenders
Published: 2015
Just after 2 a.m. on Monday, June 29, 2015 -- some seven hours before the U.S. Supreme Court would reject the latest challenge to the death penalty in Glossip v. Gross -- former death row prisoner Glenn Ford died in Louisiana. Ford, 65, left prison with stage four lung cancer in 2014, after spending almost 30 years facing execution for a crime he did not commit.
Seidman, Barry F.: Medicine Wars Will Alternative and Mainstream Medicine Ever Be Friends
Published: 2001
In the wake of dozens of new and complementary medicines flooding both the marketplace and some hospitals, which path will medicine take?
Seimetz, Rob: Adapt or Die: Millennials, Technology, and Net Neutrality
Published: 2017
The Internet is changing the way we think, concentrate, and process information. Studies are showing the Internet is lowering our concentration because the Internet offers constant distractions. It’s reducing our attention span, and it’s ruining our interpersonal communication skills. Basically this technology is dehumanizing us.
Sela, Rona: How Israel erases Palestinian cultural memory
Published: 2022
On Israel's looting of Palestinian cultural and historical archives.
Self, Will: Calibrated with precision. How is GPS changing our world?
A review of Greg Milner's Pinpoint
Published: 2016
The satellite navigation system we all live by is still controlled by the US military.
Self, Will: The Printed Word in Peril
The age of Homo virtualis is upon us
Published: 2018
What I do feel isolated in -- if not entirely alone in -- is my determination, as a novelist, essayist, and journalist, not to rage against the dying of literature's light, although it's surprising how little of this there is, but merely to examine the great technological discontinuity of our era, as we pivot from the wave to the particle, the fractal to the fungible, and the mechanical to the computable.
Selfa, Lance: Emma Goldman: A life of controversy
Published: 2004
More than six decades after her death, the anarchist Emma Goldman still stirs passionate political debate. Goldman made headlines in January 2003 when University of California, Berkeley, officials refused to allow the university's Emma Goldman Papers Project to send a fundraising appeal that quoted Goldman speaking out against war and for free speech. University officials said the appeal was too "political" to appear during the Bush administration's ramp-up to war in Iraq. Researchers at the Papers Project, which houses Goldman's personal and public papers, refused to concede in the face of university threats and organized protests against the university's suppression of free speech that forced the university to back down.
Selin, Katerina: Germany's Network Enforcement Act: Legal framework for censorship of the Internet
Published: 2017
On October 1, 2017, the Network Enforcement Act took effect in Germany. Under the cover of a fight against "fake news" and "hate speech," it creates a legal framework for censorship of the Internet.
Selvarajah, Manjula: Canadian Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider bias, study finds
Published: 2021
Seminova, Janina: #BrusselsLockdown - When a hashtag is hijacked
Published: 2015
When police in Belgium asked Brussels locals to stop tweeting about police activities, they accidentally started a grassroots campaign that ended up destroying a hashtag. The culprit: cat pictures.
Semuels, Alana: Segregation Had to Be Invented
Published: 2017
During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.
Sen, Somdeep: Censorship is a crucial complement of genocide
Published: 2024
This is why, as a genocide continues unabated in Gaza, we all have a responsibility to insert 'Palestine' and 'Palestinians' into every conversation.
Sepahpour-Ulrich, Soraya: The Algiers Accords: Decades of Violations and Silence
Published: 2018
This week marks the 37th anniversary of a pledge made by the United States in 1981:
The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran’s internal affairs.
This week also marks 37 continuous years of the United States failing to uphold its pledge: the 1981 Algiers Accords.
Serra, Gianluca: Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe are the root causes of war
Published: 2015
Civil war in Syria is the result of the desertification of the ecologically fragile Syrian steppe, which began in 1958 when the former Bedouin commons were opened up to unrestricted grazing. That led to a wider ecological, hydrological and agricultural collapse.
Seshan, Suprabha: Old Mother Forest
Published: 2019
A poignant look at the ecosystem of a rainforest from a conservationist in India.
Setalvad, Teesta: The Right-Wing Assault on the Truth in India Claims the Life of Another Journalist
Published: 2017
Journalist, activist and writer Gauri Lankesh, was gunned down on the night of Sept. 5, 2017, by a suspected right-wing extremist for her published views in a tabloid paper.
Sewell, John: Toronto does not need to hire more police officers
Published: 2018
As you contemplate the push by the Toronto Police Association to have more police officers hired, remember that the issue is not the need for more officers, but featherbedding.
Seymour, Richard: Disaster at Arm's Length
Published: 2017
The Grenfell Tower disaster in London exposes the class violence embedded in London's gentrifying neighbourhoods.
Seyyid, Sharmila: Sri Lanka Easter Sunday Massacre: Reflection Of Long Time Silence
Published: 2019
A personal story about extreme ideologies that infiltrated Islamic societies.
Sganzerla, Taisa: Brazil's Largest Newspaper Quits Facebook, Accuses it of Harboring 'Fake News'
Published: 2018
The Brazilian media conglomerate Folha de S. Paulo, made the decision to rebel against Facebook by ceasing to publish content, saying the decision stems primarily from Facebook's recent change on users' news feed which aims to reduce the amount of content and favour posts by friends and family. The paper says Facebook is effectively banning professional journalism from its pages in favour of personal content and 'Fake News'.
Shaer, Matthew; Hudson, Michael; Williams, Margot: Sun and Shadows
How an Island Paradise Became a Haven for Dirty Money
Published: 2014
Seychelles, a thousand miles from anywhere, is an offshore magnet for money launderers and tax dodgers. A look at this corruption-haunted archipelago shows how the offshore secrecy system has grown — and where it's going.
Shah, Anup: Corporate Influence in the Media
Published: 1999
Some nations can influence and control their media greatly. In addition, powerful corporations are becoming major influences on mainstream media. In some places major multinational corporations own media stations and outlets. Moreover, even as numbers of media outlets increase, the ownership is becoming ever more concentrated as mega mergers take hold. At the same time, vertical integration gives the big players even more avenues to cross-sell and cross-market their products for even more amazing profits. An effect of this though is a reduction in diversity and depth of content that the public can get, while increasing the political and economic power of corporations and advertisers. An informed population is crucial element to a functioning democracy.
Shah, Anup: Mainstream Media Introduction
Published: 2009
Someone once said that a person#s perception of reality is a result of their beliefs. In today#s age, a lot of those beliefs are in some ways formed via the mainstream media. It is therefore worth looking at what the media presents, how it does so, and what factors affect the way it is done. This section of the globalissues.org web site introduces some of those aspects.
Shah, Anup: Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership
Published: 2009
Some nations can influence and control their media greatly. In addition, powerful corporations also have enormous influence on mainstream media.
Shah, Anup: Media Manipulation
Published: 2006
Media manipulation often involves government or corporate propaganda and spin. Sometimes organizations and governments can feed fake news or politically or ideologically slanted stories to broadcasters which depict them as quality news items and journalism.
Shah, Anup: Tax Havens; Undermining Democracy
Published: 2009
Shah, Anup: War, Propaganda and the Media
Published: 1999
Probably every conflict is fought on at least two grounds: the battlefield and the minds of the people via propaganda. The #good guys# and the #bad guys# can often both be guilty of misleading their people with distortions, exaggerations, subjectivity, inaccuracy and even fabrications, in order to receive support and a sense of legitimacy
Shaheen, Kareem: World's oldest library reopens in Fez: 'You can hurt us, but you can't hurt the books'
Published: 2016
After years of restoration, the ninth-century Qarawiyyin library in north-eastern Morocco is finally set to reopen – with strict security and a new underground canal system to protect its most prized manuscripts
Shaheen-Hussain, Samir: Health Care and Immigration Policies that Kill
Published: 2015
Cuts to Canada's Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), severely curtail access to health-care services for refugee claimants and refugees. Many beneficiaries and practitioners were already critical of the original IFHP because it provided inconsistent access to health care and many services were not covered. The situation only worsened after the cuts.
Shahnazarian, Rosa: Migrant laborers building 2022 World Cup facilities worked to death in Qatar
Published: 2013
Deprived of their pay for months at a time, migrant construction workers building the facilities for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar are being worked to death under slave labour conditions.
Shahriari, Sara: Largest Urban Cable Car Soars Over 'Desperate' Commuters of La Paz
Published: 2014
The La Paz region's new cable car system will transform the lives of commuters between La Paz, Bolivia and the mountaintop of El Alto, who currently have to zigzag up the slope in horrible traffic. But will everyone be able to afford it?
Shahshahani, Azadeh: There Is a Coordinated Campaign to Suppress Criticism of Israel
Published: 2018
Israel's human rights violations are accompanied by U.S. efforts to stifle dissent.
Shahtahmasebi, Darius: Separating children from their families is nothing new, US has been doing it for decades
Published: 2018
While the child-parent separation of asylum seekers at the southern U.S. border is closer to home for Americans, the United States has had a longstanding foreign policy of separating thousands of children from their parents on a daily basis.
Shaker, Erika: Living principles: In memory of Ed Finn
Published: 2020
Born in Spaniard’s Bay, Newfoundland, in 1926, Ed Finn grew up in Corner Brook, where he later became first a printer’s apprentice, then a reporter, columnist, and editor of that city’s daily newspaper, the Western Star. His long career as a journalist later included two years at the Montreal Gazette and 14 years at the Toronto Star. During his four-year fling in politics in Newfoundland (1959-1962), he served as the first provincial leader of the NDP. He worked closely with Tommy Douglas and helped defend and promote his pioneering Medicare legislation in Saskatchewan. And throughout the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, he did communications work for several labour unions, and served on the board of directors of the Bank of Canada. From 1994 to 2014 he was Senior Editor at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Editor of the CCPA Monitor. On November 27, 2020, Ed was appointed to the Order of Canada.
Shakespeare, William: William Shakespeare Quotes
Shakir, Laith: Think California's drought is bad? Try Palestine's
Published: 2015
While Israelis water their lawns, irrigate crops and swim in Olympic-sized pools, Palestinian communities a few kilometers away face drought and water scarcity issues. Their roughly equal proximity to water resources theoretically allows for equal consumption.
Shala, Behxhet: Protecting Kosovo
Published: 2009
Lushtaku may be tactically right not to want to appear in the #Jeta ne Kosova# debate, but strategically he has lost this battle. A politician who starts a war with a journalist will lose that war. His public lynching of Jeta, is being conducted under false pretexts.
Shalom, Stephen R.; Albert, Michael: Conspiracies or Institutions: 9-11 and Beyond
Published: 2002
Why and how does much (but not all) conspiracy theorizing create a tendency for people to depart from rational analysis?
Shamir, Israel: Putin Prefers a Bad Peace
From Syria to Donbass, Russians Endorse Peace, Americans Push for War
Published: 2015
Putin can't cut off and forget about Donbass -- his people would not allow him anyway. A cautious man, he does not want to go to an open-ended war. So he has to navigate towards some sort of peace.
Shammalah, Raghad Abu: Turning innocence into resistance
Published: 2023
With every murderous crime, new fuel is poured on the fire of resistance, which every traumatized child like Salma carries in their young heart. Resistance may be all she has in the end. When the suffering is endless, it binds one generation’s suffering to the next. This is why many Palestinians may die, but our children will never forget.
Shane, Charlotte: Obstruction of Justice
Why the criminal justice system is ill-equipped to prosecute rape charges
Published: 2018
Author Charlotte Shane examines why the U.S. justice sytem is incapable of effectively adjudicating rape, moreover the profound psychological and societal issues inborn in our culture that produces rapists. Shane takes a look at the film "I Am Evidence", directed by Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir, as a starting point for discussion.
Shapira, Ian: The hunt for Spinosaurus
Published: 2014
A chance meeting in Morocco and a trip to Milan joined pieces of the Spinosaurus, the world's first semi-aquatic dinosaur.
Sharabani, Soud: Israeli Myths: An Interview with Ramzy Baroud
Published: 2016
For many years, much of the Western world understood Israel based on a cluster of myths, from the early fables of the Zionists making the desert bloom, to Palestine supposedly being a land without people for a people without land. That intricately constructed and propagated mythology evolved over time, as Israeli hasbara laboured to provide a perception of reality that was needed to justify its wars, its military occupation, its constant violations of human rights and its many war crimes.
Sharlet, Jeff: A Flag for Trump's America
The power of strength
Published: 2018
A look at the Blue Lives Matter slogan and flag, which became a symbol for the U.S. police counter-movement advocating that those who are prosecuted and convicted of killing law enforcement officers should be sentenced under hate crime statutes. It was started in response to Black Lives Matter.
Sharma, Devinder: A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently
Published: 2009
A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
Sharma, Devinder: The Very Future of Third World Agriculture Is at Stake
Published: 2013
Food security is simply a smokescreen to provide a cover-up for the global efforts being made to dismantle the very foundations of Third World agriculture. Putting more income into the hands of Third World farmers is not acceptable, as it makes developing country agriculture economically viable and therefore deals a blow to U.S. agribusiness trade interests.
Sharma, Gouri: Germany: Confronting the colonial roots of racism
Published: 2017
The Nazis didn't fall out of the sky, there is a deeper racist, xenophobic mindset in German history.
Shatz, Adam: Moral Clarity
Published: 2015
Shatz discusses the underlying meaning and implications of the slogan 'Je suis Charlie', an expression that became widespread after the shootings at the Charlie Hebdo's (French satirical magazine) office.
Shaun, King: For every 1,000 people killed by police, one officer is convicted of a crime
Published: 2015
Out of thousands of people killed by police in the United States since 2005, only 11 officers have been convicted of any crimes.
Shaver, Kelli: 5 Ways to Ensure Your Site Is Accessible to the Visually Impaired
Published: 2011
Shaw, Vivian: How Fukushima gave rise to a new anti-racism movement
Published: 2017
Shaw examines the rise in anti-discrimination social activism in Japan after the environmental disasters in 2011 and lack of support from the government towards its non-Japanese citizens.
Shea, Rainer: To Adapt to the Escalating Climate Crisis, Mere Reform Will Not Be Enough
Published: 2019
As I've watched young people around the world take part in the climate actions of the last month, I've gotten the sense that I'm watching a spectacle which has been orchestrated to create the illusion that we're still in an earlier, more stable time for the planet's climate. Legitimate as the passion and commitment of this generation of teen climate activists is, their efforts are being packaged by the political and media establishment in a way that encourages denial about our true situation.
Sheaffer, Robert: Massive Uncritical Publicity for Supposed "Independent UFO Investigation"
Demonstrates Media Gullibility Once Again
Published: 1998
On Monday, June 19, 1998, all of the major media outlets were suddenly filled with accounts proclaiming that an independent panel of scientists had taken a fresh look at the UFO question, and had concluded that the matter needed to be taken seriously after all.
Sheen, David: American White Separatist Finds Shared Values with Israel
Published: 2015
If America and Israel have "shared values," as their elected leaders often claim, then how can so many Americans reject ethnocracy in their own country, but support what is happening inside Israel?
Sheen, David: How Israel Covers Up Its Ugly Racial Holy War
Published: 2015
As the incitement to violence by Israeli leaders ramped up, so did racist attacks by Israeli citizens.
Sheen, David: Israel steps up its war on mixed marriages
Published: 2018
The Israeli government has long funded various efforts to try to prevent romantic relationships between Jews and non-Jews, both inside territories it controls and around the world. But a new program confirmed this month by the tourism ministry takes Israel's war on families of mixed religion or ethnicity to a new level.
Sheen, David: Israeli calls for Palestinian blood ring at fever pitch
Published: 2014
Concerned humanists may have hoped that when a group of Jewish Israelis confessed to kidnapping and killing Muhammad Abu Khudair, a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem — forcing him to drink gasoline and torching him to death from inside his body — that top Israeli legislators and rabbis would have been horrified at what their revenge rhetoric had triggered.
Sheen, David: Israel's anti-African dragnet tightens
Published: 2014
The past year saw some of the most ruthless Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza since the territories were occupied in 1967. Israeli political leaders incited violence against Palestinians and soldiers and civilians carried out these commands, while the government’s parallel war on African refugees raged on.
Sheen, David: Israel's War Against Gaza's Women & Their Bodies
Published: 2014
As Gaza is pummeled, the level of anti-Palestinian racist incitement from top Israeli political, religious and cultural figures continues to ring at peak pitch, and has taken on a dangerous misogynistic tone.
Sheen, David: Israel's War on African Refugees
Published: 2014
Isral implements public policies that support a racist agenda. In the past twenty-four months, the country has deported thousands of non-Jewish Africans and the Netanyahu government has declared that it will not rest until the remaining 50,000 are expelled.
Sheen, David: Jewish Groups' Whitewash of Israeli Racism Ensures It Will Fester
Published: 2014
As news spreads of the circumstances surrounding last week's murder of 17-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdair, many international observers are responding with incredulity.
Sheen, David: Race, Religion and Rounding Up Africans in Israel
Published: 2013
Israel has launched a wholesale roundup of African immigrants, whom members of the ruling parties call a "cancer" on the Jewish state. To circumvent court rulings against imprisonment without trial, the government has packed the refugees into a detention center in the desert. The aim is to convince the Africans "to give up all hope of a normal life in Israel" and go back where they came from.
Sheen, David: Racism in Israel
Published: 2012
Reports of anti-African race riots in Tel Aviv in May finally broke western media silence over one of the most contentious issues facing the state of Israel in recent years: the arrival of tens of thousands of asylum-seekers from sub-Saharan Africa.
Sheen, David: Resistance to Reporting on Discrimination in Israel
Published: 2013
To date, I have published over a hundred reports about anti-African racism in Israel. Some of these stories have been widely circulated, including a 10-minute video released last month that has been seen by more than three quarters of a million people. But, it would seem that the mainstream American media is consciously refraining from reporting on the story.
Sheen, David: Terrifying tweets of pre-Army Israeli teens
Published: 2014
On Thursday, July 10, 2014, I entered the Hebrew word for "Arabs", ARAVIM, into Twitter and searched for uses of the word over the previous few hours. What I found was young Israelis proclaiming their desire for all Arabs to die and in some cases be tortured to death.
Sheen, David: Ultra-Zionists protest Muslim-Jewish wedding saying miscegenation is 'gravest threat to the Jewish people'
Published: 2014
As even mainstream Israeli politicians threaten the Palestinians of Gaza with ethnic cleansing and genocide, Israel's far-right figures take to the street to rile up racist supporters and to chase Palestinians out of public spaces and enforce racial-religious separation.
Sheen, David: Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?
Published: 2014
Earlier this week the Times of Israel published a post, written by American Yochanan Gordon, titled "When Genocide is Permissible," which concludes with the following question:
"If political leaders and military experts determine that the only way to achieve its goal of sustaining quiet is through genocide is it then permissible to achieve those responsible goals?"
Sheen, David: Where Was God When Israel Deported African Refugees?
Published: 2014
After 60,000 sub-Saharan Africans, Christian and Muslim, sought refuge in Israel from political persecution and ethnic cleansing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a multi-pronged campaign to expel them all.
Sheffield, Mathew: 'Fake news' or free speech: Is Google cracking down on left media?
Published: 2017
Left leaning progressive websites say they are being unfairly penalized by Google's efforts to stamp out fake news.
Sheizaf, Noam: Israeli attacks on a dissident soldiers' group could backfire
Published: 2015
Yehuda Shaul was an infantryman in the Israeli army in Hebron during the second intifada. But in recent weeks, he and his group of veterans have been vilified by right-wing organizations and mainstream politicians in a public campaign against Israeli groups critical of their country's occupation of Palestinian territories.
Shellenberger, Michael: The Censorship Industrial Complex
Published: 2023
Contains testimony by Michael Shellenberger to The [U.S.] House Select Committee on the weaponization of the Federal Government, i.e., U.S. government support for domestic censorship and Disinformation Campaigns 2016-2022.
Sheng-wu-lien: Whither China?
Published: 1968
A document written by militants called Sheng-wu-lien in Hunan province in China during the "Cultural Revolution." The Shengwulian activists were crushed by the bureaucracy.
Shenker, Jack: After the massacre: life in South Africa's platinum mining belt
Published: 2014
Two years ago 34 striking miners in South Africa were shot dead by security forces. The ensuing cover-up was a national scandal. Will the wage protests herald a major force for change and loosen the African National Congress' grip on power?
Shenker, Jack: Lost cities #6: how Thonis-Heracleion resurfaced after 1,000 years under water
Published: 2016
Ancient Egypt's gateway to the Mediterranean – submerged and buried under layers of sand – is an eerie reminder of how vulnerable cities are to nature's forces. Thonis-Heracleion is returning to the surface once again.
Shepherd, Lindsay: I was banned for trans heresy
Published: 2019
Sherwood, Harriet: Christians at risk across the globe
Pope has warned of a 'form of genocide' as threat of persecution grows, reports
Published: 2015
Christians are facing growing persecution around the world, fuelled mainly by Islamic extremism and repressive governments, leading the pope to warn of "a form of genocide" and for campaigners to speak of "religioethnic cleansing".
Shifferd, Kent: Archaeology and the Atom
The Nuclear Fallacy
Published: 2013
We have all heard of the city of Idu. Right? Thousands of families living there, carrying out their normal lives, government housed in lavish buildings, written documents, trade, religion, etc. Well, it was lost. A whole city lost. Idu flourished in the 13th century B.C. We knew it had existed from some ancient Assyrian records, but had no idea where it was. Archeologists finally found it last year, buried in northern Iraq.
Shih-hung, Lo: How Apple is Paving the Way to a 'Cloud Dictatorship' in China
Published: 2018
Apple Inc. is set to hand over the operation of its iCloud data center in mainland China to a local corporation, but Apple has not explained the real issue. With the move a state-owned big data company controlled by the Chinese government will have access to all the data of its service users in China; this will allow the state apparatus to jump into the cloud and look into the data of Apple's Chinese users.
Shiller, Ed: A Crisis by Any Other Name
Published: 2002
The role of communications in a crisis.
Shiller, Ed: Managing the Media: A Lesson in Making Publicity Come First
Published: 2002
Case study of media relations strategy.
Shiller, Ed: The psycholinguistic phenomenon
Published: 2009
There is no doubt that the literal meaning of the words you use in written or oral communications will have an effect on the people you are trying to reach. But equally, if not more, important are the meanings conveyed by our nonverbal communication.
Shiller, Ed: When & How to Hold a News Conference
Published: 2002
So before you decide to call a news conference, make sure that the circumstances meet ALL of the criteria.
Shinde, Mrinalini; Bokil, Ameya: 13 protesters against copper plant in India killed after police open fire
Published: 2018
Public protests at the copper smelter plant of Sterlite Industries in the town of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu, India, were met with police fire during the last two days, with 13 protesters killed and and hundreds injured.
Shinoli, Jyoti: Online classes, offline class divisions
Published: 2020
Students living in the Ambujwadi slum in north Mumbai are struggling with online classes for months, while also working to support their families after their parents' income was hit by the lockdown and its aftermath
Shiva, Vandana: Bill Gates' Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life
Published: 2021
The health emergency of the coronavirus is inseparable from the health emergency of extinction, the health emergency of biodiversity loss, and the health emergency of the climate crisis. All of these emergencies are rooted in a mechanistic, militaristic, anthropocentric worldview that considers humans separate from—and superior to—other beings. Beings we can own, manipulate, and control. All of these emergencies are rooted in an economic model based on the illusion of limitless growth and limitless greed, which violate planetary boundaries, and destroy the integrity of ecosystems and individual species.
Shiva, Vandana: The Great Seed Piracy
Published: 2016
A great seed and biodiversity piracy is underway and it must be stopped. The privateers of today include not just the corporations -- which are becoming fewer and larger through mergers -- but also individuals like Bill Gates, the "richest man in the world". When the Green Revolution was pushed in India and Mexico, farmers' seeds were "rounded-up" and locked in international institutions, which used these seeds to breed green revolution varieties which responded to chemical inputs.
Shiva, Vandana: Vandana Shiva Quotes
Shiva, Vandana: Small is the New Big
Published: 2014
Vandana Shiva reminds us that the very future of food security in India (and indeed worldwide) lies in protecting and promoting the country's small farmers.
Shiva, Vandana: Two Decades of Monsanto's Illegal Actions, Frauds and Crimes in India
Published: 2017
Over the two decades since Monsanto entered India, it has violated laws, deceived Indian farmers by making unscientific and fraudulent claims, extracted super profits through illegal royalty collection by violating India’s Patent and Intellectual Property laws, pushed farmers into debt, and, as a consequence of the debt trap, to suicide.
Shiva, Vandana: We Are The Soil
The Asian Age
Published: 2014
We are made up of the same five elements — earth, water, fire, air and space — that constitute the Universe. We are the soil. We are the earth. What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. And it is no accident that the words “humus” and “humans” have the same roots. This ecological truth is forgotten in the dominant paradigm because it is based on eco-apartheid, the false idea that we are separate and independent of the earth and also because it defines soil as dead matter. If soil is dead to begin with, human action cannot destroy its life. It can only “improve” the soil with chemical fertilisers. And if we are the masters and conquerors of the soil, we determine the fate of the soil. Soil cannot determine our fate.
Shorris, Earl: The Last Word
Can the world's small languages be saved?
Published: 2000
On the disappearance of languages in the modern globalized world and the efforts of academics to preserve them.
Shorrock, Tim: Exposing Bush's historic abuse of power
Published: 2008
Salon has uncovered new evidence of post-9/11 spying on Americans. Obtained documents point to a potential investigation of the White House that could rival Watergate.
Short, Jase: The Dialectic of Monstrosity - review
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
A review of 'Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism' by David McNally.
Short, Jase: Murfreesboro Islamic Center Opens
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
Regarding the Murfreesboro "mosque wars".
Short, Jase; Woloszyn, Andy: Murfreesboro vs. Islamophobia
Published: 2011
When the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee sought a permit to build an expanded Islamic Center, local bigots saw an opportunity to exploit the same "moral panic," invented by the Tea Party, the Christian Right and much of the corporate media, that would also emerge in New York around the so-called "Ground Zero mosque."
Short, Jesse: Dream Worlds Here and There
Book Review of "2312" by Kim Stanley Robinson
Published: 2013
Short reviews Robinson's "2312," which concerns the state of a world three hundred years from now in which a twisted version of the dream "another world is possible" has come to pass, where nothing stops the daily grind of class oppression and ecological devastation but the sheer ruin of the Earth itself.
Shriver, Lionel: Children can't be experts on themselves
Published: 2023
Character is created over a lifetime, not discovered whole.
Shriver, Lionel: Easy Chair: Lefty Lingo
Published: 2019
On contemporary vernacular categorized as left-wing and its tendency towards exclusion.
Shrubsole, Guy: Coal companies trying to revive 'zombie' open cast mines in Wales
Published: 2016
A tangle of undercapitalised companies are coming forward to cash in on old deep coal mines in Wales - by digging them all out from above from huge open cast pits. But local communities, alarmed at the noise, pollution and destruction of landscape, increasingly see coal as an industry that's best consigned to the scrapheap.
Shulevitz, Judith: Must Writers Be Moral? Their Contracts May Require It
Published: 2019
Publishers have been adding clauses to contracts that let them break relationships with writers who display behaviour that could damage their reputations. Many see this as a risky loophole open to abuse.
Shulman, David: Israel: The Broken Silence
Published: 2016
Book review - Israel: The Broken Silence.
Shupak, Gregory: Distorting 'Democracy' in Venezuela Coverage
Published: 2019
Round up of some of the many media outlets that call Guaidó's coup attempt in Venezuela a democratic movement and refer to democratically elected president Maduro as a dictator.
Shupak, Gregory: Escalation Without Consequences on the Op-Ed Page
Published: 2022
Corporate media outlets are calling for the United States and its allies to react to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine by escalating the war. The opinion pages are awash with pleas to pump ever-more deadly weaponry into the conflict, to choke Russian civilians with sanctions, and even to institute a "no-fly zone." That such approaches gamble with thousands, and possibly millions, of lives doesn’t shake the resolve of the press’s armchair generals.
Shupak, Gregory: How American media incited genocide
Commentaries published by US media outlets have openly demonised Palestinians and justified the mass killings in Gaza.
Published: 2024
Shupak, Gregory: Media Support 'Self-Determination' for US Allies, Not Enemies
Published: 2022
Non-Western media outlets have identified a precedent for Russia citing Donetsk and Luhansk's right to self-determination as a rationale for attacking Ukraine: the Kosovo War. In 1999, NATO conducted a 78-day war that helped to dismember Yugoslavia and create a new state, Kosovo, a Serbian province whose population was 90% ethnic Albanians.
Shupak, Gregory: Media's Top Meaning for 'Proxy' Is 'Iranian Ally'
Published: 2021
"Proxy," defined as someone who works on someone else's behalf, is a term of delegitimation in international politics: It undermines the credibility of both those who are accused of being "proxies" and those accused of having "proxies." In the former case, the term suggests that the party in question is not representing its peoples' interests, but rather those of an outside actor. The nation described as having proxies is implicitly accused of meddling in another country's affairs.
Shupak, Gregory: The Same Media That Opposed Democracy in South Africa Now Warn Against It in Israel/Palestine
Published: 2019
Coverage of South African apartheid in US news in the 1980s compared with coverage of Israel/Palestine today reveals similar racist bias.
Shupak, Gregory: US Media Ignore -- and Applaud -- Economic War on Venezuela
Published: 2019
US reporting on Venezuela fails to mention the effect economic sanctions have in Venezuela defying the work of experts in the area.
Shupak, Gregory: US Isn't Leaving Syria -- but Media Lost It When Possibility Was Raised
Published: 2018
The US military exists to fight wars. It is the most heavily armed, most violent organization in the world. Saying that it should continue to occupy Syria, and most of the mainstream media do, is a way of saying that the war in that country should continue. In fact, it’s a call for escalation of that war.
Shuypak, Greg: Israel may have the least 'moral army' in the world
The rate of civilian death during Israel’s assault on Gaza has few precedents this century
Published: 2024
It is a sign of desperation that Israel and its supporters go on making the outlandish claim that the IDF is a beacon of morality. This is an indication of how isolated from world opinion, particularly in the Global South, Zionism has become. That the project is that detached from reality is a sign of its vulnerability.
Sicilia, Javier: The Importance of Journalism and Communications to Social Movements
Published: 2012
Remarks of Javier Sicilia to the School of Authentic Journalism.
Sieber, Andreas; Georgiadis, Pavlos: TTIP: The most dangerous weapon in the hands of the fossil fuel industry
Published: 2016
Looks into the impact that the TTIP papers will have on the fossil fuel industry and Climate Action.
Sieff, Kevin: Radio programme a beacon of hope for Afghans searching for lost relatives
In Search of the Missing tries to track down some of the 1 million people who have disappeared during three decades of war
Published: 2014
An Afghani radio station has started a semi-weekly segment entitled "In Search of the Missing", aimed at reuniting missing loved ones. Citizens are invited to call the 10-year-old radio programme and leave a 20 second message reaching out to their loved ones.
Siegle, Lucy: Cheap clothing proves far too dear
The death of workers in Bangladesh are just the latest tragedy that springs from the west's addiction to fashion
Published: 2010
In Bangladesh one hundred workers died in a garment fire, a common occurence plaguing a workforce that already has the distinction of being the "most poorly paid in the world". The author investigates the market forces that drive the terrible conditions and compensation for workers in this export industry.
Sigal, Clancy: The Virtues of Mutiny and Desertion
Two Christmas Anniversaries
Published: 2013
Christmas Eve also marks the famous 1914 “Christmas truce” when British and German soldiers crossed No Man’s Land to shake hands, play soccer, exchange souvenirs and sing carols to each other. The High Commands and politicians on both sides swiftly put an end to that foolishness. The war went on killing many millions.
Silva, Jose Adan: Sex Workers in Nicaragua Break the Silence and Gain Rights
Published: 2015
After living in the shadows, thousands of Nicaraguan sex workers have broken their silence, won support from state institutions and gained new respect for their rights.
Silver, Charlotte: Palestine Freedom Battle "will be won": Interview with Author Miko Peled
Published: 2012
An interview with Miko Peled, the Israeli author of The General’s Son.
Silver, Charlotte: US sued over tax-exempt donations for illegal Israeli settlements
Published: 2016
A group of American citizens is suing the US Treasury because they say the agency is allowing billions of dollars of tax-exempt charitable donations to flow to the Israeli army and support the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Silver, Nate: The Mythology Of Trump's 'Working Class' Support
His voters are better off economically compared with most Americans.
Published: 2016
It's been extremely common for news accounts to portray Donald Trump's candidacy as a "working-class" rebellion against Republican elites. Narratives like these risk obscuring an important fact about Trump's voters: As compared with most Americans, Trump's voters are better off.
Silver, Rafael: I know Israel practices apartheid because I helped enforce it
Published: 2022
Rafael Silver left Israel because he could no longer be a part of a system that practices apartheid against the Palestinian people. "I have seen it in action with my own eyes," he writes. "I have enforced it during my military service in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip and supported it as an Israeli taxpayer."
Silverberg, David: Drop till you shop
I insert my vision of retail subversion one haiku at a time
Published: 2008
The author experiments with the culture jamming practice of shopdropping, leaving poems, polaroids, stickers, and other manner of messages for shoppers. This is designed to lead to a moment of incongruity for shoppers to reflect on consumerism.
Silverman, Craig: 8 key questions and answers about the Margaret Wente plagiarism scandal
Published: 2012
After a disconcerting summer that saw prominent American journalists accused of plagiarism and fabrication, Canada is currently in the throes of its own high-profile ethics scandal. A series of concerns have been raised about Margaret Wente, national columnist with The Globe And Mail.
Silverman, Craig; Singer-Vine, Jeremy: An Inside Look At The Accounts Twitter Has Censored In Countries Around The World
Published: 2018
BuzzFeed News has identified more than 1,700 Twitter accounts that have been blocked in at least one country. The list provides an unprecedented glimpse into Twitter's collaboration with national groups and governments -- democratic and authoritarian alike -- and provides new details about a surge in blocked accounts in Germany, France, and Turkey.
Silverstein, Ken: The CIA's Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before Publication
Published: 2014
A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
Silverstein, Ken; James, Samuel (photographs): Dirty South
The Foul Legacy of Louisiana Oil
Published: 2013
On the workings and effects of the oil industry in Louisiana, including a particular focus on legacy lawsuits, through which landowners have sued companies for contamination of properties leased to produce oil and gas.
Simkin, John: Spartacus Educational
Published: 2018
Free educational resource for history teachers and students. With particular focus on Britain, the USA, Russia, Germany, WWI, WWII, Women's history, Black history, Civil Rights.
Simkins, J. D.: 'Combat Obscura' is a brutally honest look at the blurred morality of the war in Afghanistan
Published: 2019
A documentary featuring footage from a 2011 deployment in Afghanistan shows the reality of the war.
Simmons, Taylor: 3 solutions to electronic car theft, a continuing threat to high-end Toronto automobiles
Electronic theft of luxury vehicles rose 90% from Dec. 2017 to 2018, police say
Published: 2019
Cars that unlock and start with an electronic fob can be stolen without the key. The article suggests some ways to protect yourself.
Simon, Joel: Nieman Reports: What’s the difference between activism and journalism?
Published: 2015
As technology changes how news is gathered and delivered, should journalism continue to be sharply distinguished from activism and other kinds of free speech? An extract by Joel Simon from his new book on global media freedom addresses this question.
Simon, Joel et all: UNESCO Urged to Continue Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
Published: 2009
Five IFEX members and one other organisation wrote to UNESCO, asking the UN body to continue acting as a defender and champion of freedom of expression worldwide.
Simon, Jonathan: E2014: A Basic (Chilling) Forensic Analysis
Published: 2014
Any comparative forensic analysis is only as "good" as its baselines. In Landslide Denied — our archetypal post-election comparative forensics study, in which the "red shift" (the rightward disparity between exit poll and vote count results) was identified and measured — a critical component of the analysis was to establish that the exit poll respondents accurately represented the electorate.
Simon, Jonathan: Even Blinder
With 19 states deprived of exit polls, the blind are even blinder
Published: 2012
According to the "father of exit polling," the late Warren Mitofsky, exit polls are intended solely for academic analysis of voting patterns and opinions (e.g., what did 25 to 34 year-old white males regard as the most important issue?) and not as any sort of check on the validity of the votecounts. Unless, of course, you are anywhere else on Earth (other than America), where exit polls are routinely employed, often with the sanction of the government of the United States, as just such a check mechanism, and have frequently led to official calls for electoral investigations and indeed electoral re-dos.
Simon, Jonathan: To The American Media: Time To Face The Reality Of Election Rigging
Published: 2011
The gruesome truth is that American elections can be rigged and are being rigged because the American media treats election rigging as something that -- all evidence notwithstanding -- could never happen here. Period, end of story, move on.
Simons, Daniel: But Did You See the Gorilla? The Problem With Inattentional Blindness
Published: 2012
The most effective cloaking device is the human mind.
Simpson, A.W.B.: A History of the Land Law (Second Edition)
Published: 1986
An account of the historical development of the common law of landed property. Work published since the first edition (1961) is taken into account, and the treatment of the nineteenth century period has been enlarged.
Simpson, Bob: Black Teachers' Revolt of the 1960s
Educational Apartheid in Chicago
Published: 2012
Chicago's educational apartheid has a history which includes the racial segregation of its schools, the allocation of resources on an unequal basis and second class treatment for teachers of color. It was Jim Crow North. But there was also resistance, a resistance which grew into a powerful social movement during the 1960's.
Sinclair, Brett: The complications from sex reassignment surgery are horrific -- but in today's trans-activist world, we can't talk about this
Published: 2021
There is an unspoken price being paid for the fashionable transgender theories of our day. There are unseen victims, invisible, though in plain sight. They are hidden because their supporters believe too blindly, and their detractors write them off, and their misery is facilitated by a lack of open discussion and a censorship of the facts. These hidden victims are the young transgenders themselves, who are led to believe so strongly that they can ‘change their sex’ that they undergo sex-reassignment surgery, only to find themselves not just disappointed by the result, but horrified. These are true victims, in the sense that many of them suffer horrific and irreversible physical damage and pain
Sinclair, Jan: Entertaining facts: what the news media do with expert information about environmental risks
Published: 2015
This research aims to clarify why there is such a difference between expert understandings of the environmental risk of global warming and climate change, and social world understandings.
Sinclair, Peter: Defending Exxon's Denial: It's Their Right to Free Speech!
Published: 2016
In the world of science denial, Money is Speech, corporations are people, Donald Trump is Galileo, and apparently, lying to your customers and shareholders is exercising your constitutional rights.
Sinclair, Upton: Upton Sinclair Quotes
Singh, Ajit: Hong Kong's "pro-democracy" movement allies with far-right US politicians that seek to crush Black Lives Matter
Published: 2020
As a Hong Kong protest leader promotes far-right condemnations of US anti-racism demonstrations and activists shut down a Black Lives Matter rally in the city, Hong Kong organizers forge close ties with hardline Republicans in Washington.
Singh, Ajit: Hong Kong's opposition unites with Washington hardliners to 'preserve the US's own political and economic interests'
Published: 2019
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on November 19, 2019, without any opposition. Despite loudly proclaiming to protect "human rights" and "democracy," a closer look at this legislation reveals the imperial agenda underlying Washington’s actions in Hong Kong.
Singh, Ajit: Inside the World Uyghur Congress: The US-backed right-wing regime change network seeking the 'fall of China'
Published: 2020
In recent years, few stories have generated as much outrage in the West as the condition of Uyghur Muslims in China. Reporting on the issue is typically represented through seemingly spontaneous leaks of information and expressions of resistance by Uyghur human rights activists struggling to be heard against a tyrannical Chinese government.
Sinha,Debadityo: To discover the 'rights of a river', first think like a river
Published: 2017
There is a growing global movement to recognise the rights of rivers. But rights alone are not enough. We must love and respect rivers, and even think like rivers to understand the vital functions they perform within landscapes and ecosystems, and so discover where their 'best interests' truly lie. And then we must be willing to act: protecting rivers and restoring them to health and wholeness.
Sirdenis, Triana Kazaleh: Arab and Arab American Feminist Narratives - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 157
Published: 2012
Nearly ten years in the making, Arab and Arab American Feminisms gathers activists, artists and academics to give voice to the most rapidly changing and complex issues in the Arab world.
Sirinathsinghji, Dr Eva: GM cotton really is helping to drive Indian farmers to suicide
Published: 2015
A new study finds that Indian farmers in rain-fed areas are being driven to suicide from the increased cost of growing Bt GMO cotton varieties that confer no benefits to them. The extra expenses arise from buying new seeds each year, along with increased chemical inputs, while suffering inadequate access to agronomic information.
Sirinathsinghji, Eva: Monarch butterfly decline can only be stopped by a ban on glyphosate
Published: 2016
Monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling despite protection of their wintering forests in Mexico, and voluntary schemes to restore their food plant, milkweed, in US field margins, writes Eva Sirinathsinghji. These measures alone are insufficient: no less than an end to the mass spraying of glyphosate on crops, predicated by 'Roundup-ready' GM corn and soy, will do.
Sirinathsinghji, Eva Dr: GMOs show 'substantial non-equivalence'
Published: 2014
New studies document substantial differences of GM maize and GM soybean from their non-GM counterparts, writes Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji - exposing a permissive regulatory regime that has failed miserably in protecting public health and safety.
Sirota, David: The Only Game in Town
An Unlikely Comeback for Dying Newspapers
Published: 2012
Private newspaper owners have vaulted themselves into a historically unique situation, which enables them to sculpt the news to serve their personal interests while circumventing the costs that come with true adverserial journalism.
Siskind, Barry: Your Customer Profile 2
Part 2 - How to Create a Customer Profile
Published: 2011
Do you know your customer? I don't mean whether their name is Antonio or Jessica, but rather, do you understand who they are as people and what motivates them?
Siskind, Barry: Adjusting to a shrinking booth size
Published: 2014
When budget for exhibitions is slashed, booth size is often a factor that is reduced. Here are some ways one could deal with such a change.
Siskind, Barry: Approaching Prospects on the Show Floor
Published: 2010
A good approach doesn't have to be complicated, rather it should consist of words that the booth person can say comfortably and honestly.
Siskind, Barry: Are mobile show guides the way of the future?
Published: 2014
Technology has made it possible to bring trade show exhibiting one step closer to being environmentally friendly by switching from paper to electronics. It is now possible to put the entire show guide on one user friendly app. This can also provide companies with "Big Data"
Siskind, Barry: A Back-up Objective for the B to C Exhibitor
Published: 2011
The opportunities that may be slipping through your fingers are with those attendees who are not ready to buy your product or commit to the appointment and need more time before placing an order.
Siskind, Barry: A Code of Conduct for New Technology at Exhibitions
Published: 2014
Though extremely helpful in almost every respect, technology can also result in the formation of some bad behavioural habits, including ignoring your visitors at trade show booths. Siskind provides a list of Do's and Don'ts with respect to technology etiquette at trade shows.
Siskind, Barry: The core qualities of an exhibit manager
Published: 2014
Exhibit managers have to deal with many discouraging events in their line of work. For this reason, successful managers tend to have series of specific character traits that help them cope with their work.
Siskind, Barry: Create a Meaningful and Memorable Trade Show Pitch - The Goldilocks Effect
Published: 2014
An article outlining measures that can be taken that can help optimize your trade show pitch. The author emphasizes the importance of including "just the right amount" of information.
Siskind, Barry: Cutting through the clutter
Published: 2014
Exhibitions can be overwhelming to visitors, as the amount of information is often overwhelming to them. Exhibitors need to consider this, and take measures to ensure that they can provide clear easily digestible information to the visitors. Siskind provides ways that one can achieve this.
Siskind, Barry: Decrease the no-show rate of pre-booked appointments
Published: 2014
Here are some tried and true tactics that exhibitors have employed in the past that has helped reinforce the value in the meeting and greatly reduced the rate of no-shows.
Siskind, Barry: Demonstrating Intangibles
Published: 2010
In an environment where competition for visitors' attention is at its highest and yet their attention span is at its lowest, using demonstrations is a great technique to help you get traffic to your booth.
Siskind, Barry: Disseminating information to trade show visitors
Published: 2014
Distributing information to visitors of a trade show is often wasteful and unproductive. Here are some tips that can be used to improve returns.
Siskind, Barry: Do all booth staffers need continuing education?
Published: 2014
If your booth staff does what they always did, they will get what you always got. If they want better results for your exhibition investment they are going to have to do something differently. Your investment in their continuing education can reap huge rewards.
Siskind, Barry: Ease your way through international borders
Published: 2014
If you need to move product across international lines for your trade show, an ATA carnet can provide a means of doing so with less hassle. This article provides more information on this.
Siskind, Barry: Evaluating your exhibit performance
Published: 2009
"How do we know if our exhibit program is doing what it is suppose to do?
Siskind, Barry: Exhibitors can get more bang for their buck
Published: 1998
Trade shows are effective marketing vehicles when used well.
Siskind, Barry: Find new display ideas with your Expo Eyes
Published: 2014
Sometimes, looking at other exhibitions could give you a fresh perspective, and some insight on things you can do to improve your own, even if they are not in a similar area.
Siskind, Barry: A fresh approach to recruiting booth staff
Published: 2014
Booth staff are an important aspect of exhibit quality. Provided are some challenges one may face with staff, and tips on how to improve quality of this aspect of exhibits.
Siskind, Barry: Gamify my Booth
Published: 2014
With the rise of Genxers and millenials in trade shows today, sequestering visitors may require a radical change. Why not incorporate elements of games in your booth.
Siskind, Barry: The harsh realities of lead follow-up
Published: 2014
Obtaining lead information is suffering in quality. Following-up on those leads is also suffering, with two-thirds of follow-ups involing non-face-to-face methods. If your returns are suffering, it may be due to how you handle your lead follow-ups
Siskind, Barry: How to ruin a good display
Published: 2015
Siskind, Barry: The Impact of Colour in your Exhibition
Published: 2014
The use of colour can make or break your trade show exhibit. This article outlines some factors one should consider before choosing what colours to use in an exhibit.
Siskind, Barry: Improve Your Publicity Awareness
Published: 1997
Tips on networking for success.
Siskind, Barry: Incorporate Surprise into Your Exhibition Plans
Published: 2014
Including the element of surprise in your trade show exhibit can be an effective marketing strategy. Here are some ideas you can use to accomplish this.
Siskind, Barry: Is your booth staff ready for an attitude adjustment?
Published: 2014
While your gut instinct may be to focus on the sale, especially since there is tremendous pressure to perform, Siskind challenges you to focus on the relationship with the visitors instead. This may result in an increase in sale performance.
Siskind, Barry: Lessons for the First-Time Exhibitor
Published: 2014
Exhibiting works. All the data produced by industry associations backs this statement up. But what the research fails to mention is that profit does not come automatically. It is the result of lots of hard work and planning. If you are considering attending your first trade show here are a few pointers that will keep you on track.
Siskind, Barry: Measuring the non-monetary value of your exhibition program
Published: 2010
Siskind, Barry: Moving Beyond Notes on the Back of Business Cards
Published: 2011
Business has moved beyond taking lead information on the back of a business card. To be truly successful at your next show give some serious consideration to the technology you will use to record contact information.
Siskind, Barry: Network like a Pro
Published: 2015
One of the highest ranking reasons that attendees identify for visiting an exhibition or event is their ability to connect with high value people. This rationale is at the heart of any trade event which has buyers and sellers from a broad geographic reach under one roof for a finite amount of time. Networking always has been and will continue to be what trade shows are all about.
Siskind, Barry: The Only Metric that Really Matters
Published: 2014
A discution on what metrics are truly important with respect to trade show exhibitions.
Siskind, Barry: A Paperless Exhibit
Published: 2011
Within five years trade shows will be completely paperless is a prediction I heard at a recent conference.
Siskind, Barry: Public relations at a trade show: A little effort goes a long way
Published: 2011
The media is constantly on the look-out for interesting stories, and not just the ones everyone else is covering. So, being big is not the panacea to PR; being prepared with a well thought-out plan is.
Siskind, Barry: QR Codes Can Create Greater Trade Show Impact
Published: 2014
Advances in technology are resulting in changes in ways we might traditionally do things. QR codes can now be used in trade shows to improve the way we disseminate information to booth visitors.
Siskind, Barry: Questions reveal the underlying needs of your trade show visitors
Published: 2014
In order to establish a successful exhibition, it is important to prioritize the needs of visitor. An effective way to do this is by creating a list of questions that help booth staff get into the mind of their visitors. Siskind describes his ACTION approach.
Siskind, Barry: Raise the bar on customer satisfaction
Published: 2009
Let your customers expect the unexpected. Offering good service and friendly booth people at a trade show becomes the baseline for superior customer satisfaction.
Siskind, Barry: Recording quality lead information
Published: 2014
Advances in technology means that fewer people use manual lead sheets to record lead information. If you are going to use technology, ensure you have prepared for the problems highlighted in this article. Some times manual lead sheets are more effective.
Siskind, Barry: Reducing exhibit costs
Published: 2014
The economy is in shambles, and trade show exhibition returns have taken a hit, often resulting in budget cuts to exhibits. Provided are a list of strategies that can be used to reduce exhibit costs.
Siskind, Barry: Reducing your exhibit's ecological footprint
Published: 2014
Creating an exhibit can often be environmentally unfriendly. Here are some things you can do to ensure that your footprint remains reasonable.
Siskind, Barry: The Right Frame of Mind
Published: 2009
The quandary at a trade show is finding a happy balance between being aggressive enough to produce the desired results and being the kind of person visitors want to do business with. The answer is all a matter of attitude. The right attitude at a booth is not as a hard-core sales person but rather as a host.
Siskind, Barry: The Right Place to Exhibit - A Strategic Approach
Published: 2011
Finding the right show is difficult. Don't jump at the first opportunity that knocks on your door. You have lots of choices. Take your time and do your homework. The right show is a blend of audience, cost and logistics. Good event selection is a solid base upon which the rest of your exhibit program is built.
Siskind, Barry: ROI or ROO
Published: 2011
Exhibiting is part of the marketing process and doesn't always lend itself easily to comparing dollars received against dollars spent. Marketing looks at other issues such as branding, generating leads, customer engagement and so on and whether these tasks have been completed successfully determines the success of the marketing exercise.
Siskind, Barry: Safety first at a trade show
Published: 2014
Achieving great results at a trade show also includes the health and safety of all. Making sure everyone is doing their part is an important part of doing it right. Here are some tips on how to prepare for potentially hazardous situations.
Siskind, Barry: Setting Goals and Objectives That Focus, Motivate and Stimulate your Trade Show Program
Published: 2011
The trick to getting your trade show program off on the right foot is to spend time well before you take any other steps to decide exactly what you want your exhibit to accomplish and how you will measure your results.
Siskind, Barry: The six people you are likely to meet at a trade show
Published: 2009
Exhibit marketing is all about meeting customers, clients and the public in a face to face environment. Your physical display as well as your booth staff#s skills need to be well honed to capture the attention of people in your target market group. Knowing who these people are is the first step. The next job is to develop a strategy for handling each booth visitor.
Siskind, Barry: Staying Relevant in a Changing World
Published: 2011
The trick is to focus your exhibit plans around the question, "What is most relevant to my customers?" If you are not sure then you need to do the research. We are entering a new era where many of the rules and techniques that worked so well in the past are no longer producing results.
Siskind, Barry: A Strategic Approach to Trade Show Staffing
Published: 2010
When it comes to staffing your booth there is a place for anyone within your organization to benefit. Opening the doors to these people can be a serendipitous beginning to otherwise concealed possibilities.
Siskind, Barry: Thieves in broad daylight
Published: 2014
Theft is a common occurence at exhibitions. Here is some advice on how you can prevent theft of your property and intellectual property.
Siskind, Barry: Throw your Performance Metrics out the Window
Published: 2014
When front-line employees understand and embrace their company’s purpose – performance is enhanced. The article provides more informations and some examples.
Siskind, Barry: Tips to ensure a safe business trip
Published: 2014
Travel, which is usually an essential part of attending an exhibition, can add an element of danger for the unprepared. Here are a few suggestions to make your next business trip safer.
Siskind, Barry: The Truth about Competitive Intelligence
Published: 2010
Competitive intelligence is defined as: "An organized, structured, information gathering process that enhances strategic decision-making." A well-defined CI strategy will give you a leg-up on future directions.
Siskind, Barry: Turn Your Booth into a Captivating Story
Published: 2014
Turning your exhibit pitch into a captivating story is an effective way to market your product. Here are some tips on how to do this effectively.
Siskind, Barry: Two helpful bits of data for your exhibition program
Published: 2011
As you are gathering the R.O.I information, it will be helpful to also look at two additional bits of factors: Your success ratio and your sales and buying cycles. Both are intertwined and will help you immensely.
Siskind, Barry: The Untapped Potential of your Trade Show Network
Published: 2009
When it comes to networking opportunities, trade shows provide one of the best venues. Here is the one place where everyone in your industry congregates for a few short days and is focused on one thing # business.
Siskind, Barry: The value of face to face
Published: 2014
Advances in technology also mean a greater number of ways to communicate in non-face-to-face ways, and an unwillingness to fund trade show programs. Face-to-face are invaluable, and measures can be taken to improve likelihood of continuous funding of exhibition presence.
Siskind, Barry: What do you say when you don't know the answer
Published: 2015
One of my personal pet peeves happens I ask a sales person a question and they don't know the answer but give one of two responses:
1. They shrug their shoulders and go on and talk about something else, or
2. Invent an answer and then present it with absolute conviction.
Siskind, Barry: What's in your Plan B?
Published: 2014
When Murphy's Law decides to ply its magic to your trade show strategy you need a contingency. It’s called your Plan B. he following is a list of nine of the most common items to include in your Plan B.
Siskind, Barry: Where did the trade show profit go?
Published: 2014
Capturing lead information at trade shows is a problem, with 69% of exhibitors not knowing how leads were being tracked. It is important to come up with questions that booth staff can use to focus their communication with visitors, and acquire better lead information.
Siskind, Barry: Why show leads are mishandled
Published: 2009
The number of leads that are obtained at a trade show that are mishandled is astounding. Whether you are exhibiting to increase business or have a communication need such as brand reinforcement, the contacts you make at trade shows are of value and that value decreases each day they go unanswered.
Siskind, Barry: Your Customer Profile 1
Part 1 - The Value of Creating a Customer Profile
Published: 2011
Siskind, Barry: Your Expo Toolkit
Published: 2014
Any number of things can go wrong with your trade show exhibit. It is important to plan ahead so that you can deal with problems as they arise. Siskind provides a starter checklist you can use and build off to ensure that you are well equipped before your exhibition.
Sisti, Leo: The "human touch": the key to digging up court records
Published: 2013
The most important asset for a reporter is the "human touch." It means becoming familiar with all the sources in the field. It means that a special technique is necessary to reach my goal of obtaining documents. Drinking coffee or having dinner with my sources is vital to cultivating important conduits of information. It’s a technique that is not workable overnight. It’s a technique that requires patience and time: months, years.
Skelton, Charlie: The Syrian opposition: who's doing the talking?
Published: 2012
The media have been too passive when it comes to Syrian opposition sources, without scrutinising their backgrounds and their political connections. A nightmare is unfolding across Syria, in the homes of al-Heffa and the streets of Houla. And we all know how the story ends: with thousands of soldiers and civilians killed, towns and families destroyed, and President Assad beaten to death in a ditch.
Skiljan, Irfan: IrfanView
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.
Skorodin, Morton: Addiction and Control
Published: 2009
Prisons are very profitable. There are private prisons nowadays. The people that own them have, as their mission, first and foremost, the making of money. They need as many people as possible in prison to maximize their profits. They also need to spend as little as possible on the inmates and staff. Thus, America has over 2.3 million people incarcerated; more than any other country.
Sky, Laura: Joyce Nelson was my friend
Published: 2022
Slater, Tom: Big Tech must not be judge, jury and executioner
Published: 2023
YouTube's clampdown on Russell Brand is an affront to due process.
Slater, Tom: 'Punch a TERF': the violent misogyny of the trans movement
Published: 2023
Woke identitarians have become apologists for violence against women.
Slater, Tom: There is nothing progressive about identity politics
Published: 2023
When did supporting colour-blindness, gay rights and women's liberation become a right-wing position?
Slater, Tom: The truckers' revolt has exposed the left's class hatred
Published: 2022
Slaughter, Jane: A Big Victory for Labor in Mexico
How Mexican Workers Won Ownership of a Tire Plant with Three-Year Strike
Published: 2013
Collective ownership of a factory in Mexico.
Slaughter, Jane: Studies About Workplace Violence
Published: 2014
A few published studies about workplace violence.
Slaughter, Jane: Workplace Violence: Silent Epidemic
Published: 2015
Workplace violence ranges from threats and curses to murder. Spitting on bus drivers is so common in New York City that their union won them DNA kits last year, to collect saliva.
Slaughter, Jane; Ward, Rodney: The Labor Party in the Big Picture
Published: 1999
THE LABOR PARTY convention was inspiring. At the Detroit chapter's report-back meeting, locked-out newspaper workers talked about how good it felt to be in a convention hall where everyone would support you, "unlike the Democrats and Republicans."
Authorizing the possibility of electoral campaigns means that, in the places where those happen, we have the potential to attract a whole different layer of members.
Slaunwhite, Steve: Getting Ink for Your New Product
Published: 2004
Get media coverage of your product.
Slaunwhite, Steve: 7 Ways to Get More Mileage from a Case Study
Published: 2004
Case studies are a valuable addition to your public relations' arsenal. They not only explain the success of your product or service in action, they also tend to have high editorial acceptance and readership rates.
Slaunwhite, Steve: 6 Tips for Writing a Successful VNR
Published: 2003
A video news release(VNR) is essentially a press release on video. The key difference is how it is planned and written.
Slaunwhite, Steve: 3 Keys to Keeping Your Marketing and PR Writing on Strategy
Published: 2004
How do you ensure that your marketing and PR piece isn't just pretty prose?
Slaunwhite, Steve: Using History to Write Powerful Leads
Published: 2004
Using history in writing marketing and PR communications.
Slaunwhite, Steve: Writing a Successful Case Study
Published: 2003
Readers love a good story. That's why these chronicles of success will often stand out on the editor's desk while press releases, media kits and other media communications fight a tough battle just to get noticed.
Slezak, Michael; Robertson, Joshua: Full of holes
Why Australia's mining boom will leave permanent scars
Published: 2016
Describing the environmental impact following the end of Australia's coal boom.
Sloan, Alastair: Don't be fooled: 'media watchdogs' are Israeli propaganda tools
Published: 2015
Consider yourself very lucky if you have never heard of "UK Media Watch" (formerly called "Comment is Free Watch" – CiF Watch), "BBC Watch", "HonestReporting" and "Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America" (CAMERA).
Smallteacher, Richard: Agrica's Tanzania Rice Scheme Has Devastated Local Farmers, Say NGOs
Published: 2015
A flagship rice plantation in Tanzania run by UK investors has allegedly destroyed the livelihoods of local smallholder farmers, driven them into debt and impacted the local environment, according to a new report published by the Oakland Institute.
Smallteacher, Richard: Climate Activists Slapped With Terrorism Charges for Devon Energy Protest
Published: 2014
Two climate activists who staged a protest at the headquarters of Devon Energy, a Fortune 500 company based in Oklahoma city, have been charged with a “terrorism hoax” after black powder drifted down from a banner that they unfurled.
Smallteacher, Richard: Gilead Avoided $10 Billion In Taxes On Over Priced Hepatitis C Drugs
Published: 2016
A new drug called Sovaldi, intended to treat Hepatitis C, is incredibly unaffordable and inaccessible for Americans.
Smallteacher, Richard: New Evidence Shows Main Chevron Witness Lied In $9.5 Billion Ecuador Lawsuit
Published: 2015
A key witness has admitted under oath that he lied on behalf of Chevron, the California oil multinational, when the company sued to overturn a $9.5 billion verdict for pollution of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Smallteacher, Richard: Police Attack Palm Oil Protestors in Sierra Leone
Published: 2013
Sierra Leone police opened fire on a group of protestors who were demonstrating against a palm oil plantation in the southern province of Pujehun. The project is being developed by Societe Financiere des Caoutchoucs (Socfin), a French agri-business giant.
Smallteacher, Richard: Secwepemc Tribes Fight New Mines and Old Laws in British Columbia
Published: 2014
Indigenous activists burned down a bridge in British Columbia, Canada, to prevent Imperial Metals from starting a lead and zinc mine on the lands of the Secwepemc peoples. Local tribes say that the mine may severely impact the one of the largest remaining sockeye salmon populations in the world.
Smallteacher, Richard: Six Banks Pay $5.6 Billion in Fines for Foreign Exchange Manipulation
Published: 2015
Six major international banks – Bank of America, Barclays, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Union Bank of Switerland (UBS) – have agreed to pay $5.6 billion in fines for rigging global foreign exchange markets.
Smarsh, Sarah: Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans
Published: 2016
Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans – and native Kansan Sarah Smarsh sets out to correct what newsrooms get wrong.
Smart, Virginia; Grundig, Tyana: 'We're designing minds': Industry insider reveals secrets of addictive app trade
Published: 2017
A look at the science and psychology behind the 'technological arms race' which seeks to keep people fixated on their smartphones.
Smee, Michael: Council committee to tackle what some claim is a new loophole for landlords
Landlords' group says suite meters are a fair way for tenants to budget their power consumption
Published: 2017
There's growing concern among municipal politicians and tenants advocates about a relatively new practice by landlords called "suite metering" -- and the issue's set to be discussed at city hall Friday. Suite metering allows landlords to stop supplying electricity to their tenants, and instead hire a broker who installs a meter in each unit. The tenant then pays rent to the landlord, and a separate monthly electricity payment to the broker.
Smee, Michael: Movers charged 10 times the agreed upon price, Oakville woman says
Last minute move went from about $250 to $2,200
Published: 2018
An Oakville woman's simple $250 move deteriorated into a $2,200 nightmare earlier this month, she says. And now, the people she hired to do the move are not returning her calls.
Smee, Michael: Toronto's gay archive getting an upgrade
Renovations will make it more accessible
Published: 2017
Reporting on the renovations to the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives in Toronto, which will expand the archive and improve accessibility.
Smillie,Susan: Tsunami, 10 years on: the sea nomads who survived the devastation
Published: 2014
Thailand's indigenous sea gypsies predicted the waves that swept their villages away in 2004, and most of them escaped unharmed. Now they are facing a new threat to their centuries-old way of life: tourism and the encroaching modern world.
Smith, Caspar Llewellyn: Hi-tech gives hope to low-tech sounds
A New York blogger's love of obscure African tape recordings has brought forgotten artists to global attention
Published: 2011
New York-based ethno-musicologist Brian Shimkovitz blogs about African popular music, which is rarely heard outside its region of origin. He is credited with increasing the listenership of these obscure artists abroad with his blog, Awesome Tapes from Africa.
Smith, Charlie: Author Donald Gutstein reveals extent of Stephen Harper revolution in new book Harperism
Published: 2014
In Harperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada (James Lorimer & Company Ltd.), Gutstein makes the case that neoliberalism is far more sinister than simply having a desire for smaller government. A central tenet of his new book is that Harper is undermining democracy by marshalling the power of government to create and enforce markets where they’ve never existed before.
Smith, David: Fighting the poachers on Africa's thin green line
Published: 2013
Underpaid, ill-equipped and outnumbered, park rangers fight a one-sided war against vicious gangs of poachers. Hundreds have been murdered in the defence of endangered wildlife, and their deaths leave their own families in jeopardy. David Smith reports from Zambia.
Smith, David; Tremlett, Giles; Hodal, Kate; Franklin, Jonathan; Borger, Julian; Brodzinsky, Sibylla: Special Report: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation
Published: 2014
An examination of how countries around the world affected by civil war or internal conflict have approached justice.
Smith, Donald: Egerton Ryerson doesn't deserve an anti-Indigenous label
Published: 2017
In defence of Egerton Ryerson (the namesake of Ryerson University) regarding the current anti-indigenous controversy.
Smith, Elliot Blair; Babcock, Charles R.: New Law, New Loophole, New Business for Giant Global Bank HSBC
Published: 2015
Selling ways to shield wealth from tax authorities - and setting off investigations the world over of both the bank and clients.
Smith, Gar: Global Warming's Unacknowledged Threat - The Pentagon
Published: 2015
The Pentagon has admitted to burning 350,000 barrels of oil a day (only 35 countries in the world consume more) but that doesn't include oil burned by contractors and weapons suppliers. It does, however, include providing fuel for more than 28,000 armored vehicles, thousands of helicopters, hundreds of jet fighters and bombers and vast fleets of Navy vessels.
Smith, Jack A.: Big Brother's Getting Bigger
Published: 2012
Government surveillance and attacks on the privacy of American citizens were bad enough under the Bush regime but they are getting even worse during the Obama years.
Smith, Jackie; Lopez, Alfredo: Let's Stop Google from Gobbling Up Our Schools
Published: 2016
In October of 2006, Google launched its Apps for Education, with Arizona State University being its first client. Today there are more than 25 million individual users in both K-12 and higher ed institutions, and 74 of the top 100 universities use Google apps for their university communications and software applications.
Smith, Jordan: Texas Couple Exonerated 25 Years After Being Convicted of Lurid Crimes That Never Happened
Published: 2017
Fran and Dan Keller's prosecution in 1992 was part of a wave of cases across the country amid an episode of mass hysteria known as the Satanic Panic.
Smith, Jordan Michael: The media consensus on Israel is collapsing
Published: 2011
Across the political spectrum, once-taboo criticism is now common.
Smith, Matt: Putting Profits Before Workers' Safety: Inside Amazon During the COVID-19 Crisis
Published: 2020
As coronavirus continues to spread and much of the country is locking down, Amazon has been ramping up.
Smith, Patrick L.: Lapdog media learns nothing, beats war drums again
Published: 2013
Have we forgotten Judith Miller already? Or Colin Powell at the U.N.? Before attacking Syria, let's know the truth.
Smith, Phillip: Police Ripped Off More Stuff Than Burglars Did Last Year
Civil asset forfeiture is big business for cops
Published: 2015
Law enforcement use of asset forfeiture laws to seize property -- often without a criminal conviction or even an arrest -- has gone through the roof in recent years, and now the cops are giving the criminals a run for their money, and winning.
Smith, Phillip: These Senior Citizens Are Destined to Die in Prison -- For Marijuana
Published: 2016
There are drug war excesses remaining to be rectified. Here are some of the most outrageous.
Smith, Richard: Climate Crisis, the Deindustrialization Imperative and the Jobs vs. Environment Dilemma
Published: 2014
So long as we live under capitalism, today, tomorrow, next year and every year thereafter, economic growth will always be the overriding priority till we barrel right off the cliff to collapse.
Smith, Sam: Why People Vote Against Themselves
Wisconsin and the Collapse of Liberalism
Published: 2012
The reasons people vote against their self-interest are numerous and varied but key to them is often a culture under great stress believing false promises being made to it by the powerful.
Smith-Ferri, David: Resistance and Resolve in Russia: Memorial HRC
Published: 2017
An account of the current climate for political dissent in Russia, describing the activities of and challenges faced by the Memorial Human Rights Centre, a Russian NGO.
Smolker, Rachel PhD.: Climate Technofix: Weaving Carbon into Gold and Other Myths of "negative emissions"
Published: 2015
When the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) published their most recent fifth assessment report, something surprising and deeply disturbing was lurking in the small print in chapter three on “mitigation”.
Smyth, Frank: Journalist Security Guide
Covering the news in a dangerous and changing world
Published: 2012
This guide details what journalists need to know in a new and changing world. It is aimed at local and international journalists of varied levels of experience.
Smyth, Sam: A reporter's trustworthiness and reputation for integrity is their greatest asset
Published: 2012
Sam Smyth of the Irish Independent and Sunday Tribune newspapers talks about the greatest threat to investigative reporting, and how he gets his stories.
Sneider, Noah: Cursed Fields
What the tundra has in store for Russia's reindeer herders
Published: 2018
Noah Sneider visits the Yamal Peninsula in Russia where an outbreak of anthrax is killing herds of reindeer and engdangering the lives of the local people. Rising temperatures and a particularly hot summer have led scientists to conclude that climate change is the most credible explanation for its deadly return.
Snider, Ted: The Decertification of Iran Speech: Refuting Trump
Published: 2017
Despite the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring each time it has reported - most recently in August 2017 - that Iran is in total compliance with its agreements in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Donald Trump has now carried through on his threat to decertify Iran.
Snider, Ted: Partnering With Neo-Nazis in Ukraine: An Inconvenient History
Published: 2022
Under pressure from neo-Nazi parties that have large power that is disproportionate to their small support, Zelensky abandoned his campaign peace promise and refused to talk to the leaders of the Donbas and implement the Minsk Agreements.
Snipes, Patrick: My Years at Wal-Mart
Making One Do the Work of Three
Published: 2013
Wal-Mart is but the largest wave in a rising tide, and, unless we stand together, united and with dignity, as a great levy for justice to hold and push it back, this tide threatens to drown us all.
Snow, Martha: Spell chequer
Martha Snow's poem - Spell Chequer
Snow, Mathew: Against Charity
Published: 2015
Snow criticizes the growing social movement 'Effective Altruism', which is characterized by calculating where expendable income is best spent and by encouraging the relatively affluent to channel their capital accordingly.
Snowden, Edward: Edward Snowden's Warning to Canada
Published: 2015
Whistleblower Edward Snowden talks about Bill C-51 and the weak oversight of Canada's intelligence agencies.
Snowdon, Wallis: 'Can you hear me?': New phone scam tricks you into answering 'yes'
Published: 2017
Describes a new telephone scam being run in North America, wherein a recording of one's voice saying the word 'yes' is used to defraud victims.
So, Anthony D.; Sampat, N, Bhaven; Rai, K, Arti; et. al.: Is Bayh-Dole Good for Developing Countries? Lessons from the US Experience
Published: 2008
Recently, countries from China and Brazil to Malaysia and South Africa have passed laws promoting the patenting of publicly funded research, and a similar proposal is under legislative consideration in India. These initiatives are modeled in part on the United States Bayh-Dole Act of 1980.
Social Design Notes: Law Professor's Response to Black Lives Matter Shirt Complaint
Published: 2016
A first year law school student wrote a complaint about her professor having worn a Black Lives Matter T-shirt during class. Here is the professor’s response.
Solanas, Fernando E.: Dignity of the Nobodies
La dignidad de los nadies
Published: 2005
The degraded socio-economic condition of Argentina leading to the December 2001 rebellions, and its consequent social chaos analyzed by focusing on real people from Buenos Aires' poorest shantytowns, crumbling hospitals, and women middle class farmers fighting multi-national banks that are shamelessly appropriating their farmlands.
Sole-Smith, Virginia: Getting Jobbed
The real face of welfare reform
Published: 2015
A report on the impacts of the US welfare reforms of the 1990s under the Clinton administration.
Solenberger, Peter: NSA's Cyberwarfare Blowback
Published: 2017
In May and June 2017, hackers took over thousands of computers around the world, encrypted their contents, and demanded ransom to decrypt them. They used tools developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) to exploit vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Solnit, Rebecca: Abolish High School
Easy Chair
Published: 2015
Solnit says that we need to recognize that high school doesn't work for most young people, and suggests abolishing it.
Solnit, Rebecca: Call Climate Change What It Is: Violence
Published: 2014
Social unrest and famine, superstorms and droughts. Places, species and human beings – none will be spared. Welcome to Occupy Earth.
Solnit, Rebecca: Call it as it is
Published: 2012
Now is the time to see that most of our problems are the result of the insatiable greed of the very few. And to say so, clearly and repeatedly. It’s the only way to start changing towards reality.
Solnit, Rebecca: In the Shadow of the Storm
Published: 2015
Ten years ago this month, on the day Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, I was at Camp Casey, an informal encampment outside George W. Bush's Crawford ranch, listening to a group of veterans talk about their opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. By chance, it was also the day my first feature for Harper's Magazine went to press, an essay about how people react in the wake of major urban disasters.
Solnit, Rebecca: Our Words Are Our Weapons
The Feminist Battle of the Story in the Wake of the Isla Vista Massacre
Published: 2014
It was a key match in the World Cup of Ideas. The teams vied furiously for the ball. The all-star feminist team tried repeatedly to kick it through the goalposts marked Widespread Social Problems, while the opposing team, staffed by the mainstream media and mainstream dudes, was intent on getting it into the usual net called Isolated Event. To keep the ball out of his net, the mainstream's goalie shouted “mental illness” again and again. That “ball,” of course, was the meaning of the massacre of students in Isla Vista, California, by one of their peers.
Solnit, Rebecca: The Rain On Our Parade
A Letter To My Dismal Allies
Published: 2012
O rancid sector of the far left, please stop your grousing! Compared to you, Eeyore sounds like a Teletubby. If I gave you a pony, you would not only be furious that not everyone has a pony, but you would pick on the pony for not being radical enough until it wept big, sad, hot pony tears. Because what we're talking about here is not an analysis, a strategy, or a cosmology, but an attitude, and one that is poisoning us. Not just me, but you, us, and our possibilities.
Solnit, Rebecca: Shooting Down Man the Hunter
Published: 2015
Sooner or later in conversations about who we are, who we have been, and who we can be, someone will tell a story about Man the Hunter. It's a story not just about Man but about Woman and Child too.There are countless variants. In every version, women are baggage that breeds.
Solomon, Christopher: Osprey whisperers: Deciphering decades of clues from the sea hawk
Published: 2014
Ospreys tell a story, and Elliott, Lee and the other scientists who track them are trying to decipher their messages. For more than two decades in North America, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, the osprey has revealed disturbing tales about DDT, PCBs, pulp mill dioxins, flame retardants, stain-resistant compounds, urban runoff, mining wastes, prescription drugs, mercury and more.
Solomon, John: Responding to Lt. Col. Vindman about my Ukraine columns … with the facts
Published: 2019
Solomon, Rosalyn: Death becomes rallying cry
Published: 2008
Paul Croutch, a homeless man who was beaten to death by army reservists was remembered by his friends yesterday at the same spot he lost his life three years ago.
Solon, Oliva: Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft team up to tackle extremist content
Published: 2016
Tech companies plan to create a shared database of 'unique digital fingerprints' that will able to identify images and videos promoting terrorism and extremist content.
Solon, Pablo: At the crossroads between 'Green Economy' and rights of nature
Published: 2012
Under the rhetoric of "green economy", capitalists are actually attempting to use nature as capital, proposing unconvincingly that the only way to preserve natural elements such as water and forests is through private investment.
Solove, Daniel J.: 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
Published: 2007
According to the nothing to hide argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the government uncovers unlawful activity, in which case a person has no legitimate justification to claim that it remain private.
Soltani, Ashkan; Peterson,Andrea; Gellman,Barton: NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
Published: 2013
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using cookies and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance.
Solty, Ingar: The Bio-Economic Pandemic and the Western Working Classes
Published: 2020
As of March 2020, the world is back to the future. The global financial crisis of 2007-08, which escalated into a global financial meltdown in September 2008, was supposed to be the big bang crisis, a once in a lifetime event. And yet, here we are again.
Somerset, Guy: Cancel Culture Democracy Comes to Ukraine
Published: 2022
When I am told, by possibly well-meaning but at best indoctrinated and at worst imbecilic individuals, that Freedom and Democracy require Censorship and Suppression it is my duty to fight against such buffoons.
Sommer, Eric: Why US Journalists Have Blood on Their Hands
Turning Ukrainian Fascists into "Freedom Fighters"
Published: 2014
Hey U.S. mass media journalists: A large number of you writing in outlets like CNN, Fox News, New York Times, and Washington Post have blood on your hands.
Sommers, Jeffrey; Hudson, Michael: Ukrainian Hangovers
Russia, Crimea and the Consequences of NATO Policy
Published: 2014
Russia’s incursion (invasion if you prefer) into Crimea, with prospects for movement into Eastern Ukraine, is the culmination of US/NATO policy since 1991.
Sommers, Susan: Creating a customized Marketing Toolkit
Published: 2009
A marketing toolkit contains the essential ingredients you need to successfully reach and persuade your key markets.
Sommers, Susan: Making your marketing brochure a keeper
Published: 2009
A good brochure will effectively communicate the most important facts about your organization. The best brochures combine elements of marketing (they sell your organization) and public relations (they educate the reader).
Sommers, Susan: Marketing/PR - the new face of marketing
Published: 2009
Marketing/PR offers a variety of cost-effective tools that can easily be implemented into a long-term strategy and plan. These include information sessions, testimonial brochures, print and e-mail newsletters, Internet sites, on-line media rooms, media-friendly events, speaking engagements, networking events, trade and consumer shows, sponsorship opportunities, and media campaigns.
Song, Lisa: An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth
Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing
Published: 2019
Article exploring of limitations of carbon credits
Sonnenblume, Kollibri Terre: A Century of Theft From Indians by the National Park Service
Published: 2016
The Mojave National Preserve is run by the National Park Service, which, in contrast to previous times, has been including more Indian history in its displays and programs.
Sonnenblume, Kollibri terre: Cowardly New World: Alternative Media Under Attack by Algorithms
Published: 2017
An insidious assault is underway against alternative media on the internet. Leftist and progressive websites have been suffering significant declines in traffic. Some have had online income sources cut. Many others have been publicly defamed.
The only voices speaking the truth, says Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, are those on the fringes and we must amplify them however we can. Some suggestions:
* Read/view alternative media stories and share them in whatever venues you can.
* Stop consuming mainstream media and stop posting links to it.
* Actively support alternative media by donating money, time or other resources.
* Stop using Google as your search engine; I recommend DuckDuckGo. You will be surprised at how much you've been missing.
* Become the media: take your own photos or video and write up stories yourself for whatever outlet will take your work, even if that's only your own blog.
Sophocles: Sophocles Quotes
Sorrentino, Joseph: Uranium Mine and Mill Workers are Dying, and Nobody Will Take Responsibility
In the Southwest, poisoned uranium workers are still seeking justice
Published: 2016
To talk to former uranium miners and their families is to talk about the dead and the dying. Brothers and sisters, coworkers and friends: a litany of names and diseases. Many were, as one worker put it, "ate up with cancer," while others died from various lung and kidney diseases.
SOS Ireland: The story of symphysiotomy in Ireland
Published: 2013
Symphysiotomy is a childbirth operation that effectively unhinges the pelvis. Ireland was the only country in the world to do these childbirth operations in preference to Caesarean section. Religious ideology and medical ambition drove the surgery. An estimated 1,500 women and girls, some as young as 14, had their pelvises severed, gratuitously, by senior doctors who believed in childbearing without limitation. Life long disability, chronic pain, mental suffering and family breakdown followed.
Sottile, J P: God's plan for climate change
Published: 2014
How, and why, does the US Right and its evangelical 'Christian' wing campaign for mal-education, ignorance, corporate dominance, and the profligate consumption of fossil fuels?
Sottile, J.P.: The CIA's Memory Prison
A Perverse Logic
Published: 2013
The U.S. government has ruled that the prisoners kidnapped and tortured by the U.S. cannot talk about their experiences because those experiences are the property of the U.S. government, which has classified them as secret national security information. This means the prisoners’ personal stories, recollections and experiences cannot be told in any open court, recounted to journalists or human rights groups, nor can they be heard by international bodies like the United Nations.
Sottile, JP: What If ObamaCare was a Fighter Jet?
Prospering Through Failure
Published: 2013
Like the comically bad roll-out of the Affordable Care Act’s website, the long-delayed and often-rejiggered F-35 program is a costly disaster rife with technological snafus, software problems and repeated contractor incompetence.
Souchon, Pierre: Back to the Land in Romania
A Pig, Milk and Cheap Veg Against EU Agribusiness
Published: 2014
The EU sends Europeanisation agents across Romania to end subsistence farming and encourage agricultural competition. But those who have turned to self-sufficient farming because of austerity resist the world of the CAP.
Sourabh: Not Everyone in Nepal Is Happy with the Indian Media
Published: 2015
After the earthquake, the Indian Army was quick to mobilize their relief effort. However, Nepalese have come to question whether the PR motivations outweigh the humanitarian impulse.
Soussi, Alasdair: 'I am not an anti-Semite': Pro-Palestine artists cancelled across Europe
Published: 2023
A celebrated Bangladeshi photojournalist, Palestinian filmmaker, and US author warn that cultural spaces are at risk of repression.
Souvli, George: The Kurdish struggle - An interview with Dilar Dirik
Published: 2017
Dilar Dirik interviewed by George Souvlis.
Sparling, Nina: Future Sex - Review
Future Sex by Emily Witt
Published: 2016
In Future Sex, Emily Witt makes quick and effective references to the sex she has and the sex she witnesses. She mentions boyfriends, describes a hardcore porn shoot, goes to a sex party with polyamorists, and visits the orgy dome at Burning Man.
Sparrow, Jeff: Brexit and the new hostility to participatory democracy
Published: 2016
The reaction to Brexit illustrates the desperate need for the Left to return to first principles. For, as the result broke on social media, a remarkable number of progressives directed their anger not at anti-immigrant demagogues and opportunist politicians but against the voters themselves and the very idea of a referendum in which they might express their will. It's merely the most recent illustration of a growing estrangement from democracy, not only on the mainstream Right but also on the Left.
Sparrow, Jeff: Islamophobia, Left and Right
Published: 2012
Should Muslims be worried about rising Islamophobia? Of course they should! Anti-Islam bigotry is becoming a key element of the revival of the far Right – a Right that doesn’t merely slander Muslims but also takes action against them.
Sparrow, Jeff: The Logic of Torture
It's About Domination, Not Intelligence
Published: 2014
Torture seems to have been as bureaucratic as any other government program, with the interrogators more obsessed about memos and ass covering and obscure turf wars than stopping the progress of ticking time bombs. Like all the other Beltway drones, the CIA’s team kissed up and kicked down, sucking up to their superiors while they tortured men to death.
Specogna, Heidi: A history of violence: Growing up in CAR
Published: 2017
A child born from rape and a young gunshot victim grow up amid CAR's cycle of violence.
Spence, Melanie; Rai, Nanky; Bozinoff, Nikki; Majeed, Abeer; Garfinkle, Miriam; Deutsch, James: Fill the gap: Ontario should insure injured migrant workers
Published: 2014
We want to sound the alarm over the unjust federal and provincial immigration and health policies that are based on the exploitation of human labour and xenophobia. Migrants increasingly enter Canada to work under temporary foreign worker programs through which they are denied equitable access to services while still being required to pay taxes.
Sperber, Elliot: The Sleepwalkers Are Revolting
The Right to Sleep, or...
Published: 2013
The Center for Disease Control’s finding that sleep deprivation has reached epidemic proportions has failed to generate significant public outcry.
Sperber, Elliot: Swimming in Shit
Against the Current
Published: 2014
Why is it the case that in a city that is almost entirely built on islands – a city literally surrounded by water – are there so few places to swim and cool off?
Sperber, Joshua: Yelp and the Myth of Consumer Power
Published: 2019
Online reviews on Yelp have had a massive effect on the service industry but this should not be perceived as giving power to consumers. In the end it is only the platfrom that profits.
Sperber,Joshua: The Internet, Capitalism, and the State - Book Review
A Review of Robert McChesney's "Digital Disconnect"
Published: 2013
Robert McChesney's Digital Disconnect is an account of the internet's history and likely future within the context of corporate-dominated U.S. society.
Speri, Alice: Every 25 Seconds, Cops Arrest Someone for Drug Possession
Published: 2016
The war on drugs may have failed, but it certainly hasn't ended: Every 25 seconds in the U.S., someone is arrested for drug possession. Arrests for the possession and personal use of drugs are boosting the ranks of the incarcerated at astonishing rates - with 137,000 people behind bars for drugs on any given day, and 1.25 million every year.
Spicer, Robert: We must keep the Arctic clean, wild and free!
Published: 2014
The Arctic is a special place, teeming with life, but it is under threat like never before -- not just from climate change, but from oil drilling, industrial fishing and shipping, as receding ice creates now commercial opportunities. We must designate an Arctic Sanctuary where nature can reign undisturbed.
Spiegelman, Art: To Laugh That We May Not Weep
A nearly forgotten cartoonist we need to look at -- right now!
Published: 2016
Among the greatest American political cartoonist, Art Young had the ability to boil complex social issues down to memorable symbols, drawn with justifiable anger but permeated with genial warmth. His work would be an immeasurable asset today in explaining the realities of class war to its casualties.
Spinney, Franklin: Syria in the Crosshairs
The Kosovo Precedent
Published: 2013
Some high officials in the Obama Administration consider the 1999 war in Kosovo to be a precedent for justifying cruise missile strikes in Syria.
Spinney, Franklin, C.: Best Government Money Can Buy
Published: 2014
Revolving Door Syndrome in the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complex
Spotiswoode, Roger: And the Band Played On
Published: 1993
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic in the United States and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
Sprague, Jeb: Top Bolivian coup plotters trained by US military's School of the Americas, served as attachés in FBI police programs
Published: 2019
The United States played a key role in the military coup in Bolivia, and in a direct way that has scarcely been acknowledged in accounts of the events that forced the country's elected president, Evo Morales, to resign on November 10, 2019.
Spratt, Michael; Moore, Chelsea: Here come the thought police
Published: 2014
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declared his intention to fast-track legislation expanding CSIS and police powers of “surveillance, detention and arrest.”
Spray, Martin: Protest Inc. - The Corporatization of Protest (Book Review)
Published: 2014
Review of "Protest Inc. - The Corporatization of Activism" by Peter Dauvergne & Genevieve LeBaron.
Springe, Inga: Everyone can be an investigative journalist. Everyone!
Published: 2013
Inge Springe is the founder and director of the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism. Her stories have resulted in action against public officials and helped bring about changes in Latvian economic and tax policy.
Springe, Inga: Everyone can be an investigative journalist. Everyone!
Published: 2013
Inge Springe is the founder and director of the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism. Her stories for the center, which is also known as Re:Baltica, have resulted in action against public officials and helped bring about changes in Latvian economic and tax policy.
Spritzler, John: Government Spying Aims to Silence Us
Published: 2013
What the ruling class is aiming at, with these occasional "leaks" about its spying on us, is not so much to collect information about us but rather to make us feel so totally spied upon that we will be afraid to do or say anything we know the government doesn't want us to do or say.
Spritzler, John: Higher Education Free for All?
Published: 2002
The transformation of our society from one in which few working class people went to college into one in which a larger proportion do so has been accompanied by the growth of "lower tier" colleges, junior colleges and professional schools designed to prepare their students for "careers" in the new global economy that do not pay as much as people with only a high school degree used to make in jobs with a history of solidarity.
Spritzler, John: Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage: What is at Stake?
Published: 2008
There are good people on either side of the same-sex marriage debate. Unfortunately, however, it has been one of the most divisive issues in society. Opponents of same-sex marriage perceive the other side as part of a cabal of gay activists and social-engineering judges and politicians, intent on making a mockery of important social values. Proponents of same-sex marriage often perceive the other side as "homophobic" bigots or religious fundamentalists who want to deprive gay or lesbian couples of a right enjoyed by others because they hate homosexuals. The debate over same-sex marriage has divided people who share common values and beliefs on many fundamental questions--war and peace, economic security, democracy versus the increasingly anti-democratic and repressive nature of American society. This divisive debate cripples the ability of ordinary Americans to unite around the things that we agree on.
Spritzler, John: Why Are Families Under Attack?
Published: 2004
The media are full of very sophisticated anti-family messages, which can come from both the right and the left. Liberals denigrate the value of families in which children are raised by their real mother and father, and they sometimes suggest that such families are often patriarchies with abusive fathers. Conservatives often call for "family values" in which women are subordinate to men and inequality prevails. Neither liberal nor conservative views reflect true family values of equality and commitment to each other.
Spritzler, John: Why Cooperative Businesses Are Not the Answer
Published: 2013
The problem with the worker-owned cooperative business economic model is that this model retains one of the most important defining characteristics of the capitalist model with which we are so familiar today: production of commodities to be sold for a profit in the market place.
Spronk, Susan; Webber, Jeffery R.: Toward Revolution and Collective Leadership - Interview
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
An interview with Andrés Antillano. Bolivia.
St. Clair, Jeffrey: Camus in the Time of Drones
The Long-Distance Executioners
Published: 2014
What would Albert Camus, the great moralist of the 20th century and essayist on the barbarity of the death penalty, think about the latest innovation in administrative murder, Obama’s drone program, a kind of remote-control gallows?
St. Clair, Jeffrey: The Floods of Forgetfulness
A Brief History of Logging, Floods and Landslides
Published: 2014
In thousands of stories about the recent floods in the U.S. Northwest, only one mentioned any possible connection between logging and floods.
St. Clair, Jeffrey: Germ War: the US Record
Who Will Intervene?
Published: 2013
The United States has exposed of hundreds of thousands of unwitting US citizens to an astonishing array of germ agents and toxic chemicals, killing dozens of people.
St. Clair, Jeffrey: How They Sold the Iraq War
Published: 2018
The war on Iraq won't be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold: it was a propaganda war, a war of perception management.
St. Clair, Jeffrey: Let Us Now Praise Infamous Animals
Published: 2018
In medieval Europe (and even colonial America) thousands of animals were summoned to court and put on trial for a variety of offenses, ranging from trespassing, thievery and vandalism to rape, assault and murder. The defendants included cats, dogs, cows, sheep, goats, slugs, swallows, oxen, horses, mules, donkeys, pigs, wolves, bears, bees, weevils, and termites. These tribunals were not show trials or strange festivals like Fools Day. The tribunals were taken seriously by both the courts and the community.
St. Clair, Jeffrey: Pesticides, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Acceptable Death
Published: 2015
In 1900, cancer killed three people in America out of every hundred. Today, it's 33 out of every 100 -- more than one-in-four Americans die from cancer. These figures come from Dr. Joseph Weissman, a professor of medicine at UCLA. Weissman reckons that a fair slice of this explosion in cancer mortality can be laid at the door of petro-chemicals, particularly those used by the food industry.
St. Clair, Jeffrey: Wild at Heart: Keeping Up With Margie Kidder
Published: 2018
Margie Kidder died on Sunday in her house in Livingston, Montana. It's not that she hadn’t had close calls with the Reaper before.
St. Clair, Jeffrey; Cockburn, Alexander: The CIA and the Press: When the Washington Post Ran the CIA’s Propaganda Network
Published: 2016
Last week, the Washington Post published a scurrilous piece by a heretofore obscure technology reporter named Craig Timberg, alleging without the faintest evidence that Russian intelligence was using more than 200 independent news sites to pump out pro-Putin and anti-Clinton propaganda during the election campaign.
St. Clair, Jeffrey; Cockburn, Alexander: The FBI and the Myth of the Fingerprint
The Real Crime is in the Crime Lab
Published: 2013
Decade after decade people have been sent to prison for years or dispatched to the death cells, solely on the basis of a single, even a partial print. However the lab scandals threw a shadow over the FBI’s forensic procedures
St. Clair, Jeffrey; Cockburn, Alexander: How We Fought the War
Bob Kerrey's Revolting Medal of Honor
Published: 2016
On May 16, 2016, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey was named chairman of Fulbright University, a US-backed college with ties to the State Department in Ho Chi Minh City. During his recent visit to Vietnam, President Barack Obama heaped praise on Kerrey, a former Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969. What Obama failed to mention is that Kerrey also supervised one of the most atrocious war crimes of that ghastly war. The unit he lead killed women and children during an assassination mission in 1969. Some of the victims had their throats slit. Instead of being charged with war crimes, Kerrey was awarded a Medal of Honor for his role in another operation of that year in Nha Trong Bay.
St. Clair, Jeffrey; Cockburn, Alexander: Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: Who Said What When
Published: 2016
This is a list of quotations is excerpted from Imperial Crusades: a Diary of Three Wars.
St. Clair, Jeffrey; Cockburn, Alexander: When Clearcuts Kill
Logging and Landslides
Published: 2014
Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn on the linkages between corporate logging and deadly landslides and the broader corporate mantra of privatizing profits and socializing the losses.
St. Clair, Jeffrey; Ridgeway, James: Showdown in the Malheur Marshes: the Origins of Rancher Terrorism in Burns, Oregon
Published: 2016
During the spring of 1995, shortly after the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, James Ridgeway and I spent a couple of weeks traveling across the West for a series of stories in the Village Voice that chronicled the rise of militant new rightwing movements of militias, white supremacists, Christian Identity sects and anti-government groups, including a profile of central Oregon rancher Dwight Hammond, now at the centre of the armed seizure of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters near Burns.
Stainsby, Macdonald: Challenging Tar Sands at its Source
Grassroots Greens Versus Big Greens
Published: 2014
With fracking changing the US oil-production and consumption numbers so dramatically, it seems time to challenge the notion that tar sands – and the carbon released if tar sands production continues to climb – is the “make or break point,” an “endgame” whose development signifies “game over for the climate,” as stated several years ago by Dr. James Hansen. Tar sands development is no less extreme, of course, no less destructive, no less genocidal to those living in the affected areas. Shutting down the tar sands– completely, and not negotiated as a phase out nor leaving the corporations in power afterward – is more important than ever, and on as many fronts as possible.
Stainsby, MacDonald: The Collaborative Model Takes Root in Alberta's Tar Sands
Published: 2015
Relationship between Big Oil, Enviromental Groups and Government in Alberta Tar Sands.
Stainsby, Macdonald: Fracking Indigenous Country
Big Green, Sun Media and Elsipogtog
Published: 2013
Police attack the Mi’kmaq community of Elsipogtog in New Brunswick.
Stainsby, Macdonald: How Tides Canada Controls the Secret North American Tar Sands Coalition
Published: 2013
Mainstream environmental groups are being positioned to make a bad deal on the Tar Sands.
Stainsby, Macdonald: Just the Beginning of Canada's Filthy Tar Sands
A Qualitative Jump Down a Black Hole
Published: 2013
The technology used in Canada's tar sands will be used to open up other potential oil deposits that could more than double all know oil reserves. The disaster threatens to keep expanding.
Stainsby, MacDonald: Mongolia, Canada, Israel & the United States
Colonialism, Mining and Oil Shale: Don't Let the Genie Out of the Bottle
Published: 2013
Genie Energy announces a deal they struck with the Petroleum Authority of Mongolia.
Stallman, Richard: Who does that server really serve?
Published: 2013
On the Internet, proprietary software isn't the only way to lose your freedom. Service as a Software Substitute, or SaaSS, is another way to let someone else have power over your computing.
Stallman, Richard: Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software
Published: 2012
An article decoding the important differences in terminology, underlying philosophy, and value systems between two similar categories of software.
Stallman, Richard: Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing
Published: 2010
There are a number of words and phrases that GNU recommends avoiding, or avoiding in certain contexts and usages. Some are ambiguous or misleading; others presuppose a viewpoint that GNU disagrees with, and they hope you disagree with it too.
Stanbrook, Matthew B.: Why the federal government must lead in health care
Published: 2015
For much of the last decade, Canadian federal health policy has been conspicuous by its absence. During that time, the federal government has walked away from collaborating with the provinces through the Council of the Federation and declined to renew the First Ministers’ Accord on Health Care; dithered on public health measures of glaringly obvious benefit, such as tobacco control and asbestos elimination; ignored and disbanded expert advisory panels on health issues; weakened the authority of the public health agency; muzzled scientists; eliminated the long form census, the best source of information on regional disparities relevant to health; and eroded research support, while increasingly tying what remains to business interests rather than health benefits.
Stanic, Ana: In search of the unseen: an investigation into plastics in our oceans
Published: 2016
One of the biggest threats facing marine life is the 'microplastic' particles found in ocean ecosystems from bottom to top of food chains. Just back from a voyage of environmental exploration in the tropical Atlantic sampling the waters to build up a global picture of this ubiquitous pollutant, Ana Stanic writes of the joys and trials of life on the waves, and the need to keep our oceans clean.
Stanley, Chelli: Israeli Government Fears Palestinian Cameras
Published: 2018
A report on a Bill by the Israeli Knessett that would criminalize the filming of Israeli soldiers in Palestine, with a proposed five year jail sentence for offenders.
Stanley, Jay: Civil Rights Movement Is a Reminder That Free Speech Is There to Protect the Weak
Published: 2017
The importance of First Amendment rights is examined, and even while those rights do protect actions of the powerful, the author argues that it is ultimately the poor and powerless who beneffit from it's protection.
Stanton, John: Fascism, American-Style
One-Step from the Third Reich?
Published: 2014
Unbeknownst to most Americans the United States is presently under thirty presidential declared states of emergency. They confer vast powers on the Executive Branch including the ability to financially incapacitate any person or organization in the United States, seize control of the nation’s communications infrastructure, mobilize military forces, expand the permissible size of the military without congressional authorization, and extend tours of duty without consent from service personnel.
Stanton, John: Mass Incarceration, Prison Labor in the United States
Published: 2017
Federal Prison Industries (FPI) under the brand UNICORE operates approximately 52 factories (prisons) across the United States.
Stanton, Sam; Lambert, Diana: UC Davis spent $175,000 to scrub online pepper spray references
Published: 2016
The University of California, Davis, contracted with consultants for at least $175,000 to scrub the Internet of negative online postings following the November 2011 pepper spraying of students and to improve the reputations of both the university and Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, newly released documents show.
Stapleton, AnneClaire; Kopan, Tal: Undocumented special-needs girl in federal custody after emergency surgery
Published: 2017
An undocumented 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy was taken into US Customs and Border Protection custody shortly after emergency gallbladder surgery in Texas in a case that advocates say shows the harmful extent of the President's hard line on immigration policies.
Stark, Holger: Donald Trump and the New American Nationalism
An Exhausted Democracy
Published: 2016
There have been moments in this election campaign that have brought back dark memories. In Mississippi, Florida and elsewhere, presumed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump asked his supporters to raise their right hands and pledge their allegiance to his cause: "I do solemnly swear that I, no matter how I feel, no matter what the conditions, if there's hurricanes or whatever. Will vote on or before the 12th for Donald J. Trump for President." Tens of thousands raised their right arms and repeated the oath after him. The America media drew comparisons to Adolf Hitler.
Steel, Emily: A Web Pioneer Profiles Users by Name
Published: 2010
An online tracking company builds extraordinarily intimate databases on people by tapping voter-registration files, shopping histories, social-networking activities and real estate records, among other things.
Steel, Mark: Jeremy Corbyn's supporters are so dangerous they took over the Labour Party before they were even born
Published: 2016
If you were cynical you might wonder if, despite their ability to reach out to people, Corbyn's opponents feel they'd be unlikely to beat him in a straight vote of members.
Steigerwald, Lucy: The FBI Wants Teachers To Go Stasi On American Kids
Published: 2016
While Apple and the federal government duke it out over the encrypted phone of a dead terrorist, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is keeping things old school by advocating that educators start paying close attention to any radical leanings among their students.
Steinbeck, John: John Steinbeck Quotes
Steinberg, Ted: Show a Film, End Up on a Watch List
Published: 2016
On September 21, the Case Western Reserve University Radical Student Union showed a documentary titled "The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States," to all members of the university community through the Kanopy streaming service. The chairman of the board of trustees of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland called out for a follow-up investigation of the screening.
Steinbrecher, Sabine: Successful Event Marketing Strategies
Published: 1997
Tips for marketing your events.
Stephens, Alastair: The Sochi Games, Homophobia and Western Media Hypocrisy
Published: 2014
Alastair Stephens looks at the hypocritical response of the Western media to the Sochi Games.
Stephens, Thomas: The Flint River Lead Poisoning Catastrophe in Historical Perspective
Published: 2016
By now the main facts of the Flint River lead poisoning are pretty well known and essentially undisputed. A spectacular regulatory failure by all levels of government -- enabled by Michigan Governor Snyder's unprecedented "emergency management" policies for African-American majority cities. The big remaining question is why this disaster happened?
Stephenson, Amanda: Borneo's Killer Dams
Mega-Dams in Sarawak Threaten Indigenous Tribes with Ethnocide
Published: 2014
Sarawak, Malaysia, is home to thousands of endemic species, forty indigenous groups, and one of the largest transboundary rainforests remaining in the world. The state is also suffering from one of the world's highest rates of deforestation; only 5% of its primary forests remain. Now, Sarawak's forests and their inhabitants face another threat: the damming of its rivers for hydroelectric power.
Sterling, Jeffrey: I Was a CIA Whistleblower. Now I'm a Black Inmate. Here’'s How I See American Racism.
Published: 2016
From the moment I crossed the threshold from freedom to incarceration because I was charged with, and a jury convicted me of, leaking classified information to a New York Times reporter, I needed no reminder that I was no longer an individual. Prison, with its "one size fits all" structure, is not set up to recognize a person's worth; the emphasis is removal and categorization. Inmates are not people; we are our offenses. In this particular prison where I live, there are S-Os (sex offenders), Cho-Mos (child molesters), and gun and drug offenders, among others. Considering the charges and conviction that brought me here, I'm not exactly sure to which category I belong. No matter. There is an overriding category to which I do belong, and it is this prison reality that I sadly "compare unto the world": I'm not just an inmate, I'm a black inmate.
Sterling, Rick: The Biased Report that led to Banning Russians at the Olympics
Published: 2016
Canadian lawyer Richard Mclaren's report infuenced the World Anti-Doping Agency to call for the banning of all Russian athletes from the Rio Games.
Sterling, Rick: How Media Bias Fuels Syrian Escalation
Published: 2017
The mainstream U.S. media now reports as "flat-fact" the Syrian government's guilt in the April 4, 2017 chemical weapons incident, but the real facts are less clear and some point in the opposite direction.
Sterling, Rick: Letter to the World Anti Doping Agency and International Olympic Committee
Regarding the McLaren Report and the Politicization of Doping in Sports
Published: 2017
Russian track and field athletes, plus the entire Paralympics team, were banned from the Rio Games last summer. This was based on the first McLaren report commissioned by the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA).
Sterling, Rick: Taking the World to the Brink of Annihilation
Published: 2018
Western neoconservatives and hawks are driving the international situation to increasing tension and danger. Not content with the destruction of Iraq and Libya based on false claims, they are now pressing for a direct US attack on Syria.
Sterling, Rick: Why Zelensky Will NOT Take Back Crimea
Published: 2023
The 2014 coup was the last straw. The Maidan violence, coup government decisions on language, and attacks on civilians made it imperative to quickly secede. Russia already had soldiers in Crimea at the leased naval base at Sebastapol. The referendum proceeded quickly and peacefully. Western hypocrisy and double standards are breathtaking. The West actively promoted the breakup of Yugoslavia, the secession of Kosovo from Serbia and South Sudan from Sudan. The right and popular will of Crimeans to secede from Ukraine and reunify with Russia is clear. Yet the West continues to falsely claim that Russia "occupies" Crimea.
Stern-Weiner, Jamie: The American Jewish scholar behind Labour's 'antisemitism' scandal breaks his silence
Norman G. Finkelstein talks Naz Shah MP, Ken Livingstone, and the Labour 'antisemitism' controversy.
Published: 2016
An interview with author Norman Fikelstein on the Labour 'antisemitism' scandal.
Sterne, Jonathan; Davis, Natalie Zemon: Quebec's manifs casseroles are a call for order
Published: 2012
Steven: Flight from the land and food riots
Excellent article by Wildcat Germany analysing the food crisis and the global agricultural industry under capitalism.
Published: 2007
Article discuss about reasons behind the exploding food prices.
Stevenson, Mathew: Killing Bill O'Reilly
The disgraced broadcaster's distortions of history
Published: 2017
A look at the biased, idealized and error-riddled historical accounts espoused by American broadcaster Bill O'Reilly. Despite the former broadcaster's distortions of history and recent public disgrace his books still remain popular among Americans.
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Published: 1886
Stevenson, Robert Louis; Diemer, Ulli: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and SOURCES
Published: 2012
Stories turn out better with SOURCES.
Stevenson, Robin: Canadian Author of Kid Activists Speaks Up About School Cancellation Controversy
Public Support Surges for LGBTQ+ Community in Illinois Suburb
Stevenson, Verity: Quebec's Antifa movement on rise in response to growth of far-right groups
Left-wing activists grapple with tactics to fight racism, neo-Nazism
Published: 2017
A report on anti-facist groups and their roots in Quebec, and what they are doing to counter the rise of right wing nationalism in the province.
Stevenson, William: SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
Connexipedia Article
Published: 2010
A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
Stewart, Ian: The mathematical equation that caused the banks to crash
Published: 2012
The Black-Scholes equation was the mathematical justification for the trading that plunged the world's banks into catastrophe
Stienne, Agnes: Ethiopia's stolen land.
'A common property of the nations and peoples'
Published: 2013
Government plans to reform Ethiopia’s agriculture failed to consider the country’s peasant culture, subsistence farming and basic needs such as water to drink. Instead, it let the agrifood and financial giants take much of the most fertile land from peasant farmers.
Stienne, Agnès: The high price of cheap meat
Published: 2013
A tiny percentage of the wrong animal passed off as beef in industrially processed food in western Europe? It’s a small misdemeanour set against the misuse of the world’s agricultural land to produce the luxury of meat.
Stine, Scott Aaron: The Snuff Film
The Making of an Urban Legend
Published: 1999
One of the most enduring, and little-recognized, urban legends about cinema is the "snuff film," in which actresses are supposedly actually killed onscreen. Over the course of nearly a quarter century, the snuff film has transformed from grade-Z slasher film to hoax to anti-pornographers' straw man to urban legend, and shows no sign of slowing down.
Stirk, Sarah: Coughing up coal
Published: 2014
India is rivaling China -- in its plans to consume coal. India is aggressively expanding construction of coal fired power plants to meet growing energy needs. Emissions from coal power plants were linked to 80,000 - 150,000 premature deaths in India between 2011 and 2012 alone and to a wide range of diseases from cancers, to respiratory and cardiovascular disorders. Singrauli -- an industrial hub in north central India -- embodies the tragic human toll that a largely unregulated coal industry can extract.
Stirk, Sarah: India's Coal Inferno
100,000 Premature Deaths a Year and Rising
Published: 2014
As India pursues its aggressive path of coal-powered industrialisation, its leaders are showing themselves willing to sacrifice millions of people and huge swathes of the country to a dark and uncertain future.
Stock, Kathleen: Changing the concept of "woman" will cause unintended harms
Published: 2018
There are more things to consider than some trans activists would have you believe, argues Kathleen Stock.
Stock, Kathleen: The fictional world of trans activism
There's nothing harmless about denying the truth
Published: 2022
Stock, Kathleen: Five rules for fighting transactivism
Stonewall loyalists need rescuing from themselves
Published: 2022
With a nod in solidarity to beleaguered adults across the land having to deal with transactivist drama in their organisations, homes, and friend groups: here are five supernanny-style rules from me.
Stock, Kathleen: The problem with "trans women are women"
Published: 2023
Is it any wonder people are confused?
Stock, Kathleen: You can't police offence
Politicians shouldn't try to outlaw psychological distress
Published: 2022
Delivering people from psychological distress is the business of therapists or priests, not lawmakers.
Stockman, David: The FBI's Perjury Trap of the Century
Published: 2017
John Brennan, Jim Comey, Sally Yates, Peter Strzok and a passel of deep state operatives -- all of whom baldly abused their offices, set a perjury trap designed to snare Mike Flynn as a first step in relitigating and reversing the voters' verdict.
Stockman, David: Sleepy Joe's Ukraine Hypocrisy Is Truly Beyond Measure
Published: 2022
Stockman, David: Washington's Sanctions War
A Futile Attempt To Control the World Economy
Published: 2022
In essence, economic sanctions assume that the state is entitled to expropriate and destroy economic value owned by any business which had been doing good faith trading or financial transactions with sanctioned Russian entities.
Stockman, David: Why Imperial Washington Should Cool It On North Korea
Published: 2017
The author argues that an enhanced package of sanctions, UN resolutions, diplomatic pressures and miltary threats against North Korea is futile; indeed Washington has been doing this for years and it hasn't worked yet, and a more robust version directed at North Korea won't work now.
Stoller, Bill: Getting Publicity: The Myth of the Press Release
Published: 2007
The press release is an important tool. But it's just that: a tool.
Stoltz, Mitch: Ashley Madison's Owners Give In to Temptation To Misuse The DMCA
Published: 2015
Ashley Madison's owners have been sending numerous DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notices to platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and others in an attempt to stop the dissemination of millions of names and email addresses of the site's users.
Stolz, Mitch: MPAA May Like Donuts, but They Shouldn't Be the (Copyright) Police
Published: 2016
The companies and organizations that run the Internet's domain name system shouldn't be in the business of policing the contents of websites, or enforcing laws that can impinge on free speech. The staff of ICANN, the organization that oversees that system, agrees. That's why it’s not surprising that the Motion Picture Association of America, which has consistently sought power to edit the Internet, is now bypassing ICANN and making private deals with domain name registries.
Stone Brown, Peter: Pete Seeger: a Troubadour for Peace and Justice
Farewell to a Great American
Published: 2014
Pete Seeger is a man who stood up, lived live on his own terms and never stopped speaking out.
Stone, Charlie: The woke mob are headed down the same well-trodden book-burning road as the Conquistadors and the Nazis
Published: 2022
Stone, I.F.: I.F. Stone's Weekly
Published: 1971
Weekly newsletter published by I.F. Stone from 1953 to 1971. All issues between January 17, 1953 and December 1, 1971 are online.
Stone, I.F.: The website of I.F. Stone
Website devoted to the journalism and life of radical journalist I.F. Stone (1907-1989).
Stone, I.F.: I.F. Stone Quotes
Stone, I.F.: Writings by I.F. Stone
Stone, Oliver: Ukraine on Fire: The Real Story
Published: 2019
Stop Imperialism in Latin America: Statement Condemning US Removal of Democratically-Elected Evo Morales
Published: 2019
Following months of destabilization, on November 10, 2019, the legitimate, constitutional, democratically-elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, was driven at gunpoint out of office and the country by the US and its allies, among them Bolivian fascists and several members of the Organization of American States (OAS), including Canada. This latest aggression follows centuries of colonial, imperialist, and neo-colonial conquest and plunder of the Indigenous-majority population of Bolivia.
Storey, Mark: The Naturist Society: A Brief History
Published: 2000
What is The Naturist Society? How, why, and where did it begin? What does it hope to accomplish?
Storey, Mark: The Offense of Public Nudity
Storm, Peter: Ukraine: what's going on, and what does it mean?
Published: 2013
Some thoughts on the protests happening in Ukraine. Things are not completely what they may seem.
Stoy, Ada: How to Make Drop Down Menus in a Web Page
Published: 2010
Stracansky, Pavol: Focus Shifts to Trafficking of Men in Europe
Published: 2009
The public perception is that human trafficking victims are all vulnerable females forced into prostitution and sexual slavery. But this is not the case. It does not occur to many people that trafficking is much broader on its scale, and that it affects a sizeable amount of men.
Straehley, Clifford J.: A Letter to the Editors
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
Since this letter was written, in the wake of the Colorado theater shooting, new massacres of course have occurred including the latest horror at Newtown, Connecticut, giving the issue ever greater urgency — The editors.
Straehley, Clifford J.: Letter to the Editors
Against The Current vol. 160
Published: 2012
An emergency room physician explains why he supports Roe v. Wade and consequently does not support Mitt Romney.
Strand, Ginger: Beautiful Ruination
Published: 2009
Iin the last half-century, even as the prophets of prosperity have spurred the U.S. on to ever more growth, ruins have become increasingly common features in the American landscape. Braddock, littered with decrepit hulks, is not alone.
Stratman, Dave: High Stakes Testing
Why Are They Doing This To Our Kids?
Published: 2000
The tests are very destructive educationally. They test students on such a broad range of materials that teachers have to rush through the curriculum; they cannot allow real discussion or in-depth study. Education is reduced to memorization of disconnected facts.
Strauss, Alex: Chasing Shadows: Socialism Won't Go Away Because It is Capitalism's Antithesis
Published: 2018
The abstract forces of capitalism's dynamism create the conditions for ever more creative and novel ways to profit, which is why the Golden Age of postwar capitalism-which had a mix of capitalist and socialist economic features-evolved into the neoliberal period after the external oil shocks of 1973 and 1979. Those conditions created a transitional context to shift out of a regulated state-interventionist capitalism into the aggressive, free-market neoliberal variety lasting more than 30 years, leading us to the precipice of the present.
Strauss, Valerie: How 'twisted' early childhood education has become - from a child development expert
Published: 2015
Nancy Carlsson-Paige is an early childhood development expert who has been at the forefront of the debate on how best to educate -- and not educate -- the youngest students. She is a professor emerita of education at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, where she taught teachers for more than 30 years and was a founder of the university’s Center for Peaceable Schools. She is also a founding member of a nonprofit called Defending the Early Years, which commissions research about early childhood education and advocates for sane policies for young children.
Street, Paul: Blacking Out the Yellow Vests on Cable News: Corporate Media Doing its Job
Published: 2018
France is experiencing a left-leaning popular and working-class uprising consistent with the French revolutionary tradition of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity", yet the majorty of Western media have given very little investigation or serious attention to the momentous events.
Street, Paul: Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People
Published: 2018
We on the Left don't need to reflexively and absurdly jump to the defense of imperial criminals at the instigation of that (well, yes) "enemy of the people" the U.S. corporate and so-called mainstream war, news, and entertainment media.
Street, Paul: Donald Trump and the Vicious Culture of Neoliberal Mass Idiocy
Published: 2016
The U.S. media and educational elites share responsibility for creating a world where a despicable idiot like Trump coud be president.
Street, Paul: "Erase the Memory" to "Erase a People"? They're Doing it in the USA Too
Published: 2023
Street, Paul: How Russia Became "Our Adversary" Again
Published: 2017
How did Russia, which has been a capitalist state for a querter of a century, become "our adversary" to the United States?
Street, Paul: An Idiot's Guide to Why They Hate Us
Published: 2015
Nobody who is reasonably knowledgeable and honest about the long and ongoing history of U.S.- and Western-imperial policy in the Middle East, Southwest Asia, and Africa has any business claiming to find the origins of anti-American and anti-Western terrorism in the Muslim world mysterious.
Street, Paul: The Inauthentic Opposition is "Stunned" by a Crime it Encouraged
Published: 2020
Top Democrats are "stunned" that Trump impulsively ordered the killing of "the commanding general of a sovereign government" (New York Times) – Iran’s Maj. Gen. Qassim Soliemani - on the sovereign territory of Iraq without the permission of Iraq's government. The imperial assassination of Soliemani is a criminal act of war guaranteed to provoke a reaction that could produce a regional war involving U.S. forces in the Middle East.
Street, Paul: Kidnapper Trump as Symptom
Published: 2018
The current plight of asylum seekers in the United States and the traumatic separation of children from parents at the southern U.S. border, is the most recent American policy that is racially motivated.
Street, Paul: The "Liberal" Media’s Propaganda War on Bernie Sanders
Published: 2020
Street, Paul: Money Talks, Bullshit Walks on Cable News
Published: 2019
None of the big companies buying advertising time on CNN and MSNBC have any interest in the progressive taxation and restored union organizing and collective bargaining rights that Sanders advocates.
Street, Paul: Notes on Terminology
Published: 2018
A look at common and popular terminology and 'labeling', especially in the media, which at times is not only inaccurate and misleading, but also diminishes or softens the severity of an event.
Street, Paul: The NRA's Latest Terrorist Attack on U.S. Soil
Published: 2017
It's long past time to start understanding the giant mass shootings that have become part of the new-normal fabric of life in the United States as terrorist attacks on the U.S. populace conducted by the nation’s plutocracy through one of its key and rightward campaign funding, lobbying, and policy organizations -- the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Street, Paul: Political Correctness: Handle with Care
Published: 2016
Racial, gender, and ethnic diversity matters, of course, but political correctness (PC) tied to bourgeois identity politics can be deadly to left thinkers and activists and to the causes of peace and social justice.
Street, Paul: "Progressive" Obama: He's Melting, He's Melting
Published: 2015
Beneath progressive pretentions, Barack Obama the national political phenomenon has never been anything other than a tool of the US corporate and financial ruling class.
Street, Paul: Russiagate and the Democratic Party are for Chumps
Published: 2017
Now Trump and the nation's 34 Republican governors get to wield the ever-expanding powers of the police state in a nation whose populace has lost faith in nearly every major U.S. institution but two: the military and the police. It's a militarized police-state the Democrats helped create.
Street, Paul: Some Standard Cynical CIA-Style Cuba Covid Reporting at The Washington Post
Published: 2021
Imperial cynics and propagandists can only see the world through the lens of cynicism and propaganda, which they project on to others.
Street, Paul: Unspeakable: the Black Book of Imperial Terrorism
Published: 2017
American "mainstream" journalists who want to keep their paychecks flowing and their status afloat know they must report current events in a way that respects the taboo status of the nation's underlying inequality and oppression structures and its savage and relentless imperial criminality.
Street, Paul: Why Ann Coulter Has Power: U.S. Politics are Authoritarian by Design
Published: 2019
A description of undemocratic processes in the US government - the Electoral College, gerrymandering, etc. - and how these allow a small minority to decide the leadership of the country.
Street, Paul: Why Exxon Executives Deserve the Ultimate Punishment
Published: 2015
In a series of articles based on internal documents from Exxon Mobil going back to the 1970s and on interviews with former company scientists and employees, ICN shows that Exxon's "own research confirmed fossil fuels' role in global warming decades ago." Yes, decades ago -- during the late 1970s to be precise.
Strether, Lambert: Three Myths About Clinton's Defeat in Election 2016 Debunked
Published: 2016
A debunking of the explanations for Hillary Clinton's defeat in the 2016 election commonly given by the Democratic party establishment and Clinton loyalists - in particular the role of racism, sexism, and the loss of key Obama-supporting counties.
Strickland, Patrick: FashMaps website tracks neo-Nazis in the US
Published: 2018
As Daily Stormer struggles to keep an online home, a new anti-fascist site aims to track neo-Nazis' meetings in the US.
Strickland, Patrick: In the US South, anti-Confederate protesters face harassment
At least 1,728 Confederate memorials - among them 772 monuments - remained intact as of June 2018, says SPLC watchdog.
Published: 2019
In recent years Confederate monuments have become increasingly high-profile as symbols of racism with links to extremist violence. Protests against these monuments are highly tense even when violence does not break out.
Strickland, Patrick: Lawsuit accuses DC police of collusion with far right
An advocacy group has filed a lawsuit alleging that police broke protocol by working with a far-right organisation.
Published: 2018
Federal prosecutors and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, DC, colluded with far-right groups in cases against anti-Trump protesters, a recently filed lawsuit alleges.
Strickland, Patrick: Remembering Italy's Cervi brothers amid far-right surge
Published: 2018
The Cervi brothers in Italy are famous for leading the local peasant resistance against Benito Mussolini's rule. Today, Adelmo Cervi is still a leading voice against the rise of far-right populist parties in Italy.
Strickland, Patrick: US J20 defendants: 'Waiting is part of the punishment'
The first six people have been acquitted, but the 188 remaining Inauguration Day defendants have yet to go to trial.
Published: 2018
Alleged anti-fascist protestors, controversially arrested at the 2017 US presidential inauguration, await trial and or sentencing in 2018.
Strickland, Patrick: Welcome to Arivaca: Where residents want anti-migrant militia out'
Many in this Arizona border town want armed vigilantes, who've vowed to round up undocumented migrants, to leave.
Published: 2018
Many in this Arizona border town want armed vigilantes, who've vowed to round up undocumented migrants, to leave.
Stromberg, Joseph: The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
Published: 2015
Stromberg provides a historical overview of how jaywalking was pushed to become a crime by automotive companies in order to normalize the reign of automobiles over pedestrians in the streets.
Stromberg, Joseph: The real reason American public transportation is such a disaster
Published: 2015
Stromberg dissects socials attitude regarding public transit in the United States, where infrastructure in most cities was designed with automobile dependency in mind, thereby causing transit to be been viewed and designed, as a form of social welfare rather than a public utility.
Stromberg, Joseph: This Bird Can Stay in Flight for Six Months Straight
Published: 2013
A study has shwon that swifts came stay aloft for more than 200 straight days straight.
Strunk, William Jr.: The Elements of Style
Published: 1918
A seminal guide to the basic rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.
Stuart, Keith; Boxer, Steve: Level up: how PlayStation infiltrated youth culture
Published: 2014
Twenty years ago, new games consoles began appearing in nightclub chillout rooms, subversive TV ads and cutting-edge style magazines. Keith Stuart and Steve Boxer describe how Sony created the PlayStation generation based on the underground culture.
Stupp, Catherine: Germany: Are online user comments protected by press freedom laws?
Published: 2014
A local newspaper in the western German city of Darmstadt is at the centre of a legal case that will measure whether readers’ comments are protected by Germany’s press freedom laws.
Suarez, Tom: Terrorism: How the Israeli state was won
Published: 2017
Transcript of a speech by the author on December 14, 2016 at the House of Lords, giving a history of the conflicts and terrorist tactics of Zionists in the formation of the state of Israel.
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos: DID YOU HEAR IT? It's the sound of their world ending. It's that of ours resurging.
Communique from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Published: 2012
Communiqué of the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee – General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Mexico.
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos: "Our Path Doesn't Depend on Media Coverage"
The Zapatistas and Their Coming Strategy Together with Mexico's Original Peoples
Published: 2012
Communiqué from the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee-General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army.
Subramanya, Rupa: The truckers have changed Canada forever
The Freedom Convoy has shaken Canadian politics to its core
Published: 2022
Such, Rod: Can a minority rule a majority in perpetuity?
Published: 2018
A review of "Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?" by Josh Ruebner. Subjects include the question of one or two states, and whether Israel should be considered democratic or an apartheid state are among numerous topics addressed in the book.
Such, Rod: Painting a false picture
Published: 2018
A review of the book "The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media" by Greg Shupak.
Sudilovsky, Judith: For Gaza patients, uncertainty over Israeli permits is a matter of life and death
Published: 2020
Israel's permit regime has become even more arduous for Palestinian patients since the PA halted coordination, with rights groups trying to fill the vacuum.
Sugiyama, Jim: Film Review: Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
Published: 2014
A review of the provocative documentary Revolutionary Medicine, which tells the story of the first Garifuna hospital, in Honduras.
Sukharevskaya, Olga: West ignores evidence of Ukrainian torture and use of prohibited weapons when making 'war crimes' claims
Published: 2022
To mark Ukrainian Armed Forces Day, it's worth remembering the crimes Kiev has committed against civilians.
Sullivan, Kaitlin: US Government Knew Climate Risks in 1970s, National Petroleum Council Documents Show
Published: 2019
Newly discovered documents show that the fossil fuel industry has know since the 1970s the effect that CO2 emissions would have on the environment.
Sumaria, Sheena: Why we voted leave: voices from northern England - documentary
Published: 2016
A short look at why those in the north of England mainly voted to leave the EU - from Guerrera Films.
Summerchild, Alex: Pungesti, Romania: people versus Chevron and riot police
Published: 2013
Pungesti is at the terrifying front line of Romania's resource war - where villagers are fighting off rapacious corporations and their private army of violent riot police, backed by corrupt politicians.
Summerscale, Kate: Penny dreadfuls: the Victorian equivalent of video games
Wild stories that caused a moral panic
Published: 2016
The story of how in 1880s and 1890s, penny dreadfuls were blamed for youth violence and suicide.
Sun, Rivera: Remembering Argentina's Mothers of the Disappeared
Published: 2016
Campaign Nonviolence is a movement to build a culture of active nonviolence. We share the stories of nonviolent action, drawing lessons, strength, and strategy from the global grassroots movements for change. This week commemorates the 39th anniversary of the first protest of the Argentina's Mothers of the Disappeared.
Sun, Rivera: Remembering Nonviolent History
Freedom Rides
Published: 2016
By May 1961, federal law had already ruled that segregation on interstate public buses was illegal. Southern states, however, maintained segregation in seating, and at bus station bathrooms, waiting rooms and drinking fountains and the Interstate Commerce Commission refused to take action to enforce federal law. To change this, the Civil Rights Movement (CORE, SNCC, NAACP) began a series of Freedom Rides on May 4th, 1961.
Sun, Riviera: Bring on Solutionary Rail!
Published: 2018
A look at Solutionary Rail, a people-powered campaign to electrify America's railroads and open corridors to clean and renewable energy.
Sundaram, Jomo K: Intellectual Property Regime Undermines Equity, Progress
Published: 2018
Developing countries must reject the intellectual property rights regime imposed on them by powerful foreign monopolies in recent decades.
Sundaram, Kumar: India - Now Nuclear and Environmental Dissent is a Crime
Published: 2014
In modern India any form of dissent from the neoliberal corporate model of development is being criminalised. Opponents of nuclear power, coal mines, GMOs, giant dams, are all under attack as enemies of the state and a threat to economic growth.
Sunkara, Bhaskar: The KKK and Other Grassroots Movements
Venezuela isn't as divided as its right-wing opposition would have you believe
Published: 2014
A sign of a real revolution is its knack for conjuring a counter-revolution. To the extent that the Bolivarian Revolution has problems, the solution to them won’t come from chats with those looking to overthrow it, but rather the organization of workers trying to fulfill its potential. There can be no neutral ground between those two positions.
Sunkara, Bhaskar: Let Them Eat Diversity
Published: 2011
Alter Benn Michaels says that “'left neoliberals' are people who don’t understand themselves as neoliberals. They think that their commitments to anti-racism, to anti-sexism, to anti-homophobia constitute a critique of neoliberalism. But if you look at the history of the idea of neoliberalism you can see fairly quickly that neoliberalism arises as a kind of commitment precisely to those things."
Sunstein, Cass R.: Green by default - how a nudge and wink can save the planet
Published: 2016
There's a simple way to induce us to make good environmental choices: make them the default setting. Whether it's selecting double sided photocopies or renewable electricity tariffs, defining easily-overridden 'green defaults' is by far the most efficacious means to influence consumer choices for the environment and the planet.
Surgey, Nick: The Googlization of the Far Right: Why Is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC?
Published: 2013
Google, the tech giant, has been funding a growing list of groups advancing the agenda of the Koch brothers. The policies advocated by some of the Google’s grantees are in stark contrast with the progressive image that Google has worked to promote.
Surin, Kenneth: Resolutions Advocating a Boycott of Israel
Published: 2017
The Modern Language Association (MLA) Delegate Assembly voted in Philadelphia on two resolutions, for and against, of an academic boycott of Israel.
Survival International: Thousands of Goldminers Invade Yanomami Territory
Published: 2019
Goldminers have invaded Yanomami lands in northern Brazil, probably emboldened by Bolsonaro's war against Indigenous rights. They have brought disease to uncontacted peoples and are poisoning the environment.
Sussman, Gerald: America's Troll Farm Media
Published: 2018
A look at the American mainstream media, which is in a constant search of sensation, scandal, gossip, and above all -- profit.
Sutton, Maira: Canadian Court to the Entire World: No Links For You!
Published: 2014
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ordered Google to remove entire domains from its search results — a decision that could have enormous global implications on free expression. This is the latest of several instances of courts claiming dangerous jurisdictional overreach, where they have applied local laws to remove content on the Internet.
Sutton, Maira: TPP Undermines User Control and That's Disastrous for Accessibility
Published: 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) threatens all users' ability to access information and participate in culture and innovation online, but it's especially severe for those with disabilities or who otherwise depend on content in accessible formats. That's because it doubles down on broken policies that were heavily lobbied for by Hollywood and other major publishers that impede the distribution of accessible works.
Sutton, Robert: Abortions faster, safer in clinics, MDs' group says
Published: 1985
Ontario should permit abortion clinics because they allow women to have abortions earlier in their preganacies when there is far less health risk, the Medical Reform Group of Ontario says.
Suzuki, David; Hanington, Ian: Wind offers a healthy way to generate power
Published: 2014
To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions at a pace and scale that experts agree is necessary to avoid increasing catastrophic effects of global warming, we need a mix of renewable energy. Wind power will play a large role.
Suzuki, David; Hanington, Ian: Wind power opponents may be blowing hot air
Published: 2013
When it comes to wind power, we have to be careful to ensure that impacts on the environment and on animals such as birds and bats are minimized, and we should continue to study possible effects on health. But we must also be wary of false arguments against it.
Svenska, Anneka: South Africa's conservation success story: the 'Black Mambas' mean business!
Published: 2016
A unique, all female anti-poaching unit has transformed the conservation picture in South Africa's Kruger National Park. In just three years the Black Mambas have cut poaching by more than 75%, removed over 1,000 snares, and become role models for local youth. And this weekend they arrive in the UK to collect Helping Rhinos' 'Innovation in Conservation' Award.
Svoboda, Elizabeth: Life and Death After the Steel Mills
Published: 2017
In her study of a community devastated by industry's flight, anthropologist Christine Walley raises questions about how to create and support meaningful work in a postindustrial world.
Steel mills were the economic backbone of many cities across the Midwest and Northeast until the 1980s. When the industry left, former workers not only took a hit economically -- they also felt displaced and suffered disillusionment and a loss of identity.
Svrluga, Susan: Forgotten Graffiti Sheds New Light on Long, Hot Journeys to Vietnam
Published: 2014
Inside a rusting former US army ship, historians found vivid details of the hopes and fears of soldiers bound for war.
Swann, Ben: Who's Funding the White Helmets?
Reality Check
Published: 2018
You've no doubt heard of the White Helmets, aka the Syria Civil Defense. They claim to be a neutral entity in Syria. They say they are just helping people caught in the middle of a civil war. But are they? Follow the money and you will find numerous ties to government funding from not only the U.S., but the U.K., Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. We untangle these ties to the White Helmets in a Reality Check you won't get anywhere else.
Swanson, David: Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every Day
Published: 2017
Swanson calls into question the US government-driven media accusations that the Russian government had direct involvement in swaying the 2016 US election for Trump, and exames the motivations behind these claims.
Swanson, David: American/Russian Vladimir Posner on the State of Journalism
Published: 2017
A Russian journalist's views on the state of journalism.
Swanson, David: If Paris Killers Had Western Media on Their Side
Flip the Script
Published: 2015
Imagine if the Charlie Hebdo killings had been reported on in a slightly different manner, say in the manner that drone strike killings are reported.
Swanson, David: It's The Blind Partisanship
Published: 2015
Why did the peace movement grow large around 2003-2006 and shrink around 2008-2010? Military spending, troop levels abroad, and number of wars engaged in can explain the growth but not the shrinkage. Those factors hardly changed between the high point and the low point of peace activism.
Swanson, David: Operation Nazification
Of Empire and Government
Published: 2014
Annie Jacobsen’s new book is called Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America. It isn’t terribly secret anymore, of course, and it was never very intelligent. Jacobsen has added some details, and the U.S. government is still hiding many more. But the basic facts have been available; they’re just left out of most U.S. history books, movies, and television programs.
Swanson, David: Public Relations Firm Claims to Have Ghost Written Thousands of Op-Eds in Major U.S. Newspapers
Published: 2016
Laura Bentz of Keybridge Communications describes her company as "a boutique PR firm -- founded by a former writer for the Wall Street Journal -- that specializes in writing and placing op-eds. With some of the country's most influential trade groups and global corporations as clients, we run many of the major op-ed campaigns in the U.S. We place roughly 3,000 op-eds per year."
Swanson, David: Rigged
Published: 2016
The 2016 Republican presidential primary was rigged. It wasn't rigged by the Republicans, the Democrats, Russians, space aliens, or voters. It was rigged by the owners of television networks who believed that giving one candidate far more coverage than others was good for their ratings. The CEO of CBS Leslie Moonves said of this decision: "It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS." Justifying that choice based on polling gets the chronology backwards, ignores Moonves' actual motivation, and avoids the problem, which is that there ought to be fair coverage for all qualified candidates (and a democratic way to determine who is qualified).
Swanson, David: Top 50 US War Criminals
Published: 2009
Brief profiles of men and women who planned wars of agression and other war crimes.
Swanson, David: Top 10 Proofs People Can Be Completely Manipulated Without Hypnosis
Published: 2014
Swanson, David: Where Lyme Disease Came From and Why It Eludes Treatment
Published: 2019
A review of two books that discuss Lyme disease's origin in government experiments with germ warfare.
Swanson, David: Why Are These Facts So Stubbornly Forbidden?
Published: 2019
The author gives several examples of people refusing to change their beliefs even when confronted with facts.
Swatos Jr., William H.: Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
Published: 1998
The sacred and profane continue to interface, conflict, and intermingle in novel ways. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society provides a guide map for these developments. From succinct, brief notes to essay-length entries, this encyclopedia covers world religious leaders and scholars — past and present — in the United States and the world. An essential reference for the study of the anthropology, psychology, politics, or sociology of religion.
Swatos, William H.: Encyclopedia of Religion and Society (online version)
Sweetman, George "Mick": The Quebec general strike 1972
The story of one of the largest working class rebellions in American history. 300,000 workers participated in North America's largest general strike to that date, radio stations were seized, factories were occupied, and entire towns were brought under workers' control, and it won important gains.
Sweney,Mark: BBC defends reality show involving poor, dubbed 'Hunger Games'
Published: 2015
Britain's Hardest Grafter will pit 25 of Britain's lowest-paid workers against each other for cash prize in series it claims is a 'serious social experiment'.
Swyers, Katie; Trinh, Judy: Hate speech and death threats
Canadian academics harassed after criticizing Hindu nationalism in India
Published: 2022
Academics receive online hate from local diaspora groups and foreign trolls.
Symmes, Patrick: The $68,000 Fish
The future of salmon in the Pacific Northwest
Published: 2019
On the attempted restoration of the salmon population in the Pacific Northwest for the purpose of salmon runs for harvest.
Szalai, Georg and Colbern Uhl: Nielsen Study
Teens Still Rely Primarily on Traditional Media
Published: 2009
A recent report by The Nielsen Co, entitled "How Teens Use Media," shows that teenagers are still engaged in traditional media such as newspapers and television. Most of them simply "make time" for both traditional media and new forms of communication such as Twitter, Youtube or Facebook. The survey shows that television is still the leading type of media with a thrilling average daily watching time of 3 hours and 20 minutes in the US. The survey was conducted in 50 countries.
Sáenz, Charlotte Maria: Women up in Arms: Zapatistas and Rojava Kurds Embrace a New Gender Politics
Published: 2015
Resistance and strength manifest like weeds through cracks in Chiapas, Mexico and transnational Kurdistan where the respective Zapatista and Kurdish resistance movements are creating new gender relations as a primary part of their struggle and process for building a better world. In both places, women's participation in the armed forces has been an entry-point for a new social construction of gender relations based on equity.
Sérén, Jean-Pierre: The oil war
Published: 2013
Declassified documents now reveal what everybody, especially the Iraqis, always knew: the US invaded Iraq to secure its oil supplies for US and allied companies. It hasn't quite worked out as planned.

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Tabar, Tania: Citizen media takes the stage as protests continue in Iran
Published: 2009
Wth foreign media expelled from Iran, and local journalists being targeted, citizen journalists are becoming vital in covering the situation on the ground. MENASSAT interviewed Magda Abu-Fadil, Director of the Journalism Training Program at the American University of Beirut (AUB), to discuss what this means for the future of journalism
Tabar, Tania: Journalism is a profession, not a cover
Published: 2009
The kidnapping of two French government security advisors in Mogadishu on Tuesday caused outrage among media workers and rights groups - after reports surfaced that they had been posing as journalists.
Tahhan, Zena: Israel's settlements: 50 years of land theft explained
Published: 2017
Today, between 600,000 and 750,000 Israelis live in these sizeable settlements, equivalent to roughly 11 percent of the total Jewish Israeli population. So why have these housing compounds caused so much rancour and been called a threat to the prospect of peace in the Holy Land? Follow this journey to find out.
Tahhan, Zena: 'It's okay to be racist in Israel'
An Israeli conscientious objector speaks out about racism and subjugation as the occupation enters its 51st year.
Published: 2017
An interview with Sahar Vardi, a conscientious objector in opposition to Israel's policies in the Palestinian territories, who was sentenced to prison and detention for her defiance.
Tahir, Madiha R.: Covering Pakistan: How Journalists and Experts Reproduce Empire
Published: 2010
It appears irrelevant to many policymakers, journalists, and people in the US generally that Pakistan has, for example, peasants, unions, working-class politics, LGBTQ organizations, feminist groups—that, in short, the overriding ethic of Pakistani democracy and resistance movements is secular.
Taibbi, Matt: After the QAnon Ban, Who's Next?
QAnon is crazy, but so is our increasingly arbitrary system of speech controls
Published: 2020
This current system is the worst of all worlds. It's invisible to the public, clearly invites government recommendations on speech, allows a gameable system of anonymous complaints to influence content, and gives awesome power to an unelected, unaccountable body of private media regulators. Whatever the right method is for dealing with dangerous content in the Internet era -- and it’s clear we need a better one -- this isn't it.
Taibbi, Matt: The American Press Is Destroying Itself
Published: 2020
The leaders of this new movement are replacing traditional liberal beliefs about tolerance, free inquiry, and even racial harmony with ideas so toxic and unattractive that they eschew debate, moving straight to shaming, threats, and intimidation. They are counting on the guilt-ridden, self-flagellating nature of traditional American progressives, who will not stand up for themselves, and will walk to the Razor voluntarily. They've conned organization after organization into empowering panels to search out thoughtcrime, and it’s established now that anything can be an offense
Taibbi, Matt: The Dumbest Cover Story Ever
Published: 2024
New York Magazine's "Freedom of Sex" is the ultimate example of the lunatic nihilism that's consumed America's intellectual class
Taibbi, Matt: The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here
Published: 2020
As the Covid-19 crisis progresses, censorship programs advance, amid calls for China-style control of the Internet.
Taibbi, Matt: The New Puritans
Published: 2020
The attack on congressional candidate Alex Morse for consensual sexual relationships is disturbing for many reasons, but mostly because it reveals a new American phobia toward adulthood.
Taibbi, Matt: The New Puritans
Published: 2020
The attack on congressional candidate Alex Morse for consensual sexual relationships is disturbing for many reasons, but mostly because it reveals a new American phobia toward adulthood.
Taibbi, Matt: On 'White Fragility'
Published: 2020
A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1 guide to egghead racialism.
Taibbi, Matt: Planet of the Censoring Humans
Published: 2020
The campaign to remove Michael Moore’s new documentary from the Internet -- led by Moore's erstwhile progressive "allies" -- is a significant advance in the censorship revolution.
Taibbi, Matt: The Reaction to Brexit Is the Reason Brexit Happened
If you believe there's such a thing as "too much democracy," you probably don't believe in democracy at all
Published: 2016
"This isn't democracy; it is Russian roulette for republics," Kenneth Rogoff recently wrote in the 'Boston Globe,' of last week's Brexit vote.
Takahashi, Saul: Japan's post-Fukushima 'secrecy' clampdown
Published: 2013
Japan's secrecy law, just passed by parliament, gives the government carte blanche to designate state secrets - and restrict information about anything it likes.
Tal, Tamar: Life in Stills
Published: 2011
A photo shop owner and her grandson join forces to save the shop and the nearly one million negatives that document Israel's defining moments.
Talberth, John: To Save Our Climate We Need Taller Trees Not Taller Wooden Buildings
Published: 2020
To many of us working at the intersection of forest conservation and climate stability recent opinions and news coverage of proposals to fill our cities with tall wooden buildings presents not a stirring vision of sustainability but a nightmarish scenario of a land base increasingly scarred by clearcuts, logging roads and small diameter tree plantations at a time when climate science insists that reestablishing natural forests and letting them grow much bigger and older is one of humanity's last best hopes to keep climate change from accelerating out of control. To save our climate we need taller trees not taller wooden buildings.
Tang, Alisa: Buoyant thinking for the future
Homes that float could provide a solution for often-flooded regions in Thailand
Published: 2012
Building amphibious homes in Thailand that are designed to weather the annual flooding.
Tanuro, Daniel: Confronting the Ecological Emergency
Published: 2015
In April 2014, two different teams of American glaciologists, specialists in the Antarctic, reached -- by different methods, based on observation -- the same conclusion: because of global warming, a portion of the ice sheet has begun to dislocate, and this dislocation is irreversible.
Tanuro, Daniel: COP21: in spite of the show, the glass is 80% empty
Published: 2015
The COP21 Paris Climate Conference has, as expected, led to an agreement. It will come into effect from 2020 if it is ratified by 55 of the countries which are signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and these 55 countries account for at least 55% of global emissions of greenhouse gases. In the light of the positions taken in Paris, this dual condition should not raise any difficulty (although the non-ratification of Kyoto by the United States shows that surprises are always possible).
Tanuro, Daniel: The IPCC report: Between nightmare and revolution
Published: 2014
Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro says the latest IPCC report has sounded an alarm that we must not ignore. Only radical change can avert climate disaster.
Tarabochia, Milton Lopez: Illegal logging: An organized crime that is destroying Latin American forests
Published: 2018
A recent report indicates that Illegal wood trafficking is the most profitable crime against natural resources, and allows other crimes to flourish, including deforestation, labor exploitation, land invasions, tax evasion, document forgery and state corruption.
Tarrant, Anthony: Extraordinary Violence at 500 Pearl Street
The Sentencing of Jeremy Hammond
Published: 2013
On Friday, November 15, 2013, extreme violence with malicious intent was meted out by Federal District Court Judge Loretta Preska in the sentencing phase of 28 year old hacktivist Jeremy Hammond before a chamber packed with friends, family, supporters and others.
Tasker,John Paul: Quebec First Nations may try to block Algonquin land claim
Published: 2016
The Algonquins of Ontario are one step closer to assuming tens of thousands of acres of their ancestral territory in a historic treaty, but their counterparts in Quebec are vowing legal action to stymie the agreement and delay a deal decades in the making.
Taslima, Nasreen: Bangladesh and the shrinking space for free thinkers: 'Don't call me Muslim, I am an atheist'
Published: 2015
Writer Taslima Nasreen fled Bangladesh in 1994 when extremists threatened to kill her for criticizing Islam, and has been living in exile since. Her country has, in recent times, seen many intellectuals expelled or killed. In this interview, she speaks about the shrinking space for free thinkers in Bangladesh and says that Islam cannot be exempt from the critical scrutiny that other religions undergo.
Tatchell, Peter: Direct Action for Democracy
Published: 1999
Direct action protests are about people taking power for themselves, instead of leaving politics to professional politicians.
Tatchell, Peter: I've changed my mind on the gay cake row. Here's why
Published: 2016
Like most gay and equality campaigners, I initially condemned the Christian-run Ashers Bakery in Belfast over its refusal to produce a cake with a pro-gay marriage slogan for a gay customer, Gareth Lee. I supported his legal claim against Ashers and the subsequent verdict – the bakery was found guilty of discrimination last year. Now, two days before the case goes to appeal, I have changed my mind. Much as I wish to defend the gay community, I also want to defend freedom of conscience, expression and religion.
Tatchell, Peter: Outrageous Campaigners Show Size Isn't Everything
Published: 1992
OutRage! therefore consciously tries to make its protests informative and amusing. It projects it's political message with wit, style, humour and theatricality. Indeed, a typical OutRage! action could be described as "radical theatre of the streets".
Tatchell, Peter: Tatchell's reply: "A new left-wing McCarthyism"
Published: 2016
The future of progressive politics is under threat, again. But this time from the left. Historically, socialists and greens have made gains by building broad alliances around a common goal, such as the campaigns against the poll tax and the bombing of Syria. We united together diverse people who often disagreed on other issues. Through this unity and solidarity, we won. Nowadays, we are witnessing a revival of far 'left' sectarian politics and it is infecting the Green Party too. Zealous activists, seemingly motivated by a desire to be more 'left' and pure than rivals, are putting huge energy into fighting and dragging down other campaigners.
Tatchell, Peter: What About a Right of Reply?
Published: 1998
Concern about press intrusion is overshadowing the need for a 'right of reply' to redress inaccurate and inflammatory reporting.
Tatour, Lana: This isn't a civil war, it is settler-colonial brutality
Published: 2021
We are not seeing a "civil war" inside Israel, but rather the Israeli settler state declaring a war on its colonized "citizens," and Palestinians fighting for their liberation.
Tattrie, Jon: How the tiny fishing village of Pugwash tried to stop a nuclear war
Published: 2017
The Pugwash Conference in Nova Scotia, a gathering of leading scientists to help thwart nuclear war, is the inspiration for a new play by Vern Thiessen.
Tavares, Flavia: Brazil: Journalist Evany José Metzker Murdered While Investigating Drugs and Child Exploitation in Minas Gerais
Published: 2015
Tavris, Carol: The High Cost of Skepticism
What happened to two scientists who believed that tenure and First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry
Published: 2002
Here’s what happened to two scientists who believed that tenure and the First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry.
Taylor Simmons: Discarded Christmas trees used to restore creeks and streams, protect fish in Halton
Trees rebuild banks in creeks, streams in order to reduce warming of the water
Published: 2019
In Halton, discarded Christmas trees are used to restore and protect wildlife in creeks and streams.
Taylor, A.J.P.: A.J.P. Taylor Quotes
Taylor, Astra: Why Do We Expose Ourselves?
Published: 2016
Among critics of technological surveillance, there are two allusions so commonplace they have crossed into the realm of cliché. One, as you have probably already guessed, is George Orwell's Big Brother, from 1984. The other is Michel Foucault’s panopticon -- a vision, adapted from Jeremy Bentham, of a prison in which captives cannot tell if or when they are being watched. Today, both of these touchstones are considered chillingly prophetic. But in Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age, Bernard Harcourt has another suggestion: Both of them are insufficient.
Taylor, Ellen: Does National Security Trump the Blue Whale?
Navy Mischief in the Pacific
Published: 2014
Taylor, Guy: Trans-Canada sues US for $15 billion over KXL refusal
Published: 2015
The US government is being sued for $15 billion for its cancellation of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline last year in order to combat climate change. The legal challenge under NAFTA sends a warning to all countries contemplating similar 'free trade' agreements.
Taylor, Guy; Dearden, Nick: TTIP is on the rocks. Let's defeat these toxic trade deals!
Published: 2016
The TTIP EU-US trade deal has finally hit the rocks with massive popular opposition on both sides of the Atlantic gaining serious political traction. There's now a good chance that TTIP will be defeated - but first we must make sure that CETA, the equally toxic EU-Canada 'Trojan Horse' deal, bites the dust.
Taylor, John Doug: Toronto's Spadina Ave. when it was a quiet rural location
Published: 2013
Taylor, Jonathan: Apathy and Our Totalitarian Future
Watching Everything, Everywhere, All the Time
Published: 2013
The implication of the NSA scandal is this: encroaching totalitarianism can move slowly, in stages.
Taylor, Matthew: English Defence League: new wave of extremists plotting summer of unrest
Growth of anti-Muslim group raises fears of street violence
Published: 2010
A profile of the supporters and the protests of the English Defence League, a right wing anti-Islam group of mostly white, young British men, many of them mobilized through their soccer clubs.
Taylor, Matthew; Hopkins, Nick; Kiss, Jemima: NSA surveillance may cause breakup of internet, warn experts
Published: 2013
Internet specialists highlight moves by Brazil, Germany and India towards creating separate networks in order to block spying.
Taylor, Maureen: Dying at home: What I learned from my husband’s death
Published: 2017
A physician assistant reflects on the palliative care industry and the death of her husband. People need more information on the reality of death to be prepared to help loved ones die at home.
Taylor, Peter: Lies, Truth and Unwaged Housework
Even as capital was moving to consolidate its rule in its interest-bearing form, women in the International Wages for Housework Campaign were already "making visible the stratum at the bottom of the hierarchy of labour-powers - the housewife - to which there corresponds no wage at all". This unwaged labour of housewives is the fundamental source of the surplus-value accumulated by interest-bearing capital. Of course, patriarchy predates capitalism. And from its beginning, capital has exploited this power of men over women.
Tecumseh: Tecumseh Quotes
Teitel, Emma: The leaders of the American Womens March have spoken: Jews are unwelcome on the feminist left
Published: 2018
Columnist Emma Teitel draws attention to the problematic relationship between US Women's March organizers and antisemetic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Telbis, Rozali: Lawsuit Against Google Highlights Mining of Student Data
Published: 2014
Children have become lucrative targets for data mining companies, according to a study by Politico magazine. Just weeks after Google settled a lawsuit for selling student data for advertising, the publication revealed an entire industry devoted to marketing data gathered from Internet applications offered to students and their teachers. Many modern software companies offer free tools to everyone like email, games and search engines that come with strings attached. Google is perhaps the best known because it offers students an entire suite of applications from calendars to chat services and data storage. In return the company has made money by selling personal information gleaned from users for targeted advertising.
Telbis, Rozali: Lawsuit Against Google Highlights Mining of Student Data
Published: 2014
Children have become lucrative targets for data mining companies, according to a study by Politico magazine. Just weeks after Google settled a lawsuit for selling student data for advertising, the publication revealed an entire industry devoted to marketing data gathered from Internet applications offered to students and their teachers.
teleSUR: Argentina Replaces Columbus Statue with Indigenous Heroine
Published: 2015
Bolivian President Evo Morales’ visit to his Argentina counterpart Cristina Fernandez Wednesday will focus not only on bilateral agreements between the two nations, but also South America's independence history. The two South American leaders will inaugurate a monument to independence heroine and South American guerrilla military leader Juana Azurduy. The 15-meter high (52 feet) bronze statue has been erected outside the presidential palace in Buenos Aires in the place that a monument to Christopher Columbus once stood.
Tell , Shawgi: Charter Schools Increase Fraud, Corruption, Chaos, and Anarchy
Published: 2016
Charter schools, which barely make up seven percent of U.S. schools, are often accused of taking all the antisocial, antipublic, and antipeople practices of medieval autocrats and opportunuties to new extremes. Shawgi Tell looks into the issue of privatization of education that will intensify in the months ahead.
Tello, Carlos: Tsleil-Waututh First Nation rejects Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion
Published: 2015
Kinder Morgan's pipeline project proposes almost 1,000 kilometres of new pipeline to carry diluted bitumen from Edmonton to Burnaby. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation announced that the project would not be allowed to proceed on the Nation's territory. It also released a scathing report on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion, outlining the project's risks to health and environment.
Tello,Carlos: Canada more at risk from environmentalists than religiously inspired terrorists: RCMP
Published: 2014
Recent RCMP report warns that Canada's energy sector is more at risk from domestic environmental extremists than from religiously inspired terrorist organizations like Al Qaida and ISIS.
Tennyson: Tennyson Quotes
Terkel, Studs: Studs Terkel Quotes
Thanki, Nathan; Nacpil, Lidy; Rehma, Asad: A Call For A Fair Shares Agreement: Will Justice Prevail in Paris?
Published: 2015
For most people the word justice conjures up images of superheroes and supreme courts. It seems a grand notion with little bearing on the practicalities of daily life. And when applied to the climate crisis it seems even less comprehensible. But the shocking thing about climate justice is that not only can it be calculated -- it can be achieved.
The Ecologist: Arboricide in Palestine - olive orchard destroyed
Published: 2015
Israeli settlers in Palestine's South Hebron Hills last week cut down an orchard of 36 olive trees, in the latest attack of a decades-long war against Palestinian culture and survival in which has seen the cutting, burning and bulldozing of over a million olive, fruit and nut trees.
The Ecologist: Impacts of mass coral die-off on Indian Ocean reefs revealed
Warming sea waters - caused by climate change and extreme climatic events - threaten the stability of tropical coral reefs, with potentially
Published: 2017
New research by the University of Exeter shows that increased surface ocean temperatures during the strong 2016 El Niño led to a major coral die-off event in the Maldives, and that this has caused reef growth rates to collapse. They also found that the rates at which some reefs species, in particular parrotfish, are eroding the reefs had increased following this coral die-off event.
The Ecologist: UK exporting 67% of plastic waste amid 'illegal practices' warnings
Published: 2017
Britain's trade in waste plastic to the Far East is booming. The exported plastic is meant to be recycled under UK conditions and standards, but often is not, undermining bona fide UK recycling firms who face falling prices, reduced turnover, collapsing profits, and all too often, closure.
The Editors: Gun Control: Carnage in Context
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
What "the right to bear arms" means today is murkier in a society which is profoundly unorganized, exceptionally violent, highly racist, and with desperately inadequate care for the mentally ill.
The Editors: More Gridlock -- Or Worse?
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
The corporate austerity offensive, which — despite all the complexities and frictions caused by partisan warfare and elements of political gridlock — is creating an ever more brutally unequal and unfair society.
The Editors: The Next Four Years
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
Regarding the 2012 American Presidential election.
The Editors: Over the Climate Cliff
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
Grassroots activism must step up to solve the climate crisis, because capitalism is intrinsically unable to do so.
The Editors: Supreme Court Storm Clouds
Against The Current vol. 160
Published: 2012
Editorial regarding the politics surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court and its position for the coming 2012 election.
The Editors: The War on Women--And Us All
Against The Current vol. 158
Published: 2012
The war on women’s reproductive rights is being fought in the U.S. Congress, in state legislatures and in the courts, and played out in the media. This war seeks to restrict women’s ability to control their reproductive lives — with each law more outrageous than the last — under the excuse that they are “protecting the unborn.”
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption
Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens
Published: 2016
A massive leak of documents exposes the offshore holdings of current and former world leaders, politicians , public officials, and wealthy individuals around the world.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: The Highlights of "ChinaLeaks"
Published: 2014
Reports by ICIJ and its partners revealing the secretive offshore holdings of China’s political and financial elite have generated a global wave of media coverage and an aggressive censorship campaign by Chinese authorities. These are some of the highlights of a worldwide selection of the original reports and ensuing media coverage.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Key findings: The Panama Papers by the numbers
Published: 2016
The largest cross-border journalism collaboration ever has uncovered a giant leak of documents from Mossack Fonseca, a global law firm based in Panama.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Panama Papers: The Power Players
Published: 2016
This interactive presentation produced by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) explores the stories behind the use of offshore companies of politicians and their relatives and associates -- more than 100 in all. Among them are 12 current or former country leaders and 33 other politicians and public officials with direct connections to structures in tax havens. Their names appeared inside a cache of 11.5 million leaked files from Panama's Mossack Fonseca, one of the biggest offshore service providers.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Stairway to Tax Heaven
Published: 2016
A news role-play game featuring three fictitious characters: Juan Penalti (Soccer Player), Polly Tissien (Politician) and Edmund von Kronen (Business Executive). Welcome to the secret world of offshore. Your goal is to navigate this parallel universe and hide your cash away. Don’t worry! Lawyers, wealth managers and bankers are there to help you. Pick a character and don't get caught.
The Left Opposition Collective: Manifesto
10 Theses of the Leftist Opposition in Ukraine
Published: 2014
Replacing one set of politicians and oligarchs with another without overall systemic changes will not improve Ukrainian's lives. Instead, the Left Opposition Collective, a group of social and union activists, is proposing ten basic conditions for overcoming the economic crisis and ensuring Ukraine’s future growth.
The School of Authentic Journalism: Gary Webb "It Was Outrageous But It Was True"
Published: 2014
Part one in a series featuring Gary Webb in his own words. The interview was conducted and filmed by the Guerrilla News Network, scholars, and professors at the 2003 School of Authentic Journalism.
The undersigned: Scientists Write: EPA, Ban 'Agent Orange' Herbicide Mix and GMO Crops!
Published: 2014
Thirty-five distinguished scientists urge the US-EPA not to register new mixtures of the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate, intended for use on herbicide-tolerant GMO crops. Approval of the herbicide mixtures would endanger both human and environmental health.
Thieme, Richard: My Last Talk with Gary Webb
"I Knew It Was the Truth and That's What Kept Me Going"
Published: 2014
The 'Dark Alliance' series in the Mercury News came under fire by other news organizations, and the paper’s own investigation concluded the series did not meet its standards. Mr. Webb resigned a year and a half after the series appeared in the paper. He then published his book, 'Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.'
Thiranagama, Sharika: "I have been there before" - For Sri Lankan Christians like me, the Easter attacks revived old
Published: 2019
A personal narrative about the complicated politics of language, ethnicity, and religion in Sri Lanka in the wake of the Easter bombings.
Thomas, Julia Adeney: Why the Anthropocene is not 'climate change' - and why that matters
Published: 2019
Reducing our current predicament to combatting climate change, or even narrower, reducing CO2 emissions fails to show the big picture of how humans have changed the planet. To contend with the Anthropocene we need to get rid of one-dimensional thinking of climate change.
Thomas, Mark L: Humans will be remembered for leaving a 'plastic planet'
Published: 2016
Thomas-Bailey, Carlene: Is 'urban fiction' defined by its subject – or the skin colour of its author?
Black writers see 'urban fiction' as ghettoising their work.
Published: 2011
Why are black authors of urban fiction treated differently from white novelists of the same material? Carlene Thomas-Bailey speaks to self-published black authors in the US who complain of 'seg-book-gation'
Thompson, Elizabeth: Billions of litres of raw sewage, untreated waste water pouring into Canadian waterways
Conservatives introduced new rules in 2012, but problem was actually worse last year
Published: 2016
More than 205 billion litres of raw sewage and untreated waste water spewed into Canada's rivers and oceans last year, CBC News has learned, despite federal regulations introduced in 2012 to try to solve the problem.
Thompson, Frank: Looking Back and Forward at Cuba - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 158
Published: 2012
Samuel Farber's book Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment takes its place among definitive works on Cuba alongside Hugh Thomas’s monumental 1971 Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom (1971), which (in 1700+ pages!) surveyed the island from its prehistory until the early period of The Triumph of The Revolution.
Thompson, Helen: It's not just the bees! 'Neonic' pesticides linked to bird declines
The higher the imidacloprid concentration the more severely the bird populations dropped.
Published: 2014
A study published today in Nature shows a strong correlation between concentrations of a popular neonicotinoid pesticide in water, and bird declines. Regulators are under pressure to tighten up, but the industry still claims there's 'no substantiated evidence'.
Thompson, Juan: Mississippi Family Faces Jail Time for Cheering at High School Graduation
Published: 2015
When Ursula Miller attended her niece's high school graduation from Senatobia High School in northwestern Mississippi last month, she didn't expect to leave with an arrest warrant. But in a prime example of excessesive criminalization, Miller and three others were charged with disorderly conduct for cheering on their relatives during the ceremony held at Northwest Mississippi Community College.
Thompson, Juan: Rising Up Against Police Violence, From the Black Panthers to #BlackLivesMatter
Published: 2015
I turned away more than once while watching Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. I averted my eyes from the screen when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's nefarious mug first appeared. I turned away once more when the charismatic and admirable Fred Hampton was first shown, knowing that eventually he would be murdered by Chicago police and federal agents.
Thompson, Matt: Tabloids do not represent the working class
Published: 2017
It should come as little surprise that media owned and run by unscrupulous billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Desmond should be more concerned with protecting the party of big business than it is with the wellbeing or interests of working class people. We need to call out the tabloid media for what it is – run by and for the elites.
Thompson, Michael S.: Urban Honey
Published: 2009
In the winter of 2003, three Chicago beekeepers joined forces to create a bee farm on the former Sears-Roebuck property right in the heart of our city. We abut an old railroad embankment wall with both prairie remnant and concrete in equal amounts.
Thompson, Mitchell: Rainbow Capital, Queerness, and Black Lives Matter's Shocking Reformism
Published: 2016
Though I support BLM’s policy goals and shock-tactics, their lack of analysis of the forces behind the oppression of Black and other people seems to put them in an awkward place. Their use of shock tactics makes them too radical for the reformists, while their emphasis on piece-meal reforms and little else alienates the radicals. It puts them in a kind of activist nether-space that makes unity difficult.
Thompson, Tony: Political activists call for inquiry after revelations about undercover police
Published: 2010
Protest groups that were targeted by infiltrators plan legal action to obtain access to police files after disclosures by Officer A.
Thoreau, H.D.: H.D. Thoreau Quotes
Thorkelson, Erika: DFO Library Closures Anger Scientific Community
Published: 2014
When word first broke that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans was closing seven of their libraries, government officials promised that there would be no loss of vital historical material. Today many are skeptical of those claims.
Thorkelson, Erika: Loss of Librarians Devastating to Science and Knowledge in Canada
Published: 2014
The closure of federal libraries and loss of specialized librarians impacts negatively on the state of science and knowledge in Canada.
Thorpe, Tim: Seaspiracy
Closing the net on industrial fishing
Published: 2021
A review of Seaspiracy; the film lifts the lid on the fishing industry, described as secretive and corrupt. Seaspiracy scrutinizes ocean conservation groups like Marine Stewardship Council and the Earth Island Institute are complicit in the fishing industry, and educates viewers on the complex relationships found in ocean food chains.
Thorstad, David: LGBT: a Dissection
Published: 2016
"LGBT" is everywhere these days. But is it here to stay, or is it a passing fad? Where did it come from? Why was it promoted? By whom? And to what end? How did it acquire its seemingly endless variants? The acronym, in its many permutations, designates a movement very different from the gay liberation movement it evolved from. Some might see it as progress, expansion, and greater inclusivity, others as a tombstone for what was once a radical sexual liberation movement.
Thorsteinsson, Vidar: Iceland's Revolution
Published: 2016
After its financial crisis, Iceland put bankers in jail. But it didn't rein in capital. In reality the responses to the 2008–9 Icelandic banking crash were only modestly progressive and failed to bring about any kind of shift to the left. They have also been much more contested locally than most international media accounts reflect.
Thpmpson, Ryan E.: The everlasting effects of homophobia and why it's not just gay people that suffer
Published: 2017
A journalist's personal story about combatting homophobia.
Threlkeld, Simon: Why America's Judges Should be Chosen by Citizen Juries
Published: 2016
Judges should not be chosen by popular vote, nor by politicians. Both approaches are undemocratic and deeply flawed, perhaps even absurd, despite the fact that the former is in widespread use at the state level, and the latter has always been used at the federal level (in the form of appointment by the President and confirmation by the Senate). A far better option is for judges to be chosen by juries drawn from the public by random selection.
Tickell, Josh; Tickell, Rebecca Harrell: Kiss the Ground
Published: 2020
Delving into the impact of regenerating the Earth's soil quality and its impact on climate, ecosystems, and food sustainability. Featuring environmental activists, scientists, and celebrities.
Tickell, Oliver: Fracking kills newborn babies - polluted water likely cause
Published: 2017
A new study in Pennsylvania, USA shows that fracking is strongly related to increased mortality in young babies. The effect is most pronounced in counties with many drinking water wells indicating that contamination by 'produced water' from fracking is a likely cause. Radioactive pollution with uranium, thorium and radium is a 'plausible explanation' for the excess deaths.
Tickell, Oliver: Gaza - is annexation Israel's 'permanent solution'?
The real estate of Gaza would be an additional boon - and a highly valuable one, releasing 365 square kilometres of prime development land,
Published: 2014
As Israel pursues its war on Gaza with ever-increasing ferocity, and with 25% of Gaza's people forced from their homes, what's the final objective? It's unthinkable that Israel's aim is to 'cleanse' the territory of its people, seize its vast gas reserves, and annex some of the Med's hottest real estate. Isn't it?
Tickell, Oliver: Gaza wrecked by storm, floods, acute cold, sewage overflows and power cuts
Published: 2013
The UN has described the Gaza Strip as a 'disaster area' following the onslaught of Storm Alexa and called on the international community to lift the blockade and allow recovery efforts to proceed.
Tickell, Oliver: Leaked TTIP papers reveal 100% corporate sellout
Published: 2016
Secret documents leaked to Greenpeace from the EU-US TTIP negotiations show that environmental protection, climate change mitigation, consumer protection, public health and sustainability are sacrificed throughout to corporate profit and commercial interests.
Tickell, Oliver: Let England's wild beavers be!
Published: 2014
A family of wild of beavers has established on an English river for the first time since Henry VIII. But now the Government has decided to trap them and consign them to captivity in a zoo or wildlife centre. Defenders of wilderness are now demanding: keep our wild beavers free!
Tickell, Oliver: New GMOs are 'not GM' -- EU folds under US pressure
Published: 2016
The EU Commission has caved in to US pressure in TTIP trade talks by deciding to consider organisms modified by new "gene editing" techniques as non-GM -- in violation of the EU's own laws. The move could make the 'new GMOs' exempt from labeling and from health and environmental testing.
Tickell, Oliver: Nigerian farmers face destitution from 300 sq.km land grab backed by UK aid
Published: 2015
Farmers in Nigeria's north eastern state of Taraba are being forced off lands they have farmed for generations to make way for US company Dominion Farms to establish a 300 square kilometre rice plantation.
Tickell, Oliver: Pandora's box: how GM mosquitos could have caused Brazil's microcephaly disaster
Published: 2016
In Brazil's microcephaly epidemic, one vital question remains unanswered: how did the Zika virus suddenly learn how to disrupt the development of human embryos? The answer may lie in a sequence of 'jumping DNA' used to engineer the virus's mosquito vector - and released into the wild four years ago in the precise area of Brazil where the microcephaly crisis is most acute.
Tickell, Oliver: Peru: Amazon tribes sacrificed to gas project
Published: 2014
Peru has approved the highly controversial expansion of the Camisea gas project onto the land of isolated Amazon tribes - who will be put at risk of a massive death toll or extinction from introduced diseases.
Tickell, Oliver: Romania faces $2.56bn claim for failed gold mine
Published: 2015
Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources is seeking over $2.5 billion damages from Romania after it rejected a vast gold mine at Rosia Montana.
Tickell, Oliver: Russian aggression and the BBC's drums of nuclear war
Published: 2015
The drums of war are beating on the BBC and other mass media, writes Oliver Tickell -- naked propaganda about fictitious 'Russian aggression' intended to soften us up for a war that could wipe out life on Earth. We must refuse to fall for the endlessly repeated lies, and tell our politicians that our highest priority of all is peace.
Tickell, Oliver: 'Shooting to Kill:' Operation Get Corbyn
Published: 2015
As David Cameron talks tough on shooting terrorists on Britain's streets, bombing Syria, shooting off nuclear weapons at unnamed enemies, over half of the Labour Party's MPs in the House of Commons gaze in admiration, open mouthed, wondering why their leader couldn't be more like that.
Tickell, Oliver: Tea Party's fake protestors for Big Sugar against Florida Everglades
Published: 2015
The Tea Party of Miami put up a convincing demo last week to oppose a 'land grab' that would see 46,000 acres of sugar farm land restored for Everglades conservation. Just one problem - the 'protestors' were actors each being paid $75 for the two-hour shift.
Tickell,Oliver: Mayday, Mayday - Tesla's battery just killed fossil and nuclear power
Published: 2015
Tesla Energy's new mains power battery has just transformed the energy market - giving a huge boost to small scale renewable energy and killing off both fossil fuelled and nuclear power in the process.
Tickell,Oliver: Reclaim the Power! Climate protestors rout security with UK-wide fossil fuel strikes
Published: 2015
The fossil fuel industry and its political backers have been left reeling by an unprecedented series of direct action strikes against targets across the country to protest at continuing investment in and official support for fossil fuels, inaction over fuel poverty and the systematic neglect of renewable energy despite the global climate emergency.
Ticktin, Hillel: Accumulation and Control of Labor
Published: 1999
Bob Brenner has written a book that is clearly important and I respect him for tackling the issues and working on them so assiduously. His work is clear and I have found it very useful in clarifying my ideas but I find it hard to agree with it.
Ticktin, Hillel; Weissman, Susan: Russia's Crisis: Capitalism in Question
Published: 1998
THE ECONOMIC CRISIS in Russia is a trigger for the world-wide decline in stock markets and currencies rather than its cause. Russia has been in a sharp economic crisis for a decade, since Gorbachev passed the Law on the State Enterprise, which first introduced market disciplines to the USSR. On the other side, the world is in a supply glut with too many products and not enough buyers. The Russian debt default looks like the first of a number to come.
Tieleman, Bill: Harper's Rule Breaking Rush to Crush Unions
Published: 2015
Is there anything more undemocratic than Canada's most tainted organization -- the Conservative-controlled Senate -- breaking its rules and then overturning its own Conservative Speaker's ruling, all to hurriedly impose anti-union legislation before the federal election? That's what happened last week with Bill C-377, an odious private members' bill shepherded from beginning to end by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's own office, passed by Parliament's Conservative majority and sent to the Senate for approval.
Tierney, Ciaran: Journeying to freedom in a closed-off world
Published: 2020
Palestinians know only too well what it’s like to be under lockdown or prevented from traveling, hemmed in by walls, checkpoints and bureaucracy, themes Qumsiyeh tackles in Walled Citizen.
Tillotson, Louise: Jamaica's Culture of Fear Allows Police to Get Away With Murder
Published: 2016
In the past decade, the Caribbean island nation's police have killed more than 2,000 people - until recently an average of four people every single week, mostly young men in inner-city, marginalized communities.
Timberg, Scott: David Bowie, rock star groupies and the sexually adventurous '70s: "Labeling us as victims in retrospect is not a very conscious thing to do"
Published: 2016
Salon speaks to sexologist Carol Queen about the shifts in morality around an era of sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll.
Timm, Trevor: The Government Is Trying to Make It Impossible For Reality Winner to Defend Herself in Court
Published: 2017
The Justice Department is engaged in a multi-pronged effort to hamstring Reality Winner's defense against charges of violating the Espionage Act behind cumbersome classification rules.
Timm, Trevor: The government just admitted it will use smart home devices for spying
Published: 2016
Many consumers are wholly unaware that the smart devices making their home more custom and responsive are making data that can be hacked or collected.
Timperley, Jocelyn: The Challenge of Defining Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Published: 2017
An examination of the ways fossil fuel subsidies are measured and why semantic arguments over definitions may be missing the point.
Tirado, M. Jose: The Rise of Fascism in Greece
Waiting is Not an Option
Published: 2012
In Germany, Spain and Italy (and elsewhere) in the early 1930s during those troubled times, unemployment was high, Left alternatives were weak, resentment against others oozed in the streets, and terrible insecurities pushed nominally good people, the middle classes, into supporting the forces of hatred and nationalistic fervour.
Tisdale, Sallie: Catechism of the Waters
Species in conflict on the Columbia River
Published: 2019
In September, commercial fisheries for salmon and sardines throughout the West Coast states were granted disaster relief. But over the past ten years, much of the damage has been done by sea lions.
Tisdall, Simon: Filipino women take lead in resolving Mindanao conflict
Published: 2013
Teresita Quintos Deles and Miriam Coronel Ferrer won over Islamic leaders who initially balked at dealing with women.
Tisdall, Simon: Silent blight in a countryside of empty homes and shut shops
Published: 2015
Young people are leaving rural areas of Europe for the cities at a time when birth rates are at historic lows. As the countryside empties, should rising immigration be seen as a solution, not a problem?
Todenhöfer, Jürgen: I know Isis fighters. Western bombs falling on Raqqa will fill them with joy
Published: 2015
Militants in Syria dream of a big showdown with the US and Europe. There are other ways to defeat them.
Todhuner, Colin: Monsanto: Contamination By All Means Necessary
Published: 2013
What happens when you allow commercial interests free rein over a nation state's food and agricultural policies? Consumers and farmers end up paying the price.
Todhunter, Colin: Arms, agribusiness, finance and fossil fuels: the four horsemen of the neoliberal Apocalypse
Published: 2016
The world is in the grip of a structural war against people, land, economies and ecosystems, writes Colin Todhunter. It is being waged by a quartet of organised criminal interests bent on monopolizing energy, money, food and violence across the globe. But a deep-rooted resistance against their 'neoliberal' doctrine of death and destruction is fighting back.
Todhunter, Colin: Beware the GMO Trojan horse! Indian food and farming are under attack
Published: 2016
Global oilseed, agribusiness and biotech corporations are engaged in a long term attack on India's local cooking oil producers. In just 20 years they have reduced India from self-sufficiency in cooking oil to importing half its needs. Now the government's unlawful attempts to impose GM mustard seed threaten to wipe out a crop at the root of Indian food and farming traditions.
Todhunter, Colin: Bt Cotton: Cultivating Farmer Distress in India
Published: 2020
To date, cotton is the only officially sanctioned GM crop in India. Those pushing for GM food crops (including the government) are forwarding the narrative that GM pest resistant Bt cotton has been a tremendous success which should now be emulated with the introduction of GM mustard. Ever since its commercialisation in 2002, however, the issue of Bt cotton in India has been a hotly contested issue. Bt cotton hybrids now cover over 95% of the area under cotton and the seeds are produced by the private sector. But critics argue that Bt cotton has negatively impacted livelihoods and fuelled agrarian distress and farmer suicides.
Todhunter, Colin: The Case Against Glyphosate
Published: 2016
On 13 April, 2016, the EU Parliament called on the European Commission to restrict certain permitted uses of the toxic herbicide glyphosate, best known in Monsanto's Roundup formulation.
Todhunter, Colin: Countering Pro-GMO Deceptions in the British Press
Published: 2016
In his recent piece for The Times newspaper in the UK, Viscount Matt Ridley argues that a new report from the American National Academies of Sciences (NAS) leaves no room for doubt that genetically engineered crops are as safe or safer, and are certainly better for the environment, than conventionally bred crops.
Todhunter, Colin: The Crusade in Favor of GMO: Falsehoods and Vilification Will Not Fool the Public
Published: 2016
Pro-GMO campaigners often attack critics of the technology by claiming their negative views of it emanate from well-funded environmentalist groups or commercial interests in the organic food sector. The assertion is that such bodies promote falsehoods and scaremongering about GM to protect their own interests and that the GMO agritech sector has fallen victim to this.
Todhunter, Colin: Entrenching Capitalist Agriculture in India Under the Guise of Development
Published: 2016
A criticism of the efforts by the IMF and World Bank to change India's agricultural system and its impact on the Indian economy and populace.
Todhunter, Colin: Forget The Propaganda From Big Agritech, The Key To Reducing Poverty And Ensuring Food Security Lies With Small Farmers
Small farms produce most of the world's food
Published: 2014
A new review carried out by the organization GRAIN reveals that small farms produce most of the world’s food. However, they are currently squeezed onto less than a quarter of the world’s farmland. The world is fast losing farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands of the rich and powerful. If we do nothing to reverse this trend, the world will lose its capacity to feed itself.
Todhunter, Colin: From Albrecht to Monsanto: A System Not Run for the Public Good Can Never Serve the Public Good
Published: 2016
Todhunter, Colin: From the Green Revolution to GMOs: Toxic Agriculture Is the Problem Not the Solution
Published: 2019
The pesticide industry lobbies governments to allow chemicals that have long been known to be harmful.
Todhunter, Colin: Global Agribusiness, Dependency and the Marginalisation of Self-Sufficiency, Organic Farming and Agroecology
Published: 2016
Is organic-based farming merely a niche model of agriculture that is not capable of feeding the global population? Or does it have a major role to play? In addressing these questions, it would be useful to consider a selection of relevant literature to see what it says about the role of organic farming, how this model of agriculture impacts farmers and whether or not it can actually feed the global population.
Todhunter, Colin: GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice
Published: 2018
One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies, including GM crops. But GM agriculture is not 'feeding the world', nor has it been designed to do so. The choice for farmers between a technology based on broken promises and conventional non-GMO agriculture is no choice at all.
Todhunter, Colin: Import and Die: Self-Sufficiency and Food Security in India
Published: 2017
While there are clear signs that India needs to achieve greater food self-sufficiency, there is also a World Bank-backed agenda for the future of India where the majority of farmers don't have much of a role.
Todhunter, Colin: Journalism, Pro-GMO Triumphalism and Neoliberal Dogma In India
Published: 2016
Todhunter, Colin: "Lies, Lies and More Lies" - GMOs, Poisoned Agriculture and Toxic Rants
Published: 2016
As as been well documented, it is the pro-GMO lobby/industry that distorts and censors science, captures regulatory bodies, attacks scientists whose findings are unpalatable to the industry and bypasses proper scientific and regulatory procedures altogether.
Todhunter, Colin: Offering Choice But Delivering Tyranny: the Corporate Capture of Agriculture
Published: 2019
Proponents of genetically modified seeds say they are opening up 'choice' to farmers and consumers but end up giving monopolies to powerful corporations with proprietary agricultural tools and methods. This lessens environmental and dietary health and diversity.
Todhunter, Colin: Philanthropic colonialism: embedding agribusiness and GMOs into African agriculture
Published: 2016
Perhaps all the 'do gooders' busy forcing industrial models of agriculture onto poor but independent African farmers really do think they are helping them. But if so they are deeply deluded. All they will achieve is the takeover of export-oriented agribusiness and GMOs, the destruction of agroecological farming systems, and a future of debt and landlessness.
Todhunter, Colin: Politics on the Plate: Mob Wives, GMOs and Salt
Published: 2016
How can we broaden our movement to appeal to and involve the majority of people out there who do not seem to be aware, do not seem to care or are just too apathetic?
Todhunter, Colin: The Scourge of Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience
Published: 2020
Questionable science is being used to pursue policies that are essentially 'unscientific' - governments, the policy and the corporate media have become the arbiters of 'truth'.
Todhunter, Colin: The Seeds of Agroecology and Common Ownership
Published: 2017
A political-economical critique of modern agriculture and the urgent need to establish societies run for the benefit of the mass of the population, as well as a system of food and agriculture that is more democratically owned and controlled.
Todhunter, Colin: The Seeds of Spin: Decoding Pro-GMO Lies and Falsehoods
Published: 2016
If you are in some way critical of genetically modified food and agriculture or have some concerns that remain unaddressed, here is a brief interpretive (satirical) guide for navigating the seedy world of pro-GMO spin.
Todhunter, Colin: Spearheading the Neo-liberal Plunder of African Agriculture
Published: 2016
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is dangerously and unaccountably distorting the direction of international development, according to a new report by the campaign group Global Justice Now. With assets of $43.5 billion, the BMGF is the largest charitable foundation in the world. It actually distributes more aid for global health than any government. As a result, it has a major influence on issues of global health and agriculture.
Todhunter, Colin: The Stomach-churning Violence of Monsanto, Bayer and the Argrochemical Oligopoly
Published: 2017
Companies like Monsanto, Bayer and Syngenta, which make up the oligopoly that controls an increasingly globalised system of modern food and agriculture, have successfully instituted the notion that the mass application of biocides, monocropping and industrial agriculture are necessary and desirable.
Todhunter, Colin: Unmasking The GMO Humanitarian Narrative
Published: 2015
Genetically modified (GM) crops are going to feed the world. Not only that, supporters of GM technology say it will produce better yields than non-GM crops, increase farmers' incomes, lead to less chemical inputs, be better suited to climatic changes, is safe for human consumption and will save the lives of millions. Sections of the pro-GMO lobby are modern-day evangelists who denounce, often with a hefty dose of bigoted zeal, anyone who questions their claims and self-proclaimed humanitarian motives.
Todhunter, Colin: When Will Co-opted Figures and Board Members Be Hauled into Court?
Published: 2017
They promote the message that their products are essential to our survival. They promote a fundamentally ecologically, socially and economically damaging model of agriculture facilitated by Washington, the World Trade Organization, World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
Todhunter, Colion: The tremendous success of agroecology in Africa
Published: 2015
A quiet revolution has been working its way across Africa. Agroecological farming, constantly adapting to local needs, customs, soils and climates, has been improving nutrition, reducing poverty, combatting climate change, and enriching farmland.
Tokar, Brian: COP21, Paris: 'Another world is possible, necessary and urgent'
Published: 2015
The greatest danger of the Paris conference is that the global South will be bullied into to accepting a terrible deal rather than leave with none at all. That gives civil society an essential role - to support the resistance of developing country representatives inside the summit to an unjust and ineffective agreement imposed on them by the rich, powerful, high-emitting nations.
Tokar, Brian: Humans are not the problem: Reflections on a "useless" documentary
Published: 2020
With nearly everyone trapped at home for the fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day, Michael Moore released a film that picks apart the US environmental movement as it may have looked ten years ago, and then misleadingly presents it as breaking news.
Tokar, Brian: Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype?
Published: 2015
It has become a predictable pattern at the annual UN climate conferences for participants to describe the outcome in widely divergent ways.
Tokar, Brian: The Myths of 'Green Capitalism'
A system based on the accumulation of capital without restraint will require unsustainable growth, however cleverly we measure our ecologica
Published: 2014
Environmental politics in the U.S. appears hopelessly polarized. Liberals and progressives try to sustain and occasionally strengthen environmental legislation, while those on the right are unalterably opposed, even seeking to defund core institutions such as the EPA.
Tokumitsu, Miya: Forced to Love the Grind
Passion is the new workplace requirement - and one that should be resisted
Published: 2015
In this world, legendary figures are the ones who remain in the office for one hundred hours straight, working through their children's musical recitals and 104-degree fevers. The idea is that workers become superhuman through the refusal of self-care. This phenomenon isn't merely depressing; it's outright dangerous.
Tolson, Michelle: Healing the Dark Legacy of Native American Families
Published: 2014
Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) - educational issues among indigenous families.
Tong, Traci: U.S. Coast Guard operating secret floating prisons in Pacific Ocean
Published: 2017
In the war on drugs, the U.S. Coast Guard is reportedly turning its cutter ships into floating prisons.
Topol, Sarah A.: Sons and Daughters
The village where girls turn into boys
Published: 2017
An account of an isolated village in the southwestern Dominican Republic where children who are seemingly born female become male later in their childood; such cases are so prevalent in the village that it is no longer considered abnormal.
Topping, Alexandra: Campaign to Halt Female Genital Mutilation tops 150,000 Signatures
Published: 2014
Guardian-backed campaign calls on Education Secretary Michael Gove to launch initiative to protect girls from being mutilated.
Topping, Alexandra: Universities Being Used as Proxy Border Police, Say Academics
Published: 2014
More than 160 academics have written to the Guardian to protest at being used as an extension of the UK border police, after universities have come under more pressure to check the immigration details of students.
Topple, Steve: An ordinary Labour member just gave the most moving speech of the party conference so far
Published: 2017
An ordinary member's speech to the Labour Party conference left the audience stunned. And it's one that everyone needs to hear, as the moving address reflects a crisis in the UK.
Topple, Steve: The truth behind the Labour coup, when it really began and who manufactured it
Published: 2016
An exclusive investigation by The Canary can reveal that the current Labour 'coup' being instigated against Jeremy Corbyn appears to have been orchestrated by a PR company where Tony Blair's arch spin-doctor, Alastair Campbell, is a senior advisor.
Torok, George: Five Steps to Build a Personal Brand Like Harry Houdini
Published: 2010
What's important to know is that Houdini did not strive to build a brand. He worked to generate paying customers. All the publicity stunts he did were for the purpose of getting paying customers. Branding was a byproduct.
Torok, George: 3 Polarizing Branding Secrets from Death Cigarettes
Published: 2010
Branding is about creating powerful emotions - both love and hate. Figure out who you want to love you. Have you noticed that the strongest brands have lots of enemies?
Torok, George: What do your best customers smell like?
7 critical things you should know about your customers
Published: 2010
If you want more 'best customers' then know how to find them. Describe your best customers and post it on your office wall. It's like a wanted poster for good customers. If you know what you are looking for you are more likely to find it.
Tough, Paul, ed.; Barlow, John Perry; Birkerts, Sven; Kelly, Kevin; Slouka, Mark: What are we doing on-line?
A Debate on the Social Consequences of Online Communications
Published: 1995
Presents a forum on the social aspects of the Internet. Pervasiveness of communication between networked computers; Impact on average human lives; Health implications.
Toussaint, Eric: Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt won’t be reproduced for Greece and Developing Countries
Published: 2019
Detailed look at the differences between cancellation of Germany's debt and that of developing countries today.
Tovish, Aaron: The Okinawa missiles of October
Published: 2015
John Bordne, a resident of Blakeslee, Pennsylvania, had to keep a personal history to himself for more than five decades. Only recently has the US Air Force given him permission to tell the tale, which, if borne out as true, would constitute a terrifying addition to the lengthy and already frightening list of mistakes and malfunctions that have nearly plunged the world into nuclear war.
Townsend, Mark: Met police face legal action for 'kettling' of protest teenagers
Published: 2010
Police in the UK are being sued for using violence against students during a tuition fees protest by three minors who suffered injuries. They claim they were falsely detained and denied medical assistance. Their lawyers believe the police violated the European convention on human rights.
Townsend, Mark: Miners' strike: senior officer was 'appalled' at conduct of other police
Published: 2012
A senior police officer breaks ranks to describe how he and others were "appalled" at the behaviour of colleagues during the 1984-85 miners' strike in the UK, as calls mount for a fresh inquiry into the policing of the dispute.
Traboulsi, Fawwaz; Kfoury, Assaf: The Two Apartheids
What are the similarities and differences between South African apartheid and the Israeli system?
Published: 2015
Tracy: 8 Disturbing Photos of Instruments of Torture Used on Black People
Published: 2014
8 disturbing photos of instruments of torture used on black people.
Tracy, Abigail: The U.S. Is Building Jails for Toddlers Because Trump "Doesn't Want to Look Weak"
The optics of Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy are - somehow - only getting worse.
Published: 2018
A look at the Trump Administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy, announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April, 2018. The policy, which separated children from their mothers and detained them in caged facilities, caused outrage among both Democrat and Republican lawmakers.
Tramel, Salena: Reclaiming control of Indonesia's oceans
Published: 2019
Indonesian activists are building a global movement to resist the financialisation and privatisation of the world's oceans.
Tran, Delena: Dying for environmental democracy
Published: 2021
This article is about Peruvian indigenous environmental defenders in Latin America, a region described as one of the world's deadliest areas for enviromental human rights defenders. Tran focuses on the indigenous Ashanika defenders and their plight in fighting for environmental justice.
Tran, Mark: Authors denounce Tesco over Thai defamation cases
Published: 2008
Nick Hornby and other leading British authors accuse Tesco of mounting a "disproportionate" legal response to criticism over its operations in Thailand.
Tran, Mark: Somaliland: open for business
Published: 2012
The self-declared independent state in the north-west corner of conflict-ridden Somalia has been an oasis of calm, and it is now seeking foreign investment.
Trask, Robyn: Polyamory and Polygamy: Is the Media Right?
Published: 2016
There are a few of repeated themes emerging in many of the articles railing against polyamorous marriage.
Trask, Robyn L: When Will the Media Really Get Polyamory?
Published: 2015
Why do the media so often miss the mark when they write articles or do a feature on polyamory? Why do so many approach the subject with a ready-made idea of what they are looking for?
Trautman, Brian J.: The ICC Must Investigate Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
The Credibility of the Court is at Stake
Published: 2014
Regardless of the efforts of Israel or its closest ally, the United States, to prevent the International Criminal Court from seeking justice for the Palestinians and international aid workers killed and wounded in Gaza, the Court has a duty to at least open an investigation. The credibility of the ICC hangs in the balance. No individual who violates international law should escape justice. If Israeli officials are not investigated for possible war crimes in Gaza, then the tragic lessons learned from the last century about failures in international criminal justice and the consequences of inaction will have been in vain.
Travis, Alan; Syal, Rajeev: 'Poison pill' privatisation contracts could cost £300m-£400m to cancel
Published: 2014
Taxpayer stands to lose millions if probation contracts are cancelled.
Travis, Alan; Williams, Zoe: Revealed: government plans for police privatisation
Published: 2012
Private companies could take responsibility for investigating crimes, patrolling neighbourhoods and even detaining suspects under a radical privatisation plan being put forward by two of the largest police forces in the country.
Traynor, Ian: Extremism goes mainstream
Across Europe far-right parties are gaining power by forming coalitions while liberals have failed to find a coherent response
Published: 2010
Right wing extremist parties that attempt to stir up racial and ethnic prejudices have been gaining support during the recession in Europe. In Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy liberals already form coalition governments with such parties. Both centre right and centre left political leaders across Europe are coming together to form a coherent response.
Tremblay, Jean-Philippe: Shadows of Liberty
Published: 2012
Examines the new media monopoly by corporations in America and the public battle for truth and democracy.
Tremlett, Giles: Madrid barrio expels 'racist' police patrols
Jeering crowds chase away officers who try to detain immigrants
Published: 2011
Community protests police practice of racial profiling: the protests have been dubbed the "indignant" movement.
Trenton, Thomas Norman: Canadian Identity and Nationalism Among University Students
Exploratory Analysis of the Applicability of Current Theory on Student Protest
Published: 1976
PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 1976
Treuer, David: Off the Land
What subsistence really looks like
Published: 2014
Short essay on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation and their subsistence activities.
Tribe, Laura: Mass surveillance program in Canada revealed on International Data Privacy Day
Published: 2015
This morning Canadians learned of Levitation, a surveillance program run by Canada’s Communications Securities Establishment (CSE), which monitors documents being uploaded and downloaded on file-sharing websites around the world.
Tripathi, Sali: No Platform Won't Work
Published: 2009
It is ridiculous for anyone to think that you can defeat the BNP by silencing them. A sinister thought, when silenced, only gets wider currency in the subterranean world where everything 'establishment' is viewed as a conspiracy. Sunlight is the best disinfectant
Trudell, Megan: The Occupy movement and class politics in the US
Published: 2012
The Occupy movement that began in New York in September 2011 and has spread with remarkable speed across the country represents a massive shift in the politics of the United States.
Trujillo, Josmar: Concocting a Crime-Ageddon to Promote Police Power
Published: 2015
Manhattan is overrun with criminals and nobody is safe! -- or that’s what certain tabloids and newspapers would have you believe. Through the use of misleading statistics and extraordinary exceptions, the Mayor of New York has been successfully depicted as 'soft-on-crime' even though the city's crime rate is at an all-time low.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future
Summary of the final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Published: 2015
The summary of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: the product of a five-year process of hearing from survivors and compiling evidence. The report calls the schools agents of "cultural genocide" responsible for enormous abuses and lasting damage. It calls for education and reconciliation; according to commission head Murray Sinclair, "The survivors need to know that, having been heard and understood, that we will act to ensure the repair of damages is done."
Tryhorn, Chris; Wray, Richard: Publishers look to China and India to help them weather recession
Potter, Blyton and business guides serve global appetite for English language books
Published: 2009
Book sales slowing in Britain, but booming in overseas markets.
Trégan, François-Xavier: US drone strikes in Yemen cast a long shadow over life on the ground
Published: 2013
Unmanned aircraft create refugees and resentment among civilians as remote provinces become a battleground.
Tsukanova, Arina: A Nazi Skeleton in the Family Closet
Published: 2017
Chrystia Freeland's dark family secret is that her grandfather, Mykhailo Chomiak, faithfully served Nazi Germany right up to its surrender, and Chomiak's family only moved to Canada after the Third Reich was defeated by the Soviet Union’s Red Army and its allies – the U.S. and Great Britain. Mykhailo Chomiak was not a victim of the war – he was on the side of the German aggressors who collaborated with Ukrainian nationalists in killing Russians, Jews, Poles and other minorities. Former journalist Freeland chose to whitewash her family history to leave out her grandfather’s service to Adolf Hitler. Of course, if she had told the truth, she might never have achieved a successful political career in Canada. Her fierce hostility toward Russia also might be viewed in a different light.
Tucker, Nicholas: In more innocent days, you could write about cocks and not be misunderstood
Published: 2015
The BBC has changed Titty for Tatty in a remake of Swallows and Amazons. Much children's literature is a hazard for double entendres.
Tudge, Colin: A Food Renaissance
Published: 2016
Colin Tudge reports on The College of Real Farming and Food Culture; a project designed to tackle the current issues in global food production. The current system is not fit for purpose but through a holistic approach and an overhaul of current mainstream agriculture, achieving a balance between feeding the world and conserving the environment is within grasp.
Tudge, Colin: The Founding Fables of Industrialised Agriculture
Published: 2013
Governments these days are not content with agriculture that merely provides good food. In line with the dogma of neoliberalism they want it to contribute as much wealth as any other industry towards the grand goal of economic growth. High tech offers to reconcile the two ambitions – producing allegedly fabulous yields, which seems to be what’s needed, and becoming highly profitable.
Tudge, Colin: Six steps back to the land: an agricultural revolution for people and countryside
Published: 2016
What's the point of farming? To produce an abundance of wholesome food, writes Colin Tudge, while supporting a flourishing rural economy and a sustainable, biodiverse countryside. Yet the powers that be, determined to advance industrial agriculture at all costs, are achieving the precise opposite. It's time for a revolution in our food and farming culture, led by the people at large.
Tudge, Colin: WANTED: A different attitude to science
Published: 2021
In our materialist, neoliberal society in which money is the measure of all things science is construed, and taught, almost entirely as a materialist pursuit - as the source of high technologies that can “compete” in the world market and make us all rich. (Or at least make some of us rich - those who are deemed to matter. Who, broadly speaking, are the ones who are rich already).
Tudge, Colin; Harvey, Graham: The future is agroecology
Published: 2014
The way to a sustainable, people-centred agriculture lies in agroecology - farming based on ecological principles, taking account of the interdependence of all living things.
Tudor, Dean: A travers tout cela - au fil des ans - il y avait SOURCES
Published: 2007
SOURCES est plus que de simples spécialistes. C#est un répertoire des sentiers pour l#essentiel de la démocratie, rendant disponible des noms et adresses de tous les personnages influents du Canada et au-delà.
Tudor, Dean: Books of Interest - Sources 54
Published: 2004
Tudor, Dean: Books of Interest - Sources 57
Published: 2006
Tudor, Dean: Canadian Government Sources Online
Published: 1995
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: Buzzwords and blogs
Published: 2003
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: "Converging" and "Repurposing": it's everywhere
Published: 2001
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: Finding news you can use from Canada or around the world on the internet
Published: 1998
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: Help for news junkies
Published: 2004
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: Internet history: The good, the bad and the ugly
Published: 2000
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: Keeping current
Published: 2004
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: Leaning forward, looking back
Published: 2002
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: Pathfinders
Published: 2002
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: Searching on the Internet: Hear the latest
Published: 2005
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: Shifting alliances in the web wars
Published: 2006
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World - Sources 37
Published: 1996
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World - Sources 38
Published: 1996
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World - Sources 39
Published: 1997
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World - Sources 40
Published: 1997
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World - Sources 58
The Invisible Web
Published: 2006
Article about the "invisible Web" or "Deep Web".
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: The blight or boon of the blogs?
Published: 2005
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: The New Internet: Mergers and Acquisitions
Published: 2000
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: The reporter's friend
Published: 2007
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: Tudor's top ten tips
Published: 1998
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: Untangling the web: A guide to journalistic resources on the 'Net
Published: 2001
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: Whatever happened to freedom of information?
Published: 1999
Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World: Wither CARR?
Published: 2003
Tudor, Dean: Just who's selling what here? (book review)
Published: 1995
Tudor, Dean: Mundo Digital de Dean 59
Published: 2007
Tugal, Cihan: The End of the "Leaderless" Revolution
A Global Fallacy and the Military Intervention in Egypt
Published: 2013
When movements don't have (or claim not to have) ideologies, agendas, demands and leaders, they can go in two directions: they can dissipate (as did Occupy), or serve the agendas of others. The end of the leaderless revolution does not mean the end of the Egyptian revolutionary process. But it spells the end of the fallacy that the people can take power without an agenda, an alternative platform, an ideology, and leaders.
Tummon, John: The Politics of Food and Poverty
Published: 2014
The global food crisis is tightly connected to global poverty, climate change, ecological destruction, migrant workers, imperialism, health and the super-exploitation of workers.
Tupac, Katari: Katari Tupac Quotes
Turner, Derek et. all: Changing Media
Public Interest Policies for the Digital Age
Published: 2009
Includes groundbreaking research and analysis on achieving universal, affordable Internet access, answering the crisis in journalism and building a world-class public media system.
Turner,Christopher: The rise and rise of sexology
Published: 2014
Christopher Turner examines some of the objects found in the Institute of Sexology and finds that the pioneers of the study of sex were not just campaigners but political activists and collectors.
Turner-Lee, Nicol: Trump's election integrity commission needs to redress voter suppression, not fraud
Published: 2017
President Trump signed an executive order to establish the Election Integrity Commission, an effort focused on improper voter registrations and voter fraud. The formation comes days after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal to reinstate North Carolina's stringent voter identification laws that were found to discriminate against African Americans.
Turse, Nick: Ghost Nation
An ethnic-cleansing campaign by the government threatens to empty South Sudan
Published: 2017
Reporter Nick Turse provides a first hand acount of his time spent covering a refugee crisis in Southern Sudan, where the government's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) is committing atrocities that include mass rape, mutilation, torture, and the burning down of villages.
Turse, Nick: In Africa, the U.S. Military Sees Enemies Everywhere
Published: 2016
From east to west across Africa, 1,700 Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets, and other military personnel are carrying out 78 distinct "mission sets" in more than 20 nations, according to documents obtained by The Intercept via the Freedom of Information Act.
Turse, Nick: Kill Anything That Moves
The Real American War in Vietnam
Published: 2013
Turse demonstrates that violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the American war against Vietnam. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of orders to "kill anything that moves."
Turse, Nick: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics... and U.S. Africa Command
Published: 2016
One of the strangest news developments of our time is the way the media now focus for days, if not weeks, 24/7, on a single event and its ramifications. Omar Mateen's slaughter of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando is only the latest example of this. If no other calamitous or eye-catching event comes along (“‘Unimaginable’: Toddler’s body recovered by divers after alligator attack at Disney resort"), it could, top the news, in all its micro-ramifications and repetitions, for three or four weeks. Such stories -- especially mass killings, especially those with an aura of terrorism about them -- are particularly easy for strapped, often downsizing news outfits to cover. They are, in a sense, pre-packaged.
Turse, Nick: One by One, South Sudan Tries to Name Its War Victims
Published: 2016
In South Sudan, where a vicious civil war has been raging, no government office or nongovernmental organization has kept a tally of the names of those killed by government forces, rebels, and other armed groups. But in a country in which automatic weapons are more plentiful than civil rights, and local journalists are regularly under assault, a tiny civil society group is trying to step into the breach by naming all of the names. It began on the first anniversary of the civil war's outbreak, when a small group of volunteers unveiled a list of 568 names of the people - from toddlers to centenarians - killed in the war to that point. Naming the Ones We Lost was a first step in what the organizers knew would be a long journey to grapple with the immense loss of South Sudanese life over the previous year. Today, the project goes by a slightly different name, Remembering the Ones We Lost, and has a radically expanded mission with a recently launched website [http://rememberingoneswelost.com/main]. The goal of the website is nothing short of remarkable - it aims to name all victims of conflict and armed violence in South Sudan since 1955.
Turse, Nick: Pentagon Video Warns of 'Unavoidable' Dystopian Future for World's Biggest Cities
Published: 2016
According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept, the future of global cities will be an amalgam of the settings of "Escape from New York" and "Robocop" - with dashes of the "Warriors" and "Divergent" thrown in. It will be a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes - brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers.
At least that's the scenario outlined in "Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity," a five-minute video that has been used at the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations University.
Turse, Nick: A Secret War in 135 Countries
Published: 2015
Turse discusses the U.S. global engagement strategy of covert operations conducted on every continent but Antarctica.
Turse, Nick: Target Africa
The U.S. military's expanding footprint in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
Published: 2015
The U.S. military has engaged in a largely covert effort to extend across Africa with a network of low-profile camps. These facilities allow U.S. forces to surveil and operate on large areas of the continent and to strike targets with drones and manned aircraft.
Turse, Nick: The U.S. Will Invade West Africa in 2023 After an Attack in New York - According to Pentagon War Game
Published: 2017
By 2021, according to the war game's scenario, AQIM boasts an estimated 38,000 members spread throughout Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, and a network of training camps in Mauritania, as well as outright bases in Western Sahara.
Tutchell, Eva; Edmonds, John: On our way to the moon? A snapshot of feminist marches which shook the world.
Published: 2018
The authors tell the story of the Midsummer's day 1908 'Votes for women' Suffragist rally and the March 1971 Women's Liberation Movement Demonstration in Hyde ParK, London.
Tutu, Desmond: Desmond Tutu Quotes
Tutunjian, Jirair: Truth Is The First Casualty Of War: Nagorno-Karabakh And Media Misinformation
Published: 2016
The Crimean War, in mid-19th century, introduced the world to the cardigan, the raglan jersey, and the balaclava headdress. It also introduced a new profession: the foreign correspondent. And almost immediately after the war the axiom "truth is the first casualty of war" was born because of the falsehoods spread by foreign correspondents on both sides.
Tvetten, Julianne: The Blue-Collar Hellscape of the Startup Industry
Published: 2017
The tactics and work environments at tech companies, including Amazon, show a disregard for the fundamental health, safety and humanity of low-tier workers, demonstrating what laissez-faire startup-styled late capitalism really looks like.
Twain, Mark: Mark Twain Quotes
Tweedie, Jill: Jill Tweedie Quotes
Tzabiras, Marianna: Reflections on a whistleblower: Two years after Snowden
Published: 2015
Two years after Snowden, the international state of surveillance and the ranks of whistleblowers both continue to grow.
Tzabiras, Marianna: Sounding the alarm on environmental issues comes at a steep price
Published: 2014
On 20 April 2014 Human Rights Watch issued an urgent call for information on the whereabouts of Thai activist Por Cha Lee Rakchongcharoen, known as "Billy". The prominent ethnic Karen activist has been involved in a lawsuit with authorities over land use at a national park in Thailand. Locals have faced intimidation from park officials, and an activist connected to Billy's network was killed in 2011 after helping Karen villagers report on alleged abuses, illegal logging, and poaching committed by park officials.
Tzabiras, Marianna: Threats, attacks, obstacles, jail: what's coming between us and the Rohingya story
Published: 2015
While images of the suffering of Rohingya migrants circulated around the world, local journalists and politicians faced restrictions in trying to report on and speak out on the issue.

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Uechi, Jenny: Canada's campaign to block NAFTA's oil sands tailings pond probe slammed by critics
Published: 2015
Reactions to the federal government's attempts to stop NAFTA's environmental oversight commission from investigating environmental damage caused by tailings ponds in Alberta's oil sands came fast and fierce from critics.
Uechi, Jenny: Fake grassroots advocacy part of TransCanada's plan to silence Energy East critics
Published: 2014
Documents show plans to "pressure" pipeline critics by working with third parties and industry-funded grassroots advocacy groups in favour of Energy East.
Uechi, Jenny: Kinder Morgan's $136 million pipeline 'war chest' to be paid by Canadians
Published: 2014
In what an economist calls an "unfair" decision, the National Energy Board has allowed Kinder Morgan to build a $136 million 'war chest' to fund its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion application through shipping surcharges. The charge, called a "firm service fee", allows Texas-based pipeline company Kinder Morgan to offload the cost of the pipeline application to Canadian shippers.
Uhl, Michael: The Tip of the Iceberg: My Lai Fifty Years On
Published: 2018
Ulen, Eisa Nefertari: From Pre-K On, US Schools Privilege the Already Privileged
Published: 2019
The college bribery admissions scandal is only the extreme end of the inequality in the education system. Public policies, such as school funding based on property values, disadvantage children in low-income communities starting as early as pre-K.
Ulett, George A.: Acupuncture, Magic, and Make-Believe
Published: 2003
Traditional Chinese acupuncture is an archaic procedure of inserting needles through the skin over imaginary channels in accord with rules developed from pre-scientific superstition and numerological beliefs. New research has replaced this mystical sham medical procedure with a simple evidence-based no-needle treatment that stimulates motor points and nerve junctures and induces gene-expression of neurochemicals and activates brain areas important for healing. This is a scientifically based alternative to the previous metaphysical theories and magical rituals.
UN Security Council: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1738
Published: 2006
Resolution 1738, adopted by the UN Security Council, protects journalists operating in conflict areas.
Upchurch, Martin: The internet, social media and the workplace
Published: 2014
Upchurch argues that the impact social media has on social movements is overestimated. Instead, it is imperative to focus on the impact of communication technology in the workplace, at the point of production, if we are to fully understand its implications.
Urie, Rob: The Corporate State and Manufactured Dependence
Sure, It Can Get Worse...It's Happening Right Before Our Eyes
Published: 2013
The 'resistance is futile' mindset that supports plutocrats and the global corporations they own assumes the existing order is the only possible order and the costs of resistance are too great because 'they' have state power and unlimited economic resources on their side.
Urie, Rob: Facebook and the Rise of Anti-Social Media
Published: 2018
For those who haven't thought about it, the internet is insidious because of the very capacity that Cambridge Analytica claims to be able to exploit: customization. Users have limited ability to confirm the authenticity of anything they see, read or hear on it. Print editions can be compared and contrasted-- technology limits print media to large-scale deceptions. With the capacity to create entire realms of deception -- identities, content, web pages and entire online publications, trust is made a function of gullibility.
Urie, Rob: Free Trade and Economic Imperialism
Economic Progress Toward Ecological Suicide
Published: 2012
Looming global environmental catastrophe renders the last several hundred years of Western economic theory dubious, if not outright suicidal. Economic ‘progress’ that increases dependence on unsustainable economic practices produces catastrophe in increasing proportion to the benefits that even proponents claim will result.
Urie, Rob: Impeachment, Brought to You by the CIA
Published: 2019
Despite occasional warm gas passed in a leftish direction, establishment Democrats never had any intention of allowing a left political program to move forward. After four decades of asserting that they 'believe' climate science, the moment has arrived when the only political path forward is to take on their donors.
Urie, Rob: Mass Incarceration and Capitalism
The Violence of Economic Exploitation
Published: 2014
On the intersections of race, class, capitalism, and social repression via mass incarceration in the United States.
Urie, Rob: Race, Identity and the Political Economy of Hate
Published: 2019
A look at statistics casts doubt on the supposed rise of white nationalist groups and violence.
Urie, Rob: Surveillance and the Corporate State
Spying, Control and Murder Under the Imperial Presidency
Published: 2013
With all of the fear mongering the subject has received in recent decades, Americans have in fact had remarkably little to fear directly from ‘terrorism.’
Urie, Rob: Things Fall Apart
Published: 2023
Urie, Rob: Ukraine, the New Cold War and the Politics of Impeachment
Published: 2019
The question not being asked is why it was politically, legally or morally justified for the U.S.-- the Obama administration, to 1) use NGOs and the CIA 2) to join with real and virulent Ukrainian Nazis to 3) oust the Democratically elected president of Ukraine 4) in order to install a puppet regime that answers to the national security state? Passionate assertions that Donald Trump is corrupt face the question back: what part of this entire operation isn't corrupt?
Urry, Emerson: The Department of Defense Is the Third Largest Polluter of US Waterways
Published: 2016
Advocacy group Environment America has "crunched the numbers" in an effort to reveal who the largest polluters of American waterways are. The culprits that crack the top-15 list may very well surprise you.
Usmani, Adaner: Against Fundamentalism and Imperialism - Review
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
A view of the inside forces in Pakistan.
Usmani, Adaner: The Struggle in Balochistan
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
The complicated situation that is modern Pakistan.

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Vainio, Andrew: Daily news, eternal stories (book review)
Review of Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism
Published: 2002
Valente, Marcela: Through the Lens of Young Slum Dwellers
Published: 2009
Two dozen young slum dwellers in Buenos Aires began filming a documentary about themselves this month, in an attempt to break down the negative stereotypes with which they are portrayed in the media.
Valentine, Douglas: When Phoenix Came to Thanh Phong
Bob Kerrey and War Crimes as Policy in Vietnam
Published: 2016
On May 16, 2016, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey was named chairman of Fulbright University, a US-backed college with ties to the State Department in Ho Chi Minh City. During his recent visit to Vietnam, President Barack Obama heaped praise on Kerrey, a former Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969. What Obama failed to mention is that Kerrey also supervised one of the most atrocious war crimes of that ghastly war.
Valiani, Salimah: Mobilizing Temporary Migrant Workers
A Compendium of Forms and Preliminary Discussion
Published: 2014
While labour migration has been a recurring phenomenon in human history, what is new in the post-1970 period of restructuring in the world capitalist economy is the increased use of temporary migrant labour by employers around the world. The widespread rise of employer use of temporary migrant workers in various economic sectors internationally can be dated from circa 1990.
Valji, Salim: Canadian university launches bachelor's degree in sports media
Published: 2013
Ryerson University, one of Canada’s top journalism schools, has announced the creation of the country’s first bachelor’s degree specifically geared towards sports media.
Vallianatos, Evaggelos: America: Becoming a Land Without Farmers
Published: 2012
In rural America fewer than 3 percent of farmers make more than 63 percent of the money, including government subsidies. The results of this emerging feudal economy are everywhere. Large areas of the United States are becoming impoverished farm towns with abandoned farmhouses and deserted land. More and more of the countryside has been devoted to massive factory farms and plantations.
Vallianatos, Evaggelos: Peasant Sovereignty?
Published: 2015
The Spain-based international agrarian organization, Grain, reported that small farmers not only "feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland," but they are also the most productive farmers on Earth.
Vallianatos, Evaggelos: Ruthless Power and Deleterious Politics
From DDT to Roundup
Published: 2015
The mix of power and politics in the proliferation of pesticides from DDT to Roundup.
Valo, Martine: Guadeloupe and Martinique threatened as pesticide contaminates food chain
Published: 2013
Chemical once used on banana crops threatening livelihoods and public health by polluting soil and sea.
Valo, Martine: Senegal Fears Its Fish May Be Off the Menu for Local Consumption
Published: 2014
Foreign fish processing factories are competing with traditional communities for a dwindling catch.
Van Auken, Bill: US Military Brands Assange, WikiLeaks As "The Enemy"
Published: 2012
Secret US Air Force documents reveal that the American military has branded WikiLeaks and its editor Julian Assange as "the enemy", placing them on a legal par with Al Qaeda and threatening them with the same treatment: indefinite detention without trial, and death.
Van Bergen, Jennifer: Predicting Torture
The PATRIOT Act, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
Published: 2010
Bradley Manning is charged with leaking classified documents to Wikileaks and faces a court martial. The conditions of his confinement are extreme, and amount to torture.
van der Hoeven, Hans; van Albada, Joan: Lost Memory: Libraries and Archives destroyed in the Twentieth Century
Published: 1996
This document lists major disasters that have destroyed or caused irreparable damage during the 20th century to libraries and archives, whether written of audio-visual.
Van Dongen,Teun: Drone Strikes and the Sanitization of Violence
Published: 2015
Van Dongen discusses the terminology that the drone campaign employs, in which the CIA and the Obama administration gloss over death and destruction of drones in Pakistan, Afganistan and Yemen.
Van Ess, Henk: How To Verify Information and Debunk Myths Using Online Tools
Published: 2013
Did Pope Francis play a major role in Argentina’s Dirty War? Reporters published photos of dictator Jorge Videla with a cardinal, allegedly with Jorge Bergoglio, the recently elected Pope Francis. But something was wrong with these reporters’ findings. Henk van Ess explains how the internet can help you to debunk the internet.
van Ess, Henk: How To Verify Information and Debunk Myths Using Online Tools
Published: 2013
Did Pope Francis play a major role in Argentina’s Dirty War? Reporters published photos of dictator Jorge Videla with a cardinal, allegedly with Jorge Bergoglio, the recently elected Pope Francis. But something was wrong with these reporters’ findings. Henk van Ess explains how the internet can help you to debunk the internet.
van Ess, Henk: Simple Tools to Sort the Tweets from the Trash
Published: 2014
In this first part of a three-part series, social media and web research specialist Henk van Ess provides some practical hints for how to de-clutter your Twitter stream and keep your timeline relevant and under control so those newsworthy updates don't get lost in a flood of information.
van Ess, Henk: Simple tools to sort the tweets from the trash
Published: 2014
Social media and web research specialist Henk van Ess provides outlines things you can do to decrease the likelihood of missing newsworthy tweets in twitter feeds, part 1 of 3.
van Lingen, Max: The stagnation of the Dutch Socialist Party
Published: 2016
The Socialist Party (SP) is one of the parties that emerged to the left of traditional social democracy in the last decade of the 20th century. In electoral terms, it is one of the most successful. At its peak in 2006, the SP got 25 out of 150 seats (16.6 percent of the vote), becoming the third party in the House of Representatives. With the European Parliament (2014) and provincial (2015) elections it eclipsed the Labour Party (PvdA) for the first time, becoming the biggest party of the left in the Netherlands. Until Syriza's election victory in 2015 the Dutch SP was the only left reformist party in Europe to win a bigger share of the vote than the traditional social democratic party.
Van Schaik,Anne;Ojo,Godwin: Deforestation, exploitation, hypocrisy: no end to Wilmar's palm oil land grabs
Published: 2015
With the deadline for the full implementation of Wilmar's 'No peat, no deforestation, no exploitation' promise, the oil palm giant is keen to push its green image in Europe. In Nigeria however, forest and farmland continue to be destroyed.
Vanaik, Achin: A Solution for Kashmir
Published: 2016
What would justice for those suffering under Indian occupation in Kashmir look like?
Vance, Erik: Emptying the World's Aquarium
The dismal future of the global fishery
Published: 2013
Essay on the fishery at the Sea of Cortez, Mexico and the implications of environmental conservation policies on the local fishermen's economy.
Vancouver Observer: New copyright law is already being abused to threaten Canadian Internet users with ridiculous penalties for downloading
Published: 2015
Less than a week after new copyright rules went into effect in Canada, ISPs are already receiving notices from Big Media giants that contain misleading and threatening statements, according to top copyright expert Professor Michael Geist.
Vande Panne, Valerie: Detroit's Underground Economy: Where Capitalism Fails, Alternatives Take Root
Published: 2017
Detroit's economic comeback is greatly overstated, while many residents survive through informal business arrangements and bartering.
Vandeman, Michael J.: Appeasing the Mountain Bikers
Published: 2001
Just because someone is able to purchase a machine that lets them ride off-road, that is no reason that the public should be required to provide them a place to use it.
Vandeman, Michael J.: Equal Access to Our Parks for Bulldozer Racing
Published: 1999
Tthere have been some problems, such as some people riding recklessly, going off the designated trails, and even secretly constructing illegal trails. But those are a small minority of bulldozer riders. You shouldn't allow a small minority to give the majority of us bulldozer racers, who ride responsibly, a bad name. Why should we be punished, just because of them, and be forced to walk, just like everybody else?
Vandeman, Michael J.: The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People
A Review of the Literature
Published: 2004
It is clear that mountain biking is harmful to some wildlife and people. No one, even mountain bikers, tries to deny that. Bikes create V-shaped ruts in trails, throw dirt to the outside on turns, crush small plants and animals on and under the trail, facilitate increased levels of human access into wildlife habitat, and drive other trail users (many of whom are seeking the tranquility and primitiveness of natural surroundings) out of the parks.
Vandeman, Michael J.: Jetskis Should Be Banned
Published: 1998
To launch a jet ski into the shallow waters that are so important to marine wildlife takes little money, little training, and little energy. Jet skis put our most vulnerable marine and avian wildlife directly into the hands of some of our most biologically ignorant and least responsible citizens.
Vandeman, Michael J.: Mountain Biking: Frequently Asked Questions
Published: 2009
Why do people mountain bike, and what harms does it do?
Vandeman, Michael J.: The Psychology of Mountain Biking
Published: 2000
The first thing one notices about mountain bikers is that they lie continually.
Vandeman, Michael J.: Snake Oil in a Computer: The Pseudo-science of Transportation Modeling
Published: 1991
Planners, politicians, and other decision-makers want to know what effect their projects will have on the environment. In many cases they don't really want to know, but want to convince their constituents that the results will be beneficial, or at least neutral. In both cases, computer modeling is being used to "answer" the questions.
Vandeman, Michael J.: Why Off-Road Bicycling Should be Prohibited
The Effects of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People
Published: 1997
To most environmentalists, bicycles have always been the epitome of good. We are so used to comparing bikes to cars, that it never occurred to us that the bicycle would be ever used for anything bad. Indeed, replacing motor vehicles with bicycles deserves our adoration. But anything can be used for good or evil, and using bikes to expand human domination of wildlife habitat is clearly harmful.
Vandeman, Michael J.: Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits To Humans!
Published: 2009
Environmentalism can most simply be defined as the extension of the Golden Rule to include other species. Wildlife must be given top priority, because they can't protect themselves from us.
Vandermeer, John; Bradford, David: Ethnic Conflicts in Nicaragua
Published: 1998
WITH LITTLE INTERNATIONAL notice, the winds of war are picking up on the eastern seaboard of Nicaragua. This time, however, it will not be a clear class-warfare case with a popular revolution struggling against an imperial behemoth. Rather, the Croat-Serb-Muslim model may be a better metaphor. Over the past decade we have watched the situation change from the hopeful vision of a multiethnic autonomous society to today's mixture of ethnic typecasting and cynical manipulations by the neoliberal...
VanHelder, Mike: Scientists Finally Have Evidence That Frigatebirds Sleep While Flying
According to a new study, the birds can stay aloft for weeks by power napping in ten-second bursts.
vanKampen, Stephanie: Alternative Canada 150 project redraws history to spotlight untold stories
Born from opposition to Canada 150, Remember Resist Redraw posters are being used in schools across Canada
Published: 2018
During Canada 150 celebrations, a project titled "Remember Resist Redraw" releases illustrated posters depicting a variety of stories often left out of traditional history textbooks -- stories of oppression, inequality, racism, and colonialism.
Vara, Vauhini: Survival Strategies for Local Journalism
Published: 2015
In an attempt to draw readers and advertisers, the San Francisco Chronicle began printing on high-quality glossy paper in November, 2009. Its circulation had dropped by more than fifty per cent in less than a decade.
Varatharajah, Sinthujan: The Walls the West Won’t Tear Down
Published: 2014
Twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall, lethal borders remain. We must dismantle them.
Vardi, Itai: Forest Service's 'Independent' Report on Atlantic Coast Pipeline Written by Pipeline Company Contractor
Published: 2017
The U.S. Forest Service recently published an assessment of the proposed Atlantic Coast pipeline, calling the report "independent." In reality the assessment was performed and written by none other than a contractor working for the pipeline company.
Varga, Mari Pat: How to Win Over and Wow a Crowd
This instructional guide on public speaking. It gives tips how to captivate your audience and deliver and deliver an effective message.
Various: Building a better Journalism
Media activists and scholars share their ideas
Published: 2009
Extra! asked progressive media activists and scholars to share their ideas on how to make journalism's future better than its present; the following are some of the highlights:
The one thing that we should do in the face of the erosion of commercial journalism is invest heavily in libraries. That means we should publicly support the human capital, technological tools, and collections of public, school and university libraries.
Various: Encycloedia Britannica Eleventh Edition
Published: 1910
A 29-volume reference work, developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time.
Varlin, Josh: Google's new advertising program tracks offline line shoppers, violates privacy
Published: 2017
The privacy watchdog Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a formal complaint against Google alleging that the company's new advertising program violates consumer privacy.
Varoufakis, Yanis: List of war crimes and crimes qualifying as genocide committed by Israel in Gaza since 7th October 2023
Published: 2023
Defenders of Israel's bombing and invasion of Gaza have challenged me to offer a 'chapter-and-verse' list of war crimes that Israel has committed since the Hamas Offensive of 7th October. Here is an indicative, but not exhaustive, list.
Vatsyayana. Translated by Richard Burton: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Translated from the Sanskrit. In Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks
Published: 1883
An ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Va-tsya-yana.
Vaz, Ricardo: Fake News about Venezuela: A Simple Recipe
Published: 2017
"Journalists" who want to write fake news about Venezuela, or about any other country or group that dares to stand up to US imperialism, only need to follow this simple recipe:
- Choose one or more countries/groups opposed to US imperialism
- If available, have a former official, now being paid by the US government, make the accusations
- Season well with doses of "war on terror" and/or "war on drugs"
- Sprinkle with opinions of "experts" who work in DC think tanks or US-funded NGOs
Vaz, Ricardo: Grenfell Tower Fire: Corporate Manslaughter in London
Published: 2017
A massive fire engulfed Grenfell Tower in the early hours of June 14th. Grenfell Tower is a 24-storey building of public housing flats in the North Kensington area of London. Over 600 people were believed to be inside the building and there are fears that the death toll, currently at 58, will rise to over a 100. This incident generated a wave of public anger over ignored safety warnings, an inadequate response from authorities, and most of all about the (housing) policies that safeguard corporate greed over the rights of the poor and working class, in this case their very lives. This was no accident – it was corporate manslaughter.
Vaz, Ricardo: Venezuela Elections: Resurgent Chavismo and 'Unrecognised' Democracy
Published: 2017
After weeks of imperialist threats and opposition violence, the elections for the Constituent Assembly (ANC) in Venezuela took place on July 30th. The result was a massive turnout of over 8 million voters, around 41% of the electorate, which gave chavismo a much-needed shot in the arm. The western media reacted by trying to dispute the number and sticking even closer to the narrative being pushed by the opposition and the US State Department.
Vaz, Ricardo: Venezuela in the Media: Double Standards and First Impressions
Published: 2017
This article looks into the inconsistent ways that Venzuala has been portrayed in the media, and the effect of sensationalizing the recent crisis. It concludes that those who support the Venezuelan poor, workings classes must seek and spread honest information outside of the mainstream narrative.
Vaz, Ricardo: Venezuela: Maduro survives assassination attempt -- but journalism doesn't
Published: 2018
Venezuela was rocked on August 5, 2018 by an attempt to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro during a public event, using drones armed with explosives.But as more details of the attack became available, mainstream media coverage sought to sow doubt on the events, using words such as "apparent" or "alleged". It focused on the government using this "alleged" event to step up repression.
Velle, Victor: 8 Billion Angels
Published: 2019
Exploring our planet's growing population and ability to sustain such growth. Further questions asked about environmentalism, consumption, and gender equity.
Ventura, Jesse: Corrupted Science: the DEA and Marijuana
Published: 2016
While I was on my book tour for Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto, I was shocked to discover how many Americans didn’t know our Founding Fathers grew cannabis.
Venzi, Ron: The Hillcrest Mine Disaster
The worst coal mining disaster in Canada occurred in Hillcrest, Alberta, on Friday June 19, 1914. A total of 189 men died. 130 women were widowed and 400 children left fatherless.
Vermes, Jason: 'Unprecedented': Staffers drown out reporters by clapping at Doug Ford news conference
Published: 2018
When reporters tried to ask Ontario Premier Doug Ford questions at a Tuesday news conference about new funding to prevent gun violence, they were once again intentionally drowned out by applause.
Vermilya, Shelley: Practicing Hope
He's Just 17
Published: 2014
It seems like teachers want to do the right thing and, along with most white people, they don’t want to say the wrong thing about race (or class or LGBT or adoption or disabilities) so they just don’t bring it up. Most white folks I know here don’t see any evidence of racism unless someone points to specific incidents or talks through the issues, like Driving While Black or Shopping While Black. Even then, some of my white friends, and many of my students, get exasperated, “Racism is so old-school,” I’ve been told. They don’t want to believe that racism exists. This essay is for them, and for my kids.
Veronese, Keith: Why truck driving is one of the deadliest jobs in America
Published: 2012
What incredibly important profession combines horrible hours, bad pay, and a poor lifestyle? Truck driving. This is a job that destroys so many lives that it could soon become unsustainable.
Versey, Farzana: What Religion is Your Nationalism?
Published: 2019
On November 9, 2019, 27 years after mobs destroyed the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the Supreme Court of India, despite stating that the demolition of the mosque was against the rule of law, pronounced the lawbreakers as victors. Those who had indulged in a bloodbath to build a temple where they claim Lord Ram was born have become the owners.
Vertov, Dziga: Man with a Movie Camera
Published: 1929
Silent documentary. Russian original title: Chelovek s kino-apparatom.
Vertov's feature film, produced by the film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in the Soviet cities of Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow and Odessa. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life.
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity: Was the "Russian Hack" an Inside Job?
Published: 2017
Forensic studies of "Russian hacking" into Democratic National Committee computers last year reveal that on July 5, 2017, data was leaked (not hacked) by a person with physical access to DNC computers, and then doctored to incriminate Russia.
Via Campesian: The false solutions of Rio+20
Published: 2012
Food production and people's sovereignty in Africa could be seriously compromised by carbon capture projects and the so-called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Plus (REDD+) mechanism.
Victor, María Páez: Venezuela Under Attack Again
Economic Sabotage
Published: 2014
A highly organized attack is once again being carried out against the democratic and popular government of Venezuela. It has involved monetary manipulations, economic sabotage, international media campaigns against the economy despite excellent economic indicators, defamation of the state run oil company, and deadly riots on the street.
Vida, Melissa: After Alleged Election Fraud and Protests, Honduran Congress Moves to Regulate Hate Speech Online
Published: 2018
The Honduran Congress is debating a law that seeks to regulate hate speech and "fake news" on the Internet. Honduran activists and opposition political parties say the proposal would function as a gag law aimed at silencing government critics.
Vidal, Aude: No more plastics in Southeast Asia paradise
Published: 2021
Plastic waste has accumulated in Southeast Asia since China stopped importing it for recycling. The region's governments want western exporters to stop using it as a dumping ground.
Vidal, John: China and India 'water grab' dams put ecology of Himalayas in danger
Published: 2013
More than 400 hydroelectric schemes are planned in the mountain region, which could be a disaster for the environment.
Vidal, John: Climate change: how a warming world is a threat to our food supplies
Published: 2013
Global warming is exacerbating political instability as tensions brought on by food insecurity rise. With research suggesting the issue can only get worse we examine the risks around the world.
Vidal, John: EU diplomats reveal devastating impact of Ethiopia dam project on remote tribes
Published: 2015
A controversial World Bank-funded scheme to dam a major Ethiopian river and import up to 500,000 people to work in what is planned to be one of the world's largest sugar plantations has led to tens of thousands of Africa's most remote and vulnerable people being insensitively resettled. According to reports by two teams of British, American and EU diplomats who visited the resettlement areas in the Lower Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia last year, the lives of 20,000 Mursi, Bodi and other semi-nomadic tribespeople are being "fundamentally and irreversibly" changed by the mega-project.
Vidal, John: Global effects of GM crops questioned
Published: 2011
Twenty Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups have published a damning study, saying that GM (genetically modified) crops have failed to increase yield, while requiring farmers to increase their dependence on herbicides and pesticides.
Vidal, John: How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
Published: 2010
Vidal, John: Indian agribusiness sets sights on land in east Africa
Published: 2011
Indian investors plan to spend $2.5bn on acquiring vast tracts of cheap farming land in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda.
Vidal, John: India's Rice Warrior Battles to Build Living Seed Bank as Climate Chaos Looms
Published: 2014
Rice conservationist Debal Deb grapples with 'mindless Indian elite' to reintroduce genetically diverse, drought-tolerant varieties
Vidal, John: £1bn a month: the spiralling cost of oil theft in Nigeria
Published: 2013
It's a crime with international repercussions, and second only to the drugs trade for the money it earns. And it threatens to destabilise Africa's second-largest economy.
Vidal, John: Senegal's fishing community will act on foreign fleets if government doesn't
Senegal's fisherman blame foreign trawlers for taking their catch
Published: 2012
Annual catches by local fishermen in Senegal are down seventy-five percent from catches ten years ago, resulting in hunger and economic instability. Community leaders in Senegal are warning developed nations whose fleets trawl their waters that overfishing may lead to piracy as it has in Somalia.
Vidal,John: Pakistan: 'Son, you brought electricity to the village and added 15 years to my life'
Published: 2015
A micro-hydro programme bringing sustainable energy to a region of Pakistan ravaged by conflict and floods has won an Ashden award for lighting the future.
Vigo, Julian: Rebels Without a Cause: The Assault on Academic Freedom
Published: 2017
Examining current academic culture which falsely labels "words as violence" and how it is affecting acedemic freedom, notably by some who think of themselves as being on the left, who are employing totalitarian tactics which ultimately cause professional and economic harm.
Vigo, Julian; Curcio, Jasmine: Hillary Clinton, The Vote, and Contemporary Feminism's Class Blindness
Published: 2016
The feminist fight for libreration has been sidelined.
Villadiego, Laura: Local fishermen: caught between the pros and cons of traceability
Published: 2019
Consumers concerned about the environmental impact of fishing are demanding more transparency and accountablity from the industry. Ironically, the resulting regulations are prohibitive to the small scale fishermen that are the most sustainable part of the industry.
Visser, Nadette de; Cazes, Séverine: Israeli army's attitude: Regret, but no real enquiries and certainly no one punished
Published: 2003
The issue of the security of journalists working in the Occupied Territories cloaks another major political issue, that of the restrictions which the Israeli army imposes in the name of security on journalists working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, especially Palestinians. Israeli officials are unstinting in their criticism of the way the foreign press covers the conflict. The foreign press rejects the criticism and accuses the Israeli authorities of trying to restrict access to information and to influence the way it is treated. Some go so far as to accuse the Israeli army of deliberately targeting journalists.
Vivanco, Pablo: Covid-19: Cuba's People-Before-Profit Approach Pays Off As Capitalism Proves A Bitter Pill For The US
Published: 2020
Havana has punched above its weight for decades when it comes to health. But never have the differences between its socialist system and the market-based system of its strongest detractor, America, been so apparent.
Vivas, Esther: When Will We See Tanks in Barcelona?
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
The current situation in Spain regarding an independent Catelonia.
Vives,Lisa: Close to a Thousand Nigerian Girls Freed, Many Malnourished or Pregnant
Thousands of Nigerian former hostages are liberated, a large number of them were malnourished or pregnant.
Vlanza, Vacy: Profiting from Gaza Children's Agony
Published: 2015
The shocking decision by the government-owned New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) to NOT divest from Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL), manufacturer of white phosphorus, blatantly violates the NZSF Responsibilities and Standards for Human Rights.
Vlazna, Vacy: Turning Blood into Money
Profiting from Killing
Published: 2013
Yotam Feldman’s documentary The Lab, released in August, is one of the most important exposés of the obscene rationale and execution of Israel’s hugely lucrative arms and security industries through the voices of some of its ex-military key operators: Amos Golan, Shimon Naveh, Leo Gleser, and Yoav Galant.
Vltchek, Andre: Ban of Russian Olympic Team: Cold War at its "Best"!
Published: 2016
The West is using both old and new tactics to demonize and discredit all of its opponents, in what is becoming a new Cold War.
Vltchek, Andre: Ecuador Fights against Elitism
Published: 2015
It is great news for majority of Ecuadorian citizens -- but a terrible nightmare for the 'elites'.
Lately, in Ecuador, right-wing 'elites' are continuously protesting against the administration, accusing it of corruption and other ills.
Vltchek, Andre: Germany's African Genocide
The Namibia Legacy
Published: 2014
How outrageous, how heartbreaking, how truly grotesque! Windhoek City – the capital of Namibia – is, at one extreme full of flowers and Mediterranean-style villas, and at the other, it is nothing more than a tremendous slum without water or electricity.
Vltchek, Andre: Horrid Carcass of Indonesia - 50 Years After the Coup
Published: 2015
Indonesia has matured into perhaps the most corrupt country on Earth, and possibly into the most indoctrinated and compassionless place anywhere under the sun.
Vltchek, Andre: How to Fight Western Propaganda
Time for a Creative Revolution
Published: 2015
The western propaganda apparatus is enormously efficient and effective. It is also brilliant in how it ensures that its inventions get channeled, distributed, and accepted in all corners of the world. The system through which disinformation spreads, is incredibly complex.
What are we, who oppose the regime, supposed to do?
Vltchek, Andre: Last Sparks From Tahrir Square
Tahrir Square Died, But Not the Revolution
Published: 2013
Once again, the prisons of Egypt are full. The hospitals are overflowing with injured men and women. But the fight, the ‘process’ goes on; it is not dying. Tahrir Square died, but the revolution is getting stronger.
Vltchek, Andre: Poetry and Latin American Revolution
Written in Blood and Dreams
Published: 2012
A discussion about the poetry, and about the songs, that have had such a decisive influence on the changes and revolutions in South America.
Vltchek, Andre: Police State India
Robert Clive and the Forbidden
Published: 2012
Describing security-mania in India.
Vltchek, Andre: Propaganda! Pardon me, is mine really bigger than yours?
Published: 2018
They say Propaganda! In the West, both the mainstream media and even some of the so-called progressive outlets are shouting: "Those Russians and Chinese and the others like them, they are at it again! Their vicious propaganda is infiltrating our democratic, freedom-loving countries, spreading confusion and chaos!"

Yes, ban or at least curb RT, contain TeleSur, and if at all possible, throw Press TV to the dogs. And put the writers of NEO, Sputnik, Global Times and other foreign outlets on that proverbial Western mass media 'no fly list'.
Vltchek, Andre: Racism and Sexual Violence in Indonesia
Where Fear Stalks the Streets
Published: 2013
Indonesia, since 1965, performed three genocides fully backed by the West.
Vltchek, Andre: Soon, the Battle for Venezuela
Open Letter to President of Venezuela
Published: 2014
They are already sewing your funeral gown, Venezuela. They are now ready to welcome you back to that world of the lobotomized, destroyed nations that are fully submissive to Western political and economic interests – Indonesia, Philippines, Paraguay, Uganda, Kenya, Qatar, Bahrain, and almost the entire Eastern Europe. There are so many places like that – it is impossible to list them all.
Vltchek, Andre: Ukraine, a Fascist Coup?
A Photo Essay
Published: 2014
The 2014 Ukraine coup and aftermath, in photos.
Vltchek, Andre: Ukraine: Lies and Realities
Will the Government Listen?
Published: 2014
Two beautiful Slavic sisters, Ukraine and Russia, pitched against each other: long hair flying in the wind, gray-blue eyes staring forward accusatively, but in the same time with anticipation and love
Vltchek, Andre: U.S.: We Will Break Your Legs
Published: 2019
The US has threatened to deny visas to any ICC personnel investigating possible war crimes by U.S. forces. This should make clear the hypocrisy when the the US cites human rights violations as an excuse to invade other countries.
Vltchek, Andre: Western "Political Correctness" does not make all people equal
In the West, there is a new wave of political correctness at work: it is all about one’s sexual orientation; who has sex with whom, and how. This is a discussion which is clearly encouraged, even invented by, the Western regime: a safe discussion which is aimed at diverting dialogue from topics such as the fact that even in the West a great number of people are living in fear and misery, and that the majority of neo-colonies of North America and Europe are once again being totally, shamelessly exploited. Talking about poverty and exploitation, about military coups triggered by Washington are rarely spoken about. Such discussions are even being portrayed as old-fashioned if not regressive.
Vltchek, Andre: Western Propaganda: So Simple But So Effective
Published: 2016
Western propaganda is actually a perfect apparatus! It is effective and it is almost fully 'bulletproof'. It 'works'!
Vltchek, Andre.; Lubis, Mira: Borneo: Island Devastated, People Oblivious
Published: 2017
Borneo is now synonymous with mining and logging, as well as with terrible plantations that have already cannibalized most of the land. Nothing is being produced, but everything has been extracted.
Vogt, Jay: Western Narrative of Crimea a Pack of Lies Born of Failed Policy and Historical Ignorance
Published: 2015
The Western line on Crimea is so absurd that it actually requires mass historical ignorance to be believed.
Vollmann, William T.: "I am Here Only for Working"
Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE
Published: 2017
A look at the petroleum industry in the United Arab Emirates through conversations with workers and foreign labourers. Many of the labourers come from abroad, work for very low wages, and live in crowded worker's camps designed to service the oil industry.
Vollmann,William T.: Life as a Terrorist
Uncovering my FBI file
Published: 2013
An essay about William Vollmann's uncovering of his FBI file.
Voltaire: Voltaire Quotes
Vos, Sarah Keaveny: How a backwards shirt led to a lesson in kindness for P.E.I. kindergarten class
Published: 2018
Students show their support for one of their own.
Vulliamy, Ed: Bringing up the bodies in Bosnia
Published: 2016
Using cutting edge scientific research, an international organization is digging up mass graves to give victims' families some sense of closure and justice.
Vulliamy, Ed: Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie
Published: 2013
Anabel Hernández, journalist and author, accuses the Mexican state of complicity with the cartels, and says the 'war on drugs' is a sham. She's had headless animals left at her door and her family have been threatened by gunmen.
Vulliamy, Ed; Smith, Helena: Children of the revolution
Published: 2009
When a 15-year-old schoolboy was shot in Athens in December, it triggered the worst civil unrest in Europe since 1968. Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith join the frontline activists to talk anarchic protest, political upheaval and police brutality.

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W. Justin: Philosopher’s Article On Transracialism Sparks Controversy
Updated with response from author
Published: 2017
An article in the current issue of the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia has created such a controversy over the past several days that the members of its board of associate editors have now issued an apology for publishing it.
Wade, Lizzie: It wasn't just Greece: Archaeologists find early democratic societies in the Americas
Published: 2017
Recent discoveries indicate that Tlaxcallan, Mexico is one of several premodern societies around the world that archaeologists believe were organized collectively, where power was shared and commoners had a say in the government that presided over them.
Wade, Lizzie: Polynesians steering by the stars met Native Americans long before Europeans arrived
Published: 2020
On the history of interactions between Polynesians and Native American peoples based on new genetic findings.
Wade, P.J.: Are You Prepared for 21st-Century Interviews?
Published: 2010
Chances are that, if media consider you interview-worthy, you possess a decade or two of experience and knowledge that they believe is valuable. Therefore, the question is not "Do you know enough to answer questions?," but "Can you make your point with clear, fresh 21st-Century relevance?"
Wade, P.J.: Can You Make Your Point Relevant?
Published: 2009
When speaking to the media, the point is, "Can you frame your response cleverly, concisely and memorably in language and context that is extremely relevant to the audience that particular media outlet or journalist is intent on impressing?
Wade, P.J.: Sharpen Up: From Experience To Expertise
Published: 2008
Years of experience do not automatically make you an expert. Nor do "know-it-all" confidence, an encyclopedic memory or Jeopardy-speed retrieval always add up to expert status.
Wade, Robert H.; Sigurgeirsdottir, Silla: Iceland's Loud No
Can't Pay Back, Won't Pay Back
Published: 2011
The people of Iceland have now twice voted not to repay international debts incurred by banks, and bankers, for which the whole island is being held responsible. With the present turmoil in European capitals, could this be the way forward for other economies?
Wadi, Julkipli: CRUCIBLE: Neoliberalism in SEA: A Critical Turn in Philippine South
Published: 2014
Neoliberalism as a frame in understanding domestic issues.
Wadi, Ramona: The School Of The Americas Is Still Exporting Death Squads
Published: 2015
Although rebranded as WHINSEC, the School of the Americas uses the same brutal tactics to destabilize governments in Latin America.
Wadlow, Rene: Reflecting on the International Day to Protect Journalists
Published: 2014
The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution (A/RES/68/163) of December 18, 2013 on The Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity. This landmark Resolution - the first of the General Assembly on the issue -- "condemns unequivocally all attacks and violence against journalists and media workers".
Wainwright, Hilary: Greece: Syriza Shines a Light
Published: 2012
Like a swan moving forward with relaxed confidence while paddling furiously beneath the surface, Syriza, the radical left coalition that could become the next government of Greece, is facing enormous challenges calmly but with intensifed activity.
Wainwright, Oliver: Lost cities #7: how Nasa technology uncovered the 'megacity' of Angkor
Published: 2016
Recent laser surveys have revealed traces of a vast urban settlement, comparable in size to Los Angeles, around the temples of Angkor in the Cambodian jungle. The ancient Khmer capital was never lost … it just got a bit overgrown.
Walberg, Eric: ISIS and the IDF: Canada's Double Standard
Who are the Real Terrorists?
Published: 2014
Why can westerners join the Israeli Defense Forces while westerners joining Islamic State are despised and killed? In what sense is the IDF scenario any less reprehensible than the IS one?
Walberg, Eric: Zionist Theatre
From Zundel to Topham
Published: 2015
The trials of Arthur Topham, Canadian journalist and publisher of Radical Press, for "hate crime" (2007) and "hate propaganda" (2012) under new Criminal Code "Hate Propaganda" legislation, have resulted in exactly the opposite of what the prosecution and B'Nai Brith, wanted. Instead of quietly muzzling the gadfly critic, the result has been the highlighting of past Jewish hate crimes, and the increasing control by Zionist groups of Canadian politics to promote Israel and censor anti-Zionist criticism.
Wald, Alan: H. Chandler Davis Was a Lifelong Radical and a Moral Touchstone for the Left
Published: 2022
Chan Davis, who died last month at the age of 96, faced down McCarthyite blacklists and imprisonment to pursue a brilliant academic career. Davis knew how to change and learn from political experience, but he always remained loyal to his socialist principles.
Wald, Alan: Fifty Shades of Pulp
Book Review
Published: 2015
Book review of Paula Rabinowitz's 'American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street.'
Wald, Alan: Franz Kafka: In His Times and Ours
Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer
Published: 2017
Book review of Michael Lowy's Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer.
Wald, Alan: From "Triple Oppression" to "Freedom Dreams" - reviews
Against The Current vol. 162
Published: 2013
Reviews of 'Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995' by Cheryl Higashida, 'Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War' by Dayo F. Gore, and 'Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism' by Erik S. McDuffie.
Wald, Alan: An Introduction to E. San Juan: What is Postcolonial Theory?
Published: 1998
The spectacular proliferation of Postcolonial Theory during the past decade has produced a stimulating yet vexing controversy in Marxist circles. This fractious school of cultural criticism evolved from earlier left-wing concerns with cultures of peoples of color in the internal and external colonies of the West, usually treated under the rubrics of “Third World Literature,” “Minority Discourse,” and “Resistance Literature.”
Walker Guevara, Marina: How we did Offshore Leaks China
Published: 2014
A multinational team of journalists spent months combing through secret tax haven records revealing offshore holdings of China’s rich and powerful.
Walker Guevara, Marina: Tips for investigating the mining industry
Published: 2012
Here Marina shares her top tips on investigating the mining industry: from unearthing disclosure of litigation in company reports to checking who funds mining research.
Walker, Chris; Tickell, Oliver: Ghana's farmers battle "Monsanto law' to retain seed freedom
Published: 2014
Ghana's government is desperate to pass a Plant Breeders Bill that would remove farmers' ancient 'seed freedom' to grow, retain, breed and develop crop varieties - while giving corporate breeders a blanket exemption from seed regulations. But the farmers are fighting back.
Walker, Kira: Hitting nature where it hurts: Iran feels the pernicious effects of US sanctions on biodiversity conservation
Published: 2019
Iran is home to a rich and complex array of biodiversity. Efforts to protect its biodiversity have been challenged by decades of economic sanctions and political isolation.
Walker, Peter: After Malheur, the end of the beginning: war for America's public lands rages on
Published: 2016
Those who value public lands - for economic, environmental, recreational and aesthetic values - owe a debt of gratitude to Harney County, Oregon, writes Peter Walker. A violent branch of the Sagebrush Rebellion came to town, and the community told it to go away: the decisive factor in the occupiers' defeat. But the greater war for America's public lands has only just begun.
Walker, Peter: Archbishop of Canterbury embarrassed about church's financial link to Wonga
Published: 2013
Justin Welby 'irritated' to discover Church of England holds indirect £75,000 stake in payday lender he singled out for criticism.
Walker, Richard: Capital's Global Turbulence - Study Review
Published: 1999
ROBERT BRENNER'S THE Economics of Global Turbulence, a book-length study published as issue 229 of the Journal New Left Review, has attracted unusual attention for at least two reasons. Not only is Brenner's factual and theoretical argument formidable in its own terms, but its publication coincided fortuitously with the stock and financial market upheavals triggered by the Asian collapse.
Walker, Richard: An Introduction: Capital's Global Turbulence
Published: 1999
A JOYLESS IRONY of our time is that just as capitalism seemed all-triumphant and the sirens of neoliberalism had declared history to be at an end, the crisis rolling out of Asia has brought the self-regulating global market to its knees. Add to this that at the same time as Marxism as political doctrine has been declared dead, Marxist economics has never been better argued and empirically defended than today.
Walker, Shaun: Azov fighters are Ukraine's greatest weapon and may be its greatest threat
The battalion's far-right volunteers' desire to 'bring the fight to Kiev' is a danger to post-conflict stability
Published: 2014
The Azov battalion, a volunteer militia that has been doing much of the frontline fighting in Ukraine's war against Russian-speaking rebels in the east, may pose a serious threat to the Ukrainian government and the state itself. Many of the battalion's members belong to neo-Nazi groups or adhere to neo-Nazi ideology.
Walker, Shaun: Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity
Big Brother is watching...
Published: 2016
FindFace, new app developed by 26-year-old Artem Kukarenko and 29-year-old Alexander Kabakov,compares photos to profile pictures on social network Vkontakte and works out identities with 70% reliability.
Walkom, Thomas: A damning indictment of the Ontario Liberal government's private power strategy
Published: 2017
Private power is a great deal for private power owners, writes Thomas Walkom. For the rest of us, not so much.
Wall, Kim: The Weekly Package
How Cubans deliver culture without internet
Published: 2017
With limited resources and government restrictions on internet access in Cuba, a thriving underground industry selling digital information has developed.
Wallace, Helen: Genetic Testing of Citizens Is a Backdoor into Total Population Surveillance by Governments and Companies
Published: 2014
The new Chief Executive of the National Health Service (NHS) in England, Simon Stevens, was recently reported arguing that the NHS must be transformed to make people’s personal genetic information the basis of their treatments.
Wallace, Kathleen: The Raid on Lawrence, Kansas
A Midwest Gothic
Published: 2014
Bizarre and gruesome moment in the life of Lawrence, Kansas should give pause to us all when we consider the small and the large of our own lives.
Wallace, Kathleen: To Make Crime, Create Laws
Published: 2020
It is generally considered a beneficial thing for politicians to have on their resumés — that they sponsored many laws during their time in Congress. But how beneficial is that to the rest of us?
Wallace, Kenyon: Province ignored whistleblowers who warned about child abuse at its training schools
An ongoing Star investigation of alleged physical, sexual and emotional abuse at the schools for troubled youth between the 1960s and the 19
Published: 2017
An investigation of alleged physical, sexual and emotional abuse at Ontario training schools between the 1960s and the 1980s found that two officials warned the province of brutal and sadistic treatment at the hands of staff -- warnings the province appears to have ignored.
Wallace, Rob: Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak
Published: 2015
Wallace describes the rise of Ebola, connecting its outbreak to capital-driven shifts in land and changes in the agroeconomic context.
Wallace, Rob; Pabst, Yaak: Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination
Published: 2020
The real danger of each new outbreak is the failure -- or better put -- the expedient refusal to grasp that each new Covid-19 is no isolated incident. The increased occurrence of viruses is closely linked to food production and the profitability of multinational corporations. Anyone who aims to understand why viruses are becoming more dangerous must investigate the industrial model of agriculture and, more specifically, livestock production. At present, few governments, and few scientists, are prepared to do so. Quite the contrary.
Wallace, Robert G.: Industrial Production of Poultry Gives Rise to Deadly Strains of Bird Flu H5Nx
Published: 2017
Debunking the claims of industrial poultry producers that multiple outbreaks of bird flu are due to wild waterfowl, instead providing evidence that industrial farming practices are responsible for the outbreak.
Wallach, Lori: The Corporate Invasion
Government by Big Business Goes Supranational
Published: 2013
A new treaty being negotiated in secret between the US and the EU has been specifically engineered to give companies what they want -- the dismantling of all social, consumer and environmental protection, and compensation for any infringement of their assumed rights. Under the treaty, foreign companies could sue governments directly for cash compensation over earnings lost because of strict labour or environmental legislation.
Wallach, Lori M.: Ten threats to Americans
Published: 2014
Ten contemporary social, economic and political issues posing threats to American citizens.
Wallens, Marjorie: Talk isn't always cheap
Far from being cheap, talk may turn out to be one of the most valuable assets your company owns
Published: 2010
Research in workplace culture shows that face-to-face and peer-to-peer communications are critical in changing behaviour at work.
Walljasper, Christopher: Agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to climate change. But it can also be a part of the solution.
Published: 2019
While past focus has been on industries such as fossil fuels and transportation, new attention is being put on agriculture's role in the climate change solution.
Walsh, David: The ignorant, repressive attack on Frank Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
Published: 2018
A look at Frank Loesser's 1944 song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and the social forces which have aggressively pushed the new 'Puritanism' that seeks to have the song banned.
Walsh, David: The politically driven campaign against Harvard anthropologist John Comaroff
Published: 2022
The attack on Harvard anthropology professor John Comaroff has taken to a new level the campaign to purge American colleges and universities on the basis of anti-democratic identity politics.
Walsh, David: Racialism, art and the Academy Awards controversy
Published: 2016
Should artwork be categorized and presumably appreciated according to whether it represents a male or female, black or white perspective? Many critics, influenced by the prevailing ideology, set up this basic standard: women gain more from art produced by women, Jews from work created by Jews, African-Americans from "African-American art," etc. In ideological terms, these critics, in their obsession with race, are spouting a conception of society and art identified historically with the extreme right.
Walsh, David: The right-wing, racialist attacks on the film Free State of Jones
Published: 2016
The new film written and directed by Gary Ross, Free State of Jones, about a white farmer in Mississippi, Newton Knight, who led an insurrection against the Confederacy from 1863 to 1865, has come under sharp attack by right-wing elements in the American media. By right-wing elements, we mean the "new right" of identity politics advocates.
Walsh, David: US astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson targeted by #MeToo campaign
Published: 2019
American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has become one of the most recent targets of the #MeToo campaign, the sexual witch hunt sweeping the professional middle classes in the US and beyond. Nothing that has come to light so far demonstrates that Tyson is guilty of any wrongdoing. On the contrary, the published material suggests he is the victim of a virulent strain of political and psychological hysteria.
Walsh, John: Threatened with Censorship and Ouster by PEN's Henchmen
Sign the Petition to Remove Suazanne Nossel
Published: 2013
Nossel's appointment may be seen as the most visible and overt symptom of Western subversion that goes back to the very founding of the "human rights" NGO’s
Walsh, Judi: If Your Business is Struggling, Check Your Talent Management Strategy
Published: 2010
Today's companies must hit the reset button on their talent management strategy because chances are their policies are already outdated. In case you have been too busy to notice, your industry has changed and so has your workforce.
Walsh, Judi: If Your Business is Struggling, Check Your Talent Management Strategy
Published: 2010
Today's companies must hit the reset button on their talent management strategy because chances are their policies are already outdated.
Walsh, Kit: EFF to Librarian of Congress: Let Car Owners Look Under the Hood
Published: 2014
The reach of copyright law has expanded so far that it now threatens people's ability to repair their own cars and protect them against malware. Yesterday, EFF launched a legal campaign to fend off that threat.
Walsh, Kit: Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
Published: 2016
Nest Labs, a home automation company acquired by Google in 2014, will disable some of its customers' home automation control devices in May. This move is causing quite a stir among people who purchased the $300 Revolv Hub devices -- customers who reasonably expected that the promised "lifetime" of updates would enable the hardware they paid for to actually work, only to discover the manufacturer can turn their device into a useless brick when it so chooses.
Walsh, Tim: How to Access Digital Files from the Nineties
Published: 2017
In this step-by-step, digital archivist Tim Walsh demonstrates how to access decades old files.
Walshe, Sadhbh: What would life be like if women really did rule the world?
Published: 2014
The author writes about Oppressed Majority, a little film that asked men to walk in women's often objectified shoes.
Walton, Sam: Our Lives are Militarised
Published: 2014
Sam Walton examines the PR strategy of placing soldiers at civil society events.
WAN-IFRA: World Press Trends: What's behind the statistics?
Published: 2015
Technology will always dictate the dominant form of communication. Just as the printing press took over written letters and the internet is taking over the printing press, desktop internet will soon be replaced by mobile internet. Marketers, whose primary job is to communicate, will always choose the most effective platform; meaning that traditional press will receive less advertising over time. In an interview, Milo Milosevic describes how the traditional press is dealing with this shift in technology and revenue.
Wang, Fanxi: In Memory of A Chinese Revolutionary: Zheng Chaolin, 1901-1998
Published: 1998
ZHENG CHAOLIN, A veteran of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and of the Chinese Trotskyist movement, died August 1 in Shanghai. He devoted his entire life to the cause of the liberation of the Chinese workers and peasants, and yet his achievement was far from restricted to the revolution.
Wangari, Njeri: These African animators are saving their native languages using cartoons
Published: 2021
The African continent hosts roughly one-third of the world’s approximately 7,000 living languages. Due to the relentless dominance of international languages such as English and French, native languages are increasingly coming under threat.
Ward, Michelle: Increase in child abuse a big concern during COVID-19 pandemic
Published: 2020
Agencies that serve abused children are bracing for an increase in abuse cases as they reduce their services because of COVID-19.
Ward, Rachel: The casual sexism of being a female journalist
Published: 2015
One or two prejudicial remarks might not mean much but add several hundred together and it can weigh down your confidence. Women in journalism can attest to this fact.
Warnke, Brett: Unlawful Dissent
New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
Published: 2012
The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
Warnock, John W.: Leamington, Ontario: Growing Tomatoes in the Era of Free Trade
Published: 2016
Southwestern Ontario is the historic home of Canadian tomato growers. The bulk of the crop goes to processing, and since 1909 the dominant corporation had been H. J. Heinz, a food giant based in Pittsburgh. But in 2013 the Heinz Corporation was bought by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (26%) and 3G Capital (51%), based in Brazil. It was soon announced that they were planning to close their plant in Leamington. The story has been a snapshot of what has happened to the manufacturing industry in Ontario following the "free trade" agreements with the United States.
Warren, Rosie: Shlomo Sand banned from speaking
Published: 2014
Shlomo Sand, author of The Invention of the Land of Israel, The Invention of the Jewish People, and most recently How I Stopped Being a Jew, was prevented from speaking at the University of Nice.
Washington, Linn Jr.: American Media Ignore Major Murdoch News Corp Scandal
Rupert's Misdeeds
Published: 2013
America’s corporate news media love highlighting David-besting-Goliath stories…except apparently, when the fallen Goliath is major media mogul Rupert Murdoch – the billionaire owner of America’s caustic FOX News and other entities.
WashingtonsBlog: How to Spot - and Defeat - Disruption on the Internet
The 15 Rules of Web Disruption
Published: 2012
Over a number of years, we've found that the most effective way to fight disruption and disinformation is to link to a post such as this one which rounds up disruption techniques, and then to cite the disinfo technique you think is being used.
Wasley, Andrew: Deformities, sickness and livestock deaths: the real cost of GM animal feed?
Deformities, Sickness and Livestock Death
Published: 2013
Feeding animals a diet containing genetically modified (GM) ingredients or more specifically feed made from GM soya and sprayed with the controversial herbicide glyphosate is responsible for deformities and other defects in pigs.
Watson, Paul Joseph: Who Controls The Black Bloc Anarchists?
Published: 2009
Whose interests do the violent actions of the black bloc benefit? The interests of the general public in using free speech as a means of political change? Or the interests of the authorities in providing the perfect pretext with which to crush and outlaw that free speech? You can't overthrow the entire system by smashing one bank and starting a bonfire. Real political change takes generations of struggle, decades of building respected educational platforms, and a gargantuan grass-roots movement focused on taking power on the local level and expanding upwards. Throwing a brick through a window isn't going to achieve anything other than making the vast majority of the general public despise you even more, and support the very systems of power that you are supposedly opposing. The black bloc sect exist to provide the media with violent footage with which to demonize legitimate protesters.
Watson, Steve: SPP Agent Provocateur Cops Caught Red Handed Attempting To Incite Violence
Published: 2007
Peaceful protestors at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello have captured sensational video of hired agent provocateurs attempting to incite rioting and turn the protest violent, only to encounter brave resistance from real protest leaders.
Watt, Nicholas: Scandal forces Cameron to give details on Tory donor dinners
Published: 2012
Information has come to light that the British Prime Minister hosted private dinners in his official residences for wealthy donors.
Watts, Jonathan: The Amazon tribe protecting the forest with bows, arrows, GPS and camera traps
Published: 2015
With authorities ineffective, the 2,200-strong Ka'apor, in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, are taking on the illegal loggers with technology and direct action. Now the Ka'apor are seeking support through NGOs and the media.
Watts, Jonathan: Berta Cáceres, Honduran eco-defender, murdered
Published: 2016
Berta Cáceres, Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner, has been murdered, days after she was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project. Her death has prompted international outrage, and a flood of tributes to a courageous defender of the natural world.
Watts, Jonathan: Indigenous rights are key to preserving forests, climate change study finds
Published: 2016
Leaving forests in communal hands cuts carbon emissions from deforestation, helps communities and offers long-term economic benefits: 'Everyone wins'
Watts, Jonathan: Kenya's 'Erin Brockovich' defies harassment to bring anti-pollution case to courts
Published: 2018
Phyllis Omido is leading a landmark class action demanding a clean-up and compensation from a lead-smelting factory accused of poisoning local residents - including her own son.
Watts, Jonathan: Rio fare protesters seize main station and let commuters travel free
Published: 2014
Watts discusses the economic and political impetus for the seizure of Rio de Janeiro's transit stations by the public in a protest against rising fare prices.
Watts, Jonathan: Rio fare protesters seize main station and let commuters travel free
Riot police, teargas and stun grenades fail to stop passe livre movement taking over Central do Brasil train and bus hub
Published: 2014
Thousands of commuters were shepherded through demolished ticket gates at the Central do Brasil station amid a violent confrontation over proposed fare rises that resulted in fires, arrests and disruption of transport networks. The station in downtown Rio echoed with police percussion grenades and the protesters' celebratory samba drumming as they seized control of the main bank of ticket machines.
Close to a thousand people joined the passe livre (free pass) march, sparked by the announcement by the city mayor, Eduardo Paes, that bus fires will rise from 2.75 reais to 3 reais (£0.75/US$1.25) on Saturday. That may seem cheap compared with London or New York. But for a daily commuter on a minimum monthly wages of 724 reais a month it leaves transport costs at more than a sixth of income."
Watts, Jonathan: Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia offer asylum to Edward Snowden
Published: 2013
President Maduro offers to protect NSA whistleblower 'from persecution by the empire' and rejects US extradition request.
Watts, Jonathan: Water resources - 'The river is dying': the vast ecological cost of Brazil's mining disasters
Water resources are tapped with often reckless abandon and poor regulation. And it looks set to go on under new president.
Published: 2019
Brazil's worst mining disaster in decades has prompted calls to create stronger regulations and enforce them with real consequences rather than small fines that often go unpaid.
Watts, Jonathan: World's conservation hopes rest on Ecuador's revolutionary Yasuni model
Published: 2012
A plan to preserve the most biodiverse region on Earth from oil exploitation has put Yasuni national park at the frontline of a global battle between living systems and fossil fuels. But enthusiasm is cooling and this bold project may now be at as much at risk as the wildlife itself.
Watts, Josh: The Representation of Torture in the 'War on Terror'
Published: 2013
A nation cannot claim to act to promote democracy and human rights whilst it kidnaps citizens the world over, places them in secret detention and tortures them.
Wayne, Leslie: Paradise of Untouchable Assets
Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
Published: 2013
Trusts held in the Cook Islands can put money beyond the reach of the American legal system.
Wayne, Leslie; Carr, Kelly; Guevara, Marina Walker; Cabra, Mar; Hudson, Michael: Leaked Documents Expose Global Companies' Secret Tax Deals in Luxembourg
Published: 2014
Pepsi, IKEA, FedEx and 340 other international companies have secured secret deals from Luxembourg, allowing many of them to slash their global tax bills while maintaining little presence in the tiny European duchy, leaked documents show.
Wayne, Randy; Staves, Mark: Model scientists
Published: 2008
In contrast to the plethora of day-to-day conversations on how to fit into the
administrators directives, this essay provides a historical context, particularly though its extensive bibliography, to encourage today's biologists to question authority and question nature.
Weaver, Matthew: How Brown Moses exposed Syrian arms trafficking from his front room
Published: 2013
A Leicester-based blogger's monitoring of weapons used in conflict has been taken up by media and human rights groups. Never having been near a warzone has not stopped him from breaking some of the most important stories on the Syrian conflict in the last year.
Webb, Kevin: Photoshop Tutorial: Creating a 468x60 Advertising Banner
Published: 2007
It is important to know how to make a simple but eye catching and professional looking banner for your website. Since the majority of web sites rely on advertising to generate traffic, you can imagine how many more hits you can receive if you know how to make such a banner. In this tutorial we will discuss how to make one easily with a few steps.
Webb, Simon: The British Camps
Though it reached its horrific heights at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the British, not the Nazis, pioneered the concentration camp.
Published: 2017
Today, the expression "concentration camp" evokes the horrors of Nazi Germany, conjuring up black-and-white images of Auschwitz and Belsen. But Germans were neither the first nation to make use of concentration camps nor the last.
Webb, Whitney: Coronavirus: What Newsweek Failed to Mention About "Continuity of Government"
Published: 2020
Last week, Newsweek published a report entitled “Inside The Military’s Top Secret Plans If Coronavirus Cripples the Government,” which offers vague descriptions of different military plans that could be put into effect if the civilian government were to be largely incapacitated, with a focus on the potential of the current novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to result in such a scenario.
Webb, Whitney: Thousands Of Israelis Take To The Streets Calling For Palestinian Genocide
Published: 2016
Massive rallies and Facebook campaigns calling for Palestinian genocide are ignored by Western mainstream media and Facebook despite concerns and collaborations aimed at stopping "calls to violence".
Webber, Jeffery R.: Venezuelan Elections: Latest Step in the Long Road
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
"The elections are a mix," the Argentine-Mexican Marxist Guillermo Almeyra suggests, "between a legal and democratic process of conflict resolution, a disguised and mediated, but sharp, class struggle, and a dispute within the Bolivarian process itself — between a bureaucratic-technocratic caste which is securing itself inside the government, Hugo Chávez who maneuvers in a bonapartist fashion, and, finally, the popular struggle to build elements of popular power."
Weber, Bob: Fish habitat protection waning under Harper government, analysis finds
Published: 2015
A statistical analysis of the Conservative government's changes to environmental laws and procedures suggests Ottawa has "all but abandoned" attempts to protect Canada's lakes and rivers.
Weber, Bob: 'Making this up': Study says oilsands assessments marred by weak science
Published: 2019
The environmental impact assessments required by oil companies use such inconsistent criteria that their reports say have little reliable information about one of the most heavily industrialized landscapes in Canada.
Weber, Max: Max Weber Quotes
Webster, Dennis: Dunlop Factory (South Africa): The workers who won't snitch
Published: 2018
Metalworker union Numsa files legal arguments in the Constitutional Court on on behalf of Dunlop factory workers from Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, after workers were dismissed because they did not snitch on fellow workers during a protected strike.
Wedes, Justin: We Must Support Detroit's Fight for the Right to Water
Published: 2014
Detroit is shutting off water to 40% of residents to prepare the water system for a corporate buyout. Residents are organizing to resist the water shuttoffs, anti-democratic rule and the demands of Wall Street - but they need our help.
Weeks, John: For an easy win on carbon emissions - cut global trade!
Published: 2014
If the world's leaders really cared about climate change, there's one easy way to reduce emissions -- drop the obsession with increasing trade, and all the pollution that goes with it. A world based on local production, consumption and finance will be a better one for people and the environment.
Wegemer, Chris: Letter to the Editors
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
The argument for sweatshops comes not only from “free market” ideologues but sometimes from voices of establishment liberalism. An argument against.
Weignberge, Sharon: The Pentagon's Half-Billion-Dollar Drone Boondoggle
Published: 2015
Rivalry between the Army and Air Force over Predator drones may have cost the Pentagon over $500 million in wasteful spending, according to a report released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Weil, Janet: Gunman as Hero, Children as Targets, Iraq as Backdrop
Published: 2015
American Sniper, directed by Clinton Eastwood about Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle,
is not only the latest blockbuster but also a war propaganda.
Weill, Kelly: Edits to Wikipedia Pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo Traces to 1 Police Plaza
Published: 2015
Wikipedia content can be freely changed by anyone. Unfortunately, this also seems to mean that Wikipedia can be freely censored. A police department is under investigation for altering pages related to cases of police brutality which they were involved with.
Weinberg, Paul: Hassan Diab, trial in absentia
Published: 2023
Hassan Diab's supporters are demanding that the government not put him through another unfair extradition hearing based on thin evidence.
Weinberg, Paul: The Last Post Files: Fighting subversion or protecting the government from embarrassment?
Published: 2013
The Last Post was one of the best alternative publications of the 1970s. While the small team of journalists was creating solid investigative journalism, the RCMP Security Service was keeping a close watch. One of its aims? Protect the government from embarrassment.
Weinberg, Paul: Political activist Ken Stone takes CSIS to task for alleged harassment
Published: 2015
What is it like to be targeted by Canada's spy agency? Veteran anti-war and environmental activist Ken Stone knows firsthand and is willing to talk about it.
Weinberg, Paul: The Praxis Affair
Published: 2015
A cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting groups before it was eventually disbanded.
Weinberg, Paul: The Praxis Affair
There's a reason we put limits on spying within Canada
Published: 2015
This is a cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting groups before it was eventually disbanded, its spying responsibilities handed to a newly formed Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
Weinberg, Paul: Sources publisher Barrie Zwicker looks back - and ahead
Published: 1997
Weinrib, Laura: The Radical Roots of Free Speech
Published: 2019
Interview with Laura Weinrib author of "The Taming of Free Speech: America's Civil Liberties Compromise."
Weinroth, Michelle: Liberals' Neglect of Hassan Diab a Scar on Canada's History
Published: 2017
An innocent Canadian citizen has been wrongly incarcerated by foreign powers and torn away from his family, but our country's leader seems unfazed.
Weir, Alison: Christian Evangelicals Increasingly Support Palestinian Human Rights
David Brog, the Attorney Behind CUFI
Published: 2014
Support for Israel is eroding among American evangelical Christians, with only 30 percent in a recent survey stating support for Israel above Palestinians.
Weir, Alison: Introduction to the Israel Lobby
Published: 2014
The Israel lobby is one of the most powerful and pervasive special interest groups in the United States. It consists of a multitude of powerful institutions and individuals that work to influence Congress, the president, academia, the media, religious institutions, and American public opinion on behalf of Israel.
Weir, Alison: Israel's New Travel Ban
Published: 2017
Weir calls attention to the bizarre state of affairs in which the recent Israeli travel ban denying entry to anyone supporting Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment against Israel is denied entry to Palestine as well as Israel. What right does Israel have, asks Weir, to decide who may or may not visit Palestine?
Weir, Alison: The UN did NOT create Israel
Published: 2013
UN General Assembly Resolution 181, the Partition Plan, was a recommendation that was to go to the Security Council. The resolution requested that the Security Council take it up. This never happened, and the partition plan has no force of law. Israeli propagandists, however, perpetrated the myth that the UN created Israel, and this interpretation was then been repeated by numerous others.
Weir, Alison: Which came first? Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence?
Published: 2014
Since US media are reporting the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza as though it is a defensive action, I thought I would set the record straight. Israeli forces shelled and invaded Gaza BEFORE the rockets began. Rockets were fired only after numerous Palestinians, including many children, had been killed.
Weir, Doug: Why Did the US Use Depleted Uranium Weapons in Syria?
Published: 2017
The recent confirmation by the US that DU ammunition was used in two attacks in Syria in late 2015 raises a number of troubling questions. Firstly, why was DU used? Has it been used again? Will it be used again?
Weir, Rob: Does Wikipedia Suck?
Published: 2010
Students were told to pick a concept, theory, or individual central to their paper, read the matching Wikipedia entry, and assess how useful it is for their research.
Weisberg, Jessica: The Boy Without a Country
Tokyo's painful exclusion of immigrants
Published: 2017
Citizenship in Japan is jus sanguinis -- determined by blood, rather than by place of birth. Though Utinan qualified for Thai citizenship, Lonsan didn’t know how to register his birth from abroad, so he was rendered stateless.
Weisbrot, Mark: America Likes Democracy, Except In Venezuela
Chavez in the Crosshairs
Published: 2012
Venezuelans can be sure that their vote counts. The government in Venezuela has done everything to increase voter registration and participation.
Weisbrot, Mark: Beat off the vulture's swoop
The judge who took an economy hostage
Published: 2014
Emerging economies need to issue their state bonds in financial centres where the law blocks vulture funds from profiting from financial woes. New York is off the list.
Weisbrot, Mark: The Class Conflict in Venezuela
A Classic Struggle of Left v. Right
Published: 2014
The current protests in Venezuela are reminiscent of another historical moment when street protests were used by right-wing politicians as a tactic to overthrow the elected government. It was December of 2002, and I was struck by the images on U.S. television of what was reported as a “general strike,” with shops closed and streets empty.
Weisbrot, Mark: Obama Pushes for Regime Change in Venezuela
Once Again, South America Says No
Published: 2014
When is it considered legitimate to try and overthrow a democratically-elected government? In Washington, the answer has always been simple: when the U.S. government says it is. Not surprisingly, that’s not the way Latin American governments generally see it.
Weisman, Carrie: A Brief History of Penis Worship
Published: 2015
Weisman, Carrie: The Bro Job: Why 'Straight' Men Secretly Have Sex With Each Other
Published: 2015
The term "bro job" generally refers to sex acts taking place between heterosexual men. The phenomenon was recently explored by Dr. Jane Ward in her book Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men, who suggests it's a lot more common than most people may think.
Weisman, Carrie: Cam Girls Tell All: 4 Kinky Ways Guys Like To Be Humiliated
There's somethng out there for everyone
AlterNet had the opportunity to chat with a few women working as cam girls (or more formally, web cam performers. They confirmed that most guys like getting off. To our surprise, some like to do it through humiliation.
Weisman, Carrie: Holy Anal Beads! Christian Sex Industry Is Kinkier Than You'd Think
The market for Christian sex toys
Published: 2015
Sex is important to Christian couples. So long as you're heterosexual and married, you’re encouraged to have as much of it as you want.
Weisman, Carrie: Inside the Rapidly Growing Cam Industry That's Changing the Porn Industry as We Know It
Published: 2015
The camming industry, also known as the live content industry, has blown up in the past few years. And it’s unique in the fact that it’s all but carved a space for every kink out there.
Weiss, Elizabeth: The Problem of Sex Discrimination in Indigenous Archaeology
Published: 2022
Discrimination still faced by women who toil away in the fields of anthropology and archaeology.
Weiss, Jessica: Five tips for creating a more gender-balanced newsroom
Published: 2014
A discussion the state of gender equality in the newsroom. Provides tips on how to improve gender balance.
Weiss, Kenneth R: Poisoned: A dying bald eagle and its healers fight for a second chance
Published: 2014
Nearly three-quarters of the 22 lead-poisoned birds that had reached the Teton Raptor Center in recent years either died or were so far gone they had to be euthanized. But this eagle had so far survived what could have been a lethal dose.
Weiss, Philip: Clinton lost because PA, WI, and MI have high casualty rates and saw her as pro-war, study says
Published: 2017
A new study appears to show that Hilary Clinton lost the battleground states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan in the 2016 presidential election because they had some of the highest casualty rates during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and voters there saw Clinton as the pro-war candidate.
Weiss, Philip: Israeli government minister takes credit for 27 U.S. states passing anti-BDS laws
Published: 2019
It is considered a huge scandal that Russia allegedly interfered in the 2016 US election but Israel is messing in our politics all the time, and that’s standard operating procedure.
Weiss, Philip: Joyless in Zion
Published: 2018
Israel is held in contempt by much of the western world, and Israelis know it even as they get down to the hard business of shooting border-crossers. The New York Times did a piece suggesting that Israelis have a conscience about the violence they poured forth at the Gaza border, and they hope that it was the right thing to do. But Gideon Levy says they have lost their conscience; and that was my impression too from interviewing Israeli Jews in West Jerusalem. I talked to 20 people. Every one expressed support for the killings. There was simply no dissent.
Weiss, Philip: Struggle for equal rights for Palestinians is 'right choice,' and will lead to 'significant exodus of Jews' - Henry Siegman
Published: 2018
Everyone should read Henry Siegman's long piece in the National Interest on the "Implications of President Trump's Jerusalem Ploy." Siegman is a great leader because he has bucked the American and Jewish establishment, of which he is a member, to declare that the two-state solution is dead and buried. He is also a prophet inasmuch as he is counseling American Jewry to give up its attachment to Zionism as a dead letter, no different from a Christian state here, and so prepare itself for a future in which Israel is isolated as a pariah state and there is a "significant exodus of Israel’s Jews." His words are astounding because Siegman, a Holocaust survivor now in his late 80s, was himself a Zionist, and head of the World Jewish Congress. His bravery in renouncing the animating political faiths of his life-- it's inspiring.
Weiss, Philip: Zionism's endgame has begun
Published: 2021
All around us today we hear these blows falling on the central creed of Israel: the supposed right of a Jewish collective to national self-determination in a land populated by others.
Weissman, Susan: South Africa After Marikana - Interview
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
Suzi Weissman interviews Leonard Gentle.
Weitz, Don: Bill Davis to Open Regent Health Centre
Official Opening DEC.18 [1973]
Published: 1973
After 4½ years of organizing, planning and numerous meetings with health professionals and governmental officials, Regent Park tenants have finally succeeded in getting their own community health centre.
Weitz, Don: City slides into skid row
Published: 1977
Perhaps some city planners and alderpersons are finally starting to take a serious look at Toronto’s skid row areas and the people struggling to survive in them. And just perhaps, they’ll come up with some solid and humane proposals which will get translated into action.
Weitz, Don: How Canada’s Prisons Killed Ashley Smith
A National Crime and Shame
Published: 2014
Weitz, Don: Stop Shock Now: Psychiatry's War Against Women and the Elderly
Published: 2017
Today, most people including many health professionals are surprised to learn that electroshock (ECT) is still prescribed. As we also know, women, particularly elderly women, are the main targets of electroshock -- women over 60 and many in their 80s or 90s have been shocked in Canada.
Weitz, Don; Diemer, Ulli: Don Weitz in conversation with Ulli Diemer
Published: 2016
Activist Don Weitz interviewed by Ulli Diemer, December 8, 2016.
Welch, Andy: Won't Get Fooled Again
Bank fraud is a bigger problem than I had ever realised. Experts suggest one in four of us will be directly affected by bank fraud at one point or another, while millions and millions of pounds is pumped into funding departments such as the ones that sorted out my problem and insurance it took to cover the money stolen. That’s our money, paid in extortionate overdraft arrangement fees in order to finance the whole industry.
Weller, Nathan: Farmer Cooperatives, Not Monsanto, Supply El Salvador With Seeds
Published: 2015
In the face of overwhelming competition skewed by the rules of free trade, farmers in El Salvador have managed to beat the agricultural giants like Monsanto and Dupont to supply local corn seed to thousands of family farmers. Local seed has consistently outperformed the transnational product, and farmers helped develop El Salvador’s own domestic seed supply–all while outsmarting the heavy hand of free trade.
Wells, Jennifer: Why Canada's farm industry is ripe for change
Published: 2017
Ottawa is touting agri-food as an area where Canada's economy can grow globally -- and temporary foreign workers have a key role to play.
Welton, Michael: The Canadian Social Gospel: 1880-1960
What is the social gospel?
Published: 2015
What is the social gospel? It is an attempt to apply Christianity to the collective ills of an industrializing society, and was a major force in Canadian religious, social and political life from the 1880s to the 1960s.
Welton, Michael: Education in the Service of Assimilation: The Founding Vision of Residential Schools in Canada
Published: 2019
A look at some scholarly histories of residiential schools that put paid to Canada's kinder, gentler reputation.
Welton, Michael: Information is Everywhere and Everywhere We are Ignorant
Published: 2015
An international survey of young people in the US and other countries asked 56 questions about geography and current events. The organization’s survey discovered that about 87% of Americans could not place Iraq on the map. Americans could find on average only seven of the 16 countries in the quiz. Only 71% of the surveyed Americans could locate the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest body of water.
Welton, Michael: That Couldn't Be True: Restorying and Reconciliation
Published: 2019
To achieve reconciliation with Indigenous people Canada must let go of the myth of itself as a benevolent force in the world.
Welton, Michael: They Stripped Us of Our Clothes and Assigned Us a Number
Published: 2020
How can one begin to excavate the horrors of a radical resocialization project (from roughly 1876 to 1986) to transform "savages" into "civilized" citizens? In turning First Nations societies upside down, the government and the churches ended up turning themselves upside down, evident in the spiritual and moral degradation of themselves and students under their care.
Welton, Michael: Violet McNaughton: the Mighty Mite Reformer From Saskatchewan
Published: 2018
Violet McNaughton deserves recognition as one of Canada's greatest and most formidable adult educators and co-operator of the twentieth century bar none
Welzenbach, Chris: The Dreadful Chronology of Gaddafi's Murder
Published: 2016
Since 2003, Gaddafi had worked hard to repair his reputation for financing terrorism; his proposal for a trans-African banking system never reached fruition. Freedom and justice were never part of the West's agenda.
Welzenbach, Chris: Force of Evil: Abraham Polonsky and Anti-Capitalist Noir
Published: 2018
Policy lies at the heart of Abraham Polonsky’s Force of Evil, arguably the most anti-capitalist film ever to emerge from Hollywood. Released 70 years ago to puzzled critics and an indifferent public, over time it would achieve cult status among devotees of film noir while offering a tantalizing glimpse of what might have been accomplished by Polonsky and other members of the Hollywood Left had the blacklist not intervened.
Wende, Hamilton: 'Our Auschwitz, our Dachau'
Reckoning with Germany's genocide in Namibia
Published: 2022
Wende, Hamilton: Reckoning with Germany's genocide in Namibia
Published: 2022
Wentzell, Tyler: The Toronto Reference Library's rich collection of Communist newspapers
Published: 2019
Werner, Maximilian: Why (Mostly) Men Trophy Hunt: a Biocultural Explanation
Published: 2018
A review of several studies offering insights into the biological basis of human behavior, specifically trophy hunting, and the biologically responsive strategies for changing it.
Wesangula, Daniel: Kenyans Forced Off Tea Highlands By British Colonialists Seek Justice
Published: 2017
Kericho -- One of hundreds of elderly Kenyans seeking to sue the British government for alleged displacement and torture by its colonial predecessor in 1934 to plant tea on their family land, in a case that could encourage other former colonies to press similar claims.
West, Cornell: Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle
Published: 2018
Coates represents the neoliberal wing of the black freedom struggle that sounds militant about white supremacy but renders black fightback invisible. This wing reaps the benefits of the neoliberal establishment that rewards silences on issues such as Wall Street greed or Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and people. The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: any analysis or vision of our world that omits the centrality of Wall Street power, US military policies, and the complex dynamics of class, gender, and sexuality in black America is too narrow and dangerously misleading. So it is with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ worldview.
West, Mae: Mae West Quotes
West, Sarah Myers: Research Shows Internet Shutdowns and State Violence Go Hand in Hand in Syria
Published: 2015
When an oppressive regime blocks Internet access during social unrest, violence usually follows. This is a pattern that has become famous with the Arab Spring but is the violence that follows a response to the repression of free speech? Or is the repression of free speech a means to another end? New research suggests the latter. Using Syria as a case study, it seems that governments blackout the Internet as a means for security forces to gain some tactical advantage when they violently engage protesters.
Westberg, Gunnar: Close Calls: We Were Much Closer to Nuclear Annihilation Than We Ever Knew
Published: 2016
The proposition that nuclear weapons can be retained in perpetuity and never used -- accidentally or by decision -- defies credibility. This unanimous statement was published by the Canberra Commission in 1996. Among the commission members were internationally known former ministers of defense and of foreign affairs and generals.
Westen, John-Henry: Google is spying on your private conversations, manipulating search results
Published: 2022
Interview with Dr. Robert Epstein who has been conducting research on tech companies' roles in American politics.
Weston, Greg; Greenwald, Glenn; Gallagher, Ryan: Snowden document shows Canada set up spy posts for NSA
CSEC conducted espionage activities for U.S. in 20 countries, according to top-secret briefing note
Published: 2013
A top secret document retrieved by American whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals Canada has set up covert spying posts around the world and conducted espionage against trading partners on behalf of the U.S. National Security Agency.
Wetzel, Tom: Learning from Vienna
The city housing program was the work of the Vienna social-democratic movement, based on the city's unions. At the end of World War I, Vienna had lost direct access to its markets in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Because Austria now had to export to the world market, the Austrian unions faced a difficult task if they tried to raise wages to enable workers to afford high rents. Faced with becoming uncompetitive, Austrian employers would put up a stiff fight and some might go bankrupt. This led the social-democrats to develop a strategy for improving workers' standard of living by lowering rents.
Wetzel, Tom: A Self-management Approach to Housing
Published: 2002
Community land trusts (CLTs) have been formed in a number of communities in the USA in response to either disinvestment or gentrification. The CLT acquires land to take it permanently off the market and make it available for the use of the community. As a democratic organization, the CLT is intended to empower the community in determining what is done with land in that area. The CLT may rehab existing buildings, build new houses or apartment buildings, or do other types of development work.
Wetzel, Tom: What is gentrification?
Published: 2004
Both gentrification and disinvestment are processes made up of the activities of certain kinds of social agents or institutions. Landlords, developers, and banks all play key roles. To understand how both decay and gentrification of urban neighborhoods happen, we need to look at the dynamics of capital flows into and out of the built environment.
Weygman, Lorraine: Challenging Times: What's Your Best Bet?
Published: 2009
Innovation is critical for long term success. Look at your business model. Could it use reinventing or critical surgery?
Weygman, Lorraine: Surviving and Thriving in a Crisis
Published: 2001
Surviving and thriving in a crisis means joining hands for support and sharing information clearly, effectively and with respect for the human condition. Remember, you're never alone in a crisis - it just feels that way.
Weygman, Lorraine: Teambuilding
Published: 2010
The team must be capable of achieving results that individuals cannot do in isolation or that is beyond their individual capability. It must have common goals or a purpose which each member recognizes and understands.
Wheeler, Ashley: Farmers join to save the seeds that feed us
Published: 2015
Farmers and growers in south-west England have united to reclaim the lost skill of seed saving. They are determined to grow, develop, share and disseminate open-pollinated seeds, and oppose EU laws granting commercial plant breeders a legal monopoly on the seeds that sustain our lives.
Wheeler, Marcy: This is how a police state protects "secrets": Jeffrey Sterling, the CIA and up to 80 years on circumstantial evidence
Published: 2015
Whelan, Ella: Trans ideology has captured the university
Published: 2022
Wheldon, Anne: Solar heat - transforming rural enterprises around the tropics
Published: 2015
Solar energy is not just about electricity. It's also about heat - and three innovative projects highlighted by the Ashden Awards are showing how solar heat can dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of food processing and farming, while helping agricultural businesses increase profits.
White, Ben: Israeli torture of Palestinian children 'institutional'
Published: 2017
Investigation of the practice of torture by Shin Bet interrogators, revealing the practice as systematic.
White, Ben: Israel's atrocities in Gaza prompt unprecedented political fallout
Published: 2014
"Carnage" in Gaza – "the killing of children and the slaughter of civilians". Not the words of a Palestinian spokesperson but rather French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. Australia's FM Julie Bishop condemned what she called "shocking" and "indefensible" incidents, with "hundreds of innocent people" killed.
White, Ben: Shocked by Donald Trump's 'travel ban'? Israel has had a similar policy for decades
Published: 2017
Describing how President Trump's stances and policies on immigration, borders and torture draws heavily from existing policies and tactics of the Israeli state.
White, Jerry: Judge approves Detroit bankruptcy plan
Published: 2014
The more than yearlong bankruptcy case in Detroit concluded Friday with a US judge sanctioning a savage restructuring plan for the city, which creates a new precedent for an assault on public workers throughout the United States.
White, Rachel: Review: Memoirs of An Underground Woman
Published: 1999
UNDERGROUND WOMAN. My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conductor, by Marian Swerdlow. Temple University Press, 1998; $18.95 paper.
White-Crummey, Arthur: Doctor suspended from U of O residency after pro-Palestinian social media posts
Published: 2023
A petition is calling for the reinstatement of a doctor who says he was suspended from his medical residency at the University of Ottawa after posting pro-Palestinian messages on social media that were also critical of Israel. Dr. Yipeng Ge has posted multiple times on social media supporting the Palestinian cause, including by criticizing what he calls "apartheid upon Palestinian people" and "settler colonialism."
Whitehead, Alfred North: Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
Whitehead, John: The Attack On Civil Liberties In The Age Of COVID-19
Published: 2020
You can always count on the government to take advantage of a crisis, legitimate or manufactured. This coronavirus pandemic is no exception.
Whitehead, John: Freedom for the Speech We Hate: a Legal Guide to Your Protest Rights
Published: 2017
A list of Constitutional questions and answers, including laws and guidelines for peaceful protesting, aimed at promoting the effectiveness of the First Amendment.
Whitehead, John W.: Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat?
Published: 2020
Emboldened by the citizenry's inattention and willingness to tolerate its abuses, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expands its powers. The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, asset forfeiture schemes, road safety schemes, school safety schemes, eminent domain: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the police state's hands.
Whitehead, John W.: Don't Call the Cops If You're Autistic, Deaf, Mentally Ill, Disabled or Old
Published: 2017
When people entering the police service are trained to be military warriors instead of peace officers, tense situations involving some of our society's more vulnerable people will more likely end violently.
Whitehead, John W.: How a Police State Will Deal With the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published: 2020
What do zombies have to do with the U.S. government’s plans for dealing with a coronavirus outbreak?
Whitehead, John W.: Killer Instincts: When Police Become Judge, Jury and Executioner
Published: 2016
Those responsible for this policing crisis are none other than the police unions that are helping police officers evade accountability for wrongdoing; the police academies that are teaching police officers that their lives are more valuable than the lives of those they serve; a corporate military sector that is making a killing by selling military-grade weapons, equipment, technology and tactical training to domestic police agencies; a political establishment that is dependent on campaign support and funding from the powerful police unions; and a police state that is transforming police officers into extensions of the military in order to extend its reach and power.
Whitehead, John W.: Policing for Profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.'s Thinly Veiled Plot to Rob Us Blind
Published: 2017
Commentary on 'policing for profit', or civil asset forfeiture, which allows police and prosecutors to seize property and sell it to help fund agency budgets.
Whitehead, John W.: Say No to 'Hardening' the Schools with Zero Tolerance Policies and Gun-Toting Cops
Published: 2018
The last thing the school system needs is harsher penalties and armed guards which turn students into 'inmates'. Schools in the Unites States are already heavily policed, with School Resource Officers (SRO) funded by the Deptartment of Justice, and harsh penalties for kids as young as 4-5 years old.
Whitehead, John W.: "Show Me Your Papers!" Roundups, Checkpoints and National ID Card
Published: 2018
With the government empowered to carry out transportation checks to question people about their immigration status within a 100-mile border zone that wraps around the country, you're going to see a rise in these "show your papers" incidents. That's a problem.
Whitehead, John W.: When Welfare Checks Turn Deadly
Published: 2019
The disabled and mental ill encur growing risks and dangers when interacting with police as their actions are often interrupted as hostile or dangerous. Such misinterruption often result in a fatal encounter with law enforcement.
Whitehead, Peter: Crisis Fund for Independent Media
Published: 2009
The global financial crisis is threatening to silence independent news outlets more effectively than any government. The Media Development Loan Fund's (MDLF) Crisis Fund is providing vital support to help clients survive the recession.
Whitford, Ben: Protect our sacred water!
Published: 2014
The curse of Uranium has fallen once again on the Black Hills of South Dakota, ancestral home to the Lakota Indians - now fighting a massive mining project that threatens land, rivers and groundwater.
Whitman, Elizabeth: In Home Gardens, Income and Food for Urban Poor
Published: 2013
A slowly but steadily growing phenomenon in Jordan, urban agriculture has vast potential for reducing poverty and improving food security, and it has the added benefit of greening and cleaning up more rundown sections of cities.
Whitman, James Q: Why the Nazis studied American race laws for inspiration
Published: 2016
On 5 June 1934, about a year and half after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich, the leading lawyers of Nazi Germany gathered at a meeting to plan what would become the Nuremberg Laws, the centrepiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi race regime. The meeting was an important one, and a stenographer was present to take down a verbatim transcript. That transcript reveals a startling fact: the meeting involved lengthy discussions of the law of the United States of America.
Whitney, Joel; Scheer, Robert: The CIA's 60-Year History of Fake News: How the Deep State Corrupted Many American Writers
Published: 2017
In this week's episode of "Scheer Intelligence," Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer interviews Joel Whitney, author and co-founder of Guernica magazine.Whitney's new book, "Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers," explores how the CIA influenced acclaimed writers and publications during the Cold War to produce subtly anti-communist material. During the interview, Scheer and Whitney discuss these manipulations and how the CIA controlled major news agencies and respected literary publications.
Whitney, Mike: Afghanistan: the Smell of Defeat
Cut-and-Run Time
Published: 2012
The United States hasn’t liberated Afghanistan. It hasn’t rebuilt Afghanistan. It hasn’t removed the warlords from power, curtailed opium production, established strong democratic institutions, or improved life for ordinary working people. The US hasn’t achieved any of its strategic objectives.
Whitney, Mike: Assad's Death Warrant
Published: 2016
The war in Syria did not begin when the government of Bashar al Assad cracked down on the uprisings in the spring of 2011, but rather the war began in 2009, when Assad rejected a Qatari plan to transport gas from Qatar to the EU via Syria.
Whitney, Mike: Beating Uncle Sam at His Own Game
The Skirmish in the Spratlys
Published: 2015
Washington has thrown down the gauntlet in the South China Sea. If Beijing wants to preserve its independence and surpass the US as the world's biggest economy, it's going to have to meet the challenge, prepare for a long struggle, and beat Uncle Sam at his own game. It won’t be easy, but it can be done.
Whitney, Mike: The Biggest Heist in Human History
Published: 2016
The only way stimulus can work is if its put where it’s needed. And we can now say with 100 percent certainty, that the Fed’s stimulus wasn’t put where it was needed which is why it hasn’t worked.
Whitney, Mike: Can You Figure Out What This Chart Means?
Published: 2016
The U.S. economy is in the throes of the lousiest recovery since World War 2. The so called monetary stimulus has failed to lift the economy out of the doldrums or produce the robust recovery that they promised. Instead, US gross domestic product, (GDP) has been plodding-along at an abysmal 2.2% since 2009, which is far below the 3.6% average of the prior 60 years.
Whitney, Mike: Comey's Lies of Omission
Published: 2017
An examination of testimony by FBI Director James Comey, which pitted President Donald Trump against the powerful US foreign policy establishment that aims to punish the President for not being 'sufficienty hostile' to the Kremlin.
Whitney, Mike: The Fallujah Option for East Ukraine
The Real Reason Washington Feels Threatened by Moscow
Published: 2015
Washington needs a war in Ukraine to achieve its strategic objectives.
Whitney, Mike: Is This Class Warfare?
Published: 2016
Is there a conspiracy to keep wages from rising or is it just plain-old class warfare? Well, what do you know? Everywhere the global bank cartel has its tentacles, wages are either flatlining or drifting lower."Coincidence", you say? Not bloody likely, I say. There's either policy coordination between the various heads of state and their central banks or wealthy elites have secretly seized the levers of power and imposed their neoliberal dogma when no one was looking.
Whitney, Mike: Liberals Beware: Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas
Published: 2017
An examination of the dishonesty in the New York Times' efforts to undermine President Trump, and broader criticisms of other tactics used by the liberal establishment to the same end.
Whitney, Mike: Markets Gone Mad
Published: 2015
Until recently, stocks had been on a tear that pushed valuations into the stratosphere. Volatility stayed low because Bernanke's easy money and QE made investors more placid, serene and mellow. They ventured further out on the risk curve and took more chances because they were convinced that the Fed "had their back" and that there was nothing to worry about. Then things began to fall apart.
Whitney, Mike: The Russian Hacking Story Continues to Unravel
Published: 2017
An examination of the text from a recent report by an IBM executive, which disproves the claim that Russia interfered in the US elections or hacked the servers at the DNC.
Whitney, Mike: The U.S. Pushed North Korea to Build Nukes: Yes or No?
Published: 2017
Washington's policy toward North Korea for the last 64 years entirely based on the assumption that you can persuade people to do what you want them to do through humiliation, intimidation and brute force.
Whitney, Mike: A Warning From the B.I.S.: the Calm Before the Storm?
Published: 2016
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is worried that recent ructions in the equities markets could be a sign that another financial crisis is brewing. In a sobering report titled "Uneasy calm gives way to turbulence" the BIS states grimly: "We may not be seeing isolated bolts from the blue but the signs of a gathering storm that has been building for a long time."
Whitney, W. T.: As Pandemic Rages, US Economic Sanctions Against Cuba are Deadly
Published: 2020
We know that for almost 60 years the U.S. government has blockaded Cuba and, in the process, has damaged Cuba's economy and threatened the health and safety of the Cuban people.
Whitney, W. T.: US Must Return Its Political Prisoner Simón Trinidad to Colombia
Published: 2020
Murderous violence and oligarchy were in charge in Colombia during the 20th century. Colombians by the millions were marginalized, impoverished, and/or displaced from small land holdings.
Whitney, W.T.: UN General Assembly in One Voice (Almost) Rejects U.S. Cuban Blockade
Published: 2015
The United Nations General Assembly on October 27, 2015 voted on a Cuban resolution calling for "an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba." Approval was all but unanimous: 191 nations voted in favour and two voted against, the United States and Israel. There were no abstentions for the first time since the voting on the resolution began in 1992.
Whitney, W.T.: U.S. Imperialists Deprive Cuba of Syringes That Are Needed Now
Published: 2021
Cuba, the first Latin America country to develop its own COVID-19 vaccines, presently is short of syringes for immunizing its population against the virus. It’s not feasible for Cuba to make its own syringes. The U.S. blockade prevents Cuba from importing them from abroad.
Whitty, Stephen: As opportunities to see old movies fade, so does basic cinematic literacy
Published: 2022
When it comes to the movies many people feel comfortable ignoring anything made before they were born. Black-and-white movies? Forget it. Silent films? Are you kidding? And I’m not even talking about teenagers, or casual fans. I've taught film students - many of whom want to make their own movies - who seem to think cinema started with 'Pulp Fiction.'
Whyman, Ritch: In the Aftermath of the G20: Reflections on Strategy, Tactics and Militancy
Published: 2010
The tactics of the Black Bloc make it clear that, for them, it is more important to smash windows than to try and march with thousands of workers and engage them in arguments about how to move struggles forward or that the problem is capitalism. How radical is it to trash a few windows? For us, radical is about workers gaining confidence and consciousness to fight back, not just at work, but in solidarity with others. Radical is about developing a sense of mass power, organising based on moving others into struggle, winning others to challenge the power in their workplace or community collectively, beyond the individualization of our society. Radical is about going to the roots of the system - not trashing its symbols.
Wickens, Jim; Paraic O'Brien, Paraic: Romania - a Peasants' Revolt against Fracking
Published: 2014
Earthquakes and poisoned wells are setting off a revolt against fracking in Romania, revealing deep fault lines between the rural heartlands and the urban political elite.
Wickrematunge, Lasantha: And Then They Came For Me
Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
Published: 2009
An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
Widener, Daniel L.: In Honor of Assata Shakur
Published: 1999
IN 1739, A group of predominantly African-born slaves in South Carolina launched one of North America's largest and costliest revolts. Veterans of the civil wars which proliferated in the wake of the Atlantic Slave trade, fluent in Portuguese and proud Catholics (whose King, as a sovereign voluntary convert, possessed independent relations with Rome), this rebel troop felt powerfully the pull of freedom promised by the Spanish settlement at St. Augustine.
Widener, Daniel L.: Radical Rhythms: A Band Whose Time Has Come
Published: 1999
THE DRUMS ARE first, pushing polyrhythmically forward. Horns and whistles join, building the samba until, finally, the voices respond. The desfile (parade) winds through, the band takes stage. Ya llego Ozomatli. Ozomatli has arrived.
Wieditz, Thorben: Waterfront Toronto: Google's de facto Development Arm in Canada
Published: 2020
Big tech’s smart city initiatives aim at taking over governance and decision-making functions in cities around the world.
Wiens, Karl; Gordon-Byrne, Gay: Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics
Published: 2017
In an era when reparations to electronics such as digital devices is becoming increasingly more difficult, pending U.S. legislation could force manufacturers to make repair parts and information available at fair prices.
Wiesnner, Siegfried: Indigenous Sovereignty: A Reassessment in Light of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Published: 2007
This Article explores the concept of "indigenous sovereignty" against the backdrop of the resurgence of indigenous peoples as actors in international and domestic law and policy.
Wight, John: London Terror Attack: It's Time to Confront Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia
Published: 2017
In the UK people are dealing with the aftermath of yet another terrorist attack in which innocent civilians were butchered and injured, this time in London. It is time for an honest conversation about Wahhabism, specifically the part this Saudi-sponsored ideology plays in radicalizing young Muslims both across the Arab and Muslim world and in the West.
Wight, John: Nelson Mandela's legacy hijacked to help West sell liberal agenda
Published: 2018
Wight explains why the distortion of Nelson Mandela's legacy by champions of Western liberalism is "sickening and obscene".
Wight, John: Why Sitting Bull was right about Washington's lack of integrity
Published: 2016
That integrity is a foreign land where Washington is concerned is an inarguable fact. In the latest example, the failure to complete the construction of a nuclear disposal plant agreed with Russia once again leaves Washington's credibility in tatters.
Wikipedia collective: Black War
Published: 2017
The Black War was the period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Australians in Tasmania from the mid-1820s to 1832. The conflict, fought largely as a guerrilla war by both sides, claimed the lives of more than 200 European colonists and between 600 and 900 Aboriginal people, all but annihilating the island's indigenous population.
Wilce, Rebekah: Poison Papers Snapshot: HOJO Transcript Illustrates EPA Collusion With Chemical Industry
Published: 2017
A commentary on the "Poison papers", chemical industry and regulatory agency documents and correspondence stretching back decades, which shed light on what was known about chemical toxicity and practices in the often-incriminating words of the participants themselves, and which still have implications for us today.
Wild, Angela C.; Murphy, Megan: Interview: Angela C. Wild of #GetTheLOut on Pride in London and Lesbian erasure
Published: 2018
Meghan Murphy interviews Angela C. Wild about the recent Lesbian protest at Pride in London and the state of the LGBT movement today.
Wilde, Oscar: Cold as Ice
Published: 2018
An excerpt from a letter written in 1897 to the editor of the British newspaper the 'Daily Chronicle'. The letter is included in "The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde", published by Harvard University Press. The letter is an appeal and commentary on the harsh and cruel treatment of children being held in English prisons.
Wilde, Oscar: Oscar Wilde Quotes
Wildeman, Jeremy: How Canada could use the Saudi quarrel to help the Middle East - and itself
Published: 2018
Saudi Arabia's overreaction to Canadian criticism on human rights provides an opportunity for Canada to rethink Middle East policy. Such a policy, based on universal human rights, would greatly benefit not just Saudi Arabians but those in the broader Middle East, and also Canada.
Wildeman, Jeremy: Undermining the Democratic Process: The Canadian Government Suppression of Palestinian Development Aid Projects
Published: 2017
This paper examines the government suppression of Canadian development sector organisations running Palestinian aid projects from 2001 to 2012; based on document analysis, policy analysis and original interviews with coordinators running aid projects, it describes how their work was almost universally undermined by the Canadian government.
Wildeman, Jeremy; Badarin, Emile: How the EU's principled pragmatism sows strife in the Middle East
Published: 2018
A look at how the European Union is creating greater instability, distrust, and casualties like Jamal Khashoggi, by trading fundamental values such as human rights for more practical avenues coined as "principled pragmatism".
Wildeman, Jeremy; Mazzoleni, Matteo: Giving a Voice to Local NGOs in a Flawed Global Aid Environment
Published: 2017
Driven by wealthy donor countries, the global aid environment is flawed and unbalanced, and evidence suggests it is taking advantage of the regions they are supposed to be helping.
Wilford, Greg: 'Atheist Muslim' says bigoted Donald Trump supporters have hijacked debate on Islam
'The left is wrong on Islam - the right is wrong on Muslims,' says author Ali Rizvi
Published: 2017
Author Ali Rizvi claims that people on the left and the right of the political spectrum are both unable to distinguish between "Islamic ideology and Muslim identity", preventing honest conversations about the link between religion and terrorism.
Wilkins, Bret: A Brief History of American Torture
Published: 2018
The recent appointment of Gina Haspel as Head of the CIA reopens a dark chapter in US history -- the "enhanced interrogation", or torture of men, women and children. It also emphasizes the fact that no American officials who sanctioned, devised, supervised or implemented torture have ever been brought to justice for these crimes against humanity.
Wilkins, Brett: A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
Published: 2019
An overview of ethnic cleansing and civilian concentration camps in the US starting with the Trail of Tears.
Wilkins, Brett: Killing for Credibility: A Look Back at the 1999 NATO Air War on Serbia
Published: 2019
A detailed look back at NATO's 1999 war on Yugoslavia.
Wilkins, Brett: 'What Are They Afraid Of?': Columbia Law Review Board Shuts Down Website Over Nakba Article
Published: 2024
The author of the 106-page piece said the suppression attempt is "reflective of a pervasive and alarming Palestine exception to academic freedom."
Wilkinson, T.P.: Journalism and Pornography
Real crime is always organised
Published: 2017
As long as we cannot name something that is bothering us, we have an enormous if not insurmountable impediment to action. The capacity for titillation, for erotic stimulation even with simultaneous pain, is enhanced by suspension of belief or cognition. This is what pornography does and it is also the function of compatible journalism.
Wilkinson, T.P.: The State as Protection Racket
Chapters in the History of Daylight Robbery
Published: 2010
The debate about the current global economic "crisis" is obscenely counterintuitive and illogical to the point of incoherence. Who is willing to 'follow the money"? This dictum appears utterly forgotten, despite recurring astronomic fraud perpetrated by US corporations.
Wilkinson, Tracy: Gunmen torch vital records of rights group in El Salvador
Published: 2013
Gunmen in El Salvador early Thursday burst into the offices of a human rights agency that focuses on children missing from the country’s civil war, torching documents and taking away computers.
Willaims, Jamie: Victory for the Press: Germany Drops “Treason” Investigation of Digital Rights Blog (But Investigation of Sources Still Ongoing)
Published: 2015
After much public outcry, the treason investigation into German blog Netzpolitik.org was paused late last week. Yesterday, we were glad to hear that it had been officially dropped.
Willcocks, Paul: Big Loser in Wente Plagiarism? Globe's Reputation
Published: 2016
Margaret Wente has been busted, again, for plagiarism. The paper's response, again, has been wholly inadequate. The first scandal, in 2012, damaged the Globe's credibility, largely because of the way it mishandled the affair.
Willcocks, Paul: Who, or What, Is Behind Postmedia's Election Endorsements?
When hedge funds own newspapers, it's difficult to know
Published: 2015
Did thoughtful editors at Postmedia's daily newspapers across Canada consider the needs of their communities and then unanimously decide to endorse the Conservatives in election editorials?
Williams, Casey: Has Trump Stolen Philosophy's Critical Tools?
Published: 2017
Williams analyzes how U.S. President Trump is able to exploit the post-modernist view of the subjectivity of truth in order to wield power over how Americans perceive their own reality.
Williams, Charles: The Making of Jericho Road
Against The Current vol. 132
Published: 2008
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
Williams, Chris: Mass murder in a Turkish coal mine
Over 300 miners have been killed by a system that values fossil fuels and profits above the lives of those who are paid poverty-level wages
Published: 2014
Think about the last time you reached the top of a mountain one mile high. Now think about descending that distance below the surface of the earth, foot by dark foot, far below all life, light or oxygen. You go down there to dig.
Williams, Chris: On the nature and causes of environmental violence
Published: 2013
We need a much broader definition of violence than is allowed for by limiting its meaning to a physical and immediate brutal act of aggression, and one that includes an environmental dimension.
Williams, Helena: INSI publishes annual analysis of journalist casualties around the globe
Published: 2014
Analysis of journalist casualties from around the globe for the year 2013. Also provides raw data useful for data journalists.
Williams, Jeffrey, J.: Innovation for What? The Politics of Inequality in Higher Education
Published: 2016
Williams discusses why American universities' current trend of advocating innovation ends up prioritizing corporate interests over the gola of accessible education.
Williams, John: Shadow Government Statistics
Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting
Exposes and analyzes flaws in current U.S. government economic data and reporting, as well as in certain private-sector numbers, and provides an assessment of underlying economic and financial conditions, not of financial-market and political hype.
Williams, Karen: An introduction to the Indian Ocean slave trade
Published: 2016
The Indian Ocean slave trade encompassed Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with people from these areas involved as both captors and captives. The numbers of people enslaved and the exact length of the trans-Indian slave trade have not been definitively established, but historians believe that it preceded the transatlantic enslavement by centuries. Even though it is largely ignored as an international slave trade, examples of its impact abound. Writing on Indian Ocean slavery frequently mentions African people in China and Persia as well as in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, which also served as central slave markets.
Williams, Kristian: The Black Panthers in Portland - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 159
Published: 2012
Portland's Black Panthers, the fourth in the Dill Pickle Club’s 10-part Oregon History Comics series, briefly recounts the highpoints in the local organization’s revolutionary activism — the founding of the Portland chapter, police harassment and court cases, and the breakfast program and free clinics.
Williams, Lance: Recording Reveals Oil Industry Execs Laughing at Trump Access
Published: 2019
A 2017 recording of Independent Petroleum Association of America executives reveals them revelling in their access to high levels of government. Since then many environmental protections have been rescinded.
Williams, Margot: Beginner's guide to improving online security
Published: 2014
Investigative journalists like the members of ICIJ are facing growing concerns about security. Our members often work with leaks or other materials requiring protection of sources, collaborate across borders with colleagues at risk for their physical safety, and communicate with devices and services open to surveillance or attack.
Williams, Margot: How to locate a person held in the U.S. prison or immigration detention systems
Published: 2013
Tracing the trail of prisoners incarcerated in the United States can be complicated, but the reward for patient and thorough searching is getting information that would have been much more difficult to find before the availability of online government databases. And equally important are the contact numbers on these web pages, which you can call to confirm or to request additional information.
Williams, Margot: Investigating charities: How to search the finances of nonprofits and foundations
Published: 2013
There’s good news from the U.S. on a research tool for digging into non-profits and private foundations. Why does this data need to be freed?
Williams, Margot: Mastering disaster: How to get the facts to cover humanitarian crises
Published: 2013
In a midst of a humanitarian crisis like the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, information on the disaster pours to and from the media. The situation is in flux and the needs are great, and troubling fragments of news drop in continuously from on-the-ground reports, government briefings, humanitarian responders and social media. It’s often incredibly difficult to answer the basic questions: How many victims? How much destruction? Who will help pay for the emergency response and help with the recovery? Who has already donated money and resources?
Williams, Margot: New website to assist crime and corruption investigations
Published: 2013
For journalists and civil society researchers seeking information to help expose organized crime and corruption across borders, there’s a new “Ghostbusters” to call on for assistance.The Investigative Dashboard, a research tool for cross-border investigations from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), is launching a redesigned web site, expanded databases for public searching and a new feature for subscribers that will help crack cases across the globe.
Williams, Ray: The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the "dumbing down" of America
Published: 2014
There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility.
Williams, Tate: An Activist Actor's Climate Group Is Moving Rapid Grassroots Grants
Published: 2016
Mark Ruffalo's the Solutions Project has quickly grown into a legit national clean energy campaign, and in the past year, a grantmaker. It continues to impress with its new plan to deploy nimble community-based grants.
Williams, Terry Tempest: Divine ecstasy of Nature: Selected Writings by John Muir
Published: 2017
A new collection of John Muir's (1838-1914) writings promises to inspire another generation to fall in love with wild nature, to care for it, to know that wilderness is not optional but central to our survival in the centuries to come. His words survive him. "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike."
Williams, Zoe: Gay Rights: A World of Inequality
Published: 2011
In the 82 countries that still criminalize homosexuality, new NGOs are taking a top down approach to making change. They are liaising with top ranking officials and establishing global legal networks to challange criminalization on the grounds that it contravenes intenational human rights law.
Willis, David S.: Cancelling the Beat Generation
Published: 2021
What is extraordinary is the way in which the assaults on the Beat legacy have now switched from the Right to the Left.
Willson, Kate: How to Background a Person Using Lexis
Published: 2012
ICIJ reporter Kate Willson demonstrates how to background a person using public records on Nexis. Find state or local court records, criminal history, voter registration, property owned, divorce proceedings, neighbors, and more.
Willson, Kate: How to investigate companies on Lexis
Published: 2012
A video guide to searching the Lexis database for companies.
Willson, Kate: How To Search Federal Court Records Using PACER
Published: 2012
A video introduction to the Public Access to Court Electronic Records system (PACER).
Willson, Kate: How To Use Simple Excel Functions for Data Analysis
Published: 2012
In this series of video tutorials, ICIJ reporter Kate Willson demonstrates four basic yet essential Excel functions to assist with data analysis during investigative reporting.
Wilpert, Gregory; Hudson, Michael: How Western Military Interventions Shaped the Brexit Vote
Published: 2016
Michael Hudson argues that military interventions in the Middle East created refugee streams to Europe that were in turn used by the anti-immigrant right to stir up xenophobia.
Wilson, Allison: The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
Published: 2014
Many fracking chemicals are known carcinogens, endocrine disruptors or other classes of toxins. Studies carried out during the ongoing fracking boom, uncovered serious adverse effects including respiratory, reproductive, and growth-related problems in animals and a spectrum of symptoms in humans that they termed “shale gas syndrome”.
Wilson, Damian: Journalists need 'national security' training to stop flow of embarrassing but true NATO stories, defense-backed think tank warns
Published: 2019
With Western armed forces already using embedded reporters to tell the story they prefer, a UK think tank now calls for national security training for journalists so they don't help out Russia or China by telling the truth.
Wilson, Allison: Goodbye to Golden Rice? GM Trait Leads to Drastic Yield Loss and "Metabolic Meltdown"
Published: 2017
While proponents of Golden rice have blamed its failure to reach the market on "over-regulation" of GMOs and on "anti-GMO" opposition, the latest research suggests that problems intrinsic to GMO breeding are what have prevented researchers from developing Golden Rice suitable for commercialization.
Wilson, Colin: Sexuality and capitalism
The Italian Renaissance
Published: 2014
Revolutionary struggles against capitalism have raised, time and again, the issue of sexual liberation. Right at the start of capitalism, the English revolution of the 1640s and 1650s involved what historian Christopher Hill has called a “sexual revolution” against the old order.
Wilson, Damian: For tone-deaf Feminists it doesn't matter that Covid-19 kills almost twice as many men, because 'women bear the emotional brunt'
Published: 2020
Feminists on the frontline of gender politics have seized on a poll they helped publish to push their agenda to the fore in a crisis that has wrecked everyone’s economies and lives. Disproportionate male deaths got a side note.
Wilson, Jennifer: A Forgotten Novel Reveals a Forgotten Harlem
Published: 2017
Wilson brings attention to Claude McKay's novel "Amiable With Big Teeth" which was never published until 70 years after it was written and holds valuable information about an overlooked African American Harlem.
Wilson, Michael S.: Noam Chomsky - Everyday Anarchist
Published: 2013
Interview with Noam Chomsky.
Wilson, Nigel: Eleven years of protesting Israel's occupation
Published: 2016
Al Jazeera spoke with 11 villagers on the anniversary of Bilin's weekly protests against Israel's separation wall.
Winbush, Jeff: Porn stripped of its secrets
Published: 1998
Covering the pornography industry.
Winch, David: Sweden: Apocalypse Not
Published: 2021
From the moment Covid-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, Western public-health agencies presented their publics with a single option: total lockdown of their societies. This was an improvised and untested option with many risks. After more than a year, it is clear that lockdowns did not “flatten the curve” as advertised, or even likely slow the spread, as promised. Societies which avoided this shutdown approach did just as well and even better. Since there were a limited number of states which rejected total lockdowns, the experiences of dissident Sweden and, to some extent, lighter-lockdown Japan had to act as the placebos in this grand medical experiment.
Winder, Daniel Espinosa: Where is this Digital Watergate Propaganda Campaign Going?
Published: 2016
Intelligence sources point out Russian interference in recent elections. However, WikiLeaks-related sources say the Democratic Party’s mail leak was the working of a whistleblower within that institution.
Wineland, Slyvia: Pressing for Press
Published: 1988
A serious attempt to get press coverage can be a campaign in itself. If you really want it, go after it methodically and shamelessly.
Winslow, Samantha: Transit Irony: The More You Rely on It, the More They Cut
Published: 2014
Transit ridership is at its highest since 1956, with 10.7 billion trips in 2013, according to the American Public Transportation Association. This is despite widespread cuts to bus and rail service -- and rising fares. The 2008 economic crisis started the pinch, but federal and local officials have continued to squeeze.
Winslow, Samantha: Transit Irony: The More You Rely on It, the More They Cut
Published: 2014
Winslow discusses the transit situation in Pittsburgh, where officials are implementing a series of budget cuts and fare hikes without improving service to the large number of riders who depend on the service.
Winstanley, Asa: Israel is arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Published: 2018
A report on Israeli weapons and training being provided to anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi soldiers in the Ukraine.
Winstanley, Asa: When Israel's friends in Labour advocated genocide
Published: 2017
Every so often Labour Friends of Israel pays tribute to Richard Crossman, an early activist with the British pressure group and one of the best known British politicians of the mid-20th century. The tributes to the late cabinet minister are not entirely informative.One detail that tends to be omitted is that, when it came to Palestine, Crossman advocated genocide.
Winter, Alex: Deep Web
Published: 2015
A documentary that explores the history and context of the world that these darkened online areas burgeoned from. Focusing on the recent court case of the alleged founder of the online market Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, it's a far more complex and multifaceted story than the media portrays. Deep Web investigates the greater implications for how we will all experience the internet in the future.
Winter, Edward: Chess and Sherlock Holmes
Published: 2012
Sherlock Holmes' famous remark ‘Amberley excelled at chess – one mark, Watson, of a scheming mind’ appeared in ‘The Adventure of the Retired Colourman’ in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927).
Winter, Jana: How Law Enforcement Can Use Google Timeline To Track Your Every Move
Published: 2015
The recent expansion of Google's Timeline feature can provide investigators unprecedented access to users' location history data, allowing them in many cases to track a person's every move over the course of years. The expansion of Google's Timeline feature, launched in July 2015, allows investigators to request detailed information about where someone has been -- down to the longitude and latitude -- over the course of years.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
Wittner, Lawrence: How Rich Are the 400 Richest Americans?
And What They Do With Their Money
Published: 2014
According to Forbes, a leading business magazine, the combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans has now reached the staggering total of $2.3 trillion. This gives them an average net worth of $5.7 billion – an increase of 14 percent over the previous year.
Woelfel, Stacey: The Physics of News
Published: 2009
Discusses globalization and the instantaneous spread of news through online social networking.
Wolchover, Natalie: Why is everyone on the Internet so angry
Published: 2012
A perfect storm engenders online rudeness, including virtual anonymity and thus a lack of accountability, physical distance and the medium of writing.
Wolf, Naomi: US has a new tool to control the masses
No one should want the state to have power to strip your clothes off. And yet that's what is happening, thanks to the supreme court
Published: 2012
Denouncing a new US Supreme court ruling that allows police to strip search any person who is placed under arrest for any offence at any time. Wolf says this state sanctioned sexual humiliation is a troubling anti-democratic development in a nation that is quickly expanding police powers.
Wolfe, Lauren: The silencing crime: Sexual violence and journalists
Published: 2011
Few cases of sexual assault against journalists have ever been documented, a product of powerful cultural and professional stigmas. But now dozens of journalists are coming forward to say they have been sexually abused in the course of their work.
Wolfe, Matthew: Without a Trace
Missing, in an age of mass displacement
Published: 2019
We are entering an age of mass displacement, bearing witness to the first tentative gestures of what promises to be a titanic redistribution of the world's citizenry. More than 68 million people are currently exiled from their homes by violence, more than at any other point in recorded history.
Wolferen, Karel Van: The Insidious Power of Propaganda
Published: 2014
To study the effects of political propaganda in what used to be called the 'free world' there could hardly be a better time than now. We are living through an instance of insidious propaganda that has clean contours. It fills a common need. In a period of large-scale slaughter and other man-made disaster the morally conscious person can do with some clear categories of good and bad, desirable and despicable.
Wolff, Richard D.: COVID-19 Exposes the Weakness of a Major Theory Used to Justify Capitalism
Published: 2020
Wolff argues that COVID-19 exposed orthodox economics -- the idea that capitalists' decisions about investing and producing are inherenty "efficent" -- as a sham.
Wolff, Richard D.: The Debt Ceiling Debate Is A Massive Deception Against The Public
Published: 2023
Opinion piece on the U.S. Congress imposing successive ceilings on the national debt. The piece criticizes the government, media and academics for refusing to admit or consider tax increases as a viable alternative.
Wolin, Richard: France's National Front Draws Strength From Brexit
Published: 2016
The party has long shrouded racism in the language of "self-determination" -- now, they feel vindicated.
Wolkomir, Richard; Wolkomir, Joyce: Noise Busters
Published: 2001
Good neighbors keep their noise to themselves.
Wollstein, Janet: Freedom of Speech Under Siege
Published: 1999
Censorship is the handmaiden of a police state.
Wood, Linda Solomon: Hard work, high pay in tar sands "hell"
Published: 2013
One man's life in the tar sands, as told to a stranger in a conversation on a plane.
Wood, Linda Solomon: Independent journalism pays off with truth and results
Published: 2014
A highlight perhaps because our journalistic effort covering the people and politics of Alberta’s oil sands, as well as the industry’s pipeline and tankers offshoots into B.C., is one of Kickstarter’s most funded journalistic endeavours. 741 people like you pledged $53,040 and powered up this project!
Wood, Linda Solomon: Success, sex, and morality in the tar sands
Published: 2013
A glimpse of what life is like for a certified electrician who is one of three women among 500 employees working on a site in the tar sands.
Wood, Paul: Trump's People
Among the fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa
Published: 2016
Journalist Paul Woods speks with supporters of Donald Trump prior to the 2016 election and examines the appeal and popularity of the candidate by speaking with various supporters during the campaign.
World Rainforest Movement: FAO: Plantations are not forests!
Since 1948 the UN's Food and Agriculture has been clinging to an outmoded definition of 'forests' that includes industrial wood plantations
Published: 2017
The FAO definition considers forests to be basically just 'a bunch of trees', while ignoring other fundamental aspects of forests, including their many other life-forms such as other types of plants, as well as animals, and forest-dependent human communities. Equally, it ignores the vital contribution of forests to natural processes that provide soil, water and oxygen.
Worrall, Simon: 'Badass Librarians' Foil al Qaeda, Save Ancient Manuscripts
Published: 2016
Scholars used donkey carts, boats, and teenage couriers to smuggle a priceless collection out of Timbuktu.
Worth, Jess; Chivers, Danny: Why we should feel positive about Paris
Published: 2015
As the final text of the Paris deal was being wrestled into shape, we were standing near the Arc de Triomphe, underneath a huge red line. This stretch of scarlet fabric was one of many held aloft by chanting and singing members of a 15,000-strong crowd. They - we - were there to demand climate justice; to condemn an international deal that we already knew would cross crucial red lines for the climate. Though the deal was a dud, this was no Copenhagen, argue Jess Worth and Danny Chivers.
Wray, Dianna: Is Harvey Also a Threat to the Air We Breathe?
Published: 2017
Following Houston's catastrophic flooding, petrochemical plants have abruptly started shutting down operations, including ExxonMobil, Petrobras, Shell and Chevron Phillips. While these shutdowns might be necessary, they can also produce significant amounts of air pollution.
Wright, Chris: Privatization is Killing Us: Dispatches from the Capitalist War on Society
Published: 2018
A look at various sectors of society that are suffering under privatization in the United States- including education, the prison system, healthcare, and the environment.
Wright, Christopher; Nyberg, Daniel: Corporate climate risk is about profit, not fixing the problem
Published: 2016
Corporate 'risk management' is concerned with protecting profits, not with protecting the planet or human beings.
Wuerthner, George: Anthropocene Boosters and the Attack on Wilderness Conservation
Published: 2015
A number of academics, commentators, and groups argue that humans have so completely modified the Earth that concepts such as 'wilderness' or 'nature' have become meaningless, and that therefore there is no point in talking about 'preserving' wilderness or natural areas. The idea of 'nature', they say, is just a human cultural construct. Those advancing these ideas use different progressive-sounding labels, such as "pragmatic environmentalists" or "green postmodernism," but their message is that we should forget about wilderness conservation and just get on with the business of 'managing' the planet for human benefit. Not surprisingly, corporate and industry leaders have been jumping on the bandwagon.
Wuerthner, George: Antidote For Rural Sprawl: Land Use Zoning
Published: 2021
There will always be people who will argue that zoning is an infringement upon their freedom to build a home where they choose. Speed limits and traffic lights are an infringement of our freedom to drive at any speed we want, but society recognizes that we would have chaos without such limits. The same principles apply to land use. Most of us recognize that zoning has value. Who doesn’t believe keeping structures out of a river's flood plain or keeping a pig farm out of a residential neighborhood isn’t reasonable? We need to extend that idea to the entire landscape, or we will lose much of what we consider valuable.
Wuerthner, George: The Attack on Wilderness From Environmentalists
Published: 2018
Wildlands are being lost across the globe, and some conservation groups are assisting in that loss by proposing lesser protective status.
Wuerthner, George: The Collaboration Trap
Published: 2018
Most of environmental/conservation groups in the West are participants in various public land collaboratives.Most participating collaborative members are made up of people who generally believe in exploiting natural landscapes for human benefit. As a generalization, there is overwhelming representation in such collaboratives by people who speak for the resource extraction industry or their sympathizers like rural county commissioners, ORV enthusiasts, and so forth.
Wuerthner, George: A Collective Ignorance of Ecosystems
Published: 2019
Loss of genetic diversity is one consequence of the Industrial Forestry Paradigm that dominates the U.S. timber industry and all public agencies from the state forestry agencies to the federal agencies like the Forest Service.
Wuerthner, George: Corporate Welfare in the Forest
Post-Fire Logging Loses Money and Damages the Health of the Ecosystem
Published: 2013
The Forest Service is under extreme political pressure to log our national patrimony, whether it makes any economic or ecological sense. A good example of a needless, ecologically damaging, and economically wasteful logging proposal is the proposed $1.4 million Pole Creek post-fire logging sale.
Wuerthner, George: The Moronic Sport: ORVs on Public Lands
Published: 2008
I do not accept the premise that abuse of our lands is something that we must tolerate as inevitable. It is our land. It is our children's land, and their children's land. We have a responsibility to pass these lands on to the next generation in better condition than we found them.
Talking about promoting 'responsible' ORV use is like suggesting we ought to promote "responsible wife abuse" or "responsible child abuse."
Wuerthner, George: The Problem With Conservation Easements
Published: 2020
The Washington Post recently published an article that repeated the old and flawed idea that ranching will "protect" the land and suggesting conservation easements are the solution to sprawl.
Wuerthner, George: The Real Cost of a Hamburger
The Ecological Consequences of Welfare Ranching
Published: 2014
Do you know what a Big Mac costs? If you say $2.50 or whatever the current price posted at the McDonald’s restaurant may be, you are vastly under-estimating the real price. That’s because $2.50 does not reflect the genuine cost of production. Every hamburger price tag should include a calculation of animal suffering, human health costs, economic and ecological subsidies. None of these bona fide costs is included in the price one pays for a hamburger (or other meats eaten by consumers for that matter).
Wyns, Arthur: A million species 'threatened with extinction'
Published: 2019
A summary of a dire climate report on the decline in global biodiversity.
Wyns, Arthur: Air pollution now 'largest health crisis'
Published: 2018
The WHO estimates that seven million premature deaths are linked to air pollution every year, of which nearly 600,000 are children who are uniquely vulnerable.
Wynter, Coral: The terrible legacy of Agent Orange and dioxin
Published: 2013
Agent Orange was manufactured by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemicals to use as a herbicide and defoliant in the Vietnam War.
Wypijewski, Joann: Oscar Hangover Special: Why "Spotlight" Is a Terrible Film
Published: 2016
I am astonished (though I suppose I shouldn't be) that, across the past few months, ever since Spotlight hit theatres, otherwise serious left-of-centre people have peppered their party conversation with effusions that the film reflects a heroic journalism, the kind we all need more of. I was in Boston in the Spring of 2002 reporting on the priest scandal, and because I know some of what is untrue, I don't believe the personal injury lawyers or the Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team or the Catholic "faithful" who became harpies outside Boston churches, carrying signs with images of Satan.
Wypijewski, JoAnn: What Brett Kavanaugh Really Learned in High School: Make the Rules, Break the Rules and Prosper
Published: 2018
The accusations against Kavanaugh may be an open question but his behaviour in handling them proves he is unfit for the Supreme Court. This is reinforced by his previous evasiveness about his role in the Bush administrations torture policy which called his integrity into question long before Christine Blasey Ford made her accusations.
Wypijewski, Joanne: Primitive Heterosexuality
Carnal Knowledge
Published: 2013

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X, Malcolm: Malcolm X Quotes
X-Net: Warning to Spanish (and Other) Whistleblowers: Anonymous Boxes which ARE NOT ANONYMOUS
Published: 2017
Citizens' victories in the struggle against corruption, sometimes requiring information to be provided through safe anonymous channels like Xnet's Mailbox for reporting corruption, have catalysed a proliferation of similar initiatives within governments and institutions.

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Yaffa, Joshua: The Information Sage
Meet Edward Tufte, the graphics guru to the power elite who is revolutionizing how we see data
Published: 2011
Yakupitiyage, Tharanga: Indigenous Women: The Frontline Protectors of the Environment
Published: 2017
Indigenous women, while experiencing the first and worst effects of climate change globally, are often in the frontline in struggles to protect the environment.
Yakupitiyage, Tharanga: Myanmar Rohingya Face "Textbook Example of Ethnic Cleansing"
Published: 2017
As hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State, thousands that remain in the country face mass atrocities at a scale never seen before.
Yakupitiyage,Tharanga: TPP is "Worst Trade Agreement" for Medicine Access, Says Doctors Without Borders
Published: 2015
The TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] will…go down in history as the worst trade agreement for access to medicines in developing countries, said Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a statement following the signing of the TPP trade deal.
Yassin, Jaime Omar: Demonizing the Victims of Katrina
Coverage painted hurricane survivors as looters, snipers and rapists
Published: 2005
Hurricane Katrina led many media reporters and commentators to reveal themselves and their deep-seated prejudices.
Yates, Jeff; Bellemare, Andrea; Rogers, Kaleigh: Facebook advertisers can write their own headlines for shared news stories
Published: 2019
Advertisers on Facebook are able to completely rewrite the displayed headline for news stories, CBC News has learned, opening the door for potential disinformation to spread on the platform while using news media branding as cover.
Yates, Michael D: Just Wait Until I Get Tenure
Published: 2017
A Facebook friend, Steven Salaita, recently wrote a post about academe arguing that tenure-track professors are kidding themselves if they say they will become more radical once they get tenure. I agreed with his post, and I made a long reply. Here, I incorporate what I said into a more coherent commentary.
Yee,Amy: Bangladesh volunteers learn to make a life-or-death difference in a disaster
Published: 2015
In the wake of the Rana Plaza collapse, civilians - often first on the scene of disasters in poorer countries - are being trained to support emergency teams.
Yeoman: The World Bank Group's Uncounted
Published: 2015
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. Over the last decade, projects funded by the World Bank have physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million people, forcing them from their homes, taking their land or damaging their livelihoods.
Yepe, Manuel E.: The Return of the Coup in Latin America
Published: 2016
Venezuela and Brazil are the scenes of a new form of coup d'etat that would set the continent's political calendar back to its worst times. Meanwhile, in Argentina, the brutal model for the demolition of democracy is set forward by the continental oligarchic right and the hegemonic forces of US imperialism who wish to impose their model in the region.
Yong, Ed: How Brain Scientists Forgot That Brains Have Owners
Published: 2017
Five neuroscientists argue that fancy new technologies have led the field astray.
York, Jillian: Net freedom 'at stake' on WikiLeaks
Published: 2010
Internet service providers are cutting access to the whistleblower site, raising broader concerns about online freedom.
Younes, Ali: Palestinians hail UN list of firms linked to Israeli settlements
Palestinian leaders say report will reinvigorate push to boycott international companies in occupied territories.
Published: 2020
Palestinian leaders have hailed the United Nations Human Rights Office report, which lists firms linked to illegal Israeli settlements, saying it is a critical step towards boycotting Israeli businesses operating in the occupied West Bank. The UN body said it identified 112 business entities - 94 based in Israel and 18 in six other countries - which it has reasonable grounds to conclude have ties with Israeli settlements, which are considered illegal under international law.
Young, Charles M.: Watching the Pentagon Channel
The New Socialist Realism
Published: 2010
The oddest aspect of the Pentagon Channel is how completely they shield their audience - potential soldiers, current soldiers and former soldiers - from what they are defending, which is to say: capitalism.
Young, Kevin: Drug War Winners and Losers
Published: 2015
A review of Dawn Paley's book "Drug War Capitalism."
Young, Kevin: Indians, Leftists, and Rebellion in Bolivia - review
Against The Current vol. 163
Published: 2013
A review of 'Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia' by Jeffery Webber.
Young, Leslie: Size matters: What Berlin's rapid transit would look like in Toronto
Published: 2014
Young contrasts her experiences using the transit systems in Berlin and Toronto so as to offer ideas for improving the TTC's comparatively underwhelming service.
Young, Leslie: Size matters: What Berlin’s rapid transit would look like in Toronto
Published: 2014
Berlin has about 600,000 more people than Toronto and encompasses about 250 more square kilometers, so it's reasonable to expect there to be more subway lines. But not this many: Berlin has 25 subway and urban rail lines; Toronto has three – four, if you include the Scarborough RT. That's 403 kilometres of track in Berlin, compared to Toronto's 68.3 km.
Young, Patrick: Getting Serious About Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground Means Getting Serious About a Just Transition
Published: 2016
If the climate movement is going to get serious about keeping fossil fuels in the ground, the movement needs to get serious about cultivating a real vision for a just transition. If we’re going to see coal-fired power plants and oil refineries and chemical plants shut down we need to have a real vision about what the future looks like for those workers, their families and their communities.
Younge, Gary: Ali knew his job - to inspire people
Published: 2016
Describing Muhammad Ali's role as a symbol of resistance to power and the inspiration provided by his acheivements.
Younge, Gary: The American right is trapped in a hyperbolic and dysfunctional world
To have credibility within the Republican party is to have none outside it.
Published: 2011
On the Republican primary race and the problem of credibility that socially conservative candidates who mobilize the Republican base will face in a general election regarding their appeal to centrist voters.
Younge, Gary: How to fight reactionaries
Published: 2006
Fundamentalists of all kinds only thrive when their communities feel besieged. Understanding why is not an indulgence.
Younge, Gary: How Trump Took Middle America
Published: 2016
Examining the lives of Trump supporters in middle America and the conditions and perceptions that motivate their support.
Younis, Rami: We're facing unprecedented horror. Why is Biden adding fuel to the fire?
Published: 2023
With the climate in Israel-Palestine reviving the fears of May 2021, the U.S. should be preventing further massacres, not allowing Israel to take revenge.
Yu, Au Loong; Ruixue, Bai: Resistance in China Today
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
Cases of resistance in China continue to grow.

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Z, Mickey: Food Justice: Monsanto, Factory Farming, And Beyond
Published: 2013
It starts with alternative vision: While the dominant hierarchy drowns in its own hypocrisy, fear, and greed let’s use our energy and passion to create -- occupy -- a whole new cultural model.
Z, Mickey: 31 Years After the U.S. Invasion of Grenada
A Lovely Piece of Real Estate
Published: 2014
As I'm sure everyone knows, we're fast approaching the 31st anniversary of a truly momentous American victory — a crucial military operation that not only warmed Ronald Raygun's cold, cold heart but was also deemed film-worthy by the former mayor of Carmel, California.
Z, Mickey: This is Your Ocean on Acid
The Big Picture
Published: 2014
More than 40 percent of the world’s oceans are heavily impacted by human activities with few areas — if any — left unaffected by anthropogenic factors. This means we humans (and what we deem civilization) have played a primary role in the despoiling of the waters of the earth. The relentless quest for profit, however, has distracted us from the plight of the deep blue sea and how it impacts all forms of life.
Z. Mickey: The Lies that Launched Black Lives Matter (and other "movements")
Published: 2023
Z., Mickey: The Other 9/11
Published: 2014
Whether or not activists will ever mount a serious threat to U.S. hegemony and propaganda remains to be seen. One thing is certain, however: Without such organizing, action, and sacrifice, there will be many more wars and interventions and many more lies told to obscure the truth about them.
Zabaneh,Rania;Hatuqa,Dalia: Israel's road signs policy 'erases memory of place'
Published: 2015
Israeli authorities have long banned the Palestinian Authority (PA) from putting up its own road signs that refer to Palestinian towns and villages.
Zach, Elizabeth: Filing Your Taxes Is Already Difficult. The House Just Passed a Bill That Keeps It That Way Forever.
Published: 2019
The complicated process of paying and filing taxes - and the consquences of doing so incorrectly - cause hardship to many Americans especially the poor. This system could be much easier but many companies have an interest in maintaining the status quo.
Zacherydtaylor: Alternative Media is an Absolute Necessity!!
Published: 2012
By now most people that have been paying close attention to the traditional media and made some attempt to look at other sources know that the traditional media is controlled by corporate interests and they’re financed by commercials that create a strong bias not to expose the corruption of those that advertise with them.
Zafra, Mariano; Verde, Amaya: Layers of Privacy on Swiss Bank Accounts
Published: 2015
The files behind the Swiss Leaks project provide a rare glimpse inside the secretive world of a Swiss private bank, revealing a number of ways HSBC could help build layers of privacy around a client's wealth.
Zagorenka, Vadim: Pirates of the European Union: How Brussels turned its own customs agents into petty thieves
Published: 2023
The bloc's bureaucracy, unable to sever economic ties with Russia, decided to annoy Moscow in different way - by stealing from the country's ordinary citizens.
Zahzah, Omar: Social media giants repress Palestinian content
Published: 2022
Silicon Valley is solidly entrenching itself as a devoted enemy of political dissent. As the West implements draconian sanctions against Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, including the banning of the Russian news outlets RT and Sputnik from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok as well as search engine results, social media censorship of political messaging about the Palestinian liberation struggle continues.
Zaidi, A.S.: Adelphi Recovers "The Long View"
Published: 1998
IN 1985, PETER Diamandopoulos became Adelphi University's seventh president, ushering in an entire decade of "shock therapy" for the small commuter school on Long Island. Opposition to Diamandopoulos grew when it was disclosed that Diamandopoulos was the second highest paid university president in the United States. Adelphi had purchased a $1.2 million Manhattan condominium for his use at a time when it was shedding employees and course offerings.
Zaitz, Les: 25 years after Rajneeshee commune collapsed, truth spills out
Published: 2011
In a nearly unbelievable chapter of Oregon history, a guru from India gathered 2,000 followers to live on a remote eastern Oregon ranch. The dream collapsed 25 years ago amid attempted murders, criminal charges and deportations.
Zaman, Sadia (reviewer): The Gulf Within: Canadian Arabs, Racism & the Gulf War (book review)
Published: 1992
Zamora, Daniel: Can We Criticize Foucault?
Published: 2014
Since his death in 1984, Michel Foucault's work has become a touchstone for the academic left worldwide. But in a provocative new book published in Belgium last month, a team of scholars led by sociologist Daniel Zamora raises probing questions about Foucault's relationship with the neoliberal revolution that was just getting started in his last years.
Zapata, Emiliano: Emiliano Zapata Quotes
Zapata, Natasha Hakimi: Noam Chomsky and Over 100 Intellectuals Denounce 'Savage' Media Treatment of Britain's Jeremy Corbyn
Published: 2016
"We do not expect journalists to give any elected leader an easy ride," a letter published in The Guardian and signed by more than 100 intellectuals reads, "but Corbyn has been treated from the start as a problem to be solved rather than as a politician to be taken seriously."
Zaretsky, Robert: France Is Debating Whether French Is Sexist
Published: 2017
In early September, French President Emmanuel Macron paid a visit to Villers-Cotterets. An hour's drive north of Paris, the village boasts as its main attraction the ancestral home of Alexandre Dumas pere."France was made through its language," he observed, when "the king decided in this chateau that all of those living in his realm had to speak French." Understandably, the children did not correct Macron: The edict simply made French, not Latin, the administrative language of the kingdom. As for the "French," they continued to speak a dozen different languages and hundreds of patois for the next 300 years or so.
Zarwan, Elijah; Goldstein, Eric; Ghaemi, Hadi; Stork, Joe; PoKempner, Dinah; et al.: False Freedom
Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa
Published: 2005
This report examines internet censorship policy and how theIinternet has transformed the accessibility of information mainly in the countries of Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. When examining each country the following is considered: government policies on Internet access, theIinternet's role in affecting freedom of expression, restrictive laws and cases in which individuals have been detained for their online activities.
Zastrow, Jan: Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage
'Citizen Archivists' for the Future
Published: 2016
Jan Zastrow looks at some of the exciting ways crowdsourcing is being used to increase online access to unique resources in cultural heritage collections, reflect on the ROI of such activities, discuss the challenges, and hypothesize possible future directions.
Zayas, Alfred de: The Ukraine War in the Light of the UN Charter
Published: 2023
The war in Ukraine did not start on 24 February 2022, but already in February 2014. The civilian population of the Donbas has endured continued shelling from Ukrainian forces since 2014, notwithstanding the Minsk Agreements. These attacks on Lugansk and Donetsk significantly increased in January-February 2022.
Zeese, Kevin: US and Puppet Guaido Implicated in Terrorism Plot Against Venezuela PLOT
Published: 2019
New evidence has been uncovered regarding terror campaign planned by the US and the Venezuelan opposition.
Zeese, Kevin; Flowers, Margaret: The Chavez Legacy
The Revolution Within the Revolution Will Continue
Published: 2013
Chavez was a leader who, in unity with the people, was able to free Venezuela from the grips of US Empire, brought dignity to the poor and working class, and was central to a Latin American revolt against US domination.
Zeese, Kevin; Flowers, Margaret: COP21 An Opportunity For Climate Justice, If We Mobilize
Published: 2015
The COP21 resulted in an agreement that was 25 years in the making, beginning with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. Until now the world had been unable to reach an agreement on combating climate change. Now it is up to the people to push for policies at all levels of government to make the Paris Accord effective. We have the potential to use this deal to create a turning point in humanity's struggle for climate justice and end the fossil fuel era, but only if the people mobilize to make it so.
Zeese, Kevin; Flowers, Margaret: The Environmental Movement at the Crossroads
Gang Green or New Green?
Published: 2013
There is a growing culture of resistance in the environment movement
Zeese, Kevin; Flowers, Margaret: Holding The Silent Killers Of Environmental Destruction Accountable
Published: 2014
The findings of the most recent IPCC report are sobering. We have 15 years to mitigate climate disaster. It is up to us to make a major transition to a carbon-free, nuclear-free energy economy within that timeframe. Big Energy and our plutocratic government are not going to do it without effective pressure from a people-powered movement.
Zerofsky, Elizabeth: Front Runner
Marine Le Pen's campaign to make France great again
Published: 2016
A look at Marine Len Pen, leader of the far-right National Front Party (FN), and the events and circumstances that led to her party's rise in popularity from a fringe movement to the forefront of French politics.
Zerouala, Faiza: Headscarf ban turns France's Muslim women towards homeworking
Published: 2014
Headscarf ban in French public service jobs turns many Muslim women towards self-employed e-trading.
Zetter, Kim: Son of Stuxnet: The Digital Hunt for Duqu, a Dangerous and Cunning U.S.-Israeli Spy Virus
Published: 2014
Zeusse, Eric: America's 'War Against Communism' Was Really A War Against Advocates For The Poor
Published: 2023
Two examples - Korea and Indonesia - will be documented here in order to display that America's Cold War against communism was/is a cover-story, or deceptive cloak, for a war actually against the poor (and the political left) in all nations: in other words, a fascist war, meaning that America's Government became fascist-imperialist as soon as World War II ended, despite FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt - America's President throughout WW II) having been passionately anti-fascist and anti-imperialist.
Zgaga, Blaž: The worst thing for a journalist is being cut off from his audience
Published: 2015
Slovenian investigative journalist, writes about his experiences of working under pressure while he was investigating irregularities in the organs of repression.
Zgonjanin, Sanja: The Prosecution of War Crimes for the Destruction of Libraries and Archives during Times of Armed Conflict
Published: 2005
Zgustova, Monika: A Museum Dedicated to Stalin: An Example of How to Deal With Historical Memory
Published: 2021
I think that the Stalin Museum is an example of how to deal with historical memory.
Zhu, Yan: Why the Web Needs Perfect Forward Secrecy More Than Ever
Published: 2012
If a server is configured to support forward secrecy, then a compromise of its private key can't be used to decrypt past communications.
Zibechi, Raúl: Paraguay: Women at the Center of Resistance
Published: 2014
The headquarters of Conamuri is a gentle place that combines work with intimacy, like the campesino life that in some way it reproduces. The experience of Conamuri is great. They make their own rules and follow them in an educated way, not aggressively, but responsibly and with commitment. Although it may hurt, they tell us things to our face.
Zigedy, Zoltan: Their "Recovery" and Ours - Review
Against The Current vol. 161
Published: 2012
A review of 'Obama’s Economy: Recovery for the Few' by Jack Rasmus.
Zimmer, Tyler: Ventra Capitalists
Published: 2013
Zimmer discusses the problems arising with the recent implementation of the Ventra fare collection system for Chicago transit, a change that has been costly and inefficient for riders but profitable for corporations involved.
Zimmerling, J. Ryan; Pomeroy, Andrea C., d'Entremont, Marc V.; Francis, Charles M.: Canadian Estimate of Bird Mortality Due to Collisions and Direct Habitat Loss Associated with Wind Turbine Developments
Published: 2013
Impacts on birds from the development and operation of wind turbines in Canada.
Zimmerman, Elizabeth: A contemporary account of the German pogroms of November 1938
Published: 2014
Shortly after the November 1938 pogroms, journalist and historian Konrad Heiden wrote a work entitled Night Oath, in which he gave a detailed account of the horrific events marking the transition from social discrimination to the systematic brutalization and persecution of Jews in Germany.
Zinn, Howard: A People's History of the United States
Published: 2006
Howard Zinn attempts to present the history of the United States through the perspectives of common people rather than political and economic elites.
Zinn, Howard: Howard Zinn Quotes
Ziv, Oren: 'I'm bored, so I shoot': The Israeli army's approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza
Published: 2024
Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze, and leaving corpses on the streets — all with their commanders’ permission.
Ziv, Oren: 'Refusing to serve in the army is my small act of making change'
Published: 2020
Hillel Rabin spent 56 days in military prison for refusing to serve in the IDF. Now she opens up about her time behind bars, conversations with her fellow inmates, and talking to young Israelis about the occupation.
Zizek, Slavoj: Biggest threat Covid-19 epidemic poses is not our regression to survivalist violence, but Barbarism with human face
Published: 2020
The impossible has happened and the world we knew has stopped turning around. But what world order will emerge after the coronavirus pandemic is over – socialism for the rich, disaster capitalism or something completely new?
Zlatkin, Chuck: Unifying the Rage Against the War Machine
Published: 2023
Recalling the disparate groups who came together for the massive anti-nuclear demonstration in New York City on June 12, 1982, Chuck Zlatkin recommends the same unity of purpose on February 19, 2023 in Washington.
Zoch, Jamie: Promote Your Auction Domain Name Listings
Published: 2009
One in the crowd! This is what your domain name is when you submit it to a live domain auction or any domain auction really. One in the crowd. Unless your domain is one of the headliners due to it being an amazing domain name, the rest kind of are just "in the list".
Zonszein, Mairav: Breaking the Silence: Inside the Israeli Right's Campaign to Silence an anti-Occupation Group
Published: 2019
Breaking the Silence, an Israeli anti-occupation group that collects testimonies of Israeli soldiers operating in Palestinian territories has been targeted by moles and other attacks.
Zorrilla, Carlos: Letter from Ecuador - where defending nature and community is a crime
Published: 2015
Ecuador's president attacked eco-defender Carlos Zorrilla in TV broadcasts for resisting a new copper mine in an area of pristine forest, and opposing the advance of oil exploration into the Amazon. Zorilla seeks international support for him and his battle for land.
Zorzi, Peter: The 1981 Bathhouse Raids
The protests after the bathouse raids had a galvanizing effect on gay Toronto --- our first realization of the power we actually held, and the beginnings of the explosive growth of the community.
Zubak-Skees, Chris: How to build a complex, controversial interactive graphic - in six different languages
Published: 2014
Zubatov, Alexandr: Critical Thinking, Reverential Thinking, and Lashing Out
Published: 2022
Before we challenge conventions, we must understand and master them.
Zuchter, Joshua: How to Transform Your Business Into Gold
Published: 2008
The key to transforming your business into gold is to take massive action with absolute clarity and absolute certainty. As you do, you will witness the transformation of your business before your very eyes!
Zuchter, Joshua: The 6 Cardinal Rules for Finding the Sweet Spot in E-mail Marketing
Published: 2010
There is no doubt about it e-mail marketing can be the most effective form of promotion for small through to big business.
Zuckerman, Jocelyn C.; Hudson, Michael: Children Suffer as World Bank's Borrowers Upend Their Lives
Published: 2015
Evictions, loss of family income and other hardships associated with dams, roads and other projects can be especially harmful to young people. The bank's social and environmental safeguards forbid sudden, strong-arm evictions. But as the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Huffington Post and other media partners revealed in April, the bank is failing to enforce those rules, with devastating consequences for adults and children who live on or near land targeted for development.
Zuesse, Eric: Biden Now Seeks WW3 Against Russia, Says High U.S. Defense Expert
Published: 2024
The U.S. plan is that since any Ukrainian pilots who could fly America’s F-16s are dead by now, Biden and Stoltenberg have authorized NATO pilots to be flying the U.S. F-16s that will be sent to Ukraine.
Zuesse, Eric: NATO Now Acknowledges That Western Media Lie About Ukraine's War
Published: 2023
On September 7th [2023], NATO's Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, acknowledged that the war in Ukraine did not start on 24 February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, like Western 'news'-media say, but much earlier, in 2014, and that Russia's invasion in 2022 resulted from NATO's efforts to bring Ukraine into NATO and to bring NATO's military forces closer to Russia's borders.
Zuesse, Eric: The Need To Replace The Existing U.S.-Government-Controlled Web
Published: 2023
The U.S. Government controls the Web; and this means that it also indirectly controls the news-media.
Zuesse, Eric: Obama's Double-Standard On Russia: He Attacks Russia, Then Condemn's Putin For Defending Russia From His Attack
Published: 2015
Obama overthrew the legal Government, and replaced it by this illegal one. But now he criticizes Putin as if he were the aggressor instead of the defender here. And Obama demands that the Soviet dictator's forced transfer of Crimea to Ukraine be legal and that Putin's defense of Crimeans' democratic self-determination in response to that coup be considered illegal.
Zuesse, Eric: Videos and Photos of the Odessan Massacre
Why It Was Done
Published: 2014
For the first time in history, an organized massacre of civilians has been filmed by many people from many different angles and perspectives while it was happening, and is documented in extraordinary detail in “real time,” the perpetrators having no fear of any negative consequences from their endeavor, and even cheering and celebrating the tortures and deaths as they were being imposed upon the helpless victims. The perpetrators were unconcerned, because what they were doing was what the government (which the U.S. had imposed upon their country and which U.S. taxpayers had spent more than 5 billion dollars to bring about there) had wanted them to do, and had helped to organize them to carry out. These people were just having fun, like a party to them, nothing really serious at all.
Zuesse, Eric: What 'News' Media in U.S. And Allied Countries Never Report
Published: 2018
Newsmedia effectively ban reporting corruptness of newsmedia -- even of media that stand on the opposite side of the political divide.
Zuesse, Eric: Why the Agressor in Ukraine is America - Not Russia
Published: 2023
Zumbrun, Joshua: Choosing to be the man of the house
An ancient tradition of the sworn virgin living as a male still survives in Albania
Published: 2007
In Albania, biological women take an oath of virginity to have the freedom to live as men. They wear men's clothes and their hair is shorn. The tradition has persisted since the 15th century, in a region where ancient laws still limit women's rights.
Zurutuza, Karlos: Breaking the Media Blackout in Western Sahara
Published: 2015
Zurutuza describes how the Moroccan authorities repress journalists and media coverage of occupied Western Sahara.
Zwicker, Barrie: Any Word Marksmen in the House?
The Uncertain Mirror
Published: 1971
On labelling and stereotyping in the media. This article first appeared in the January 1971 issue of Content magazine (Issue #3).
Zwicker, Barrie: Dressing for TV
Published: 1997
What to wear when you're going to be interviewed on TV.
Zwicker, Barrie: Dressing for TV
Advice for what to wear when you are going to be interviewed on television.
Zwicker, Barrie: I.F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah
Published: 1989
Zwicker, Barrie: In Praise of Time to Think
Zwicker, Barrie: Linda Jane Zwicker, in Memoriam
Published: 1993
Zwicker, Barrie: Publisher's Newsletter - Sources 28
Published: 1991
Zwicker, Barrie: Publisher's Newsletter: Wake up and smell the 21st century
Published: 1993
Zwicker, Barrie: Reporting the Realities of Poverty
Published: 1997
Review of Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, by P. Sainath.
Zwicker, Barrie: "Singles Sex Not Always Wrong"
Published: 1980
Zwicker, Barrie: The Sources Select Online Story
Published: 1995
In SOURCES SELECT Online (SSO) we attempt to provide true diversity: access to people in organizations large and small, for-profit and not-for-profit, from low-tech to high-tech, long-established to just-launched.
Zwicker, Barrie: The SOURCES SELECT Online Story
A history and overview of SOURCES SELECT ONLINE, the online information resource for journalists, editors, and writers.
Zwicker, Barrie: Successful news releases: 7 must-know tips
Published: 1999
Make it short, make it make, make sure it's important.
Zwicker, Barrie: War, Peace and the Media
Published: 1985
Zwicker argues that press coverage of the USSR is "profoundly uninformative, a journalistic yawn that is helping us sleepwalk toward the biggest slumber of all time: nuclear war."
Zwicker, Barrie: We Goofed! (or the game's afoot)
Published: 1999
Zwicker, Barrie: You, Sources, and Getting the Most Out of the Internet
Including Six Internet Fictions to Consider
Published: 1996
Internet facts and myths.
Zwicker, Barrie: You, Sources, and Getting the Most Out of the Internet Including Six Internet Fictions to Consider
The Internet is part of a communications strategy but it can't be the only part.

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Ó Croidheáin, Caoimhghin: Sacred Trees, Christmas Trees and New Year Trees: A Vision for the Future
Published: 2016
Trees are a very important part of world culture and have been at the centre of ideological conflict for hundreds of years.In the current debates over climate change, trees have an immensely important role to play on material and symbolical levels both now and in the future.
Ó Croidheáin, Caoimhghin: Sex, Drugs and Rollickin' Roles: Christmas and Our Ever-Changing Relationship with Nature
Published: 2017
The benefits of industrialisation have come at price as industry and technology the world over pushes nature further and further into ecological crises. Christmas has become the vehicle for the worst excesses of industrialisation, commercialisation and commodification.
Ó Luain, Kerron: The Irish Language and Marxist Materialism
Published: 2019
A review of Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin's book "Language From Below: the Irish language, ideology and power in 20th century Ireland" which looks at the role language and nationalism has played in Irish liberation movements.

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