It’s been eight months since the Americans marched into the deserts of Iraq, as part of the triumph of the West, in the now classic “clash of civilizations.” Since that time, the Iraqis have staged… Full Transcript
It’s been eight months since the Americans marched into the deserts of Iraq as part of the triumph of the West in the now classic clash of civilizations. Since that time, the Iraqis have staged… Full Transcript
Meine freundinnen! Lang lebe John Africa! Bewegung! Ona move! [My friends! Long live John Africa! Ona Move!] Greetings to the gathering at this latest conference on the extraordinary life of Rosa Luxemburg. I thank you… Full Transcript
The great writer Mark Twain, when Vice President of the Anti-Imperialist League, once said, “I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.” That was in… Full Transcript
Of what worth can it be for us, at the dawn of the 21st Century, to spend our precious time in the study of ancient days? There is enough to study all about us, enough… Full Transcript
Of what worth can it be for us at the dawn of the 21st century to spend our precious time in the study of ancient days? There’s enough to study all about us, enough to… Full Transcript
The great black writer James Baldwin once said, “They saw themselves as others had seen them. They had been formed by the images made of them by those who had had the deepest necessity to… Full Transcript
The Iraq War is over. Or is it? With a spate of attacks that have cost American lives almost daily, the newly-minted general in charge of the region, Abu Zayd, has been forced to admit… Full Transcript
Scholar-activist Angela Davis once wrote, “The ideological space for the proliferation of this racialized fear of crime has been opened by the transformation in international politics created by the fall of the European socialist countries.… Full Transcript
What in the world is George W. Bush doing in Africa? Rarely has a world leader seemed more lost, more ill at ease than the recent portrayal of the incumbent US president strolling around in… Full Transcript
With a pair of cases announced days before their summer retirement, Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger, the US Supreme Court decided the constitutionality of affirmative action, at least for the next generation. The… Full Transcript
The great French thinker, Alexis de Tocqueville, once said, “In politics, a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.” The American people, through the corporate media, have been exposed to an unprecedented… Full Transcript
If there has been any constant in the last several millennia, besides change, there’s been the raging appetite of empires to remake the world in their various images. All of them, the Roman, the Ottoman,… Full Transcript
