Anthony Lappe

As the Occupy Wall Street enters its fourth week, the meta-narrative around the rapidly spreading movement is beginning to take shape. From CNN to Fox News to many protestors themselves, one central slogan is sticking: corporate greed.

During...

It wasn't much of a last meal. A focused and determined Josh Wolf and I shared some cheap fish and Japanese beer at a restaurant popular with broke NYU students near Washington Square Park Monday night. In town for a meeting with the newest member of his legal team, the...

There's been a slew of books by Iraq vets recently. Some by grunts with a lot of attitude and little tactical insight, others by officers with a lot of stars on their shoulders but with no sense of humor or irony. The literary debut from HuffPo's own Paul Rieckhoff,

Just when you thought news organizations like The New York Times coverage of the administration couldn't get any worse check out today's A1 headline: "Democracy in the Arab World, a U.S. Goal, Falters."

Demcracy in the Middle East a U.S. goal? Oh, really? It's just this kind of not-so-subtle...

In the spring of 2003, as the nation slouched towards the mother of all strategic blunders in Iraq, I was working as a producer for Fuse, a new rival to MTV. The mood in the country was ugly. Clear Channel, the conglomerate which owns 1,700 radio stations, had issued a...

On the day the President told the American people to prepare for the long haul in Iraq, here's a story that perfectly sums up just how screwed up our priorities are as a nation. They're calling it Mitzvahpalooza. It may go down in history as the world's most obscene birthday...

The World Can’t Wait anti-Bush administration campaign kicked off today around the country. According to the organizers, "On November 2, in 67 cities, 43 colleges and universities, and 90 high schools (at last count), people are walking out of school and work and demonstrating to drive out the Bush...

The crowd was hungry for blood last night at New York's Baruch College. A who's who of the lefty intellectual elite and their activist foot soldiers had gathered to see their most high-profile turncoat Christopher Hitchens finally put in his place by controversial British MP George Galloway. So far, the...

While in Park City for the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, my partners and I from the Guerrilla News Network met with the recently unemployed Vice President of the United States in the alpine chalet of his business partner Joel Hyatt. We had been summoned by Al Gore to pitch...

This week's talk of "withdrawal in 2006" (20,000 troops, possibly, if the Constitution gets finished, things go well with the elections, the insurgents convert to Tibetan Buddhism, etc.) is a sham, as the New York Times' Bob Herbert points out. The long-term goal was, and still is,...