Will the role of the U.S. in this millennium, be that of an empire that profits by promoting global instability? Or will the empire strike back?
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 03.28.2009 | Entertainment
Lily Tomlin does not wear the "comic legend" moniker easily; probably because she doesn't have time to reflect on four decades as a strong, out female in the male dominated world of stand-up comedy.
Norman Solomon | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
Those who are fond of talking and writing about Obama's admirable progressive values will, sooner or later, need to come to terms with the particulars of his actual policies.
ZP Heller | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
Chances are he will not be President, so if Kerry wants to leave a lasting mark, it could be through hearings and investigations that rein in the Long War in Afghanistan.
Penelope Andrew | Posted 03.19.2009 | Entertainment
Parker, Brecht and Trumbo may have passed on, but anti-war and anti-poverty spirit continue in the genre of the documentary as practiced by the soothsayer Michael Moore.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
What the pundits fail to mention is the fact that some of the worst policies the United States government has enacted over the past forty years have been "bipartisan."
Nancy Snow | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
We're known as the forgotten generation or the generation caught in the middle. We tend to eschew extremes and seek common ground and practical solutions to problems.
Kimberle Crenshaw | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Not only must we re-dedicate ourselves to King's civil rights mission along with the world peace mission, we must see the two as being so utterly linked that one cannot exist without the other.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
The anger and feeling of betrayal that was so evident on that warm, sunny fall day in 1967 were nowhere to be seen on this bitterly cold, intermittently sunny winter day in 2009.
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Obama's inaugural address was a good speech, but not truly canonical. Nevertheless, the inaugural address contained many passages that will enter into the mystic chords of memory.
WorldFocus | Posted 02.16.2009 | World
During the Vietnam War, the U.S. dropped millions of gallons of Agent Orange, a toxic defoliant, on Vietnam in an attempt to remove the jungle used ...
Randall Amster | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics
Let us remember Martin Luther King, Jr. not only as a champion of racial equality and economic justice, but also as an icon of anti-war and pro-peace sensibilities.
Megan Pillow | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
Morrison's self-immolation was seen as both a hopeful and a desperate act, sparking feelings of both empathy and outrage across a nation that had already seen its share of death.
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
At a cost of nearly one trillion taxpayer dollars to date, Bush's mad "global war" simply sucked needed money out of our world at levels that made Bernie Madoff seem like a small fry.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
Tom Bernard was one of the WORMS (We Openly Resist Military Stupidity), one of the many thousands of American servicemen and women who actively opposed the Vietnam war.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.29.2009 | World
Israel finds itself in a similar position the United States found itself in Vietnam: The more it flexes its military muscle the politically weaker it becomes vis-à-vis a determined, largely civilian enemy.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.27.2009 | Entertainment
The Eartha Kitt that I knew, remember, and pay homage to, was an impassioned contributor to peace and civil rights.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 01.14.2009 | Media
In the past, aggressive media coverage helped turn around public opinion about the Vietnam War. The press did ultimately get beyond the pro-military reporting from Vietnam.
John Feffer | Posted 01.09.2009 | World
In urban plots throughout Bosnia, families from different faiths and backgrounds coaxed vegetables from the ground and rebuilt relationships shattered by war.
The Guardian | Ian MacKinnon in Phonsavanh, Laos | Posted 01.02.2009 | World
More than 100 countries will today sign a convention banning the use of cluster bombs. In Laos, the most bombed nation on earth, their lethal legacy i...
AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — In Richard Nixon's time, all the president's men fretted about threats on every front: disquiet out on the streets, disloyalty insi...
Nick Turse | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics
Lawrence B. Wilkerson has spent 31 years as a soldier in the US Army, including military service in Vietnam. He played a role in the death of a Vietnamese girl and came to disclose that.
Norman MacAfee | Posted 12.23.2008 | Living
I think the markets are best left to the fools thinking only of long and short, except when it comes to life. It will not take financial experts to get us out of the mess that they got us into.
Johann Hari | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
There is still a distortion in our memories of the violence of the '60's. After condemning Obama for vaguely knowing Ayers, McCain boasted about his "close friendship" with Henry Kissinger -- and nobody noticed the dissonance.
Pete Cenedella | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
This is excerpted from a post I made on Election day, but it somehow seems way more important now in light of the rising tensions between African-Amer...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics