Romnesia
September 25, 2012 7:04 am Leave your thoughts
The parasitical ultra-rich often deny the role of others in the acquisition of their wealth - and even seek to punish them for it, writes George Monbiot.
Tag Archive: North America
The USA: Glorious Diversity or Cruel Contradiction?
September 24, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Faysal Mikdadi takes a look at the reality of the 'American Dream'
Neocons vs. the ‘Arab Spring’: Back on the Warpath
August 9, 2012 7:34 am Leave your thoughts
The neoconservatives are back with a vengeance. While popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and other Arab countries had briefly rendered them irrelevant in the region, Western intervention in Libya signaled a new opportunity, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Dance With the One Who Brung You
August 5, 2012 7:32 pm Leave your thoughts Protecting the environment, like protecting the welfare of a nation's poorest and weakest people, requires a sweeping reform of political funding, on both sides of the Atlantic, writes George Monbiot.
Racism By Any Other Name Smells
July 27, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Thomas Riggins reveals the results of a poll conducted by ScienceDaily examining attitudes to the new voter identification laws in the US
US Dictat to Pakistan Not Working
May 30, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Thomas Riggins explains how America's haughty treatment of its ally is leading to a spectacular own goal
Never forget that Bradley Manning, not gay marriage, is the issue
May 24, 2012 3:00 pm Leave your thoughts
John Pilger shows that Barack Obama's sudden "conversion" to the cause of same-sex marriage barely disguises the prime motives of a president as reactionary and violent as George W Bush.
What is NATO, anyway? The reality of the “defensive alliance”
May 23, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The following is a statement by March Forward! which took part in the protests against NATO in Chicago on Saturday 19th May.
New smells, old smells
May 4, 2012 5:12 pm Leave your thoughts
In the 60's I assigned myself the meditation of walking extremely slowly down 14th Street, Greenwich Village's northern border, to Union Square, allowing my senses to notice acrid smells, loud sounds, crowded store windows - but not letting my mind grab for any of it, says Jean Claude van Itallie.
Trayvon Martin and the Myth of Civil Rights in America
March 25, 2012 9:52 am Leave your thoughts
The tragic and senseless killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida recently once more confirms that racism remains an ever-present corrosive in US society in spite of the election of the nation's first black president in 2008, writes John Wight.