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Support our troops: Bring them homeBY HOWARD ZINN ( Read more... )

This is the transcript of an interview which aired on Democracy Now! yesterday:
AMY GOODMAN: Well, we are also joined to put this day and the whole inauguration into perspective by historian Howard Zinn, well known for his book, A People's History of the United States. Now a companion volume is out called, Voices of a People's History of the United ( Read more... )

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From "Beyond Vietnam," April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, New York City.
As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men [in the ghettos] I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most ( Read more... )

THE COMING WARS
by SEYMOUR M. HERSHWhat the Pentagon can now do in secret ( Read more... )

Thank you down for showing me The Boy Who Cried Iraq. I recommend reading it, though it is a couple years old, it is still highly pertinent today.

And while I'm taking a nice little pause from the apathy I've been experiencing lately, I might as well mention that it's things like this that make me embarrassed to be an American ( Read more... )

I have agreed tonight to do the impossible, which is to talk about where we go from here in the war on terrorism and Homeland Security in 15 minutes or less. Since that is impossible, let me instead refer you to this lovely little book which was published a few weeks ago by the Century Foundation, which is called Defeating the Jihadists. This talks ( Read more... )

The following is an exerpt from A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

It was after the military clash at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, between colonial Minutemen and British troops, that the Continental Congress decided on separation. They organized a small committee to draw up the Declaration of Independence, which Thomas ( Read more... )

Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism
By Dr. Lawrence Britt

Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes ( Read more... )