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Cindy Sheehan: Mother Courage or “extremist”?

…a letter Sheehan allegedly wrote to a producer of ABC’s Nightline show that said her son died for a war to protect Israel. In her online diary Tuesday, Sheehan wrote,…

Chomsky jumps on Bosnia revisionism bandwagon

…“outstanding” journalism: Josh Mason, a former editor at In These Times, explains in an online PEN forum why she got sacked from that publication: We felt we couldn’t publish her…

Environmental policy roots of Katrina disaster

…Times-Picayune published a series on the federal funding problem. Now, editorializing in an online edition (its presses are all underwater): “No one can say they didn’t see it coming… Now…

Podcast: antivax is fascist II

…and anti-mask protests, from Germany to Romania to England to Brooklyn. A virtual industry churns out relentless online disinformation that is easily refuted by anyone who makes the effort to…

Strikes spread across China

…took a day off Nov. 14 to protest the sale of their plants to a Taiwanese company. Workers launched an online campaign to bring in all 20,000 workers from 24…

Peasants clash with security forces in new Guangdong anti-pollution protest

…expressway before police used tear-gas and batons to clear them. Online accounts of the incident said hundreds were savagely beaten, and that two people were killed. Authorities denied any deaths…

CounterVortex unveils new website

…of online media, it is critical that you put your money where your reading eyes are, to assure the survival and growth of the voices you support. We’re depending on…

Give the Nobel Peace Prize to Malala Yousafzai!

Bill Weinberg Fatwa on Malala Yousafzai? BBC News reported Nov. 9 that tens of thousands have signed an online petition calling for Malala Yousafzai to be nominated for the Nobel Peace…

Al-Qaeda in Iraq inaugurates new campaign of attacks

…ending the war in Iraq. It turns out that today has proven to be the deadliest day of the year in that country.” The video (online at the link) in…

The proverbial pox on both your houses

…are also referred to the online statement signed by numerous progressive writers and activists, including myself, “Anti-Imperialism and the Anti-Humanist Rhetoric of Gilad Atzmon,” urging the Palestine solidarity movement to disassociate…

Taiwan: 100,000 march against nuclear power

…8) It is nearly 20 years since it was ready to go online and I tried in my small way to raise the alarm about it (see my 1997 exposé online…

Ethnic warfare in Chiapas rainforest?

…Flores Magon: http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/ezln/1999/amc_magon_july.html We can only wait for more information to come out. Trying to piece it together… This Nov. 13 communique from Maderas del Pueblo (online at Chiapas95) is…