ADIEU TO THE ‘PEACE PENTAGON’
by Bill Weinberg, The Villager The night of Thursday May 5 was a bittersweet one for me. For probably the last time in my life, I crossed the threshold of 339 Lafayette…
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MUSSOLINI IN LOWER MANHATTAN
by Bill Weinberg, The Villager This May Day season has been a real political eye-opener for me. On International Workers’ Day itself, I was part of the Free Syria bloc…
Islamophobic propaganda: coming to a bus near you
Bill Weinberg Cordoba House to cave in? The Israeli daily Haaretz Aug. 16 cites anonymous “insiders” to the effect that the Cordoba Initiative “will soon back down, agreeing to move…
THE DARK SIDE OF WIKILEAKS: REVISITED
Julian Assange, Ecuador, and the Belarus Connection by Bill Weinberg, Al Jazeera Aliaksandr Barankov is breathing easier, after Ecuador’s highest court on August 28 rejected a request for his extradition to Belarus—the…
PERU’S SENDERO LUMINOSO BACK —AND THE “DIRTY WAR”?
by Bill Weinberg, Al Jazeera According to a Truth and Reconciliation Commission established ten years ago, some 70,000 people—mainly indigenous peasants—were killed or forcibly “disappeared” in Peru’s war against the Maoist guerillas…
Syria chemical attack: rush to denialism continues
Bill Weinberg ‘Alternative’ media abets Syria denialism Common Dreams runs a reader poll in which 89.12% reject Congressional approval for military action against Syria. OK, that’s fine. What’s not so fine…
Slobodan Milosevic cheats fate
…examination and cross-examination time. Even if the verdict is preordained and the trial is a travesty of justice. Bill Weinberg Anything you guys disagree with is “hysterical” Unfortunately, the entire…
Did Osama bin Laden hit violate international law?
…most pressing challenges facing the American people. Holder also expressed concerns that Bin Laden’s death may prompt attempts at retaliation. (Jurist, May 4) Bill Weinberg Human Rights Watch issues non-statement…
The Republicans are the party of white supremacy: deal with it
Bill Weinberg Obama “chair lynchings” in Texas and Virginia From Salon, Sept. 20: Two people may have single-handedly set back civil liberties by nearly 100 years by hanging Obama effigies…
Islamophobia (not Islamism) behind Oslo terror
Bill Weinberg Breivik’s Carolingian nostalgia Electronic Intifada has a report on Anders Behring Breivik’s (why do assassins always get three names?) self-penned manifesto which is online at NRK, Norway’s public…
Orlando massacre in propaganda wars
Bill Weinberg Orlando shooter “lied” about being a jihadi? It seems absurd, but that’s Juan Cole’s thesis, noting reports that Omar Mateen had himself frequented the Pulse nightclub that he later…
TROTSKYGRAD ON THE ALTIPLANO
Book Review: BOLIVIA’S RADICAL TRADITION Permanent Revolution in the Andes by S. Sándor John University of Arizona Press, 2009 by Bill Weinberg, NACLA Report on the Americas Bolivia, notoriously landlocked…