US Top Court Refuses to Hear Guantanamo Wiretap Case (Agence France Presse)

A member of the US military mans the guard post before sunrise at Camp Delta. (AFP) Oct. 4, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Agence France Presse) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a plea by 23 lawyer ...

War (on drugs) is over (John Sinclair)

Sept. 29, 2010 -- AMSTERDAM (Detroit Metro Times) -- Highest greetings from Amsterdam. My name is John Sinclair and I've been a marijuana legalization activist ever since I founded Detroit LEMAR (LEg ...

What We’re Looking For (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 30, 2010 -- The Obama administration seems to take great delight in kicking the progressive wing of the party, but the problem is there is no progressive win ...

BOOK REVIEW: Dismantling the Empire -- America’s Last Best Hope. By Chalmers Johnson

Dismantling the Empire -- America’s Last Best Hope. Chalmers Johnson. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, NY. 2010. Sept. 25, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- That the empire has caused much tro ...

Regarding US Muslims: A Misguided Debate (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 17, 2010 -- Laurie Goodstein’s article, "American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong?" was intended as a sympathetic reading of the concerns of U.S. Muslim commun ...

Noam Chomsky: “President Obama is Involved in War Crimes Right Now” (Alyssa McDonald)

Sept. 15, 2010 -- The New Statesman Interviews: Noam Chomsky Do you consider yourself to be primarily a scientist or a political activist? If the world would go away, I would be happy to keep to the ...

The Triumph of Evil (Prof. John Kozy)

Above painting by Claudia Markovich at ClaudiaM.com Sept. 3, 2010 (Global Research) -- Modern societies have justified their adoption of criminal activities by claiming that such techniques are neces ...

Do Not Pity the Democrats (Chris Hedges)

Sept. 13, 2010 (TruthDig) -- There are no longer any major institutions in American society, including the press, the educational system, the financial sector, labor unions, the arts, religious insti ...

So Many Suckers, So Few Bridges (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 10, 2010 -- I sometimes don’t know who I am anymore. As I was walking to the library and I saw a younger man in a business suit buying gas. I thought to myse ...

The Photo before the Storm: Peace Talks Already Failed (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 9, 2010 -- A picture is not always worth a thousand words. The recently released photographs of Palestinian and Israeli leaders in Washington during their first ...

BOOK REVIEW: Toward a New Public Diplomacy - Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy. Edited by Philip Seib. (Jim Miles)

Toward a New Public Diplomacy -- Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy. Ed. Philip Seib. Palgrave MacMillan, New York. 2009. Sept. 7, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- This collection of essays could be summed ...