Your Life Under NSA Control On December 17, 2007 Senator Christopher Dodd spoke on the Senate floor against George W. Bush’s warrant-less eavesdropping and telecom company amnesty compromise, “Clear, first-hand whistle-blower documentary evidence [states] that for year on end every e-mail, every text message, and every phone call … hundreds of millions of private, domestic…more »
Army’s Secret Chemical Testing In St. Louis Neighborhoods During Cold War Raise New Concerns Doris Spates was a baby when her father died inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of cancer, and she survived cervical cancer. After learning that the Army conducted secret chemical testing in her impoverished St. Louis neighborhood at…more »
MORE than 160 Palestinians and 5 Israelis are dead, and as the smoke clears over Gaza , the Israelis will not be more secure and Palestinians hopes for self-determination remain dashed. It is time for a significant re-evaluation of the American policies that have contributed to this morass. The failure of Americas approach toward the…more »
Yesterday in Rockaway I was reminded of the aftermath of Katrina, the Rodney King riots and Iraq, Afghanistan, and particularly I was reminded of Gaza and the West Bank, where the ‘aftermath’ never comes, where just a continuous, unending calamity unfolds at the hands of America’s ‘democracy’. Yesterday we drove past lines of hundreds of…more »
A coalition of 22 humanitarian and developmental NGOs published a new report, which is the first to compare available export data from Israeli settlements and Palestinians, calls on European governments to adopt a range of concrete measures to stop assisting settlement expansion and close the gap between words and practice. Press Release The European Union…more »
Exclusive: Even as the United States has withdrawn from Iraq and has begun to wind down the Afghan War, the lethal reach of the U.S. military has been extended into other countries through Predator drones. What is less known is the full human and political costs, writes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. Several friends of mine…more »
Written by Glenn Greenwald Criminalizing Protected Political Speech Over the past several years, the Justice Department has increasingly attempted to criminalize what is clearly protected political speech by prosecuting numerous individuals (Muslims, needless to say) for disseminating political views the government dislikes or considers threatening. The latest episode emerged on Friday, when the FBI announced…more »
Written by Michael Bristow Freedom For Tibetans In the past week alone, five people have set themselves on fire, in a campaign calling for more freedom for Tibetans. From the air, the snow-capped mountains of China’s Sichuan province push through the clouds in dramatic formations. But it is not easy to see them from the…more »
Written by Michael Bristow Taxi Driver Makes A Call We had been in the taxi for about 20 minutes when the driver took a call, just as we were about to get out of the car. He seemed confused as he told the caller exactly where we were. “They’re just getting out of the taxi…more »
Written by Philip Giraldi Introduction by Debra Ellis The follow article by human rights defender, Philip Giraldi, is particularly poignant, having just met with my congressman along with boat Captain, John Klusmire. I was a proud passenger aboard the Audacity of Hope, as part of the International Flotilla II ~ Stay Human and can attest…more »
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By Richard Misrach and Kate Orff
Time For Outrage: Indignez-vous!
By Stéphane Hessel
Death of the Liberal Class
By Chris Hedges
The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
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War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
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How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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Silent Spring
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The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival
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The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappé
An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land
William Stringfellow
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
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Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
Omar Barghouti
Power and Struggle (Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part 1)
Gene Sharp
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Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
By Jonathan Glover
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
By Paul Farmer
The Seven Story Mountain: An Autobiography of Faith.
By Thomas Merton
Beyond The Green Zone: Dispatches From An Unembedded Journalist In Occupied Iraq
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Forward by Amy Goodman
The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan
By Dahr Jamail
Forward by Chris Hedges
Empire of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle
By Chris Hedges
A People's History Of The United States: 1492-Present
By Howard Zinn
Blood And Oil: The Dangers And Consequences Of America's Growing Dependency On Imported Petroleum
By Michael T. Klare
The Goldstone Report: The Legacy Of The Landmark Investigation Of The Gaza Conflict
By Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, And Philip Weiss
Foreword By Desmond Tutu
Introduction By Naomi Klein
The Uterine Crisis
By IIya Sandra Perlin
