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When Billy Graham Urged Nixon to Kill a Million People
The Press and America's Pastor by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR and ALEXANDER COCKBURN, Counterpunch There’s a piquant contrast in the press ...
On Libya, the Arab Spring and Syria
An Interview by TARIQ ALI Tariq Ali was interviewed on events in the Middle East by Swedish journalists S. Eriksson, ...
A Plague on Both Parties!
What's There to Hope For? by ANDREW LEVINE They say in Latin America that we have no coups in the ...
The Hypocrisies of Susan Rice
Human Rights for Some, Cruise Missiles for Others... by JUSTIN DOOLITTLE Rice: A corporate whore by any standard. Back in ...
The War in Iraq: an Assessment
Crimes and US Responsibility by W.T. WHITNEY Argentinean political commentator Juan Gelman thinks the Iraq war has “entered into perfect ...
Glenn Greenwald: U.S. Spying on Allies Shows “Institutional Obsession” with Surveillance
Editor's Note: Our colleague Branford Perry has said it nicely: "This is perhaps one of the most important interviews ever ...
Russell Brand on revolution: “We no longer have the luxury of tradition”
SUGGESTED BY CONTRIB EDITOR PAUL CARLINE But before we change the world, we need to change the way we think ...
Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
What happens to a country when its young people stop having sex? Japan is finding out… Abigail Haworth investigates Abigail ...
MUST READ: Imagining Hitler
From the archives: essays you should have read the first time around but didn't. CULTURE | February 1999 Vanity Fair Before ...
How Libya Fell Off the Media Map
Lessons From the Kidnapping of Ali Zeidan by PATRICK COCKBURN Seldom has the failure of a state been so openly ...
Counterfeit Unionism in the Empire
A War Agenda by RICH GIBSON, Counterpunch With respect to nearly anyone who is trying to fight back in our ...
Friends of Syria or Friends of Imperialism?
By Stephen Gowans, what's left The Friends of Syria—an 11 country coalition ranged against the Syrian government—favors what it calls a ...