By Chris Hedges The final days of empire give ample employment and power to the feckless, the insane and the idiotic. These politicians and court propagandists, hired to be the…

Fannie Lou Hamer was born 1917 October 6 in Mississippi in the midst of the racial madness and social mayhem called White supremacy in which walls of brutal separation were…
Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout: The property rights of indigenous Americans were stolen by European conquest. That is what Columbus Day represents. He didn’t discover a new world; it…
By Andrew Gumbel In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville visited the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia to observe first-hand the effects of a peculiar — and, at the time, entirely novel…
By Eric LeCompte,
As the International Monetary Fund shares initial proposals for Grenada’s debt restructuring during the Washington DC meetings this week, the Caribbean island could gain a reputation for more than nutmeg, calypso, beaches and the 2012 gold medal sprinter Kirani James.
By Gary Younge The final chapter of America’s Promise, a high-school textbook on American history, ends with a rallying cry to national mythology. “The history of the United States is…
Bernie Sanders is the former mayor of Burlington, Vt., an advocate for campaign finance reform and single payer health insurance, and the only avowed socialist in the U.S. Senate.
The U.S. surveillance debate is constantly distorted by the fact that national-security officials hide, obscure, and distort so much of what they do.
By Bob Bauman, JD Privacy is an inherent human right. Most of us accept the obligation to report certain designated information to the government, and we will abide by those…
by W.T. WHITNEY Jr. The publication of Arnold August’s book “Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion” is an event. The author establishes that democracy is alive in Cuba. He…
By Anna Simonton From the narrow windows of New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, 24-year-old anarchist Jerry Koch can see the last place he stood as a free person. The federal…
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Recently we wrote about the need to transform US foreign policy from one that is dominating and militaristic to one that is based on diplomatic relations.