Plot Summary The Great Dictator, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, who also stars, is a compelling movie. The film begins in a setting that resembles World War I. Charlie Chaplin plays a private in the Tomainian military, and also… Read More ›
World History
Reconsider Columbus Day 2011
Happy Genocidal Maniac Day! Five hundred and eighteen years ago, today 12 October, a momentous event happened. The supposed “discovery” by one Cristóbal Colón—also known as Christopher Columbus, landed on the Bahamian island of San Salvador and subsequently was labeled… Read More ›
Karl Marx Voted Greatest Thinker of the Millennium
Marx took the top spot by a wide margin followed by Einstein, Newton, and Darwin, in second, third and fourth places. Revolutionary writer Karl Marx has topped a BBC News Online poll to find the greatest thinker of the millennium…. Read More ›
Remembering Chile’s 9/11
By Paul Street “Close to Perfect:” A Different, Bloodier Nine-Eleven The events of September 11th were horrific, tragic, and criminal on a monumental scale. Planes flew low over an American nation’s leading city. Buildings erupted in flames. There was an… Read More ›
Chemical Warfare At Its Worst
The Harrowing Legacy of Agent Orange by N.D. JAYAPRAKASH The shocking images of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York is well-etched in the minds of almost everyone who had access to a TV set. Similarly,… Read More ›
Debunking William S. Lind & “Cultural Marxism”
What is “Cultural Marxism?” Anyone who has spent considerable time participating in political discussions is bound to run across the term “Cultural Marxism” at one time or another. It is a term typically used by the most extreme elements on… Read More ›
Bachmann says Americans worried about “rise of the Soviet Union”
By Corbett B. Daly Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann said Thursday there is a growing fear among Americans about an “unstoppable decline” of the United States and a “rise of the Soviet Union.” The Minnesota lawmaker told conservative radio host… Read More ›
Pacifism: How to Do The Enemy’s Job For Them
“As an ex-Indian civil servant, it always makes me shout with laughter to hear, for instance, Gandhi named as an example of the success of non-violence. As long as twenty years ago it was cynically admitted in Anglo-Indian circles that… Read More ›
Hiroshima Day 2003: Secret Meeting on the Privatization of Nuclear War
by Michel Chossudovsky At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable – a nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread in terms of radioactive fallout over… Read More ›
Review of “Germany & the Secret Genocide”
It is often said that history is written by the victor. When it comes to the recollections of the past championed within bourgeois society, objective historical realities are obscured (if not omitted or re-written) when the facts and lessons to… Read More ›
A People’s History of the Egyptian Revolution
By Rami El-Amine and Mostafa Henaway No matter how it unfolds, the Egyptian revolution will go down in the history books as a defining moment in the 21st century. Millions of Egyptians brought down one of the world’s most repressive… Read More ›
Obama’s Speech & the History of “Compromise”
Compromise is a Dirty Word In the circus of bourgeois politics in our two-party electoral system, we often hear a concept fetishized to the highest heavens. The term “bi-partisanship” is a quality of political actors that often surfaces in elections,… Read More ›
Recollections of My Life – Mu’ummar Gaddafi
By Col. Mu’ummar Qaddafi; Translated by Professor Sam Hamod, Ph.D. Recollections of My Life: Col. Mu’ummar Qaddafi, The Leader of the Revolution. April 8, 2011. April 09, 2011 “Information Clearing House” – In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the… Read More ›
On the Day of American Independence
Today is the 4th of July, a holiday celebrated all over the nation as the date of American Independence from the British crown. I was considering burning an American flag to protest US foreign policy, imperial aggression, indigenous holocaust, sponsorship… Read More ›
The Soviet Jews, Zionism & Israel
“Zionism” is a political movement that calls for the establishment of a Jewish state, manifested mostly in support for the current state of Israel, established in 1948. Zionism, in claiming to establish a Jewish state in the lands of Palestine,… Read More ›