War and peace prizes (Howard Zinn)

Nobel peace prize winer Henry Kissinger (right) with Richard Nixon. Photograph: AP The dismaying gift of the Nobel prize puts Barack Obama on the list of its winners who promised peace but prosecuted ...

TOON: Hollingsworth Hound "To Catch A Banker" (Ruben Bolling)

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War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity And Genocide In Iraq (The Brussels Tribunal)

Legal Case Filed Against 4 U.S. Presidents and 4 UK Prime Ministers Oct. 8, 2009 -- MADRID (Information Clearing House) -- Today the Spanish Senate, acting to confirm a decision already taken under pr ...

Genocide Forgotten: Armenians horrified by treaty with Turkey (Robert Fisk)

Robert Fisk A new trade deal is set to gloss over the murder of 1.5 million people Oct. 8, 2009 (The Independent) -- In the autumn of 1915, an Austrian engineer called Litzmayer, who was helping buil ...

I was so wrong (Garrison Keillor)

Even people who oppose regulation and don't mind manufacturing hamburger contaminated by E. coli deserve healthcare Oct. 7, 2009 (Salon) -- OK, it was wrong of me to say last week that we should deny ...

The War on Language (Chris Hedges)

Sept. 28, 2009 (TruthDig) -- There is a scene in “Othello” when the Moor is so consumed by jealousy and rage that he loses the eloquence and poetry that make him the most articulate man in Venice. He ...

Collapse or Survive: The stark choice facing our species (Johann Hari)

We all know what has to happen. But are we too primitive and irrational to do it? Sept. 23, 2009 -- (The Independent) -- We are -- at the same time -- thrillingly close and sickeningly far from solvi ...

Why I Love Al-Jazeera (Robert D. Kaplan)

The Arab TV channel is visually stunning, exudes hustle, and covers the globe like no one else. Just beware of its insidious despotism. From The Atlantic Has anyone watched the English-language versi ...

Globalization Goes Bankrupt (Chris Hedges)

Free speech zone?: The David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, where the G-20 global economic summit will be held Sept. 24 and Sept. 25, as seen from the parking lot, which is being leased ...

Man Vs. God (Richard Dawkins and Karen Armstrong)

From the Wall Street Journal We commissioned Karen Armstrong and Richard Dawkins to respond independently to the question "Where does evolution leave God?" Neither knew what the other would say. Here ...

Daydreams of Destruction (John Michael Greer)

John Michael Greer Sept. 16, 2009 (Archdruid Report) -- Last week's post on The Archdruid Report got rather more than the usual number of responses. Most of the comment – no surprises there – focused ...