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Why We Must Help Egypt Regain Democratic Ground 26 Aug 2013 | 08:05 pm
I am moved to see Egyptian-Canadians, supported by longtime peace activists, mobilizing today against the military dictatorship which has seized power in Cairo.
A Memory of the 1963 March on Washington 20 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm
I took a bus from Harlem, New York, the morning of March 28, 1963, with friends from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Northern Student Movement. We left about sunrise and the bus was fi...
Return of the 9/11 Jitters? 17 Aug 2013 | 03:05 am
Any hopes for the Obama administration winding down its drone strikes and Global War on Terrorism policy framework and concentrating on domestic priorities are in danger of being suddenly derailed, fo...
Egypt: The Liberals’ Slaughterhouse 16 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm
When Secretary of State John Kerry described Egypt’s military coup as restoring democracy, it was a classic example of the periodic bond that exists between liberals and military dictators against tho...
How to End California's Prison Hunger Strike 16 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
At least 300 inmates are now several weeks into a fast that could soon lead to organ failure and death for many of them. Events are moving rapidly, but as I write, nothing has been resolved. And, as C...
A Lesson of the Irish Hunger Strike 15 Aug 2013 | 12:54 am
Word from within is that California’s prison hunger strikers have been studying the Irish hunger strike of 1981 led by Bobby Sands, in which ten Irish republicans died because of the stubborn refusal ...
Two Victories Against Mass Incarceration 13 Aug 2013 | 11:21 pm
The ruling by federal judge Shira A. Scheindlin against New York’s stop-and-frisk policing is the equivalent of Brown v. Board of Education applied to unconstitutional policing. Coupled with Attorney ...
California Prison Hunger Strike Masked by Iron Curtain 28 Jul 2013 | 08:35 am
Will California Governor Jerry Brown, a lifetime opponent of capital punishment, take responsibility for the death of hunger strikers in solitary confinement in state prisons? That is a looming questi...
Protests Against Secrecy Drive Elites Into Debate 27 Jul 2013 | 03:11 am
Concerned citizens need to crack open the covers of C. Wright Mills’ The Power Elite as the curtains are being ripped back from the new surveillance state by whistleblowers, investigative reporters an...
Counterinsurgency or Immigration Reform? 18 Jul 2013 | 02:23 am
Senate immigration bill SB 744 may be a savvy way to divide the Republican Party in the coming elections, or a small step forward at the cost of massive militarization of the border. Already many immi...
