Sep 11 2011
Jimmy Carter: ‘We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war’ By Carole Cadwalladr, Sunday 11 September 2011 … Where does Jimmy Carter live? Well, close your eyes and imagine the kind of house an ex-president of the United States might live in. The sort of residence befitting the …
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Sep 07 2011
What does it mean to be an ‘anarchist’? By David Goodway, Wednesday 7 September 2011 10.37 BST … Anarchists disdain the customary use of “anarchy” to mean “chaos” or “complete disorder”. For them it signifies the absence of a ruler or rulers, a self-managed society, usually resembling the co-operative commonwealth that most socialists have traditionally …
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Sep 07 2011
The imperial delusions of the United States By Robert Jensen, 07 Sep 2011 12:47 … Ten years ago, critics of the United States’ mad rush to war were right, but it didn’t matter. Within hours after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it was clear that political leaders were going to use the attacks to justify war …
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Sep 07 2011
9/11 – was there an alternative response? By Noam Chomsky, 7:46am, September 6, 2011 … We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of September 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. On May 1st, the presumed mastermind of the crime, Osama bin Laden, was assassinated in Pakistan by a …
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Sep 07 2011
9/11 and its great transformations By Cliff Schecter, 07 Sep 2011 15:07 … On September 11th, 2001, on what was a perfect morning-right up until the very moment a Boeing 767-223-ER slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, I stood on the corner of Delancey and Ridge Streets in downtown Manhattan. I …
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Sep 05 2011
Labor Day and the spirit of Joe Hill By Clancy Sigal, Monday 5 September 2011 13.30 BST … l eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You’ll get pie in the sky when you die – “The Preacher and the Slave”, a parody hymn written …
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Sep 03 2011
Stetson Kennedy, unmasker of the Klan By Diane Roberts, Friday 2 September 2011 18.30 BST … You wouldn’t think it to look at us now, but the United States used to grow a fine crop of progressives. Stetson Kennedy, who died 27 August at the age of 94, was one of the great ones. Political …
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