January 1, 2017
Alice Walker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, and activist. Her most recent book is The World Will Follow Joy (New Press, 2013). This article was originally a speech delivered… READ MORE
October 1, 2016
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar. His most recent book is Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2016). Translated… READ MORE
September 1, 2016
Max Ajl is a doctoral student in sociology at Cornell, an editor at Jadaliyya, and a member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. Ali Kadri, Arab Development Denied (London: Anthem,… READ MORE
July 1, 2014
David Vine is associate professor of anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the forthcoming Base Nation: How American Military Bases Abroad Are Damaging National… READ MORE
April 1, 2014
Eddie J. Girdner is author of USA and the New Middle East (Gyan Publishers, 2008). He lives near Izmir, Turkey. Greg Muttitt, Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in… READ MORE
March 1, 2008
This month marks the fifth year of the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq, which commenced on March 19, 2003. Despite setbacks for the U.S. empire, including unexpected losses in… READ MORE
November 1, 2007
Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan’s new book The Age of Turbulence (Penguin 2007) set off a firestorm in mid-September with its dramatic statement on the Iraq War: “I… READ MORE
July 1, 2007
At the end of May the Bush administration announced that the United States is planning on maintaining permanent military bases in Iraq on a model like that of South Korea,… READ MORE
May 1, 2007
Recent attempts, however tentative, by Congressional Democrats to establish a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq should be looked upon as a victory for the antiwar… READ MORE
December 1, 2006
In a survey of the Iraqi population, the results of which were released last June, 76 percent of those surveyed gave as their first choice “to control Iraqi oil” when… READ MORE
