Articles, news, campaigns and events about empire
Nov 14, 2011, 8:38am
John Lindsay-Poland
The good news is that critiques of U.S. militarism and the Pentagon’s expansionist role have become mainstream. Even former Defense Secretary Robert Gates had to acknowledge how the State Department was being muscled out of resources for...
May 23, 2011, 10:25pm
Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
The recent controversy ignited by Cornel West’s critique of President Barack Obama and subsequent critiques of Dr. West reveal a fundamental crisis in black leadership. Traditionally, African-American intellectuals and activists have encountered the...
Mar 23, 2011, 1:37pm
Jason Wyman
by Lucas Johnson Vincent Harding and Lucas JohnsonWhenever I leave Atlanta to drive home to see my grandmother in Live Oak, Florida, it never escapes my thoughts that I am passing through history. I pass Macon, I leave the interstate and travel...
Nov 18, 2010, 3:25pm
Ethan Vesely-Flad
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republicby Chalmers JohnsonMetropolitan Books, 2007, cloth (320 pages), $26.00Reviewed by Ethan Vesely-Flad“KILL ARAB.” I stared at the graffiti on the #4-Lexington Avenue subway train in disbelief. It was...
Nov 18, 2010, 2:52pm
FOR
by Wanda Colon CortesIt doesn’t matter whether we look at the constitution of the United States or that of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, or Korea. All of them mention elements of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — the right to life,...
Jul 6, 2010, 11:59am
Ethan Vesely-Flad
Fellowship of Reconciliation staff & leaders will attend the United National Antiwar Conference from July 23-25, 2010 in Albany, NY. FOR’s Mark Johnson (executive director), Leila Zand (Iran program director), and Jim Murphy (International...
