By BILLY WHARTON - May 5, 2010

Multinationals have torn up the globe converting the repression of workers into cheap labor and free trade agreements into new market opportunities all in the name of ever-increasing profit margins. Left in their wake are legacies of environmental destruction, corrupt governments and employer violence. This process is precisely what a documentary...entitled The Cola-Case aims to expose.

By John Pilger - April 23, 2010

The American sports writer, Dave Zirin, is one of the few to break media silence on the corporate distortion and corruption of sport. His forthcoming book Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love...blows a long whistle on what money power has done to the people’s pleasure, its heroes like [Tiger] Woods and the communities it once served.

By Tapani Lausti - March 31, 2010

As the latest NATO "surge" in Afghanistan progresses with the inevitable "regrettable" civilian casualties, the [British Broadcasting Corporation] is there following uncritically the military operation. No one critical of the NATO occupation and surge is allowed to appear in front of the cameras. BBC correspondents take everything at face value..."NATO is trying to minimize civilian casualities", one BBC reporter solemnly declared. This is the way the Soviet media covered the Russian disaster in Afghanistan.

By GREGORY ELICH - March 24, 2010

"The god of the Holy Bible...is ferociously vindictive, neurotically jealous, intolerant, vainglorious, punitive, wrathful, sexist, racist, xenophobic, homophobic, sadistic and homicidal...Beware of those who act in the name of such a god. Were we to encounter these vicious traits in an ordinary man, we would judge him to be in need of lifelong incarceration...At the very least, we would not prattle on about how he works his wonders in mysterious ways."

-- Michael Parenti, from God and His Demons

By Paul Street - March 21, 2010

Under reigning U.S. media rules, Uncle Sam is always...a noble, benevolent, democratic, and well-intentioned force in the world...[It] is never a violent, mean-spirited, murderous, and criminal oppressor and imperialist. The U.S. occasionally and unfortunately makes tragic “mistakes” and tactical errors in the design and execution of its inherently virtuous foreign policies but those policies are never fundamentally immoral, illegal, and imperial in nature.

By Alexander Billet - March 12, 2010

Since Cash's death in 2003, there have been no shortage of forces who have sought to manipulate and reclaim his legacy for themselves...[T]he conservative right have been notably smug in morphing this most rebellious of country legends into one of their own...It's easy to imagine the likes of Glenn Beck squirming at this batch of songs, though...And in their own way, they reveal a stunning answer to any confusion on whose side this artist stood.

By Krystalline Kraus - March 9, 2010

The movie Avatar might empower indigenous people to rise up and defend the earth but it does nothing to empower people with dis/abilities.

The banking crisis was not cataclysmic; the financing bubbles that caused it had been developing for many years. So where were the banks’ auditors? Why were bank financial statements showing high levels of profitability right up to the point of the financial collapse? What went wrong with the audit of these banks? Could it have had something to do with excessive standardization? Less than a decade after Arthur Andersen, has the CA profession learnt anything?

By MICHAEL DONNELLY - January 15-17, 2010

The top-down nature and utter lack of grounding in a wide-spread, active-participation, place-based citizenry is precisely what's wrong with environmentalism today and why we keep losing...[T]he professionals undermine, drive out or co-opt any such assemblage that arises...usually taking credit for any gains the citizens have achieved. To the non-profit pros, the function of any "membership" consists of writing donation checks, swallowing/parroting false victory claims, signing Petitions and voting lock-step for Lesser Evil Democrats.

New book chronicles inner workings of Saipan's garment factories from first ever first-hand perspective of a former garment factory worker.

By Ron Jacobs - January 21, 2010

The US involvement in Afghanistan that began under [former US President] Jimmy Carter was not an accident. It was the result of a concerted effort by the US Right to regain its power in the wake of the US defeat in Vietnam...[W]hat it meant for Afghanistan was that Washington "was (now) backing a class of mullahs and landowners that had been fighting any social reform for generations"...The mujahedin war and what followed destroyed the social progress made under previous Afghan governments.

There are many different ways that the corporate media continues to misrepresent the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Many critics of this biased media coverage have directly challenged the demonization of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, but very few critics, if any, have exposed the media’s virtual erasure of the vibrant and growing participatory democracy in Venezuela (also featuring a video interview with co-author Carlos Martinez).

This Country Must Change makes two important contributions to US activist literature. It raises awareness around the neglected issue of political prisoners and state repression, and it encourages an honest dialogue and critical thinking about the effectiveness of activist strategies and tactics.

By Jackie Shymanski - 9/01/2010

[Malalai Joya] states more than once that though a withdrawal of U.S., Canadian and British troops might very quickly result in the internecine fighting that led to the Taliban, that is actually preferable to foreign occupation in support of yet another corrupt regime.

By Ian Sinclair - November 03, 2009

Despite the best efforts of dissident writers such as Mark Curtis, Noam Chomsky and John Pilger, the US and UK involvement in what the CIA called "one of the worst mass murders of the twentieth century" remains largely unknown to the Western general public...Fortunately for those who do have an interest in understanding the reality of US and UK foreign policy, Nathaniel Mehr...has written a detailed 135-page primer on this dark period of Indonesian history.