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Whistleblower Alert: Authors, Beware the Covert Art of Privishing
Author Gerard Colby, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, reveals publishers’ dirty secret of how non-fiction books are commonly censored in America Imagine what authors go through, taking risks while exposing the rich and powerful, only to see their books die shortly after they are published. Their publisher may have told them “Too bad.
Cry My Beloved Lebanon
[Source: foreignpolicy.com] I am an American citizen, born in Beirut, Lebanon, the daughter of a diplomat/spy, which makes me immune from President Trump’s deportation efforts. My father, Daniel Dennett, served as head of counter-intelligence for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and later the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), the immediate predecessor to the CIA.
Behind the Iran War and All the Wars in the Middle East: Oil
One month into the war in Iran, journalists and politicians, Democrats and Republicans, leftist, rightists, and independents should no longer be asking what this war is all about. Sasan Fayazmanesh, in his March 13th piece in Counterpunch, made a convincing (and brave) argument that It’s Israel, Stupid. He just didn’t go far enough. He rightly begins by posing the questions that seemed to have no coherent answer: Is it because negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program were not progressing?
"God Help Us, If We Send Troops to the Middle East"
Photograph Source: U.S. Army SETAF-AF by Staff Sgt. Luke Wilson – Public Domain President Donald J. Trump is ignoring this widely-held sentiment — including among his MAGA supporters — and has just ordered 2500 troops to the Middle East. In so doing, he is risking the survival of millions of civilians throughout the region, our soldiers, and the planet itself.
Trump's Iran Gambit: Deception and Dangerous End Games
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain On February 11th, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met yet again with President Trump on his sixth visit since Trump resumed the presidency. It got me to wondering: why all these private meetings between the two leaders? What are they up to now? This time the meeting was about Iran, trying to work out a nuclear deal while keeping Tehran from expanding its regional influence and proxy militias.
When Nuclear War is No Longer Unthinkable: Honoring Two Television Events
“There’s something about the sound of a mothers scream, you just never forget.” That was a comment from actress Ellen Moore when interviewed about her role in a recently released documentary about the 1982 movie The Day After, a spellbinder that had over a hundred million Americans glued to their TV sets, watching how a nuclear bomb devastated a rural community in Lawrence, Kansas. And that’s how director Jeff Daniels opens his new documentary, modestly titled Television Event.
Israel, Gaza, and the Struggle for Oil
It was the sign that got to me. I was standing with protesters outside the Burlington (VT) City Hall at a rally organized by Jewish Voice for Peace. To my left I spotted a man, grim-faced and silent, holding aloft a piece of cardboard with these words scratched in black: “Jews against Genocide.” “So it has finally come to this,” I said to myself.
Israel, Gaza, and the Struggle for Oil
It was the sign that got to me. I was standing with protesters outside the Burlington (VT) City Hall at a rally organized by Jewish Voice for Peace. To my left I spotted a man, grim-faced and silent, holding aloft a piece of cardboard with these words scratched in black: “Jews against Genocide.” “So it has finally come to this,” I said to myself.
Israel and Gaza: The Struggle for Oil
Discord in the Middle East is usually presented as a struggle over land, but the underlying factor has always been oil. It was the sign that got to me. I was standing with protesters outside the Burlington (VT) City Hall at a rally organized by Jewish Voice for Peace. To my left I spotted a man, grim-faced and silent, holding aloft a piece of cardboard with these words scratched in black: “So it has finally come to this,” I said to myself.
Israel, Gaza, and the Struggle for Oil
Discord in the Middle East is usually presented as a struggle over land, but the underlying factor has always been oil. The world tends to see the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians as a struggle over land. Charlotte Dennett argues that the search for oil may be an even greater factor. Dennnett has an intensely personal connection with the region.
How Can Another Armenian Genocide Be Stopped?
Filmmaker and Producer Peter Bahlawanian is doing everything in his power to alert the world to the dangers confronting the people of Artsakh, the self-proclaimed Armenian republic located inside western Azerbaijan. To most of the world, this region is known (and was so-named by Stalin in 1921 when the Soviets took over the region) as Nagorno-Karabagh, even though it has long been populated by a majority of Armenians. Bordering Artsakh to the west is the larger nation of Armenia.
Can Another Armenian Genocide be Stopped?
Filmmaker and Producer Peter Bahlawanian is doing everything in his power to alert the world to the dangers confronting the people of Artsakh, the self-proclaimed Armenian republic located inside western Azerbaijan. To most of the world, this region is known (and was so-named by Stalin in 1921 when the Soviets took over the region) as Nagorno-Karabagh, even though it has long been populated by a majority of Armenians. Bordering Artsakh to the west is the larger nation of Armenia.
Beyond the Politics of Despair: an Interview With Marianne Williamson
As Americans live through varying degrees of angst during this final month before the mid-term elections, who should burst onto the scene but the unconventional political and spiritual activist Marianne Williamson offering words of love, hope, and defiance. Williamson, you may recall, ran as a progressive Democrat for the 2020 Presidency.
Bolivia: Center of the World for People’s Movements
Humanity finds itself at a crucial moment. It’s not only war and climate change that threaten life on our planet. Ideologies and some people do too. We know that money and the production of wealth and well-being have created an ever greater and more profound gap between people, neighborhoods, cities and countries—a gap that has been exacerbated by the pandemic.
With Planet Warming, We Are Sacrificing Lives for Profits
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently dropped a bombshell announcement that should have garnered news headlines in the major global and U.S. media, but did not.
“Pay to Play” Major Issue in California Primary Pitting Sanders Progressive Against Two Corporate Democrats
As a consequential primary season is heating up, here’s a campaign worth watching – and supporting – as it addresses head-on an unjust “Pay to Play” rule in California election law as well as the domestic fallout from today’s energy-driven Ukraine War. Peter Mathews is a progressive Democrat from Long Beach – that’s oil country, heavily populated by oil derricks with a major refinery spewing out poisonous emissions into poor neighborhoods.
Kucinich is Back...in Cleveland
Dennis Kucinich has come out with a timely new book that has people talking. You may have followed him at any point during his long and controversial political career — as the youngest mayor of Cleveland (1977–1979) as a U.S. congressman (1997 -2013) and as a presidential candidate (2004 and 2008).
The Water Defenders
Source: Counterpunch The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed by Robin Broad and John Cavanagh. Boston: Beacon Press; 2nd edition. March 23, 2021. At a time when all caring people are seeking a new way forward out of a year of unimaginable death, destruction and rampant inequality, along comes a book that gives us hope that a better world may be possible.
How a Grassroots Campaign Defeated a Big Mining Company in El Salvador
Miguel Rivera in front of anti-mining mural in his town in northern El Salvador / credit: John Cavanagh. At a time when all caring people are seeking a new way forward out of a year of unimaginable death, destruction and rampant inequality, along comes a book that gives us hope that a better world may be possible.
Book Review: “The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed”
The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed by Robin Broad and John Cavanagh. Boston: Beacon Press; 2nd edition. March 23, 2021. At a time when all caring people are seeking a new way forward out of a year of unimaginable death, destruction and rampant inequality, along comes a book that gives us hope that a better world may be possible.
Pipeline Politics: From Afghanistan to Gaza
It’s too early to tell if the bombing deaths of over 60 Afghan schoolgirls will change President Biden’s trajectory for withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan. So far he’s adhered to the tired old mantra of why our troops were sent there in the first place — to fight the terrorists res Likewise, there is an oil and gas connection to the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinians. The TAPI Pipeline Key to its success is securing its passage through lands occupied by warlords.
Moving on, Reflecting Back—Charlotte Dennett's Editorial Tenure Ends - Toward Freedom
Now that my Toward Freedom guest editorship has come to an end, I am reflecting back on the stories we ran for the past 6+ months and the writers who wrote them. The scenes coming out of Modi’s India and its pandemic nightmare have been particularly horrific, causing me to inquire about the health of Toward Freedom contributor Sanket Jain. Sanket is a freelance journalist based in western India.
The Missing Link to the War in Afghanistan
Will the tragic deaths of over 60 Afghan girls change U.S. President Joe Biden’s trajectory for withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan? It’s too early to tell, but he’s unlikely to change the tired old mantra of why U.S. troops were sent there in the first place—to fight the terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
The World is My Country: a Stunning New Film about World Citizen Garry Davis
At a moment of unexpected synchronicity, I find myself writing on Earth Day about a pioneer in global consciousness who was best known as “World Citizen # 1.’” He was a former WWII bomber pilot who was so pained about having bombed a civilian city that, in 1948, he gave up his US national citizenship and declared himself a citizen of the world. Many more acts of defiance would follow, landing him in prison 34 times.
The Making of an American Coup
By Charlotte Dennett Who would have guessed that the world would be given a blow-by-blow televised account, complete with videotaped documentation and federally-released emails, of an American president desperately trying to stay in power after being soundly defeated in an election? Or that it would be a Black woman from the Virgin Isles, Rep.
The Origins of Trump’s Attempted Coup
A Conversation with Buzzflash founder Mark Karlin As the DC drama heats up over the level of Trump’s involvement in the January 6 insurrection, it is imperative to pay attention to the Investigative journalists who have been tracking and revealing Republican skullduggery long before the Age of Trump, going as far back to the Clinton and George W. Bush era.
Secretary of State Raffensperger Speaks With a Forked Tongue
In recent weeks, the news filling American living rooms is that Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, bravely stood up to President Trump’s claim of voter fraud in the November 2020 elections and continues to do so now that Georgians are heading to the polls next week to decide a crucial runoff election that will decide whether Democrats regain control of the Senate.
The Georgia Fraud Story You Haven’t Heard: Sec of State Raffensperger Speaks With a Forked Tongue
In recent weeks, the news filling American living rooms is that Georgia’s RepublicanSecretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, bravely stood up to President Trump’s claim of voter fraud in the November 2020 elections and continues to do so now that Georgians are heading to the polls next week to decide a crucial runoff election that will decide whether Democrats regain control of the Senate.
A Cry for Help: Burlington's Sister City in Nicaragua is a Major Disaster Zone
Members of the Burlington (VT)-Puerto Cabezas Sister City Program (established in 1984 by then-Mayor Bernie Sanders and the Burlington City Council) are putting out an urgent call for help. According to Dan Higgins, a professional photographer who has documented the lives and livelihoods of the people of “Port” over two decades, is heading up the campaign., “A lot of communities lost their roofs. Houses are wrecked. It’s a major disaster,” he told Toward Freedom. Roughly 2,000 homes were destroyed.
Remembering Robert Fisk: Relentless Truth Seeker in the Middle East
by Charlotte Dennett Robert Fisk’s death on October 30th came as a profound shock to journalists around the world, especially those who knew him. And, in a deeply personal way, it was devastating to me as well, though I never met him. I will try to explain what his truth-seeking meant to me, as a former reporter in Beirut and as someone who has shared his anguish over the horrific death and destruction that has engulfed the Middle East.
The People Have Spoken!
Major wins for democracy in the Americas have occurred in the past two months: in Bolivia and Chile in October, extending into the November 3 U.S. elections. Toward Freedom salutes the citizens of all three countries for their determination to defeat authoritarianism. We hope the following images will serve as inspiration to progressive forces around the world.
The Great Voter Purge: a Wisconsin Story
Greg Palast, long-time investigative journalist and fearless vote protector, is at it again…or rather, he’s still at it, exposing Republican vote theft right up to the November 3 election, now just a month away. His latest book, How Trump Won 2020, is his major wake-up call about the myriad ways “billionaire bandits” and their Republican operatives are determined to keep Trump in power at all costs.
How to Rig an Election: An Interview with Greg Palast
Details Charlotte Dennett 24 August 2020 GREG PALAST TALKS--Greg Palast does not mince words about the 2020 elections. Only the voter fraud he warns about is not by the voters, as President Trump insists. It’s by the vote-stealers in the Republican Party. And they’ve been at it for a long time, unbeknownst to the American people.
How to Rig an Election: an Interview With Greg Palast
Greg Palast photo by Olsen. Greg Palast does not mince words about the 2020 elections. Only the voter fraud he warns about is not by the voters, as President Trump insists. It’s by the vote-stealers in the Republican Party. And they’ve been at it for a long time, unbeknownst to the American people.
Trump’s Tulsa Travesty: the Missing Connection
Rarely do all the major injustices in this country converge at one single place on one single day. President Trump’s re-election rally in Tulsa on June 20 near the site of the 1921 Greenwood massacre that killed 300 black citizens was not only the height of insensitivity; it was, in my opinion, criminally negligent, held indoors at Tulsa’s BOK Center when coronavirus infections were on the rise and the president did not require masks or social distancing for his fans.
Saudi Arms Sales, the Ghost of a Reporter, and America’s Oil War in Yemen
Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State – Public Domain The brutal killing of George Floyd by police, followed by the president’s calls for military intervention against protestors, are causing words like “dictatorship,” “authoritarianism,” and even “fascism” to become part of the national discourse. But the president has been dismantling constitutional safeguards for a long time, and the racism he and his administration have broadcast across the nation extends around the world, too.
So We’re All in This Together…Really? What About Big Oil?
By Charlotte Dennett, originally published by CounterPunch May 6, 2020 One thing I’ve learned over the years of investigating Big Oil and its hold over the futures of whole nations — including the US — is this: Never count on “straight talk” from its lobbyists, its PR people, and its protagonists in Congress and the White House So what are we make of the fact that the price of oil tanked to below zero per barrel on April 22, the greatest drop in history?
So We're All in This Together...Really? What About Big Oil?
Photograph Source: I, Luca Galuzzi – CC BY 2.0 One thing I’ve learned over the years of investigating Big Oil and its hold over the futures of whole nations — including the US — is this: Never count on “straight talk” from its lobbyists, its PR people, and its protagonists in Congress and the White House So what are we make of the fact that the price of oil tanked to below zero per barrel on April 22, the greatest drop in history?
Book Review: 'Screwnomics' by Rickey Gard Diamond
As a result of the #MeToo movement, Americans have learned that sexual harassment and assault are pervasive problems, generally rooted in the inequality of power between women and men. The stark contrast in reactions to that dynamic was on dramatic display during last week's testimony from U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. But another realm of exploitation has yet to get the airing it should, and it lies at the heart of women's oppression.
Holding the Rogues in Washington Accountable: It Can and Must be Done - Toward Freedom
A deeply held belief in the U.S. is that no one, not even the president, is above the law. But what happens when sovereign immunity – a legal doctrine that shields government officials from lawsuits under certain circumstances – becomes sovereign impunity, a phenomenon in which government officials at all levels boldly evade the rule of law without consequence, regardless of extenuating circumstances?
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