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REVIEW: American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
David William Pear Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong have explored the albatross of myths, legends, lies and damn lies...
REVIEW: Revolution in the Red States
Tony Sutton If you’re one of those sophisticated urbanites who still believe Donald Trump was elected to the US...
REVIEW: Generations apart – high hopes and stolen dreams
>There was a time, in the not-so-distant past, when the English fishing town of Grimsby proudly lived up to...
Answering the Mysterious Call of An Artist’s Spiritual Vocation
Edward Curtin Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.” Kabir, To Be a Slave of Intensity Strange...
“Only little people pay taxes.”
The Wheel of History Turns To understand the present, we must understand the past, and possibly the future direction...
The CIA Takeover of America in the 1960s is the Story of Our Times
A Quasi-Review of A Lie Too Big To Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy...
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Gaza’ by Norman G Finklestein
o, the ultimate question is, do Palestinians have the right to symbolically resist slow death punctuated by periodic massacres,...
Why has CounterPunch spiked Andre Vltchek’s ‘Lies of the Empire’?
Ramin Mazaheri I first started reading Andre Vltchek on the website CounterPunch, which is a truly great leftist website…...
A Taxing Question: Re-reading Piketty
This book by Thomas Piketty was first published in 2014 and became an instant best seller. It had taken...
REVIEW: David Ray Griffin, The American Trajectory – Divine or Demonic?
by David Lorimer The American Trajectory – Divine or Demonic David Ray Griffin Clarity Press Inc, 2018,...
The EU: From Social-Democratic Dream to Neoliberal Nightmare
Frank Lee Reviews The Left Case Against the EU by Costas Lapavitsas Britain, in the shape of Conservative Prime...
And That’s The Way It Is
The Essential U.S. Journalism Books of 2018 James McEnteer Two very different reporters dig deep beneath the mainstream media...
BOOK REVIEW: Injustice – The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five
Vacy Vlazna Survive prison I must, for when I come out I would hold no grudges, or hate, or...
Against the Stream
So, when did the Trente Glorieuses (1945-1975) end, and the great counter-reformation begin exactly? Some would argue when...
The Quiet Imperialism
Frank Lee reviews Beyond US Hegemony by Egyptian economist Samir Amin, who died earlier this year. This work was...
REVIEW: High Magick By Damien Echols
Hope K If I were to pick one word to sum up Damien Echols’ new book, High Magick: A Guide...
Review: Unprecedented Crime
The unprecedented crime Peter Carter and Elizabeth Woodworth refer to in the title is that of willfully causing global...
Book Review: Propaganda Blitz – How Corporate Media Distort Reality
We’ve heard a good deal of late about Western democracy, and I for one don’t knock it. I think...
9/11 Unmasked: A Remarkable Review
David Ray Griffin The book 9/11 Unmasked, which I wrote together with Elizabeth Woodworth, has received several excellent reviews....
The Fakest Fake News: The U.S. Government’s 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
Edward Curtin If you want to fathom today’s world, absolutely nothing is more important than to understand the truth...
