A tale of two Katrinas
When I teach a course on the history of New Orleans I often tell my students that there were two Katrinas. To be sure, this is a heuristic device, but I've found that it helps students understand the...
View ArticleThe Black Belt Communists
Even as late as the 1930s, Black farmers in Alabama labored under a highly exploitative system of tenant farming that preserved much of the power relations of slavery. But with the aid of the...
View ArticleThe Bolivarian left in Latin America: a challenge to imperialism
Since the election of Hugo Chavez as president of Venezuela in 1998, left or left-center governments have come to power or remained in power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador,...
View ArticleQualifications for Republican presidential nominees
Is being a sociopath a qualification for the presidency? Adolf Hitler was a sociopath who gained power and advanced a policy of racism, militarism and war which led to the greatest war in human...
View ArticleExciting new fossil find in South Africa
An exciting new hominid fossil has been found in the deepest recesses of the Rising Star Cave, about 20 miles Northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa....
View ArticleEthel Rosenberg honored on her 100th birthday
On September 28 something remarkable happened in the New York City Council. The Council passed a resolution by Councilman Daniel Dromm honoring the memory of Ethel Rosenberg on her hundredth...
View ArticleCuba is humanity
Introduction by W.T.WhitneyCuba in the world U. S. efforts to isolate Cuba notwithstanding, that country has succeeded in developing diplomatic, trade, scientific, and tourist relations with almost...
View ArticleWhat Obama's Presidency has to tell us
Controversial posting, by a long-time peace and social justice activist - Obama is the best occupant of the office since the end of World War II. We're unlikely to elect anyone of his quality in 2016....
View ArticlePeople's poetry: "Northeast corridor"
The detritus of post industrial America lostThe leavings of civilization mostOf us, if not all, know the cost Is too much for us and our kids to bear Flies by in this train's windows Along the...
View ArticleXi Jinping's state visit to the US: an objective analysis
Many people would say that US-China government relations is the most important bilateral relationship in the first part of the 21st century. Consequently, Chinese President Xi Jinping's first state...
View ArticlePeace talks in Colombia: What about the political prisoners?
The English translation of the article presented here is by W.T.Whitney Jr. Following the English version we are posting the article as it was originally written in Spanish.Political prisoners do exist...
View ArticleChile and the arc of the moral universe
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. liked to quote an old abolitionist saying: "The Arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice". Both the victims and the perpetrators of the coup d'etat in...
View ArticleIran and post World War II history: Independence thwarted
Editors' introduction: Below we present a slightly edited version of the author's original article which was posted on the "Justice Initiative". The piece makes an important contribution to the current...
View ArticleAn open letter from the US Peace Council
To All Our Friends and Comrades in the Peace Movement:Dear Friends and Comrades in Peace,As you are well aware, our world is at a critically dangerous juncture: the possibility of a military,...
View ArticlePulling down "the flag": New possibilities for progress!
The wide-spread revulsion that swept our nation after the racist murders of worshipers in South Carolina created one of those historic, watershed moments. The Confederate flag, thought by many a...
View ArticleThe inverted world of Niall Ferguson: on the real Obama Doctrine
Niall Ferguson has taught history at Harvard for the last decade. We have just learned that he plans to move to Stanford soon. He served as an advisor to John McCain's presidential campaign in 2008 and...
View ArticleBook Review: Waging counterinsurgency war in the Puerto Rican Colony
War Against All Puerto Ricans - revolution and terror in America's colony, Nelson A. Denis, Nation Books, New York, 2015, ISBN 978-1-56858-501-7, $28.99U.S. media coverage of Puerto Rico focuses these...
View ArticlePeople's Poetry: Two poems for Veterans' Day
Peace to youAnd you and you and you May the Holy Dove descend on your being Delivering the believing and the seeing That we are all one United in a patchwork quilt of sun And moon and all those around...
View ArticleOn the 98th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution
November 7th was the 98th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, establishing what was then called Soviet Russia, the first revolutionary socialist state in history .That state and its successor, the...
View ArticleFrench Communist leader speaks on Paris attacks
Press release from Pierre Laurent, national secretary of the French Communist Party.Our country has just experienced one of the worst events in its history. Last night's simultaneous terrorist attacks...
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