Chomsky Barred from Entering Israel

Amidst an ongoing crackdown against political dissent in Israel (Where even the defense of basic rights of expres­sion and criticism has become a radical act). Well, Israel never has liked leftists:

The Zionist estab­lish­ment has been united in its attack upon the ISO, beginning imme­di­ately after the Six Day War of June 1967 when the ISO called […]

Howard Zinn has died

What can I say. What a loss. From the NY Times obituary:

Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose book “A People’s History of the United States” became a million-selling leftist alter­na­tive to main­stream texts, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Auburndale, Mass.

Asso­ci­ated Press

Howard Zinn

The cause was a heart attack, his […]

American Heroes

This is Where We Take Our Stand — Trailer from Displaced Films on Vimeo.

Whoever has spent time with veterans knows that most of them did not enlist for ide­o­log­i­cal reasons. As Camilo Mejia said in his appli­ca­tion for con­sci­en­tious objector status, he wanted financial help to make it through college and most of his col­leagues were […]