Hugo Chavez’s actions against RCTV are part of his efforts to democratize the media and punish law-breakers.

Borrowing the line from Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore: “Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.” It’s as true here in the US today as it was in 19th century England, and its message explains how to understand and view our affairs of state and why the title of this essay was chosen - to reflect on our national federal holidays that, in fact, represent something much different than the stated reasons we commemorate them for.

The corrupted dominant corporate-controlled media defiles the spirit of Tom Paine

Longtime and now recently deceased confidant to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Uri Dan, published a book in France that may have been his 2006 one titled Ariel Sharon…

Borrowing the opening line from Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities - “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….”

I recently had the privilege of conducting a “cyber interview” with one of the preeminent domestic critics of the American Empire. Despite his relatively recent start, Stephen Lendman has rapidly become one of the most ubiquitous and well-respected chroniclers of truth in the alternative media community.

Hugo Chavez scores two impressive landslide victories.

What’s not in the Iraq Study Group report is more important than what’s in it.

The reelection of Hugo Chavez was a model of the democratic electoral process compared to the illusion of one in the US.

An account of how the Bush presidency has sent the family political dynasty into decline.

Mass opposition in the streets of Mexico City protesting the stolen presidential election and decades of abuse and injustice.

An extended account of the Bush administration’s disastrous foreign policy in the Middle East

Populist candidate in Ecuador defeats Washington-supported billionaire oligarch in presidential run-off election.

Bush administration scheming to subvert the democratic process in Venezuela and oust Hugo Chavez.

How the Bush administration is trying to subvert the government of Venezuela and overthrow and assassinate Hugo Chavez.