Lyndon Johnson was a conflicted man about Vietnam almost from the time he took office. As early as May, 1964, he confessed his doubts about the conflict to his good friend Senator Richard Russell in one of the many phone calls he taped in the Oval Office.

The illusion of a democratic process in US elections where the criminal class in Washington is bipartisan.

How the Bush neocon cabal is trying to disrupt the December presidential election in Venezuela

How the Bush neocons will try to prevent another six years of Venezuela under Hugo Chavez

James Petras is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He’s a noted academic figure on the US Left and a well-respected Latin American expert and longtime chronicler of the region’s popular struggles.

The collective perversion of those throughout our US government and their co-conspirators in business, the media, academia and the clergy.

Years from now, Lynne F. Stewart’s name will be spoken of with even greater reverence than it is today. On October 17, this courageous and redoubtable soft-spoken civil rights defense lawyer was vindicated in the same Foley Square New York federal courtroom where Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were unjustly framed..

UN Secretaries-General aren’t usually made of the kind of mettle that extends beyond their willingness to serve the interests of the dominant country that effectively runs the UN establishment.

Listeners and viewers expecting to find a safe alternative to the corporate-controlled media by turning to the BBC better reconsider their choice based on the vaunted news organization’s reporting on Venezuela

An account of how democracy and the middle class are being destroyed in the US.

Conservative think tank writer savages Hugo Chavez and this writer responds

On December 8, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the US Congress the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He said that “date….will live in infamy” because of what the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan did.

US determined to block Venezuela’s bid for UN Security Council seat the majority of world nations wants it to have

September 28 marked the sixth anniversary of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s provocative visit to the al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem (the Noble Sanctuary for Muslims and Temple Mount for Jews and Christians) that caused the eruption of the…

In his important new book Freedom Next Time, dealing with “empire, its facades and the enduring struggle of people for their freedom,” John Pilger has a chapter on Afghanistan.