Literacy gives us the power to build a collective life — it allows us to see our history with clarity, be critical of our present and demand the impossible of the future.
Vijay Prashad: Readers, Not Commodities
Category: Japan
Vijay Prashad: ‘Dreams Are Wearing Thin’
Hundreds of millions of people from the Americas to China have been killed or subdued so a small part of the world — the North Atlantic — could enrich itself. That is madness.
Patrick Lawrence: Exit the Man from Scranton
When a president has failed as miserably as Joe Biden, you had to change the subject. You had to distract the public.
SCOTT RITTER: The Murder of Others
The U.S. has had a moral obligation to commemorate Nagasaki, but this year the U.S. refused to mark its murder of innocent Japanese by defending its murder of innocent Palestinians.
Opening the Devil’s Door in Asia-Pacific
Mick Hall on indications that New Zealand, Japan and the Philippines are moving towards greater integration with the U.S.-led military bloc in the region.
Chris Hedges: Let Them Eat Dirt
The Nazis in 1942 systematically starved the 500,000 men, women and children in the Warsaw Ghetto. This is a number Israel intends to exceed.
Chris Hedges: The Silence of the Damned
Leading humanitarian and civic institutions, including major medical institutions, refuse to denounce Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This exposes their hypocrisy and complicity.
By Hurting UN Agency, the West Sides With Genocide
Israel has long plotted the downfall of UNRWA, aware that it is one of the biggest obstacles to eradicating the Palestinians as a people, writes Jonathan Cook.
John Pilger: Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works
Leni Riefenstahl said her epic films glorifying the Nazis depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. This is how propaganda is done.
US Losing Allies on Gaza
The U.S. again voted against a Gaza ceasefire on Tuesday, but this time a slew of U.S. allies abandoned Washington in the U.N. General Assembly, writes Joe Lauria.