The violence on April 18-19, 1848, which targeted the abolitionist press, followed one of the largest attempted escapes from slavery in U.S. history, Michael David Cohen recounts.
Category: Until This Day–Historical Perspectives on the News
THE ANGRY ARAB: Jordan’s Precarious Throne
Craig Murray: My Day With Prince Philip
People-to-People Projects Build Israeli Impunity
DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Imperialism of Foolery
Pro-Western Syrian exiles have issued a diatribe against the most informative critics of U.S. war policy at a time when Washington’s aggressiveness is reaching new levels of intensity.
Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale’s Guilty Plea
In WWII British Special Forces Were More Transparent Than Today
The Liberal Contempt for Martin Luther King’s Final Year
Requiem for the ‘American Century’
As the longest U.S. war winds down in Afghanistan, Andrew Bacevich says vows of “never again” can only be taken seriously when Americans call imperialism by its name.