Even In The Ruins Race Matters by Playthell Benjamin (from Black World Today 9/27/2001) One morning a few days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center a young Afro-American woman called in to C-Span and asked whether all the talk about the new unity of purpose being forged …
Prof: Never Back Down Activist Russell Means joins Ward churchill to defend essay by Howard Pankratz and George Merritt Denver Post Staff Writers Boulder – Met by wild applause Tuesday night from hundreds of supporters, controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill strongly attacked Gov. Bill Owens and the CU …
Ohuio 7 anti-imperialist political prisoner examines the political repression that has come down following the September 11th attacks.
The Distortions of Acumen: Liberals Trash Ward Churchill By Joshua Frank Press Action, February 4th 2005 I am sure you’ve heard of Ward Churchill’s latest tribulations—so I’ll save you the repetition. However, I bet what you didn’t know was that liberals were running hand in hand with conservatives in …
After the Taliban, women still suffer Kidnappings and wife beatings go on, three years after the liberation of Afghans from the Taliban regime Declan Walsh in KandaharSunday November 7, 2004The Observer Eyes darting back and forth, crouching against a wall, Anar Gul has the distressed look of a chained animal. …
BEAT THE DEVIL Ward Churchill and the Mad Dogs of the Right The Nation, February 3, 2005 by Alexander Cockburn When it comes to left and right, meaning the contrapuntal voices of sanity and dementia, we’re meant to keep two sets of books. Start with sanity, in the form of …
A Message to Troops, Would-be Troops and Other Youth By Jeff Paterson Note: On August 30, 1990, 22-year-old Marine Corporal Jeff Paterson refused to board a military plane in Hawaii heading to Saudi Arabia. He was the first active-duty military resister in the U.S.-led attack on Iraq. The photo of …
Threat of U.S. strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack Jonathan Steele, Ewen MacAskill, Richard Norton-Taylor and Ed Harriman Saturday September 22, 2001 The Guardian Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York …
Johnson: Churchill not alone in pointing accusatory finger February 2, 2005 Rocky Mountaion News I listened to the endless chatter about it on talk radio. I read the news stories, along with the editorials condemning Ward Churchill’s essay. I have just gotten around to reading what the professor actually wrote. …
by way of introduction… this introduction is found in the pamphlet S11: Truth and Consequences (Solidarity-Arm the Spirit 2001, ISBN 1-894820-35-5), available for $2.75 US from Kersplebedeb (email me for details ) Passenger planes smash into the symbols of American economic and military power – longtime symbols of unspeakable human …