Killing the Messenger: Ward Churchill’s Sins Against the Empire By Steven Best February 10th 2005 Press Action “The gross distortions of what I actually said can only be viewed as an attempt to distract the public from the real issues at hand and to further stifle freedom of speech and …
The Man in the Maelstrom Ward Churchill speaks out on his controversial essay, the media frenzy and what the U.S. can do if it really wants to halt terrorism By Pamela White Boulder Weekly Feb. 10, 2005 It started when a group of conservative students from Hamilton College in New …
Feedback from the Internet Last updated February 5th, 2:30pm Over the past week over 70,000 people have read Ward Churchill’s essay “Some People Push Back” on my website.Several people have sent me emails commenting on Churchill’s essay, on my site, on how they see things.Many people may not be aware …
Q. I heard President Bush say that after the World Trade Towers massacre, America must support a new “crusade” to wipe out Islamic terrorism worldwide. A. Millions of people in the Muslim world were stunned at his choice of words. Since the original “crusades” were the mass invasions of the Middle East by …
When queried by reporters concerning his views on the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963, Malcolm X famously – and quite charitably, all things considered – replied that it was merely a case of “chickens coming home to roost.” On the morning of September 11, 2001, a …
available from leftwingbooks.net “Some People Push Back”: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens By Ward Churchill When queried by reporters concerning his views on the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963, Malcolm X famously – and quite charitably, all things considered – replied that it was merely a …
Afghanistan 1979-1992: America’s Jihad by William Blum this text originally appeared as chapter 53 in William Blum’s excellent book Killing Hope: U.S. Military And CIA Intervention Since World War II (Black Rose Books [Montreal. London, New York; 1998]). This text appears here with the permission of the author. It is …
“Why do you think we call it struggle?” by Faith Attaguile contributing editor, Dark Night field notes darknight@igc.apc.org with special thanks and gratitude to Lance Kramer and Michele Cheung whose voices ring throughout this document February 1998 The Problem Its coming from the sorrow on the street; the holy places …
Foreword This essay was originally written for the Three-Way Fight anti-fascist blog (threewayfight.blogspot.com) in the late fall of 2005. I’m not sure if it ever appeared there or not, though it was serialed in three parts in the first three 2006 issues of Turning the Tide (available from antiracistaction_la@yahoo.com). The essay was a response to …
“The great appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise” (James Connolly) Contents Introduction PART ONE 1. A brief bit of history 2. The birth of republicanism 3. Into the 20th century 4. The Carnival begins: Loyal to the last! 5. 1969: the dam breaks 6. Where …