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Malcolm X at 98: Angela Davis on His Enduring Legacy & the “Long Struggle for...
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. Malcolm X was born 98 years ago today in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 19, 1925. Malcolm was assassinated...
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We’ll Never Live in a World Without Tina Turner
Tina Turner didn’t just pull off the greatest comeback in music history — she invented the whole concept of the comeback as we know it. She became a solo superstar when she was 44. Things like that...
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A Father’s Legacy to His Son – and His Country
On June 13, 1971, the New York Times published the first installment of a set of highly classified documents that changed the course of American history. Secretly copied by a military analyst named...
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Daniel Ellsberg Has Passed Away. He Left Us a Message.
When Daniel Ellsberg died on Friday, the world lost a transcendent whistleblower with a powerful ethos of compassion and resolve. Ellsberg’s renown for openly challenging the mentalities of militarism...
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Daniel Ellsberg, American Hero
Few people can say their actions helped to strengthen press freedom, end a war, and bring down a presidency. Daniel Ellsberg, who died today at the age of ninety-two, did just that. Ellsberg came to...
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The Loving Truth-Teller That Was Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower and peace activist who released the Pentagon Papers that exposed the Vietnam War, has died at the age of 92. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on February 17,...
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Daniel Ellsberg and the Endless Federal Lies
What if truth doesn’t out until a million corpses too late? Daniel Ellsberg, one of the most heroic truth-tellers of our era, passed away on Friday at the age of 92. He risked life in prison to leak...
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Daniel Ellsberg’s Dying Wish: Free Julian Assange, Encourage Whistleblowers &...
Whistleblower Dan Ellsberg joined us after the Justice Department charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act for publishing U.S. military and diplomatic...
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Daniel Ellsberg, and the “Good” and “Bad” Whistleblower
The massive obituaries to Daniel Ellsberg at the weekend in both New York Times and Washington Post were proof of the status he held in the United States. Only Presidents get that size of obituary. His...
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Remembering Gus Newport, a Progressive Titan
Former Berkeley, California Mayor Gus Newport, a titan of progressive politics in the late 20th Century, social justice champion who worked with Malcolm X, and a lifelong humanitarian and...
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Life on the Run
Jim Brown was a monster, not only as a wrecking-ball running back on the football field but also as a prime example of an ever more popular obsession with people (mostly men) whose admirable...
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‘The Enemy Is Not a Human Being’
There’s a crucial, overlooked aspect of Daniel Ellsberg’s legacy that’s very much worth saluting, you might say: his transformation from a believer in the Vietnam war to a horrified opponent of it,...
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The Godfather of Whistleblowers
Like so many Americans, I was heartbroken last week to learn of the death of my friend, mentor and personal hero, Daniel Ellsberg. Dan was a giant of modern American history. He was the godfather of...
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Let’s Carry on Grace Lee Boggs’s Revolutionary Legacy by Continuing Her Struggle
To celebrate Grace Lee Boggs — born on this day in 1915 — we should reflect on her concept of “living for change.” While she built and strengthened a wide array of intersectional movements throughout...
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Remembering Staughton Lynd’s Life Of Defiance
The radicalism of the 1960s did not fall from the sky—it was built by the uncommon bravery of common people. One of those people was Staughton Lynd, a professor who accompanied movements for justice as...
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I Will Rise and I Will Return: The Lucidity of Sinéad O’Connor
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common-sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was...
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Dianne Feinstein Helped Lead the Democratic Party’s Neoliberal Turn
California senator Dianne Feinstein died yesterday at age ninety, and mainstream media outlets are rushing to eulogize her. She deserves recognition — and it should go without saying that Feinstein’s...
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And Here’s to You, Henry Kissinger…
On the occasion of his death at 100, praises and denunciations of Henry Kissinger are being sung and spewed out in record numbers. Let me add to the “praises.” More than anyone else, Henry, along with...
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‘I Am You’: NYC Vigil Honors Palestinian Poet Dr. Refaat Alareer
“I am you. I am your past. And by killing me, you kill you.” Activists in New York City held a vigil for Dr. Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian poet assassinated by Israel. The activists read a poem by...
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A Voice For The Oppressed: John Pilger, Radical Journalist And Documentarian
A bright star in the firmament of justice has gone out. One of the greatest journalists of our era has passed away. John Pilger was always on the side of the oppressed. He denounced Empire and all its...
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John Pilger: A Life Telling Truth To Power
David Munro, the brilliantly gifted director and producer of 20 of John Pilger’s 50 films and documentaries once wrote to him, “You opened my eyes and I thank you, since when they’ve never been shut.”...
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John Pilger (1939-2023) On Apartheid And Post-Apartheid Injustices: “South...
Johannesburg – John Pilger, who died in his hometown of Sydney aged 84 on December 30, was a unique journalist, equipped with the combination of moral outrage, relentless sleuthing and unparalled...
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John Pilger – ‘A Majority Of One’
Last week, the Observer reported that the slogan ‘united we will win’ is a fixture on Israeli screens ‘for most TV news and talk shows’. Raviv Drucker, one of Israel’s leading investigative...
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Dr. Martin Luther King is Marching with the People of Palestine
Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee constructed the civil rights and Black Liberation movements on a foundation of Third World internationalism. The...
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John Pilger, a Friend of Palestine and All Oppressed Nations, Has Passed Away
The first and the last time I met John Pilger in person was in 2018. I was invited to deliver a speech at the NSW Parliament in Sydney, Australia. Among the large crowd were many that I knew and...
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Ed Broadbent on Why We Must Move Beyond the Welfare State
Ed Broadbent, a lifelong champion of social democratic politics, passed away on January 11 at the age of eighty-seven, leaving a significant void in Canada’s political landscape and marking a tragic...
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Sustaining Rosa Parks’s Struggle For Transit Equity
Every February, the Labor Sustainability Network coordinates Transit Equity Day, a nationwide day of action that highlights the importance of equitable public transit in ongoing struggles for civil...
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E. P. Thompson at 100
On the 3rd of February 2024, the late E. P. Thompson who was the seminal intellectual and historian on social struggle would have turned 100 years old. For decades, his insightful and illuminating work...
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Mourning Two Principled Opponents of War
The world recently lost two principled opponents of war, but under drastically different circumstances. Johan Galtung died on February 17 at the age of 93. The Norwegian sociologist was known as the...
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In Memoriam Aaron Bushnell 1999-2024
All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. (William Butler Yeats Easter, 1916) His utterance was matter of fact, almost devoid of passion. He was walking rapidly toward the Israeli...
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