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Phil Ochs – The Struggle Continues

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  • Phil Ochs – The Struggle Continues

    Steve Shalom

    Phil Ochs was, until his untimely death in 1976, one of the great American folksingers and songwriters, whose powerful lyrics — political and poetic — helped to inspire a generation. His sister Sonny Ochs has worked to keep Phil’s memory and his message alive by organizing concerts bringing together current-day folk singers, offering a mix…

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  • Obama’s War/Obama’s Atrocities

         Since George Bush launched Operation Enduring Freedom in October 2001 — the unjust, illegal, and unnecessary attack on Afghanistan — there have been constant US and NATO strikes on Afghan civilians, along with constant denials that such strikes have taken place.

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  • Two Invented Lives

    [This article was published in New Politics No. 23, Summer 1997] Review of HELLMAN AND HAMMETT, by Joan Mellen (HarperCollins, New York, 1996. 572pp. $30.00 HB, $13.00 PB)

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  • 9-11 Revelation

    Steve Shalom

             Conspiracy theorists often take evidence of government cover-ups as proof that a conspiracy occurred. Sometimes a conspiracy may indeed have occurred, but often the cover-up was designed to hide not some grand conspiracy, but malfeasance, incompetence, or wrong-doing.

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  • Obama Fudges History

    In his speech justifying his escalation of the war in Afghanistan, President Obama reminded us why the US was fighting there in the first place. After 9-11, he recalled, the United Nations Security Council "endorsed the use of all necessary steps to respond to the 9/11 attacks." And then, "only after the Taliban refused to…

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  • Machover on Collective Decision-Making

    Moshe Machover, one of the founders of the Israeli Socialist Organization (Matzpen) back in the 1960s, is a specialist in the mathematics of voting. He has recently written a very valuable paper on Collective Decision-Making and Supervision in a Communist Society." He explains his use of the term "communist" as follows:

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  • Mexican Government Seizes Power Plants, Liquidates Company, Fires Workers, Union in Jeopardy

    October 11, 2009 — Mexican Federal Police last night and early this morning seized the plants of the Central Light and Power Company of Mexico (LyF) which provides electricity to Mexico City and several states in central Mexico. The government of President Felipe Calderón also announced the liquidation of the company, the termination of the…

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  • Mexican Government Prepares to Seize Mexico City Power Plants to Break Power of Electrical Workers Union

    The Mexican Preventive Police (PFP) are preparing to occupy the facilities of the Central Light and Power Company in Mexico City in an attempt to break the militant Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME), according to a union press release. The union warns that the quasi-military occupation of the plants could come within a week. The…

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  • Afghan Rules of Engagement

    There’s an AP story today that the U.S. commander in Afghanistan “will soon order U.S. and NATO forces to break away from fights with militants hiding among villagers.” The order is expected to reduce “the use of air strikes, mortars and artillery in villages.” There are three points to note here: 1. The order does…

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  • STUNNING VICTORY FOR CZECH OPPONENTS OF U.S. RADAR BASE

    Steve Shalom

    For immediate release Contact: Joanne Landy, Campaign for Peace and Democracy, jlandy@igc.org NEW YORK, March 18, 2009

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  • Cast Lead

    Steve Shalom

    I just read a particularly silly piece by Shlomo Avineri, the Israeli political theorist who has written some interesting things on Marxism.

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