1. After the Cataclysm
   Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Rights)
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1979
   A carefully dcoumented asessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina.
2. Against Capitalism
   The European Left on the March
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   
3. Against the Current
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1986
   Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
4. The Age of Aquiescenence
   The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2015
   A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? Fraser sets out to solve that mystery.
5. AIPAC: Israel's U.S. Spy Den
   Against The Current vol. 113
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2004
   The socialist Left must remain clear in its avoidance of a conspiratorial view of history. The entire U.S. political spectrum in the aftermath of the 2000 election, and especially since 9/11, has been awash with conspiracy theories. With deep roots in our political culture, ahistorical conspiratorial views of the workings of the world, devoid of any class understanding or a structural and institutional analysis of what we live in, come bubbling to the surface, especially during times of "national crisis."
6. Alternative America
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1990
   12,150 organizations, mainly American, listed geographically by zip code, and again alphabetically. A subject keyword index referring to group numbers only.
   
7. American Communism and Soviet Russia
   The Formative Period
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1960   Published: 1986
   A history of the formative peirod of the American Communist Party.
8. American Power and the New Mandarins 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1969
   Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
9. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1952
   A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
10. American Taliban 
    How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    America's main international enemy- Islamic radicalism - favors theocracy, curtails civil liberties, embraces torture, represses women, reviles homosexuality, subverts science and education, and reveres force over diplomacy. Markos Moulitsas shows how the American right shares those very same traits. He argues that our domestic jihadists are a greater threat to American democracy than any Islamic terrorist.
11. America's Last Chance
    One Against the Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The United States is rapidly being turned into a police state.
12. Antiwar Activism and Emerging Feminism in the Late 1960s: The Times They Were A'Changing
    Against The Current vol. 85
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The efforts of women to end the war in Vietnam have been subsumed into a paradigm that suggests that, some time in the late 1960s, women activists left the antiwar struggle for the new feminist cause, leaving behind the movement that had initially ignited their activist energies. This story of ideological abandonment overstates the case. The variety of organizational, theoretical, and personal lessons learned in the antiwar movement profoundly influenced the organized, theoretically nuanced, and personally impassioned movement of, by, and for women, whose diverse constituent groups shared the idea of liberation from male authority.
13. Asian American Activism Stirring
    Against The Current vol. 91
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    For a brief but wonderful moment in 2000, the Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke Presidential campaign drew widespread public attention to its central theme of restoring democracy by challenging corporate power. Speaking to thousands of supporters at “super rallies” and millions of television viewers, Nader hammered home the three general points that corporate power has:
14. The Atomized and Siloed U.S. Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    We're increasingly siloed as organizers and protesters. The environment literally decays as we watch, and the Trump administration is hard at work dismantling what environmental regulations there are.
15. The Balance of Probabilities
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Unlike the famous chemical weapons "attack" portrayed by the BBC in Saving Syria's Children, it does appear that in the latest incident at Idlib there was real horror inflicted by chemical attack of some kind. The question is who did it and why?
16. Behind the Confederate Flag Controversy: The Unfinished Civil War
    Against The Current vol. 85
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Some 50,000 people, ninety percent African Americans, marched in Columbia, South Carolina, on January 17, the federal holiday honoring the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The march protest was organized by the NAACP demanding that South Carolina's government remove the Confederate flag from its statehouse. Until the state officials do so, the NAACP pledged to continue its economic boycott of the state.
17. The "Bernie Bros" Narrative: a Cheap Campaign Tactic Masquerading as Journalism and Social Activism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The concoction of the "Bernie Bro" narrative by pro-Clinton journalists has been a potent political tactic -- and a journalistic disgrace. It's intended to imply two equally false claims: (1) a refusal to march enthusiastically behind the Wall Street-enriched, multiple-war-advocating, despot-embracing Hillary Clinton is explainable not by ideology or political conviction, but largely if not exclusively by sexism: demonstrated by the fact that men, not women, support Sanders (his supporters are "bros"); and (2) Sanders supporters are uniquely abusive and misogynistic in their online behavior. Needless to say, a crucial tactical prong of this innuendo is that any attempt to refute it is itself proof of insensitivity to sexism if not sexism itself (as the accusatory reactions to this article will instantly illustrate).
18. Bernie Sanders and the New Class Politics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    An interview with Adolph Reed, a political scientist and Bernie Sanders supporter, who dicsusses assumptions about black voters, the legacy of the Sanders campaign, and the tasks ahead.
19. Binge and Hangover
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The lords of empire set out to show that the United States, not Iran or any other potential rival, will rule the "new" Middle East. Unable to attack Iran directly, however, they instead employed the willing regional branch office of the U.S. military-industrial complex, the Israeli Defense Force, to destroy Lebanon. A war that began as a triumphal imperial binge has ended, at least as of August 14 if the fragile ceasefire holds, with uncertainty and a hangover. (The ceasefire's fate, following the failed Israeli commando raid in the Bekaa Valley, is uncertain as we go to press.)
20. A Blueprint for a New Party
    With the rise of Donald Trump, we need to think seriously about what it would take to form a democratic organization rooted in working class
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A proposal for a national political organization that would have chapters at the state and local levels, a binding program, a leadership accountable to its members, and electoral candidates nominated at all levels throughout the country.
21. Bogus, Misdirected and Effective
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The Tea Party movement is steeped in misinformation and denial. But it has a lot to teach the left.
22. Bound By Power
    Intended Consequences
    Resource Type: Book
    These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
23. "Brutal and Sadistic": Noam Chomsky on Family Separation & the U.S. Roots of Today's Refugee Crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    An interview with Noam Chomsky on the refugee crisis and the Trump administration's family separation policy. The article includes a link to the video interview.
24. Bye Bye, Miss American Empire
    Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, and their Underdog Crusades to Redraw America's Political Map
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Breakaway movements large and small are rising up across the US. Activists of various stripes want to form new states, even new nations. According to Kauffman, the American Empire is dying, in this investigation into modern-day secession.
25. California Greens Advance: The Camejo and Chretien Campaigns
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    In California the Green Party is changing both in its social composition and in its political diversity. The party's support for immigrants' rights, especially around the issue of state driver's licenses, has won the party growing support among Latinos. Leading activists such as Nativo Lopez, Chair of the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), and Miguel Araujo, from Centro Azteca, have come into the Green Party.
26. The Case for Socialism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2010
    An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society based on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
27. The Case for Staying in Iraq
    Against The Current vol. 122
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    I don't support an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, because I think it would probably make an already bad situation much worse. Of course, there's no guarantee that continuing the occupation will succeed in allowing some form of stability to take hold—particularly if our military forces simply "stay the course" of brutality evidenced in Fallujah, Abu Ghraib, and the training of Iraqi death squads. However, I believe it offers the best chance for the chaotic forces now at work in Iraq to settle, over time, into some type of a coherent nation.
28. Chicago '68
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A vivid history of the political and social movements of that turbulent time, when the power structure felt itself threatened by social movements that rejected much of what it stood for.
29. Chomsky on Civil Liberties, Obama and the Future of Progressive Politics
    Left of Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Interview with America's premier political dissident Noam Chomsky.
30. The CIA's 60-Year History of Fake News: How the Deep State Corrupted Many American Writers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    In this week's episode of "Scheer Intelligence," Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer interviews Joel Whitney, author and co-founder of Guernica magazine.Whitney's new book, "Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers," explores how the CIA influenced acclaimed writers and publications during the Cold War to produce subtly anti-communist material. During the interview, Scheer and Whitney discuss these manipulations and how the CIA controlled major news agencies and respected literary publications.
31. A Citizen Legislature 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    Arguing from the premise that the present electoral system is unrepresentative and promotes corruption, the authors propose going back to the Athenian system of choosing representatives: by lottery.
32. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    
33. Common Sense for Hard Times 
    The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
    
34. Confronting the -isms
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I love the name Against the Current and would add that to be active in the Women’s Liberation Movement at the beginning of 1968 was to be “against the current.” And “the current” then was as much the Left and the Black Nationalist Movement as it was the society as a whole. We were mostly white women, mostly middle class in background. Who we were was used against us opportunistically by the Left and the Black Movement to keep from having to address the issues of sexism — a word we didn’t even have back then.
35. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
36. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
37. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    
38. Connexions Library: USA Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the United States of America.
39. Conspiracy, Inc.
    Wild Tales From the Reactionary Right
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Increasingly, reactionary media pundits and much of the rank-and-file of the Republican Party are taking the American right down a dangerous path, marked most ominously by the abundance of conspiracy theories directed against the Democratic Party and mainstream liberals.
40. The Corporations and the State
    Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Essays discussing modern U.S. capitalism and imperialism. Each chapter tries to delineate the relationship between 'economic' and 'political' processes, or at least recognize the unity between them. The unifying them is the role of the large corporations in U.S. society and the world eonomy, and the relationship between these corporations and the capitalist state.
41. Cucks, Cuckolding and Campaign Management
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Talk about a bunch of sad sacks that really stink in the sack. The Trumpocalypse is ruining sex for the rest of us.
42. The Culture That Created Donald Trump Was Liberal, Not Conservative
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Now that Donald Trump, the candidate, has become both widely popular and deeply loathsome, we're seeing a cataract of editorials and commentary aimed at explaining how it happened and who's to blame. The predictable suspects are trotted out: the Republican Party, which had been too opportunistic and fearful to stand up to its own candidate, Fox News, which inflamed the jingoes, and white working-class voters, unhinged by class envy and racial resentment.
43. The Deep State Goes to War With President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    There is a real danger here that this maneuver could harshly backfire, to the great benefit of Trump and to the great detriment of those who want to oppose him. If any of the significant claims in this “dossier” turn out to be provably false -- such as Cohen’s trip to Prague -- many people will conclude, with Trump’s encouragement, that large media outlets (CNN and BuzzFeed) and anti-Trump factions inside the government (CIA) are deploying "Fake News" to destroy him. In the eyes of many people, that will forever discredit -- render impotent -- future journalistic exposés that are based on actual, corroborated wrongdoing.
44. Democracy for the Few 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
    
45. Democracy in the Unites States? Fugetaboutit!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    We who want a more equal and democratic society are the vast majority. There is no reason for us to feel hesitant about speaking our minds and talking revolution to our friends and neighbors, our co-workers, and even people we meet in the course of shopping and so forth. When millions of Americans feel that they are not alone in wanting a revolution, that's when things will start to change. That's when people will start to think creatively and concretely about how to make it happen. Until then, we'll remain on a treadmill to nowhere, with everybody feeling that they are just one lonely person who "can't fight city hall."
46. The Disconnect in US Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Noam Chomsky describes how the American people are excluded from political participation, claiming that action must also come before and after elections and not only once every four years.
47. Disenfranchisement as Political Repression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In the U.S., if you're caught boosting cars, robbing liquor stores, or attempting to escape reality by injecting heroin into your veins, you not only go to jail, but you lose your right to vote. And you don't just lose it for the time you're incarcerated; it's still gone when you get out.
48. Donald Trump and the Vicious Culture of Neoliberal Mass Idiocy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The U.S. media and educational elites share responsibility for creating a world where a despicable idiot like Trump coud be president.
49. The Dying Days of Liberalism
    How Orthodoxy, Professionalism, and Unresponsive Politics Finally Doomed a 19th-century Project
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    It's not a small thing that has fallen here, not merely the defeat of Hillary Clinton and Americans rejecting Obama’s "legacy". We are dealing with a series of institutions, an expert class, and a network of political and corporate alliances, that is being shaken beyond repair. We are in the earliest days of a historical transition, so it's not clear what is coming next, and the labels that have been proliferating demonstrate confusion and uncertainty -- populism, nativism, nationalism, etc.
50. Elections 2000
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Chomsky reviews the details of the 2000 elections and reveals the tendency of dysfunction in democratic electoral models.
51. Elections and Regime Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Will the Democrats "regain control of Congress"? Will Joseph Lieberman change parties? Will Hillary Clinton be the Democratic frontrunner for 2008? How much does any of this matter?
52. The Elephant in the Room
    Against The Current vol. 136
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Much of the world is fascinated by the U.S. presidential election. The main reason is that the country may be ready to do something that most developed countries wouldn’t consider: electing a representative from an oppressed minority as head of government or state. (Try to imagine an Arab citizen of Israel or France as either country’s prime minister or president; or a British prime minister of South Asian descent.)
53. Empire Abroad, Empire At Home
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The institutions and ideas U.S. elites used to project "full spectrum dominance" onto the global stage have eventually become part of the political order in the U.S. It is empire -- most of all -- that dooms democracy. As corporations have an insatiable drive for profit, empires have an insatiable drive for power.
54. The Empire God Built
    Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
55. The End of Politics
    Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    From the events of privatization, economic globalization, spread of violence and gun culture, and the end of the cold war, Boggs explores the depoliticization process in the United States.
56. The End of the Regime?
    Against The Current vol. 125
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The Permanent Detention and Torture Enabling Act of 2006 was the final obscene gesture of a dying Congressional session. (Actually, make that next-to-last: They topped it off with the billion-dollar appropriation to double-fence the Mexican border, even though this means humiliating Bush’s own pals in Mexico, the right-wing politicians whom he helped steal the Mexican election. That’s another crisis we cover elsewhere in this issue.)
57. Failing the Trump Test: Cops for Fascism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Donald Trump just picked up his latest big endorsement: from the New England Policeman’s Benevolent Association, “the fastest-growing law enforcement organization in the northeastern United States” (according to the NEPBA’s website). Addressing the group in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, last Thursday, Trump told his audience that their support represented the most important honor he could possibly receive.
58. Failure of a Dream?
    Essays in the History of American Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
59. Fear of Falling
    The Inner Life of the Middle Class
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1990
    Examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades. Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambition and anxieties that torment it and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.
60. The Fix Is In: Washington's Planned Social Contract Destruction
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    New audit figures show that Bernanke's Fed gave Wall Street and European banksters at least $16.1 trillion (called emergency loans) from December 1, 2007 - July 21, 2010, besides unknown amounts earlier and in the past year. Moreover, it's well known that trillions of dollars are stolen, handed to corporate interests and never returned, as well as gotten in other illegal ways. As a result, taxpayers get stuck with the bill, the nation with unsustainable mounting debt, heading it eventually for ruin.
61. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
62. From Wikileaks to TSA
    Anti-Empire Report
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    We have to remind the American people of what they once knew but seem to have forgotten: that they don't want BIG government, or SMALL government; they don't want MORE government, or LESS government; they want government ON THEIR SIDE.
63. Gag Rule
    On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation. A call to action in defense of one of the most important liberties, the right to raise our voices against the powers that be, and to have those voice heard.
64. GOP Creates Perverse Online Voter Registration, Making It Harder for People to Vote
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The bill will ultimately reduce voting by senior citizens, people with disabilities and minorities.
65. Grassroots Power, Women and Transformation: An Interview with George Friday
    Against The Current vol. 85
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    George Friday is an organizer with the Independent Progressive Politics Network (IPPN)—a national network of organizations working to build alternatives to the two-party system. An African-American woman who grew up in the South, George is currently based in Rockwell, North Carolina, and focuses her work in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. She was interviewed by Stephanie Luce from the ATC editorial board.
66. The Green Party After the Election
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Until the Green Party has built a real power base of well-organized, dues-paying members and elected Green caucuses in city councils, state legislatures and the U.S. House, it will not be taken seriously in a presidential run by most media and most voters
67. Hegemony or Survival 
    America's Quest for Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2004
    Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
68. Here's how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Documenting the corruption of the U.S. political system.
69. How Dare You Clean Up Our Mess?
    Tweedle Destruction and Tweedle Disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    On the nauseating hypocrisy of our good friends on the regressive right. You know the rules. One set of sexual standards for us, another for them behind closed doors. Big thumping militarist patriotism when our kids go off to war, rather less when it's their turn. Itsy-bitsy small government ideology for the lil' folk, Washington as a great big candy-covered sugar teat for them. Etc., etc.
70. How Inequality Kills
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The Global March of Neoliberalism: The World Inequality Report 2018
71. How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Trump
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Co-operation between labour and climate groups may be possible in the Trump era.
72. How Media Bias Fuels Syrian Escalation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The mainstream U.S. media now reports as "flat-fact" the Syrian government's guilt in the April 4, 2017 chemical weapons incident, but the real facts are less clear and some point in the opposite direction.
73. How the System Got Trumped: Cambridge Analytica's Electoral Psyops Campaign
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Available from Cinema Libre Studios, "Trumping Democracy" provides the key to understanding how we have ended up with the most unpopular president in history.
74. How to Light a Prairie Fire
    The Spell Can be Broken
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    If there's one thing I think many people need to understand, it is this: sustained mass movements rarely happen unless many of the participants believe they might win.
75. How to Rig an Election
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Election fraud in the United States in the era of computerized voting machines controlled and programmed by far-right corporate executives.
76. How US Democracy Triumphed Again
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Chomsky explores the discrepancies of the Bush-Gore tie in the 2000 elections such as income correlation and the lack of voter participation, revealing meaningful flaws in the democratic system.
77. I Spent 5 Years With Some of Trump's Biggest Fans. Here's What They Won't Tell You.
    How Donald Trump took a narrative of unfairness and twisted it to his advantage.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Trump masculinizes benefits, but with a key proviso: restrict government help to real Americans.
78. If You Like Obama, You'll Love Trump!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Oh, what fun we have with the nonsense that flows out of the mouth of Donald J. Trump. The man is suffocatingly banal, racist, dishonest, inarticulate, uninformed, uneducated, narcissistic, a bully, just plain stupid, and an asshole (or in the immortal words of my people -- a schmuck!) I would guess that as the boss of his own enterprises for many years, with the power and the habit of firing people, he eventually became deeply accustomed to not having his thoughts seriously questioned or challenged, to the extent that he really believes the crap that comes out of his mouth and doesn’t really understand what others actually think of him.
79. Impeach the President
    The Case Against Bush and Cheney
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    
80. Imperial Presidency
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Chomsky explores the conception of presidential authority and sovereignty, depicting the dangers of the Bush administration's understanding of these concepts.
81. The Importance of Making Trouble: In conversation with Frances Fox Piven
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Coversation with Frances Fox Piven, a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the City of University of New York Graduate Centre and the past president of the American Sociological Association, about the importnace of social movements and upcoming 2016 US election.
82. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
83. The Indefinite Detention of the Progressive Voter
    The Politics of Continual Servitude
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Earlier this year President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law. It allows for the indefinite detention without trial for any U.S. citizen deemed to be a terrorist or an accessory to terrorism.
84. IPPN Standing Strong in the Storm
    Against The Current vol. 88
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    If I were asked to name the one virtue that best describes the political left in America, I would say “perseverance.” As we know all too well, the long history of the left in our country is a history of frustration, betrayal and defeat, yet also of hope, vigor and determination despite many setbacks and our repeated failure to win any real political power.
85. The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    
86. Issues that Obama and Romney Avoid
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    With the quadrennial presidential election extravaganza reaching its peak, it’s useful to ask how the political campaigns are dealing with the most crucial issues we face. The simple answer is: badly, or not at all. If so, some important questions arise: why, and what can we do about it?
87. It Started in Wisconsin
    Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A collection of accounts of the first great wave of grassroots resistance to the corporate restructuring of the Great Recession in Wisconsin in the spring of 2011.
88. Journalistic Integrity: Allan Nairn vs. Julian Assange
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    I've been really upset since the inauguration and trying to cope with the emotions I am encountering daily. It is pretty obvious that a successful meme has been implanted in the progressive mindset that will have as much impact as the claim Ralph Nader gave the 2000 election to Bush. By this I mean that people are extremely pissed off at me for having backed the Green Party and Jill Stein and seem to say with almost a psychic vitriol that it is somehow my fault that Trump got elected. Didn’t you throw your vote away on the Greens? Didn't you say awful things about Hillary?
89. Julian Assange: Wanted by the Empire, Dead or Alive
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlor assassins howling for Julian Assange's head.
90. Just When You Thought 'Russiagate' Couldn't Get Any Sillier
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks is simply the latest version of what the DNC has been doing since 2016, which is trying to fob blame for its loss of an election it should have won.
91. Know-Nothings of 2010
    The New War of the Christian Crusaders
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Over the last four centuries, Quakers, Mormons, Catholics, Jews and many others have been targets of religious persecution, often the victims of imprisonments, hangings, lynchings and other acts of violence.
92. Latin America to Iraq: Greg Grandin's Empire's Workshop
    Against The Current vol. 125
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The decade of the '70s was not good for U.S. imperialism. The American defeat in Southeast Asia led to the development of the “Vietnam syndrome” and with it the reluctance to use U.S. troops in wars abroad.
93. The Left and the Elections
    Against The Current vol. 110
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Two electoral paths will be taken by those left of center this year, and all the spilled ink in the world won't affect the choices.
94. Letter to a Progressive Democrat
    Against The Current vol. 110
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Dear Progressive Democrat: I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and I'm proud of it. You voted for Nader and you regret it (or, you voted for Gore, even though you liked Nader better).
95. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
96. Liberal Totalitarianism and the Trump Diversion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Baraka warns against enthusiastic embrace of the FBI as a "neutral political force populated by people of unreproachable character" in light of their well documented history of politically motivated targetting of civil rights activists.
97. Liberalism as Class Warfare
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Liberals, as guardians of the status quo, are class warriors on the side of economic mal-distribution and the immiseration of the labouring classes and poor for the benefit of the rich.
98. Liberals Beware: Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An examination of the dishonesty in the New York Times' efforts to undermine President Trump, and broader criticisms of other tactics used by the liberal establishment to the same end.
99. Lissa Lucas Dragged Out of West Virginia House Judiciary Hearing For Listing Oil and Gas Contributions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Mokhiber's article summarizes the case of political candidate Lissa Lucas, whose testimony against a bill "that would allow companies to drill on minority mineral owners' land without their consent" was censored by the court.
100. Lobbyists Mourn House Speaker John Boehner's Departure
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     House Speaker John Boehner’s surprise resignation on Friday was reason to celebrate for members of his own party who often complained that he let corporate lobbyists exercise undue influence over Congress. For lobbyists, Boehner's announcement was a reason to mourn.
101. Looking Back -- and Ahead
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The year 1968 stands out as one of those pivotal years on multiple political and cultural levels. Against the Current will devote considerable space to discussing what the upheavals of that year meant then, and now. Conventional media retrospectives will concentrate on the spectacular and appalling visual images — street rioting over the Vietnam War and the Martin Luther King assassination; the murder of Robert Kennedy; the debacle of the Democratic convention in Chicago, with police beating heads while Hubert Humphrey proclaimed “the politics of joy” in his nomination acceptance speech.
102. The Madder Trump Gets, the More Seriously the World Takes Him
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     The more dangerous America's crackpot President becomes, the saner the world believes him to be. Just look back at the initial half of his first 100 days: the crazed tweeting, the lies, the fantasies and self-regard of this misogynist leader of the Western world appalled all of us. But the moment he went to war in Yemen, fired missiles at Syria and bombed Afghanistan, even the US media Trump had so ferociously condemned began to treat him with respect. And so did the rest of the world.
103. Malcolm X Speaks
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1965
     A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
104. Militant Hope in the Age of Trump
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Debates over whether Donald Trump was a fascist or Hillary Clinton was a right-wing warmonger and tool of Wall Street were a tactical diversion. The real questions that should have been debated include: What measures could have been taken to prevent the United States from sliding further into a distinctive form of authoritarianism?
105. Misrepresenting the White Working Class: What the Narrating Class Gets Wrong
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     Most of the time the white working class is invisible in the U.S. But during elections there is a flurry of attention to this "demographic" among political reporters and operatives.
106. A Movement's Loss
     Against The Current vol. 121
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     Puerto Rico is neither a state of the union, nor an independent nation-state. Its residents are U.S. citizens, go to war, have one representative in Congress who cannot vote or even present a motion, pay no taxes and do not vote for president, have no influence or say in federal law, yet are held to all federal standards. Thanks to this legal limbo, for years the island and its people have been used as testing ground for chemicals (e.g. the pill), war agents (e.g. Agent Orange), and even Monsanto is reaping profits now from transgenic crops (Puerto Rico has the highest proportion of Genetic Modification experiments per land area in the world).
107. Nader, Greens and Socialists
     Against The Current vol. 91
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2001
     Blaming Ralph Nader for Bush is like blaming the abolitionists for slavery. The Greens ran Nader to end corporate oligarchy, not to support one wing of the oligarchy as a lesser evil against the other wing. Nevertheless, the Democrats, their liberal satellite organizations, and the corporate media are playing the blame game for all it is worth.
108. Noam Chomsky: Moral Depravity Defines US Politics
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     An interview with Noam Chomsky where he discusses the political parties' lack of focus on crucial issues. Though made hopeful by young progessive candidates winning in the midterms, electoral politics should not be the focus for radical political change.
109. Noam Chomsky: Trump's First 100 Days Are Undermining Our Prospects for Survival
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     No recent US president has demonstrated such an overwhelming ignorance about governing as the current occupant of the White House. But is Trump's apparent inability to govern and conduct himself in a remotely conventional manner an innate character flaw or part of a well-conceived strategy aimed at a society that loves reality TV? In this exclusive Truthout interview, Noam Chomsky shares his views about the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
110. Noam Chomsky: US Is the "Most Dangerous Country in the World"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Nuclear proliferation and climate change are subjects of acute concern in the current moment, driven into an all-out state of emergency by the new Trump administration. In this interview, Noam Chomsky discusses the media coverage of these two major issues, highlighting US tensions with Russia, Iran and North Korea, as well as discussing the recent US airstrike on Syria's Air Force base.
111. Not by Politics Alone
     The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2000
     An informative study on the Christian Right, this book addresses how politics and culture converge. Diamond provides an analysis of how "family values" are infused with evangelical beliefs on a number of societal issues.
112. Notes on the Current Crisis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     The editors debate the subjectivity of international law as the United States publically denounces Russia's seizure of Crimea yet condones Israel's occupation of Palestine and treatment of its people.
113. Nukes Now: Obama Worse Than Reagan
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     President Obama released his fiscal 2015 budget March 4. Ready for this? It asks for considerably more money (in constant dollars) for nuclear weapons maintenance, design and production than Reagan spent in 1985, the historical peak of spending on nukes: $8.608 billion, not counting administrative costs.
114. Of Hegel and Bernie Sanders 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     My concern is not with Bernie Sanders (basically a New Deal liberal) but with the social dynamics of the Sanders phenomenon. What is going on when we see a surge of mass support for someone who identifies himself (however inaccurately) with socialism? What is the social process driving this unexpected shift in political goals and ideas toward the left? What lies behind the re-entry of socialism into the mass vocabulary of political life?
115. Of National Lies and Racial America
     Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     To some, the horror of 9/11 was not new. To some it was not on that day that "everything changed." To some, everything changed four hundred years ago, when that first ship landed at what would become Jamestown. To some, everything changed when their ancestors were forced into the hulls of slave ships at Goree Island and brought to a strange land as chattel. To some, everything changed when they were run out of Northern Mexico, only to watch it become the Southwest United States, thanks to a war of annihilation initiated by the U.S. government. To some, being on the receiving end of terrorism has been a way of life.
116. The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1997
     
117. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
     Fake News
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2016
     "Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
118. A People's History of the United States 
     1492 - Present
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1995   Published: 2003
     Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
     
119. The Perils of Obamamania
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Reed discusses the Left's support for Obama as a phenomenon in which the "lesser evil" is supported at any cost. Reed examines the implications of this support seeing as Obama's policies are shifting toward the center ground. In his analysis, he suggests that progressive support for Obama may permanently shift American politics to the Right.
120. Perspectives for the coming revolution in America: Race, class and the fight for socialism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The title for this meeting is "Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America." It begins with the understanding, broadly felt by a growing section of workers and youth throughout the world, that we live in a revolutionary period.
121. Please Stop Chanting That 'We' Won the Popular Vote!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     "We" didn’t win the popular vote, because we weren't on the ballot. We are the ninety-nine percent.
122. Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1972
     An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
123. The Political Slaughterhouse
     Statism's Death Knell for Liberty and Democracy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     The issue of government coercion has been taken off the radar screen of politically correct thought. The more government power has grown, the more unfashionable it becomes to discuss or recognize government abuses- as if it were bad form to count the dead brought about by government interventions.
124. Politics of Terror and Scandal
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1998
     SCENARIO: AGAINST THE background of a depression in Japan, the economic collapse of Russia and stock market crashes on three continents, a United States president facing imminent expulsion from office for concealing illicit sex in the Oval Office orders retaliatory Cruise missile strikes on two already-ravaged Middle Eastern countries and declares "war on international terrorism."
     Take that idea and try to sell it to Hollywood. Forget about it: Even in "Wag the Dog," after all, not only...
     
125. Politics Past
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1958   Published: 1970
     A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
126. The Port Huron Statement 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1962
     A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
127. The President and the Presidency
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1973
     Chomsky assesses public reactions to the Watergate scandal, dividing them into two categories: cynicism or outrage. He further explores the different perceptions of what in fact Nixon's criminal actions were and discusses the meaning of the principle of unconstrained executive power in relation to democracy.
     
128. Press for Conversion #50
     January 2003
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2003
     This issue contains original research revealing that U.S. war planners have repeatedly used elaborate webs of deceit to con the public into rallying behind major wars whose real purposes involved building vast profits for small corporate elites.
129. Pretensions to Empire
     Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2006
     Delves into the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush, and makes the case for impeachment.
130. A Profound and Jarring Disconnect
     The Writing on the Wall
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     How the US government has gone against the wishes of the public majority on key issues.
131. "Progressive" Obama: He's Melting, He's Melting
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Beneath progressive pretentions, Barack Obama the national political phenomenon has never been anything other than a tool of the US corporate and financial ruling class.
132. Putin's Question and the Ambassador's Answer
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     A fascinating, if brief, verbal exchange recently took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1987 – 1991), Jack Matlock.
133. Race & Class: Obama & the Politics of Protest
     Against The Current vol. 146
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     Consider the following contradiction of modern African-American politics: We have the first African-American president (he checked “Black” on the new census form) offering hope to millions of working-class Blacks. Yet we see a drawdown of protest politics by longtime civil rights leaders, even though the “Great Recession” is causing the greatest harm Black communities have seen in decades.
134. Race, class and the election of Trump
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     An analysis on the 2016 US presidential election.
135. Race, Gender, and Class Politics in the US Primaries
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     The US has some of the largest feminist organizations in the Western world. I should also add that it has the largest organization for the elderly, the AARP. In spite of this, the US is the country where African Americans, women, and the elderly have fewer political, civil, and social rights. African Americans, women, and the elderly have the least health benefits among their equivalents in other developed countries. The primary reason for this underdevelopment of human rights is the absence of powerful socialist forces and parties, rooted historically in the working class. This reality, however, is rarely mentioned in the US. It is presented as too "ideological" or antiquated.
136. Race v. Class? More Brilliant Bourgeois Bullshit from Ta-Nehesi Coates 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Coates is either flat-out lying or woefully ignorant when he argues that "the left" is disinterested in the big and significant problems of racial identity and racial justice. The longstanding legitimately Left progressive agenda addresses both race and class at one and the time. It does not accept Coates' false dichotomy between class and race.
137. Racism and Structural Solutions
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     When Barack Obama raised the specter of race in a March 18 speech that went far beyond what one would expect from the Democratic Party, some of us on the left were hopeful. Since the 1970s, race-speech in presidential campaigns has been increasingly buried in coded language like, “welfare moms,” “inner-city,” “street crime,” “states’ rights” and so on. We all welcomed a shift away from such discourse. By dealing a bit more squarely with the issue, the speech had the potential to ignite a national debate that could grapple with the “racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years,” as Obama put it.
138. The Radical Center and Armed Revolution
     A Challenge for the Left
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Poll shows 29% of registered voters in the U.S. believe armed revolution to ‘protect liberties’ may be necessary the self-appointed political ‘center’ went into full conniption in defense of the established order.
139. Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1975
     A popular education pamphlet on the economic crises of monopoly capitalism.
140. Rage Against the Machine: A War vs. Consensus
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     As it stands now, even if the unlikely liberal wet dream of a Trump impeachment actually comes to pass, the theocratic Mike Pence will simply assume office. No doubt cities like New York and Boston will initially erupt in celebration. But should it really be that long before the realization dawns that the real work remained ongoing?
141. Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt
     Against The Current vol. 88
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2000
     Ralph Nader, announcing his presidential candidacy in Washington, D.C. on February 21, 2000, said, "The struggle between the forces of democracy and plutocracy has ebbed and flowed throughout our history ... The earlier nineteenth-century democratic struggles by abolitionists against slavery, by farmers against large oppressive railroads and banks, and later by new trade unionists against the brutal workplace conditions of the early industrial and mining era helped mightily to make America and its middle class what it is today. They demanded that economic power subside or be shared."
142. Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 2)
     Against The Current vol. 89
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2000
     Our electoral dilemma today derives from a political realignment a hundred years ago, when a faction of populists joined in fusion with William Jennings Bryan and the “Free Silver” Democratic Party. After 1896 the two major parties evolved into what they have remained, electoral machines organized from the top down, from elites to ward heelers and courthouse gangs, as vote-catching operations for factions of big business.
143. Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 3)
     Against The Current vol. 90
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2001
     Ralph Nader has a complex relationship with the historical currents of change before World War I (populism, socialism and progressivism), but it may be his relationship to the Communism of the mid-twentieth century that has shaped his view of reform. Nader readily accepted the prevailing view that the Soviet regime exemplified the definition of socialism, that is, a concentration of bureaucratic power based on government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution.
144. The Real Costs of Empire
     Against The Current vol. 123
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     Vietnam all over again? Yes, it is. The massacres by United States military forces of unarmed civilians in Haditha and, as is finally being revealed despite official lies and coverup, numerous other Iraqi towns, are showing tens of millions of Americans what this war is, and part of what it really costs. The highest costs obviously are borne by the ordinary people of Iraq; but American society will pay for decades as well for this dirty conflict -- and worse is yet to come.
145. Reflections on DC: Promises and Pitfalls in the Anti-Trump Uprising
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     The first mass protests of President Donald Trump represent a historic moment – one worth reflecting on so we can understand where we are and where we're going as a nation.
146. Reform Is Not A Tea Party
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Nobel peace price notwithstanding, Barack Obama’s presidency, contrary to the hopes of many, has not produced a big political space for the left, let alone “a seat at the table.” Most visibly, it has been the right wing that succeeded in seizing the initiative, in some truly grotesque ways that have thrown a spotlight on the deep paranoia — and straight-up old-style white racism — that persists in this society, and on the ways it can be opportunistically pandered to and manipulated. The tea-party mob phenomenon, however, cannot be dismissed as merely a freak show created by rightwing talk media and massive covert corporate funding, although that is certainly part of the story.
147. A Reluctant Memoir of the '50s and '60s
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     I have been asked to write a memoir that would give a sense of the old left/new left realities of the 1950s and ‘60s. That seems quite odd to me (why would I be writing such a thing?), until I look in the mirror and see this old guy looking back at me. As I reflect, it does seem to me that I went through a lot of experience, met a lot of people, and perhaps learned from all that…So I will share some of my story.
148. Reluctant Memoir, Part 2
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     I think it was in 1963 that I first became aware of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). My older sister Patty had married a very nice guy named Earl Brecher, with whom she went to Liberia as one of the first Peace Corps volunteers, in a program, sending idealistic college graduates to “help” downtrodden areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, launched by the Kennedy administration.
149. Rethinking Camelot
     JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1993
     Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
     
150. Right Wingers Marching in DC Is Big News -- But the Same Old Faces Are Pulling the Strings
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The right is never truly defeated; its leaders are patient, and they learn from their errors. When they're out of power, they stay busy, building institutions and mailing lists, all the while waiting for their moment to strike.
151. Right-Wing Populism in America
     Too Close for Comfort
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2000
     Examines the historical roots and current situation of right-wing populism in the US. Berlet and Lyons highlight the dangers of right-wing populism in affecting the political system and opportunities for social change.
152. Russiagate and the Democratic Party are for Chumps
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Now Trump and the nation's 34 Republican governors get to wield the ever-expanding powers of the police state in a nation whose populace has lost faith in nearly every major U.S. institution but two: the military and the police. It's a militarized police-state the Democrats helped create.
153. The Russian Hack That Wasn't
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept exposes the fake news put out by the US Department of Homeland Security (an euphemistic name for a Big Brother operation that spies on US citizens) that Russia hacked 21 US state elections, news that was instantly spread around the world by the presstitute media.
154. The Russian Hacking Story Continues to Unravel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     An examination of the text from a recent report by an IBM executive, which disproves the claim that Russia interfered in the US elections or hacked the servers at the DNC.
155. The Secret Behind Donald Trump's Popularity
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     What if I told you about a nativist rally in which a charismatic white man drew a massive crowd of avid followers, using hate speech to whip them into a racist frenzy before pledging to cleanse America of a foreign threat -- all while 1,300 local policemen stood guard outside the building?
156. 70,000 Kalashnikovs: Cameron's "Moderate" Rebels
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Not since Hitler ordered General Walther Wenck to send his non-existent 12th Army to rescue him from the Red Army in Berlin has a European leader believed in military fantasies as PR Dave Cameron did last week. Telling the House of Commons about the 70,000 "moderate" fighters deployed in Syria was not just lying in the sense that Tony Blair lied - because Blair persuaded himself to believe in his own dishonesty - but something approaching burlesque. It was whimsy - ridiculous, comic, grotesque, ludicrous. It came close to a unique form of tragic pantomime.
157. Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview that he does not believe the U.S. intelligence community proved its case that President Vladimir Putin directed a hacking campaign aimed at securing the election of Donald Trump. He blasted news organizations for lazily broadcasting the assertions of U.S. intelligence officials as established facts.
158. A Short History of Black Voter Suppression
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     The Right's organized movement to suppress the votes of African Americans and Latin Americans, and the urban and rural poor by means of the passing of voter ID (Poll Tax) laws in states receives no mention in the dominant media.
159. Should You March Against Trump?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Yasmin Nair addresses the issue of whether or not to march against Donald Trump this week, or in the months and years following.
160. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1988
     Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
161. A Slice of Socialist History
     Against The Current vol. 121
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     The following correspondence sheds light on a lesser-known period in U.S. socialist history during the 1950s. Frank Fried was a member of the Socialist Union, led by Bert Cochran, following the “Cochran Faction” expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1953. He wrote this letter in response to a query from Hal Smith, a student engaged in research in the history of the Trotskyist movement. The subsequent comment by Lester Rodney, the longtime journalist who waged a long campaign in the 1930s and ’40s to break the “color line” in Major League Baseball, offers further perspective on the politics of the Communist Party in the period. Both are retired and living in California.
162. SNCC
     The New Abolitionists
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1964   Published: 1965
     An account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
163. The Socialist Register 1985/1986
     Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1986
     
164. Socialist Register 2013
     Volume 49: The Question of Strategy
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2013
     This, the 49th volume of the Socialist Register examines the choices faced by the left today, the models of strategy available to it, and the innovations that are being made by groups as they organize in diverse settings.
165. Sources HotLink - June 30, 2016
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2016
     Articles about the FBI and the information it gathers, Donald Trump and the media, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in suppressing information.
166. State of the "Recovery"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     The editors provide an overview of current issues in American politics, such as the debate over minimum wage, Wall Street, immigration reform, the Trans Pacific Partnership and the need for economic recovery.
167. Strategic Thinking and Organizing Resistance
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Argues the need for strategy and vision, and effective organizing, in forming a resistance movement to the Trump presidency, and provides several suggestions for organizers.
168. Swords in the Hands of Children: Reflections of an American Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2017
     Against the vividly evoked chaos and conflicts of the Vietnam Era, Jonathan Lerner probes the impulses that led a small group of educated, privileged young Americans to turn to violence as a means of political change.
169. Targeting Iran
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
170. Ten Examples of Direct Resistance to Stop Government Raids
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Resistance to unjust government action is the duty of all people who care about human rights. As Dr. King reminded us in his letter from a Birmingham jail, "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
171. Thieving Sons of Bushes
     Against The Current vol. 91
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2001
     “Never Trust a Son of Bush” was one of many signs at George W. Bush's presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. on January 20. Some 25,000 marched in Washington and 15,000 rallied in San Francisco. The D.C. protest was the largest one at a presidential inauguration since 1973 -- at President Nixon's second term.
172. Three Lessons for the Left from the Mueller Inquiry 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to uncover collusion between Donald Trump's camp and the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election.
173. Time for an Independent Party
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     More than in most presidential cycles, there is reason to hope for a mass breakaway in 2016. Sanders' campaign has revealed that a mass base exists now for an independent party of the left.
174. Towards a New Cold War
     Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1982
     A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
175. Trump appeals to the military against the press and the courts
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Examining recent remarks by Donald Trump suggesting a presidential and military alliance in opposition to the press and the court system, and the broader impacts of this position.
176. Trump and Clinton: Censoring the unpalatable
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     A virulent if familiar censorship is about to descend on the US election campaign. As the cartoon brute, Donald Trump, seems almost certain to win the Republican Party's nomination, Hillary Clinton is being ordained both as the "women's candidate" and the champion of American liberalism in its heroic struggle with the Evil One.
177. Trump and the Liberal Intelligentsia: a View from Europe
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     A new specter haunts the American elites: the candidacy of Donald Trump in the US President election and his success so far in the Republican primaries. The Republican establishment itself hopes to block his rise, even as he is drawing huge crowds into the party. As for the Democrats, they are hoping that his repugnant image will make the election of Hillary Clinton that much easier.
178. Trump v. the Media: a Fight to the Death
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     At present, this is a golden era in American journalism, because established media outlets such as CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post find themselves under unprecedented and open attacks from the powers that be. Richard Nixon may have felt persecuted by press and television, but he never counter-attacked with the same vigour and venom as Trump.
179. The Trump Phenomenon, as Seen From Europe
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     Trump is berated as the latest incarnation of Evil (after Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, the Brexiters): racist, sexist, Islamophobe, a friend of dictators, etc., in short the embodiment of all that arouses the righteous indignation of the human rights defenders. I would like to suggest a different way of seeing Trump. He is above all a capitalist, almost a caricature of the sort of man capitalism produces, encourages and celebrates. He makes money and is proud of it. For him, the bottom line is cost-benefit. Everything comes down to that ratio. Defend the Baltic States? What does it cost, what do we gain? Defend Japan? What does it cost, what do we gain?
180. Trump the Gardener
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     In an interview defending his Presidential candidate, Silicon Valley billionaire and undisguised self-interested Randian fanboy Peter Thiel assured the public that when Donald Trump asserted that he would build a mighty wall along the US Mexican border, what he really meant was that he would impose a 'saner, more sensible immigration policy'.
181. 2004 Elections
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2004
     Chomsky explores potential implications of the 2004 election results in America, concluding they are, in fact, of little significance. For insight, he points instead to those public opinions which were not included in the process.
182. The Tyranny of False Consciousness
     Know-Nothings of 2010, Part Two
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     Today's nativists are beset by the crisis of capitalist globalization and its accompanying waves of forced migration. Sadly, nativists refuse to acknowledge the relationship between capitalism and migration. Instead, they seek to resolve the mounting social crisis by returning the country to a fantasy way-of-life that never existed, a white Protestant homeland. Rightwing ideological hacks promote this fictitious solution, setting the stage for a far deeper neo-fascist, racist (and anti-Muslim) upsurge.
183. Underhanded History of the USA
     Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973
     
184. United States - DSA Two Years Later: Where Are We At? Where Are We Headed?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) had had a massive surge in membership in the last two years. Here is a look at the history of socialism in the US and the DSA's current prospects for enacting real change.
185. The U.S. is Not a Democracy, It Never Was
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     There is no contradiction or supposed loss of democracy because the United States simply never was one. This is a difficult reality for many people to confront, and they are likely more inclined to immediately dismiss such a claim as preposterous rather than take the time to scrutinize the material historical record in order to see for themselves
186. Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2014
     Nader discusses areas of convergence where liberals and conservatives can start working together for the public good.
187. Untold History of the United States
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2012
     A 2012 documentary series directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone. The ten-part series is supplemented by a 750-page companion book, The Untold History of the United States, also written by Stone and Kuznick, released on Oct 30, 2012.
188. The US Government's Frontal Assault on Freedom
     Hillary the Identity Thief
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     The leaked Wikileaks documents show that the last thing the US government wants anywhere is a government that is accountable to its own citizens instead of to the US government.
189. Wag The Dog -- How Al Qaeda Played Donald Trump And The American Media
     Responsibility for the chemical event in Khan Sheikhoun is still very much in question.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Once upon a time, Donald J. Trump, the New York City businessman-turned-president, berated then-President Barack Obama, back in September 2013, about the fallacy of an American military strike against Syria. At that time, the United States was considering the use of force against Syria in response to allegations (since largely disproven) that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against civilians in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Trump, via tweet, declared "to our very foolish leader, do not attack Syria - if you do many very bad things will happen & from that fight the U.S. gets nothing!"
190. Wanted a Leader for America
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2005
     Chomsky depicts how the issues concerning the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including the pre-determined risk of 9/11, went ignored under the Bush Administration which focused instead upon global domination ambitions.
191. War(s) With No Exit
     Against The Current vol. 136
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The raging debate on “war policy” between the corporate presidential campaigns has come down to this:
192. Watergate
     A sceptical view
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1973
     Noam Chomsky asserts that in light of the other telling symptoms of an unhealthy democracy - such as Kissinger's murderous war ambitions - the Watergate scandal should not have come as a shock to even the least cynical. He illustrates why Nixon's small-scale coup attempt and the revelations which followed should not be the focus of skepticism, noting that there are other issues which deserve more attention.
193. Weather Underground Organization
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     An American radical left organization.
194. Weatherman
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1971
     A history of the Weatherman organization.
195. Welcome to Arivaca: Where residents want anti-migrant militia out'
     Many in this Arizona border town want armed vigilantes, who've vowed to round up undocumented migrants, to leave.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Many in this Arizona border town want armed vigilantes, who've vowed to round up undocumented migrants, to leave.
196. The Welfare State of America
     A manifesto on building social democracy in the age of austerity
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     A movement to expand the welfare state has the potential to foster a new majoritarian Left coalition. Republicans know this -- that’s why they manipulate the way welfare is perceived at every turn. The reality is that 96 percent of Americans have benefited from government programs, but the Right works hard to hide that fact.
197. What Brett Kavanaugh Really Learned in High School: Make the Rules, Break the Rules and Prosper
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The accusations against Kavanaugh may be an open question but his behaviour in handling them proves he is unfit for the Supreme Court. This is reinforced by his previous evasiveness about his role in the Bush administrations torture policy which called his integrity into question long before Christine Blasey Ford made her accusations.
198. What Went Wrong in Ohio
     The Conyers Report on the 2004 Presidential Election
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2006
     Documents fraud in the 2004 U.S. election.
199. What's the Matter with the System?
     Against The Current vol. 137
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     
200. What's the Matter with Kansas? 
     How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2004
     Explores the rise of conservative populism in the United States through the lens of Frank's native state of Kansas. According to his analysis, the political discourse of recent decades has dramatically shifted from the class animus of traditional leftism to one in which "explosive" cultural issues, such as abortion and gay marriage, are used to redirect anger towards "liberal elites."
201. Where Did the Antiwar Movement Go?
     War, Sunny Side Up, and the Summer of Slaughter (Vietnam and Today)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Let me tell you a story about a moment in my life I'm not likely to forget even if, with the passage of years, so much around it has grown fuzzy. It involves a broken-down TV, movies from my childhood, and a war that only seemed to come closer as time passed.
202. Where the Anti-Russian Moral Panic is Leading Us
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     This is how the smear campaign scores points: you don't have to be on the Russian payroll -- you can be a "useful idiot" just because of your political views, which condemn you as an "unwitting" agent, as former CIA director Mike Morell described Trump. This is how the parameters of "respectable" opinion are policed: this is how the War Party criminalizes those who think that the cold war is over and shouldn't be revived.
203. Where's the Beef Stroganoff? Eight Sacrilegious Reflections on Russiagate
     Street, Paul
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Street expresses his frustration with the US political establishment in light of the 2017-2018 FBI investigation into alleged foreign intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.
204. Where's the Evidence?
     The CIA-FBI-NSA report on the hacking of the 2016 election is pure baloney
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     We are told from the outset that the actual evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC and John Podesta's emails as part of a wide-ranging campaign to put Donald Trump in the White House cannot be revealed: "source and methods" must be kept secret. This in spite of DNI director James Clapper's pledge that he would declassify as much of the evidence as possible in the interests of transparency: but then again, Clapper is an admitted liar.
205. Who Will Tell The People
     The Betrayal Of American Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1993
     An exploration of the undermining of U.S. democracy, starting with the basic issues of who gets heard, who gets ignored, and why.
206. Why Ann Coulter Has Power: U.S. Politics are Authoritarian by Design
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A description of undemocratic processes in the US government - the Electoral College, gerrymandering, etc. - and how these allow a small minority to decide the leadership of the country.
207. Why ICE Raids Imperil Us All
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Millions of people who have been living and working in the U.S., contributing to their communities and to the economy, are now at risk simply for who they are: people "without papers."
208. Why Sitting Bull was right about Washington's lack of integrity
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     That integrity is a foreign land where Washington is concerned is an inarguable fact. In the latest example, the failure to complete the construction of a nuclear disposal plant agreed with Russia once again leaves Washington's credibility in tatters.
209. Why the Washington Post Killed the Story of Murdoch’s Bid to Buy the US Presidency
     Carl Bernstein Caught in the Matrix
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     
210. Why There Is No Socialism in the United States
     Resource Type: Book
     
211. Why Trump?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     Donald Trump is winning Republican presidential primaries at such a great rate that he seems likely to become the next Republican presidential nominee and perhaps the next president. Democrats have little understanding of why he is winning -- and winning handily, and even many Republicans don't see him as a Republican and are trying to stop him, but don't know how. There are various theories: People are angry and he speaks to their anger. People don’t think much of Congress and want a non-politician. Both may be true. But why? What are the details? And Why Trump?
212. Wikileaks is Good for America
     Get Over It!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     Julian Assange and Bradley Manning did not create the mess we now find ourselves in. But what they have had the courage to do may just eventually let enough sunshine in for change to happen.
213. Winter Soldier 2008
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     More than 250 veterans and military families gathered from March 13-15 outside Washington, DC for the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) Winter Soldier Investigation: Iraq and Afghanistan. Videos of their testimony on their experiences are posted at www.IVAW.org.
214. Wisconsin Uprising
     Labor Fights Back
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2012
     A collection of accounts from the early stages of the Wisconsin uprising against the corporate world in the of spring 2011.
215. The Women's March Was a Dismal Failure and a Hopeful Sign
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Despite what pundits said, the Women’s March was not a movement. Nor was it the beginning of a movement. It was a moment: a show of hands: "I'm against Trump," these women (and men) told the world. Question was, who/what do they want to replace him?
216. World Orders Old and New
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1994
     Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
217. The Wrecking Crew
     How Conservatives Rule
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     How Republican conservatives govern in Washington and how they enrich others through their methods.
218. "Yes, We're Corrupt": A List of Politicians Admitting That Money Controls Politics
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Schwarz gives a list of examples where politicians acknowledge that money has an impact on what they do.
219. You Are What You Think
     Markos Moulitsas' "American Taliban"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     America's main international enemy "Islamic radicalism" favors theocracy, curtails civil liberties, embraces torture, represses women, reviles homosexuality, subverts science and education, and reveres force over diplomacy. Markos Moulitsas shows how the American right shares those very same traits. He argues that our domestic jihadists are a greater threat to American democracy than any Islamic terrorist.
220. You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
     A personal history of our times
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1994   Published: 2002
     Zinn tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war.

Experts on US Politik in the Sources Directory

1. National Museum of American History