ELAHEH FARMAND Once a year on our immigration anniversary, my mother and I reflect on our journey from Iran to the United States. In the past, we would celebrate the freedoms we were given in America, embrace the struggles we endured as immigrants to settle in a new home, and learn not only a new language, but also a new way of living, a new culture, a new dream. But if … [Read more...] about We Must Fight the System, Not Each Other
US Empire
1%-Funded Rally Actors
Re-open Americaas colonial settler thugsOpened her—oceans of blood, rivers of tears… Calling All Rally Actors—Calling All Rally Actorsfor psy-wars—for encoresfrom gun stores—ol’ hardcoresGun-toting rally actors who ride or die—Black Panther Party-types need not apply… LIBERATE MICHIGAN!!LIBERATE MINNESOTA!!LIBERATE VIRGINIA!! Boots on the … [Read more...] about 1%-Funded Rally Actors
Notes from the Editor – Left Turn #8
Let us Burn All Illusions in 2021 Left Turn welcomes the year 2021 without any illusions about the nature of the system that produced the severe political, economic, and public health crises of 2020 and the new horrors surely on their way if we as a society fail to counteract the ingrained tendencies and deliberate policies that have produced the present unsustainable … [Read more...] about Notes from the Editor – Left Turn #8
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (528p) ISBN 978-0-374-17214-5 Reviewed by Doug Heath In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr, Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University, reframes the standard account of US history to incorporate events in all of the lands outside the conterminous 48 states that were brought under formal US rule, thereby … [Read more...] about How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
“Know this now, you are killing a man”
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on the author’s Facebook page on October 9, 2009. Ten years has passed but the “tradition of silence” by the prestige media in the US regarding the CIA-backed execution of Ernesto Che Guevara continues. Faramarz Farbod Those were the last words of Ernesto Che Guevara before he was murdered by a Bolivian soldier who had … [Read more...] about “Know this now, you are killing a man”