This true story appears in Max Blumenthal’s book Goliath: Life And Loathing in Greater Israel (Chapter 13) and was used with Max’s permission. By June 2010, increasingly draconian proposals were filling the Knesset agenda by the day, including at least five bills designed to limit the power of the Supreme Court, if not completely neuter it altogether. I wanted to gain more access to the lawmakers behind the Knesset’s anti-democratic agenda. …

On a hot day in the town of Bil’in, Israeli soldiers came, even though this land is Palestinian and outside of what Israelis call “Israel proper”. Inside the Mansur home, 16 year old Jamal was at home with his mother and his little sister. …

In 2001 our government, which is run by people sworn to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic, passed and signed into law the PATRIOT Act, which asked us to give up our constitutional rights to privacy and protection from illegal search (fourth amendment) in the…

a poem by Jason Kishineff If we want your oil, we’ll take it. If your country can be useful, we’ll break it. Don’t blow the whistle on our crimes or you’re the only one who will do any time. Everyone knows that ALL must obey our laws. Those that trade with Venezuela or Iran are…

Social media platforms have seen an unprecedented amount of censorship the past few years. Even before this started happening, we saw, on cable news channels, that people who questioned the story the government had put forth disappearing. For instance if you went on a mainstream news show in 2016 and…

Anokye “Greetings, Yaw Okoto!” said the old man, warmly, to the boy (who was really more of a young man than a boy nowadays). “Greetings, Anokye!” cried the enthusiastic boy, embracing the wrinkled old man. “The Abron were not expecting us. We were successful. And I received not a scratch.” “I…

It is somewhat understandable to grow into adulthood and find the history you were taught as a child was incomplete. We teach our children whitewashed history that celebrates Christopher Columbus, for instance, even though he led a genocide of the Arawaks and allowed his men to take sex slaves as…

Authors note: Before I get into it, please be advised that this article might just challenge what you believe is reality. If that happens, chances are pretty good that you’ll get angry with me or decide that I’m just a fool. While it may be the case that I’m a…

What happened to our country? During World War II there were a huge number of conscientious objectors- people who refused to fight for moral reasons- 43,000 according to Howard Zinn[1], four times the number of conscientious objectors during World War I, as well as 350,000 official cases of draft evasion…