Words to Live By from Terry Tempest Williams
Matthew RothschildI don't often rave about a speaker I just saw, but let me rave now.Last night, I went to see the great environmental writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams speak to a crowd of...
View ArticleObama’s Favorite Falsehood
Matthew RothschildI imagine Vladimir Putin took perverse pleasure at the op-ed that his foreign service wrote, under his name, for The New York Times.But he was right about two things.First, that had...
View ArticleA Victory for the 99 Percent
Matthew RothschildRuth ConniffThis article originally appeared in the December/January 2013 edition of The Progressive. For more great content like this, subscribe today for as little as $10 a year and...
View ArticleRemembering Nelson Mandela
Matthew RothschildHe is smiling broadly and is surrounded by jubilant South African schoolchildren. He also has his fist in the air, as do the kids. This mix of empowerment and joyousness typified the...
View ArticleFarewell to a Radical Jewish Pacifist
Matthew RothschildVivien Roodenko died on December 18 at a nursing home in Newtown, PA, at the age of 91.She was one of the last of a generation of radical Jewish pacifists. Her brother Igal, who...
View ArticleAmnesty International Slams Latest Evictions in Haiti
Matthew RothschildEarlier this month, police and other armed men destroyed many makeshift homes in a village on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, displacing 200 families.Watch:These families were...
View ArticleObama Sneers at Snowden While Puffing Up His Own Role
Matthew RothschildIn President Obama's big speech on NSA spying, he made himself the hero of the story -- and Edward Snowden the villain.It's not comforting to all U.S. citizens and everyone living...
View ArticleRest in Peace Pete Seeger, a True Progressive Hero
Matthew RothschildPete Seeger died yesterday at 94, but he'll live on for generations to come.Like the union organizer Joe Hill, whom Seeger helped to immortalize, Seeger and his songs will keep...
View ArticleIntel. Director: Journalists are Snowden's 'Accomplices'
Matthew RothschildJames Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, is lucky he is not under indictment for lying to Congress last year.But there he was, before Congress again on Wednesday, testifying...
View ArticleChief Investigator: Walker Used Illegal Communication System
Matthew RothschildIn the first John Doe investigation, the prosecutors were hot on Scott Walker's trail.The chief investigator of the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office, David Budde, testified...
View ArticleWalker Violated Public Records Law: So say former AG and Milwaukee supervisor
Matthew RothschildA former Wisconsin attorney general and a Milwaukee county supervisor who was subpoenaed by the John Doe prosecutor are both wondering why Scott Walker wasn't charged with violating...
View ArticleOn Russian Aggression and U.S. Hypocrisy
Matthew RothschildWhy John Kerry's denunciation rings so hollow.I just saw John Kerry on Face the Nation about Russia's invasion of the Crimea, and he was in full indignation mode, saying it was...
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FCC Slams Labor Radio
Matthew RothschildLast month, the FCC did something without precedent: It called into question the bona fides of a legitimate news organization.On February 10, the FCC ruled that the huge Chicago radio...
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Obama Whitewashes World War I
Matthew RothschildPresident Obama just went to Flanders Field in Belgium to pay homage to those who lost their lives in World War I.But rather than use the occasion to point out the idiotic hideousness...
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Wisdom from Gabriel García Márquez
Matthew RothschildThe great Latin American novelist died on Thursday, April 17, 2014. Here’s an excerpt from his speech when he accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982:"On a day like today, my...
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Obama Bows to American Exceptionalism at West Point
Matthew RothschildPresident Obama’s speech to the West Point graduates on Wednesday revealed a less adventurous military policy than Bush-Cheney’s. But he still endorsed unilateral action, he bowed...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders Reflects on Shinseki's Resignation
Matthew RothschildSen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, reacted with sadness to the news that Eric Shinseki resigned from his post as head of the VA."Secretary...
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Protesting Sarah Palin and the Tea Party in Madison
Matthew RothschildIt was fun to be at the Madison capitol today to protest Sarah Palin and the tea partiers.There were about 1,500 tea partiers, many bused in by Americans for Prosperity, the rightwing...
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John Kerry Fronts for Illegal War
Matthew RothschildAt his testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry used two weak arguments to justify President Obama’s war-making in Iraq and...
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Michael Kinsley Piles on Greenwald and the Free Press
Matthew RothschildMichael Kinsley goes after Glenn Greenwald in a nasty review that was just published by the New York Times and that will appear in this Sunday’s Week in Review.At stake not only is...
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