On March 2, 2016, environmental activist Berta Caceres was assassinated in Honduras. Leaked court documents suggest Berta’s murder was planned by military intelligence specialists linked to the country’s U.S.–trained special forces. Global Witness calls Honduras the deadliest country in the world for environmental activism. Today, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA) re-introduced the Berta Caceres Human Rights…
When the 1% were plotting to overthrow the Roman republic, the great democratic orator Cicero gave a series of speeches in the Roman Senate, exposing the conspiracy. These speeches came to be known as the "Catilinarians" or the "Catiline Orations," after the principal target of the speeches, Lucius Sergius Catilina. For two thousand years, these…
The greatest struggle facing the anti-war movement in the United States is the struggle to get people who come to anti-war demonstrations after a war starts to engage politically to prevent the same wars in the future. In the case of U.S. policy towards Iran, we created a political movement to support diplomacy with Iran…