Readings from Voices of a People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

For their recent book, Voices of a People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove selected testimonies—speeches, letters, poems, songs, petitions, and...

Monkeywrenching the New World Order

Howard Zinn

When tens of thousands of demonstrators shut down the WTO meetings in Seattle, it heralded not only an awareness of the new global capitalist order, but the start of a movement to effectively...

Case Studies In Hypocrisy

US Human Rights Policy

Noam Chomsky

With the recent celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, and America's undisputed position as the world's only superpower, the contrast between the...

Heroes and Martyrs

Emma Goldman, Sacco & Vanzetti, and the Revolutionary Struggle

Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn takes us back a century to a newly industrialized America, the time of robber barons & tycoons, of tenements bursting with immigrants, of dramatic and often violent labor struggles like...

Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind

Noam Chomsky

"The war against working people should be understood to be a real war. It's not a new war. It's an old war. Furthermore it's a perfectly conscious war everywhere, but specifically in the US...which...