Here is a list of must-see Palestine documentaries:

Gaza Strip
In January of 2001, American director James Longley traveled to the Gaza Strip. His plan was to stay for two weeks to collect preliminary material for a documentary film on the Palestinian Intifada. It was during his stay that Ariel Sharon was elected as Israeli Prime Minister. [...]

From A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, 2nd ed.:
Dictatorship of the Proletariat. This is a crucial concept in Marx’s political thought, and also in Leninism. In a letter to J. Wedemeyer (5 March 1852) Marx denied that he had discovered classes or class struggles, but insisted that ‘what I did that was new was to prove [...]

Over on a friend’s blog, there is running a dialogue going on about the nature of capitalism, in which I and some others have been subjecting capitalism to some more or less Marxist scrutiny. Recently, another pro-capitalist commentator joined the discussion, and represented some of what in the U.S. are the most common misconceptions about [...]

Capitalism vs. Democracy, Part II. 
In my last post, I summarized a lecture by Rick Wolff, a Marxist economist and professor of Economics at UMass Amherst. Wolff argued that the current economic crisis is just a case of “capitalism hitting the fan,” the inevitable outcome of neoliberal (i.e. conservative Republican and status-quo Democrat) policies gone right. He [...]

Zack Exley sent me a link to this video lecture by Zack’s former Economics professor Rick Wolff at UMass. Wolff talks about the current economic crisis from a Marxist perspective, insisting that the crisis is much more than merely financial in nature. Wolff argues that the current crisis is a case of “capitalism hitting the [...]

In an essay first written in 1996,1 Noam Chomsky displays how the “free market” economies of the U.S. and Britain only began to accept the terms of the competitive market after at least century-long periods of government protectionism and interventionism. In other words, Britain and the U.S. started playing the “free market” only when it was [...]

“If your enemy is thirsty, give him something to drink.”
Romans 12:20b

My friend and fellow pacifist, Stephen Lawson, commented that this post was “wholly inappropriate.” My question: What is wholly inappropriate? Telling the truth, or peddling deceptions? Exposing the horrible reality of this war, ugly as it is, or keeping our eyes closed so we don’t have to feel what hundreds of thousands of humans in [...]

Be sure to read all the way to the end, and praise God with me that George W. Bush has finally returned to his pre-presidential, pacifist roots.

1999: “My favorite political philosopher is Jesus Christ, because he changed my heart.”
2000: “I’m not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world [...]

“In a free Iraq, there will be no more torture chambers and rape rooms.”
George Bush, 2003

Was Abu Ghraib the work of a few “rotton eggs”? Click here to find out.