Amy Goodman

'Afghan Taliban feel that the main target should be NATO and the West, and not the Pakistani state, on which, after all, they have relied for a long time'

'...sadistic, vicious, murderous, totally without any credible pretext. It’s another one of the periodic Israeli exercises in what they delicately call "mowing the lawn."'

Remembering folk icon, activist Pete Seeger (1919-2014) in his own words and songs

'The president has refused to talk about climate change, but clearly climate change has chosen to speak to them, just days before the election...'

That's what climate change has become, says the director of meteorology at the Weather Underground: 'that which cannot be named... I see superstorm Sandy here as kind of a wake-up call coming the week before the election'

'The Indians are teaching the Americans, too, how to occupy a place ... The occupation of Kashmir has taken place over years. ... In Iraq, you have 125,000 or so American troops in a situation of war, controlling 25 million Iraqis. In Kashmir, you ha

'The Indian government is negotiating India into a corner where ... you're trying to pretend that you're making some equal deal, but actually, you're officially signing a deal with an alligator ... it's not an equal partnership by any means.'

Much before the New York Times ran an 1,100-word editor's note on its own coverage of the "war" on Iraq, there were those who had documented how the NYT's coverage had helped lead the US in its Iraq invasion.

'...when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in'. Transcript of The Democracy Now! interview telecast on May 19.

The two slugged it out on - Occupation of Iraq: Postponed Liberation or Recolonisation? One wants the Americans to pull out now, the other says not until it helps to oversee the transition. 'You're making me lose patience,' said one. 'Don't be stupi