Category Archives: Marty’s Blog

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar @kaj33 Aug. 17, 2014 Ferguson is not just about systemic racism — it’s about class warfare and how America’s poor are held back, says Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Spo You probably have heard of the Kent State shootings: on May … Continue reading →

AUG. 15, 2014 Roger Cohen London is in the midst of a boom so giddy it has parted company with the rest of Britain. Construction is everywhere, from the new towers of the City of London (a global financial center … Continue reading →

Nicholas Kristof July 23, 2014 We may now have a new “most unread best seller of all time.” Data from Amazon Kindles suggests that that honor may go to Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” which reached No. 1 … Continue reading →

JULY 4, 2014 Maureen Dowd WASHINGTON — AMERICA’S infatuation with the World Cup came at the perfect moment, illuminating the principle that you can lose and still advance. Once our nation saw itself as the undefeatable cowboy John Wayne. Now … Continue reading →

By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ June 27, 2014 6:16 pm AN insidious trend has developed over this past third of a century. A country that experienced shared growth after World War II began to tear apart, so much so that when … Continue reading →

Who Is Setting the Sectarian Fires in the Middle East? JUNE 28, 2014 Thomas L. Friedman WHAT’S the real fight in the Middle East today? Is it just sectarian (Sunnis versus Shiites) and national (Israelis versus Palestinians and Arabs versus … Continue reading →

Posted on Jun 15, 2014 By Chris Hedges Noam Chomsky speaks to the media at a friend’s house in Amman, Jordan, in 2010.  AP/Nader Daoud   CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Noam Chomsky, whom I interviewed last Thursday at his office at the Massachusetts Institute of … Continue reading →

Top 10 George Carlin Quotes #10 – ARTISTIC DETACHMENT “I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me an artistic detachment that I find valuable. I think … Continue reading →

By ELIZABETH ALEXANDERMAY 28, 2014 Inside Photo Maya Angelou in 1986, the year she published “All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes.” Credit Mary Ellen Mark A friend recently directed me to the Modern Library’s one-volume reissue of Maya Angelou’s six … Continue reading →

Posted on May 25, 2014 By Chris Hedges   Portrait of Thomas Paine by Auguste Millière (1880).   Cornel West, Richard D. Wolff and I, along with moderator Laura Flanders, next Sunday will inaugurate “The Anatomy of Revolution,” a series of panel … Continue reading →