Mitchel Cohen

HEROIC FLY ATTACKS V.P. PENCE FOR HIS LIES AND FASCISM DURING VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE Caught in his web of lies, VP Pence ensnared click photo for more “HELP ME” PENCE PLEADS     Those who do not learn from history are doomed to reTweet it.­ “The first step in the revolution by the working class, […]

by MITCHEL COHEN As one of those who is trying to get the Green Party to switch its tactics and electoral strategy, I would appreciate it if Ajamu Baraka and others would at least address the arguments I and others are making … … which has nothing to do with any expectations of Biden and […]

Published originally in https://www.laprogressive.com/kevin-zeese-2/ The human rights community mourns veteran activist Kevin Zeese, my friend and comrade. “For the Anniversary of My Death” by W.S. Merwin   Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me And the silence will set out Tireless traveler Like the beam of […]

A guest commentary by Dave Lippman Herewith an aggregation of thoughts about policing, pointing towards various approaches to alternatives. Emphasis on getting to the root of the problems, rather than asking institutions of suppression to reform themselves. All complaints and queries may be directed to me, Dave Lippman. First off, a bit of perspective about defunding: […]

324 Congress Members Who Should Permanently Quarantine … Another futile exercise in capitalist “democracy” A guest post by David Swanson July 22, 2020 The U.S. House of Misrepresentatives on Tuesday voted 324 to 93 (with 13 not voting) to defeat a proposal to move a mere 10% of military spending to human, environmental, and health needs. […]

Today, April 4, 2020, marks 52 years since Dr. King was assassinated. Those who care to remember fill the airwaves with timid and nostalgic tributes to the great man. Except for WBAI and other non-commercial stations, only Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech — and even there but a tiny snippet of it — […]

BY CRAIG MURRAY former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday’s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange’s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening. Before I get on to the blatant lack of fair process, […]

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019 — Eighty years ago today the Nazis invaded Poland. As pretext, they rounded up concentration camp victims from Dachau, drugged them, and stuffed them into Polish army uniforms. Nazi officers also dressed in Polish army uniforms and shot them dead as “casualties” in an invented simulated attack on a German radio station. […]

The Great Bernardo Palombo translated Woody Guthrie’s “Deportees” into Spanish for the first time, and performed it at a November 2014 fundraiser, Stand With Ferguson, at Middle Collegiate Church on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, and Joan Baez, performed as well to raise funds following the killing of […]

MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY has passed since Rachel Carson meticulously exposed government and corporate poisoning of the planet with synthetic pesticides. Serialized in The New Yorker in weekly install­ments, Carson’s Silent Spring was officially published as a hard-cover book in September 1962 by Houghton Mifflin Co. for the price of $5. The book, with […]

The Fight Against Monsanto’s Roundup The Politics of Pesticides Written and edited by Mitchel Cohen Foreword by Vandana ShivaA Comprehensive Look at the Worldwide Battle to Defend Ourselves and Our Environment Against the Peddlers of Chemical Poisons “This may be one of the most important books you read this year. We are being poisoned and […]

By Richard Greeman Montpellier, France, Dec. 29, 2018 Is the Yellow Vest rebellion, now in its seventh week, “petering out?” Such was the near-unanimous pronouncement of the mainstream media, when I returned home to Montpellier, France, eager to participate and to observe first-hand this popular insurrection which I had been afraid of missing. I needn’t […]

  * * * * *   WHY I HATE THANKSGIVING Posted on November 14, 2011 by MITCHEL COHEN Learn the Truth about Thanksgiving, this celebration of genocide of millions of people native to the Americas, as well as the ritual mass-slaughter of 43 million turkeys for this one day, in this year alone. INTRODUCTION […]

AN AMERICAN IN REVOLUTIONARY NICARAGUA, A NEW BOOK  BY MITCHEL COHEN (Click HERE to order) Black & White photos, $11 Full Color photos, $65 From the Introduction by David L. Wilson Mitchel Cohen’s memoir gets across the feel of those hopeful days of the Nicaraguan revolution in the 1980s – as well as the sights, […]

Audio reports “from the field” by Mitchel Cohen From newly launched audio series “Profiles of Protest and Resistance” by writer and reporter Mitchel Cohen. PROFILES OF PROTEST #8 (Click HERE) Mitchel Cohen interviews former U.S. Army medic in Somalia Sarah Mess, about her current peace activism and the effects of anti-Malaria drug Lariam on her […]

PRE ELECTION ANTI-WAR RALLY SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5th 1 PM BROOKLYN BORO HALL STEPS 209 Joralemon St., Bklyn Heights March to Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Headquarters Endorsers (still forming): ♦ Brooklyn Greens/Green Party ♦ Veterans for Peace-NYC, Chapter 34 ♦ World Can’t Wait ♦ Popular Resistance ♦ U.S. Peace Council ♦ Friends of Brad Will ♦ Center […]

Clinton vs. Trump: Syphilis vs. Gonorrhea. Donald Trump belches a line that emboldens a racist movement. But his policies — to the extent he has any — in reality would be less destructive than Hillary Clinton‘s, especially when it comes to U.S. foreign policy. As one writer — Ralph Lopez — commented, “Trump is like […]