“An illegal anniversary,” posted on Truthout, March 19, 2013.
“Anti-war slogan tells truth about U.S., Middle East,” Austin American-Statesman, March 17, 2013.
“Torture is trivial: Compared to its other crimes, that is,” posted on Common Dreams, January 18, 2013.
“Occupy demands: Let’s radicalize our analysis of empire, economics, ecology,” posted on Al Jazeera English, November 3, 2011.
“9/11 lessons: Combatting ignorance, avoiding arrogance,” posted on Jadaliyya, September 11, 2011.
“Ignoring the lessons of 9/11,” Houston Chronicle, September 11, 2011; and Philadelphia Inquirer, September 10, 2011.
“‘Greatest nation’ rhetoric roars back,” posted on Common Dreams, January 3, 2011.
“The United States has long supported brutal regimes around the world: Interview with Robert Jensen,” posted on Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel, December 1, 2010.
“Projecting power or promoting peace: The prophetic call for justice, kindness, humility,” Texas Observer online, November 15, 2010.
“There are no heroes in illegal and immoral wars,” posted on Common Dreams and Dissident Voice, August 23, 2010.
“NY Times: No conflict of interest - with the conventional wisdom,” posted on Common Dreams and Counterpunch, February 9, 2010. Also distributed as a ZNet Commentary.
“Beyond grief and rage: Palestine and the politics of resistance,” Austin American-Statesman online, January 15, 2009.
“Arrogance, ignorance, and cowardice: Lessons from 9/11,” posted on Monthly Review and Counterpunch, September 11, 2008.
“Beyond peace,” posted on Counterpunch and Dissident Voice, March 17, 2008.
“It didn’t start with Iraq: A review of the film War Made Easy,” posted on ZNet, Monthly Review Zine, and MWC News, September 13, 2007.
“The Masjid & the mindset of despair,” The Hindu ( India), July 13, 2007. Also posted on Monthy Review Zine, Counterpunch and Common Dreams.
"Propriety and paranoia in the empire," posted on Common Dreams, Counterpunch and Dissident Voice, September 25, 2006. Also distributed as a ZNet Commentary.
“5 years later, still a voice crying in the wilderness,” Houston Chronicle, September 14, 2006, p. B-11.
"Attacking Iran: Bad policy is a bipartisan affair," posted on Common Dreams, Working for Change, and Dissident Voice, June 5, 2006.
"Diagnosing the U.S. ‘national character’: Narcissistic Personality Disorder," Alternative Press Review, April 18, 2006.
"Hope is for the weak: The challenge of a broken world," posted on ZNet and Dissident Voice, November 15, 2005.
"Our grief is not special: The pain of September 10," posted on Common Dreams and Counterpunch, September 12, 2005.
"The patriotic press,"
"A nation of mercenaries," Hindustan Times (India), August 15, 2005, p. 8.
"Belonging and becoming: The challenges we face," posted on Counterpunch, ZNet, and Common Dreams, August 15, 2005.
"UT shouldn't help further this nation's nuclear goals," Austin American-Statesman, August 6, 2005.
"From Hiroshima to Iraq and back," co-authored with Sharon Weiner, posted on ZNet and Counterpunch, August 5, 2005.
"The other backlash," Hindustan Times, July 22, 2005, p. 10.
"Monitoring the myths," Texas Observer, July 8, 2005, pp. 26-27. Also posted on Counterpunch.
"TV talk: No evidence required," posted on Alternet, Counterpunch, and Common Dreams, May 20, 2005. ZNet Commentary, June 8, 2005.
"Demonize, disguise, divert: Pinning the blame on Newsweek," co-authored with Pat Youngblood, posted on Alternet, Counterpunch, and Common Dreams, May 17, 2005. An edited version appeared as "What a gift: Bush team exploits magazine's gaffe," Philadelphia Inquirer, May 18, 2005; and
"What is an anti-American leftist?" FrontPageMagazine.com, April 11, 2005.
"The world is waiting for an answer: Are we Americans, or human beings?" posted on Common Dreams and Counterpunch, March 21, 2005.
"Ward Churchill has rights, and he's right," posted on Common Dreams, Counterpunch, and ZNet, February 14, 2005.
"Nurturing Iraq's non-election," co-authored with Pat Youngblood, posted on Alternet, January 28, 2005.
“A lost war?” The Hindu, December 19, 2004.
"The upside to losing Iraq? An empire falls," Austin American-Statesman, December 3, 2004, p. A-17. Also ran as "Defeat for an empire," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, December 8, 2004; and posted on Common Dreams.
"Symposium: Four more years," FrontPageMagazine.com, December 3, 2004."Their quest for justice won't die with Arafat," co-authored with Sylvia Shihadeh, Austin American-Statesman, November 12, 2004. Also posted on Counterpunch, ZNet, OutlookIndia, and Dissident Voice.
"Your rich men are full of violence," posted on Common Dreams, Counterpunch and ZNet, November 4, 2004.
"Election day fears," co-authored with Pat Youngblood, posted at Working for Change, Counterpunch, and ZNet, October 15, 2004.
"Both sides in debate about Kerry's Vietnam service ignore the truth of the war," ZNet Commentary, September 19, 2004.
"'Hijacking Catastrophe' fills a void left by journalists' failures," posted TomPaine.com, Alternet, and Working for Change, September 17, 2004.
"Kerry's hypocrisy on Vietnam War," posted on Counterpunch, August 2, 2004.
"'Fahrenheit 9/11' is a stupid white movie: What Michael Moore misses about the empire," posted on Counterpunch, ZNet, Common Dreams, OutlookIndia.com, July 5, 2004.
"The United States has lost the Iraq War, and that's a good thing," Dallas Morning News, June 6, 2004, p. H-4; also posted on Counterpunch, June 2, 2004.
"America, look into the mirror," The Hindu, June 6, 2004. Also distributed as a ZNet Commentary, May 30, 2004, and posted on Common Dreams, Global Policy Forum, Dissident Voice, May 24, 2004.
"U.S. still adrift in Mideast," Dallas Morning News, April 12, 2004, p. A-15.
"Rice wouldn't admit mistakes," Philadelphia Inquirer, April 11, 2004, p. C-7.
"The failure of U.S. journalism," Aljazeera English (special report on "Changing Face of Iraq"), March 15, 2004.
"Getting away with murder (literally): Presidential lying, journalistic malfeasance, and the manipulation of public opinion," talk to “The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric” conference, George Bush Presidential Library Center, Texas A&M University, March 6, 2004.
"Bush's nuclear hypocrisy," ZNet Commentary, March 9, 2004. Also posted on OutlookIndia.com, Common Dreams, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice and Progressive Trail.
"Former President Bush involved with donation to group with terrorist connections," (satire), posted on Common Dreams, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice and Progressive Trail, March 8, 2004.
"Intelligence failure?" co-authored with Rahul Mahajan, OutlookIndia.com, Nth Position, Dissident Voice and Progressive Trail, February 3, 2004.
"After the capture, war's hard truths remain," co-authored with Rahul Mahajan, Austin American-Statesman, December 16, 2003, p. A-15.
"Purported Bush tape raises fear of new attacks" (satire), posted on Common Dreams, Counterpunch, and ZNet, November 28, 2003.
"Dan Rather and the problem of patriotism: Steps toward the redemption of American journalism and democracy,"
"Absolute religious certainty is dangerous -- abroad and at home," Philadelphia Inquirer, October 21, 2003; and Dallas Morning News, October 22, 2003, p. A-19.
"When will voters get wise to the shell game?" co-authored with Rahul Mahajan, Philadelphia Inquirer, September 9, 2003.
"As Iraq seethes, the Bush team rationalizes," co-authored with Rahul Mahajan, Newsday, September 1, 2003, p. A-23.
"Voices of dissent," Al-Ahram Weekly (Cairo), August 28, 2003, and The Hindu, August 17, 2003.
"Conceiving news," ZNet Commentary, August 3, 2003. A version also appeared in Media Ethics, Fall 2003, pp. 11, 34.
"Embedded reporters' viewpoint misses main point of war," ZNet Commentary, June 16, 2003.
"Texas pledge-of-allegiance law undermines democracy, critical thinking," Waco Tribune-Herald (TX), June 5, 2003.
"Subverted propaganda," posted on Alternet, June 4, 2003.
"End the deception," co-authored with Rahul Mahajan, USA Today, June 4, 2003, p. A-10.
"Fighting alienation in the USA," posted on Counterpunch and Common Dreams web site, April 30, 2003.
"The military's media," The Progressive, May 2003.
"Lack of WMDs kills case for war," Philadelphia Inquirer, April 27, 2003.
"For self-determination in Iraq, the U.S. must leave," posted on ZNet, Common Dreams and Al Jazeera web site, April 14, 2003.
"Images we choose (to ignore)," Austin American-Statesman, April 10, 2003, p. A-17. Also posted on Common Dreams, Electronic Iraq, and Al Jazeera web site.
"Arnett paid a price for being truly neutral," Newsday, April 2, 2003, p. A-37. Also posted on ZNet, Counterpunch, and Commons Dreams web site.
"Why we keep fighting for peace," War Times, April-May 2003, p. 3.
"Beware the sources of official info," Newsday, March 24, 2003, p. A-15; San Jose Mercury News, March 26, 2003; and Houston Chronicle, March 28, 2003, p. A-45.
"On NPR, please follow the script," posted on ZNet, WorkingforChange and Common Dreams web site, March 24, 2003.
"Myths and facts about the war," posted on ZNet, Counterpunch, and Common Dreams web site, March 20, 2003. Also appeared as "Here in the belly of the beast, citizens must resist imperial drive," Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star (VA), March 23, 2003, pp. D-1, 3.
"The failures of U.S. journalists in wartime," Message: internationale Fachzeitschrift für Journalismus (Germany), April 2003, pp. 15-17.
"Confronting our fears so we can confront the empire," posted on WorkingforChange, ZNet, Counterpunch, and Common Dreams web site, March 18, 2003.
"Petróleo, petróleo, petróleo," ZNet commentary, March 11, 2003. Also posted on Counterpunch and Common Dreams web site.
"Bush's contempt for democracy," posted on ZNet, Counterpunch and Common Dreams web site, March 3, 2003.
“Administration pretends it can ignore public,”co-authored with Rahul Mahajan, Dallas Morning News, February 18, 2002, p. A-15. Also posted on ZNet, Counterpunch and Common Dreams web site.
"Confronting the empire
"Powell before the U.N. -- No sale: Oil was the word never spoken," Philadelphia Inquirer, February 6, 2003.
Review of Before & After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the September 11 Crisis, Z Magazine, February 2003, pp. 51-52.
"From the streets into the studio," posted at Outlookindia, ZNet, Counterpunch and Common Dreams web site, January 21, 2003.
"Without justice, there can be no peace," Austin American-Statesman, January 21, 2003, p. A-11; and Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, February 2, 2003.
"Sorry, we won't be fighting for freedom in Iraq," Dallas Morning News, January 1, 2003. Also published in Houston Chronicle, Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, and other papers.
"Bob Woodward and the Bush at War hagiography," posted on Outlookindia, ZNet, Counterpunch and Common Dreams web site, December 9, 2002.
"World's policeman or bully?" Dallas Morning News, November 18, 2002, p. A-17.
"Smirking revisionism," co-authored with Rahul Mahajan, Texas Observer, November 8, 2002, pp. 12, 29.
"September 11 and the failures of American intellectuals," talk to the Canadian Association of University Teachers “Disciplining Dissent” conference, Ottawa, November 1, 2002.
"Heading toward disaster: Congress back war plans," War Times, October/November 2002, p. 1.
"Bush’s lies and simple truths," speech to antiwar rally, Austin, TX, October 26, 2002. Posted on ZNet, Counterpunch, and Common Dreams web site.
"Citizens as soldiers, citizens as prey," Philadelphia Inquirer, October 20, 2002, p. C-5.
"The American paradox: More freedom, less democracy," Global Dialogue, 4:2 (Spring 2002), pp. 47-58. Also posted on ZNet and Counterpunch.
"Bush's leaps of illogic don't answer people's questions about war," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, October 13, 2002. Also posted at ZNet, Counterpunch, Alternet and Common Dreams web site, October 8, 2002. More extensive information available from Institute for Public Accuracy.
"Just a war or a 'just war,'" co-authored with Rahul Mahajan, The Hindu, September 15, 2002.
"Bush at the U.N.: 'Diplomacy' in the age of the American empire," co-authored with Rahul Mahajan, Sentient Times, October/November 2002, pp. 8-9. Also posted at ZNet, Counterpunch and Common Dreams web site, September 13, 2002.
"There's still time for Americans to stop insanity," Houston Chronicle, September 9, 2002, p. A-23. Also posted at Counterpunch and Common Dreams web site.
"What are we celebrating on the Fourth of July?" History News Network, July 1, 2002.
"Rhetoric distorts realities: In today's bizarre political climate, a relativist is someone who argues for moral consistency," Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star (Virginia), June16, 2002. Also posted on ZNet, Counterpunch, and Common Dreams web site.
"Journalism should never yield to 'patriotism,'" Newsday, May 29, 2002, p. A-30. Also posted on Common Dreams web site .
"Reasons to hope: Talking to the Toastmasters," The 9-11 Peace Bulletin, May 22, 2002.
"'Special relationship' with Israel is about U.S. control," co-authored with Rahul Mahajan, The Hindu, May 26, 2002, p. 8. Also posted on Common Dreams web site, Middle East News Online , and other web sites, May 13, 2002.
"We bought and paid for carnage of Palestinians," Houston Chronicle, April 9, 2002, p. A-23. Also posted on Counterpunch , Palestine Chronicle and other web sites.
"Critical hope: Radical citizenship in reactionary times," CCPA Monitor (magazine of Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives), April 2002, pp. 22. Also posted on Common Dreams web site.
"Seeking pain and reducing pleasure," talk delivered at Texas A&M University, March 4, 2002. Posted on ZNet and Counterpunch .
"Tough talk won't solve problem of terrorism," co-authored with Rahul Mahajan, Newsday, October 3, 2001, pp. A-43, 45.
"No news is bad news," co-authored with Rahul Mahajan, posted on Common Dreams web site and Counterpunch , October 1, 2001.