by John Feffer, Noor Iqbal | Jul 30, 2009 | Labor, Trade, & Finance
In any middle school civics class you’ll learn that the system of checks and balances is a central tenet of the U.S. Constitution. Over the last 100 years, however, it appears the government has been operating under different assumptions, particularly where...
by fpifadmin | Mar 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
Two hours before I watched Ari Folman’s docu-drama animated film Waltz with Bashir, a personal account of Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, I listened to a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom recount his experience before a Washington D.C. audience....
by John Feffer, Frankie Sturm | Feb 13, 2009 | War & Peace
I wanted to be a fighter pilot when I was in sixth grade. Fresh off my first viewing of Top Gun, I decided to serve my country by learning to fly an F-14. Fifteen years later, I’m a civilian with no flight experience whatsoever. This is hardly surprising....
by Mavis Anderson, Erik Leaver | Jan 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
It’s past time to acknowledge the real story of U.S. policy toward Cuba over the last 50 years and to seize this unique moment in history to change it. Reese Erlich, in his well-researched book Dateline Havana: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Future of...
by Shaun Randol, Emily Schwartz Greco | Dec 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
At a party before the New York City screening of Che, director Steven Soderbergh said the reason he stretched Che to 257 minutes was because there was just too much story to tell about the revolutionary in a mere two hours. Later, at the same party, I asked a seasoned...
