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In Defense of Bowe Bergdahl
Saturday, 7 June 2014, 12:05 pm | Mitchel Cohen
In Defense of Bowe Bergdahl: for Each & Every Warrior Whose Strength is Not to Fight More >>
Armistice Day
Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 12:51 pm | Mitchel Cohen
This morning on WBAI (listener-sponsored, free-speech, non-commercial radio), Bob Hennelly advised listeners to "thank the veterans" for serving "our" country and protecting us. What a crock! It's not "our" military, "our" war against Iraq and ... More >>
For Each & Every Warrior Whose Strength is Not to Fight
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 1:06 pm | Mitchel Cohen
The weakness of strategies based on Lowest Common Denominatorism was in full evidentiary blossom during the 1991 bombardment of Iraq, re-packaged as “the Gulf war.” “Support Our Troops, Not the War!” insisted the National Campaign for Peace in the Middle ... More >>
Why I oppose the Vietnam War
Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 3:31 pm | Mitchel Cohen
January 15, 2012 marked what would have been Dr. King's 83rd birthday. The airwaves are filled 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 ... More >>
"Occupy Wall Street" -- a Love Letter
Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 11:33 am | Mitchel Cohen
Dear Occupyers, Much of our movement has focused on the disparity of income between the top 1% (and, in fact, the top 1/10th of 1%) and the rest of us. In 2006, the top 1.5% had annual gross income of $250,000 or more; the Top 0.12% (146,000 households) ... More >>
Seven Questions for President Obama
Friday, 6 May 2011, 11:06 am | Mitchel Cohen
A number of significant questions arise with the announced killing of Osama bin-Laden. Here are some that members of the Green Party are asking: More >>
Report From The Brooklyn Trenches
Monday, 9 February 2009, 2:01 pm | Mitchel Cohen
All it takes is dragging myself to one local Democratic Party meeting, even one hosted by a progressive and Green-friendly State Assembly member like Bill Colton (47 A.D. - Bensonhurst), to make me again realize two things: More >>
Not lost to a hurricane, but by government betral
Monday, 10 September 2007, 11:41 pm | Mitchel Cohen
U.S. and state government officials refused to allow water or food relief into New Orleans. This was a brazen attempt to "starve people out" - a "war crime" under the Geneva Conventions. Hundreds of people died unnecessarily of thirst. And yet, there ... More >>
Mitchel Cohen: People Of The Dome, Revisited
Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 12:17 am | Mitchel Cohen
AS HURRICANE KATRINA RAVAGED THE GULF STATES, many organizations kicked into high gear to send relief to local groups in Mississippi and Louisiana, with no help from the government or formal relief agencies. Among them was the Malcolm X Grassroots ... More >>
Mitchel Cohen: People Of The Dome
Monday, 19 September 2005, 1:58 pm | Mitchel Cohen
Unbeknownst to the American people, U.S. and state government officials have refused to allow water or food relief into New Orleans in a brazen attempt to "starve people out" - a "war crime" under the Geneva Conventions. Hundreds of people have unnecessarily ... More >>
Mitchel Cohen: The People of the Dome
Monday, 5 September 2005, 12:16 am | Mitchel Cohen
Les Evenchick, an independent Green who lives in the French Quarter of New Orleans in a 3-story walkup, reports that 90 percent of the so-called looters are simply grabbing water, food, diapers and medicines, because the federal and state officials ... More >>
Mitchel Cohen: Why I Hate Thanksgiving
Thursday, 27 November 2003, 11:19 am | Mitchel Cohen
The year was 1492. The Taino-Arawak people of the Bahamas discovered Christopher Columbus on their beach. More >>
Mitchel Cohen: The Gulf War Twelve Years Later (1)
Monday, 10 March 2003, 11:05 am | Mitchel Cohen
On September 11th 1990, U.S. President George H.W. Bush, upholding “democracy” and “peace,” declared his “New World Order” in a speech before the US Congress. He was soon rain thousands of tons of napalm, air-fuel explosives, phosphorous bombs, cluster ... More >>
How George Bush, Sr. Sold the 1991 Bombing of Iraq
Sunday, 29 December 2002, 11:13 am | Mitchel Cohen
The Role of the 1991 Gulf War in the emergence of George Bush's New World Order An extract from… READ MY APOCALYPSE by Mitchel Cohen More >>
