Fuente: ZNet Traducción: Beatriz Morales Bastos, Rebelión Homenaje al historiador militante: un texto de 1999 inédito en castellano por Howard Zinn Hace algunos años, cuando daba clases en la Universidad de Boston, un grupo de judíos me pidió que diera una charla sobre el Holocausto. Hablé aquella tarde, pero no sobre el Holocausto de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, [...]

Fuente: Dissident Voice Traducción: Sinfo Fernández, Rebelión por Ismail Zayid 26 de enero, 2010 La horrenda masacre de miles de víctimas inocentes perpetrada el 11 de septiembre de 2001 en Nueva York y Washington, atrajo gran atención sobre el problema del terrorismo, Osama bin Laden y al-Qaida. Los medios y los políticos no han dejado de hacer determinadas insinuaciones desde [...]

Source: Z Space by Mumia Abu-Jamal January 30, 2010 As we near two weeks after the devastating earthquake and terrifying aftershocks in Port-au-Prince and Zacmel, Haiti, we face the inevitable media wall, that closes up, unless a story emerges of such surprise and delight that it’s able to shine through. For the media light, by it’s very nature, must [...]

For more on his life and work, check his web site here Read some of his articles in The Progressive here Some of his work published in Amauta (or related material) From the Socialist Worker article Howard Zinn: The people’s historian, by Alan Maass: The words that end Howard’s autobiography, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, are [...]

Article published in Amauta with special permission from the author by Daniel Ellsberg I just learned that my friend Howard Zinn died today. Earlier this morning, I was being interviewed by the Boston Phoenix, in connection with the release in Boston in February of a documentary in which he is featured prominently. The interviewer asked me who [...]

Source: Democracy Now! January 28, 2010 We pay tribute to the late historian, writer and activist Howard Zinn who died suddenly on Wednesday of a heart attack at the age of 87. Howard Zinn’s classic work A People’s History of the United States changed the way we look at history in America. It has sold over a [...]

Fuente: Rebelión por Rodrigo Moreno Planisolis 17 de enero, 2010 Los Estados Unidos (EEUU) desde su existencia son defensores de los derechos humanos: 1. Después de la larga imposición de los derechos humanos desparecen del territorio de los Estados Unidos los diferentes pueblos indígenas. 2. EEUU ha exportado los derechos humanos 66 veces a países del centro y sur de [...]

Published in Amauta with special permission from the author Source: t r u t h o u t by Barry Eisler January 26, 2010 I’m just about finished with Tim Weiner’s phenomenal “Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.” Two themes are at the heart of the book. First, the Agency has been incompetent from its inception. The roster [...]

Fuente: IPS por Mario Osava RÍO DE JANEIRO, 23 ene (IPS) – El Foro Social Mundial (FSM) es sólo “un instrumento”, que no se debe confundir con el movimiento alter-mundialista, sostiene Chico Whitaker, uno de los fundadores de este encuentro que celebra su décimo año de vida con un seminario de balance, del 25 al 29 de [...]

Source: Real News Network January 25, 2010 Mainstream news attributes Haitian poverty to the supernatural, avoiding history of foreign intervention Danny Glover, Peter Hallward, and Anthony Fenton contribute to breaking down the media avoidance of Haiti’s history of foreign intervention. According to Hallward, Haiti’s poverty can be explained as a series of foreign responses to the independence and [...]