By Andy Worthington Yesterday I published a list, with links, of all my articles over the last six months in chronological order, as the latest installment of a project to list…
Category: Howard Zinn
A Memory of Howard Zinn
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…
Howard Zinn, A Champion of the Oppressed
From the Boston Globe: "Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president…
Bagram: The Annotated Prisoner List (A Cooperative Project)
By Andy Worthington On Friday January 15, 2010, the Pentagon responded to a FOIA request submitted by the ACLU last April, and released (PDF) the first ever list of 645 prisoners…
Obama And The Deadline For Closing Guantánamo: It’s Worse Than You Think
By Andy Worthington When the Obama administration’s Detention Policy Task Force, established by Executive Order on the President’s second day in office, conceded last week that it would miss its six-month deadline…
Election Madness
by Howard Zinn The Progressive March 2008 Issue There’s a man in Florida who has been writing to me for years (ten pages, handwritten) though I’ve never met him. He…