ExxonMobil [spent] extraordinary sums on lobbying ($240 million since 1998) and in 2001 ... sent a memo to the White House asking the new (Bush) administration to get rid of the scientist who chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ... and that a number of others be fired from their jobs in the White House and the State Department, to be replaced by known climate skeptics. Exxon, whose CEO was old friends with Vice President Dick Cheney, got its wishes.

This film by independent German filmmaker, Tobias Kriele provides a picture of the world-renowned Cuban medical and educational systems that persist through the country' s economic suffering.

The new documentary National Bird, which begins screening this Friday -- Veteran's Day, tells the story of three Iraq Veterans Against the War members who were immersed in different parts of the drone program along with the stories of some of the Afghan families affected forever by drone strikes.

A new photobook by photo-activist collective Activestills features ten years of photography documenting tension in Israel and Palestine, including protests the photographers were active in themselves.

The characters are deeply involved in nonviolent resistance, in an effort to end the Occupation and achieve a two state solution, with Israelis and Palestinians living peacefully alongside each other.

Recently, the poet Charles Simic interviewed Omran about Syria, her experience as a poet, and why the West has failed to end the war.

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has announced the winners of its 2016 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards.

The release of Oliver Stone’s film comes amid a stepped-up campaign by the ACLU, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International for President Obama to pardon Edward Snowden before he leaves office in January.

The panel begins by discussing the past and present of the U.S. military, arguably the strongest and mightiest in the world. But has it become so good at one thing that it has forced itself into a business it’s bad at — like economic intervention, waging asymmetric wars, or cyberwarfare?

Ron Kovic’s impassioned, timely memoir about the American veterans movement picks up where “Born on the Fourth of July” leaves off.

Bahrain reportedly has arrested Khalil al-Ismael, 27, a well-known poet who is known for his strong political views, to the dismay of campaigners who warn of ongoing repression in the country.