Lee Ballinger  What Backlash Against the Dixie Chicks? 
Arthur Asiimwe  Rwandan president scoffs at "Hotel Rwanda"
Kennedy Johnson  How Radio Continues to 'Dumb Down' Blacks in Los Angeles [And, one might add, everyone virtually everyplace else.]
Orhan Pamuk  Freedom to Write
Tim Harper  Hollywood Star Tim Robbins Blasts US Media Ignorance of 'High Crimes' in Iraq
Terry Eagleton  What Are We? A review of Nation and Novel by Patrick Parrinder
Stephanie Merritt  Still a street-fighting man
Kari Lyderson  Support Builds for Immigration Protests, Boycott 
CONTRATIEMPO  Upton Sinclair's The Jungle: 100 Years Later 
Ron Jacobs  A Review of Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun 
The Nation  Songs of Protest
David Krieger  The Courage of Sophie Scholl -- Resisting Hitler 
Amadou Deme  Setting the Record Straight -- Hotel Rwanda
Charles Isherwood  Is Lefty Finally Showing Up?
Defying Poverty's Everyday Despair in Odets's 'Awake and Sing!' 
Dresses Are Fine, but Pajamas Are Divine
Richard Ouzounian Play Pushed Underground: Cancelled in New York, the first Toronto reading of My Name Is Corrie is being held at a secret location
Manohla Dargis  'Sir! No Sir!' Salutes Vietnam's Dissenters in Uniform
Jeff Leeds  On His New Album, Neil Young Calls for Bush's Impeachment
Billy Bragg  The lonesome death of Rachel Corrie
download (MP3): The Lonesome Death of Rachel Corrie
Arthur Asiimwe  Rwanda Survivors Say Hollywood Has Got It Wrong
South Park' aims at censors, hits Bush, Jesus
Claudia Parsons  "Stuff Happens" play sears Rumsfeld in New York
Mark Scaramella  The Timeless Sarcasm of Mark Twain: When Even God Can't Keep His Own Commandments [Anderson Valley Advertiser]
Maggie Morgan  All Strings Attached
Dave Chappell Talks About His TV Exodus
Billie Cohen  Beat Nix
Bob Hoover  What Happened Here / Bush Chronicles by Eliot Weinberger -- War Critic Uses Administrations Own Words Against It 
Tony Christini   Orwell's Problem, and Partisan Fiction [with links]
Thom Hartmann  Democracy Be Damned - Republicans Need Another War
Noam Chomsky  On Hegemony And Disarmament
Terrence Rafferty  Every Nonvote Counts: Seeing, by José Saramago [If link fails, see here]
Gary Levin  '24' prez pivots from weasel to evil
Tony Christini  The Bush Plan to Abolish America 
Alan Maass  Week of the Walkouts: Immigration Rights Battle Comes to US Schools [HBO movie called Walkout]
Alexander Cockburn  Did Oprah Pick Another Fibber?
Jill Lawless  'Corrie' Opens in London Instead of N.Y.
Danny Schechter  The Fear is in the Room: Inside Our Unbrave Media World 
Dave Zirin  "Death Row" Talks Back to Etan Thomas
Robert Jensen and Robert Wosnitzer  Crash
Dave Saldana  A Political Parable With Swordfights [V for Vendetta -- film]
Tom Engelhardt  An Interview with Chalmers Johnson: Cold Warrior in a Strange Land
Molly Ivins  The 'Long War'? Oh, Goodie
Noam Chomsky  Latin America And Asia Are At Last Breaking Free Of Washington's Grip
Chris Bachelder  A Soldier Upon a Hard Campaign
Ed Rampell  Fear Brings McCarthy, Orwell Back Into Spotlight
Danny Schechter  Tony Soprano and Iraq: The Mafia, the Military and the Media 
Lila Rajiva  Getting to the Point of No Return: A Conversation with Andre Vltchek
Vanessa Redgrave  The Second Death of Rachel Corrie: Censorship of the Worst Kind [Also see:  Walter A. Davis  Theater, Ideology and the Censorship of "My Name is Rachel Corrie": The Play's the Thing]
John Scagliotti  Why Are There No Real Gays in "Brokeback Mountain"? [Also see: Brokeback Mountain: Pain is Not Enough]
Israelis ask Oscars to drop suicide bomb film
Only politics in Oscar race is films' topics
Middle East tragedies vie for Oscars
Katherine Viner  A Message Crushed Again
Ramzy Baroud  Cartoon Awakening: Towards a Positive Media Strategy
UnDantéd Homerica  The Criminaliad --- Foreword: "An Enlightened Endeavor" by Jo Swift
Julian Borger  Rickman slams 'censorship' of play about US Gaza activist  
Michael Janofsky  Bush's Chat with Novelist Alarms Environmentalists 
Corey Kilgannon  Street Lit with Publishing Cred
Eleanor Bader  Female Muralists Dip Brushes in Women's History 
Garrison Keillor  On the Road Avec M. Lévy  [If link fails, see here]
John Nichols  Cheney's Crimes
Dave Zirin  The Xs and O's of Social Change
Chris Bachelder  The Jungle at 100
National Archives  A New Deal for the Arts 
The New Deal arts projects
Mark Vallen  Abstract Art & The Cultural Cold War  [December 29, 2005 entry]  For more on this topic see Maxwell Geismar's comments here at the 1958 and 1977 entries.
One Night at the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat  Bestselling Indian author paints grim view of outsourcing jobs
Scott McLemee  Impure Literature  
John Doe Dimslow  The Power and The Authority [12.20.05]
David Cromwell and David Edwards   Harold Pinter, John Le Carré And The Media
Joe Keohane  Public Enemy: Sinclair Lewis's 1935 novel 'It Can't Happen Here' envisioned an America in thrall to a homespun facist dictator.
Mark Steel  Has An Anti-war Campaign Ever Been So Mainstream?
Larry Beinhart  Abdication of the Artists
Lee Siegel  Dead Heat: A Horror Movie That Is Also Explicit Political Satire
Davey D  The Richard Pryor Tribute Mix
Charlotte Higgins  Anti-war Cry of a Peace Mom  [Nobel Laureate Dario Fo has written a new play titled Peace Mom.]
Amnesty International   Make Some Noise
Sean Wilentz  The Rise of Illiterate Democracy
Peter Graff  Gallery Traces Anti-Semitism in Political Cartoons
Alexander Cockburn  Pinter, Robeson, CIA  [below the Miller piece]
Matthew Rothschild  Pinter Lays It All Out: Indict Bush, Blair
John Patterson  Awakenings [This article obviously greatly overstates any shift in the media, etc.]
John Patterson  What's the Plot
John Patterson  Phoney War Movie
Sarah Lyall  Playwright Takes a Prize and a Jab at U.S. 
Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn  "You Can't Take Power Without a Struggle" The Lost John Lennon Interview (1971)
Harold Pinter   Art, Truth & Politics - Nobel Lecture
The American Prospect  Some Political Art Articles:
   Richard Byrne  The Good Book: The America portrayed by Sinclair Lewis in Elmer Gantry...
   Scott McLemee  The Honorable Menace: The Literary Life - James T. Farrell...
   Alex P. Kellogg  Tupac Against the World [Tupak Shakur]
   Julie Ardery  Art and Fellowship
Tony Christini  Partisan Fiction
Grady Hendrix  Zombies Attack George Bush - Joe Dante's Brilliant Anti-war Horror Show
Michael Bérubé  "Die Hard" Diehard Catching Flak for Epic Iraq Flick  [note the date]
The Masses - cover - June 1916  Covers from The Masses - 1913 -1917
Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman  All Things Bright and Beautiful
Chomsky/Herman/DiMaggio  Q/A on the Iraq War
Bob Hoover  NEA Urges Bee Season For Poetry
John Freeman  'Beasts With No Nation' by Uzodinma Iweala
Nathan Lee  Two Young Radicals and Their Dovetailing Destinies — Exist: Not a Protest Film
Gary Hart  "Terrorism Expert...." - The Scorpion's Gate
Michiku Kakutani  The Scorpion's Gate
Paul Street  Antonio Gramsci on Sesame Street
Lee Siegel  "Better Than Fiction" - The Boondocks
Alan Riding  In France, Artists Have Sounded the Warning Bells for Years
Lakshmi Choudry  When Boys Will Be Jarheads
Reporters Without Borders  Editor of Literary Review Gets Three Years in Prison 
Henry Chu  Home Is Also a Public Library: Illiterate Man Seeks Books So Poor Can Read
David Twiddy  Doonesbury Still Feisty After 35 Years [Garry Trudeau]
Cate McQuaid  Art Gets Angry
Alessandra Stanley  Engrossed in a World of Political Idealism [so-called]
Agence France Press  Ten Years On, Nigeria's Ogoni Minority Community Mark Ken Saro-Wiwa's Death
Bibliofile at Outlook India  Fiction Too Subversive [Also see Barthes quote on the power of fiction, here]
Alessandra Stanley  Two Fictional Families, Neither Colorblind, but Only One Really Sees Black America 
Noah Cicero  Interviewed by Tao Lin 
Jonah Raskin  Howl at FiftyJulia Stein  Death of a Poet: Carol Tarlen (1943-2004)
Alessandra Stanley  Bringing Out the Absurdity of the News
Alessandra Stanley  Selling Sex, That Renewable Resource [TV review - Human Traficking]
Anthony Breznican  Movies Sound A Call To Action
Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe  Poetry as Resistance
Rajiv Rawat  The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Paday
David Barsamian interviewed by Kasim Tirmizey  Media and Propaganda
John Pilger  The Silence of Writers: On Nobel Prize Winner Harold Pinter
Katrina vanden Heuvel  Innocent Voices
Salman Rushdie  Europe, Turkey, the EU, Orhan Pamuk
Tony Christini  Write a Political Novel?
Harold Pinter  Torture and Misery in the Name of Freedom
Stephen Brown  Playwright Harold Pinter Wins Nobel Literature Prize
Timothy Williams  British Playwright - Harold Pinter - Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Margaret Atwood  On Flogging Poets and Catching Fish - Freedom of Expression
[see also an excerpt of George Orwell, “The Freedom of the Press” - or Orwell's full essay here]
Lee Siegel  Rock in a Hard Place
Stuart Jeffries  "I do give a damn"  (David Cornwell, aka John Le Carré)
Laila Lalami (Moorish Girl)  Fiction in the Age of Poverty
Mark Vallen  What’s Left? Who’s Left?  [9-23-2005 entry]
Caryn James  Turning African Danger Into Safe Entertainment
Sharon Olds  No Place for a Poet at a Banquet of Shame
Les Payne  Our Modern-Day Grapes of Wrath
Bob Hoover  Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
Bury the Dead - Artists and Theater Against the War in Iraq
Adam Graham-Silverman  "Drug Abuse: The Constant Gardner and Drug Companies"
A. O. Scott  Digging Up the Truth in a Heart of Darkness
Brendan Coyne  Political Art Removed from California Display  
Dan Halpern  Lone Star: Kinky Friedman on the Campaign Trail
Dudley Cocke  Art in a Democracy 
Vijay Prashad  Every Generation Does Not Get Its 1968