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Monsanto may be perceived as the evil empire when it comes to food, but it is just the tip of the iceberg,

This week's Progressive Pick is a top-selling investigation of the American war on Vietnamese civilians and the enduring legacy of atrocities that government secrecy cannot erase.

Noam Chomsky continues to offer trenchant analysis of how US hegemony is a self-destructive force.

Noam Chomsky: I think talk about American decline should be taken with a grain of salt.

Historian Howard Zinn on Abraham Lincoln and the eventual abolition of slavery in the US. Which shows that Spielberg's new film, Lincoln, is far from historically accurate.

A new generation of young public intellectuals offer us both critique and hope.

Rebecca Solnit: To be passive in the face of disappointment is to ensure that injustice prevails.

America's Stolen Narrative explores the 1968 Nixon campaign efforts to prevent peace in Vietnam in order to help him narrowly be elected president.

The new understandings that the Internet increasingly underscores are moral wild cards.

Richard Wolff makes the compelling argument that modern capitalism has undermined democracy, replacing it with a plutocracy.