Naeem Mohaiemen writes, "Among these are the John Kerry biopic Tour Of Duty; Silver City, John Sayles' fictional account of an ultra-conservative political dynasty; The Hunting of the President, which investigates the impeachment of Bill Clinton; You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, a profile of historian and peace activist Howard Zinn; and Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War. Uncovered, which doesn't open in theaters until August, has already sold an astonishing 100,000 copies online. Premiering at the Human Rights Film Festival is the anti-capitalist screed The Corporation and Persons Of Interest -- a hard-hitting look at the post 9/11 round-up of over 5,000 Arab, Middle Eastern and South Asian Muslim men. From the entertainment end of the spectrum comes a major studio release, The Yes Men, which follows the antics of a rabble-rousing crew of political performance artists who manage to crash WTO meetings disguised as entrepreneurs."

"On June 2, Jobs With Justice will launch a National Workers' Rights Board with 50-75 members 'who will intervene with employers and the public to help resolve situations that threaten workers' rights.' Members of the board include actor/activist Ed Asner, author Barbara Ehrenreich, TransAfrica Forum president Bill Fletcher Jr., radio host Jim Hightower, Illinois Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., 50 Years is Enough director Njoki Njehu, and Howard Zinn." Sounds like a group to watch.

"Naturally, this reticence by the Japanese to face up to their past crimes is viewed as anathema to Americans, especially to the soldiers who suffered at the hands of their vicious enemy. The idea of censoring huge tracts of history seems foreign to our citizens. Yet, now it seems as though a movement is underfoot in the United States to censor our own history, stifle dissent and suppress the first amendment right to free speech." Check out Christian Dewar's sweeping overview of crimes by the CIA and the Bushes.

As Bush tries to rope us into an endless war on terrorism around the globe to justify his bloated military budget and dismantling of civil liberties, Howard Zinn on Tompaine.com says it's time to stop and ponder what a miserable failure this sham of a war has been so far. "The 'war on terrorism,' which cannot locate the perpetrators of the crime of September 11th, is useful for our political leaders, because while searching for an invisible enemy we will not be paying attention to what the government is doing to the citizens of this country in the name of that war... Is it possible that the war being waged is really a war against us? Yes, we do have enemies in caves and compounds abroad, but perhaps our greatest danger comes from the corporate boardrooms and governmental offices where decisions are made that take away our tax dollars and satisfy the greed for profit and power." It's time to heed Zinn's call for a resurgence of democracy and free speech!

"This morning I saw a tabloid that drove home the point that the idea of the media being 'liberal' is so ludicrous that only a moron -- a moron who is not paying attention to boot -- could still believe it. The headline read: 'Clinton hires three-breasted intern.' And there she was, with three breasts sticking out, standing next to the last duly elected president. As I stood there laughing, I started to look around. There's another one about Bill getting his own talk show, with a picture of him with a surprised look, holding a microphone. And there's another. With a story about Hillary being gay or some other ridiculous nonsense. Can you imagine seeing stories like this, anywhere, about Bush? I can't." So writes S. McNabb.

Writes historian Howard Zinn: "We can all feel a terrible anger at whoever, in their insane idea that this would help their cause, killed thousands of innocent people. But what do we do with that anger? Do we react with panic, strike out violently and blindly just to show how tough we are? We have done that before. It is the old way of thinking, the old way of acting. It has never worked. Reagan bombed Libya, and Bush made war on Iraq, and Clinton bombed Afghanistan and also a pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan, to "send a message" to terrorists. Isn't it clear by now that sending a message to terrorists through violence doesn't work, only leads to more terrorism?"