Type of Content: Articles and Essays

Article by Howard Zinn. The Progressive. September 2004.
"There's a fire in Iraq whose flames we are fanning. Let's walk."

Article by Howard Zinn. The Progressive. July 2003.
"Today, the question remains whether the American people will at some point see behind the deceptions, and join in a great citizens' movement to stop what seems a relentless drive to war and empire at the expense of human rights here and abroad."

Article by Howard Zinn. The Progressive. March 2003.
"Men who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back."

Article by Howard Zinn. The Progressive. September 2005.
"As I write this, the frightening violence in Iraq continues, England and the United States are in a state of fear about suicide bombs, and the Senate is about to confirm a new, conservative Supreme Court justice. So it may seem peculiar to bring up a subject that is either at the far edge of all our attention, or over the edge and invisible. But here I go."

Article by Howard Zinn. The Progressive. December 2006.
"Everything we do is important. Every little thing we do, every picket line we walk on, every letter we write, every act of civil disobedience we engage in, any recruiter that we talk to, any parent that we talk to, any GI that we talk to."

By the editors. The Progressive. March 2010.
"Howard Zinn wrote a column for The Progressive during the last twelve years of his life. In the March 2010 issue, the editors collected his wisdom from those columns. Here are a few bits."

Article by Howard Zinn. The Progressive. November 2002.
"If we really believe that all people are created equal, then we cannot go to war."

Article by Howard Zinn. The Progressive. May 2005.
"Another Memorial Day. Another war. Yes, let's honor those who died in the nation's many wars. But if we do not want to keep adding to the soldiers' graves, let's also ask why they died."