Some Z Writers Newest ContentZNet Article In his 2001 book, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Bjorn Lomborg argued that the real state of the world’s environment was better than what the major environmental organizations and scientists have reported. T... ZNet Article Although the global recession has had a serious impact on working men and women alike, two new reports make clear that women in the United States and throughout the world have suffered most because of long-standing discrimination. Commentary On the occasion of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT, the Workers' Party) in Brazil, the principal independent left newspaper, Brasil de Fato, published interviews with four leading left i... ZNet Article The first session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) was heard in Barcelona, Spain earlier this month. The RTP is a peoples' legal initiative designed to systematically try key actors responsible for the perpetuation of human rights violat... ZNet Article Going to Court can make anyone nervous. But in civil court, where breach of contract disputes are normally settled, the stakes are not quite as high as in criminal court. You can’t be thrown in jail. That’s a plus. ZNet Article I am a member of Knesset. ZNet Article The premise of the Reut Institute Report is that there is a Resistance Network (made up of groups like Hizbullah and Hamas) and a Delegitimization Network. ZNet Article It may be months before we know the final tally of Iraq’s March 7 parliamentary elections. But one thing is already clear. As The New York Times editorial page put it today, “Beyond the closeness of the race, the new results—disappointingly—show I... ZNet Article The headlines about Greece's financial problems have provided a great backdrop to renewed attacks from the deficit hawks on Social Security and Medicare. Never mind that none of it really makes any sense. Not making sense is virtually a prerequisi... ZNet Article According to former Guardian editor Peter Preston approximately 75 per cent of British broadsheets' total revenue is derived from advertising. ZNet Article Hypothesis: The Propaganda Machines works when it’s turned on. You can judge this by looking at opinion polls. You can look at opinions on issues that are or are not hot button issues, or you can look at opinions on issues that were not hot button... -
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ZNet Article In the last part of our interview about the global economic crisis with economist Robin Hahnel, the discussion moves onto how the left has and should react to it. ZNet Article Talk and interview... Video 2010 Phyllis Clarke Memorial Lecture ZNet Article An interview with the author of The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives ZNet Article After years of organizing work, the protest movement around the Vancouver Winter Olympics can proudly claim a number of important victories. A vibrant demonstration of thousands met the corporate spectacle head on, marching to within metres of the... Commentary Doesn’t Nathan Myhrvold get enough attention? The guy is the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, a multimillionaire, a gourmet chef, a prize-winning photographer and keeper of multiple higher degrees from prestigious institutions. As the... ZNet Article It was perhaps inevitable that this month’s Iraqi elections would be cited by those who unequivocally backed the US-led military occupation of Iraq as post hoc vindication of their support for the superpower’s gratuitous invasion seven years ago. ... -
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ZNet Article The biggest hole in California, with the exception of the current state budget, is Rio Tinto's huge open-pit mine at the town of Boron, near Edwards Air Force Base, eighty miles northeast of Los Angeles. ZNet Article Tom Hayden wants peace, but he's sincerely mistaken about how to get it. He claims that Wednesday's unsuccessful vote to end the war in Afghanistan makes ending the war less likely, and that the way to end the war is to pass a bill that would then... ZNet Article It is sad and surprising that among the deluge of comments and letters on Greece in the European papers in the last few weeks, not one has gotten the most crucial point about the crisis. Most commentators treat Greece's domestic problems and thos... Commentary Since 1966 - and as a consequence of the introduction of the Green Revolution model of water-intensive, chemical farming - India has over-exploited her groundwater, creating a water famine. ZNet Article Ashley Smith describes how the disasters in Haiti and Chile have common features. ZNet Article Are they really bumblers? The establishment’s opinion columns quiver with reproofs for maladroit handling of foreign policy by President Obama and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, those who cherished foolish illusions that Obama... ZNet Article How Get-Rich-Quick Crime Came to Define an Era ZNet Article A cacophony of rather frightened voices seek to embroil this deepening of representative democracy in doubts and distractions... -
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Video Avi Lewis talks to Cornel West, a professor of African American Studies at Princeton, hip hop artist, and one of the most controversial academics in the US, about the state of democracy for African-Americans today, the Obama administration, and hi... ZNet Article India must open a broad-horizon dialogue with Pakistan on all issues including Afghanistan to achieve real progress in bilateral relations. ZNet Article It would be a gigantic mistake to believe that Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid or anyone else of prominence in today's Democratic Party actually gives a damn about the fate of the American people. ZNet Article The Empire will stop at nothing to find mechanisms and techniques to achieve its final objective, and we cannot disregard the possibility of a military conflict in the near future. If the US places Venezuela on the “terrorist list” this year, we c... - All Newest Content
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Commentary Standing before an audience at the Brookings Institute on March 8, a day before meeting U.S. President Barak Obama, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou made the case that today’s European crisis involves American interests and that today there ... -
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Commentary Adelaide is Australia's festival city. Its arts festival is currently in swing. Polite debate, aesthetics and high-octane wine are putting the world to rights. With one exception. Adelaide is where Rupert Murdoch began his empire. The voracious tr... -
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Commentary Seven years after Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist, was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, her family was to put the Israeli government in the dock today. - All Recent Commentaries
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