Recent Z Content
Use Left Hand Menu to see content limited by place, topic, or type
Author: Surprise Party
Commentary, May, 28 2001
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
Like a zillion other Americans, I went to see Pearl Harbor on the first day of its release. As I sat there in the jammed bargain matinee, I kept assuring myself that as author of a radical history of WWII, I was merely doing research. Now, I could...
Pilger: The big threat in the Middle East is Israel, not Iraq
Commentary, May, 27 2001
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
As George Bush escalates the new cold war begun by his father, the attention of his planners is moving to the Middle East. Stories about the threat of Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" are again appearing in the American press, this time concen...
Ali: BLAIR AND BERLOSCUNI
Commentary, May, 27 2001
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
I was in Turin at the Book Fair recently participating in a round-table to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the left-wing daily paper Il Manifesto, when I read that while the French and German governments were maintaining a certain cool, Tony Bla...
Bongard: Advantages of an Active Democracy – in numbers
Commentary, May, 26 2001
Christian Bongard
Bongard's ZSpace page
In the West, we continuously confuse the terms “consumer†and “citizenâ€: what the Old Greeks used to know, we do not know anymore. When we speak of representative and other forms of democracy, namely a participative...
Bongard: Advantages of an Active Democracy Ð in numbers
Commentary, May, 26 2001
Christian Bongard
Bongard's ZSpace page
In the West, we continuously confuse the terms ÒconsumerÓ and ÒcitizenÓ: what the Old Greeks used to know, we do not know anymore. When we speak of representative and other forms of democracy, namely a participative or active democracy, we only cr...
Author: Bush's Dangerous Star Wars Pipe Dream
Commentary, May, 25 2001
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
President Bush's "Star Wars" speech reminded me of a conversation I had late in the Clinton era with Ezra Vogel, who served headed the State Department's Asia intelligence during the first Clinton Administration. He had returned to Harvard, but wa...
Podur: A few more moves ahead
Commentary, May, 25 2001
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
There is too much at stake for social change to be a game. But if it were a game, the side that had the ability to think many moves ahead, anticipate its opponents moves, know what its goal was and move toward it relentlessly, would have huge adva...
Author: Bush's Dangerous Star Wars Pipe Dream
Commentary, May, 25 2001
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
President Bush's "Star Wars" speech reminded me of a conversation I had late in the Clinton era with Ezra Vogel, who served headed the State Department's Asia intelligence during the first Clinton Administration. He had returned to Harvard, but wa...
Edwards: HOW TO KILL THE TRUTH - Part 2
Commentary, May, 24 2001
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
On December 22, 2000, I asked Alan Rusbridger, editor of the 'liberal' flagship newspaper, the Guardian, if he thought wealthy owners, parent companies, advertisers, flak machines, and allied political pressures compromised press reporting:
Drda: Uncle Sam Voted Off the Island
Graphic, May, 23 2001
Darrin Drda
Drda's ZSpace page
human rights, Uncle Sam, UN, United Nations
