Table of Contents - November 2005

Target Wichita by Eleanor J. Bader

Troy Newman, founder of Operation Rescue West (ORW), calls Wichita, Kansas “the frontline of the abortion war…the American Auschwitz” an... More / Printer Friendly Version

Ohio Players by Bill Berkowitz

Christian evangelical ministers in Ohio are teaming up to form a network intent on building on their constituency’s extensive contribution to Pres... More / Printer Friendly Version

Z PAPERS ON STRATEGY: Affirmative Measures to Halt U.S. War Crimes by Jeremy Brecher

  [This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is of timeless importance. This one was first published November, 2005.] M... More / Printer Friendly Version

Injustice is Justice by Tom Crumpacker

In George Orwell’s novel 1984 the rulers of Oceania, by their language of newthink and process of doublethink, convince the masses that statements... More / Printer Friendly Version

The Dirty War in Iraq by Nicolas J.S. Davies

On September 8, 2005 the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq issued a human rights report, stating that the governing institutions created by the United Sta... More / Printer Friendly Version

Collecting Social Security at 100 by Site Administrator

Are you turning 65 when the stock market takes a post-bubble dive? Don’t worry, you’ll only have to wait until you’re 100 to retire unde... More / Printer Friendly Version

An Interview with Cindy Sheehan by Joshua Frank

Cindy Sheehan is the mother of Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, KIA 04/04/04. She is co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace, an antiwar group allied with... More / Printer Friendly Version

September 24: Largest Protest Since the Beginning of the Iraq War by Anne Petermann

In the largest U.S. protest since the beginning of the Iraq war, 200,000 people took to the streets of Washington, DC on September 24 to demand an end t... More / Printer Friendly Version

The Iran "Crisis" - A prelude to aggression by Edward Herman

It is a bit frightening to see how, even in the midst of the catastrophic aggression and occupation of Iraq, the United States, having engaged once aga... More / Printer Friendly Version

The Road to Detroit by Mike Ives

Residents of Detroit, Michigan have always taken their cars seriously, so they were understandably baffled by the latest contraption rolling down Eight... More / Printer Friendly Version

Weather Wars: Will unnatral disasters bankrupt the empire? by Site Administrator

Global warming alone did not cause two of recorded history’s most intense Atlantic hurricanes—Katrina and Rita—in 2005. Nothing is “... More / Printer Friendly Version

Union Struggles at Northwest Airlines by Chris Kutalik

The battle being waged at Northwest Airlines (NWA) by the independent Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) and its supporters started with a... More / Printer Friendly Version

Equal Protection by David Mikhail

For just over 30 years, the Supreme Court has been a contributor to our nation’s current state of racial discrimination. The Court’s establis... More / Printer Friendly Version

Arab-Jewish Partnership for Peace by Sonia Nettnin

Ta’ayush is a grassroots, political movement in Israel that responds to the military occupation of Palestinians through nonviolent resistance and ... More / Printer Friendly Version

Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman G. Finkelstein (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, 343 pp.) by Vijay Prashad

In February 1967, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Claude Lanzmann (editor of Les Temps Moderne) arrived in Cairo. They had been invited by th... More / Printer Friendly Version

Which Way Forward for the Green Party? by Site Administrator

At their 2005 Annual National Meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Green Party delegates voted down resolutions offered by the Greens for Democracy and Independ... More / Printer Friendly Version

Ecuador Protests Challenge Foreign Oil by Sofia Jarrin-thomas

In Ecuador protests erupted on August 15 in two oil-rich northern provinces, as people demanded an end to pollution in their homeland by oil exploratio... More / Printer Friendly Version

San Francisco Transit Fight by Tom Wetzel

Riders, don’t pay. Drivers, don’t collect.” That’s the slogan on tens of thousands of leaflets—in Spanish, Chinese, and Englis... More / Printer Friendly Version

War Made Easy: An interview with Norman Solomon by Adrian Zupp

Norman Solomon is a syndicated columnist on media and politics, as well as founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a natio... More / Printer Friendly Version

HEALTH WATCH: Pharmaceutical Outsourcing by Frazer Merritt

Most U.S. citizens would be surprised to learn that the side effects and warnings for their prescription drugs (called Patient Insert leaflets) are only a brief summary of the drug manufacturer&... More / Printer Friendly Version