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ZNet Article This is the worst Labor Day for American labor in decades, maybe since the Great Depression. Unemployment is at 9.5 percent (as of July), and if we add in the people involuntarily working part time or who have given up looking for work, we get 16.... ZNet Article If you want to know how most of us will experience climate change in the twenty first century, don't look to the skies. The food rebellions in Mozambique are living augury. ZNet Article Nike is again embroiled in a controversy it may not easily shake, and this time around it has nothing to do with sweatshop labor practices. An ad spot for the company's new Pro-Combat football apparel line has hit prime time and not everyone is th... ZNet Article The Casualty Gap is a commendable and in some ways impressive book; it is also an example of political science at its most frustrating. For those with the patience to wade through its jargon-laced and data-laden pages, the book reveals disturbing—... ZNet Article Military auditors failed to complete an audit of the business systems of an Ohio- based company - Mission Essential Personnel - even though it had billed for one billion dollars worth of work largely in Afghanistan over the last four years. ZNet Article Because I believe strongly in the rights of pigeons to have a place to roost, I wholeheartedly support the building of the Bud Selig statue outside of the Milwaukee Brewers tax-payer funded stadium, Miller Park. Commentary When your life and your work is as entwined as mine has been—fusing the personal and the political over all these years, it may be stretching things to consider yourself unemployed but that’s what I am as Labor Day approaches. -
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ZMag Article News from Z on vacations, finances, and ZMI ZMag Article A new book by Robert Whitaker on increased psychiatric drug use Commentary The Venezuelan Government is taking concrete steps to combat a rise of criminal activity and insecurity in the country by also addressing the root cause of violence: Poverty ZNet Article Let's pause for a moment this Labor Day to recognize some of our most important, yet most maligned workers. ZNet Article Writers often romanticize their subjects. At times they even manipulate their readers. A book - or any piece of writing for that matter – is meant to provide a sense of completion. Sociological explanations are offered to offset the confusion caus... ZNet Article The "mosque menace" is not confined to Lower Manhattan or the USA. In many European countries similar alarms are sounded, usually in tones recalling Paul Revere: "The Muslims are coming!" ZNet Article Robert Jensen interviewed by Alex Doherty, New Left Project -
- Friday, Sep 03, 2010
Commentary Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the first world war, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to... - All Recent ZNet
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Blog Post Poverty Reduction Policies are high on the agenda of all formal and non governmental international organisations. The UN will hold a MDG+10 summit on September 22. However, the millennium development goals that wanted extreme poverty to be halved ... -
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Blog Post After ten years of social forum meetings, the United States Social Forum (USSF) has the potential to pump life back into the World Social Forum. - All Recent Writer Blogs
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ZNet Article Nir Rosen on Obama Declaring an End to US Combat Mission in Iraq. ZNet Article The Iraqi people – reduced to the moral status of insects by the Pentagon in the spring of 2003 – have experienced what has amounted to a U.S.-imposed Holocaust. -
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ZNet Article When Somalia's al-Shabab militia claimed responsibility for the July 11 suicide bombings that killed 76 people watching soccer on TV in Uganda, the media described the event as an al-Qaeda attack on the World Cup. That's a misrepresentation, of co... -
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ZNet Article Miners in Potosí, Bolivia set off sticks of dynamite as cold winter winds zipped through the city, passing street barricades, protests, hunger strikers and an occupied electrical plant. These actions took place place from late July to mid-August a... - All Featured International
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Commentary When your life and your work is as entwined as mine has been—fusing the personal and the political over all these years, it may be stretching things to consider yourself unemployed but that’s what I am as Labor Day approaches. -
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Commentary The Venezuelan Government is taking concrete steps to combat a rise of criminal activity and insecurity in the country by also addressing the root cause of violence: Poverty -
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Commentary Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the first world war, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to... -
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Commentary When you connect the dots in your writing or look for deeper explanations behind the decisions of policymakers, market makers and media-makers, it’s easy to be dismissed as a conspiracy nut. -
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Commentary At its core, the controversy surrounding the proposed Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan is not about religion. It’s about war. - All Recent Commentaries
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