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- Tuesday, Dec 23, 2008
Commentary On the coastal outcrops of East Africa, in an area known as 'the horn', Somalia sits like a sentinel jutting into both the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. -
- Friday, Oct 19, 2007
ZNet Article Nobel Hypocrisy -
- Thursday, May 10, 2007
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On Saturday, May 5, Anthony Mitchell died in the crash of Kenyan Airways Flight 507, which kille... -
- Sunday, Dec 31, 2006
ZNet Article Finally the democratic deed is done. The benign imperialists have set Iraq and the world on the road to peace and justice.
They may have “handed†him over to the Quisling regime, but, forestalling all potential risk, hung him wit... -
- Tuesday, Dec 12, 2006
ZNet Article The global actions of the United States since September 11, 2001, are often seen as constituting a "new militarism" and a "new imperialism." Yet, neither militarism nor imperialism is new to the United States, which has been an expansionist powerâ... -
- Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006
ZNet Article The central mystery of the modern state is this. The necessary resources, both economic and political, will always be found for the purpose of terminating life. The project of preserving it will always struggle. When did you last see a soldier sha... -
- Saturday, Oct 21, 2006
ZNet Article October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). Coming as it does during the same month as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM) and Halloween, DVAM receives far less attention than the pink ribbons, ghosts and goblins. This is ironi... -
- Sunday, Oct 15, 2006
ZNet Article Israel's Plan For A Military Strike On Iran -
- Tuesday, Oct 10, 2006
ZNet Article *An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichm... -
- Wednesday, Jun 14, 2006
ZNet Article The history of war-atrocity snapshots did not start with the Abu Ghraib screen-savers from hell. After all, photography itself came into being as the industrializing West was imposing its rule on much of the planet. That imposition meant wars of c... -
- Tuesday, May 30, 2006
ZNet Article The Inspectors Who Look the Other Way -
- Wednesday, Mar 08, 2006
Commentary A few weeks ago, Colin Powell's former chief of staff in the State Department, Lawrence Wilkerson, revealed to a PBS NOW audience something we all knew anyway about Saddam Hussein's weapons arsenal: 'I participated in a hoax on the American people... -
- Tuesday, Feb 28, 2006
ZNet Article At last the battlelines have been drawn, and the first major fight over climate change is about to begin. All over the country, a coalition of homeowners and anarchists, NIMBYs and internationalists is mustering to fight the greatest future cause ... -
- Thursday, Aug 25, 2005
ZNet Article Extraordinary renditions, torture, abuse, humiliation, detention without charge or end, an obsession with protecting American officials (and military men) from fu... -
- Saturday, Aug 13, 2005
ZNet Article Starving children get media attention, well-fed imperial economists don’t. Yet modern history shows they are usually two sides of the famine coin.
Over the past month thousands have died of starvation in Niger. All the while food has been... -
- Wednesday, Mar 23, 2005
ZNet Article Like so many, I’ve by now become used to my childhood heroes letting me down. I long ago accepted that hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, to whom I dedicated many an early adolescent hour of memorizing statistics – just ask me how many a... -
- Sunday, Feb 20, 2005
ZNet Article Ilan Pappe is a professor of History at Haifa University in Israel. He is an activist for Palestinian rights. He was in Toronto in February to give the keynote speech at ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ at the University of Toronto. He was... -
- Monday, Dec 27, 2004
Commentary World financial volatility -
- Friday, Nov 26, 2004
Commentary In a world dominated by fear and fragmentation, dispensability and despair a magical gathering of food communities Ð Terra Madre Ð took place in Turin, Italy, from 20-22 October 2004. Slow Food, the movement that has put the culture of growing and... -
- Tuesday, Aug 24, 2004
ZNet Article Tide? Or Ivory Snow? -
- Saturday, Jul 03, 2004
ZNet Article Based on a talk given to the 'Nageh' community group on June 11, 2004, in Toronto. Part 1 of 2. Go to part 2
The United States is engaging in a bloody occupation in Iraq; it overthrew the democratically-elected regime in Haiti and pos... -
- Tuesday, Mar 30, 2004
ZNet Article Imperial quote of the week (or: you don't keep the New Rome waiting in the New Spain): "A senior administration official traveling with [Secretary of State Colin] Powell described the meeting [after the funeral service for the Madrid bombing victi... -
- Sunday, Mar 14, 2004
ZNet Article Review of:
Douglas H. Johnson, The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars. James Currey, Oxford, 2003. 234 pages.
Sudan is, like the rest of Africa, neglected in the mainstream media except for the occasional use of it as a rhetorical de... -
- Sunday, Jan 18, 2004
Commentary Spare a thought this bleak new year for all those who rely on charity. Open your hearts, for example, to a group of people who, though they live in London, are in such desperate need of handouts that last year they received 7.6 million pounds in f... -
- Tuesday, Dec 30, 2003
ZNet Article On to Part II
In February 2003, millions of people in the United States and around the world protested the impending U.S.-led war on Iraq. But today, even among opponents of the war, there is widespread confusion on the question of the ongoing o... -
- Saturday, Sep 20, 2003
Commentary Well, that was a really great moment on the southeast corner of Mexico on Sunday, was it not?! A few Third World elites -- led by Kenyan and Ugandan delegates -- finally walked out of the World Trade Organisation summit, insulted to the bitter end... -
- Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003
ZNet Article Paper given at the United Nations International Conference on Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People New York, September 5, 2003
Everyone pooh-poohs the road map. From State Department and other "quartet" officials through the office... -
- Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003
ZNet Article Outside the world trade talks beginning in Cancun in Mexico tomorrow, two battles will be fought. The f... -
- Tuesday, Sep 02, 2003
ZNet Article As expected, the United States and the European Union have arrived at a new accord, just ahead of the fifth WTO Ministerial at Cancun, which in letter and spirit lays out a detailed road map for what can be called as the second phase of the great ... -
- Tuesday, Jul 08, 2003
ZNet Article
If the western mainstream media told the truth about Africa, stories in our newspapers would be much different.
"Market ideology causes Ethiopian Famine," the New York Times headline would blare. "130 years running and imperialists still mix wi... - All Newest Content
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