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Panitch: China, Japan and the U.S.
Video, February, 09 2010
Leo Panitch
Panitch's ZSpace page
Asia and US crisis...
Blum: Zinn & Haiti
Commentary, February, 09 2010
William Blum
Blum's ZSpace page
Progressive activists and writers continually bemoan the fact that the news they generate and the opinions they express are consistently ignored by the mainstream media, and thus kept from the masses of the American people. This disregard of progr...
Smith: Food Not Guns, No Shock Doctrine in Haiti
Video, February, 09 2010
Ashley Smith
Smith's ZSpace page
Ashley Smith of the International Socialist Organization speaks about the devastating earthquake in Haiti
Olson: Jeremy Rifkin’s The Empathic Civilization and P.W. Singer’s Wired for War
Znet Article, February, 09 2010
Gary Olson
Olson's ZSpace page
Two recent books on the future, both seeking to interpret selected aspects of a rapidly moving, technologically complex world, are each deeply flawed but well worth examining for what's missing.
Wittner: Preserving the Golden Rule as a Piece of Anti-Nuclear History
Znet Article, February, 09 2010
Lawrence s. Wittner
Wittner's ZSpace page
The Golden Rule is in danger. No, not the famed ethical code -- though proponents of selfishness certainly have ignored it -- but a thirty-foot sailing ship of the same name that rose to prominence about half a century ago.
Baker: The Budget Deficit Crisis Puzzle
Znet Article, February, 09 2010
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The country faces a serious crisis in the form of a manufactured crisis over the budget deficit. This is a crisis because concerns over the size of the budget deficit are preventing the government from taking the steps needed to reduce the unemplo...
Ali: Lessons from a Past Master
Znet Article, February, 09 2010
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
Most people - to paraphrase the radical British poet Adrian Mitchell - ignore most history because most history ignores most people. It is traditionally the domain of “great” people: conquerors and kings, statesmen and generals, prophets and pione...
Raina: India, Australia
Znet Article, February, 09 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
“Try to look as poor as you can,” he advises Indian immigrants to Australia.
Elmer: 'A prescription for civil war'
Znet Article, February, 09 2010
Jon Elmer
Elmer's ZSpace page
The government of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, is bolstered by thousands of newly trained police and security forces whose stated aim is to eliminate Islamist groups that may pose a threat to its power - namely Hamas and their support...
Siddiqi: The Emperor’s New Clothes
Znet Article, February, 09 2010
Shibil Siddiqi
Siddiqi's ZSpace page
This article briefly examines some major areas of American foreign policy and the continuities and changes therein after a year of Obama’s presidency.

