http://www.zcommunications.org/znet ZNet Recent Items Feed en-us Tue, 15 May 2012 13:38:35 +0000 /five-reasons-drone-assassinations-are-illegal-by-bill-quigley The use of drones to assassinate people violates US and international law in multiple ways Tue, 15 May 2012 13:26:30 +0000 /socialism-in-the-21st-century-by-samir-amin Interview on the implosion of contemporary capitalism Wed, 16 May 2012 00:19:08 +0000 /reflections-on-the-great-palestinian-prison-hunger-strikes-of-2012-by-richard-falk The nature of extreme self-sacrifice, provided it is autonomous and nonviolent, is an inherently spiritual undertaking even when its external appearance is political Wed, 16 May 2012 01:00:44 +0000 /new-elections-due-as-pro-austerity-coalition-talks-fail-by-nikos-anastasiades Crucial new elections in Greece will be held no later than 17 June Tue, 15 May 2012 13:29:21 +0000 /12m-the-sun-rises-once-more-by-j-r-me-e-roos A year since we first took the square, the global crisis has only deepened. But in Madrid, on May 12, the sun rose once again. Let it shine forever more. Wed, 16 May 2012 13:10:39 +0000 /the-national-security-state-wins-again-by-william-j-astore Why the real victor in campaign 2012 won’t Be Obama or Romney Wed, 16 May 2012 11:36:53 +0000 /the-palestinian-nakba-the-resolve-of-memory-by-ramzy-baroud Many Palestinians remember and reference al-Nakba, also known as the Catastrophe, on May 15 every year Tue, 15 May 2012 12:29:42 +0000 /taxing-the-rich-from-right-to-left-by-john-miller The editors of the Wall Street Journal were seeing red when President Obama began touting the Buffet Rule as the key to restoring tax fairness to the U.S. tax code Wed, 16 May 2012 04:20:35 +0000 /drones-missiles-and-gunships-oh-my-welcome-to-the-2012-london-olympics-by-dave-zirin Local police forces have just been given an inordinate number of new toys and the boxes have been opened, the receipts tossed away Tue, 15 May 2012 13:35:37 +0000 /some-good-news-lots-of-bad-news-by-victor-grossman The coming congresscan decide not only whether the Left party moves closer to the Social Democrats and Greens or to a more fundamental opposition Tue, 15 May 2012 10:01:14 +0000 /romney-the-bully-by-marjorie-cohn Evidence continues to emerge that Mitt Romney is a bully Tue, 15 May 2012 00:08:23 +0000 /the-failure-of-the-summit-of-the-americas-vi-by-raul-zibechi The history of the Summit of the Americas is as brief as it is significant Tue, 15 May 2012 12:27:16 +0000 /12m-barcelona-once-again-becomes-a-revolutionary-hub-by-leonidas-oikonomakis With the re-occupation of Plaça Catalunya, the movement in Barcelona once again finds itself on the front-line of a Global Spring of resistance Mon, 14 May 2012 23:26:56 +0000 /labor-trafficking-modern-day-slave-trade-by-walden-bello The dynamics of global capitalism have reproduced a system of repressive labor globally that is serviced and maintained by legal and illegal labor trafficking Tue, 15 May 2012 09:59:28 +0000 /why-u-s-politicians-are-quiet-about-europes-meltdown-by-shamus-cooke Austerity is when the wealthy attempt to push the effects of their recessions onto the backs of working people Tue, 15 May 2012 09:54:25 +0000 /how-louisiana-became-the-prison-capitol-of-the-world-by-chris-kromm The share of Louisiana's population that is locked up in jails or prisons is triple that of Iran and seven times that of China Tue, 15 May 2012 10:16:28 +0000 /grabbing-the-bolt-cutters-with-take-back-the-land-by-laura-gottesdiener Winning this house would also be one of the first concrete successes for activists who see the housing crisis as an opportunity to reimagine American society Tue, 15 May 2012 09:56:50 +0000 /what-s-nato-ever-done-by-john-laforge Wondering why anyone would confront NATO’s summit in Chicago this month? Mon, 14 May 2012 23:09:26 +0000 /amid-mass-unemployment-corporate-profits-surge-by-andre-damon Amid deepening poverty and unemployment for masses of American working people, the largest US corporations once again posted record profits Mon, 14 May 2012 23:14:00 +0000 /moral-decay-family-lifes-the-best-its-been-for-1-000-years-by-george-monbiot The nuclear family, as idealised today, was an invention of the Victorians