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Trigona: The Soy Republic of Argentina
Znet Article, September, 08 2009
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
The increasing export of genetically modified crops is part of a regional trend with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay now adopting a soy-based economic model. Argentina has made a radical shift toward soy, which has displaced cultivation of...
Towsey: The Science and Ethics of Cooperation
Znet Article, September, 06 2009
Michael Towsey
Towsey's ZSpace page
Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications
Tokar: Toward Climate Justice
Zmag Article, September, 01 2009
Brian Tokar
Tokar's ZSpace page
Climate politics and prospects in a crucial time frame
Sweetman: Psychology for a Participatory Society: Revisiting Some Early Questions
Znet Article, June, 13 2009
Joseph Sweetman
Sweetman's ZSpace page
What is psychology? What does psychological science have to offer those concerned with participatory society and progressive social change? These are some of the questions that would occasionally pop into my somewhat bored mind as I sat at the ba...
Monbiot: Captive Knowledge
Commentary, May, 13 2009
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
The funding for academic research has been taken over by business...
Spannos: Privatization & Mortality
Znet Article, April, 22 2009
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
If anyone needs further proof that capitalism kills (and warps and maims), on top of the already endless volumes written condemning the system, a recent scientific study published in the highly respected peer review medical journal The Lancet expl...
Sharma: Do GM Crops Increase Yield? The Answer is No
Commentary, March, 25 2009
Devinder Sharma
Sharma's ZSpace page
Lies, damn lies, and the Monsanto website. Tell a lie a hundred times, and the chances are that it will eventually appear to be true. When it comes to genetically modified crops, Monsanto makes such an effort – and it could be that you too are d...
Shiva: Toxic Genes and Toxic Papers : IFPRI covering up the link between Bt. Cotton and Farmers Suicides
Commentary, January, 20 2009
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
The financial meltdown that started in September 2008 was a result of the investments based on "toxic" paper - worthless financial instruments traded for super profits, even while they failed to reflect any value in the real economy. "Toxic Assets...
Sharma: Poison in Your Stomach
Commentary, September, 02 2008
Devinder Sharma
Sharma's ZSpace page
After the rats, goats, sheep and cows, it is now the turn of Indians. In a few months from now, if the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of India has its way, the first genetically modified food crop - Bt Brinjal - will be on your table.
Zinn: The Citizens Among Us
Znet Article, August, 28 2008
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
Author and activist Howard Zinn was one of the speakers at a critical social forum held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, on March 3, 4, and 8, 1969, in which MIT students and scientists had joined together and organized a...
Lipow: Cooling a Fevered Planet
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Gar Lipow
Lipow's ZSpace page
Nobody, except for a small lunatic fringe, still disputes that human-caused climate chaos endangers all of us. Further, most serious scientific and technical groups who have looked at the question have concluded that we have the technological capa...
Weisbrot: Internet Purchases Shouldn't Be Subsidized
Znet Article, June, 16 2008
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Can our state and local governments afford to subsidize businesses that conduct their sales only on the internet, rather than through physical retail stores? And if we could, is there a good reason to do so?
George: Yes, We Can
Znet Article, June, 07 2008
Susan George
George's ZSpace page
At a time when supposed “progress’ is controlled by transnational corporations, the struggle for human emancipation requires perseverance and transnational political organization to be able to control the corporations that seek to control us.
Nader: A Trip Inside Google
Znet Article, May, 20 2008
Ralph Nader
Nader's ZSpace page
An invitation to visit Google’s headquarters and meet some of the people who made this ten year old giant that is giving Microsoft the nervies has to start with wonder.
Shah: FDA Puts Medical Test Subjects in Danger
Znet Article, May, 20 2008
Sonia Shah
Shah's ZSpace page
With hardly a word in the mainstream press, the FDA has gutted the rules restraining drug companies from exploiting clinical trial subjects in developing countries.
Parenti: Dubious Design
Znet Article, May, 03 2008
Michael Parenti
Parenti's ZSpace page
What is called "creationism" is the belief that in six days the Judeo-Christian god created the universe and all the earthly species including humans in finished form much as they exist today. For centuries this view prevailed throughout the weste...
Raptis: Earthquake Rattled Skyscrapers in Chicago
Commentary, April, 26 2008
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
Ordinary people in the US have a vague idea about the "big one" [that is: a big earthquake] which will hit California sometime in the future. Seismologists have a rather concrete idea that a "big one" will hit the Mississippi Valley very far into ...
Brecher: Labor Goes to Bali
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
This week trade unionists from around the world will travel to Bali for the December 3rd launch of negotiations for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse gasses. It will include delegates from such U.S unions as the Electrical Wor...
Hoodbhoy: Where Billions Vanish
Commentary, April, 20 2008
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, aided by his trusted lieutenant and chairman of the Higher Education Commission, Dr Atta-ur-Rahman, lays claim to a 'revolutionary programme' that has reversed the decades-old decline of Pakistan's universities.
Albert: Parecon and Science/Technology
Znet Article, April, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Like every label for a complex personal and social practice the word science is fuzzy at its edges making it hard for us to pin down what is and what isn’t science. Nonetheless, for our broad purposes, we can assert that science refers to an accum...
