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Goodman: Sick With Terror
Znet Article, January, 06 2010
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
The media have been swamped with reports about the attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day. When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, now dubbed the “underwear bomber,†failed in his alleged attack, close to 300 people were spa...
Pearson: New Movement Stops Mexico for a Day
Zmag Article, January, 01 2010
Tamara Pearson
Pearson's ZSpace page
November 11 direct actions in support of fired workers
Ehrenreich: Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World
Book, January, 01 2010
This brilliant new book from the author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history of how it came to be the dominant mode in the USA.
Barsamian: Thinking Outside the Box
Zmag Article, January, 01 2010
David Barsamian
Barsamian's ZSpace page
An interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge on localization
Chomsky: Human Rights in the New Millennium
Zmag Article, January, 01 2010
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
U.S. machinations and self-exemption from international law
Abu-jamal: Wealth Care
Commentary, December, 27 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
As Congress wrestles over the parameters of a health care bill, amidst maddened catcalls of 'death panels' and 'socialism!', I am reminded of the experience of John Black, an old trade unionist, revolutionary activist and journalist.
Meister: A Lesson Too Long Unlearned
Znet Article, December, 21 2009
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
Despite the importance of unions in our lives, our schools pay only slight attention to their importance  or even to their existence.
Bacon: The Human Face of Budget Cuts
Znet Article, December, 06 2009
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
Cesar Cota was the first in his family to attend college. "Now it's hard to achieve my dream," he says, "because the state put higher fees on us, and cut services and classes." Cota, a student at Los Angeles City College, was encouraged by the int...
Goodman: Books, Not Bombs
Znet Article, November, 27 2009
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
California campuses have been rocked by protests this past week, provoked by massive student fee increases voted on by the University of California Board of Regents. After a year of sequential budget cuts, faculty and staff dismissals and furlough...
Kagarlitsky: A Flu for All Seasons
Commentary, November, 23 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
Swine flu is quite handy to politicians, who can use it to postpone elections, or justify a state of emergency, if needed.
Flanders: The F Word: Buried Bonanza for Over-Builders
Znet Article, November, 18 2009
Laura Flanders
Flanders's ZSpace page
I just don't get it. When Congress approves gifts worth billions of dollars to people who don't deserve a dime, why isn't it front page news?
Weissman: The Medicare-for-All Moment
Commentary, November, 10 2009
Robert Weissman
Weissman's ZSpace page
There is only one solution to the twin problems of escalating health care costs and the epidemic of the uninsured: a Medicare-for-All, single payer system.
Solomon: The Next Phase of Healthcare Apartheid
Znet Article, November, 06 2009
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
At this point, only spinners who've succumbed to their own vertigo could use the word "robust" to describe the public option in the healthcare bill that the House Democratic leadership has sent to the floor.
Ehrenreich: The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-up
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
Optimism as a Public Health Problem
McGehee: A Centennial Celebration of Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Michael McGehee
McGehee's ZSpace page
I had intended to write this for the centennial anniversary of Francisco Ferrer’s death but forgot about it. Better late than never I suppose.
Bronski: New Culture Wars Over Gay Teens?
Zmag Article, November, 01 2009
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
Increasingly rabid right-wing reaction to youth coming out
Early: Why the Health Insurance Excise Tax Is a Bad Idea
Znet Article, October, 23 2009
Steve Early
Early's ZSpace page
Twenty years ago, 60,000 workers from New York City to Maine rallied against healthcare cost-shifting at the telecom giant then known as NYNEX (since "rebranded" as Verizon).
Mokhiber: Time to Get Reckless?
Znet Article, October, 04 2009
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
With pictures of Ralph Nader surrounding him, Michael Moore this week threatened Congressional Democrats with defeat at the polls in 2010.
Berlet: Right-Wing Rollback: The Powell Memo
Zmag Article, October, 01 2009
Chip Berlet
Berlet's ZSpace page
Influential 1971 memo that spurred conservative funding
Bronski: Michael Jackson's Queer Family
Zmag Article, October, 01 2009
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
Hypocrisy in acceptance for non-traditional families
