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Gibler: The Hidden Side of Mexico's Drug War
Zmag Article, October, 01 2009
John Gibler
Gibler's ZSpace page
An interview with Comandante Ramiro, ERPI guerrilla
Baker: Medicare Buy-in: What's Wrong With Giving People a Choice?
Znet Article, September, 29 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Back in the good old days the conservatives were the folks who favored individual choice: not any more. In the current health care debate, the top priority of the so-called conservatives is to deny people choice. They want to make sure that Americ...
Meister: Obama, Labor And FDR
Znet Article, September, 19 2009
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
It’s clear that Barack Obama is well on the way to becoming the most pro-labor president since Franklin D. Roosevelt - clear that he’s firmly committed to strengthening the vital union rights that FDR secured for U.S. workers seven decades ago.
Chomsky: Health Care
Video, September, 14 2009
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
A talk given ealier this month.
Street: “They Employ a Lot of Our Friends:†Left Reflections on Obama’s Corporatist Health Care Speech
Znet Article, September, 11 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
With Barack Obama as with Bill Clinton, you must always distinguish between progressive style and corporate-regime substance. Obama is a master when it comes to embodying what the formerly left Christopher Hitchens once (in a book about the Clint...
Cook: Israel blocks money to Gaza’s disabled
Znet Article, September, 10 2009
Jonathan Cook
Cook's ZSpace page
Yunis al Masri was luckier than his two brothers from Gaza. Although the truck that ploughed into their car as they travelled to work in Israel 24 years ago killed Jaber and Kamal instantly, Mr al Masri survived with shattered bones, internal blee...
Street: “That’s Politicsâ€: Reflections on The Election Trap, Grassroots Activism, Presidential Narcissism, and Health Reform in the Age of Obama
Znet Article, September, 08 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Three weeks ago, The New York Times ran a front-page story on the difficulty that the Obama White House was experiencing in getting its supporters to fight for the president’s “embattled health care plan†with anything like the passion and n...
Davis: Why We Need Rebels
Znet Article, September, 05 2009
Mike Davis
Davis's ZSpace page
Talk at At the Socialism 2009 conference in San Francisco...
Marom: Reimagining the School
Znet Article, September, 05 2009
Yotam Marom
Marom's ZSpace page
A Glimpse at Participatory Education
Abu-jamal: Health Care = 'I Don't Care'
Commentary, September, 03 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
As the White House and Congress square off on health care, take care, because the deals with the big dogs have been made -- and the people will be -- once again -- left holding an empty bag.
Halimi: US Healthcare Sham
Znet Article, September, 03 2009
Serge Halimi
Halimi's ZSpace page
A Republican Congress and President Bill Clinton abolished a welfare programme in 1996 under the (largely fallacious) pretext that it bred fraud, waste and abuse. Thirteen years on, the reforms that Barack Obama is proposing will not fundamentally...
Street: Corporate-Managed Democracy
Zmag Article, September, 01 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Health reform prospects in the age of Obama
Street: Employment-Based Health Care vs. Democracy: Hidden Dimensions of Business Rule
Znet Article, September, 01 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
It is characteristic of the narrow, business-dominated nature of the United States’ political culture that the current U.S. health reform debate includes no meaningful discussion of the critical roles the nation’s employment-based health insur...
Gindin: The End of Retirement?
Znet Article, August, 25 2009
Sam Gindin
Gindin's ZSpace page
The attack on private sector pensions is not new; while the process has been uneven across time and sectors, private pensions in the U.S. and Canada have been eroding for over a quarter of a century. In 1980, some 40% of U.S. private sector worker...
Baker: Owning Versus Renting
Znet Article, August, 25 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
There has long been a strong ideological bias in the United States that has pushed families toward becoming homeowners. Instead of resisting this bias, many people in the policy and advocacy community unthinkingly echoed this ideological refrain, ...
Suggett: Venezuelan Education Law: Socialist Indoctrination or Liberatory Education?
Znet Article, August, 22 2009
James Suggett
Suggett's ZSpace page
Venezuelan opposition activists allege that the new Education Law, which the National Assembly passed unanimously shortly after midnight on August 14th following an extended legislative session, is unconstitutional, anti-democratic, politicizes th...
Meister: Labor: The Key To Decent Health Care?
Znet Article, August, 22 2009
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
Organized labor, a major force in the election of President Obama and other key Democrats, is throwing its great political strength into the drive for a reformed health care system that would include the option of a public insurance plan.
Schechter: Can We Stop Banksters From Killing Financial Reform?
Znet Article, August, 20 2009
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
New York, New York: The thermometer is in the red as the heat of August blends into the steam of the health care fight. These two hot subjects seem to be fogging up TV screens during these dog days as the righteous right take up the tactics of the...
Early: A Postcard From Vermont: Sanders Shows Congress How To Avoid
Commentary, August, 19 2009
Steve Early
Early's ZSpace page
Richmond, Vt.-The Green Mountain state used to be a good place for retired union guys to get away from it all in August. Now, thanks to "Obamacare"-with its threats to the elderly everywhere--that's not the case this year.
Wetzel: Vision for Housing
Znet Article, August, 19 2009
Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page
Social housing today and under self-managed socialism
