Zcom_simple

Back Search Results - New Search

Commentary Mondragon: Keeping Order in the Neighborhood

Commentary, August, 21 2003 Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page

Protests swirled around the Peruvian president in Cuzco when on May 23 he declared his support for the president of Colombia at the meeting of leaders of Andean and Amazonian countries. Support for Uribe staggered over the next few days, shaken b...

Znet Article Hylton: Right Turns In South America?

Znet Article, August, 20 2003 Forrest Hylton
Hylton's ZSpace page

Helicopters circling the city, combat planes roaring overhead; the streets, airports and public buildings patrolled by 13,000 police, soldiers, secret servicemen and spies, U.S. as well as Colombian. The arrival of Donald Rumsfeld in Bogotá on Au...

Znet Article Weinberg: Indigenous Opposition to Plan Puebla Panama

Znet Article, August, 06 2003 Bill Weinberg
Weinberg's ZSpace page

On July 21, leaders of indigenous, campesino and grassroots organizations from throughout the Central American nations and Mexico gathered in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, for the Mesoamerican Forum, fourth in a series of meetings aimed at def...

Znet Article Hylton: Terrorism & Political Trials in Bolivia

Znet Article, August, 06 2003 Forrest Hylton
Hylton's ZSpace page

(The following article was originally written in Spanish for Pulso, a Bolivian newsweekly.) The background is as follows: in El Alto, an Aymara city of 700,000 on the upper edge of La Paz, at 6:30 AM on the morning of April 10, members of the Bo...

Znet Article Kerr: Venezuela Challenges the US

Znet Article, August, 02 2003 Chris Kerr
Kerr's ZSpace page

The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela is not just a national phenomenon, it is impacted upon greatly by international developments, particularly the US-led campaign against it. In 2002, the US government stepped up its intervention into Venezue...

Znet Article Chaves: The Bolivarian Circles

Znet Article, July, 30 2003 Rodrigo Chaves
Chaves's ZSpace page

The Bolivarian Circles, with 2.2 million members, are the backbone of the democratic revolution unfolding in Venezuela. After the attempted US-backed coup against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on April 11, 2002, the Bolivarian Circles helped o...

Znet Article Masri: Re-Constructing or De-Constructing Iraq?

Znet Article, July, 14 2003 Rania Masri
Masri's ZSpace page

WE ARE regularly told, by our corporate-I mean, our "free" press-and by our "president," elected by this "free" nation in our functioning "democracy," that the "war" against Iraq is over, "liberation" for the Iraqis has begun and we are now workin...

Znet Article Leavitt: Globalization in our local economy

Znet Article, July, 08 2003 Jonathan Leavitt
Leavitt's ZSpace page

Introduction to the issue Twenty years from now, there will be a war somewhere in this world that is propelled forward by our countries economic interests. Call it a hunch. As a result of this war, many of us who have somehow remained out of jai...

Znet Article Chomsky: What's Happening?

Znet Article, June, 14 2003 Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page

Atilio A. Boron: Looking at the recent US policies in Iraq, What do you think was the real goal behind this war? Noam Chomsky: Well, we can be quite confident on one thing. The reasons we are given can't possibly be the reasons. And we know that,...

Znet Article Schulte: Mass Strike Brings Peru To A Standstill

Znet Article, June, 04 2003 Elizabeth Schulte
Schulte's ZSpace page

THOUSANDS OF Peruvians defied a state of emergency to take to the streets last week in strikes and protests that have spread like wildfire across the country. Teachers began their national strike May 12, demanding higher wages. On May 26, farmers...

Znet Article Helweg-larsen: Exacerbation Of Exploitation Through FTAA

Znet Article, May, 31 2003 Simon Helweg-larsen
Helweg-larsen's ZSpace page

Exploitation is hardly a new phenomenon in Latin America. From the earliest days of conquest and colonization, the southern regions of the western hemisphere were violated and transformed by Europeans for the sole purpose of reaping indigenous ric...

Znet Article Solnit: Acts of Hope: Challenging Empire on the World Stage

Znet Article, May, 19 2003 Rebecca Solnit
Solnit's ZSpace page

On January 18, 1915, eighteen months into the first world war, the first terrible war in the modern sense -- slaughter by the hundreds of thousands, poison gas, men living and dying in the open graves of trench warfare, tanks, barbed wire, machine...

Commentary Shiva: Bechtel And Blood For Water: War As An Excuse For Enlarging Corporate Rule

Commentary, May, 13 2003 Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page

Within a month of the start of the war against Iraq, the real victor is

Znet Article Klein: Snapshot Of A Nation

Znet Article, April, 29 2003 Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page

In 1812, bands of British weavers and knitters raided textile mills and smashed industrial machines with their hammers. According to the Luddites, the new mechanised looms had eliminated thousands of jobs and broken communities and deserved to be ...

Commentary Mondragon: The South American Israel

Commentary, April, 24 2003 Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page

Here is a state used by an imperial power to impose its order in a region. In every sphere, with every dollar of military aid it receives from the US, the Colombian state is heading down this route. And it's in this sense that researchers from Ven...

Znet Article Klein: Argentina's Luddite Rulers

Znet Article, April, 24 2003 Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page

In 1812, bands of British weavers and knitters raided textile mills and smashed industrial machines with their hammers. According to the Luddites, the new mechanized looms had eliminated thousands of jobs, broken communities and deserved to be des...

Znet Article Albert: Whose Standards?

Znet Article, April, 11 2003 Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page

When a New York Times correspondent indicated on its front page of February 16th 2003, that there were now only two super powers in the world -- the U.S. and public opinion - dissidents everywhere trumpeted the article as recognizing activism's st...

Znet Article Palast: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Znet Article, April, 08 2003 Greg Palast
Palast's ZSpace page

1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, is about? What is it trying to communicate? It's about the Bushes and the billionaires that love them. It's about a War Hero President who got the 'top gun' job i...

Znet Article Stokes: Counterinsurgency, coups, and coercion: History and the US Empire in Latin America

Znet Article, April, 02 2003 Doug Stokes
Stokes's ZSpace page

The conventional understanding of US Cold War policy in Latin America portrays a defensive and reactive posture on the part of the US. The 'containment doctrine' is popularly understood to have been the US's core Cold War Grand Strategy and allege...

Znet Article Hylton: Dual Power Vanished

Znet Article, March, 08 2003 Forrest Hylton
Hylton's ZSpace page

"This is a worker-boss conflict."-Representative of the Bolivian Police As suddenly as it had materialized on the afternoon of February 12 in La Paz and El Alto*, dual power vanished on the afternoon of February 13.  On television, President...

Loading_border