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Korte: New School Occupation Enters Second Day
Blog Post, December, 18 2008
Pat Korte
Korte's ZSpace page
Updated press release from the University in Exile occupation at the New School.
Brecher: Will War Crimes Be Outed?
Znet Article, December, 17 2008
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
As the officials of the Bush administration pack up in Washington and move into their posh suburban homes around the country, will they be able to rest easy, or will they be haunted by the fear that they will be held accountable for war crimes com...
Goodman: Former U.S. Interrogator: Torture Policy Has Led to More Deaths than 9/11 Attacks
Znet Article, December, 15 2008
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
Writing under the pseudonym Matthew Alexander, a former special intelligence operations officer, who led an interrogations team in Iraq two years ago, has written a stunning op-ed in the Washington Post called "I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in ...
Pilger: Beware Of Obama's Groundhog Day
Commentary, December, 13 2008
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
One of the cleverest films I have seen is Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray plays a TV weatherman who finds himself stuck in time. At first he deludes himself that the same day and the same people and the same circumstances offer new opportuniti...
Spannos: Introduction to Totality & Complementary Holism
Blog Post, December, 08 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
This is a very rough draft essay prepared as an "weekly lecture" for the Z Education Online course "Participatory Society 1." It is to help conceptualize the theory guiding the course.
Cohn: Obama: Ratify the Women's Convention Soon
Commentary, December, 06 2008
Marjorie Cohn
Cohn's ZSpace page
Nearly 30 years after President Jimmy Carter signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the United States remains the only democracy that refuses to ratify the most significant treaty guaranteein...
Ratner: Obama Should Prosecute Bush Officials Who Designed Torture Policy
Znet Article, December, 06 2008
Michael Ratner
Ratner's ZSpace page
One of Barack Obama's first acts as president should be to instruct his attorney general to appoint an independent prosecutor to initiate a criminal investigation of former Bush Administration officials who gave the green light to torture.
Hill: The Human Rights Problem of Articulating Collective Voice for the Most Marginalized
Znet Article, December, 06 2008
Marcus Hill
Hill's ZSpace page
A Case-Study of Black Panther Accomplishments in Public Health, Governmental Response, and Thoughts on a Better Structure for Pursuing Public Health-Related Human Rights Concerns.
Weissman: Nationalize GM -- Or At Least Think About It
Commentary, December, 04 2008
Robert Weissman
Weissman's ZSpace page
With the U.S. government offering trillions of dollars in supports for the financial sector, it is startling to witness the casual way in which many policy makers and opinion leaders suggest the U.S. auto companies should be allowed to go bankrupt.
Pilger: Kafka Has A Rival. The British Foreign Office Lectures Us On Human Rights
Commentary, December, 02 2008
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
Today (December 1), a surreal event will take place in the centre of London. The Foreign Office is holding an open day "to highlight the importance of Human Rights in our work as part of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human R...
Landau: Old Axioms Unsuitable For New Needs
Commentary, November, 30 2008
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
The time for Obama and his "change" phrases will soon get tested. As candidate, he wisely refrained from spelling out the specifics of policies the country needed or what he actually planned to do about failed foreign policy and a badly wounded ec...
Solomon: The Ideology of No Ideology
Commentary, November, 29 2008
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
On Friday, columnist David Brooks informed readers that Barack Obama's picks "are not ideological." The incoming president's key economic advisers "are moderate and thoughtful Democrats," while Hillary Clinton's foreign-policy views "are hardheade...
Monbiot: Clearing Up This Mess
Commentary, November, 19 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
John Maynard Keynes had the answer to the crisis we're now facing; but it was blocked and then forgotten.
Landau: Response to poverty and empire: Denial
Commentary, November, 17 2008
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
In the 1970s, Martin Agronsky, a weekend talk show host in Washington, finally invited the venerable I.F. (Izzy) Stone to join the establishment "pundits." From the early 1950s through the early 1970s, Izzy had raised the basic issues to a readers...
Raptis: Suntan and "Leaders"
Commentary, November, 16 2008
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
It was the summer of 1958. I was on my way to the school of engineering of the University of Illinois, at Urbana, as a graduate student. I had set foot for the first time on American soil only a few weeks earlier, and I decided to visit a (second ...
Klein: In Praise of a Rocky Transition
Znet Article, November, 14 2008
Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page
The more details emerge, the clearer it becomes that Washington's handling of the Wall Street bailout is not merely incompetent. It is borderline criminal.
Goodman: President Obama Can Redeem the White House
Znet Article, November, 13 2008
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
Construction of the White House started in 1792, with sandstone quarried by slaves in Aquia, Va., then transported up the Potomac River and hauled into place by slaves...
Pilger: Beware The Obama Hype. What 'Change' In America Really Means
Commentary, November, 13 2008
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
My first visit to Texas was in 1968, on the fifth anniversary of the assassination of president John F Kennedy in Dallas. I drove south, following the line of telegraph poles to the small town of Midlothian, where I met Penn Jones Jr, editor of th...
Galeano: Hopes and Fears
Znet Article, November, 11 2008
Eduardo Galeano
Galeano's ZSpace page
Once in office, will Obama prove that his bellicose threats against Iran and Pakistan were just words spoken to lure in a certain category of voter during the election? Let's hope so. And let's hope he isn't for a moment tempted to repeat the expl...
Wise: Good, and Now Back To Work
Znet Article, November, 07 2008
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
What now...
