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Abu-jamal: Empire On "E"
Blog Post, September, 30 2008
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
In a matter of months, a new man will take the oath of office for the presidency...
Street: Quick Reflections on the First Presidential Debate, Race, and the Election
Blog Post, September, 26 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
In the presidential debate tonight, for what it's worth, I thought Obama was "on his game," such as it is. The debate had all the standard authoritarian ideological iimitis. No serious candidate can question the military budget or mention the num...
Street: Profiles in Cowardice and Corruption: Why McCain and Obama are United in Weakness on the Financial Crisis
Znet Article, September, 25 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The nation’s financial system is in the middle of a colossal crisis caused by massive fraud, idiocy, and greed at the upper reaches of the banking, insurance, and real estate industries. The arch-plutocratic Bush administration and Federal Reserv...
Rink: Democracy, Communism, Anarchism, and Taxes: Undermining the "Libertarian" Lie
Blog Post, September, 25 2008
Andy Rink
Rink's ZSpace page
Democracy, Communism, Anarchism, and Taxes: Undermining the "Libertarian" Lie
Baker: No Blank Cheque for Wall Street
Znet Article, September, 23 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Congress should not approve the Bush administration's $700bn Wall Street bailout without attaching some strings...
Weissman: The Financial Re-Regulatory Agenda
Commentary, September, 22 2008
Robert Weissman
Weissman's ZSpace page
As the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department careen from one financial meltdown to another, desperately trying to hold together the financial system -- and with it, the U.S. and global economy -- there are few voices denying that Wall Street has...
Albert: Politics In Venezuela
Znet Article, September, 21 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
An extensive interview about the polity in Venezuela, held with Julio Chavez, Mayor of Carora and prominent activist in all dimensions of the Bolivarian Revolution, especially concerning the Communal Councils.
Albert: Venezuelan Legal System: An Interview with Fernando Ramón Vegas Torrealba
Znet Article, September, 21 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Michael Albert went to Venezuela in early September and interviewed numerous people about the Bolivarian Revolution. This one is about the role of the law and legal system, held with Fernando Ramón Vegas Torrealba, justice of the Venezuelan Suprem...
Daigle: The Electoral System is Broken
Blog Post, September, 20 2008
Marvin Daigle
Daigle's ZSpace page
Politicians are public servants, but they don't server the public. Let's fix that.
Epitropoulos: Obama, Planetarchy, and Democracy
Blog Post, September, 19 2008
Mike Epitropoulos
Epitropoulos's ZSpace page
This blog examines world opinion of "non-voting constituents" of the US Presidential elections. If voice were given to all of the people who are affected by US policies, what would the outcome of the election for "planetarch" look like and why.
Goodman: The Party Police
Znet Article, September, 16 2008
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
The Democratic and Republican national conventions have passed, but controversy surrounds how they were funded and how they were run. Mass arrests of peaceful protesters, excessive police violence, wholesale disregard for the Bill of Rights and th...
Albert: Revolutionary Organization
Znet Article, September, 16 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
At some point a revolution will transform the U.S. economy, polity, kinship, and culture - and similar revolutions will transform other countries too. Such a revolutionary process will include diverse movements and organizations working together f...
Podur: Bolivia’s elites seek a media coup
Znet Article, September, 15 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Bolivia's popular movements are attempting to use democracy and a legitimate government to advance an agenda of sovereignty, greater equality, and development. Their opponents, led by several governors of the wealthier provinces in a part of the c...
Ganapathiraju: Bush seeks permanent war powers, studies fault "war on terror"
Blog Post, September, 14 2008
Aditya Ganapathiraju
Ganapathiraju's ZSpace page
Bush seeks to set US on permanent "war" path. Studies show "war on terror" is wrong method. Again. (Retail) terrorism primarily criminal/law enforcement/intelligence matter, says RAND Corp.
Wise: This is Your Nation on White Privilege
Commentary, September, 14 2008
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every fami...
Pilger: A Murderous Theatre Of The Absurd
Commentary, September, 12 2008
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
Try to laugh, please. The news is now officially parody and a game for all the family to play.
Halling: Participatory Law - A Law of No Gods, No Masters
Znet Article, September, 11 2008
Matt Halling
Halling's ZSpace page
It is understandable that, despite the wealth of material about participatory society, no one has written at length of the legal vision suggested by this new society. Lawyers are not a sexy subject for many activists to talk about: they reside in ...
Zinn: US 'In Need of Rebellion'
Znet Article, September, 10 2008
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
Al Jazeera speaks to Howard Zinn, the author, American historian, social critic and activist, about how the Iraq war damaged attitudes towards the US and why the US "empire" is close to collapse.
Schechter: Behind The Costly Fannie/Freddie Mortgage Bailout: A Silent Dependence On Foreign Money, Not Just Oil
Commentary, September, 09 2008
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
are thrilled that even as we pay more for your oil, you pay out more and more for loans and investments in the US from your sovereign wealth funds, banks and investment portfolios.
Klein: New Orleans: The City That Won't Be Ignored
Znet Article, September, 08 2008
Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page
The early results are in: Hurricane Gustav has helped John McCain's bid for the White House. This is nothing short of incredible.
