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Cohn: Scalia Cites False Information in Habeas Corpus Dissent
Commentary, June, 25 2008
Marjorie Cohn
Cohn's ZSpace page
To bolster his argument that the Guantánamo detainees should be denied the right to prove their innocence in federal courts, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush: "At least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from ...
Palast: Vote Theft for Idiots. Part 1
Graphic, June, 24 2008
Greg Palast
Palast's ZSpace page
Are they going to Steal 2008?
Lendman: The Supreme Court, Habeas, John Yoo and Murdoch's Wall Street Journal
Znet Article, June, 23 2008
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
Rupert Murdoch has a corrosive effect on whatever he touches, and this writer once tangled with him in an article called Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdoch Empire. Former Chicago columnist Mike Royko also did and remarked that "no self-respecting fis...
Cohn: Supreme Court Checks and Balances in Boumediene
Znet Article, June, 20 2008
Marjorie Cohn
Cohn's ZSpace page
After the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited opinion upholding habeas corpus rights for the Guantanamo detainees, I was invited to appear on "The O'Reilly Factor" with guest host Laura Ingraham. Although she is a lawyer and former law cler...
Cohn: Supreme Court Checks and Balances in Boumediene
Znet Article, June, 16 2008
Marjorie Cohn
Cohn's ZSpace page
After the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited opinion, upholding habeas corpus rights for the Guantánamo detainees, I was invited to appear on The O'Reilly Factor with guest host Laura Ingraham...
Raina: The Chieftain State of Gujarat
Znet Article, June, 13 2008
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
When, after the massacre of Muslims in 2002, the electorate in Gujarat voted the butcher of Gandhinagar—the Capital city of Gujarat; but think of the enormous irony of that oxymoron—back to power, they effectively declared their secession from th...
Podur: Bursting the Dam of Containment
Znet Article, June, 13 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
At its core, Peter Hallward's remarkable book, “Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment”, is the detailed story of the struggle between the Lavalas movement and the forces arrayed against Haitian sovereignty and democra...
Young: The Achievements of War Propaganda: Selling Military Intervention to a Reluctant Public
Znet Article, June, 07 2008
Kevin Young
Young's ZSpace page
Contrary to the conventional wisdom that Democratic politicians must support policies of war and militarism if they wish to maintain popularity, the people of the United States do not like war. Therefore extensive and systematic propaganda is nece...
Pilger: From Kennedy To Obama; Liberalism's Last Fling
Commentary, June, 01 2008
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
In this season of 1968 nostalgia, one anniversary illuminates today. It is the rise and fall of Robert Kennedy, who would have been elected president of the United States had he not been assassinated in June 1968. Having travelled with Kennedy up ...
Mcchesney2: Who'll Unplug Big Media? Stay Tuned
Znet Article, May, 31 2008
Bob2 Mcchesney2
Mcchesney2's ZSpace page
On a Thursday in mid-May, the Senate did something that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. Led by Democrat Byron Dorgan, the senators–Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives–gave Rupert Murdoch and his fellow media moguls t...
Goodman: Presidential Race Ignores Arms Race
Znet Article, May, 25 2008
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
As the U.S. presidential race continues, so does the arms race worldwide. People — civilians, children — are being killed and maimed, on a daily basis, by unexploded cluster bombs and land mines. Thousands of nuclear missiles remain at hair-trigge...
Hayden: Z-Net Interview with Tom Hayden on the publication of Writings for Democratic Society
Znet Article, May, 21 2008
Tom Hayden
Hayden's ZSpace page
New book interview...
Street: Americans' Progressive Opinion vs. "The Shadow Cast on Society By Big Business"
Commentary, May, 15 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Barack Obama and John McCain are preparing to wage a hotly contested battle in which neither heavily business-sponsored presidential candidate will question the underlying fundamentals of corporate-neoliberal rule and United States world-supremaci...
Raina: Anti-Globalist Zeitgeist
Znet Article, May, 11 2008
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Clearly, the Left is not too well placed today either to return to the “Calcutta Thesis” of 1943 (armed struggle), nor to reap through appeals to class oppression alone the kind of electoral dividends that have accrued to the communists in Nepal. ...
Peterson: "O wretched countrymen!"
Blog Post, May, 07 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
When I first read that long (7,500-word) report in the April 20 New York Times about how the "Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform"
Raina: Cricket as Surrogate Kill
Znet Article, April, 30 2008
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Turn on any of India’s up-market corporate channels, and you will find therein but just one lead: the IPL, or the Indian Premier League of 20x20 cricket.
Barker: The Democracy Manipulators
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
Michael Barker
Barker's ZSpace page
Based in Colombia the New Journalism Foundation – known locally as the Fundación para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI) – was set up in late 2004 as a nonprofit organization for training professional journalists.
Spannos: Reviewing Pentagon Propaganda & The New York Times
Blog Post, April, 22 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
The Sunday edition of the New York Times ran a very candid cover story about a carefully orchestrated Pentagon propaganda campaign masquerading as objective journalism in the form of military analysts appearing on Fox News, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, and...
Albert: Parecon and Anarchism
Znet Article, April, 21 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Like most social movements, anarchism is diverse. Most broadly, an anarchist seeks out and identifies structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination throughout life, and tries to challenge them, as conditions and the pursuit of justice permit....
Le vallois: Meeting the People in Cuba
Blog Post, April, 18 2008
Jonathan Le vallois
Le vallois's ZSpace page
A report on things learned whilst visiting Cuba.
