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Samaraki: Greece, political activism and ZNet
Blog Post, April, 13 2008
Elpida Samaraki
Samaraki's ZSpace page
We have just launched a new Network page: the Hellenic Network for Participatory Society (HNPS). This is a network launched by active citizens, who care about participating in what will happen in History, in what will happen to our lives. In this...
George: Wrong Man, Wrong Europe
Znet Article, April, 09 2008
Susan George
George's ZSpace page
Referendums killed off the EU Constitution, a ‘blackmail’ that Europe’s elites will now avoid by forcing through the Lisbon Treaty without debate. And Tony Blair is just the man some of them want to lead the way in this new Europe.
Raina: Salwa Judum: The state as instigator of war between peoples
Znet Article, April, 03 2008
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
For more than a year now the government in Chattisgarh, supported, it must be said, by some local Congress stalwarts, has quarantined some fifty thousand tribals in make-shift camps away from their homes, provided them arms of primitive make, and ...
Henwood: Would You Like Change With That?
Znet Article, April, 03 2008
Doug Henwood
Henwood's ZSpace page
In this binary world, when you criticize Obama, people immediately include you're a Hillary Clinton fan. Uh, no...
Zinn: Are Hillary and Obama Afraid of Talking About the New Deal?
Commentary, April, 02 2008
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
We might wonder why no Democratic Party contender for the presidency has invoked the memory of the New Deal and its unprecedented series of laws aimed at helping people in need. The New Deal was tentative, cautious, bold enough to shake the pillar...
Peterson: Worthy vs. Unworthy Opinion Surveys
Blog Post, March, 28 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
First, the obvious: 2008 is an election year in the United States. And now for something utterly alien: "The will of the people should be the basis of the authority of government."
Zirin: Crackdown: China's Brutal Olympic Echo
Znet Article, March, 24 2008
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
Even after decades of occupation, the ruthlessness of the crackdown has shocked much of the world...
Kagarlitsky: Mad as a March Election
Commentary, March, 24 2008
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
The Russian presidential election was the most democratic for many years, but the farce in which everyone knew the result for months reveals the shallow nature of liberal democracy.
Street: Obama’s Latest "Beautiful Speech"
Znet Article, March, 21 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I just read Barack Obama’s Latest Greatest Speech – his celebrated address on race, titled “A More Perfect Union” [1], yesterday (I am writing on the morning of March 19 2008), in Philadelphia.
Black: Imperialism and fossil fuels
Blog Post, March, 19 2008
Toban Black
Black's ZSpace page
A speech about oil and natural gas interests in and around the so-called war on ‘terror.’
Raina: Fascists Attack the Communist Party Office
Znet Article, March, 17 2008
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Ever since the Hindutva right-wing, led by the top leadership of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), demolished the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on Dec.,6,1992 in brazen defiance of the Constitution and the rule of Law, the question has been asked whether...
Marable: Barack Obama's Problem -- And Ours Along the Color Line
Znet Article, March, 13 2008
Manning Marable
Marable's ZSpace page
Several years ago, I was walking home to my Manhattan apartment from Columbia University, just having delivered a lecture on New York State's notorious "Rockefeller Drug Laws." The state's mandatory-minimum sentencing laws had thrown tens of thous...
Spannos: Real Utopia: Participatory Society For The 21st Century
Blog Post, March, 01 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
After three years of organizing and editing, the book Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century (AK Press) will finally be released in May.
Glick: Non-Electoral Activism in a Presidential Election Year
Commentary, February, 25 2008
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
Just about a year ago a leading activist in the climate movement made a comment that I took note of at the time and haven't forgotten: Presidential politics overshadows all other politics during a Presidential election period.
Raina: Well Done
Znet Article, February, 23 2008
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
For the wary, let me say that it is not my incautious case that democracy has finally arrived in Pakistan (when does anything ever arrive finally?). An election, alas, does not a democracy make all by itself.
Zinn: Election Madness
Znet Article, February, 21 2008
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
There’s a man in Florida who has been writing to me for years (ten pages, handwritten) though I’ve never met him.
Cronan jr: All Aboard Amtrak!: Forget About the Fourth Amendment
Blog Post, February, 20 2008
John Cronan jr
Cronan jr's ZSpace page
Looks at Amtrak's latest announcement that it will conduct "random" searches of bags, and more...
Parenti: Bad Boys, Nasty Boys: Out of the GOP’s Closet
Znet Article, February, 12 2008
Michael Parenti
Parenti's ZSpace page
Republican party politicos espouse an unflagging devotion to old-fashioned morality and family values, inveighing heavily against gay marriage, abortion, homosexuality, adultery, feminism, crime, stem-cell research, secularism, and liberalism—all ...
Peterson: Questions for the U.S. Presidential Candidates
Blog Post, February, 07 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Numerous questions always come to mind that would be worth asking the rapidly-declining major-party presidential candidates in the States
Johnson: The Economic Disaster That Is Military Keynesianism
Znet Article, February, 06 2008
Chalmers Johnson
Johnson's ZSpace page
Global confidence in the US economy has reached zero...
