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Ssoldz: Aid and Comfort for Torturers:
Znet Article, April, 15 2007
Stephen Ssoldz
Ssoldz's ZSpace page
On January 24, 2003, National Guardsman Sean Baker, stationed as a military policeman at GuantÃ
Cohn: Coming Up Short on Habeas for Detainees
Znet Article, April, 05 2007
Marjorie Cohn
Cohn's ZSpace page
The Bush administration has stopped the Supreme Court from giving the Guantánamo detainees their day in court - at least for now.In Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States, forty-five men challenged the constitutionality of the habeas cor...
Goodman: American Kangaroo Court Claims Its First Victim
Znet Article, March, 29 2007
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
It is appropriate that a person from Australia, home of the kangaroo, should be the first one dragged before the kangaroo court at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. David Hicks, imprisoned there for more than five years, pleaded guilty Monday...
Raina: The Last Straw
Znet Article, November, 01 2006
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
When Jack Straw the other day encountered a muslim woman, face veiled in niqab, it spelt in his mind the last straw for white-dominated multiculturalism in Britain. Surely and soon enough the post-9/11 discourse centring on the ostensibly unco...
Epitropoulos: Magic, Deception, and Stalemate in Greece
Znet Article, October, 03 2006
Mike Epitropoulos
Epitropoulos's ZSpace page
David Copperfield, who is promoted as, "the greatest magician of all time," is coming to Athens in early November, and his shows are selling out. That may very well be because the ruling, conservative, New Democracy party Economy and Finance Min...
Raina: The Beginning of the End of the Neocon Empire?
Znet Article, September, 26 2006
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Mr. David C. Mulford is formally the American ambassador to India. Over the last year or two, however, he has off and on made public pronouncements suggesting that he fancies himself more a neocon Viceroy than an ambassador who is required to fun...
Raina: We The People
Znet Article, July, 19 2006
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
In perhaps the first public statement he made after the event of December 13,2001 when the Indian Parliament became the target of a terrorist attack, (although there are those who still speculate about who the real attackers might have been), the ...
Podur: Race, Culture, and Leftists
Znet Article, May, 21 2006
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
My presentation is motivated by what I believe is a weakness across the political spectrum: handling the interaction of different cultures and identities in accordance with principles of equality, solidarity, and liberty. My optimistic belief is t...
Shalom: A Political System for a Good Society
Znet Article, May, 19 2006
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
{ This paper was prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. These sessions gather activists from around the world to share...
Lendman: The US Gulag Prison System
Znet Article, April, 21 2006
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
No, not the one you think, outrageous as it is. I'm referring to the US prison system that's with no exaggeration about as shockingly abusive as the gulag abroad. It qualifies for that label by its size alone - more than 2.1 million as of June, 20...
Fatah: Stop the deportation of Palestinian Peace activist Issam Al Yamani from Canada
Znet Article, April, 16 2006
Tarek Fatah
Fatah's ZSpace page
April 11, 2006The Right Honourable Stephen HarperPrime Minister of Canada,Office of the Prime Minister,80 Wellington Street,Ottawa, OntarioK1A 0A2 Re: The deportation from Canada of Palestinian peace activist Issam Al Yamani Dear Prime Minister...
Bennis: Thinking Strategically
Znet Article, April, 06 2006
Phyllis Bennis
Bennis's ZSpace page
As a movement we have been extraordinarily successful in achieving our initial goal: we have helped transform public opinion to the now almost 2/3 majority opposition to the war in Iraq. Our task now is to transform that consciousness into empowe...
Kolhatkar: Selective Outrage
Znet Article, April, 05 2006
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
Daily media reports over the case of Afghan Christian convert Abdul Rahman have revealed a sudden concern over Afghanistan's repressive human rights environment. But routine human rights reports of the ongoing oppression of Afghan women, suppressi...
Ali: Islam and the Left
Znet Article, April, 02 2006
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
The following interview with Tariq Ali was conducted by Alex De Jong and Paul Mepschen of the SAP (Dutch section of the Fourth International) at the Ernest Mandel symposium held in Brussels in November 2005. It was published in the March-April 200...
Loewenstein: Spinning us to war in Iran
Znet Article, March, 08 2006
Antony Loewenstein
Loewenstein's ZSpace page
During former US President Bill Clinton’s recent trip to Australia, he said the two greatest threats facing the 21st century were terrorism and global warming. The Age welcomed Clinton’s presence in Melbourne as the coming of an al...
Fresia: Third Parties?
Znet Article, February, 28 2006
Jerry Fresia
Fresia's ZSpace page
Again and again progressives step forward to remind us of how bad the Democratic Party, or at least its leadership, is. The point of the lament is to encourage the support of third party candidates and parties. This type of analysis is troubling,...
Gibler: Notes from the Other Oaxaca
Znet Article, February, 28 2006
John Gibler
Gibler's ZSpace page
Walking across the central plaza in Oaxaca City time slows down. Stepping into the expanse of cobblestone walkways that weave through trees and flower beds, surrounded by old colonial government buildings and sidewalk cafes, one feels one's hurry ...
Wetzel: Workers' Liberation and Institutions of Self-Management
Znet Article, February, 27 2006
Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page
We live under a system with a series of oppressions woven together: domination and exploitation of workers by elite classes of owners, managers and professionals; a system of gender inequality that disadvantages women; a racial hierarchy that plac...
Chomsky: Korea and International Affairs
Znet Article, February, 22 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
SUN WOO LEE: How is your health? NOAM CHOMSKY: I am fine, as you can see. SUN WOO LEE: Is there any recent issue of interest related to Korea which you have been following? NOAM CHOMSKY: Korea is playing a very significant role in world affa...
Gibler: Who's Not Listening
Znet Article, February, 13 2006
John Gibler
Gibler's ZSpace page
The Los Angeles Times article “Masked Marxist, With Marimbas†(January 23, 2006) describes the Zapatistas’ Other Campaign like a bizarre provincial circus. By excluding information, using delegitimizing descriptive terms, a...
