Zcom_simple

Back Search Results - New Search

Commentary Burchill: Corrected: Mad, Bad, Dangerous To Know

Commentary, October, 26 2001 Scott Burchill
Burchill's ZSpace page

WASHINGTON'S decision to renew friendships with the Northern Alliance for its war against al-Qa'ida and the Taliban provides clues as to what George W. Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard mean by "our values".

Commentary Prashad: Forward Into the Past: US War Aims

Commentary, October, 05 2001 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

The US State Department-Pentagon has a bad record on war aims. During the lead-up to the Gulf War, the Bush administration, Part 1, argued that the US was needed to liberate Kuwait.

Commentary Albert: Albert Interviews Chomsky

Commentary, September, 29 2001 Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page

I sent six questions to Noam Chomsky. His answers, by email, are below.

Commentary Herman: "The Price Is Worth It"

Commentary, September, 25 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

Try to imagine how the mainstream U.S. media and intellectuals would respond to the disclosure that at an early planning meeting of the terrorists responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the question had come up about w...

Commentary Herman: FOLKS OUT THERE HAVE A

Commentary, September, 14 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

One of the most durable features of the U.S. culture is the inability or refusal to recognize U.S. crimes. The media have long been calling for the Japanese and Germans to admit guilt, apologize, and pay reparations.

Commentary Sommers: Blowback

Commentary, September, 12 2001 Jeffrey Sommers
Sommers's ZSpace page

In CIA parlance missions that are ÒsuccessfulÓ create backlashes. The CIA aptly calls this ÒBlowback.Ó

Commentary Herman: THE OFFENSE BUDGET

Commentary, September, 09 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

Just about the time George Orwell published his novel 1984, shortly after the end of World War II, the U.S. "War Department" was renamed the "Defense Department." This name change also coincided with the fact that the United States was then the so...

Commentary Solomon: THE PENTAGON PAPERS: MEDIA PRAISE RINGING HOLLOW

Commentary, July, 16 2001 Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page

When they challenged the power of the White House by claiming the right to publish the Pentagon Papers, the nation's two most influential newspapers took a laudable stand. During the three decades since then, praise for their journalistic courage ...

Commentary Herman: GODFATHERLY GLOBAL JUSTICE: MILOSEVIC, SHARON AND SUHARTO

Commentary, July, 05 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

The politicization of the system of global justice has reached new heights over the past decade, with the U.S. Godfather asserting his firmer hegemonic position with an arrogance that is a throwback to Secretary of State Richard Olney's statement ...

Commentary Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival Part One

Commentary, July, 03 2001 Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page

At the end of June,, the UN Conference on Disarmament concludes the second of its year 2001 sessions. Prospects for any constructive outcome of disarmament efforts are slim. Discussions have been blocked by US insistence on pursuing ballistic miss...

Commentary Edwards: THE MEDIA ELECTION 2001: LOW FARCE

Commentary, June, 18 2001 David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page

Traditionally, general elections in Britain are a time for much quasi-religious talk of the blessed gift of democracy - so recently won at such high cost, we are told - and the importance of paying due homage to that great principle at the busines...

Commentary Prashad: Shooting Stars

Commentary, June, 15 2001 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

On 21 April 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev turned to Colin Powell, then an aide of the US National Security Advisor, and said "What are you going to do now that you've lost your best enemy?" Gorbachev's unilateral disarmament of Soviet nuclear forces in ...

Commentary Pilger: Academia is silent on imperialism, as German universities were during the rise of the Nazis

Commentary, April, 29 2001 John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page

The other day, I attended a conference at the University of Sussex on the "new imperialism". What was extraordinary was that it took place at all. Julian Saurin, who teaches in the school of African and Asian studies at Sussex, said that, in ten y...

Commentary Prashad: Hindutva For a Few Dollars a Day

Commentary, April, 25 2001 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

Bangru Laxman asks the intrepid tehelka.com journalists to bring him $30,000 to their next meeting. He has already taken Rs. 1 lakh. "You can give dollars," said the President of the BJP. "You talk to us directly. We normally turn to [National Sec...

Commentary Mokhiber: Stop the Torture Trade

Commentary, April, 23 2001 Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page

Torture predates the development of the corporation. But corporations are entangled in the modern-day commerce in devices of torture. In a new report, Amnesty International shines a spotlight on the makers of law enforcement equipment and how the...

Commentary Edwards: To The Mad House With Them

Commentary, April, 16 2001 David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page

In his study of obedience in modern society, psychologist Stanley Milgram wrote, "There is always some element of bad form in objecting to the destructive course of events, or indeed, in making it a topic of conversation." Milgram noted that even ...

Commentary Herman: UNCLE CHUTZPAH GETS BACK INTO THE RING

Commentary, April, 09 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

Now that the humanitarian warrior Bill Clinton has been replaced by a compassionate conservative extremely close to the oil industry, military-industrial-complex, and Christian Right/"pro- life" (fetal, that is, not post-fetal) forces, what may we...

Commentary Prashad: The Problem of the Twenty-First Century is the Problem of the ColorBlind

Commentary, March, 31 2001 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

A few years ago I had the fortune of spending a morning debating Dinesh D'Souza on the question of affirmative action. It was in Chicago at the South Asian Students' Association annual meeting. I was a bit apprehensive. I've debated people before,...

Commentary Edwards: BIG BROTHER'S BAD INFLUENCE

Commentary, March, 07 2001 David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page

December 2001 will see London hosting the first conference exploring the extent to which radical writing tends to incorporate, and be corrupted by, mainstream prejudices, emphases and ethical presumptions.

Commentary Herman: THE MEDIA NORMALIZE A RIGHTWING COUP D'ETAT

Commentary, February, 08 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

We have just gone through a remarkable moment in U.S. history, in which a Republican activist-dominated Supreme Court has refused to allow a complete vote count in Florida which would have given Al Gore the presidency, and by judicial fiat simply ...

Loading_border