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Ali: No Room At The Inn For Mr Biswas
Commentary, November, 29 2001
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
This is the story of why V.S. NaipaulÕs comic masterpiece, A House for Mr Biswas, which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature a few weeks ago, was turned down in 1998 by an over-hyped inert mediocrity named Michael Jackson who had just usurped th...
Lusane: The World is Hungry
Commentary, November, 27 2001
Clarence Lusane
Lusane's ZSpace page
What do the people who are starving in the world outside of Afghanistan have to do to get food?
Flanders: Let's Not Reinvent The Peace-making Wheel
Commentary, November, 25 2001
Laura Flanders
Flanders's ZSpace page
If we are looking for signs that the sordid mess in Afghanistan is not hopeless, we should consider the surprising recent experience of Somalia.
Monbiot: Making Generosity Redundant
Commentary, November, 23 2001
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
They thought it was all over. After civilisation's victory in Afghanistan, where the lion now lies down with the lamb, there was, almost all the newspapers agreed, nothing left to discuss. All that needed to be done was to remind those who had que...
Marable: The Failure of U.S. Foreign Policies
Commentary, November, 20 2001
Manning Marable
Marable's ZSpace page
The bombing campaign against the people of Afghanistan will be described in history as the "U.S. Against the Third World." The launching of military strikes against peasants does nothing to suppress terrorism, and only erodes American credibility ...
Mokhiber: Kill, Kill, Kill
Commentary, November, 19 2001
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
In a recent interview with the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, Osama bin Laden justified the killing of innocent Americans this way :
Prashad: Afghan Aftermaths: the Feign of Inevitability
Commentary, November, 17 2001
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
Like ninepins the Afghan cities fell from a band of principled barbarians (the Taliban) to a band of unprincipled barbarians (the so-called Northern Alliance):
Monbiot: Blasting Our Way to Peace The West's "victory" is a defeat for civilisation
Commentary, November, 16 2001
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
The armchair warriors have proved no more merciful in victory than the Northern Alliance. Yesterday's Sun turned over two pages to an editorial titled "Shame of the traitors: wrong, wrong, wrong ... the fools who said Allies faced disaster".
Bronski: Gay Rights/ Human Rights: An Interview with Surina Khan
Commentary, November, 13 2001
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
As a native of Pakistan working full-time in the field of human rights, Surina Khan, executive director of the San Francisco-based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), has a lot to say about America's war on terrorism.
Herman: Genocide As Collateral Damage, But With Sincere Regrets
Commentary, November, 10 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
The Bush Afghan war calls up memories of the Vietnam war in both actions and rhetoric: the massive use of superior arms heavily impacting civilians, deliberate food deprivation, wholesale terror allegedly combatting "terrorism," but always "sincer...
Weisbrot: What Everyone Should Know About Nicaragua
Commentary, November, 09 2001
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
The United States' first post-September 11 foray into Latin American politics -- in Nicaragua's election -- provides a glimpse of how Washington's new "counter-terrorism" policy may play out in this region.
Choudry: Advance Australia Fair?
Commentary, November, 08 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
In historyÕs page let every stage Advance Australia Fair
Herman: Nuggets From A Nuthouse
Zmag Article, November, 01 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
Nuggets From A Nuthouse
Shalom: The War In Afghanistan: 40 Questions and Answers
Zmag Article, November, 01 2001
Stephen Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
The War In Afghanistan: 40 Questions and Answers
Clayton: none
Zmag Article, November, 01 2001
W. michael byrd and linda a. Clayton
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none
Lindemyer: Iraqi Sanctions: Myth and Fact
Zmag Article, November, 01 2001
Jeff Lindemyer
Lindemyer's ZSpace page
Iraqi Sanctions: Myth and Fact
Mcharry: Sex Predator Laws
Zmag Article, November, 01 2001
Mark Mcharry
Mcharry's ZSpace page
Sex Predator Laws
Everest: Consequences Of Empire
Zmag Article, November, 01 2001
Larry Everest
Everest's ZSpace page
Consequences Of Empire
Harewood: Race and Class
Zmag Article, November, 01 2001
Adrian Harewood
Harewood's ZSpace page
Race and Class
Reinhart: Stop Israel!
Commentary, October, 30 2001
Tanya Reinhart
Reinhart's ZSpace page
For a whole week now, The Israeli army has been terrorizing cities and villages in the West Bank. As in the darkest days at the beginning of the present Intifada, desperate voices and reports pour through the internet, telling of massive shelling,...
