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Engler: Canadian Aid
Commentary, May, 09 2008
Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page
Canadian foreign aid has been widely derided as ineffective. But that's simply not true. Commentators have just been looking in the wrong places. Canadian aid has been highly effective at transforming taxes into profits for major Canadian corpora...
Ali: Canada, Hizballah and Terrorism
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
In 2002 Canada unveiled an official list of "terrorist" organizations, strikingly similar to that of the the US government. Today the Lebanese political movement Hizballah -- both the military and political wing -- is officially considered a "terr...
Palast: José Can You See? Bush's Trojan Taco
Znet Article, April, 23 2008
Greg Palast
Palast's ZSpace page
While you Democrats are pounding each other to a pulp in Pennsylvania, the President has snuck back down to New Orleans for a meeting of the NAFTA
Majavu: Stuffed and Starved
BookReview, April, 21 2008
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
According to the South African Sunday Times, the World Bank and IMF have declared an international food emergency. However, the Sunday Times does not trace the origins of the present food crisis. For that kind of analysis, one must turn to the bo...
Engler: Québec & Haiti
Znet Article, April, 13 2008
Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page
As an advanced capitalist state, Québec support for Western imperialism in Haiti should not be surprising.
Podur: Canada's newest political prisoners
Znet Article, March, 30 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The jailing of these leaders offers a window into a whole host of Canada’s irrationalities and cruelties – the callous dispossession of the indigenous, the search for quick profits to be torn out of the ground and turned into money whatever the co...
Spannos: Canadian Human Rights Hypocrisy
Commentary, March, 30 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
How ironic is it when a national entity priding itself that its foreign policy is based on humanitarian motives and diplomatic benevolence consistently denies the rights of a people internationally recognized as occupied, inflicts further human su...
Tuathail: Marmato’s Gold Bonanza
Znet Article, March, 21 2008
Micheál Tuathail
Tuathail's ZSpace page
Colombia Goldfields, the company’s website announces, is “rediscovering the land of the golden mountain” through two major projects in the region; the Marmato Development Project and the Caramanta Exploration Project, located approximately seven k...
Tuathail: Marmato's Gold Bonanza
Znet Article, March, 14 2008
Micheál Tuathail
Tuathail's ZSpace page
Manizales, Colombia – Uncertainty prevails in the cobbled streets of Marmato – a small mining town of some 8,000 souls clinging to the side of El Burro, a mountain in the Colombian Andes. For more than 500 years, 'subsistence' gold mining formed a...
Sandronsky: Rethinking New Mexico History
Commentary, March, 10 2008
Seth Sandronsky
Sandronsky's ZSpace page
In 1967 author, historian, human rights activist and professor Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz was working on a Ph.D. in Latin American history at UCLA when a TV report drew her attention. Armed men of the Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres had captured a sma...
Ross: Agrarian Apocolypse Looms in Mexico
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
John Ross
Ross's ZSpace page
At the stroke of midnight this past January 1, 100 or so farmers and day laborers from both sides of the border converged on the Cordoba Las Americas bridge that connects El Paso and Ciudad Juarez to mark the demise of Mexican agriculture.
Ehrenreich: Hillary's Real MLK Problem
Znet Article, January, 16 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
The role of movements in social change.
Albert: Remembering Tomorrow
Video, December, 18 2007
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
You are watching and listening to Michael Albert, social activist, author and co-founder of Z Magazine, speak on the problems of the progressive social movement and what it can do better. He was at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, on May 2...
Albert: On Winning
Audio, October, 25 2007
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Michael Albert on "Winning". ASU, Brisbane. 2002
Fitz: St. Louisans Rally to Dump Racially Divisive Mayor
Znet Article, October, 25 2007
Don Fitz
Fitz's ZSpace page
The contemptuous demotion of a fire chief ignited unified opposition in St. Louis' Black community. Previously fragmented groups have pulled together whether their focus has been on police violence, employment opportunities, school closings, emin...
Ehrenreich: Bait and Switch
Video, October, 23 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
Journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decries corporate hiring practices for what she sees as an over-emphasis on upbeat, extroverted personalities, while overlooking such factors as creativity and skill.
Zinn: Just War 3/4
Video, October, 23 2007
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
Author and historian Howard Zinn talks about the concept of a "Just War". Can there be such a thing as a humanitarian "Just War" or are those things antithetical to one another.
Zinn: Just War 4/4
Video, October, 23 2007
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
Author and historian Howard Zinn talks about the concept of a "Just War". Can there be such a thing as a humanitarian "Just War" or are those things antithetical to one another.
Chomsky: Noam Chomsky Q&A at the 2007 Z Media Institute 2/4
Video, October, 23 2007
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Noam Chomsky's yearly appearance at the Z Media Institute, Woods Hole, MA. The 2007 ZMI talk is entitled "We Own the World" and the DVD is available at www.zmag.org
Chomsky: Noam Chomsky Q&A at the 2007 Z Media Institute 3/4
Video, October, 23 2007
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Noam Chomsky's yearly appearance at the Z Media Institute, Woods Hole, MA. The 2007 ZMI talk is entitled "We Own the World" and the DVD is available at www.zmag.org
