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Author: Lessons From Durban
Commentary, January, 02 2002
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It is hard to believe that just two short months ago, the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Other Forms of Intolerance (WCAR) took place in Durban, South Africa.
Landau: Chilean Socialists Use Ultra Lite Model
Commentary, January, 01 2002
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
I left Chile in late November, just as the political parties prepared for their December congressional elections. Campaign posters hung from electric wires, clung to walls and glowed as bumper strips on cars. But the human excitement was absent.
Edwards: Lethal Conceits
Commentary, December, 31 2001
David Edwards
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Truth is not always a casualty of war. In a recent Guardian article, Roy Greenslade reports the dramatic and, for the press, devastating collapse in advertising revenues following the terrorist atrocities of September 11:
Prashad: The Age Of Scorpio (vrishchika): Star Wars And Star Signs
Commentary, December, 30 2001
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
This is the dawning of the Age of Scorpio, or as our Sanskrit texts have it, the Age of Vrishchika.
Dominick: First We Must Help Ourselves
A Response to Brecher's 'Open Letter to the World'
Commentary, December, 30 2001
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
Though an enormous admirer of Jeremy Brecher's work in the fields of labor issues and global economics, I was quite troubled by his recent ZNet Commentary, "Open Letter from an American to the World: HELP!" (12/28/01).
Podur: Consumption, Complicity, And SUVs
Commentary, December, 29 2001
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Are people in poor countries suffering because we drive SUVs? Are they starving because we eat too much? Is it our consumption that is the foundation of the exploitative system we live in?
Hallinan: The Scent of Another Coup
Znet Article, December, 29 2001
Conn Hallinan
Hallinan's ZSpace page
There is the smell of a coup in the air these days. It was like this in Iran just before the 1953 U.S.-backed coup overthrew the Mossedeah government and installed the Shah. It has the feel of 1963 in South Vietnam, before the military takeover sw...
Brecher: Open Letter from an American to the World: HELP!
Commentary, December, 28 2001
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
The Bush Administration is blundering into a global conflagration. There is currently no force within the U.S. likely to stop it. It is up to the rest of the world, and especially AmericaÕs friends and allies Ð both governments and their citizen...
Pilger: The Real Story Behind America’s War
Commentary, December, 27 2001
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
Since 11 September, the “war on terrorism†has provided a pretext for the rich countries, led by the United States, to further their dominance over world affairs.
Pilger: The Real Story Behind AmericaÕs War
Commentary, December, 27 2001
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
Since 11 September, the Òwar on terrorismÓ has provided a pretext for the rich countries, led by the United States, to further their dominance over world affairs.
Peters: A Post Mortem On The Peace Movement?
Znet Article, December, 27 2001
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
Today a Village Voice reporter called to interview me for a story he is writing. His assignment? To do a post-mortem on the peace movement. ...
Peters: A Post-Mortem on the Peace Movement?
Commentary, December, 26 2001
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
Today a Village Voice reporter called to interview me for a story he is writing. His assignment? To do a post-mortem on the peace movement.
Solomon: Bloomberg's Victory And The Triumph Of Business News
Commentary, December, 25 2001
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
After billionaire Michael Bloomberg won the race to become New York's next mayor, the French news agency AFP noted that he "was among the first to see how the information age could serve investors in unprecedented -- and lucrative -- ways." Bloomb...
Herman: Coalitions Of The Willing, Coerced, And Bribed
Commentary, December, 24 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
When the United States pummels tiny states like Grenada and Panama, the U.S. media and public have no apparent embarrassment at the imbalance of power and the bully-boy aspect of the incursions; in fact, there is pride at super-Goliath beating up ...
Kagarlitsky: The Riddle Of Putin
Commentary, December, 23 2001
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
MOSCOW - There is evidently some kind of natural law at work: if the business press and the leaders of the financial world name some country or other as a success story, then this is precisely the country where you can expect things to go badly wr...
Starhawk: Passcode Redwood: Keeping Repression In Perspective
Commentary, December, 22 2001
Starhawk
Starhawk's ZSpace page
Every day when I check my email or look through the alternative newspapers or turn on the radio, I hear something that arouses my fear. A new bill threatening our civil liberties has been passed, or is being passed, here or abroad.
Cypel: An Unconditional Withdrawal from the Territories is Urgently Needed
Znet Article, December, 22 2001
Alain Cypel
Cypel's ZSpace page
[Ami Ayalon, 55, headed Israeli interior security, Shin Beth, from February 1996 until May 2000. Small, lean, dressed in jeans and an open shirt, he speaks calmly, but forcefully.] Alain Cypel (Le Monde): How do you see the state of political deba...
Monbiot: The End of the Enlightenment
Commentary, December, 21 2001
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
The pre-Enlightenment has just been beaten by the post-Enlightenment. As the last fundamentalist fighters are hunted through the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the world's most comprehensive attempt to defy modernity has been atomised. But this...
Author: Rogue Nation
Commentary, December, 21 2001
Guest Author
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1. In December 2001, the United States officially withdrew from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, gutting the landmark agreement-the first time in the nuclear era that the US renounced a major arms control accord.
Jensen: Why I Write (for Newspapers)
Commentary, December, 20 2001
Robert Jensen
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My clearest memory of the 1991 Persian Gulf War is a few moments on a bus when the world melted in front of me.
