Zcom_simple

Back Search Results - New Search

Commentary Wise: A New Round of White Denial

Commentary, August, 23 2001 Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page

In a time of multiple school and workplace shootings, middle-aged mass murderers, drug-saturated rave parties, and moms who drown their kids in tubs, lakes, or dump them in garbage cans, one question comes to mind. How long willÊsuburban white Ame...

Commentary Edwards: A CLIMATE OF PROFIT

Commentary, August, 22 2001 David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page

To what extent is business a positive force for good in a world undergoing potentially devastating human-induced climate change? In the week that government leaders met in Bonn to discuss the rapidly-crumbling Kyoto Protocol, The Guardian took a l...

Commentary Edwards: A CLIMATE OF PROFIT

Commentary, August, 22 2001 David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page

To what extent is business a positive force for good in a world undergoing potentially devastating human-induced climate change? In the week that government leaders met in Bonn to discuss the rapidly-crumbling Kyoto Protocol, The Guardian took a l...

Commentary Burchill: Megawati's Indonesia and US regional policy

Commentary, August, 21 2001 Scott Burchill
Burchill's ZSpace page

Following the visit by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, security issues in the East Asian region are starting to look much clearer. A widespread belief that Indonesia is edging towards disintegration s...

Commentary Monbiot: Hell's Grannies

Commentary, August, 20 2001 George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page

Ariel Sharon's decision not to blast the Palestinians out of existence after last week's suicide bombings is, at first sight, mystifying. While jets blew up the Palestinians' police station in Ramallah and Israeli soldiers occupied their East Je...

Commentary Author: Reporting On Palestine

Commentary, August, 19 2001 Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page

People look back on apartheid South Africa with horror and disgust. But you don't have to go to the history books to find out what apartheid is like. You only need to visit Palestine.

Commentary Brecher: The Road From Genoa

Commentary, August, 18 2001 Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page

The battle in Genoa was not only the key event in the summer of 2001, but also marked a watershed for the anti-corporate movement. From the outset, the Big Eight summit in Genoa was doomed to become nothing more than a pretext for widespread prote...

Commentary Naiman: World Bank Grants Would Reduce Poor Country Debt Without Cost to U.S.

Commentary, August, 17 2001 Robert Naiman
Naiman's ZSpace page

President Bush proposed in Genoa that up to 50% of the World Bank's lending to the poorest countries be converted to grants focused on education, health care, access to clean water, and sanitation. This would be a step towards addressing the unbea...

Commentary Naiman: Reparations Should Include Universal Access to Health Care and Education

Commentary, August, 17 2001 Robert Naiman
Naiman's ZSpace page

At the end of August in South Africa, the United Nations will convene the "World Conference Against Racism." News reports say that the U.S. and European governments have opposed efforts by African countries to address demands for "reparations" for...

Commentary Peters: An S30 Victory Six Weeks in Advance

Commentary, August, 16 2001 Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page

In a joint statement released on August 14, 2001, the IMF/World Bank reported that their annual meeting, originally scheduled to run for two weeks, would be reduced to two days. (The normal two-week meeting had previously been shortened to one wee...

Commentary Solomon: A GREEN PARTY CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004?

Commentary, August, 15 2001 Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page

Two years from now, the national committee of the Green Party will make a big decision: Should the party run a candidate for president in 2004?

Commentary Rebick: The New Politics Initiative: Towards a Living Democracy

Commentary, August, 14 2001 Judy Rebick
Rebick's ZSpace page

What is participatory democracy? It is government that involves citizens at every level of decision-making. The form of participatory democracy we know best in Canada involves consulting citizens about policy. While experiences like the citizens c...

Commentary Pilger: Liberal elites have always disguised their innate conservatism

Commentary, August, 13 2001 John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page

At the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in May, leading members of the media and cultural elite assembled in the fine gardens of a Regency house to await the arrival of the great man. They included broadsheet editors, deputy editors, literary editors,...

Commentary Flanders: Rule Britannia

Commentary, August, 12 2001 Laura Flanders
Flanders's ZSpace page

British libel law is called that, you'd think, because it applies in Britain. When it comes to libel, the UK is about the most plaintiff-friendly country in the world. British citizens enjoy no freedom to write, to speak, let alone to publish. It'...

Commentary Herman: GENOCIDE AS THE SOLUTION TO "TERRORISM" IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES?

Commentary, August, 11 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

The word "genocide" is used very loosely and irresponsibly these days; Sebastian Unger could see it in Kosovo by looking at the body of one Albanian alleged to be a victim of Serb paramilitaries ("A Different Kind of Killing," NYT Magazine, Feb. 2...

Commentary Edwards: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE...

Commentary, August, 10 2001 David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page

"All of existence", an ancient sage once wrote, "depends on the tip of a wish." By which he meant that the state of the world is determined by what ultimately motivates us: if enough people basically crave personal wealth and power, then the world...

Commentary Mokhiber: Corporate Globalization and the Poor

Commentary, August, 09 2001 Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page

George Bush has thrown down the gauntlet, issuing a public challenge to the anti-corporate globalization movement. When hundreds of thousands last month demonstrated against the G-8 meeting of rich country leaders in Genoa, Italy, George Bush decr...

Commentary Author: World Conference Against Racism Is Ambushed by White House

Commentary, August, 09 2001 Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page

Can we have some outrage here? In just one week, the Bush Administration killed an international agreement enforcing the 1972 ban on biological weapons (Cold War anyone?) and then reneged on the 1997 Kyoto Treaty.

Commentary Prashad: Hindutva and Zionism: Comprador States of Pentagon, Inc.

Commentary, August, 08 2001 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

George W. Bush has a cat named India. In New Delhi, about thirty activists of the Hindu Right's political formation, the BJP, stood before the US Embassy outraged with this news. "We are not cats," said one man, "we are lions."

Commentary Thrupkaew: A Letter from Cuba, Part II: Cuban Women, Beyond Prostitution

Commentary, August, 07 2001 Noy Thrupkaew
Thrupkaew's ZSpace page

I recently traveled to Cuba as part of a U.S. women's delegation, sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sojourner, a feminist newspaper, and Hermanas, an organization dedicated to building solidarity between U.S. and...

Loading_border