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Spronk: International Solidarity for the Struggle for Water Justice in El Alto, Bolivia
Znet Article, May, 10 2005
Susan Spronk
Spronk's ZSpace page
Tired of high connection fees and demanding expansion of service, thousands of citizens of El Alto took to the street earlier this year to pressure the government to return water to public control. The water and sanitary sewerage system was privat...
Webber: Bolivia Back to the Streets? Natural Gas and Popular Struggle
Znet Article, May, 09 2005
Jeffery r. Webber
Webber's ZSpace page
After about a month and a half of relative dormancy, the beginning of last week saw the first interesting signs of renewed life from popular forces in Bolivia. On Monday, May 3, three congressmen and one senator of the party Movement Toward Social...
Fuentes: Thousands Of Peasants Protest Against Lula
Znet Article, May, 09 2005
Fred Fuentes
Fuentes's ZSpace page
In the biggest march ever organised by the powerful Movement of Landless Workers (MST), around 13,000 peasants, accompanied by workers from occupied factories, indigenous peoples and others, set out from Goiania, Brazil, on May 2 to demand that th...
Utsumi: Japanese World War II POW Policy
Znet Article, May, 09 2005
Aiko Utsumi
Utsumi's ZSpace page
[Part I of a two part series on the treatment of prisoners of war examines Japan's World War II treatment of prisoners and the verdicts of the Tokyo War Crime...
Solomon: Nuclear Fundamentalism and the Iran Story
Znet Article, May, 05 2005
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Years from now, when historians look back at agenda-building for a missile attack on Iran, they should closely examine a story that took up the USA's most coveted space for media spin -- the upper right corner of the New York Times front page -- o...
Engelhardt: Iraq 'Uptick,' Superpower Downtick?
Znet Article, April, 25 2005
Tom Engelhardt
Engelhardt's ZSpace page
Iraq 'Uptick,' Superpower Downtick?
Bacevich: The Normalization of War
Znet Article, April, 21 2005
Andrew j. Bacevich
Bacevich's ZSpace page
The Normalization of War
Engelhardt: George's Amazing Alphabet Book
Znet Article, April, 13 2005
Tom Engelhardt
Engelhardt's ZSpace page
[Editor's note: It's unprecedented for any official -- high or low -- to leak information to Tomdispatch, but some weeks ago a Senior Official in one of our intelligence agencies -- and since we have so many, that's a little like saying none-of-yo...
Rosenberg: Dire Straits: Competing Security Priorities in the South China Sea
Znet Article, April, 13 2005
David Rosenberg
Rosenberg's ZSpace page
From the Taiwan Strait to the Strait of Malacca, security concerns are growing around the South China Sea. While the Bush Administration sees a resurgent Chinese military threat across the Taiwan Strait and a terrorist threat in t...
Chavez: Capitalism Is Savagery.
Znet Article, April, 10 2005
Hugo Chavez
Chavez's ZSpace page
The following are excerpts from a speech given by Hugo Chávez at Gigantinho Stadium during the 2005 World Social Forum. A DVD containing the entire speech is available at the Z Store. To find out more, click here. Inspiration. Ignacio Ramonet...
Hahnel: Winnowing Wheat From Chaff
Znet Article, March, 26 2005
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
For the Political Economy Seminar at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on March 8, 2005 Social Democracy: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due I mean it as a great compliment when I say that capitalism functions poorly indeed without soc...
Bello: Iraq, the U.S., and the Challenges to the Global Peace Movement
Znet Article, March, 20 2005
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Speech delivered in Vancouver, Canada, at an event sponsored by StopWar.ca, March 18, 2005, held on the occasion of the March 19-20 Global Protest against the War in Iraq. Over the next few days, millions of people throughout the world, from V...
Solomon: Why Iraq Withdrawal Makes Sense
Znet Article, March, 17 2005
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
President Bush just told reporters that he has no intention of setting any timetable for withdrawal. "Our troops will come home when Iraq is capable of defending herself," he said. Powerful pundits keep telling us that a swift pullout of U.S. troo...
Milne: It Is Not Democracy That's On The March In The Middle East
Znet Article, March, 15 2005
Seumas Milne
Milne's ZSpace page
For weeks a western chorus has been celebrating a new dawn of Middle Eastern freedom, allegedly triggered by the Iraq war. Tony Blair hailed a "ripple of change", encouraged by the US and Britain, that was bringing democracy to benighted Muslim la...
Franklin: Who's Afraid Of Venezuela-Cuba Alliance?
Znet Article, March, 14 2005
Jane Franklin
Franklin's ZSpace page
For a long time there was only one country in Latin America offering free health care to all its citizens. Now there are two. The governments of both countries regard health care as a basic human right. So Cuba, rich in health care, and Venezuela,...
Machover: A FAQ: What do you think about suicide bombers?
Znet Article, March, 11 2005
Moshe Machover
Machover's ZSpace page
The common motivation behind this frequently asked question is by no means an innocent one. In fact, the question itself is quit...
Leas: Burlington Votes to Bring the Troops Home Now!
Znet Article, March, 10 2005
James marc Leas
Leas's ZSpace page
"A town meeting revolt over the Iraq war" is what The Christian Science Monitor called Vermont's historic votes for anti-war resolutions in 49 of 57 cities and towns. The resolutions passed not only in traditional liberal strong holds, but also in...
Achcar: WHITHER IRAQ?
Znet Article, February, 25 2005
Gilbert Achcar
Achcar's ZSpace page
WHITHER IRAQ?
Hallinan: Cornering The Dragon
Znet Article, February, 24 2005
Conn Hallinan
Hallinan's ZSpace page
When newly appointed CIA Director Porter Goss recently warned that China's modernization of its military posed a direct threat to the U.S., was it standard budget time scare tactics? Or did it signal the growing influence of hard-liners in the B...
Churchill: What Did I Really Say? And Why Did I Say It?
Znet Article, February, 22 2005
Ward Churchill
Churchill's ZSpace page
Thanks to Clarke Iakovakis for the transcription. Emma Perez: I'm Emma Perez; I'm the new chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies [applause]. I'm very proud to be the chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies; I'm very proud of my colleagues; I...
