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Street: Talk About Your "Fetishism of Commodities": a Priest, a Truck, a Girl, and an Idiot Nation
Blog Post, February, 09 2005
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
This story (below) is interesting on numerous levels. It tells the curious and disturbing tale of a Super Bowl advertisement that didn't happen. ... In a proposed Ford commercial that never saw the light of kick-off, it turns out, a priest was d...
Chomsky: Iraq's Election
Blog Post, February, 07 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In many respects, the elections were successful. The main success, however, is being mentioned only marginally, by a few reporters: the US was compelled to allow them to take place. That is a real triumph of non-violent resistance, for which S...
Chomsky: Oil for Food Farce
Blog Post, February, 07 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
I presume the main motivation is to make sure that no one pays attention to the real scandal: that the US-imposed sanctions slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people, devastated the society, compelled the population to rely on Saddam Hussein for...
Chomsky: Rattling Iran
Blog Post, February, 04 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
About US plans, we can, of course, only speculate. We do know that the US has been advertising threats to Iran very openly, for some time. What's called "the Israeli air force" might more accurately be called a US air force with Israeli pilots...
Chomsky: The "Salvadoran Option"
Blog Post, February, 04 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The "Salvadoran option" means not just assassination squads, as announced, but mass murder -- facts about US operations in El Salvador that are kept in the dark, as is the truth about the 1984 Salvadoran election that is now touted as the grand mo...
Chomsky: India on the Edge of Survival
Blog Post, January, 31 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
[T]he dramatic rise in suicides in Andhra Pradesh, which have become a huge scandal....are particularly striking because they are so close to the jewels of the Indian economy, the high tech IT centers in Bangalore and Hyderabad, which evoke paroxy...
Chomsky: The Use of Force
Blog Post, January, 31 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The use of force always bears a heavy burden of proof, but I think it can sometimes be met. When? No one can give a general answer to that. There are some approaches, for example, by the most important UN resolution condemning terrorism in all...
Street: Crazy "Cryofan"/Raging "Randy" Gets His Own ZNet Page
Blog Post, January, 27 2005
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
In the three years I've kept a blog at ZNet I've run across no single commenter more bizarre and unbalanced than "cryofan" (whose real first name may be "Randy"). "cryofan's" most consistent theme is that I should ne...
Dominick: Ah, (Western) Objectivity
Blog Post, January, 25 2005
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
Ran across this gem on the CNN site in my daily readings: In addition to their Western look and feel, [Iraqi campaign ads] carry Western messages such as freedom, tolerance and inclusion. That must be what they mean by a "moral compass."
Street: An Opportunity to Reflect on Ruling Class Vulgarity and Extreme inequality in Washington DC
Blog Post, January, 20 2005
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The pompous, corporate-plutocratic re-coronation of New Imperial War Criminal Bush will "cost tens of millions of dollars - $40 million alone in private donations to the balls and invitation-only parties" (Will Lester, Associated Press... [see h...
Spannos: Redeye: Radical Radio & Current Affairs
Blog Post, January, 20 2005
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
In addition to volunteering for ZNet, I also produce radio with Redeye, a weekly radical current affairs program heard on Vancouver Cooperative Radio. Redeye is a collectively produced show which covers politics, arts, culture and ideas. The show ...
Chomsky: Control of Oil & World Power
Blog Post, January, 18 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Japan and Europe have been working hard to achieve a measure of energy independence for a long time, ever since they had the opportunity. Japan has had long-standing relations with Iranian oil production, and got a multi-billion dollar contrac...
Chomsky: American Empire from the 1940's to today
Blog Post, January, 18 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
US power peaked in the late 1940s, when it had half the wealth of the world and unmatched control over international institutions, trade, etc. It's been declining ever since. By 1970, the world was becoming "tripolar," with three major economic...
Street: Martin Luther King. Jr. and "The Triple Evils That Are Interrelated"*
Blog Post, January, 17 2005
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
As the United States experiences its second Martin Luther King. Jr Day to occur with Iraq under American occupation, it's an opportune moment to remember King as a border crosser who refused to restrict his focus to just one city or one nation or ...
Spannos: Vancouver Protests New Israeli Ambassador to Canada
Blog Post, January, 13 2005
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Last night, a cold, dark icy night, at the Jewish Community Centre in Vancouver, 25-30 activists joined together to peacefully protest the new Israeli Ambassador to Canada, Alan Baker and Israeli war crimes. Mr. Baker's position against the Na...
Street: "Five Dead" in "Military Error": A Barely Noticeable Example of War Crime Journalism
Blog Post, January, 12 2005
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Imagine that a Canadian Air Force jet on a military exercise accidentally crossed into US airspace and mistakenly dropped a bomb that killed, say, 14 US residents. On what page of your local U.S. newspaper do you think THAT story would appear? Ho...
Chomsky: Israel's Strategic Thinking
Blog Post, January, 11 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
For some time, the right wing has been warning that if Israel is to deal with the "demographic problem" -- too many non-Jews in a Jewish state -- it is either going to have to expel the Arab population, which is regarded as unfeasible (except inso...
Street: Geneva Conventions? They're Leaving on a Jet Plane...Don't Know When They'll Be Back Again
Blog Post, January, 08 2005
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Here, pasted in below, are two items from today's newspapers on some of the fascist machinations of the U.S. global police state. The first story, from the New York Times, relates soon-to-be bipartisanally approved right-authoritarian Attorney Ge...
Chomsky: American Fundamentalism
Blog Post, January, 05 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
There are studies, often, asking people whether religious beliefs are "very important" to them, how often they attend religious services, etc. There are also interesting studies relating intensity of religious belief (by such measures) with econom...
Spannos: Aid Through the Eyes of Empire
Blog Post, January, 03 2005
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
In an earlier posting I suggested that western governments could do more to help those effected by the tsunami disaster. Specifically, through a massive increase in aid, opening our borders to refugees, simultaneous debt cancellation and a restruc...
