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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...
Street: Carlos Beltran v. the People of South Asia: Radio Reflections on American Compassion
Blog Post, January, 01 2005
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I recently spent 5 evening hours on U.S. Interstate Highway 80, the semi-trailer-packed “main street of America.” Meanwhile, people in Indonesia, Thailand, India, and Sri Lanka were experiencing the worst natural human disaster to take place in a...
Podur: New Year's Eve 2004: It ain't over yet
Blog Post, January, 01 2005
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Let's take a look at the past year. I was looking back over my files on Colombia for the past year, trying to put together an article about it. Just write some straight history. Colombia's seen a mixed year. Brutal paramilitary violence, to be su...
Podur: New Year's Eve 2004: It ain't over yet
Blog Post, January, 01 2005
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Let's take a look at the past year. I was looking back over my files on Colombia for the past year, trying to put together an article about it. Just write some straight history. Colombia's seen a mixed year. Brutal paramilitary violence, to be su...
Spannos: Western Governments can do more to help tsunami victims
Blog Post, December, 30 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Like many others I have been shocked and horrified by the current tragedy that has struck hundreds of thousands throughout Asia. I have a hard time comprehending the scale of the disaster, and indeed it grows day by day. I have to say that I could...
Podur: 886,000 black people died unnecessarily - in the world's wealthiest country - from 1991-2000
Blog Post, December, 28 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
This story came from the LiP people who do a 'media picks' weekly mailing. You have heard of the Lancet study that conservatively estimates that the US killed 100,000 in Iraq. You have heard of the UN figures that suggested in 1996 that excess mo...
Podur: 886,000 black people died unnecessarily - in the world's wealthiest country - from 1991-2000
Blog Post, December, 28 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
This story came from the LiP people who do a 'media picks' weekly mailing. You have heard of the Lancet study that conservatively estimates that the US killed 100,000 in Iraq. You have heard of the UN figures that suggested in 1996 that excess mo...
Chomsky: More on the Draft
Blog Post, December, 27 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
One is the system that the military preferred after the debacle with a citizen's army in Vietnam, the first time an imperial power used a citizen's army to fight a colonial war: what's called a "volunteer army," which in effect amounts mostly to a...
Chomsky: Freedom: a moral hypothesis
Blog Post, December, 27 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Is it a claim, or a thesis that is put forth as a kind of null hypothesis -- something that it is morally right to accept unless there is evidence against it? I think the latter. Thus take a debate about slavery, or women's rights. If Jones c...
Chomsky: Public Expense & Private Profit
Blog Post, December, 27 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
For computers, the period from development to commercially viable sales was about 30 years (depending on how you count). For the internet, it was also about 30 years within the state system before it was handed over, by a process that remains obs...
