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Podur: Multiple Multi-Blogging
Blog Post, September, 30 2004
Justin Podur
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Folks, while I will continue to contribute to the ZNet multi-author blogging system, I've also rolled an updated version of my previous blog, The Killing Train, at www.killingtrain.com, which I'll be posting to daily as before. As befits this blo...
Peterson: "Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone"
Blog Post, September, 28 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Odd, don't you think, that members of the International Atomic Energy Agency could have adopted more than one resolution during Friday's (the 24th) closing session of its 48th General Conference in Vienna, and now it's already four days later, the...
Peterson: "Israeli Nuclear Capabilities and Threat" II
Blog Post, September, 28 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Pleading for a long overdue "accounting" in world affairs, one wherein peoples and states will decide, once and for all, what they are "united for" and what they are "united against," Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs Silvan Shalom stepped befo...
Chomsky: A Personal Statement RE Z/ZNet
Blog Post, September, 27 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
"We live in an era of media concentration, vast efforts on many fronts (political, economic, military, ideological) to insulate state and private power from critical discussion or even popular awareness, and to reduce citizens to isolated atomized...
Peterson: Barack Obama and the Clash of Civilizations
Blog Post, September, 27 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
A question for Illinois State Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic frontrunner (an absolute shoe-in, in fact) in the race to capture the seat in the U.S. Senate currently occupied by the Republican Peter Fitzgerald (the other held by the Democrat ...
Peterson: Principals of World Order I
Blog Post, September, 25 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Of every UN member state to address the General Assembly Friday, September 24 (19 in all, at least by my count), not only did the UN News Center select the address by the Interim Iraqi Prime Minister to report first, at the top of the entire list....
Peterson: The War on Terror
Blog Post, September, 24 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Fitting, isn't it, that upon landing on U.S. soil Wednesday, the Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi should visit the White House and Congress and even the Council on Foreign Relations (sort of like the American Chamber of Commerce, this crew...
Albert: Anarchism and Parecon
Blog Post, September, 23 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Another draft chapter from the new book on parecon and society.... Like most social movements anarchism is diverse. Most broadly an anarchist seeks out and identifies structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination throughout life, and tries t...
Pandya: Newmont Executives Arrested In Indonesia!
Blog Post, September, 23 2004
Cp Pandya
Pandya's ZSpace page
The good news keeps rolling in for Newmont - the gold mining giant that has spent the last decade wreaking havoc on the people and ecologies of Peru, Indonesia and Turkey in its quest for profit. First, as I reported last week, Peruvians successfu...
Peterson: The Non-Aligneds Have Gotten the Message
Blog Post, September, 22 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Has anyone ever checked out the website of the International Atomic Energy Agency? But especially during weeks like the present one, when so many of the brightest stars of the nuclear firmament streak across the IAEA's Vienna heavens? While ther...
Peterson: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Blog Post, September, 22 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Several hours ago, the UN Secretary-General engaged in the annual ringing of the Peace Bell on the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, outside the UN General-Secretariat Building in New York City---a "special occasion," he remarked, the 21st being Internation...
Pandya: Bush Leaves Rhetoric On Poverty Behind
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
Cp Pandya
Pandya's ZSpace page
As heads of state from around the world gather here in New York for the 59th UN General Assembly, where they will exchange mostly empty promises and hollow cries of despair for human suffering and injustice, one George W. Bush, has decided to rise...
Peterson: Iranian Nukes? Check Their Beards
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
One subtle indicator of the relative dominance of a state in the world is the number of successes it enjoys at imposing its agenda upon other states, peoples, and assorted collections thereof---the so-called international community, to risk using ...
Albert: Parecon & Marxism - 4
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
[This concludes the draft chapter on parecon and marxism...] Parecon Insults Marxists? Suppose we were to envision a humongous stadium filled with all the people in all past and current history who called (or who now call) themselves Marxists. (...
Albert: Parecon & Marxism - 3
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
[This continues the draft chapter on parecon and marxism...] Marxism Is For Coordinators? When I argue that coordinatorism is celebrated as the goal of struggle in every Marxist text that offers a serious economic vision, many Marxists are like...
Albert: Parecon & Marxism - 2
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
[This is a continuation of the long draft chapter regarding parecon and marxism...] Marxism and Class But the above is not the problem of Marxism that I wish to feature here, partly because it is straightforward to correct and a great many Marxi...
Albert: Parecon and Marxism - 1
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I am working on a book about Parecon and the rest of a good society -- and have placed drafts of some chapters in this blog system. Near the end of the book I am thinking about including two chapters, one on parecon and marxism, the other on parec...
Chomsky: Bombing Cambodia
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The US was bombing South Vietnam very intensively from the early 60s, and many people, and South Vietnamese resistance forces, fled to border areas, sometimes spilling over to border areas of Cambodia. So in that sense there were "VC installati...
Chomsky: Fascism
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The term "fascism," like terms of political discourse generally, is used in a great variety of ways and has no clear and explicit meaning. Mussolini's Fascism, the first explicit one, was a kind of state-corporatism, which crushed labor and dest...
Chomsky: Bush & Kerry Differences
Blog Post, September, 20 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The most uncontroversial differences have to do with the large majority of the population of the United States. For example, those who will have to bear the burdens of essentially freeing the rich from taxes and other social responsibilities. Or o...
