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Peterson: "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths"---and the Presidential Campaign
Blog Post, August, 24 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Back in April, the Toledo Blade received the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for its lengthy series of reports "uncovering the atrocities of an elite U.S. Army fighting unit in the Vietnam War that killed unarmed civilians and children...
Chomsky: Civilizing Aristide
Blog Post, August, 23 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
My own judgment, for what it is worth, is that [Aristide] came into office committed to the kind of significant social and economic reform that was called for by his popular constituency in the hills and slums, desperately needed in Haiti. His ...
Chomsky: Attack on Democracy
Blog Post, August, 23 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The standard doctrine -- preached by Alan Greenspan, any number of economists, and commentators commonly -- that the marvellous "new economy" is a tribute to "entrepreneurial initiative," "consumer choice," and other free market wonders does not s...
Spannos: LAC, Day Three
Blog Post, August, 23 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Today was the closing day of the Life After Capitalism conference. Hundreds of people excited, stimulated and inspired, exhausted came together and are now going their separate ways again. It almost seems sad except I know that this opportunity to...
Peterson: Not on the Dong Cung River
Blog Post, August, 22 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
One feature of the whole Swift Boat Veterans For Truth-slash-Kerry Edwards-slash-Bush Cheney contest over the Democratic Party presidential nominee's distant records of military and anti-war service that I've been enjoying the most has been how li...
Spannos: LAC, Day Two
Blog Post, August, 22 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Well, it's hard to convey all that happened today. It wasn't like lastnights event, "Beyond Bush", where all four speakers were under the sameroof spanning a three hour period. Workshops today had at least three, andup to five, speakers,...
Dominick: Bringing the 'Vietnam Syndrome' Back Home
Blog Post, August, 21 2004
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
Back in 1990, during the lead-up to the First Gulf War, George H.W. Bush talked about the need for his impending war not to suffer from what pundits called "the Vietnam syndrome." As the fable went, the media and antiwar movement, in cahoots again...
Peterson: The Right to Kill
Blog Post, August, 21 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
In a very short period of time (really, inside just the past week or so), one issue of great importance has irrupted on the American political scene: Much less a contest about the Vietnam War-era record of the Democratic Party's presidential nomin...
Spannos: LAC, Day One: Beyond Bush
Blog Post, August, 21 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Last night Life After Capitalism 2004 kicked off it's three day series with "Beyond Bush", an evening of visionary resistance. This event brought activists and organisers from throughout the US, and world, to begin the week of events pro...
Peterson: The Crap that Fills Americans' Minds
Blog Post, August, 20 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Once again, and for the countless time, Wednesday's release of (what was billed as, anyway) a major survey of American public opinion by the The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press was far more interesting for what it betrayed about t...
Spannos: Architecture of the New Society
Blog Post, August, 20 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Here is an essay I recently wrote about how cities, architecture and spacial design may evolve within a participatory economy. It was published on ZNet but I wanted to put it here hoping to get feed back. So please feel free to comment....Architec...
Dunn: EvilDoers & DoGooders 2: The Concrete & Abstract
Blog Post, August, 20 2004
Andy Dunn
Dunn's ZSpace page
Much thanks for the response Peeperkorn. I'm afraid I'm only getting a glimpse of what you're conveying about values, though; I'd need the specific example. My academic knowledge on the moral dualism subject is limited--I've read about it sporadicall
Peterson: "No Freedom from Fear"
Blog Post, August, 19 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Gee. I wonder whether it's purely an accident of history that Washington “feels more and more like a fortress these days”? And in what, exactly, this “whole terrorist atmosphere” has its origins? In the “armed guerrillas” of Baghdad and Najaf...
Peterson: The Captive British Mind
Blog Post, August, 19 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Question: Do you possess, or have your ever possessed, information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing to commit an act of terrorism, including (though by no means limited to) a “plot to commit murder and to cause mayhem with c...
Spannos: Political Vision for the Good Society
Blog Post, August, 19 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
For those interested in developing vision and strategy, exploring where we want to go as social movements, and how to get there, I thought you may be interested in an interview the Vancouver Parecon Collective did with Z commentator Stephen Shalom...
Peterson: Initiatives to Make America Safer
Blog Post, August, 19 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
"Worldwide, more than 3,000 operatives have been incapacitated." ----"Waging the War on Terror," U.S. Department of Justice
Dunn: EvilDoers & DoGooders 1: Star Wars
Blog Post, August, 18 2004
Andy Dunn
Dunn's ZSpace page
This foreword is a warning... My second blog is longer and less topical than a blog ought be, but at least I deal neatly with the entire concept of Good & Evil ;) Years ago, I mentioned Star Wars to my young nephews and niece and was shocked th...
Peterson: Swift Boat Veterans For Truth
Blog Post, August, 18 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Tuesday's Los Angeles Times (Aug. 17) published a very long (around 3500 words), page-one analysis of the television ad that has been running in at least three "key battleground states" this election cycle, "calling into question [the Democratic P...
Dominick: More Make-Believe Terrorism
Blog Post, August, 18 2004
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
The federal government is either astonishingly incompetent when it comes to prosecuting terror cases in the US, or it the Ashcroft Justice Department simply doesn't care because it's always the allegation headlines that make the front pages while ...
Dunn: Intro... & bio
Blog Post, August, 18 2004
Andy Dunn
Dunn's ZSpace page
My first blog... I feel all bloggy inside. Actually, I once spent a full six months of unemployment ranting on various forums so regularly it seemed like blogging. Pre-historic blogging I guess. I mostly inhabited the listener forum at NPR (Nat...
