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Pandya: The Up-Is-Down Venezuelan Oil Sector
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
Cp Pandya
Pandya's ZSpace page
A prime example of the Chavez government's economic mismanagement (according to ratings agency Standard & Poors) is Petroleos de Venezuela's ability to meet its debt obligations to foreign investors in a consistent and timely manner. For shame! Pd...
Peterson: Najaf and the Americans
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
FYA ("For your archives"): Am depositing here several wire service reports focusing on the American-led assault on the Iraqi city of Najaf, taking us pretty much straight through the present moment this 12th day of August, 2004. (See bel...
Albert: Parecon and Society: Journalism
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Here is another draft chapter for the book in progress about parecon and the rest of society. This is about media and jouralism. Parecon: Journalism [Draft -- not for attribution, use, or display outside of this blog, please. But comments here a...
Albert: Parecon and Society -- Crime
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Here is a draft of a proposed chapter for the new book I am now working on... The proposed book title, by the way, is Bread and Life with the subtitle Participatory Economics and Society. Here is the draft of the crime chapter titled Parecon: Crim...
Albert: Parecon and Society Book Project
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I am working on a new book and thought I would use the blog to try out first drafts, etc. I mentioned this before the blog snafus, and repeat now. The book will be about the implications of participatory economics for other parts of life and vice...
Dominick: Allawi Unaware Marines Ravaging Najaf (Tell me another...)
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
If you believe Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, US Marines are operating outside Najaf and haven't entered the city. If you believe photography, video, countless eyewitnesses and US military commanders and troops, it seems Marines, soldiers and t...
Peterson: Najaf and the Art of War
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
FYA ("For your archives"): Am depositing here several wire service reports on the dangerous situation within the militarily-besieged city of Najaf. (See below.) "A senior US military official said Monday [Aug. 9] that marines had b...
Peterson: Call to Action----Voices in the Wilderness
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Chicago-based Voices in the Wilderness has issued a powerful statement calling upon "all US government officials—elected or appointed—to publicly declare their opposition to any attack by US military forces against the Shrine of Ali," an...
Podur: The Referendum Will Not Be Televised -- or, hello from Venezuela
Blog Post, August, 11 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Greetings from Venezuela. I am not sure how much blogging I will be able to do, or what I will be blogging about. But I am in Venezuela, and I am here to cover the referendum for ZNet, and so I am glad that blogging can be a part of that. More l...
Podur: The Referendum Will Not Be Televised -- or, hello from Venezuela
Blog Post, August, 11 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Greetings from Venezuela. I am not sure how much blogging I will be able to do, or what I will be blogging about. But I am in Venezuela, and I am here to cover the referendum for ZNet, and so I am glad that blogging can be a part of that. More l...
Chomsky: Refuting Horowitz and Collier
Blog Post, August, 11 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
To refute the criticisms[...] is trivial, and worth doing for only one reason. It teaches us something important: by even bothering to refute the criticisms, we are granting the critics a great gift, exactly what they want, and are falling into a ...
Peterson: War-Era Mass Grave Found Near Sarajevo
Blog Post, August, 11 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Okay. Last Saturday's Chicago Tribune (Aug. 7) published a Getty/AFP photo by Elvis Barukcic on the upper-lefthand corner of Sect. 1, p. 3, along with the following caption: War-era mass grave found near Sarajevo A forensic expert collects human r...
Chomsky: Moral Truisms
Blog Post, August, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
There is no doubt that people have moral intuitions, and research -- serious research is in very early stages -- reveals that they are quite uniform without experience in complex situations, and in many ways surprising. There is little reason t...
Chomsky: Controlling the Middle East
Blog Post, August, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Controlling the region means being in a position to have a significant effect of decisions that are taken there, particularly with regard to production levels, price range (not to high, not too low), distribution (e.g., where pipelines go), etc. N...
Dominick: The Old Blogs are Dead -- Long Live the New ZNet Blog!
Blog Post, August, 06 2004
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
I don't even want to begin explaining the nightmare I went to trying to fix the blog system, and then when that failed, trying to configure this new system to handle our special needs. But, alas, here it is -- an all new ZNet Blog powered by the...
Albert: DNC Speech
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I got an email asking if I could write up a on eminute speech for the DNC -- what I would say on prime time. The request is very odd, but here is what I jotted off...probably would take a bit more than a minute though, to deliver... Given that th...
Albert: Thought Dreams -- The Book...
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Arbeiter Ring Pre4ss has just released (and I just received through the mail) Thought Dreams: Radical Theory for the Twenty First Century, a new book of mine. Thought Dreams, the book, is my best effort to take an audience, starting from scratch...
Albert: Worrying About Terror
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I actually think there is some reason to worry that there will be a terrorist attack between now and the election. Not because the government says so, of course. They haven't got a clue. But because from the perspective of bin Laden and co., it ma...
Albert: Inquiries
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Recently many people are asking why did the U.S. government ignore various indicators leading up to 9/11 that perhaps something horrible would happen if there weren't changes in U.S. policies. Okay…I suppose it isn't an entirely unreasonable quest...
Albert: Beyond Capitalism
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I have been asked for a short essay for a book that will appear at the ESF, this October. I have to rush it...and here is a draft. Anyone who wants to send me any suggestions, please feel free. But the commenting system is down. Beyond Capitalis...
