ZSearch Results

Herman: "The Price Is Worth It"

Commentary, September, 25 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

Try to imagine how the mainstream U.S. media and intellectuals would respond to the disclosure that at an early planning meeting of the terrorists responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the question had come up about w...

Albert: Peace Movement Prospects

Commentary, September, 21 2001 Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page

September 11 went well beyond tragic. Worse is possible. Much better is also possible. And to achieve better is why activists need to not only mourn, but also to educate and organize. But many people I encounter doubt peace movement prospects. I f...

Chomsky: Composite Interview 2

Commentary, September, 20 2001 Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page

1. How do you see the media coverage of this event? Is there a parallel to the Gulf War in "manufacturing consent?"

Albert: Five Reasons Not to Go to War

Commentary, September, 19 2001 Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page

In the wake of the horrific attacks of September 11, many people find their feelings of sadness and shock mixed with anger and calls for war. But war would be horribly wrong for at least five reasons.

Albert: Perceiving the Situation

Commentary, September, 18 2001 Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page

Beyond Bush and his ilk predictably trying to use calamity to propel their reactionary agendas on every front they can, from repressive legislation about eavesdropping, to military expansion, and even to tax policy -- it is certainly also true and...

Hoodbhoy: BLACK TUESDAY: THE VIEW FROM ISLAMABAD

Commentary, September, 17 2001 Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page

Samuel Huntington's evil desire for a clash between civilizations may well come true after Tuesday's terror attacks. The crack that divided Muslims everywhere from the rest of the world is no longer a crack. It is a gulf, that if not bridged, will...

Pilger: Inevitable ring to the unimaginable

Commentary, September, 14 2001 John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page

If the attacks on America have their source in the Islamic world, who can really be surprised?

Herman: FOLKS OUT THERE HAVE A

Commentary, September, 14 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

One of the most durable features of the U.S. culture is the inability or refusal to recognize U.S. crimes. The media have long been calling for the Japanese and Germans to admit guilt, apologize, and pay reparations.

Peters: Does Marriage Protect or Control?

Commentary, September, 11 2001 Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page

In a previous commentary I wrote in response to the gay and lesbian rights movement's pursuit of legal marriage: Be careful what you wish for.

Herman: THE OFFENSE BUDGET

Commentary, September, 09 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

Just about the time George Orwell published his novel 1984, shortly after the end of World War II, the U.S. "War Department" was renamed the "Defense Department." This name change also coincided with the fact that the United States was then the so...

Weisbrot: IMF "Rescue" Won't Help Latin America

Commentary, September, 07 2001 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

When I was a child growing up in Chicago, we heard stories of lifeguards who saved panicked, drowning beach-goers by first knocking them out with a punch to the face, then hauling them to shore. This seemed like a risky strategy to me, and I never...

Klein: After Genoa

Commentary, September, 06 2001 Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page

Part of the tourist ritual of traipsing through Italy in August is marvelling at how the locals have mastered the art of living -- and then complaining bitterly about how everything is closed. ÒSo civilised,Ó you can hear North Americans remarkin...

Pilger: Liberal elites have always disguised their innate conservatism

Commentary, September, 04 2001 John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page

At the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in May, leading members of the media and cultural elite assembled in the fine gardens of a Regency house to await the arrival of the great man. They included broadsheet editors, deputy editors, literary editors,...

Gonsalves: The Opposite of Racism Isn't Colorblindness

Commentary, September, 02 2001 Sean Gonsalves
Gonsalves's ZSpace page

If St. Paul was right, that the wages of sin is death, is it a stretch to say that the wages of white supremacy is colorblindness? To suggest such a thing, I'm sure, makes a good number of white brothers and sisters uneasy, thinking perhaps Black...

Glick: White Progressives, Black Reparations

Commentary, September, 02 2001 Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page

How many white progressives "get it" when it comes to the issue of reparations for people of African descent? More to the point, how many are able to genuinely and rationally consider it?