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Prashad: India's Reckless Road To Washington Through Tel Aviv
Commentary, December, 27 2008
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
On Thursday, November 27, in the middle of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Imran Babar, one of the terrorists, called India TV from Nariman House. He used a cellphone that belonged to Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, the co-director of the Chabad-Lubavitch ...
Gordon: A Road to Revolution?
Znet Article, December, 26 2008
Uri Gordon
Gordon's ZSpace page
Three weeks have passed since the unprovoked police murder of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in Athens, and the riots engulfing Greece show no sign of abating.
Aronowitz: Facing the Economic Crisis
Znet Article, December, 26 2008
Stanley Aronowitz
Aronowitz's ZSpace page
The main news these days is the global economic crisis, an event ascribed by economists and most pundits alike to a "financial" meltdown caused by the irresponsibility of mainly, but not exclusively, U.S. lending institutions and consumers in offe...
Mouradian: The Genie Is out of the Bottle
Znet Article, December, 26 2008
Khatchig Mouradian
Mouradian's ZSpace page
On December 15, around 200 intellectuals in Turkey launched an Internet petition1 apologizing for the Armenian Genocide. Soon thereafter, hell broke loose.
Fenton: Haiti and the Dangers of Responsibility to Protect (R2P
Znet Article, December, 26 2008
Anthony Fenton
Fenton's ZSpace page
As an emerging lobby advocates for the institutionalization of a controversial doctrine of "humanitarian imperialism,"1 and a new administration that is friendly to this doctrine gets set to occupy the White House, a reminder of the case of Haiti...
Raina: India's 2009 Election
Znet Article, December, 26 2008
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
In India a general election to parliament is due early next year, and different Indians must desire to see different things happen.
Administrator: The Venezuelan Participatory State
Znet Article, December, 26 2008
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
This piece examines current attitudes regarding the Venezuelan Community Councils and their relationship with government funding.
Roy: If Gaza Falls...
Znet Article, December, 25 2008
Sara Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Israel's siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. Although both sides had violated the agreement before, t...
Gussow: Harold Pinter, Nobel laureate playwright, dies at 78
Znet Article, December, 25 2008
Mel Gussow
Gussow's ZSpace page
Harold Pinter, the British playwright whose gifts for finding the ominous in the everyday and the noise within silence made him the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation, died on Wednesday. He was 78 and lived in London.
Phillips: Sarkozy fears spectre of 1968 haunting Europe
Znet Article, December, 25 2008
Leigh Phillips
Phillips's ZSpace page
As disparate but linked militant youth protests simultaneously erupt in a number of countries across the continent, French President Nicholas Sarkozy has retreated on two controversial pieces of domestic legislation out of fear that a spectre is h...
Bond: End of neoliberalism? Sorry, not yet.
Commentary, December, 24 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
Those who declare that the Great Crash of Late 2008 heralds the end of free market economic philosophy - "neoliberalism" for short - are not paying close enough attention.
Quigley: Five Bailout Lessons From Katrina
Znet Article, December, 24 2008
Bill Quigley
Quigley's ZSpace page
The US has committed nearly three trillion dollars to the financial bailout so far. The Federal Reserve has made more than $2 trillion in emergency loans and another $700 billion has been pledged through Congressional action. Much more money is co...
Falk: Championing Global Human Rights
Znet Article, December, 24 2008
Richard Falk
Falk's ZSpace page
Earlier this month, Israeli authorities deported Professor Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, who had arrived in the country to conduct his duties to investigate rights abuses ...
Bennis: Detaining the United Nations
Znet Article, December, 23 2008
Phyllis Bennis
Bennis's ZSpace page
Richard Falk was detained at the airport and denied entry to Israel on December 13, when he arrived in Tel Aviv. The American professor of international law was traveling to the West Bank and Gaza, to fulfill his mandate as the United Nations Spec...
Raptis: Update on the Greek Uprising
Znet Article, December, 23 2008
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
Chris Spannos of ZNet interviews Nikos Raptis on the current status of the Greek revolt.
Albert: UFPJ and Going Forward
Blog Post, December, 23 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The commitments and methods of UFPJ...
Monbiot: At Last, A Date
Commentary, December, 22 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
For the first time, the International Energy Agency has produced a date for peak oil. And it's not reassuring.
Jasiewicz: Divide and Shock in Palestine
Znet Article, December, 22 2008
Ewa Jasiewicz
Jasiewicz's ZSpace page
The Palestine Trade and Investment Forum began in London this weekend. Organised on the behalf of UK Trade and Industry and the Department for International Development, this British government lead initiative welcomed over 40 Palestinian delegate...
Hess: We won’t give up
Znet Article, December, 22 2008
Jake Hess
Hess's ZSpace page
Sebahat Tuncel is a prominent Turkish Kurdish human rights activist, member of parliament and foreign affairs representative for the Democratic Society Party (DTP), one of Turkey’s largest and most important leftist and pro-Kurdish formations. ...
Mamdani: Lessons of Zimbabwe
Znet Article, December, 22 2008
Mahmood Mamdani
Mamdani's ZSpace page
It is hard to think of a figure more reviled in the West than Robert Mugabe. Liberal and conservative commentators alike portray him as a brutal dictator, and blame him for Zimbabwe’s descent into hyperinflation and poverty.
