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Weisbrot: IMF Misses Epoch-Making Changes in the Global Economy
Znet Article, October, 19 2007
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Finance ministers, bankers, and businessmen will gather in Washington DC this week for the annual Fall Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. As is customary, the IMF is publishing its analysis of the world economy, and this
Ireland: Lessons From the ENDA Mess
Znet Article, October, 19 2007
Doug Ireland
Ireland's ZSpace page
Regardless of whether or not Congress, in the days ahead, passes an Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that protects all LGBT people, there are lessons to be drawn from the controversy that has been roiling our community for weeks now.
Cromwell: "Red Herring" - Al Gore, The Climate Sceptics And The BBC
Znet Article, October, 18 2007
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
On October 10, the BBC's Ten O'Clock News led with the story that a High Court Judge had found nine "errors" in Al Gore's climate film, 'An Inconvenient Truth', which the UK government has been sending to schools around the country. As a result, b...
Hass: Israel Has Turned The Gaza Strip Into A Zoo
Znet Article, October, 16 2007
Amira Hass
Hass's ZSpace page
A zoo. This is one of the ways that Palestinians describe the conditions under which nearly 1.5 million of them have been living: in an area of some 360 square kilometers, closed in on three sides by sophisticated barbed-wire fences, concrete wall...
Barghouthi: An interview with Marwan Barghouthi
Znet Article, October, 16 2007
Marwan Barghouthi
Barghouthi's ZSpace page
'The moment that Abbas officially announces his resignation, even if I am in prison, I will put forward my candidacy for President (of the Palestinian Authority) and I will win.'This is what Marwan Barghouthi said from his cell - number 28, sectio...
Bloice: When All is Said and Done: It's the Occupation
Znet Article, October, 15 2007
Carl Bloice
Bloice's ZSpace page
The reason there is no progress toward ending the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians and a more general move toward peace in the Middle East is that some people are opposed to it and there is a widespread notion floating ...
Barker: Promoting Humanitarian Imperialism in Cuba and Beyond
Znet Article, October, 15 2007
Michael Barker
Barker's ZSpace page
"People in Need (PIN) is a Czech organization that provides relief aid and development assistance, while working to defend human rights and democratic freedom... PIN is one of the largest organizations of its kind in post-communist Europe, and h...
Karpel: The one who makes people talk
Znet Article, October, 15 2007
Dalia Karpel
Karpel's ZSpace page
"We - Israeli soldiers - were put there to punish the Palestinians," says Ilan Vilenda, an Israeli soldier who served in Rafah during the first Intifada. Ilan is the only soldier of 21 who agreed to have his name published, after he was interview...
Gopal: A shameful silence
Znet Article, October, 15 2007
Priyamvada Gopal
Gopal's ZSpace page
We have become accustomed to theatrical displays of intolerance: death threats against writers, bonfires of novels, plays shut down, vandals defacing paintings. The danger, however, is that this obscures the more insidious forms that the suppressi...
Kagarlitsky: A Hostage of the Elite
Znet Article, October, 13 2007
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
I received the news that President Vladimir Putin would be headin...
Golan: Formalizing Apartheid Masked as a Peace Initiative
Znet Article, October, 13 2007
Neta Golan
Golan's ZSpace page
Next month the US plans to host a regional meeting to discuss peace in the Middle East, or at least peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The maneuvering, deal making and negotiating about what will be on the table has been going on for some ...
Sargent: Women and Revolution: A Discussion of the Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism
Book, October, 12 2007
The lead article, by Heidi Hartmann...
Smith: Globalization from Below
Book, October, 12 2007
When tens of thousands of protestors brought the World Trade Organization in Seattle to a halt in November 1999...
Hahnel: Panic Rules!: Everything You Need to Know About the Global Economy
Book, October, 12 2007
"For years, people have been asking what to read to understand the global economy, its institutions, its crises, the reasons for the particular forms it has taken and their effects- and what they can do about it. Is there really "No Alternative," ...
Hahnel: Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation (Pathways Through the Twenty-First Century)
Book, October, 12 2007
In "Economic Justice and Democracy "Robin Hahnel presents a coherent set of economic institutions and procedures that can deliver economic justice and democracy through a "participatory economy." But he also explores how to promote the economics o...
Albert: What Is to Be Undone: A Modern Revolutionary Discussion of Classical Left Ideologies (An Extending Horizons Book)
Book, October, 12 2007
What Is to Be Undone: A Modern Revolutionary Discussion of Classical Left Ideologies (An Extending Horizons Book)
Bond: Against Global Apartheid: South Africa Meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance
Book, October, 12 2007
"This is by far one of the best critical contributions from the left in the continuing controversial role which the World Bank and IMF play in developing countries' economies and societies. Bond comes from a dying tradition of the activist/scholar...
Administrator: Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
Book, October, 12 2007
In her latest book, award-winning scientist and activist Dr. Vandana Shiva argues that genetic engineering and the cloning of organisms, far from being socially useful, are "the ultimate expression of the commercialization of science and the commo...
Chomsky: Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians
Book, October, 12 2007
First published in 1983, Fateful Triangle is a comprehensive indictment of what Noam Chomsky calls the "disgraceful and extremely dangerous" policy the United States has enacted towards Israel, particularly with regard to Israel's actions concerni...
Pilger: Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire
Book, October, 12 2007
Well-known journalist and filmmaker Pilger remains faithful to his decades-long quest to penetrate the citadel of political power and show that the emperor isn't wearing any clothes. Reminding readers that "if power was truly invincible, it would ...
