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Leopold: Army Targets Truthout for Subpoenas in Watada Case
Znet Article, December, 18 2006
Jason Leopold
Leopold's ZSpace page
In a case that cuts right to the heart of the First Amendment, a US Army prosecutor has indicated he intends to subpoena Truthout Executive Director Marc Ash, a Truthout reporter, and two of the nonprofit news organization's regular contributors, ...
Manriquez: The need to de-nazify Chile
Znet Article, December, 15 2006
Roberto Manriquez
Manriquez's ZSpace page
The crowd that stood in line to bid farewell to the mortal remains of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, and the inflammatory speeches claiming the work and legacy of the tyrant, both at the Military School of Santiago, reveal a deep and open wound in...
Al-safadi: Other Victims of Denial
Znet Article, December, 15 2006
Mahmoud Al-safadi
Al-safadi's ZSpace page
Mr. President, I write to you following the announcement of your intention to organize a conference on the Holocaust in Teheran on 11-12 December, and I sincerely hope that this letter will be brought to your attentio...
Raina: Sachar Committee Report on Indian Muslims
Znet Article, December, 15 2006
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
India’s majoritarian fascists, represented in parliament by the Bharti Janata Party (BJP), are in a blue funk. The findings of the “Prime Ministers’ High Level Committee†(set up on 9th March,2005) headed by former...
Ngugi: Africa and the Middle East
Znet Article, December, 12 2006
Mukoma wa Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
Violence without Borders Africa is in the thick of the conflicts in the Middle East. With Iraq up in flames and an estimated 50,000 innocent Iraqi civilians dead and the threat of Syria and Iran being dragged into the War, the Middle East is now...
Ash: Whither Israel?
Znet Article, December, 12 2006
Gabriel Ash
Ash's ZSpace page
Israel is in crisis. The recent Lebanon War has heightened all its internal and external contradictions. Gabriel Ash looks at the economic and political foundations of this deeply militaristic and ideological state. The recent military defeat, bre...
Rawi: Afghanistan
Znet Article, December, 12 2006
Mariam Rawi
Rawi's ZSpace page
Five years ago, America and their allies attacked Afghanistan in the name of bringing "Human Rights", "Democracy", and "Freedom" to our war-torn country. The Taliban regime fell and Hamid Karzai's puppet regime, which included the well-known North...
Mishra: Mafia in Jharkhand
Znet Article, December, 12 2006
Girish Mishra
Mishra's ZSpace page
Not many people outside Jharkhand, the newly state in India, richest in minerals, would have heard the name of Ram Ashray Singh. There is absolutely no question of giving attention to this little educated and rustic gentleman by our booming electr...
Burbach: The Atrocities of Augusto Pinochet and the United States
Znet Article, December, 12 2006
Roger Burbach
Burbach's ZSpace page
In Santiago on September 11, 1973 I watched as Chilean air force jets flew overhead. Moments later I heard explosions and saw fireballs of smoke fill the sky as the presidential palace went up in flames. Salvador Allende, the elected Socialist pre...
Spencer: Roots of Conflict in Sri Lanka
Znet Article, December, 12 2006
Jonathan Spencer
Spencer's ZSpace page
In 2006, Sri Lanka was witness to the worst violence between the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam since a ceasefire was signed between the two groups in 2002. Jonathan Spencer is the Professor of the Anthropology o...
Administrator: Carbon trading: a carbon tax, blindfolded and handcuffed, with its shoelaces tied together
Znet Article, December, 11 2006
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
"Mommy, where do carbon offsets come from?" "Well, you see sweetheart, when a major polluter and a consultant love money very, very much, they express that love in a special way. Nine months later, the consultant produces an extrem...
Zinn: If History is to be Creative
Znet Article, December, 09 2006
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
This essay is the first chapter of Howard Zinn's new book, " A Power Governments Cannot Suppress," published by City Light...
Shrivastava: (Not) OK TaTa!
Znet Article, December, 08 2006
Aseem Shrivastava
Shrivastava's ZSpace page
“Will I be allowed to harvest the paddy that is still growing in my field or will the police attack me again?†- Bharati Das, who was brutally assaulted by the West Bengal Police in her own home last week because she resisted the...
Gold: Impunity in Colombia
Znet Article, December, 08 2006
Robert Gold
Gold's ZSpace page
On Thanksgiving Day in the USA, Nov.23, 2006, I traveled to Bogota,Colombia, in order to attend an International Tribunal on Impunity. My friend Patricia Dahl had agreed to be one of the judges on this Tribunal, and I decided that this would be an...
Fons: Love from Latvia for Bush
Znet Article, December, 08 2006
Christopher Fons
Fons's ZSpace page
When George Bush finds himself isolated from all others as a last resort he can always call Vika Vira Freiberga, the President of Latvia, for “love.†Most recently this was done on November 28, 2006 where George Bush used the NATO...
Baroud: Hudna or Not
Znet Article, December, 08 2006
Ramzy Baroud
Baroud's ZSpace page
Palestinian groups have recently suggested a ceasefire, in exchange for a cessation of Israeli violence. Ehud Olmert responded with a conciliatory speech, cleverly timed with President Bush's arrival to Jordan on November 29 for a two-day conferen...
Winter: Canada's Media Wannabe Americans
Znet Article, December, 08 2006
James Winter
Winter's ZSpace page
We Canadians like to think of ourselves as more than friendly neighbours, as global citizens with a penchant for peacekeeping. Since former prime minister Lester Pearson won a Nobel Peace prize in 1957, we have opposed U.S. international aggressio...
Albert: Moving Forward: Program for a Participatory Economy
Book, December, 07 2006
If not capitalism, then what? Something's not working, but there's a dearth of material on what could be right - and more important how to change things. Laying out strategy & vision for his "participatory economics," Albert argues that we must ch...
Keeble: Crimes Against Humanity in Chad
Znet Article, December, 04 2006
Richard Keeble
Keeble's ZSpace page
One of the most remarkable human rights campaigns of recent years has gone largely unreported in the British mainstream media. During the 1980s Hissène Habré, installed as head of state in Chad following a CIA-backed coup in 1982, had presided o...
Safty: Palestine
Znet Article, December, 04 2006
Adel Safty
Safty's ZSpace page
American influential opinion makers, who generally managed to remain indifferent to the plight of the Palestinian people, are finding that ignoring Palestine is getting harder everyday. This is largely the result, not of a fundamental change in ...
