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Shafak: Turkey and Armenia
Znet Article, September, 30 2006
Elif Shafak
Shafak's ZSpace page
On October 21, a Turkish court acquitted best-selling author Elif Shafak for “insulting Turkishness,†citing a lack of evidence. An outspoken critic of Turkey’s official policy of denial of the massacres of 1915, Sh...
Leech: Drummond Generates Profits and Misery in Colombia
Znet Article, September, 30 2006
Garry Leech
Leech's ZSpace page
In early August 2006, while driving on the highway that links the northern Colombian cities of Bucaramanga and Santa Marta, a uniformed officer with a sidearm signaled for us to pull over to the side of the road. The officer was speaking into a wa...
Sprague: $449,965 in NED/State Department funding for ACILS 'Solidarity Center' Program with Batay Ouvriye
Znet Article, September, 30 2006
Jeb Sprague
Sprague's ZSpace page
[Editor's note: This is in response to a letter to the editor by Batay Ouvriye about Sprague and Emersberger's article on the Lancet Study on Haiti. In Batay Ouvriye's let...
Engelhardt: George Bush's Iraq in 21 Questions
Znet Article, September, 29 2006
Tom Engelhardt
Engelhardt's ZSpace page
Recently, in one of many speeches melding his Global War on Terror and his war in Iraq, George W. Bush said, "Victory in Iraq will be difficult an...
Carlsen: Mexico's Two Presidents
Znet Article, September, 26 2006
Laura Carlsen
Carlsen's ZSpace page
On September 16, over one million people raised their hands in a vote to recognize center-left leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as the "legitimate president" of Mexico. Gathered in Mexico City's historic center, the delegates to the National Dem...
Mishra: Affluenza
Znet Article, September, 26 2006
Girish Mishra
Mishra's ZSpace page
In recent years, a new disease or, better to say, epidemic has been afflicting India. Unlike influenza or bird flue it has not come from the east nor is its effect temporary. Once afflicted, it is very difficult for the victim to recover. Till now...
Baroud: The Next Palestinian Struggle
Znet Article, September, 26 2006
Ramzy Baroud
Baroud's ZSpace page
LONDON - An expert in international law and an old friend of the Palestinian people wrote me with utter distress a few days after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh were reported to have reached an agreement Sept...
Raina: The Beginning of the End of the Neocon Empire?
Znet Article, September, 26 2006
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Mr. David C. Mulford is formally the American ambassador to India. Over the last year or two, however, he has off and on made public pronouncements suggesting that he fancies himself more a neocon Viceroy than an ambassador who is required to fun...
Z: 10 Reasons Why Cars Suck
Znet Article, September, 26 2006
Mickey Z
Z's ZSpace page
There's an interesting courtroom battle shaping up out in California. The state is attempting to institute new emissions standards for greenhouse gases. Such regulations could reduce exhaust emissions by 25% in cars and light trucks and 18% in SUV...
Rawi: Afghanistan
Znet Article, September, 26 2006
Mariam Rawi
Rawi's ZSpace page
[Talk prepared for Canadian book launch of the book, Bleeding Afghanistan] The debate about Canadian troops in Afghanistan is a sign of a healthy democracy, at least compared to what is happening in the United States. At least in Canada there ar...
Macintyre: Gaza
Znet Article, September, 26 2006
Donald Macintyre
Macintyre's ZSpace page
Nayef Abu Snaima says his 14-year-old cousin Jihad had been sitting on the edge of an olive grove talking animatedly to him about what he would do when he grew up when he was killed instantly by an Israeli shell. He says he clearly saw a bright ...
Podur: Abandoning Hypocrisy
Znet Article, September, 26 2006
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
[Talk given at the Canadian launch of Bleeding Afghanistan September 21, 2006] Just over five years ago I visited Colombia for the first time. I walked through some farmers’ fields that had been fumigated as part of the ‘war on dr...
Palast: Hugo Chavez
Znet Article, September, 24 2006
Greg Palast
Palast's ZSpace page
You'd think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo Chavez's behind. Not only has Chavez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States. And not only did he offer to bring aid to the victims of Katri...
Barker: Corporate fronts, astroturf groups and co-opted social movements
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Michael Barker
Barker's ZSpace page
Challenging power is crucial to the stability of democracy, without dissent there would be few checks on unbridled power. The overwhelming power of dissent and popular democracy to effect social change is widely acknowledged by corporate and gover...
Mishra: Crony Capitalism and Its Implications
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Girish Mishra
Mishra's ZSpace page
In Western Uttar Pradesh, the State government has allotted agricultural land, acquired from peasants on very low rates, to industrialist Anil Ambani for building power plants and setting up a special economic zone. This has led to great disconten...
Baroud: Bush PR Campaign
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Ramzy Baroud
Baroud's ZSpace page
Removed from reality, self-consumed and desperate, the Bush administration went on another PR offensive, in what is considered the “third most major public relations effort†in the last year. In his first of a series of speeches, ...
Ngugi: Africa and Latin America
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
Roots of Optimism and Contradictions The Berlin Wall is dismantled brick by brick in November of 1989. It becomes a symbol of freedom and new beginnings. A few months into 1990 the Soviet Union collapses and from its ruins a plethora of nations...
Lubani: Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Tarek Lubani
Lubani's ZSpace page
Justin Podur interviews Tarek Lubani of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario is a medium-sized University campus at which typical campus activism takes place. Like many North Am...
Albert: Why Parecon?
Znet Article, September, 14 2006
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Fifteen years ago, Robin Hahnel and I published a book titled Looking Forward. It was the first in-depth presentation of the economic vision called participatory economics, or parecon for short. Of course Robin and I worked hard on parecon and rel...
