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Dangl: Workers Occupy Chicago Factory
Znet Article, December, 08 2008
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
When the 250 workers at the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago were told that the plant was shutting down, they decided to take matters into their own hands. On Friday, December 5, the workers occupied their factory in an act that echoe...
Scipes: It's Time for a Deep Green Vision for the United States and World
Commentary, December, 07 2008
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
The Green movement around the world has presented a myriad of ideas and projects, each suggesting the way forward to a Green society. However, because there is no overarching vision, we have moved in this direction and that, stumbling from one go...
Hill: The Human Rights Problem of Articulating Collective Voice for the Most Marginalized
Znet Article, December, 06 2008
Marcus Hill
Hill's ZSpace page
A Case-Study of Black Panther Accomplishments in Public Health, Governmental Response, and Thoughts on a Better Structure for Pursuing Public Health-Related Human Rights Concerns.
Weissman: Nationalize GM -- Or At Least Think About It
Commentary, December, 04 2008
Robert Weissman
Weissman's ZSpace page
With the U.S. government offering trillions of dollars in supports for the financial sector, it is startling to witness the casual way in which many policy makers and opinion leaders suggest the U.S. auto companies should be allowed to go bankrupt.
Baker: Paulson and Bernanke Spread the Wealth Around
Znet Article, December, 03 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
During the campaign, then-Senator Obama provoked a media flurry and right-wing outrage over his comment to Joe the Plumber about "spreading the wealth around." They told us that this view was contrary to the American Way, that this was socialism.
Majavu: Africa: Life After Colonialism
Znet Article, December, 02 2008
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
The one issue that remains the main problem in post-colonial Africa is the failure of African revolutionary movements to articulate a truly liberatory political and economic vision.
Podur: A break in the Liberal-Conservative coalition
Znet Article, December, 02 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
In Canada, the Conservative minority government might just become the opposition in parliament this week, replaced by a Liberal-NDP coalition with support from the Bloc Quebecois from the outside.
Simpson: Bust a Union...Crash a Global Economy
Blog Post, December, 01 2008
Bob Simpson
Simpson's ZSpace page
Some thoughts on how union busting both here and abroad helped bring the global economy to the brink of collapse.
Landau: Old Axioms Unsuitable For New Needs
Commentary, November, 30 2008
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
The time for Obama and his "change" phrases will soon get tested. As candidate, he wisely refrained from spelling out the specifics of policies the country needed or what he actually planned to do about failed foreign policy and a badly wounded ec...
Brecher: The Economic Crisis in Historical Perspective
Znet Article, November, 29 2008
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
The superlatives of the global economic meltdown of 2008 are, well, superlative. Professor Noriel Roubini of New York University says the current crisis is "the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in history." The International Monet...
Baker: The Bear is Cool: Overcoming Fears of Falling Stock Prices
Znet Article, November, 27 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The stock market's historic plunge over the last year has pushed the news media into a state of near hysteria. News shows and headlines routinely roll out the scorecard on the market's new lows in the same way they might list the victims of a terr...
Brody: Obama and "Missile Defense"
Blog Post, November, 23 2008
Y. Brody
Brody's ZSpace page
Obama is constructing an Administration of old guard politicians who do not question--either for moral, legal, economic, or strategic reasons-- the general idea of America as an offensive war machine.
Shiva: Food, Finance & Climate
Commentary, November, 22 2008
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
At the end of 2007, Al Gore and IPCC were honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize for waking up the world to the climate catastrophe we face as a consequence of fossil fuel based industrial production and consumerism.
Kagarlitsky: Victims of the Crisis
Commentary, November, 20 2008
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
Today the list of victims of the economic crisis in Russia is not long but is extremely revealing. It starts with “Moskovsky Korrespondent” weekly that appeared at the end of September and was closed in October.
Monbiot: Clearing Up This Mess
Commentary, November, 19 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
John Maynard Keynes had the answer to the crisis we're now facing; but it was blocked and then forgotten.
Albert: Venezuelan Direct Democracy: The case of the Consejos Comunales.
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In 2004, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez created a movement named the consejos comunales (communal councils) aimed at creating more responsive local governance by handing local budgetary and legislative power to the councils. This movement was se...
Landau: Response to poverty and empire: Denial
Commentary, November, 17 2008
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
In the 1970s, Martin Agronsky, a weekend talk show host in Washington, finally invited the venerable I.F. (Izzy) Stone to join the establishment "pundits." From the early 1950s through the early 1970s, Izzy had raised the basic issues to a readers...
Klein: In Praise of a Rocky Transition
Znet Article, November, 14 2008
Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page
The more details emerge, the clearer it becomes that Washington's handling of the Wall Street bailout is not merely incompetent. It is borderline criminal.
Weissman: Not Yet at the Promised Land
Commentary, November, 14 2008
Robert Weissman
Weissman's ZSpace page
Over the past week, Americans -- and people around the world -- rightfully celebrated the breakthrough election of an African-American to be President of the United States.
Bond: Obama's economic advisors
Commentary, November, 12 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
One of Barack Obama's leading advisors has done more damage to Africa, its economies and its people than anyone I can think of in world history, including even Cecil John Rhodes. That charge may surprise readers, but hear me out.
