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Street: Letter to the Friends of a Fallen Soldier
Znet Article, December, 11 2005
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Does it dishonor the memory of a fallen U.S. soldier to argue that he or she was unjustly sacrificed in George W. Bush's criminal war on Iraq? That is the accusation I have been receiving from one such soldier's friends in the wake of an article...
Pilger: A News Revolution Has Begun
Znet Article, November, 25 2005
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge". The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news an...
Zibechi: Regional Integration After the Collapse of FTAA
Znet Article, November, 24 2005
Raúl Zibechi
Zibechi's ZSpace page
Although every Latin American government pays lip service to integration, taking the concrete steps needed to attain it is much more difficult than simply issuing declarations. In the wake of the collapse of the Free Trade Agreement of the Amer...
Arnove: Iraq Under U.S. Occupation: "It Was Never As Bad As This"
Znet Article, November, 16 2005
Anthony Arnove
Arnove's ZSpace page
WHEN U.S. and coalition troops invaded Iraq in March 2003, many Iraqis hoped that at least their conditions of life would improve--after a decade and a half of living under the strictest system of economic sanctions ever known. Now, they know diff...
Chomsky: Master Mind
Znet Article, November, 15 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Three weeks ago, Prof. Noam Chomsky was voted the most important public intellectual in the world today. About 20,000 people took part in the poll, which was conducted jointly by a British monthly called Prospect and the Washington-based Foreign P...
Chomsky: Social Change Today
Znet Article, November, 11 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Steven Durel: Professor Chomsky, for forty years now you have been a leading voice in political action and social justice. After this near half-century of participation in the libertarian movement, how have things changed? Noam Chomsky: Change is...
Albert: Venezuela's Path
Znet Article, November, 06 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Going to Venezuela? There are beautiful waterfalls and mountains. There is rich surf, sand, and sun. But nowadays the biggest attraction is revolution. This October I spent a week in Caracas. That's not much information to work with but for what ...
Klein: The Threat of Hope in Latin America
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page
When Manuel Rozental got home one night last month, friends told him two strange men had been asking questions about him. In this close-knit indigenous community in southwestern Colombia ringed by soldiers, right-wing paramilitaries and left-wing ...
Ireland: Urgent! NEW REPUBLICAN GAG RULE ON NON-PROFITS
Znet Article, October, 24 2005
Doug Ireland
Ireland's ZSpace page
The group OMB Watch has issued an urgent appeal about a new Republican gag rule restricting the ability of non-profit organizations to do voter r...
Pilger: The Silence of Writers
Znet Article, October, 16 2005
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
In 1988, the English literary critic and novelist, D.J. Taylor wrote a seminal piece entitled 'When the Pen Sleeps'. He expanded this into a book 'A Vain Conceit', in which he wondered why the English novel so often denigrated into 'drawing room t...
Pilger: Suharto to Iraq
Znet Article, October, 15 2005
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
"The propagandist’s purpose,†wrote Aldous Huxley, “is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.†The British, who invented modern war propaganda and inspired Joseph Goebbels, wer...
Albert: Interview with Michael Albert
Znet Article, October, 10 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
AttacD-AWWO: Can you say something about the process, the discussion that lead to Parecon (participatory economics) and the book that is now also appearing in German translation this fall? Michael Albert: Sure. It was a long process. It started o...
Monbiot: Protesters as Criminals
Znet Article, October, 04 2005
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
"We are trying to fight 21st-century crime - antisocial behaviour, drug-dealing, binge drinking, organised crime - with 19th-century methods as if we still lived in the time of Dickens". Tony Blair, 27th September 2005.(1) "Down poured the wine l...
Podur: Two Faced in Haiti
Znet Article, October, 01 2005
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Last week we talked to Desmond Molloy, an old soldier who heads the 'DDR' program for MINUSTAH, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti. 'DDR' stands for Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration. Molloy's previous experience, among other confl...
Engelhardt: 'No Iraqis Left Me on a Roof to Die'
Znet Article, September, 25 2005
Tom Engelhardt
Engelhardt's ZSpace page
'No Iraqis Left Me on a Roof to Die'
Achcar: An Open Letter to Juan Cole
Znet Article, September, 23 2005
Gilbert Achcar
Achcar's ZSpace page
An Open Letter to Juan Cole
Schwartz: Why Immediate Withdrawal Makes Sense
Znet Article, September, 22 2005
Michael Schwartz
Schwartz's ZSpace page
That we are in a military quagmire in Iraq has become a fact of life among Americans of all political persuasions. Though Administration officials still sometimes speak of troop reductions in early 2006, and some top military men clearly no longer...
Wainwright: Lula's Lament
Znet Article, September, 21 2005
Hilary Wainwright
Wainwright's ZSpace page
'When there is such an overwhelming disaster and you see yourself as part of this disaster, you begin to question your whole life. Why so many years of sacrifice and struggle?' Congressman Fernando Gabeira expresses the feelings of many petistas -...
Davis: The Struggle Over The Future Of New Orleans
Znet Article, September, 21 2005
Mike Davis
Davis's ZSpace page
THE CATASTROPHE on the Gulf Coast was the most widely anticipated “natural disaster†in U.S. history. Yet the response of the U.S. government was universally condemned as a failure. What happened? HURRICANE KATRINA occurred on the ...
Chavez: Chavez at the UN
Znet Article, September, 18 2005
Hugo Chavez
Chavez's ZSpace page
Your Excellency and Friends The original intention of this meeting has been totally weakened. We have been prevailed upon, as center of our debate, to consider some badly named "reforms". These reforms relegate as unimportant all that the world'...


