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Podur: On a quest for secular piety
Znet Article, June, 21 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Tarek personally asked me to review his book, Chasing a Mirage: the tragic illusion of an Islamic State (CM). With a book being favorably reviewed in the Canadian (and US and UK) media, including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Huffing...
Cohn: Supreme Court Checks and Balances in Boumediene
Znet Article, June, 20 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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After the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited opinion upholding habeas corpus rights for the Guantanamo detainees, I was invited to appear on "The O'Reilly Factor" with guest host Laura Ingraham. Although she is a lawyer and former law cler...
Cohn: Supreme Court Checks and Balances in Boumediene
Znet Article, June, 16 2008
Marjorie Cohn
Cohn's ZSpace page
After the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited opinion, upholding habeas corpus rights for the Guantánamo detainees, I was invited to appear on The O'Reilly Factor with guest host Laura Ingraham...
Mokhiber: Bugliosi Wants Bush Charged with Murder
Znet Article, May, 26 2008
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
Former California prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wants President Bush charged with murder.
Finkelstein: Power, Politics & Scholarship
Znet Article, April, 22 2008
Norman Finkelstein
Finkelstein's ZSpace page
Interview on the Israel lobby, American Zionism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Venezuelan politics, teaching, Palestine solidarity, and much more.
Zirin: Crackdown: China's Brutal Olympic Echo
Znet Article, March, 24 2008
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
Even after decades of occupation, the ruthlessness of the crackdown has shocked much of the world...
Roy: Taslima Nasrin & "Free Speech"
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
I would like to caution us all against looking at this issue, in particular the issue of Taslima Nasrin, through the single lens of a battle between religious fundamentalism and secular liberalism. Taslima Nasrin herself sometimes contributes to t...
Trigona: Human Rights in Argentina: A Year Without Julio Lopez
Znet Article, September, 20 2007
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
Human Rights groups in Argentina rallied September 18 to mark the one year disappearance of a key witness who helped convict a forme...
Cook: A Year After Israel's Second Lebanon War
Znet Article, August, 16 2007
Jonathan Cook
Cook's ZSpace page
This week marks a year since the end of hostilities now officially called the Second Lebanon war by Israelis. A month of fighting -- mostly Israeli aerial bombardment of Lebanon, and rocket attacks from the Shia militia Hizbullah on northern Israe...
Cohn: Coming Up Short on Habeas for Detainees
Znet Article, April, 05 2007
Marjorie Cohn
Cohn's ZSpace page
The Bush administration has stopped the Supreme Court from giving the Guantánamo detainees their day in court - at least for now.In Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States, forty-five men challenged the constitutionality of the habeas cor...
Goodman: American Kangaroo Court Claims Its First Victim
Znet Article, March, 29 2007
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
It is appropriate that a person from Australia, home of the kangaroo, should be the first one dragged before the kangaroo court at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. David Hicks, imprisoned there for more than five years, pleaded guilty Monday...
Zibechi: Let's All Stand With Cite Soleil
Znet Article, March, 14 2007
Raúl Zibechi
Zibechi's ZSpace page
In less than two years the troops of MINUSTAH (Mission of the Nations United for the Stabilization of Haiti) perpetrated three massacres in Cite Soleil, an outlying slum of Port au Prince. According to numerous testimonies, barely mentioned by the...
Cook: Palestinians are being denied the right to non-violent resistance
Znet Article, November, 30 2006
Jonathan Cook
Cook's ZSpace page
If one thing offers a terrifying glimpse of where the experiment in human despair that is Gaza under Israeli siege is leading, it is the news that a Palestinian woman in her sixties -- a grandmother -- chose last week to strap on a suicide belt an...
Pappe: Genocide In Gaza
Znet Article, September, 04 2006
Ilan Pappe
Pappe's ZSpace page
A genocide is taking place in Gaza. This morning, 2 September, another three citizens of Gaza were killed and a whole family wounded in Beit Hanoun. This is the morning reap, before the end of day many more will be massacred. An average of eight P...
Brecher: "Unite for Peace" in Lebanon?
Znet Article, July, 26 2006
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
Israel, the U.S., and the yet-again submissive Britain are now totally isolated in their collusive attack on Lebanon.
Ali: Islam and the Left
Znet Article, April, 02 2006
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
The following interview with Tariq Ali was conducted by Alex De Jong and Paul Mepschen of the SAP (Dutch section of the Fourth International) at the Ernest Mandel symposium held in Brussels in November 2005. It was published in the March-April 200...
Cook: Britain's Duplicity and the Siege of Jericho Jail
Znet Article, March, 20 2006
Jonathan Cook
Cook's ZSpace page
In the looking-glass world of Middle East politics, it is easy to forget that Ahmad Saadat, the imprisoned Palestinian leader Israel summarily arrested in Jericho late on Tuesday, is wanted for masterminding the killing of the Jewish state's most ...
Marshall: 30,000 Iraqis, More or Less
Znet Article, December, 16 2005
Lucinda Marshall
12/15/05 "ICH" -- -- George's face was eerily matter-of-fact as he said it. "30,000 Iraqis more or less" have been killed so far in the 'War on Terror'. No remorse or sadness, he seemed wholly unaffected in any way by the enormity of such a loss o...
Zirin: Sneering at Redemption
Znet Article, December, 14 2005
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
In the end, we can only assume the decision wasn't so "agonizing" after all. Last night Stan Tookie Williams was legally lynched by the state of California, at the behest of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who denied Williams' appeal for clemency. ...
Podur: The Polls of Bel Air
Znet Article, September, 23 2005
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The post-coup Haitian presidential election, currently planned for November 20, has a list of 54 candidates. The Canadian Prime Minister's 'special advisor on Haiti', Denis Coderre, suggested yesterday that this sprawling list of candidates was a ...
