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Castro: A Nobel Prize For Evo Morales
Commentary, October, 20 2009
Fidel Castro
Castro's ZSpace page
If Obama was awarded the Nobel for winning the elections in a racist society despite his being African American, Evo deserves it for winning them in his country despite his being a native and his having delivered on his promises.
Schechter: Obama’s Prize Named for the Inventor of Dynamite
Commentary, October, 13 2009
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
Does anyone among us remember Le Duc Tho? He was the brilliant Vietnamese negotiator at the Paris Peace talks who played Henry Kissinger for the fool he is. Back in l974, on a reporting trip to Hanoi for a Boston radio station, I had the good fort...
Baker: Debunking the Dumping-the-Dollar Conspiracy
Znet Article, October, 13 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
On Monday, the Independent reported that a number of countries are conspiring to dump the dollar as the primary oil trade currency, spelling disaster for the U.S. economy. But the United States wouldn't need to fear - even if it were true.
Raina: India’s Left-Wing Extremism
Znet Article, October, 13 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Even as the Indian state ponders the situation along its international borders with Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, and Nepal, it is increasingly challenged by the spread of left-wing armed extremism at home.
Zinn: War And Peace Prizes
Commentary, October, 11 2009
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
I was dismayed when I heard Barack Obama was given the Nobel peace prize. A shock, really, to think that a president carrying on two wars would be given a peace prize. Until I recalled that Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Henry Kissinger h...
Cohn: National Lawyers Guild and other human rights groups issue open letter to Eric Holder
Blog Post, October, 07 2009
Marjorie Cohn
Cohn's ZSpace page
Press Release....
Fisk: The demise of the dollar
Znet Article, October, 06 2009
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading
Chomsky: Religion, War on Terror, and Socialism
Video, October, 04 2009
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
A three part interview on religion, war, and socialism.
Blum: Ridding the world of the sickness of pacifism
Commentary, October, 03 2009
Bill Blum
Blum's ZSpace page
Picture the scene: Afghanistan, two hijacked tankers filled with highly inflammable fuel, surrounded by a crowd of Afghans eager to syphon off some for free ... What's the last thing you want to do? Right — drop bombs on the tankers. That's what...
Chomsky: Coups, UNASUR, and the U.S.
Zmag Article, October, 01 2009
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Noam Chomsky's talk in Caracas, Venezuela, August 29
Pilger: The Lying Game: How Are Prepared For Another War Of Aggression
Commentary, October, 01 2009
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
In 2001, the Observer in London published a series of reports that claimed an "Iraqi connection" to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being manufactured as a wea...
Barsamian: Whither Pakistan?
Zmag Article, October, 01 2009
David Barsamian
Barsamian's ZSpace page
An interview with Pervez Hoodbhoy, activist and physicist
Cohn: The Legal Avenger
Znet Article, September, 28 2009
Marjorie Cohn
Cohn's ZSpace page
On the legal front, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have few bigger enemies than Marjorie Cohn, a professor at San Diego's Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Cohn, president of the liberal National Lawyers Guild, is a leading voice demanding that memb...
Pearson: Africa-South America Summit in Venezuela Cements South-South Collaboration
Znet Article, September, 27 2009
Tamara Pearson
Pearson's ZSpace page
Creating a new Radio of the South, formalizing the Bank of the South, criticizing the make-up of the UN Security Council, and supporting Honduran President Manuel Zelaya were among the outcomes at the second Africa-South American Summit (ASA) that...
Kolko: Escalation is futile in a war in which complexity defies might
Commentary, September, 24 2009
Gabriel Kolko
Kolko's ZSpace page
The US scarcely knew what a complex disaster it was confronting when it went to war in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. It will eventually - perhaps years from now - suffer the same fate as Alexander the Great, the British and the Soviet Union: def...
Goodman: President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action
Znet Article, September, 23 2009
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected president of Honduras, is back in his country after being deposed in a military coup June 28. Zelaya appeared there unexpectedly Monday morning, announcing his presence in Tegucigalpa, the capital, from wi...
Boyle: O'Reilly and the Law of the Jungle
Commentary, September, 21 2009
Francis Boyle
Boyle's ZSpace page
On the morning of 13 September 2001, that is 48 hours after the terrible tragedies in New York and Washington, D.C. on September 11th, I received telephone call from a producer at Fox Television Network News in New York City. He asked me to go ont...
Fisk: Everyone Seems to Be Agreeing with Bin Laden These Days
Znet Article, September, 20 2009
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Obama and Osama are at last participating in the same narrative. For the US president's critics - indeed, for many critics of the West's military occupation of Afghanistan - are beginning to speak in the same language as Obama's (and their) greate...
Cromwell: "An Existential Threat": The Us, Israel And Iran
Commentary, September, 19 2009
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
On August 26, the Guardian newspaper published an article titled, 'US takes on Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran's nuclear programme in one massive gamble.'
Pilger: For Britons, The Party Game Is Over
Commentary, September, 18 2009
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
On the day Prime Minister Gordon Brown made his "major policy speech" on Afghanistan, repeating his surreal claim that if the British army did not fight Pashtun tribesmen over there, they would be over here, the stench of burnt flesh hung over the...
