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Naiman: World Bank Grants Would Reduce Poor Country Debt Without Cost to U.S.
Commentary, August, 17 2001
Robert Naiman
Naiman's ZSpace page
President Bush proposed in Genoa that up to 50% of the World Bank's lending to the poorest countries be converted to grants focused on education, health care, access to clean water, and sanitation. This would be a step towards addressing the unbea...
Naiman: Reparations Should Include Universal Access to Health Care and Education
Commentary, August, 17 2001
Robert Naiman
Naiman's ZSpace page
At the end of August in South Africa, the United Nations will convene the "World Conference Against Racism." News reports say that the U.S. and European governments have opposed efforts by African countries to address demands for "reparations" for...
Peters: An S30 Victory Six Weeks in Advance
Commentary, August, 16 2001
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
In a joint statement released on August 14, 2001, the IMF/World Bank reported that their annual meeting, originally scheduled to run for two weeks, would be reduced to two days. (The normal two-week meeting had previously been shortened to one wee...
Deutsch: The Horror, The Horror
Graphic, August, 15 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
globalization, the Gap, Gap, free trade, fair trade, third world, wages, shirts
Solomon: A GREEN PARTY CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004?
Commentary, August, 15 2001
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Two years from now, the national committee of the Green Party will make a big decision: Should the party run a candidate for president in 2004?
Rebick: The New Politics Initiative: Towards a Living Democracy
Commentary, August, 14 2001
Judy Rebick
Rebick's ZSpace page
What is participatory democracy? It is government that involves citizens at every level of decision-making. The form of participatory democracy we know best in Canada involves consulting citizens about policy. While experiences like the citizens c...
Drda: Non-Tactics of the Inactivist
Graphic, August, 13 2001
Darrin Drda
Drda's ZSpace page
activism, activist
Moore: Shoot First, Ask Questions Later...
Graphic, August, 13 2001
Kevin Moore
Moore's ZSpace page
Middle East, Israel, assassinations, Palestinians, international law
Pilger: Liberal elites have always disguised their innate conservatism
Commentary, August, 13 2001
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
At the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in May, leading members of the media and cultural elite assembled in the fine gardens of a Regency house to await the arrival of the great man. They included broadsheet editors, deputy editors, literary editors,...
Mcmillan: Expire and Save
Graphic, August, 12 2001
Stephanie Mcmillan
Mcmillan's ZSpace page
cigarettes, Philip Morris, smoking, early death
Mcmillan: Zap Dissent
Graphic, August, 12 2001
Stephanie Mcmillan
Mcmillan's ZSpace page
non-lethal weapons, microwave, police brutality, protest, demonstration
Mcmillan: Golden Opportunity
Graphic, August, 12 2001
Stephanie Mcmillan
Mcmillan's ZSpace page
Golden Rice, agribusiness, monoculture, subsistence farming
Flanders: Rule Britannia
Commentary, August, 12 2001
Laura Flanders
Flanders's ZSpace page
British libel law is called that, you'd think, because it applies in Britain. When it comes to libel, the UK is about the most plaintiff-friendly country in the world. British citizens enjoy no freedom to write, to speak, let alone to publish. It'...
Herman: GENOCIDE AS THE SOLUTION TO "TERRORISM" IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES?
Commentary, August, 11 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
The word "genocide" is used very loosely and irresponsibly these days; Sebastian Unger could see it in Kosovo by looking at the body of one Albanian alleged to be a victim of Serb paramilitaries ("A Different Kind of Killing," NYT Magazine, Feb. 2...
Edwards: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE...
Commentary, August, 10 2001
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
"All of existence", an ancient sage once wrote, "depends on the tip of a wish." By which he meant that the state of the world is determined by what ultimately motivates us: if enough people basically crave personal wealth and power, then the world...
Mokhiber: Corporate Globalization and the Poor
Commentary, August, 09 2001
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
George Bush has thrown down the gauntlet, issuing a public challenge to the anti-corporate globalization movement. When hundreds of thousands last month demonstrated against the G-8 meeting of rich country leaders in Genoa, Italy, George Bush decr...
Author: World Conference Against Racism Is Ambushed by White House
Commentary, August, 09 2001
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
Can we have some outrage here? In just one week, the Bush Administration killed an international agreement enforcing the 1972 ban on biological weapons (Cold War anyone?) and then reneged on the 1997 Kyoto Treaty.
Deutsch: We Don't Deserve It
Graphic, August, 08 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
democracy, florida, florida election, George W. Bush, Bush, Gore, Al Gore, recount, recounts, racism
Prashad: Hindutva and Zionism: Comprador States of Pentagon, Inc.
Commentary, August, 08 2001
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
George W. Bush has a cat named India. In New Delhi, about thirty activists of the Hindu Right's political formation, the BJP, stood before the US Embassy outraged with this news. "We are not cats," said one man, "we are lions."
