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Greeman: The Invisible International
Blog Post, May, 05 2010
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
Is it time to organize a 'Fifth International?' Let's first look at previous attempts and see what we can learn. Can uniting the worlds' oppressed best be accomplished by a 'vertical' strategy like the Third and Fourth Internationals? Or better b...
O'Keefe: Head of notorious mercenary company praises Canadian Forces
Blog Post, May, 04 2010
Derrick O'Keefe
O'Keefe's ZSpace page
U.S. investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill has exposed the content of a speech in which Erik Prince, the owner of the notorious mercenary company Blackwater, praises Canadian Forces in Afghanistan.
Andrews: Report on May Day at the Boston Common
Blog Post, May, 04 2010
Matthew Andrews
Andrews's ZSpace page
Twenty-one organizations came together around a radical set of demands from immigrant rights to ending the wars to have a spirited march and rally on the Boston Common for May Day.
Sallustro: Primo maggio e il pifferaio magico.
Blog Post, May, 04 2010
Fabio Sallustro
Sallustro's ZSpace page
Come il primo maggio si trasforma.
Ziverts: Reflections on 4th May and Latvian People
Blog Post, May, 04 2010
Edgar Ziverts
Ziverts's ZSpace page
It's been 20 years since Latvia's re-declaration of independence. Yet, economy and politics-wise, the situation is dire.
Global Policy Forum: Who are the real pirates?
Blog Post, May, 03 2010
GPF Global Policy Forum
Global Policy Forum's ZSpace page
On April 27, the Security Council unanimously voted in favor of five recommendations to tackle piracy of the coast of Somalia; including, proposals to create a tribunal to prosecute the pirates. However, Resolution 1918 fails to address one of the...
Bramhall: Oil Spills and Money Laundering: An Ethical Dilemma
Blog Post, May, 02 2010
Stuart Bramhall
Bramhall's ZSpace page
It's a quantum leap to find a connection between Wall Street drug money laundering the Louisiana oil rig disaster - but I have. Both raise fundamental questions regarding what, if any, responsibility the public might play in putting an end to thes...
Global Policy Forum: Buddhist Drummers sound the Shame of Nuclear Weapons
Blog Post, May, 02 2010
GPF Global Policy Forum
Global Policy Forum's ZSpace page
On Sunday morning, May 3rd, Buddhists from Japan beat hand drums and uttered a moving chant for peace, outside United Nations headquarters in New York. Holding tall purple banners with Japanese lettering and dressed in bright yellow robes, they ...
Bybee: May Day in Milwaukee
Blog Post, May, 02 2010
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
workinginthesetimes.com post on May 1 protests in Milwaukee
Bybee: America in One Graph
Blog Post, May, 01 2010
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
A guest blog post by pnunn, extensively quoting one of my pieces, something I of course welcome.
O'Keefe: TIME names Malalai Joya to 'Top 100', belittles her anti-war views
Blog Post, May, 01 2010
Derrick O'Keefe
O'Keefe's ZSpace page
TIME has named Malalai Joya to the 2010 TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Joya has become renown around the world as a courageous advocate of women’s rights and a fierce critic of the NATO war in...
Global Policy Forum: Where were the Iraq Elections Monitors?
Blog Post, April, 29 2010
GPF Global Policy Forum
Global Policy Forum's ZSpace page
On March 7, Iraq held parliamentary elections amid a mysterious absence of international monitors. In spite of many subsequent press articles about contested results, silence has prevailed about the missing monitors. Why would human rights organiz...
Bramhall: Geoengineer: My New Word for the Day
Blog Post, April, 29 2010
Stuart Bramhall
Bramhall's ZSpace page
Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Shell, Boeing, and several geoengineering start-ups are secretly planning some global technological fixes to climate change - something with potentially dire consequences for billions of people - with virtually zilch p...
Guimond: ZMI - Past and Present
Blog Post, April, 29 2010
Andre Guimond
Guimond's ZSpace page
Searching for ZMI 2010 comrades, hoping for alumni advice, and a call to use the new Z Groups feature.
Global Policy Forum: Media Coverage Misrepresents Yemen's Real Problems
Blog Post, April, 28 2010
GPF Global Policy Forum
Global Policy Forum's ZSpace page
Yemen has found itself splashed all over the news again following the failed attack on the British ambassador, Tim Torlot, in Sa'ana. The last time Yemen enjoyed such media popularity was when Omar al-Farouk, a Yemeni-trained Al Qaeda operative, f...
Global Policy Forum: Profit at Any Cost
Blog Post, April, 28 2010
GPF Global Policy Forum
Global Policy Forum's ZSpace page
Eritrea is on the verge of political and economic collapse. Foreign mining companies provide a controversial life-line to this country's corrupt and increasingly repressive government, led by President Isaias Afewerki. The foreign companies - from...
Haywood: Why the wealthy are above the law
Blog Post, April, 27 2010
William Haywood
Let me put it a better way maybe, like this...have you ever heard of corruption? In a democratically controlled country, with laws that say this country is of the people, by the people, and for the people, how did all of our money end up in the po...
Bybee: Ariz. law fires up immigrant movement
Blog Post, April, 27 2010
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
From workinginthesetimes.com
Ziverts: On Latvia's patriots who hate the government and the people
Blog Post, April, 27 2010
Edgar Ziverts
Ziverts's ZSpace page
The saddest part is that there are hundreds of thousands of people like him aka Latvia’s patriots who hate both the government and the people.
O'Keefe: Omar Khadr first to face trial for war crimes under Obama
Blog Post, April, 27 2010
Derrick O'Keefe
O'Keefe's ZSpace page
President Obama has failed to make good on his own promises to close Guantanamo Bay or to fix the unfair military commission system. Powerful interests, including some in the Pentagon, are gung-ho on obtaining whatever convictions they possibly ca...
