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Z: Thoughts on the Death Penalty
Znet Article, January, 13 2003
Mickey Z
Z's ZSpace page
Nearly 3600 human beings languish on death row all across the land of the free. Some are guilty, some innocent, some mentally disabled; but all await a grisly, taxpayer-subsidized death. Why? The most common justification given for capital punis...
Niaz: Lonely in America
Znet Article, January, 12 2003
Anjum Niaz
Niaz's ZSpace page
Darn, you're a Pakistani! To top it, you're a man, 40, without a Green Card. The combo can't get any deadlier than this in today's jingoistic climate. Who cares if you hold a valid work permit that makes you "legal". None will hear your cries when...
Bidwai: Asia Social Forum
Znet Article, January, 12 2003
Praful Bidwai
Bidwai's ZSpace page
The just-concluded Asian Social Forum (ASF) saw a unique confluence of grassroots social movements, people's organisations and radical NGOs which interrogate globalisation and counterpose equality, human rights and justice to the shop-worn agendas...
Valentine: Slow, low intensity, (so far largely bloodless), class warfare
Znet Article, January, 12 2003
Diana Valentine
Valentine's ZSpace page
Venezuela’s ‘National Strike’ has been going on for over a month. The opposition, who attempted a military coup in April 2002, has attempted to shut down the economy, and especially the oil industry, of the country in...
Kamel: Jews, Israel, And The United States: Talking Points For Jewish Anti-War Activists
Znet Article, January, 12 2003
Rachael Kamel
Kamel's ZSpace page
Talking to American Jews about cutting or suspending U.S. military aid to Israel is a daunting prospect. Within the Jewish community, this topic cannot even really be termed controversial - it would be better described as taboo. Attempts to open t...
Solomon: Not All White House Reporters Are Pushovers
Znet Article, January, 11 2003
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
At 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., reporters usually shuffle along to a snoozy beat. But anyone who denigrates the mainstream media in general, or the White House press corps in particular, should acknowledge that exceptional journalists do strive to ask ...
Hallinan: War Is Good Business
Znet Article, January, 11 2003
Conn Hallinan
Hallinan's ZSpace page
War, the expression goes, is a bad business. It's certainly not a good idea if you're a soldier or civilian caught in the middle of one, and it tends to raise havoc with things like domestic spending. But if you are Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumm...
Grim feinberg: What Happened To The Slovak Left?
Znet Article, January, 11 2003
Joseph Grim feinberg
Grim feinberg's ZSpace page
When the results came in after parliamentary elections last September, it became clear that Slovakia would be ruled by an uncompromisingly right-wing government for the first time since the end of World War I...
Zinn: PBS Interview With Howard Zinn
Znet Article, January, 10 2003
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
On Friday, January 10 at 9pm ET on PBS (check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html) NOW with Bill Moyers talked to author and historian Howard Zinn about his latest book and his thoughts about the impending war with Iraq. Read the t...
Z: The A Word
Znet Article, January, 10 2003
Mickey Z
Z's ZSpace page
There's a petition making the rounds on the Internet that reads: "We demand that the government of the United States cease and desist its failed policy of appeasement concerning Saddam Hussein and with all dispatch and all force necessary, rid us ...
Maguire: Anti-war Train Drivers Refuse To Move Freight
Znet Article, January, 10 2003
Kevin Maguire
Maguire's ZSpace page
Train drivers yesterday refused to move a freight train carrying ammunition believed to be destined for British forces being deployed in the Gulf. Railway managers cancelled the Ministry of Defence service after the crewmen, described as "consci...
Media lens: The Great Betrayal
Znet Article, January, 10 2003
Media lens
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With the convenient discovery of a deadly poison in Wood Green, London, Tony Blair has again made explicit reference to the "related" threats of international terrorism and Iraq - threats that will sooner or later, Blair insists, unite against us....
Heyman: ILWU Contract Is No Victory
Znet Article, January, 09 2003
Jack Heyman
Heyman's ZSpace page
DAVID BACON’S Corpwatch.org piece on the recent ILWU contract negotiations begins and ends with the ominous role of government intervention against trade unions. At no point in the article is he critical of the trade union bureaucr...
Chavez: Lessons of the April Coup
Znet Article, January, 09 2003
Hugo Chavez
Chavez's ZSpace page
[Translated by Alejandro Palavecino and Susan Nerberg. This is Part II of a long interview of Hugo Chavez conducted by Marta Harnecker and originally published in October 2002. It is long, an excerpt from a book, and so has been split ...
Street: The Readily Available Reality of American Policy in an Age of Empire and Inequality
Znet Article, January, 09 2003
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Empire Abroad, Inequality at Home The harsh realities of American life and policy ...
Chavez: The Military and the Revolution
Znet Article, January, 09 2003
Hugo Chavez
Chavez's ZSpace page
The Military and the Revolution
Kelber: Will Bush's Huge Tax Cuts Create Jobs?
Znet Article, January, 09 2003
Harry Kelber
Kelber's ZSpace page
Not long after he won the White House in a disputed 2000 Presidential election, George W. Bush achieved his prized goal: a $1.3 trillion tax cut. Responding to evidence that the lion's share of the tax cuts would go to 5% of the wealthiest individ...
For peace: Week Of Actions Against War
Znet Article, January, 09 2003
United For peace
For peace's ZSpace page
January 13-20, 2003 "I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In January this country will again celebrate the life o...
J. brecher: Drew Batavia Obituary
Znet Article, January, 09 2003
Elanor J. brecher
J. brecher's ZSpace page
Andrew Batavia, the quadriplegic Miami Beach lawyer who helped write the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act and crusaded for legalizing doctor-assisted suicide, died Monday at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. He was 45. His wife, Cheryl ...
Edwards: Millions Of Suffering Iraqis: A 'Blip' In The Global Economy?
Znet Article, January, 08 2003
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
A notable feature of the liberal press is the columnist who speaks loftily of 'geopolitics', prosecuting war on 'successful military terms', and of 'global threats' from 'rogue states', while also espousing humane values including an apparent conc...
