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Podur: Resolution 1441
Znet Article, November, 11 2002
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
With the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1441, the US has removed another obstacle in its path to an escalated war against Iraq. Those countries who had been holdouts in the Security Council claim that they went along because their fea...
Morales: From Coca To Congress
Znet Article, November, 11 2002
Evo Morales
Morales's ZSpace page
Being the centre of attention does not come easy for Evo Morales. The day before our Buenos Aires interview he had smiled awkwardly as hundreds of poor Bolivian immigrants crowded around him for autographs. On the morning of our meeting he had bee...
Galeano: Paradoxes
Znet Article, November, 10 2002
Eduardo Galeano
Galeano's ZSpace page
Half of the population of Brazil lives in poverty or in extreme poverty, yet Lula's country is the world's second market for Montblanc fountain pens, and the ninth largest buyer of Ferraris. Armani shops in Sao Paulo sell more than in New York.
Kang: The first agonizing step towards stabilizing Northeast Asia
Znet Article, November, 10 2002
Sang jung Kang
Kang's ZSpace page
History moved forward, but the movement was accompanied by painful sacrifice. Prime Minister Koizumi's visit to North Korea was intended to carve out a new page in the history of Japan and North Korea, countries whose relations have been suspended...
Medoruma: The Okinawa Peace Prize Fraud
Znet Article, November, 10 2002
Shun Medoruma
Medoruma's ZSpace page
On July 3rd, Inamine Keiichi, Governor of Okinawa Prefecture, announced that the non-governmental organization "Peshawar-Kai" had been selected as the first recipient of the Okinawa Peace Prize. ...
Moyer: Japan: Islands at Risk
Znet Article, November, 10 2002
Jack Moyer
Moyer's ZSpace page
Many years ago, while doing research related to environmental assessments of the Shiraho coral reef on Ishigaki Island, I witnessed an extreme example of a destructive human impact on a pristine, unspoiled reef.Beautiful rice fields on Sado Island...
Abunimah: Bankruptcy Of Israel's Peace Camp
Znet Article, November, 10 2002
Ali Abunimah
Abunimah's ZSpace page
It is the traditional role of the Israeli Labor party to pose as the "peace party," a notion that in the past some Palestinians, "moderate" Arab states, and the wider international community have accepted out of a mixture of naivete, wishful think...
Levy: Wanted Men
Znet Article, November, 10 2002
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
At 11 in the morning last Monday, at the exit from Jenin, IDF soldiers detained two dialysis patients, one a double amputee and the other blind in both eyes. They set the amputee down on the road and had the blind man sit next to him. Both were ex...
Lilley: A New Age of Empire
Znet Article, November, 10 2002
Sasha Lilley
Lilley's ZSpace page
British Member of Parliament George Galloway says that a plan for the division of the Middle East is circulating in the corridors of power on both sides of the Atlantic. In a recent interview, Galloway asserted that ministers and eminent figures i...
Hutchinson: Supreme Court Should Strike Out Three Strikes
Znet Article, November, 09 2002
Earl ofari Hutchinson
Hutchinson's ZSpace page
It’s hard to say whether it’s a good or bad thing that the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing arguments this week on the three strikes law. The court has been granite like in its opposition to anything that even faintly tilts toward ...
Cook: Of Fences And Crossings
Znet Article, November, 09 2002
Jonathan Cook
Cook's ZSpace page
Small red ribbons fluttered in the early evening breeze among the olive groves of the West Bank village of Falamia, leading like a child's paper trail from the greenhouses and fields of vegetables up a gentle rocky slope towards the brow of a wide...
Burbach: The Lula Solution
Znet Article, November, 08 2002
Roger Burbach
Burbach's ZSpace page
The Democrats suffered an electoral massacre on November 5. It should not have happened. In mid-term elections the party out of power has traditionally won seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Even more importantly the concrete co...
Administrator: Urgent Request to Blue Fairy: Please Turn These Children Into Stone
Znet Article, November, 08 2002
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
Fairy tales often have a universal appeal and draw children of all nations into their magical world. Pinocchio is no exception where the Blue Fairy rewards moral behavior and grants a puppet flesh-and-blood status.I do doubt, however, that childre...
Azulay: Heeding Our Own Warnings
Znet Article, November, 08 2002
Jessica Azulay
Azulay's ZSpace page
Many astute social commentators have done a great job of pointing out that one of Bush’s purposes for planning to attack Iraq is to distract the public from other important domestic issues. While we on the radical left point out that the...
Kim: Persistent Plagues, Persistent paradigms & the Responsibility of Physicians in the HIV Epidemic:
Znet Article, November, 08 2002
Jim Kim
Kim's ZSpace page
Humanity is facing a health crisis of unprecedented proportions. Infectious diseases are devastating poor populations around the world, flourishing where health has already been weakened by poverty and inequ...
Street: Empire Abroad, Repression At Home: Notes From Chicago
Znet Article, November, 08 2002
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Think back to a time when you were taken aback by the shameless hypocrisy of an authority figure in your community, school or workplace: the married minister who preached about family values on Sunday and hit on your sister in the privacy of his w...
Parrish: With Friends Like These
Znet Article, November, 08 2002
Geov Parrish
Parrish's ZSpace page
As you read this, Russian soldiers are once again rampaging through Chechnya, exacting what Russian leader (and former Communist Party and KGB boss) Vladimir Putin and his government specifically call revenge for the recent hostage crisis in a Mos...
Fisk: The Malevolence Of History
Znet Article, November, 08 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Robert Fisk, currently Middle East correspondent for the British daily the Independent, has covered wars the old-fashioned way for 30 years, from Northern Ireland to Afghanistan. He has lived in Beirut for 25 years, through the Lebanese civil war ...
Kim: Persistent Plagues, Persistent paradigms & the Responsibility of Physicians in the HIV Epidemic:
Znet Article, November, 08 2002
Jim Kim
Kim's ZSpace page
Humanity is facing a health crisis of unprecedented proportions. Infectious diseases are devastating poor populations around the world, flourishing where health has already been weakened by poverty and inequ...
Reinhart: Interview With Tanya Reinhart
Znet Article, November, 08 2002
Tanya Reinhart
Reinhart's ZSpace page
Interview With Tanya Reinhart


