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Ahmad: Gathering storm in Pakistan
Znet Article, October, 17 2002
Zulfiqar Ahmad
Ahmad's ZSpace page
After three years of military rule, Pakistani voters have spoken. The message from the Oct. 10 elections is ominous, with immediate implications for U.S. policymakers: For the first time in Pakistan's history, religious parties have won significan...
Steel: Saddam Seems To Won Over His Floating Voters
Znet Article, October, 17 2002
Mark Steel
Steel's ZSpace page
I wonder how the leader of the "no" campaign tried to inspire his supporters after Saddam got a 100 per cent "yes" vote in his election. I suppose he said: "Obviously we're disappointed, but we fought a good campaign and I enjoyed every minute. I'...
Hass: Scraping The Bottom of The Cistern
Znet Article, October, 16 2002
Amira Hass
Hass's ZSpace page
Where will America and the EU succeed more: In their pressure on Yasser Arafat to lead governmental, financial and security reforms, or in their pleas with Israel to guarantee enough water of reasonable quality and price to 200,000 Palestinians? A...
Administrator: 80% Killed During Curfew Are Children
Znet Article, October, 16 2002
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
For the past four months, Israel has imposed a full curfew, unprecedented in scope and length, on hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. This curfew constitutes collective punishment, and as such is in contravention of ...
Hartmann: Hartmann Interviewed
Znet Article, October, 16 2002
Betsy Hartmann
Hartmann's ZSpace page
(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, The Truth About Fire, is about? What is it trying to communicate? The Truth About Fire is a political thriller about the Far Right in the U.S. and Germany. Set mainly in the Upper Peninsula of ...
Valentine: The Palestinian Olive Harvest
Znet Article, October, 16 2002
Diana Valentine
Valentine's ZSpace page
[Updated October 17, 2002-- a note on the action is below] Diana Valentine is one of many international activists from the US, Canada, Europe, and other countries who are participating in the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) olive harvest...
Winer: Strategy turns full circle in South Africa
Znet Article, October, 16 2002
Stan Winer
Winer's ZSpace page
There was a time in South Africa when political activists thought all that was required for change to occur was to dangle before the working class a revolutionary program of action, and the working class would spontaneously rise en masse. How wron...
Ngugi: Elections in Kenya
Znet Article, October, 16 2002
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
In feudal Europe, every five or so years, a grand festival was held. Everyone was invited: the rich as well as the poor. For the powerful and the powerless, the rulers and their subjects, this was the day that expressed a universal fraternity of a...
Niaz: They can't wish her away
Znet Article, October, 16 2002
Anjum Niaz
Niaz's ZSpace page
“I have never known a riot which has used the sexual subjugation of women so widely as an instrument of violence. There are reports everywhere of [the] gang-rape of young girls and women, often in the presence of members of their families,...
Niaz: When lobbying is not a dirty word
Znet Article, October, 16 2002
Anjum Niaz
Niaz's ZSpace page
Lobbying in America is a study in status crazed connections. Yet, if denuded of its three- piece-business-suit respectability, lobbying, soliciting and hustling happen to be clones of the oldest profession in the world. But in the American system,...
Plitnick: Terror And History
Znet Article, October, 16 2002
Mitchell Plitnick
Plitnick's ZSpace page
As the momentous debates in the United States Congress over whether or not that body would abdicate its constitutional responsibility and hand over to a radical right-wing president a free hand in launching a full-scale war on Iraq rambled on this...
Shepphard: From Lockout To Lockin
Znet Article, October, 15 2002
Brian Oliver Shepphard
Shepphard's ZSpace page
SAN FRANCISCO - On Oct. 8, President George W. Bush invoked the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act to request an injunction ending a 10 day lockout of the ILWU on the West Coast. The injunction replaces the lock out with what many workers are calling a "lock i...
Mcquaig: How Deep Is America's Loathing for Iraq
Znet Article, October, 15 2002
Linda Mcquaig
Mcquaig's ZSpace page
It’s always useful, in a debate, to be able to cite sources from your opponent’s side. But, has it really come to this: The definitive case against invading Iraq may now be coming from the Central Intelligence Agency? The Bush ad...
Albert: Interviewing Michael Albert
Znet Article, October, 14 2002
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Michael Albert is interviewed for The Bookpress by Satya Mohanty and Lourdes Beneria, professors at Cornell and members of the Cornell Forum for Justice and Peace. Albert will visit Ithaca November 22nd and 23rd to participate in the Ithaca ...
Loeb: Making Our Voices Heard
Znet Article, October, 14 2002
Paul rogat Loeb
Loeb's ZSpace page
Making Our Voices Heard
Jensen: The American Political Paradox
Znet Article, October, 14 2002
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
Since September 11, I have been speaking freely in the United States, a nation whose institutions have many democratic features. My free speech, which has been harshly critical of the leaders of the United States and their policies, has been disse...
Cromwell: ZNet Interviews David Cromwell
Znet Article, October, 14 2002
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
ZNet Interviews David Cromwell
Arnove: ZNet Interviews Anthony Arnove
Znet Article, October, 14 2002
Anthony Arnove
Arnove's ZSpace page
ZNet Interviews Anthony Arnove
Albert: ZNet Interviews Michael Albert about...
Znet Article, October, 14 2002
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Trajectory of Change, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Trajectory of Change is a collection of my essays about aspects of building a powerful, effective movement for social cha...
Jensen: ZNet Interviews Robert Jensen About
Znet Article, October, 14 2002
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
ZNet Interviews Robert Jensen About
