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McGehee: Message to Liberals; this is Corporate Welfare, Not Healthcare Reform
Blog Post, March, 22 2010
Michael McGehee
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Debunking the liberal talking points for this "healthcare reform" that is really just more corporate welfare.
Edwards: Into The Abyss
Znet Article, March, 22 2010
David Edwards
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If we direct our focus to the heart of our “robot vehicles”, what will we find? Well what +could+ we possibly find? Just transistors, microchips, hydraulics. When we look into the eyes of our loved one and she smiles, we feel a warmth in our heart...
Cook: Israel’s ‘No renting to Arabs’ policy
Znet Article, March, 22 2010
Jonathan Cook
Cook's ZSpace page
The Zakai and Tarabin families should be a picture of happy coexistence across the ethnic divide, a model for others to emulate in Israel.
Jamail: Operation Enduring Occupation
Znet Article, March, 21 2010
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
According to all variations of the SOFA the US uses to provide a legal mandate for it's nearly 1,000 bases across the planet, technically, no US base in any foreign country is "permanent." Thus, the US bases in Japan, South Korea and Germany that ...
Schechter: On The Seventh Anniversary of the War On Iraq: Spotty Coverage, A Few Protests, and A Desire to "Move On" To Make It All Disappear
Commentary, March, 21 2010
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
American media loves anniversaries of major events. They become ideal "news pegs" to do follow-up stories. You would think that they would have pulled out the stops for the seventh anniversary of the US war on Iraq, a war that was described by the...
Street: When Media Goes to War: A Review
Znet Article, March, 21 2010
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The “propaganda model” that the leading left U.S. intellectuals and academicians Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman developed over two decades ago to analyze the content of foreign policy news and commentary in the United States’ “mainstream” [1](d...
Harnecker: Excessive Centralization Creates Inefficiency and Prevents Authentic Popular Protagonism
Znet Article, March, 21 2010
Marta Harnecker
Harnecker's ZSpace page
Popular protagonism becomes a mere slogan if people do not have the opportunity to make their opinions known and take decisions in areas where they participate: (geographic spaces, workplaces, educational establishments, interest groups). If the ...
Gindin: Cadillac Fairview
Znet Article, March, 21 2010
Sam Gindin
Gindin's ZSpace page
On March 5, 2010, after a conflict that stretched over almost 9 months, the maintenance and skilled trades workers of CEP (Communications, Energy & Paperworkers Union of Canada) Local 2003 (affectionately known as the CF61) working in office tower...
Kane: “Not a Radical Idea”: The Health Care Summit and Beyond
Znet Article, March, 20 2010
John Kane
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Barack Obama has not proven to be the “Manchurian candidate” that many Americans—sometimes quietly, sometimes not—once believed him to be. But that doesn’t mean that they’ve become more open to discussing his presidency and policies rationally.
Fisk: Into the terrifying world of Pakistan's 'disappeared'
Znet Article, March, 20 2010
Robert Fisk
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If you want to know how brutally Pakistan treats its people, you should meet Amina Janjua. An intelligent painter and interior designer, she sits on the vast sofa of her living room in Rawalpindi – a room that somehow accentuates her loneliness – ...
Bello: China Lassoes its Neighbors
Znet Article, March, 20 2010
Walden Bello
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The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA), went into effect on 1st of January this year. For China, the benefits are clear, but Southeast Asia will be paying a big price for a bad deal.
Engler: Canada & Israel
Commentary, March, 20 2010
Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page
In my new book Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid I argue that the trajectory of this country's foreign policy has been clear: The culmination of six decades of one-sided support, and four years into the Stephen Harper government, Canada is (at...
Amin: The Decline of the American Empire Remains a Movie for the CIA
Znet Article, March, 19 2010
Samir Amin
Amin's ZSpace page
A reading of the CIA's latest report on "the world in 2025" supplies hardly any information that an ordinary observer of the global economy and politics would not have known. On the other hand, it allows us to better know the way the ruling class ...
Solomon: Zero Public Option + One Mandate = Disaster
Commentary, March, 19 2010
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Not long ago, the most prominent supporters of the public option were touting it as essential for healthcare reform. Now, suddenly, it's incidental.
Weisbrot: International Campaign Around Venezuela's Elections Has Begun
Znet Article, March, 19 2010
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Venezuela has an election for its National Assembly in September, and the campaign has begun in earnest. I am referring to the international campaign. This is carried out largely through the international media, although some will spill over into ...
Goodman: NYC’s Jihad Against Debbie Almontaser
Znet Article, March, 19 2010
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
Debbie Almontaser has won a victory in her battle against discrimination. She was the founding principal of the first Arabic-language public school in the United States, until a campaign of hate forced her out. She is well known for her success in...
Sinclair: Book reivew: The Value of Nothing. How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy by Raj Patel
Znet Article, March, 19 2010
Ian Sinclair
Sinclair's ZSpace page
Book review: The Value of Nothing. How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy by Raj Patel
Pearson: Women in the Venezuelan revolution: `We’re not invisible but invincible'
Znet Article, March, 18 2010
Tamara Pearson
Pearson's ZSpace page
“I’m a woman with a new life since the Bolivarian Revolution knocked on my door”, said Pielrroc Montenegro, Maracaiban[i] by birth and Andean by tradition, with eyes full of nostalgia and gratitude. She described herself as a “dignified mother of ...
Gordon: Rachel Corrie's Memory, Israel's Image
Commentary, March, 18 2010
Neve Gordon
Gordon's ZSpace page
Seven years ago, Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by a Caterpillar D9R Israeli bulldozer while nonviolently protesting the demolition of Palestinian homes in Rafah, Gaza Strip, along with other members of the International Solidarity Movement (I...
Friel: Andrew Revkin’s Climate Centrism
Znet Article, March, 17 2010
Howard Friel
Friel's ZSpace page
In his 2001 book, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Bjorn Lomborg argued that the real state of the world’s environment was better than what the major environmental organizations and scientists have reported. T...
Meister: Stop Mistreating Working Women!
Znet Article, March, 17 2010
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
Although the global recession has had a serious impact on working men and women alike, two new reports make clear that women in the United States and throughout the world have suffered most because of long-standing discrimination.
Wallerstein: "Ancient Dilemma of the Left: The Case of Brazil"
Commentary, March, 17 2010
Immanuel Wallerstein
Wallerstein's ZSpace page
On the occasion of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT, the Workers' Party) in Brazil, the principal independent left newspaper, Brasil de Fato, published interviews with four leading left i...
Baker: When the U.S. Becomes Greece: Drivel from the Deficit Hawks
Znet Article, March, 17 2010
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The headlines about Greece's financial problems have provided a great backdrop to renewed attacks from the deficit hawks on Social Security and Medicare. Never mind that none of it really makes any sense. Not making sense is virtually a prerequisi...
Sinclair: Advertising and the media
Znet Article, March, 17 2010
Ian Sinclair
Sinclair's ZSpace page
According to former Guardian editor Peter Preston approximately 75 per cent of British broadsheets' total revenue is derived from advertising.
McGehee: Engineered Opinions; The Propaganda Machine Works… When it’s Turned On
Znet Article, March, 17 2010
Michael McGehee
McGehee's ZSpace page
Hypothesis: The Propaganda Machines works when it’s turned on. You can judge this by looking at opinion polls. You can look at opinions on issues that are or are not hot button issues, or you can look at opinions on issues that were not hot button...
Eid: An interview with Jamal Zahalka
Znet Article, March, 17 2010
Heba Eid
Eid's ZSpace page
I am a member of Knesset.
McGehee: Aggression in case Capitulation Fails.
Blog Post, March, 17 2010
Michael McGehee
McGehee's ZSpace page
It was reported in Scotland’s Sunday Herald that the US is sending nearly four-hundred “bunker busters” to the base in Diego Garcia. It is rumored that the 195 smart, guided, Blu-110 bombs and 192 massive 2000lb Blu-117 bombs are in preparations f...
Hahnel: The Economic Crisis and the Left
Znet Article, March, 16 2010
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
In the last part of our interview about the global economic crisis with economist Robin Hahnel, the discussion moves onto how the left has and should react to it.
Chomsky: Noam Chomsky on Obama’s Foreign Policy, His Own History of Activism, and the Importance of Speaking Out
Znet Article, March, 16 2010
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Talk and interview...
Achcar: Refuting Caricatures
Znet Article, March, 16 2010
Gilbert Achcar
Achcar's ZSpace page
An interview with the author of The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives
Shah: TED Lecturer Exploits African Women & Children
Commentary, March, 16 2010
Sonia Shah
Shah's ZSpace page
Doesn’t Nathan Myhrvold get enough attention? The guy is the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, a multimillionaire, a gourmet chef, a prize-winning photographer and keeper of multiple higher degrees from prestigious institutions. As the...
Davis: Labor War in the Mojave
Znet Article, March, 15 2010
Mike Davis
Davis's ZSpace page
The biggest hole in California, with the exception of the current state budget, is Rio Tinto's huge open-pit mine at the town of Boron, near Edwards Air Force Base, eighty miles northeast of Los Angeles.
Shiva: Water Wisdom
Commentary, March, 15 2010
Vandana Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
Since 1966 - and as a consequence of the introduction of the Green Revolution model of water-intensive, chemical farming - India has over-exploited her groundwater, creating a water famine.
Raina: Women’s Reservation Bill—II
Znet Article, March, 15 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
A cacophony of rather frightened voices seek to embroil this deepening of representative democracy in doubts and distractions...
Gollinger: Permanent Aggression
Znet Article, March, 14 2010
Eva Gollinger
Gollinger's ZSpace page
The Empire will stop at nothing to find mechanisms and techniques to achieve its final objective, and we cannot disregard the possibility of a military conflict in the near future. If the US places Venezuela on the “terrorist list” this year, we c...
Weisbrot: Greenspan's Nightmare Is Much of the World's Dream
Znet Article, March, 14 2010
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Alan Greenspan had a dream, or rather a nightmare. Greenspan seems to have woken up in a cold sweat one morning in fear that the period of "disinflationary pressures" that had kept inflation low since the 1990s was about to end. This was 2007, whe...
Spannos: The Crisis of Global Governance: Greece, Europe & The US
Commentary, March, 14 2010
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Standing before an audience at the Brookings Institute on March 8, a day before meeting U.S. President Barak Obama, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou made the case that today’s European crisis involves American interests and that today there ...
Castro: The Threatening Dangers
Znet Article, March, 13 2010
Fidel Castro
Castro's ZSpace page
It is not an ideological issue related to the definitive hope that a better world is, and should be, possible.
Zirin: The South Africa World Cup: Invictus in Reverse
Znet Article, March, 13 2010
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
The present situation in South Africa could be called "Invictus in reverse." For those who haven't had the pleasure, the film Invictus is about the way Nelson Mandela used sport, particularly the near all-white sport of rugby to unite the country ...
Kagarlitsky: The New Opiate of the Masses
Commentary, March, 13 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
If the new law recently passed by the State Duma goes into force, it will deliver a big blow to the Russian culture, education and public health.
Albert: Third Draft of Possible Organizational Poll
Blog Post, March, 13 2010
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Third Draft of possible organizational poll
Kagarlitsky: Putin and Europe on the same crisis page
Znet Article, March, 12 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
The current wave of strikes across Europe are only a prelude to what will come, as the ruling elite are not prepared to change their anti-crisis policies that have merely supported the corporations that caused the crisis.
Goodman: Rachel Corrie’s (Posthumous) Day in Court
Znet Article, March, 12 2010
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
An unusual trial begins in Israel this week, and people around the world will be watching closely. It involves the tragic death of a 23-year-old American student named Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, she was crushed to death by an Israeli milita...
Alexander: The New Jim Crow
Znet Article, March, 12 2010
Michelle Alexander
Alexander's ZSpace page
How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste
Pilger: Welcome to the world's first Murdochracy
Commentary, March, 12 2010
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
Adelaide is Australia's festival city. Its arts festival is currently in swing. Polite debate, aesthetics and high-octane wine are putting the world to rights. With one exception. Adelaide is where Rupert Murdoch began his empire. The voracious tr...
Friel: Lomborg’s Public Diplomacy, Part 1/5
Znet Article, March, 12 2010
Howard Friel
Friel's ZSpace page
Given his public diplomacy skills, if Bjorn Lomborg had worked for the Bush-Cheney White House, the world might still be thinking that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. This is because there has never been any evidence to supp...
Billet: A Rebel To the End
Znet Article, March, 12 2010
Alexander Billet
Billet's ZSpace page
In May of 1962, after a horrific performance at Carnegie Hall, a despondent Cash found himself approached by Ed McCurdy, a socialist and folksinger who had just barely escaped the grip of McCarthyism into the thriving Greenwich Village folk scene....
Chomsky: Haiti Post-Earthquake
Znet Article, March, 11 2010
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Aid Should go to Haitian Popular Organizations, not to Contractors or NGOs. An interview with Noam Chomsky...
Engelhardt: Premature Withdrawal
Znet Article, March, 11 2010
Tom Engelhardt
Engelhardt's ZSpace page
Washington's Cult of Narcissism and Iraq
Cook: Rachel Corrie family finally puts Israel in dock
Commentary, March, 11 2010
Jonathan Cook
Cook's ZSpace page
Seven years after Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist, was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, her family was to put the Israeli government in the dock today.
Zunes: Obama Stumbles Responding to Human Rights Question
Blog Post, March, 11 2010
Stephen Zunes
Zunes's ZSpace page
Obama's awkward response to a college student's question at a town hall-style meeting about human rights abuses by the top two recipient governments of U.S. security assistance -- Israel and Egypt -- says much about his foreign policy priorities.
Raina: A Parliament of Women as much as of Men
Znet Article, March, 10 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
For some fifteen years now, the proposal to accord 33% reservation to Indian women has been the most consequential and contested issue in India’s political discourse.
Hayden: Exit Strategies for Afghanistan and Iraq
Znet Article, March, 10 2010
Tom Hayden
Hayden's ZSpace page
It's been a long winter for the peace movement. Waiting for Obama has proved fruitless. The Great Recession has strengthened Wall Street and diverted attention from the wars. The debate over healthcare still won't go away and has demoralized progr...
Saito: Mission Impossible?
Znet Article, March, 10 2010
Mitsumasa Saito
Saito's ZSpace page
The Misawa Base, the only Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD) unit of the US Pacific forces headquartered in Hawaii, is, so to speak, in the position of the first attacker of the entire force.
Feffer: Pacific Pushback
Znet Article, March, 10 2010
John Feffer
Feffer's ZSpace page
Has the U.S. Empire of Bases Reached Its High-Water Mark?
Schechter: What Are They Waiting for?
Commentary, March, 10 2010
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
What will it take? What are they waiting for? What part of the reality of a systemic crisis that will get worse don't they get?
Jamal: A "Democracy" Without Democracy
Blog Post, March, 10 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal
Jamal's ZSpace page
It would be impossible to overstate the energies unleashed during the 2008 election.
Weisbrot: Hillary Clinton's "Damage Control" Trip to Latin America
Znet Article, March, 09 2010
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Offensive remarks on Honduras, gratuitous insults in Brazil – Hillary Clinton's Latin American tour has not been a success
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Commentary, March, 09 2010
Bill Blum
Blum's ZSpace page
About half the states in the US require that a woman seeking an abortion be told certain things before she can obtain the medical procedure. In South Dakota, for example, until a few months ago, staff was required to tell women: "The abortion will...
Bennis: Ending the US War in Afghanistan
Znet Article, March, 08 2010
Phyllis Bennis
Bennis's ZSpace page
The recent civilian casualties demonstrate, for any who doubted it, that this is a war against a vast population of Afghanistan, and the only way to stop killing civilians is to stop the killing. That means to stop all offensive actions and withd...