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Pilger: The Fall And Rise Of Liberal England
Commentary, October, 11 2003
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
In his latest New Statesman article, John Pilger describes how the public arbiters of liberal England embraced the Blair 'project', notably the four wars he has engaged Britain in, and how their message, like Blair himself, has now been shunned by...
Edwards: Feigned Media Psychosis
Commentary, October, 10 2003
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
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Edwards: Lulling us into submission
Znet Article, October, 10 2003
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
"The fateful slumber floats and flowsAbout the tangle of the rose;But lo! the fated hand and heartTo rend the slumberous curse apart!"(William Morris, For The Briar Rose)We Don't Run Airline Ads Next To Stories About Airline CrashesThe 'quality pr...
Landau: Pumping Empire, Losing Jobs
Znet Article, October, 10 2003
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
“I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the names of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.†-- George W. Bush at the dedication ceremony for the George Bush Cen...
Chomsky: Dominance and its Dilemmas*
Znet Article, October, 10 2003
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
By The past year has been a momentous one in world affairs. In the normal rhythm, the pattern was set in September, a month marked by several important and closely related events. The most powerful state in history announced a new National Securit...
Monbiot: The Enemies of Science
Commentary, October, 09 2003
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
It is curious that this government, which goes to such lengths to show that it responds to market forces, appears to believe, when it comes to genetic modification, that the customer is always wrong. Tony Blair might have spent six years rolling b...
Albert: Elena Molinari Interviews Michael Albert
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
(1) Many mainstream economists and historians claim that there is only one economic system viable in the world in the XXI century, and that is capitalism. Is the system of Participatory economy alternative to both capitalism and socialism? How and...
Starhawk: From Cancun to the Miami
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Starhawk
Starhawk's ZSpace page
Those of us who went to Cancun to protest the World Trade Organization¹s ministerial came back with pinkeye, exhaustion, deep coughs, and heat rashes, but the rosy flush of victory made all the rest worthwhile. Sweet victory is rare in progr...
Masri: End Both Occupations
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Rania Masri
Masri's ZSpace page
Soldiers ripping walls apart with bullets, destroying buildings, killing families – all as they search for ‘terrorists.’ Men and boys picked up by soldiers, thrown into make-shift prison facilities for weeks, months, withou...
Davis: The Day of the Locust
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Mike Davis
Davis's ZSpace page
The mobs howled again in California, rattling windows on the Potomac. Are the barbarians marching eastward, as they did after the famous tax revolt of the late 1970s, or is this just another West Coast full-moon episode with little national cons...
Gonsalves: Bombarded with advertisements
Commentary, October, 08 2003
Sean Gonsalves
Gonsalves's ZSpace page
Earlier this summer I was in Stanwood, Washington hanging out with a loosely affiliated group called the "Positive Futures Network."
Engelhardt: The Wilson Affair
Znet Article, October, 08 2003
Tom Engelhardt
Engelhardt's ZSpace page
In the context of the collapse of every explanation for the war in Iraq (other than the obvious strategic ones which were never expressed by the administration or discussed in the media), the looting of Iraq, the looting of this country, and the...
Jensen: Just the (Documented) Facts, Ma'am or When the watchdog heels
Commentary, October, 07 2003
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
One slow night on the news desk of my last full-time job in mainstream journalism, a fellow copy editor and I were killing time doing what corporate employees everywhere love to do: ridiculing our bosses and the state of the business more generall...
Fisk: Israel's attack is a lethal step towards war in Middle East
Znet Article, October, 07 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Israel's attack is a lethal step towards war in Middle East
Fisk: Oil, War And A Growing Sense Of Panic In The Us
Znet Article, October, 07 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Oil, War And A Growing Sense Of Panic In The Us
Wise: Collateral Damage: Poor Whites and the Unintended Consequences of Racial Privilege
Commentary, October, 06 2003
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
A few years ago, a young woman who was an anti-poverty organizer in rural Kentucky asked me how she could infuse her work with an anti-racist analysis.
Albert: Iqtidar Interviews Albert
Znet Article, October, 06 2003
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Iqtidar Interviews Albert
Kolhatkar: Replacing one terrorist state with another
Znet Article, October, 06 2003
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
“If you harbor a terrorist, if you support a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorists. And the Taliban found out what we meant,†U.S. President George W. Bush told military personnel in Fort Stewa...
Kolhatkar: Dirty Recall Games
Commentary, October, 04 2003
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
The latest CNN/USA Today poll in the California Recall Election betrays a dangerous trend: a large majority of Californians now polled think that the recall is a good idea -- 63% compared with 59% three weeks ago. So now the candidates running to ...
Wilpert: Venezuela in USNews
Znet Article, October, 04 2003
Gregory Wilpert
Wilpert's ZSpace page
An article recently appeared in one of the largest U.S. news magazines, an article which will remind well-informed readers of a typical disinformation campaign. The article in question, "Terror Close to Home," by Linda Robinson, appeared in U.S. N...
Dangl: Divisions Deepen in Bolivia's Gas War
Znet Article, October, 04 2003
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
An intense series of road blockades, protests and strikes continue to gain momentum across Bolivia as new sectors enter the movement against the exportation of the country’s gas to the US. The geographical and political diversity of the gr...
Bennis: Talking Points: Iraq, The Un, & U.s. Corporations
Znet Article, October, 03 2003
Phyllis Bennis
Bennis's ZSpace page
1) We should oppose any new UN resolution aimed at providing more legitimacy for the U.S.-UK occupation of Iraq. The UN should not endorse, and countries should not send troops or funds, to maintain or strengthen or "internationalize" Washin...
Palast: Arnold Unplugged
Znet Article, October, 03 2003
Greg Palast
Palast's ZSpace page
It's not what Arnold Schwarzenegger did to the girls a decade back that should raise an eyebrow. According to a series of memoranda our office obtained today, it's his dalliance with the boys in a hotel room just two years ago that's the real scan...
Russell: Boarding Buses and Getting a Job: Civil Rights Missing in Action
Commentary, October, 02 2003
Marta Russell
Russell's ZSpace page
Around the 13th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (July 26, 1990) Anthony Trocchia, President of Disabled in Action in New York, found it necessary to hold a public bus hostage for an hour in 95 degree heat by sitti...
Engler: Jobless Recovery?
Znet Article, October, 02 2003
Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page
yves engler Shouldn’t people’s ability to find work be central to any economy? Isn’t the point of an economy all about fulfilling human needs, one of which is meaningful work? Not according to today’s monet...
Kagarlitsky: The 2003 Elections in Russia: Nothing New
Commentary, October, 01 2003
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
Spring this year was a time of heated discussion in the camp of the Russian opposition. The crisis of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) led to the emergence of "renovating" tendencies in its leadership, while also spurring hopes...
Burchill: What the West wants from Indonesia
Znet Article, October, 01 2003
Scott Burchill
Burchill's ZSpace page
What the West wants from Indonesia
Solomon: Unmasking the Ugly
Znet Article, October, 01 2003
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Strong critics of U.S. foreign policy often encounter charges of "anti-Americanism." Even though vast numbers of people in the United States disagree with Washington’s assumptions and military actions, some pundits can’t resist gra...
Zinn: An Occupied Country
Commentary, September, 30 2003
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
It has become clear, very quickly, that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country.
Monbiot: The Patient is Dying
Znet Article, September, 30 2003
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Tomorrow, still basking in afterglow of Tony Blair's thunderous platitudes, most of the delegates to the Labour Party conference will snore through the complexities of a policy which spells the end of everything their party once stood for. The mot...
Street: Honest Mistakes?
Znet Article, September, 30 2003
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
We should be pleased, I suppose, that American "mainstream" (corporate-state) media has seen fit to recognize the incorrectness of the Bush administration's leading case for invading and occupying Iraq. As that media now generally acknowledg...
Weisbrot: Bush Growing More Vulnerable on Credibility, War, and the Economy
Znet Article, September, 30 2003
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
"Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them," the title of Al Franken's book on the American right, is starting to look less like a cartoon and more like a description that could filter into the mainstream. Last week Senator Edward M. Kennedy surprise...
Fletcher jr.: Lessons from the Twenties
Znet Article, September, 30 2003
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
Good evening. Let me begin by thanking Labor Notes, and Jane Slaughter in particular, for extending an invitation to me to speak with you. I would also like to thank Peter Rachleff from Macalaster College and Jim Green from UMASS-Boston for the ex...
Sharma: Biotechnology will bypass the poor
Znet Article, September, 29 2003
Devinder Sharma
Sharma's ZSpace page
India's former Prime Minister, the late Mr Morarji Desai, strictly followed an unwritten principle. He would not inaugurate any conference, whether national or international, which did not focus on rural development. It so happened that it was dur...
Fisk: Western 'Intelligence' Services
Znet Article, September, 29 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
They were at it again last week, the liars of our Western "intelligence" community. John Bolton, the US under-secretary of state for arms control and one of Donald Rumsfeld's cabal of pro- Israeli neo-conservatives, was giving testimony before the...
Pilger: Lies and More Lies
Znet Article, September, 29 2003
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
EXACTLY one year ago, Tony Blair told Parliament: "Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programme is active, detailed and growing. "The policy of containment is not working. The weapons of mass destruction programme is not shut down. It i...
Aronowitz: Remembering Arthur Kinoy
Znet Article, September, 29 2003
Stanley Aronowitz
Aronowitz's ZSpace page
Arthur Kinoy, best known as a leading civil rights attorney during the zenith of the protest phase of the movement during 1960s, and as a law professor who taught for some 20 years at Rutgers University, died in September 2003. He was 82 years old...
Mokhiber: Other Options
Commentary, September, 28 2003
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
Other Things You Might Do With $87 Billion By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
Davis: Our Summer Vacation: 20,000 Dead
Znet Article, September, 28 2003
Mike Davis
Davis's ZSpace page
Our Summer Vacation: 20,000 Dead
Davis: Our Summer Vacation: 20,000 Dead
Znet Article, September, 28 2003
Mike Davis
Davis's ZSpace page
Our Summer Vacation: 20,000 Dead
Shiva: Coke : Hazardous Even Without Pesticides
Commentary, September, 26 2003
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
Coke : Hazardous Even Without Pesticides
Pilger: Media Censorship That Doesn't Speak Its Name
Znet Article, September, 26 2003
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
Media Censorship That Doesn't Speak Its Name
Weisbrot: Washington's Dangerous Policy in Venezuela
Znet Article, September, 26 2003
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
In recent weeks U.S. officials have made a series of remarkably unfriendly statements against the government of Venezuela, and its President Hugo Chavez. This breach of diplomatic norms can only serve to worsen relations between the two countries....
Landau: Schwarzenegger And Cuban Migration
Commentary, September, 25 2003
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
Even Arnold Schwarzenegger loves immigrants. ÒIÕm one myself,Ó he reminds California voters. But in 1994 The Terminator supported CaliforniaÕs immigrant bashing Proposition 187, which the courts voided in 1999. The measure aimed to Òprevent illega...
Pilger: Lies and More Lies
Commentary, September, 24 2003
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
EXACTLY one year ago, Tony Blair told Parliament: "Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programme is active, detailed and growing.
Engelhardt: Edsel Speeches
Znet Article, September, 24 2003
Tom Engelhardt
Engelhardt's ZSpace page
Quote of the day: "Officially, administration officials say that they had expected the drop in support for the president, and that they were not concerned about the turn of events.'We put out a memo three months ago predicting that this was goi...
Fisk: Iraq's Occupiers
Znet Article, September, 24 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
BAGHDAD - A culture of secrecy has descended upon the Anglo- American occupation authorities in Iraq. They will give no tally of the Iraqi civilian lives lost each day. They will not comment on the killing by an American soldier of one of their ...
Fisk: Against the Press
Znet Article, September, 24 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
BAGHDAD - Sewage is coming through the manhole covers, there's still only 15 hours electricity a day and anarchy grips the streets of Baghdad, but yesterday America's toothless Iraqi 'interim council' roared like a lion, issuing a set of restricti...
Dangl: Bolivia's Gas War
Znet Article, September, 24 2003
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
A new cycle of conflict has developed in Bolivia as worker unions, coca farmers and ordinary citizens unite to prevent the sale of the nation's gas reserves to the United States through a Chilean port. In a country whose economic identity ha...
Herman: Coalition Of Joint Venture Looters?
Commentary, September, 23 2003
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
The word ÒcoalitionÓ has been a favorite of the Bush administration and media as they have attempted to put the invasion-occupation of Iraq in a good light. ÒCoalitionÓ has the implication of joint and collective rather than unilateral action, eve...
Mokhiber: Nike Gets a Pass
Znet Article, September, 23 2003
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
Why did Marc Kasky settle his case against Nike for a $1.5 million payment to the Fair Labor Association, a group controlled by Nike and other major shoe manufacturers? Kasky, described in various press reports as a "labor activist" and "gadfly,"...
Street: Why They Might Hate US
Znet Article, September, 23 2003
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
One year ago, I wrote a ZNet article originally titled "All About US: Missing Persons in the Great Iraq War Debate." The thesis of this commentary was that last fall's mainstream controversy over the White House's apparent decision to invade Iraq ...
Choudry: Interviewing Aziz Choudry
Znet Article, September, 23 2003
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
ZNet: Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book is about? What is it trying to communicate? "Effective Strategies In Confronting Transnational Corporations" is the product of a collaborative research project which I recently coordinated for t...
Halper: Israel and the Empire
Znet Article, September, 23 2003
Jeff Halper
Halper's ZSpace page
Jon Elmer, FromOccupiedPalestine.org: You use the term ‘matrix of control’ to describe the Israeli occupation. Can you explain exactly what that is and how it functions?Jeff Halper: The Israel-Palestine conflict is often framed in ...
Bello: Implications of Cancun
Znet Article, September, 23 2003
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The collapse of the Fifth Ministerial of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Cancun, Mexico, last Sunday, Sept. 14, was an event of historic proportions. Cancun has several massive implications. First, the collapse represented a victory for ...
Street: Globalization From the Top Down
Commentary, September, 22 2003
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The recipients of this ÒdevilÕs giftÓ are not victims of globalization per se. Their difficulties stem from the ÒworkingsÓ of a top-down, privilege-friendly form of globalization under the command of Western capital. The dominant no-liberal model ...
Pilger: the Betrayal Of Afghanistan
Znet Article, September, 22 2003
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
In a major article in The Guardian magazine, John Pilger describes Afghanistan since its liberation from the Taliban, which he filmed for his latest documentary, 'Breaking the Silence'. Apart from notional freedoms, little has changed. The warlord...
Martinez: The Immaculate Dictatorship
Znet Article, September, 22 2003
Elizabeth Martinez
Martinez's ZSpace page
Most people in the United States and other countries would say that this country is extraordinary and probably unique in world history. They will cite its size, wealth, technology, power. They are not likely to mention its most remarkable achievem...
Wise: Overclass Blues: Reflections on the Ironies of Privilege
Commentary, September, 21 2003
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
The first word of this articleÕs title does not exist according to the spell check program on my computer and the dictionary on my desk. Underclass? Yes, both sources recognize and can define that term. Yet neither acknowledges that any word with ...
