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Chomsky: Questions On Israel
Znet Article, June, 30 2002
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
As a premium to those who support Z through the Z Sustainer Program there are a number of forums where people can ask questions of activists and writers such as Noam Chomsky. Here are Chomsky's responses to questions about Israel And Palestine dur...
Choudry: Fight For Country
Commentary, June, 29 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
Some strange strange people inhabit this land
Franklin: Terrorist Connections Resurface In Florida
Znet Article, June, 29 2002
Jane Franklin
Franklin's ZSpace page
Governor Jeb Bush is about to choose a Florida State Supreme Court judge. There are five finalists and his deadline is August 12. Since there is no Hispanic on the Court, most people expect Jeb Bush will want to name a Hispanic. There is only one ...
Palast: A Tale Of Two Coups
Znet Article, June, 29 2002
Greg Palast
Palast's ZSpace page
Blondes in revolt On May Day, starting out from the Hilton Hotel, 200,000 blondes marched East through Caracas' shopping corridor along Casanova Avenue. At the same time, half a million brunettes converged on them from the West. It would all se...
Monbiot: White Lies
Commentary, June, 28 2002
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
In the Canadian fastness of Kananaskis this week, the messianic cult of empire will solemnly worship itself. The leaders of the G8 nations will declare that they have come to deliver the world from evil. They will announce that they are sacrificin...
Weisbrot: What Are They Doing to Argentina?
Commentary, June, 27 2002
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
The head of the IMF's delegation to Argentina was recently cornered outside his hotel room by reporters from a popular, muck-raking television show. They handed him a set of large, plastic Halloween vampire teeth. "We found these lodged in Preside...
Landau: A Post Card From The Enigmatic Island
Commentary, June, 26 2002
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
A two-hour drive from the noxious fumes of Havana takes us to Vinales, in Pinar del Rio, CubaÕs western province. Fidel Castro has ordered all nooks and crannies of the city sprayed so as to eliminate the dreaded Aedis Egipsis, the mosquito that h...
Pilger: Our Writers' Failure
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
Martin Amis represents a problem: that some of the most acclaimed and privileged writers in the English language fail to engage with the most urgent issues of our time. On 1 June, the Guardian published a long essay by Martin Amis, entitled "Th...
Weisbrot: What are they doing to Argentina
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
The head of the IMF's delegation to Argentina was recently cornered outside his hotel room by reporters from a popular, muck-raking television show. They handed him a set of large, plastic Halloween vampire teeth. "We found these lodged in Preside...
Pilger: Israel's Secret Shame
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
Ethnic cleansing attended the birth of Israel but, more than 50 years later, the country is still in denial about its bloody past. Those who speak out risk their jobs. Behind the turbulent news from Israel, a struggle for historical truth has p...
Fisk: I Wonder Why Bush Doesn't Let Sharon Run His Press Office
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Put your flak jackets on, President George Bush has spoken. He wants a regime change in Palestine, just as he wants a regime change in Iraq. He reads the Israeli government press handouts and accurately quotes them to his American people. Ariel ...
Podur: Turning the West Bank and Gaza into Prisons
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
1. Describe what's happening in Jenin.This is a society that's slowly being choked to death. It is marked by fear, random violence, and irrational destruction. No one is allowed peace of mind. Even the relatively well-off -- those with jobs and so...
Gordon: Jerusalem Under Attack
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
Neve Gordon
Gordon's ZSpace page
The last suicide bomber blew himself up no more than 300 yards from my Jerusalem apartment. The windows shuddered as the deafening sound filled the air. Then came a moment of silence followed by the loud echo of sirens. A friend who had seen th...
Russell: A Big Mess in California: Without Health Care People Are Going to Die
Commentary, June, 25 2002
Marta Russell
Russell's ZSpace page
The 2002-2003 state budget winds blow cold in sunny California for low-income families, elderly, and disabled residents.
Edwards: The Mother Of All Ironies
Znet Article, June, 25 2002
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
The fate of Iraq lies in the balance. US Republican Hawks are seeking to launch a further massive attack against the people of Iraq. It won't happen if politicians sense sufficient public opposition - journalists play a key role in influenci...
Edwards: The Mother Of All Ironies
Znet Article, June, 25 2002
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
The fate of Iraq lies in the balance. US Republican Hawks are seeking to launch a further massive attack against the people of Iraq. It won't happen if politicians sense sufficient public opposition - journalists play a key role in influencing tha...
Glass: Repeat Performance
Znet Article, June, 25 2002
Charles Glass
Glass's ZSpace page
Paris. Voices in Israel, now backed with the forceful intervention of President George Bush, are demanding that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sh...
Bond: Corporate Cost-benefit Analysis And Culpable Hiv/aids Homicide
Znet Article, June, 25 2002
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
During the last few days of June, at the same time the Treatment Action Campaign and Congress of South African Trade Unions are holding a massive people's conference in Durban to take forward the struggle against HIV/Aids, Thabo Mbeki will beg for...
Gonsalves: On Becoming a Wal-mart Greeter
Commentary, June, 24 2002
Sean Gonsalves
Gonsalves's ZSpace page
Charles Leach describes himself as a 62-year-old, silver-haired, overweight, wing tip shoe-wearing president of a small company that manufactures textile screen printing inks - "not exactly the 'neo-hippie anarchist' the media picks out as the typ...
Weisbrot: Derailing Fast Track
Znet Article, June, 24 2002
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Derailing Fast Track
Solomon: A Creeping Indifference and a Silent Hollowing Out
Znet Article, June, 24 2002
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
American journalism has devoted massive attention to reporting on business in recent years. Overall news outlets are enthralled with efforts in our society to maximize corporate profits and personal wealth. Top executives and shrewd investors are ...
Jensen: Talking to the Toastmasters
Commentary, June, 23 2002
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
Recently I was asked to reflect on the antiwar work of the past eight months, with an eye toward signs of hope. For those of us in that movement, it is easy to feel defeated these days. So, here's one small story to counter that.
Russell: A Big Mess In California
Znet Article, June, 23 2002
Marta Russell
Russell's ZSpace page
The 2002-2003 state budget winds blow cold in sunny California for low-income families, elderly, and disabled residents. The state was riding the crest of a financial wave until the collapse of the dot-com economy which caused stocks to dive and...
Fisk: Fatal Vision: How Bush Has Given Up On Peace
Znet Article, June, 23 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
George Bush Junior gave up last week. After all the blustering and grovelling and the disobeyed instructions to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and all the hectoring of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and all the "visions" of a Palestinian st...
Bond: “Nepad, no thanks,†say African progressives
Commentary, June, 22 2002
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
South African president Thabo Mbeki made the cover page of the international edition of Time magazine in early June, with the misleading heading: `He has finally faced up to the AIDS crisis and is now leading the charge for a new African developme...
Bond: ÒNepad, no thanks,Ó say African progressives
Commentary, June, 22 2002
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
South African president Thabo Mbeki made the cover page of the international edition of Time magazine in early June, with the misleading heading: `He has finally faced up to the AIDS crisis and is now leading the charge for a new African developme...
Gonsalves: Open-toe sandals, closed minds
Commentary, June, 21 2002
Sean Gonsalves
Gonsalves's ZSpace page
One columnist called them kids with "open toe sandals and closed minds."
Jensen: Rhetoric Distorts Realities
Znet Article, June, 21 2002
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
Rhetoric Distorts Realities
Mokhiber: Restorative Justice
Commentary, June, 20 2002
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
Corporate and white collar crime have landed on the front pages of the nation's agenda-setting newspapers.
Podur: Q&A with Justin Podur in Ramallah
Znet Article, June, 20 2002
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
On Tuesday, June 18, shortly after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 19 people on a bus outside Jerusalem, Ariel Sharon announced his intention to invade areas formally controlled by the Palestinian Authority, and not leave until Palestinian sui...
Bond: NEPAD
Znet Article, June, 20 2002
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
South African president Thabo Mbeki made the cover page of the international edition of Time magazine in early June, with the misleading heading: `He has finally faced up to the AIDS crisis and is now leading the charge for a new African developme...
Pilger: Ethnic Cleansing And The Establishment Of Israel
Znet Article, June, 19 2002
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
Behind the turbulent news from Israel, a struggle for historical truth has passed almost unnoticed outside academic circles; yet its wider significance is epic. In May 1948, more than 200 Palestinians were killed by the advancing Jewish militia in...
Cromwell: Shaping The Public Good
Commentary, June, 18 2002
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
A popular view today - that is to say, the prevailing view held by those in positions of power and influence - is 'that contemporary Western society and more especially, the "American way of life" corresponds to the deepest needs of human nature a...
Azulay: An Old Man And No Sea
Znet Article, June, 18 2002
Jessica Azulay
Azulay's ZSpace page
On May 26, I was brought to the shore of the Meditarranean sea to meet two fishermen, residents of the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip. They spread blankets out on the sandy floor of their small shack for us to sit on and served tea with m...
Edwards: The Unspoken Rule Of Media Reporting: Guatemala, Bbc, And Propaganda
Commentary, June, 17 2002
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
Focusing heavily on the machinations of public relations guru Edward
Solomon: Profiles In Media Courage
Commentary, June, 16 2002
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
The Committee to Protect Journalists released a bleak report the other day. "Attacks on the Press in 2001" is a thick document with details about media suppression in much of the world. While American readers may feel very fortunate, they have no ...
Said: Palestinian Elections Now
Znet Article, June, 16 2002
Edward Said
Said's ZSpace page
Six distinct calls for Palestinian reform and elections are being uttered now: five of them are, for Palestinian purposes, both useless and irrelevant. Sharon wants reform as a way of further disabling Palestinian national life, that i...
Landau: Harboring Terrorists: Our Own List Is Long
Commentary, June, 15 2002
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
As our leaders warn countries that harbor terrorists, who will warn our leaders about harboring terrorists here?
Fisk: Starbucks the target of Arab boycott for its growing links to Israel
Znet Article, June, 15 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Beirut. Across five Arab states a new and closely co-ordinated campaign to boycott American goods is being launched, with Starbucks coffee shops their primary target, but with Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson and Burger King outlets also ...
Podur: Instead of Nation States
Commentary, June, 14 2002
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
"It's disturbing to see how neatly nationalism dovetails into fascism. While we must not allow the fascists to define what the nation is, or who it belongs to, it's worth keeping in mind that nationalism, in all its many avatars-socialist, capital...
Azulay: Eyewitness Report From Balata
Znet Article, June, 14 2002
Jessica Azulay
Azulay's ZSpace page
On Friday, May 31, we heard that the IDF had entered the Balata Refugee camp near Nablus. A friend of ours called us to tell us that the soldiers had ordered that every man between the ages of 15 and 50 come out of his house. Those who came out we...
Edwards: Ironclad Hearts - Inner And Outer Liberation
Commentary, June, 13 2002
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
Fromm was right. What, after all, is the difference between an active dissident and a mainstream "journalist of attachment", or one of our many indifferent citizens?
Fisk: Bush's Titanic War On Terror
Znet Article, June, 13 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
First it was to be a crusade. Then it became the "War for Civilization". Then the "War without End". Then the "War against Terror". And now--believe it or not--President Bush is promising us a "Titanic War on Terror". This gets weirder and weirder...
Roy: Ahimsa
Znet Article, June, 12 2002
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
While the rest of us are mesmerised by talk of war and terrorism and wars against terror, (can you go to war against a feeling?) in Madhya Pradesh a little life-raft has set sail into the wind. On a pavement in Bhopal, in an area called 'Tin Shed'...
Choudry: The Asian Development Bank - "Governing" the Pacific?
Commentary, June, 11 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) in adopting a policy of governance in October 1995, claims to be the first international financial institution to have a board-approved official position on 'good governance'.
Monbiot: Dirty Bombs Waiting for a Detonator
Znet Article, June, 11 2002
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
The world now faces two imminent nuclear threats. The first is the standoff between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers vacillating on the brink of war. The second arises from a commercial deal between the United Kingdom and Japan. At the end ...
Fisk: Gangsters, Murderers And Stooges Used To Endorse Bush's Vision Of 'Democracy'
Znet Article, June, 11 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
By Washington wants the loya jirga to succeed. True, far too many of its pliant warlords - the Pashtun and Tajik gangsters whom the Americans paid in thousands of dollars for their sometimes loyal alliance against Osama bin Laden - have been tryin...
Glick: “The Least of Theseâ€
Commentary, June, 10 2002
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
Why do people become activists and organizers for positive social change? Even more importantly, why do they continue to live lives of activism even after they experience the difficulties of this line of work?
Glick: ÒThe Least of TheseÓ
Commentary, June, 10 2002
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
Why do people become activists and organizers for positive social change? Even more importantly, why do they continue to live lives of activism even after they experience the difficulties of this line of work?
Grubacic: Should Milosovec Be Tried at the Hague?
Znet Article, June, 10 2002
Andrej Grubacic
Grubacic's ZSpace page
Using as pretext the recent arrest of Yugoslavia's ex-president Slobodan Milosevic, the author of the following article proposes to offer a brief analysis of the current Yugoslav intellectual climate. It is most expedient, for our purposes, to beg...
Hoodbhoy: What, Us Worry?
Znet Article, June, 10 2002
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
ISLAMABAD-World leaders worked overtime last week to prevent tensions between Pakistan and India from exploding into war. But in India and Pakistan, where a million troops from the two countries glowered at each other across the border, sabres con...
Bagdikian: Why Most Of Us Pay More Taxes Than Our Share
Commentary, June, 09 2002
Ben Bagdikian
Bagdikian's ZSpace page
If you have never heard of Vanuatu, or the economics of Andorra and Labuan, then you're one of us millions of ordinary citizens of the United States who, each year, pay a higher percentage of federal income tax revenues than is our true share.
Rebick: Road Rage Diary
Commentary, June, 08 2002
Judy Rebick
Rebick's ZSpace page
Monday, June 3. Monique Simard and I watched from atop a hill. At first, the scene was not so strange: the tear gas, the people running away and back again. It was a little like the scene at the fence in Quebec City last April.
Mokhiber: The Age of Inequality
Commentary, June, 07 2002
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
Here's the latest evidence of the startling growth of income and wealth inequality, in the United States and around the world:
Stokes: Perception Management and the US Terror War in Colombia
Znet Article, June, 07 2002
Doug Stokes
Stokes's ZSpace page
During the 1980s, US counter-insurgency took on a new form, and became what is today known as Low Intensity Conflict. With the Vietnam experience behind them, US military planners recognised two crucial lessons that led to this change. First, the ...
Monbiot: Choose Life
Znet Article, June, 07 2002
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Every week, sometimes every day, someone writes to me asking for advice about the career they should take. I can't, unfortunately, respond to them all, so I thought I should try to formulate some general guidelines, which I hope people will be abl...
Street: Misunderstanding Power
Znet Article, June, 06 2002
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Thanks in part to recent disclosures that a minimally competent federal security establishment would have had reasons to know and act on intelligence predicting something like what occurred last September, conspiracy theorists are having a field d...
Solomon: Nuclear Weapons And Media Fog
Znet Article, June, 06 2002
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
American media outlets roused themselves from outright denial in early June, spurred by belated warnings from top U.S. officials that a nuclear war between India and Pakistan would kill millions of people. The tone of news coverage shifted toward ...
