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- Tuesday, Dec 20, 2011
ZNet Article As so often with friends and former friends, it’s a matter of what you’re prepared to put up with and for how long -
- Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011
ZNet Article “The claim that the ‘international community’ had no choice but to intervene militarily and that the alternative was to do nothing is false -
- Sunday, Dec 05, 2010
ZNet Article The American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlor assassins howling for Julian Assange's head. -
- Monday, Jul 19, 2010
ZNet Article The man who seized the White House by fomenting a mood of irrational expectation is now facing the bitter price exacted by reality. The reality is that there can be no “good” American president. It’s an impossible hand to play. Obama is close to b... -
- Sunday, Jun 20, 2010
ZNet Article Every president since Nixon has tried to sell an energy plan, and the only one to yield any tangible results was Reagan's consummated pledge to rip the Carter-installed solar system off the roof of the White House. Carter wore his cardigan and Ame... -
- Tuesday, May 25, 2010
ZNet Article It's been an active year so far in the rhetoric of nuclear disarmament. First, the "nuclear posture statement" of the Obama administration put out in early April. Then the non-proliferation meetings, then the START negotiations with the Russians. ... -
- Tuesday, Apr 20, 2010
ZNet Article With the impending departure from the U.S. Supreme Court of Justice John Paul Stevens at the age of 89, we lose one of the nation's last substantive ties to the Great Depression and to the effect of that disaster on the political outlook of a coup... -
- Monday, Mar 15, 2010
ZNet Article Are they really bumblers? The establishment’s opinion columns quiver with reproofs for maladroit handling of foreign policy by President Obama and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, those who cherished foolish illusions that Obama... -
- Sunday, Oct 11, 2009
ZNet Article I suppose we should not begrudge Barack Obama his Nobel Peace Prize, though it represents a radical break in tradition, since he's only had slightly less than nine months to discharge his imperial duties, most concretely through the agency of high... -
- Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009
ZNet Article The ripest moment of absurdity last week was the spectacle of Pentagon officials berating The Washington Post for publishing the supposedly confidential assessment of the situation in Afghanistan, prepared by General Stanley McChrystal, America's ... -
- Thursday, Sep 24, 2009
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- Wednesday, Sep 09, 2009
ZNet Article A s General Stan McChrystal plans his march on Washington to demand more troops in Afghanistan the antiwar movement lies on the sidewalk, as inert and forlorn as a homeless person in the rain at a street corner, too dejected even to hold up a sign... -
- Tuesday, Mar 24, 2009
Video David Harvey, a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York and the author of The Limits to Capital and Alexander Cockburn, co-editor of Counterpunch, on the end (or future) of capitalism. -
- Saturday, May 24, 2008
ZNet Article Thirty years ago, when the state of Israel had traveled only half its present journey through time since 1948, I interviewed General Matti Peled in New York. As an army general Peled had been a notably tough administrator of the Occupied Territori... -
- Sunday, Feb 03, 2008
ZNet Article Back in 1992 it was the Whitewater real estate deal that plagued the Clintons, though fortunately for them, Jeff Gerth's initial expose in the New York Times on March 8, 1992, was incomprehensible. Hillary Clinton and her lawyer Susan Thomases mud... -
- Sunday, Jul 08, 2007
ZNet Article WHY SO FEW PROTESTS AGAINST A HATED INVASION? -
- Wednesday, May 30, 2007
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- Wednesday, May 02, 2007
ZNet Article From Papal Indulgences to Carbon Credits Is Global Warming a Sin? -
- Thursday, Jan 18, 2007
ZNet Article The war in Iraq, one of the most disastrous military enterprises in the history of the Republic... -
- Tuesday, Dec 12, 2006
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- Monday, Sep 11, 2006
ZNet Article You trip over one fundamental idiocy of the 9/11 conspiracy nuts -- -- the ones who say Bush and Cheney masterminded the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon -- in the first paragraph of the opening p... -
- Sunday, Sep 10, 2006
ZNet Article You trip over one fundamental idiocy of the 9/11 conspiracy nuts -- -- the ones who say Bush and Cheney masterminded the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon -- in the first paragraph of the opening page of the book by one of their... -
- Sunday, Aug 27, 2006
ZNet Article In the aftermath of the Lebanon disaster you can open up the Israeli press, particularly the Hebrew language editions, and find fierce assaults on the country's elites from left, right and center.
The overall panorama is one of chickens of all a... ZNet Article In the aftermath of the Lebanon disaster you can open up the Israeli press, particularly the Hebrew language editions, and find fierce assaults on the country's elites from left, right and center.
The overall panorama is one of chickens of all a... -
- Saturday, May 06, 2006
ZNet Article For the past few weeks a sometimes comic debate has been simmering in the American press, focused on the question of whether there is an Israeli lobby and, if so, just how powerful it is.
I would have thought that to ask whether there's an Israe... -
- Wednesday, Dec 07, 2005
ZNet Article The immense significance of Rep John Murtha's November 17 speech calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq is that it signals mutiny in the US senior officer corps, seeing the institution they lead as "broken, worn out" and "living hand to mouth"... -
- Friday, Mar 04, 2005
ZNet Article Back in the early 1990s, the right-wing taste of the year was Newt Gingrich. He led the Republican sweep into Congress in the 1994 mid-term elections. His "Contract With America" loomed in every headline. Liberals wailed that Gingrichism was invin... -
- Monday, Feb 07, 2005
ZNet Article When it comes to left and right, meaning the respective voices of sanity and dementia, we're meant to keep two sets of books.
Start with sanity, in the form of Ward Churchill, a tenured prof at the University of Colorado. Churchill is known natio... -
- Thursday, Sep 25, 2003
ZNet Article Edward Said died in hospital in New York City Wednesday night at 6.30 pm, felled at last by complications arising from the leukemia he fought so gamely ever since the early 1990s.
We march through life buoyed by those comrades-in-arms we know to ... -
- Sunday, Jun 01, 2003
ZNet Article Don't waste your time fretting over the fortunes of the "road map" to peace in the Middle East. It's all a fraud, following the contours of all the other frauds down the years, back to such museum pieces as the Rogers Plan, conceived in Nixon time... - All Most Recent Content
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