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- Friday, Mar 19, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Mar 12, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Sunday, Mar 07, 2010
ZNet Article March is Women’s History Month, recognizing women’s central role in society. Unfortunately, violence against women is epidemic in the United States and around the world. -
- Wednesday, Mar 03, 2010
ZNet Article We go now to California, where crowds of students stormed and occupied the office of a University of California, San Diego chancellor for six hours Friday after a noose was found hanging from a bookcase in the main library. The incident prompted a... -
- Thursday, Feb 25, 2010
ZNet Article Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire. Markham demonstrates this in a new documentary, “Gasland,” which just won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize. Director Josh Fox films Markham as he runs his ... -
- Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010
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- Thursday, Feb 18, 2010
ZNet Article President Barack Obama is going nuclear. He announced the initial $8 billion in loan guarantees for construction of the first new nuclear power plants in the United States in close to three decades. Obama is making good on a campaign pledge, like ... -
- Thursday, Feb 11, 2010
ZNet Article The tragedy of the Haitian earthquake continues to unfold, with slow delivery of aid, the horrific number of amputations performed out of desperate medical necessity, more than a million homeless, perhaps 240,000 dead, hunger, dehydration, the eme... -
- Saturday, Feb 06, 2010
ZNet Article Howard Zinn, legendary historian, author and activist, died last week at the age of 87. His most famous book is “A People’s History of the United States.” Zinn told me last May, “The idea of ‘A People’s History’ is to go beyond what people have le... -
- Friday, Jan 29, 2010
ZNet Article Jean Montrevil was shackled, imprisoned, about to be sent to Haiti. It was Jan. 6, days before the earthquake that would devastate Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Montrevil came to the U.S. with a green card in 1986 at the age... -
- Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010
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- Thursday, Jan 21, 2010
ZNet Article Tè tremblé is Haitian Creole for “earthquake.†Its literal translation: “The earth trembled.†After the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, the stench of death is everywhere. At General Hospital, bodies had been stacked 4 feet high... -
- Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010
ZNet Article Legacy of US-Haitian Relations Dating Back to 1804 -
- Sunday, Jan 17, 2010
ZNet Article A landmark class action case is under way in a New York federal court, with victims of apartheid in South Africa suing corporations that they say helped the pre-1994 regime. Among the multinational corporations are IBM, Fujitsu, Ford, GM and banki... -
- Wednesday, Jan 06, 2010
ZNet Article The media have been swamped with reports about the attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day. When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, now dubbed the “underwear bomber,†failed in his alleged attack, close to 300 people were spa... -
- Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009
ZNet Article Barack Obama said, minutes before racing out of the U.N. climate summit, “We will not be legally bound by anything that took place here today.†These were among his remarks made to his own small White House press corps, excluding the 3,500 cre... -
- Wednesday, Dec 16, 2009
ZNet Article Denmark is the home of renowned children’s author Hans Christian Andersen. Copenhagen is dotted with historical spots where Andersen lived and wrote. “The Little Mermaid†was one of his most famous tales, published in 1837, along with “The... -
- Wednesday, Dec 09, 2009
ZNet Article “Politicians talk, leaders act†read the sign outside the Bella Center in Copenhagen on the opening day of the United Nations climate summit. Inside the convention center, the official delegations from 192 countries, hundreds of NGOs (nongover... -
- Thursday, Dec 03, 2009
ZNet Article Going to Canada? You may be detained at the border and interrogated. I was, last week. I was heading from Seattle to give a talk at the Vancouver Public Library. My detention provoked outrage across Canada, making national news. It has serious imp... -
- Friday, Nov 27, 2009
ZNet Article California campuses have been rocked by protests this past week, provoked by massive student fee increases voted on by the University of California Board of Regents. After a year of sequential budget cuts, faculty and staff dismissals and furlough... -
- Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009
ZNet Article “In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of hunger,†says a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) online video. It continues, “For the first time in humanity, over 1 billion people are chronically hungry.†-
- Thursday, Nov 12, 2009
ZNet Article Thanksgiving is around the corner, and families will be gathering to share a meal and, perhaps, enjoy another annual telecast of “The Wizard of Oz.†The 70-year-old film classic bears close watching this year, perhaps more than in any other, f... -
- Friday, Nov 06, 2009
ZNet Article “Extraordinary rendition†is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered†by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year. -
- Thursday, Oct 29, 2009
ZNet Article U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Chancellor Keesling died in Iraq on June 19, 2009, from “a non-combat related incident,†according to the Pentagon. Keesling had killed himself. He was just one in what is turning out to be a record year for suicides in ... -
- Friday, Oct 23, 2009
ZNet Article Halloween is around the corner, and children will soon be dressing up and chanting “trick or treat,†their demand for candy backed up by the threat of a prank. Climate-change activists, from pranksters to presidents, are doing the same. This p... -
- Thursday, Oct 15, 2009
ZNet Article Lt. Dan Choi doesn’t want to lie. Choi, an Iraq war veteran and a graduate of West Point, declared last March 19 on “The Rachel Maddow Show,†“I am gay.†Under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell†regulations, those three wor... -
- Wednesday, Oct 07, 2009
ZNet Article A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid this week at home -- all for using Twitter. Elliot Madison faces charges of hindering apprehension or prosecution, c... -
- Thursday, Oct 01, 2009
ZNet Article A battle is raging over the future of books in the digital age and the role that libraries will play. One case now before a U.S. federal court may, some say, grant a practical monopoly on recorded human knowledge to global Internet search giant Go... -
- Wednesday, Sep 23, 2009
ZNet Article Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected president of Honduras, is back in his country after being deposed in a military coup June 28. Zelaya appeared there unexpectedly Monday morning, announcing his presence in Tegucigalpa, the capital, from wi... -
- Thursday, Sep 17, 2009
ZNet Article On Sept. 14, 2001, the U.S. House of Representatives considered House Joint Resolution 64, “To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.†The wounds of ... - All Most Recent Content
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