Z Nightly Commentaries
There are no commentaries for today.
Recent Z Nightly Commentaries
Prashad: Amitava Kumar's Excellent Adventure
Jul 03, 2007
Every once in a while I make it a point to stop by for a visit at Amitava Kumar's virtual home (http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/). There's always something witty, something wonderful: an introduction to a new book, or a new photographer, or something abo
Pilger: REBELLION IN THE BRITISH ARMY
Jun 05, 2007
An experienced British officer serving in Iraq has written to the BBC describing the invasion as "illegal, immoral and unwinnable" which, he says, is "the overwhelming feeling of many of my peers". In a letter to the BBC's Newsnight and Medialens.org he a
Prashad: Tom Hayden's War
Jun 04, 2007
Tom Hayden is a veteran of peace. A pioneer of the anti-war movement in the 1960s (including as one of the Chicago 7), Hayden is now, after a hiatus in California politics in the 1990s, a central figure in the current anti-war movement. His range of exper
Pilger: IMPRISONING A WHOLE NATION
May 23, 2007
Israel is destroying any notion of a state of Palestine and is being allowed to imprison an entire nation. That is clear from the latest attacks on Gaza, whose suffering has become a metaphor for the tragedy imposed on the peoples of the Middle East and b
Pilger: THE KENNEDY MYTH RISES AGAIN
May 10, 2007
On 5 June 1968, just after midnight, Robert Kennedy was shot in my presence at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He had just acknowledged his victory in the California primary. "On to Chicago and let's win there!" were his last public words, referring
Prashad: Multiculturalism Kills Me
Apr 26, 2007
Not as much as straight-up racism. That's made a comeback these days. This year, the number of incidents of "black face" and other assorted throwbacks to Jim Crow racism is astounding. My own campus suffered this, as did Texas A&M (where the scandal broke
Pilger: Iran Modern Crisis
Apr 12, 2007
The Israeli journalist Amira Hass describes the moment her mother, Hannah, was marched from a cattle train to the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. "They were sick and some were dying," she says. "Then my mother saw these German women looking at t
Pilger: The Swimmer's Journey Home
Mar 29, 2007
Most days, growing up, I would walk down a steep hill past blocks of Aussie Gothic with stairwells that stank of cabbage and beer and dogs, through crooked alleyways of fresh tar turned to putty in the heat and rusted iron fences, beyond which were "Bondi
Peters: Snapshots from Unschooling Part 3 of
Mar 22, 2007
Part 1: "Snapshots from School" http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-12/12peters.cfm
Pilger: CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN TORTURER AND VICTIM
Mar 14, 2007
In Andrew Cockburn's new book, Rumsfeld, the gap between rampant power and its faraway victims is closed. Donald Rumsfeld, US secretary of defence until last year and a designer of the Iraq bloodbath, is revealed as personally directing from his office in
Pilger: AUSTRALIA: THE 51st STATE
Mar 01, 2007
In June this year, 26,000 US and Australian troops will take part in bombarding the ancient fragile landscape of Australia. They will storm the Great Barrier Reef, gun down "terrorists" and fire laser-guided missiles at some of the most pristine wildernes
Pilger: Mourning a secret Australia
Feb 13, 2007
How many days of mourning have I attended? Vivid in the memory are wreaths thrown on to Sydney Harbour, and men in crumpled hats and women in loose frocks standing on foreshores where their forebears saw the first ships carrying white men. On 14 February,
Peters: Unenrolling My Daughter from School Or Choosing Not to "Get Used to It", Part 2 of Snapshots from School
Feb 09, 2007
Read Part 1 first if you haven't already:
Pilger: Iran: The War Begins
Feb 03, 2007
As opposition grows in America to the failed Iraq adventure, the Bush administration is preparing public opinion for an attack on Iran, its latest target, by the spring.
Pilger: CRUELTY AND XENOPHOBIA SHAME STIR THE LUCKY COUNTRY
Jan 26, 2007
In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger returns to his homeland, Australia, and described the social regression of a once proud liberal democracy and says that the flag-waving "values" of the neo-con prime minister may be coming unstuck in Guantanamo
Pilger: Looking from the side, from Belsen to Gaza
Jan 17, 2007
A genocide is engulfing the people of Gaza while a silence engulfs its bystanders. "Some 1.4 million people, mostly children, are piled up in one of the most densely populated regions of the world, with no freedom of movement, no place to run and no space
Podur: The Things We Do For Oil
Jan 08, 2007
Review of Garry Leech, ÒCrude Interventions: The United States, Oil and the New World DisorderÓ, Zed Books 2006.
Prashad: The Best Security is a New Foreign Policy
Jan 03, 2007
The Grand Old Party's puppeteers sigh with relief. Their marionettes can be put back in the trunks, and repaired for a renewed assault on the political stage. They took the U. S. to war in Iraq, and fell into a trap. The word "quagmire" could not be utte
Podur: After Socialism?
Dec 18, 2006
Review of Gabriel KolkoÕs ÒAfter Socialism: Reconstructing critical social thoughtÓ. Routledge, UK. 2006.
Jul 05, 2007
Just as the London bombs in the summer of 2005 were Blair's bombs, the inevitable consequence of his government's lawless attack on Iraq, so the potential bombs in the summer of 2007 are Brown's bombs. Gordon Brown, Blair's successor as prime minister, h