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- Sunday, Mar 18, 2012
ZNet Article Interview with Tim Schwartz on the nature and problems of the ways nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operate in Haiti -
- Saturday, Feb 04, 2012
Commentary Why are elites and authorities able to rest so comfortably in the knowledge that in the final analysis, thousands of armed men will do what they are told? -
- Tuesday, Nov 15, 2011
ZNet Article The same system whose integrity is affirmed by the petition, offers a brick wall to countless Iranian dissidents to whom entrance into Canada will be denied -
- Tuesday, Oct 25, 2011
ZNet Article The 99% have a great deal to do, including developing new ways of waging anti-racism and new ideas of integrated struggle -
- Tuesday, Oct 18, 2011
ZNet Article The Occupy Wall Street movement's arrival in Canada could help discredit the austerity that the Conservative government will be putting forward in their next budget -
- Monday, Oct 10, 2011
ZNet Article The billions in reconstruction money circulating in the NGO world could go to housing -
- Sunday, Oct 09, 2011
ZNet Article Six important strategic questions for Leftists -
- Friday, Oct 07, 2011
ZNet Article Patrick Elie is a Haitian activist who worked in the first Aristide administration. I interviewed him in Port au Prince on October 5, 2011. -
- Thursday, Oct 06, 2011
ZNet Article The centerpiece of Haitian President Martelly's policies so far is his scholarship program -
- Wednesday, Oct 05, 2011
ZNet Article I visited the camp today (October 4), and spoke to Nadege Bazile, 29, who is living out of a car with her children on the street outside the site. -
- Friday, Aug 12, 2011
ZNet Article Interview with Chang about development economics, politics, and environmental issues. -
- Wednesday, Mar 30, 2011
Commentary A friend from the movement asked me my thoughts on George Monbiot's article in the UK Guardian about how Fukushima actually converted him to nuclear power... -
- Friday, Mar 18, 2011
ZNet Article A simpler explanation probably holds: he never returned because he could not. -
- Monday, Feb 14, 2011
Video A talk given at the Toronto Public Library on January 31, 2011 -
- Sunday, Jan 23, 2011
ZNet Article Another attempt at an answer might be to identify certain things that billionaires won't ever do. Call this my challenge to the philanthrocapitalists. -
- Sunday, Jan 09, 2011
ZNet Article Because he is so well informed and such an authority on the topics, I was inclined to just read the book and agree with everything. Which I did, until I couldn't any more. -
- Thursday, Dec 02, 2010
Commentary The US Embassy cables put out by Wikileaks are not the truth... instead, they will show just what US officials have been up to, what they have been thinking, and what they have been reporting for years, most of which could be inferred by the effec... -
- Wednesday, Nov 17, 2010
ZNet Article Below I look at incidents in April 2004, during “The First Battle of Fallujah”. In some ways the account of the battle in the war logs confirms what was reported, but some of the details (such as when ceasefires were announced) are different. The ... -
- Thursday, Oct 21, 2010
ZNet Article From July until October, 38 Mapuche activists were on hunger strike in Chilean prisons demanding to be tried under civilian rather than military authority, to face civil legislation rather than Pinochet-era “anti-terrorist” legislation. The hunger... ZNet Article From July until October, 38 Mapuche activists were on hunger strike in Chilean prisons demanding to be tried under civilian rather than military authority, to face civil legislation rather than Pinochet-era “anti-terrorist” legislation. The hunger... -
- Wednesday, Aug 11, 2010
ZNet Article Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher. -
- Sunday, Aug 08, 2010
ZNet Article The first impression is one of an extremely lopsided war, like all wars of occupation, where occupied casualties are vastly higher than those by the occupier. -
- Thursday, Jul 01, 2010
ZNet Article Hosting the G20 in Toronto was the first of a series of political gambles by the Conservative Canadian government led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. -
- Monday, May 31, 2010
Blog Post Overnight, Israeli commandos attacked an aid flotilla in the high seas, some 65km from Israel. The commandos killed at least 10 people and injured dozens of others, mostly Turkish nonviolent activists bound for Gaza who were aiming to break Israel... -
- Tuesday, Apr 06, 2010
ZNet Article Here's a premise: it's actually worse than we think. - All Most Recent Content
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ZMag Content-
- Friday, Jun 01, 2012
ZMag Article Items of interest for progressives ZMag Article Books by Jack Rasmus, Selma James, Occupy Writers, and Michael T. Klare are reviewed as well as music by Sinead O'Connor, the TV show "Treme," and films from Turkish filmmakers ZMag Article Tracing the Occupy movement from September 2011 to now ZMag Article One person refuses to give in to the corporation and leave his farm ZMag Article The subject of rapid melting is dramatized in the documentary "Extreme Ice" ZMag Article Court ruling, office raid, homophobia at boy scouts, "Stand Your Ground" critique, etc. -
- Tuesday, May 01, 2012
ZMag Article Books by Paolo Soleri and Mark Fisher; new release from Bruce Springsteen ZMag Article Successfully preventing foreclosure ZMag Article Things to do, things to read ZMag Article On the March elecions and the right-wing pushback - All ZMag Content
Featured Podur's Articles-
- Saturday, Feb 04, 2012
Commentary Why are elites and authorities able to rest so comfortably in the knowledge that in the final analysis, thousands of armed men will do what they are told? -
- Tuesday, Nov 15, 2011
ZNet Article The same system whose integrity is affirmed by the petition, offers a brick wall to countless Iranian dissidents to whom entrance into Canada will be denied -
- Tuesday, Oct 25, 2011
ZNet Article The 99% have a great deal to do, including developing new ways of waging anti-racism and new ideas of integrated struggle -
- Tuesday, Oct 18, 2011
ZNet Article The Occupy Wall Street movement's arrival in Canada could help discredit the austerity that the Conservative government will be putting forward in their next budget -
- Monday, Oct 10, 2011
ZNet Article The billions in reconstruction money circulating in the NGO world could go to housing -
- Sunday, Oct 09, 2011
ZNet Article Six important strategic questions for Leftists -
- Friday, Oct 07, 2011
ZNet Article Patrick Elie is a Haitian activist who worked in the first Aristide administration. I interviewed him in Port au Prince on October 5, 2011. -
- Thursday, Oct 06, 2011
ZNet Article The centerpiece of Haitian President Martelly's policies so far is his scholarship program -
- Wednesday, Oct 05, 2011
ZNet Article I visited the camp today (October 4), and spoke to Nadege Bazile, 29, who is living out of a car with her children on the street outside the site. -
- Friday, Aug 12, 2011
ZNet Article Interview with Chang about development economics, politics, and environmental issues. -
- Wednesday, Mar 30, 2011
Commentary A friend from the movement asked me my thoughts on George Monbiot's article in the UK Guardian about how Fukushima actually converted him to nuclear power... -
- Friday, Mar 18, 2011
ZNet Article A simpler explanation probably holds: he never returned because he could not. -
- Sunday, Jan 23, 2011
ZNet Article Another attempt at an answer might be to identify certain things that billionaires won't ever do. Call this my challenge to the philanthrocapitalists. -
- Thursday, Dec 02, 2010
Commentary The US Embassy cables put out by Wikileaks are not the truth... instead, they will show just what US officials have been up to, what they have been thinking, and what they have been reporting for years, most of which could be inferred by the effec... -
- Thursday, Oct 21, 2010
ZNet Article From July until October, 38 Mapuche activists were on hunger strike in Chilean prisons demanding to be tried under civilian rather than military authority, to face civil legislation rather than Pinochet-era “anti-terrorist” legislation. The hunger... ZNet Article From July until October, 38 Mapuche activists were on hunger strike in Chilean prisons demanding to be tried under civilian rather than military authority, to face civil legislation rather than Pinochet-era “anti-terrorist” legislation. The hunger... -
- Wednesday, Aug 11, 2010
ZNet Article Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher. -
- Thursday, Jul 01, 2010
ZNet Article Hosting the G20 in Toronto was the first of a series of political gambles by the Conservative Canadian government led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. -
- Tuesday, Apr 06, 2010
ZNet Article Here's a premise: it's actually worse than we think. -
- Sunday, Jan 24, 2010
ZNet Article Everyone agrees that the Haiti earthquake is a serious situation. - All Featured Podur's Articles
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- Monday, Feb 14, 2011
Video A talk given at the Toronto Public Library on January 31, 2011 -
- Friday, Feb 05, 2010
Video On January 12, Haiti was hit with an earthquake 7.0 on the Richter scale, leaving possibly 200,000 dead and 3 million affected. Much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, is now living in makeshift camps with their water, food, and health at risk. W... -
- Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010
Video Writer Justin Podur visited Haiti in 2005, studying the government after the coup that overthrew the elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide in 2004. In this video recorded January 18, 2010, he discusses the Haiti earthquake and some of the p... - All Recent Video
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- Monday, May 31, 2010
Blog Post Overnight, Israeli commandos attacked an aid flotilla in the high seas, some 65km from Israel. The commandos killed at least 10 people and injured dozens of others, mostly Turkish nonviolent activists bound for Gaza who were aiming to break Israel... -
- Tuesday, Nov 03, 2009
Blog Post Justin Podur's Resoc Interview -
- Saturday, Jul 19, 2008
Blog Post On my way from Pakistan to Kerala, I stopped for a day in Delhi - I have a couple of hours left in this very interesting city. Thanks to friends I had an excellent 48 hours, though I could have stayed much longer and learned much more. -
- Monday, Jul 07, 2008
Blog Post Pakistan's editorial pages are full of opinion and analysis on how to deal with the insurgency. -
- Wednesday, Jul 02, 2008
Blog Post Pakistan's civilian government's economic policy is based on liberalization and privatization - perhaps not a good idea. Some commentary on the perils of privatization. -
- Tuesday, Jul 01, 2008
Blog Post Some thoughts on Pakistan's economy as a developing country trying to cope with rising global energy prices... -
- Sunday, Jun 29, 2008
Blog Post A first blog post from Islamabad, Pakistan. Based mostly on reading the english-language media, which I could have done from Canada, but still hopefully of interest... -
- Monday, Aug 06, 2007
Blog Post I figured I might as well take advantage of my psychology binge-reading to do some blogging, rather than keep all my thoughts to myself. The point for me isn't to look for a psychological cause behind every political phenomenon, but to pay attenti... -
- Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007
Blog Post Some thoughts on alternative education author Alfie Kohn today. I started with his book, "Punished by Rewards", which discusses why rewards (grades, gold stars, salary bonuses or any other kind of bribes) are not good things - not in workplaces, n... -
- Thursday, Jun 21, 2007
Blog Post Khaled Mishal of Hamas in the foreground, and a Nazi swastika in the background. Click on the story and you won't see anything Nazi. That's because there's nothing to do with the Nazis, other than the desire by the BBC and so many others to link t... - All Z Blog Posts
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