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- Saturday, Feb 05, 2011
ZNet Article There is a conflagration in the Arab world right now. The wave of popular protest unleashed by the self-immolation of a poor, oppressed, despised young man in a small town in Tunisia is already making an indelible imprint on that world. -
- Tuesday, Feb 01, 2011
Commentary I listened to the State of the Union speech. What I heard, though, was not President Obama’s string of irritating platitudes, but the sound of a nation bent on self-destruction. -
- Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011
ZNet Article I just read a fascinating RAND report titled “An Economic Analysis of the Financial Records of al-Qa’ida in Iraq.” -
- Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011
Blog Post Martin Luther King died 42 years ago. There is no way to tell what he would think now or, if he was still alive, whether his opinion would count for a hill of beans. Certainly, nobody cares about the opinions of the lesser inheritors of the civil ... -
- Wednesday, Jan 12, 2011
Commentary After Jared Loughner’s attempted assassination of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and massacre of six other people, including a nine-year-old girl, everyone is talking about the disgustingly violent rhetoric of the Tea Party. -
- Friday, Sep 25, 2009
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- Friday, Sep 01, 2006
ZNet Article As the one-year anniversary of the Katrina disaster approaches, it's worth taking some time to reflect on the things it hasn't changed.I won't go over the reconstruction that hasn't happened, the preparation of New Orleans to withstand future hurr... -
- Monday, Jun 05, 2006
Commentary One day in November 2005, Marines in Haditha decided to take revenge for the death of one of their comrades from an IED by deliberately murdering 24 innocent, unarmed men, women, and children. They went into their houses and shot them at close ran... -
- Friday, Mar 03, 2006
ZNet Article Iraq has just gazed into the abyss and recoiled -- for now.Last Wednesday's destruction of the beautiful golden dome of the al-Askari mosque in Samarra, one of the four most important Shi'a shrines in the world and final resting place of two of th... -
- Sunday, Feb 05, 2006
ZNet Article Surprising everyone, including themselves, Hamas won the recent Palestinian Legislative Council elections in a landslide, picking up 74 of 132 seats, compared to 45 for Fatah, the group that has represented the Palestinians for 40 years. Knowledge... -
- Tuesday, Jan 24, 2006
ZNet Article The latest issue of the Lancet, the well-known British medical journal, contains a shocking report on mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Between April and July 2004, a multinational team of researchers carried out an exhaustive survey ... -
- Saturday, Apr 02, 2005
ZNet Article The "Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction" has done reasonably well what it was created to do. Unfortunately, it was created to provide political cover for the Bush administration i... -
- Friday, Sep 03, 2004
ZNet Article As columnist David Saransohn of the Oregonian points out, there is a curious gap in all the talk at the Republican National Convention:
At this convention, you don't hear much about Iraq.That is, Iraq the country.You hear constantly about... -
- Monday, Apr 19, 2004
ZNet Article Report from Baghdad -
- Wednesday, Apr 14, 2004
ZNet Article Baghdad, Iraq -- Aadhamiyah. People of Baghdad, Sunni and Shia, have been undertaking a massive relief collections for besieged Fallujah, coordinated through the mosques of Baghdad and beyond, with the mosque of Abu Hanifa in Aadhamiyah as the epi... ZNet Article Winning Hearts and Minds -
- Wednesday, Apr 07, 2004
ZNet Article Opening the Gates of Hell -
- Tuesday, Mar 16, 2004
ZNet Article The Spanish People Show the Way -
- Friday, Mar 12, 2004
ZNet Article Whether yesterday's attacks in Spain, in which 190 people were killed and nearly 1500 wounded, were carried out by the Basque separatist ETA or by al-Qaeda, they make one thing very clear: terrorism cannot be fought by military means.
After the f... -
- Friday, Feb 13, 2004
ZNet Article For at least six months, I have been resisting early pronouncements of Bush’s political death. Most of them seemed to be composed of wishful thinking, extrapolating from simple facts -- the disaster of the Iraq occupation, the mostly joble... -
- Tuesday, Feb 03, 2004
ZNet Article In the late 19th-century folk classics of Joel Chandler Harris, there is an episode where the wily Brer Rabbit, his main character, is caught by Brer Fox. He's stuck to a "Tar Baby," (the racism is palpable) and Brer Fox is going to eat him up. So... -
- Thursday, Jan 29, 2004
ZNet Article Winning Hearts and Minds -
- Wednesday, Jan 21, 2004
ZNet Article George W. Bush's most recent state of the union address didn't contain the caliber of bald-faced, smoking-gun lies that we have come to expect from him, like the "sixteen words" in the last one (about Iraq supposedly seeking uranium from "Africa")... -
- Tuesday, Dec 16, 2003
ZNet Article Saddam Hussein's capture and the hope he will be held accountable for crimes against the people of Iraq and neighboring states is welcome news, no matter what one's position on the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
But this doesn't vindicate the U.S. invasi... -
- Monday, Sep 01, 2003
ZNet Article Now that American-British lies and distortions about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and al-Qaida links have been thoroughly exposed, Bush administration officials have had to create new rationalizations for the Iraq war.
Deputy Se... -
- Monday, Aug 25, 2003
ZNet Article Gunpoint Democracy in Iraq -
- Friday, May 09, 2003
ZNet Article After five years spent working to end the sanctions on Iraq, I find myself in an odd position. I'm opposed to the current U.S. plans to end the sanctions.
The new situation is fascinating. For a dozen years, every time we in the anti-sanctions mo... -
- Friday, Mar 28, 2003
ZNet Article Iraq's desperate humanitarian situation has suddenly become a retroactive justification for the war, even for the attacking of civilian targets. The need to get aid into Basra has apparently prompted a British military spokesperson to designate it... -
- Thursday, Mar 20, 2003
ZNet Article Last night, our president announced a war to the nation and the world. Let us be clear about what this war is and what it is not.
This war is not the result of a failure of diplomacy.
This war is not a pre-emptive war.
This war is not about wea... - All Most Recent Content
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