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- Saturday, Nov 19, 2011
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- Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010
ZNet Article In the first week of 2010, five US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan. The last week of 2009 saw the deaths of eight CIA agents there. Several more Afghan civilians were killed during this period, including the apparent executions of several youn... -
- Saturday, Oct 03, 2009
ZNet Article On October 11th, 2009, a march billed as the National March for Equality will take place in Washington, DC. The organizers of the march are organizing under a single demand: "Equal protection in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states.... -
- Saturday, May 30, 2009
ZNet Article Dick Cheney believes that the torture of terror suspects prevented another attack on US soil. Barack Obama believes that terror suspects should be held indefinitely without charges. Both men claim that the measures they support are allowable in ... -
- Friday, Jan 02, 2009
ZNet Article There's got to be some irony in the US transference of control to Iraqi security forces while the Israelis pound Gaza. Why? Because, despite the hoopla in the US press and its Iraqi clones, the nature of the control being "given back" to the Ira... -
- Tuesday, Dec 09, 2008
ZNet Article I have to be honest here. I don't understand all the stuff coming across the news media about short selling and bank collapses, but I do understand this. There is a lot of money somewhere in the world and it is produced by the people who work, n... -
- Friday, Nov 14, 2008
ZNet Article I can't deny the exhilaration I felt on Tuesday, November 4th when the presidential election was called for Barack Obama. When people in my working class multiethnic neighborhood started setting off firecrackers and shouting out their windows, my... -
- Saturday, Nov 01, 2008
ZNet Article The news reports were uncertain at first. Did a US military unit attack a village in Syria? Did they kill eight people? Decisive words from military spokespeople did not come... -
- Friday, Oct 24, 2008
ZNet Article I should be used to it by now, but I'm not. When I read statements from US policymakers telling the world that Iraq is still not capable of defending itself without US help, I am still angered and amazed at the bold-faced arrogance. Most recentl... -
- Tuesday, Sep 09, 2008
ZNet Article The recent selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential nominee has revived the media's interest in what they love to call the white working class in the United States. Her husband, write commentators across the spectrum, is a unio... -
- Friday, Sep 05, 2008
ZNet Article Let me begin this piece by stating that I don't give a rat's ass about the Jerry Springer-like drama playing out around the GOP vice presidential pick Sarah Palin. Let me also state that I seriously wonder how long it will be before the folks tha... -
- Tuesday, Aug 19, 2008
ZNet Article Karl Marx once wrote, "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” He wrote these words in his opening paragraph... -
- Sunday, Jul 27, 2008
ZNet Article As it has been throughout much of its history, today's Latin America is a continent of change. Unlike much of its history, the forces that seem to have the upper hand right now are those that have been historically shut out. The poor, the indigeno... -
- Monday, Jul 21, 2008
ZNet Article It's the perennial thorn in the colonialist's side. It's the war that won't go away. It's a wasp sting that swells, slowly choking the life out of the sting's recipient. It is the nearly seven-year old occupation of Afghanistan by the United St... -
- Wednesday, Jul 16, 2008
ZNet Article Recently, Washington's man in Baghdad Nouri al-Maliki has been making noises about the need to set a "hard" timetable detailing the departure of US occupation forces from Iraq. One wonders if Mr. al-Maliki is sincere in his demand or if he is pos... -
- Saturday, Jun 28, 2008
ZNet Article In the good ol' USA, I'm considered a white guy. Despite my leftist/anarcho politics and my preference for news that isn't filtered through the capitalist media, I'm a white guy as far as polling demographics go. I've got friends who fear immigr... -
- Monday, Jun 23, 2008
ZNet Article There have been several histories of the US war in Vietnam by US writers. Very few of them have stood the test of time. Marilyn Young's Vietnam Wars 1945-1990 and Bernard Fall's Street Without Joy stand out in my mind as two that have, even thou... -
- Tuesday, Jun 17, 2008
ZNet Article Grizzly bears and gray wolves. John McCain and Al Gore. Hog farming and the Endangered Species Act. All of these and more are the focus of Jeffrey St. Clair's latest book Born Under a Bad Sky. Myths of governmental efforts to protect the enviro... -
- Thursday, May 22, 2008
ZNet Article It is fair to say that the antiwar movement in the US is moribund. A movement that put a million people in the streets a month before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and has drawn as many as half-a-million protesters to protests as recently as Janua... -
- Wednesday, May 14, 2008
ZNet Article Recently, more than 100 workers in Pascagoula, Mississippi walked off the job at a Mississippi shipyard to protest conditions similar to slavery. -
- Sunday, Apr 27, 2008
ZNet Article Kennebunkport is a vacation home of the Bushes and the place where many of America’s wealthy like to “recreate as they wish,” as George HW Bush’s said in 1990 as he prepared to send the US military into Iraq. It is now also a battleground over fr... -
- Saturday, Apr 26, 2008
ZNet Article I first heard “Alice's Restaurant” in 1968 on Washington DC's underground radio station WHFS. The most memorable time I heard it was in May 1970 on the day after the military murders at Kent State when a friend read it in homeroom at the junior ... -
- Thursday, Apr 24, 2008
ZNet Article Recently, the Evergreen State College branch of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was suspended by the college administration from the campus in Olympia, Washington. This suspension occurred following a series of events that began after a p... ZNet Article Recently, the Evergreen State College branch of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was suspended by the college administration from the campus in Olympia, Washington. This suspension occurred following a series of events that began after a p... ZNet Article Making occupation and calling it peace. Killing fewer and calling it progress. Rotating troops and calling it a withdrawal. Setting up new death squads and calling them allies. Lowering standards and calling it opening new opportunities. -
- Monday, Apr 21, 2008
ZNet Article Recently, the Green Zone parliament in Baghdad drafted a law that would forbid any political party that has an armed wing from participating in the upcoming regional elections in Iraq. This law comes on the heels of an announcement by the Green Z... -
- Thursday, Apr 03, 2008
ZNet Article April 4, 1968 was the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee... -
- Friday, Mar 28, 2008
ZNet Article Just when the media in the US was getting ready to call the war in Iraq over, the US military and its client regime stationed in the Green Zone decided to take on the Iraqi population that looks to Muqtada al-Sadr and their armed forces. One can ... -
- Tuesday, Mar 18, 2008
ZNet Article Pretty much everyone but the dead know that the US occupation of Iraq is now entering its sixth year. When one looks for comparable circumstances in recent history, the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land of course comes to mind, but so does th... -
- Thursday, Mar 13, 2008
ZNet Article Recently, the Boston Globe reported that the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) had set up an offshore company to hire close to half of the men and women working for KBR in Iraq as contractors. According to the report, this enable... - All Most Recent Content
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