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- Sunday, Apr 01, 2012
ZNet Article The new French president will have to make a decision about a European treaty that would demand still greater austerity -
- Sunday, Mar 04, 2012
ZNet Article Saudi Arabia’s record is no better than Iran’s when it comes to respect for human rights. Yet the international community always manages to overlook the Wahhabi monarchy -
- Saturday, Feb 04, 2012
ZNet Article From now on, we must insist that the banks cease to be in the hands of private interests -
- Saturday, Nov 05, 2011
ZNet Article As capitalism faces the worst economic crisis since the1930s, the parties of the left are silent or embarrassed -
- Tuesday, Jul 05, 2011
ZNet Article This is not a technical and financial debate but a political and social battle -
- Wednesday, May 04, 2011
ZNet Article The democratic Arab revolts are redrawing political, diplomatic and ideological boundaries in the Middle East -
- Sunday, Mar 06, 2011
Commentary The targets for the lethal bullets may be varied – Shia or Sunni, moderate or radical, pro-western or anti-imperialist – but the regimes that fire those bullets against their own people are identical. -
- Sunday, Jan 02, 2011
ZNet Article The world narrowly escaped nuclear war in October 1962... -
- Saturday, Dec 04, 2010
ZNet Article Neo-liberals are worrying about the poor nowadays. Britain’s Conservative prime minister David Cameron proposes a massive increase in university tuition fees, already raised by his Labour predecessor, Tony Blair. -
- Saturday, Oct 30, 2010
ZNet Article France hasn’t seen demonstrations like this for 40 years.... -
- Wednesday, Sep 22, 2010
ZNet Article Bibi Aisha was on the cover of Time magazine last month, a young Afghan woman with no ears or nose; it is claimed that she was deliberately mutilated because of the Taliban. -
- Thursday, Sep 03, 2009
ZNet Article A Republican Congress and President Bill Clinton abolished a welfare programme in 1996 under the (largely fallacious) pretext that it bred fraud, waste and abuse. Thirteen years on, the reforms that Barack Obama is proposing will not fundamentally... -
- Tuesday, Feb 03, 2009
ZNet Article Israel is free to do as it likes. Its army had already destroyed most of the Palestinian infrastructure funded by the EU and there had been little or no reaction, no legal action, no call for reparations. -
- Thursday, Dec 11, 2008
ZNet Article The rich men's club, founded 34 years ago, was beginning to show its age. It had become too exclusive, too western, too cosy. Initially, Asia was only represented by Japan, which generally had nothing to say, and Latin America and Africa were not ... -
- Wednesday, Nov 05, 2008
ZNet Article In 1952, when the US was at the very height of its power, General Douglas MacArthur warned fellow Americans of "our own relative decline, our inability to conserve resources, the rising burden of our fiscal commitments, an astronomically rising pu... -
- Sunday, Oct 05, 2008
ZNet Article How could the Republicans boast about their liberal values and their record in government when public funds are currently being used to fill the black hole created by US banks? Most Americans are in sour mood, as rising energy prices reduce their ... -
- Tuesday, Sep 02, 2008
ZNet Article The question of responsibility for the hostilities in the Caucasus shouldn't worry us too much. Less than a week after Georgia's invasion, two well-known French commentators said it was old stuff. An influential neo-conservative from the United St... -
- Thursday, Aug 14, 2008
ZNet Article Barack Obama is a lucky man: young, of mixed race, thought likely to make it to the White House, to succeed one of the most unpopular presidents in US history. He appears better equipped than anyone else to "renew American leadership in the world"... -
- Tuesday, Jul 08, 2008
ZNet Article Imagine a man on trial for his life. The jury brings in a verdict of not guilty, so the judge immediately invites counsel for the prosecution to complete his closing speech, and then the accused is found guilty and sentenced to death. The Irish re... -
- Tuesday, Jun 03, 2008
ZNet Article Life is getting harder for most people... -
- Thursday, May 08, 2008
ZNet Article The International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organisation promised that more trade would help to eradicate poverty and hunger. Foodcrops? Self-sufficiency in food? They had a better idea. Local farms would be closed down or encouraged to co... -
- Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008
Book Le grand bond en arrière ... -
- Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008
ZNet Article In theory, the United States is all for free trade and is the leading advocate of the system. But, faced with a recession and a colossal trade deficit, it is reconsidering, as everyone knew it would. The US military contract for 79 refuelling tank... -
- Thursday, Mar 06, 2008
ZNet Article Some of the 27 member states of the European Union may soon find themselves subject to institutions their people have rejected: 1 January 2009 is the final date for ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, signed by the heads of state and government in ... -
- Thursday, Feb 07, 2008
ZNet Article Writer Bernard-Henri Lévy has published what he calls a "manifesto to save the left" and stepped into the limelight...
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- Thursday, Nov 16, 2006
ZNet Article The Democrats made full use of the situation in Iraq in their successful campaign for Senate and House seats in the mid-term ele... -
- Wednesday, Mar 15, 2006
ZNet Article Robert Greenwald's documentary, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (1), opens in a huge room packed with shareholders attending the company's annual meeting. They greet the CEO, H Lee Scott, with an ovation as he takes the podium.
He tells them... -
- Saturday, Jun 04, 2005
Commentary There is one tiny problem with most of the analysis of last Sunday's vote in France. Those who probe the motivations of the large majority who voted no (54.87%) forget to remind us that they, overwhelmingly, voted yes. -
- Saturday, Oct 30, 2004
ZNet Article Despite the usual voter apathy of Americans, the turnout on 2 November is expected to exceed European levels (1). Will that be because of 9/11 and George Bush's response to it - the provocative policies coming out... -
- Tuesday, Oct 12, 2004
ZNet Article SOME of the most down-at-heel homes in the remotest villages of West Virginia sport posters for George Bush and Dick Cheney, although their occupants ... - All Most Recent Content
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