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- Sunday, Mar 06, 2011
ZNet Article While millions of Americans are experiencing unemployment, wage stagnation, rising tuition, dwindling social services, and poverty at levels not seen since the Great Depression, an unjustifiably large proportion of our taxes are being used to caus... -
- Tuesday, May 04, 2010
ZNet Article Malalai Joya gets named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2010, but allows Ayaan Hirsi to make the announcement and distort Joya's message. -
- Tuesday, Nov 03, 2009
ZNet Article While President Barack Obama reviews his strategy on Afghanistan, a perfect moment to send a strong unified message to end the war is slipping through our fingers. Whether it's because we seem to have bought into the lies about the goals of this w... -
- Friday, Jul 10, 2009
ZNet Article Years ago, following the initial military success of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the temporary fall of the Taliban, the people of Afghanistan were promised that the occupying armies would rebuild the country and improve life for the Afgha... -
- Wednesday, May 20, 2009
ZNet Article In light of the renewed attention on Afghanistan and the recent New York Times article, Ex-U.S. Envoy May Take Key Role in Afghan Government (May 19, 2009) about Zalmay Khalilzad and his proposed future role as "Afghanistan's CEO," we present an e... -
- Saturday, Nov 29, 2008
ZNet Article Eman, an Afghan woman's rights activist with RAWA tells Uprising host, Sonali Kolhatkar, that Obama must end the occupation. -
- Saturday, May 17, 2008
ZNet Article Today Matt Gonzalez is running on an independent ticket alongside Ralph Nader for the Vice Presidency of the US.
Sonali Kolhatkar, host of Uprising, interviewed Gonzalez on May 9th in advance of a West Coast City tour with Nader.
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- Sunday, Dec 16, 2007
ZNet Article About ten thousand delegates from more than 180 nations are meeting in Bali to attempt to extend the Kyoto Protocol Global Warming Pact beyond 2012. Opposition from the United States, Canada, and Japan is likely to stand in the way of any attempts... -
- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
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- Wednesday, Nov 01, 2006
ZNet Article The following is an excerpt from “Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence†(Seven Stories, 2006) by Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls.
Once touted as a success in the “War on Terror,âS... -
- Thursday, Jun 01, 2006
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- Friday, May 05, 2006
Commentary Los Angeles is being seen as the epicenter of the new immigrant movement, -
- Monday, May 01, 2006
ZMag Article R
aúl Gatica is one of the founding members
of CIPO-RFM (Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca—Ricardo Flores
Magón), based in the southwestern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
CIPO-RFM was ... -
- Wednesday, Apr 05, 2006
ZNet Article Daily media reports over the case of Afghan Christian convert Abdul Rahman have revealed a sudden concern over Afghanistan's repressive human rights environment. But routine human rights reports of the ongoing oppression of Afghan women, suppressi... -
- Friday, Sep 16, 2005
ZNet Article The United States has supposedly created new "democracies" in Afghanistan and Iraq, but these endeavors give democracy a bad name. Sure, the two countries have some ingredients of representative democracy (elected officials, a constitution). But b... -
- Saturday, Sep 10, 2005
Commentary As I was driving to work last week I scanned my radio dial, listening to the mostly commercial radio stations on Los AngelesÕ FM spectrum. Within a few seconds of listening to each station (English and Spanish language alike), it was clear that ev... -
- Monday, Mar 28, 2005
ZNet Article In the past two years the US media have drastically reduced their coverage of Afghanistan. According to the American Journalism Review only three news organizations--Newsweek, Associated Press and the Washington Post--have full-time reporters stat... -
- Monday, Nov 01, 2004
ZMag Article Now
that the October 9 U.S.- sponsored Afghan presidential elections
are over, a huge sigh of relief is probably being heaved in Washington.
As of this writing, the vote counting has not yet begun and, according
to news ou... -
- Tuesday, Aug 31, 2004
ZNet Article “[W]hen you live in the United States, with the roar of the free market, the roar of this huge military power, the roar of being at the heart of empire, it's hard to hear the whispering of the rest of the world. And I think many U.S. citiz... -
- Saturday, Jul 31, 2004
ZNet Article In the first minute of his July 29 Democratic National Convention (DNC) acceptance speech, John Kerry told us that the Democratic Party has “one simple purpose: to make Am... -
- Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Commentary With the launching of the new fiercely partisan and influential liberal radio network nationwide, Air America, John Kerry seems poised to whisk the presidential nomination for the Democratic Party and could even win simply because he is not Bush. -
- Tuesday, Apr 13, 2004
Commentary An Open Letter to Anti-War Activists -
- Wednesday, Mar 24, 2004
ZNet Article In January 2004, the Chicago Tribune cited military sources in Washington planning a "spring offensive" on the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan "that would reach inside Pakistan with the goal of destroying Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda ... -
- Tuesday, Mar 09, 2004
ZNet Article Afghan Women Continue to Fend For Themselves -
- Friday, Feb 06, 2004
ZNet Article The fourth annual World Social Forum was, for the first time, held in a different location from Porto Alegre, Brazil, its usual home. But it wasn’t just the location that was different -- the city of Mumbai, this year’s location, w... -
- Monday, Oct 06, 2003
ZNet Article “If you harbor a terrorist, if you support a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorists. And the Taliban found out what we meant,†U.S. President George W. Bush told military personnel in Fort Stewa... -
- Saturday, Oct 04, 2003
Commentary The latest CNN/USA Today poll in the California Recall Election betrays a dangerous trend: a large majority of Californians now polled think that the recall is a good idea -- 63% compared with 59% three weeks ago. So now the candidates running to ... -
- Monday, Feb 10, 2003
ZNet Article On August 29th 2002 in Little Rock, Arkansas, George W Bush said: "We liberated Afghanistan from the clutches of a barbaric regime... We're liberators, not conquerers here in America"(1).
Addressing U.S. troops this January in Fort Hood, Texas, ... -
- Sunday, Dec 01, 2002
ZMag Article In January 2002, George W. Bush said in his State of the Union address,
“The last time we met in this chamber, the mothers and daughters
of Afghanistan were captives in their own homes, forbidden from
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- Sunday, Sep 29, 2002
ZNet Article In an article on Pacifica titled "Gloves Off", Michael Albert wrote:
"progressive organizations should employ partic... - All Most Recent Content
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