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- Wednesday, Dec 17, 2008
ZNet Article Assessing the Bush legacy - from its illegitimate birth; through its lawless, belligerent years; to the world potentially on the brink at its end... -
- Monday, Dec 15, 2008
ZNet Article Post-9/11, the "war on terror" has been a jihad against Islam, the colonizers v. the colonized, or what Edward Said called "the familiar (America, Europe, us) and the strange (the Orient, East, them)." Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is one of its most tragic,... -
- Friday, Dec 12, 2008
ZNet Article Investors forget what Keynes once taught when he said: "Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise become the bubble on a whirlwind of speculation. When the capital developme... -
- Monday, Dec 08, 2008
ZNet Article In a new article, economics professor Richard Wolff explains the current crisis in Marxian terms. It "emerged from the workings of the capitalist class structure. Capitalism's history displays repeated boom-bust cycles punctuated by bubbles. They ... -
- Thursday, Dec 04, 2008
ZNet Article Dream on if you believe it, and something must be up if Karl Rove says it. In a November 28 Wall Street Journal op-ed, he called it "a first-rate economic team" while at the same time objecting to possible (not yet announced) stimulus package elem... -
- Wednesday, Nov 26, 2008
ZNet Article Israel is a serial human rights international law abuser. The UN Human Rights Commission affirms that it violates nearly all 149 articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention that governs the treatment of civilians in war and under occupation and is gu... -
- Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008
ZNet Article Extra-judicial killings are indefensible, morally abhorrent, and illegal under international laws and norms. Article 23b of the 1907 Hague Regulations prohibits "assassination, proscription, or outlawry of an enemy, or putting a price upon an enem... -
- Friday, Nov 14, 2008
ZNet Article Since taking office in February 1999, America's dominant media have relentlessly attacked Chavez because of the good example he represents and threat it might spread in spite of scant chance it will in today's climate. -
- Wednesday, Nov 12, 2008
ZNet Article On November 4, the world exhaled. The age of George Bush ended, and a new one under Barak Obama began. With high hopes he'll reverse the toxic legacy of the past eight years. Adopt socially progressive policies. End foreign wars. Govern the nation... -
- Wednesday, Nov 05, 2008
ZNet Article Elected Haiti's president in 1990. Its first ever democratically chosen one. By a sweeping two-thirds majority. Took office in February 1991. Deposed by an army-led coup in September with all the earmarks of being made-in-Washington. Returned to o... ZNet Article In its latest economic outlook, Merrill Lynch economists "worry about inflation, or more precisely," a lack of it. From crashing global equity markets, falling commodity prices, rising unemployment, stagnant wages, over-indebted households, declin... -
- Sunday, Nov 02, 2008
ZNet Article From too much of a good thing. From the 1980s and 1990s excesses. From the longest ever US bull market. Heavily manipulated to keep it levitating. From August 1982 to January 2000. An illusory reprieve from October 2002 to October 2007. Fluctuatio... -
- Saturday, Nov 01, 2008
ZNet Article Despite his advanced age, the news came as a shock. An era had passed. On October 31, author, activist, actor, broadcaster, and mensch for all seasons Louis "Studs" Terkel died peacefully at his Chicago North Side home at age 96. Already weakened ... -
- Wednesday, Oct 29, 2008
ZNet Article Throughout much of American history, dissent was never tolerated if thought to threaten entrenched interests. -
- Monday, Oct 27, 2008
ZNet Article Given the gravity of today's financial crisis, one name stands out above others. The "maestro," as Bob Woodward called him in his book by that title. The "Temple of Boom" chairman, according to a New York Times book review. -
- Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008
ZNet Article Whatever we know about today's financial crisis. Think we know. Eventually will know in the fullness of time. -
- Monday, Oct 20, 2008
ZNet Article Hard and troubled. Racked by fear and uncertainty. For many trauma. Experts predict, speculate and conjecture, but no one knows for sure what's ahead. Key questions are whether we're in a protracted and severe recession. Or at the onset of another... -
- Monday, Oct 13, 2008
ZNet Article Early in the month, a different October surprise arrived. Not the expected one... -
- Friday, Oct 10, 2008
ZNet Article Since 1967, Israel has systematically and relentlessly sought control of the entire "Holy Land" by seizing Gaza, the West Bank and all of Jerusalem. The entire area remains occupied and, according to Israeli professor and activist Jeff Halper, the... -
- Monday, Oct 06, 2008
ZNet Article The present crisis shows industrial capitalism's failure. Financialization-based. Speculative finance. Frankenstein finance. Unfettered. Unregulated. Greed-based. Rewarding fraud and harming people. -
- Thursday, Oct 02, 2008
ZNet Article For 32 years, Sonoma State University's (SSU) Project Censored has pioneered US media democracy, research, and First Amendment issues. Founded by Carl Jensen in 1976, it's now headed by Professor Peter Phillips, currently on sabbatical leave, with... -
- Monday, Sep 29, 2008
ZNet Article The world as we know it is changing. Industrial capitalism. The entire global economic system. Interconnected. What affects one nation touches others... -
- Saturday, Sep 27, 2008
ZNet Article US intervention is innovative and determined to regain control of Venezuela and its vast hydrocarbon resources, the largest by far in the hemisphere after Canada. -
- Monday, Sep 22, 2008
ZNet Article Born in West Jerusalem in 1935. Exiled in December 1947. Said was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 1991, a malignant cancer of the bone marrow and blood. At 6:45AM on September 25, 2003, he succumbed (at age 67) after a painful coura... -
- Thursday, Sep 11, 2008
ZNet Article Ignoring public sentiment, both party nominees stress "national security" and face off on who's toughest on "terrorism." For 2009, expect more of the same. A continued right wing agenda. Bigger budgets for militarism. Police state repression for e... -
- Friday, Sep 05, 2008
ZNet Article According to The New York Times, New Orleans' levees "were tested by a heavy storm surge but held, even though the repair and reconstruction work from Hurricane Katrina, is far from finished....waves pounded against a floodwall on the Inner Harbor... -
- Tuesday, Sep 02, 2008
ZNet Article Prior to entering WW II, US strategists had a clear aim in mind at its conclusion - to hold unchallengeable power in a new post-war global system: military, economic and political in a "Grand Area" encompassing the West and Far East. Essentially m... -
- Friday, Aug 29, 2008
ZNet Article The (1984) UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is explicit in all its provisions. It prohibits torture and degrading treatment of all kinds against anyone for any purpose without exception. -
- Monday, Aug 25, 2008
ZNet Article For the West, everything changed but stayed the same, hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in the shadows during the Yeltsin years, certain to reemerge once a more resolute Russian leader took over. If not Vladimir Putin, someone else ... -
- Thursday, Aug 21, 2008
ZNet Article Credit both titles to the book authors. Cindy Sheehan as a mother, peace activist, and now candidate to succeed Nancy Pelosi in California's Eighth Congressional District. Pelosi as both "guardian" and possessor of what Davids Cromwell and Edwards... - All Most Recent Content
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