Some Z Writers Newest ContentCommentary Standing before an audience at the Brookings Institute on March 8, a day before meeting U.S. President Barak Obama, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou made the case that today’s European crisis involves American interests and that today there ... Video Avi Lewis talks to Cornel West, a professor of African American Studies at Princeton, hip hop artist, and one of the most controversial academics in the US, about the state of democracy for African-Americans today, the Obama administration, and hi... ZNet Article India must open a broad-horizon dialogue with Pakistan on all issues including Afghanistan to achieve real progress in bilateral relations. ZNet Article It would be a gigantic mistake to believe that Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid or anyone else of prominence in today's Democratic Party actually gives a damn about the fate of the American people. ZNet Article The Empire will stop at nothing to find mechanisms and techniques to achieve its final objective, and we cannot disregard the possibility of a military conflict in the near future. If the US places Venezuela on the “terrorist list” this year, we c... ZNet Article The killing of Palestinian activist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on January 19, 2010 was clearly a well-planned, violent and sadistic act, committed by Israeli assassins in the supposed safety of a sovereign country. ZNet Article Alan Greenspan had a dream, or rather a nightmare. Greenspan seems to have woken up in a cold sweat one morning in fear that the period of "disinflationary pressures" that had kept inflation low since the 1990s was about to end. This was 2007, whe... -
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ZNet Article It is not an ideological issue related to the definitive hope that a better world is, and should be, possible. ZNet Article ZNet book interview, Greg Albo, Sam Gindin, and Leo Panitch, In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives PM Press, 2010 ZNet Article IT was a memorable night, albeit largely for reasons that fall considerably short of pleasantness. On June 9, 1983, I sat my last university exam. It happened to be election day in Britain, and late that evening two Indian friends and I congregate... ZNet Article The present situation in South Africa could be called "Invictus in reverse." For those who haven't had the pleasure, the film Invictus is about the way Nelson Mandela used sport, particularly the near all-white sport of rugby to unite the country ... Commentary If the new law recently passed by the State Duma goes into force, it will deliver a big blow to the Russian culture, education and public health. ZNet Article The emergence of a significant middle class – who demand increasing space for their accommodation – means that the urban poor are everywhere being constricted to a decreasing proportion of land. In these city spaces they exist as a ‘fugitive human... ZNet Article A critique of US and Israel peace organizations -
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Video Jayati Ghosh on the Greece crisis ZNet Article The current wave of strikes across Europe are only a prelude to what will come, as the ruling elite are not prepared to change their anti-crisis policies that have merely supported the corporations that caused the crisis. ZNet Article An unusual trial begins in Israel this week, and people around the world will be watching closely. It involves the tragic death of a 23-year-old American student named Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, she was crushed to death by an Israeli milita... ZNet Article How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste Commentary Adelaide is Australia's festival city. Its arts festival is currently in swing. Polite debate, aesthetics and high-octane wine are putting the world to rights. With one exception. Adelaide is where Rupert Murdoch began his empire. The voracious tr... ZNet Article In May of 1962, after a horrific performance at Carnegie Hall, a despondent Cash found himself approached by Ed McCurdy, a socialist and folksinger who had just barely escaped the grip of McCarthyism into the thriving Greenwich Village folk scene.... ZNet Article Given his public diplomacy skills, if Bjorn Lomborg had worked for the Bush-Cheney White House, the world might still be thinking that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. This is because there has never been any evidence to supp... -
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ZNet Article Aid Should go to Haitian Popular Organizations, not to Contractors or NGOs. An interview with Noam Chomsky... ZNet Article Washington's Cult of Narcissism and Iraq ZNet Article The attack on public education in New York State ZNet Article Exclusive interview with the young Afghan deputy thrown out of Parliament for having exposed foreign interference in her country. Commentary Seven years after Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist, was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, her family was to put the Israeli government in the dock today. ZNet Article An assessment of the Lebanese movement and its recent evolution. ZNet Article Allegations against Aristide and his supporters have never been in short supply – especially those spread by the Canadian funded "human rights group" – RNDDH. However, a funny thing happened when these cases above were, very belatedly, tested in c... -
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ZNet Article And the winner is... Iceland! According to the 2009 Global Gender Gap report of the World Economic Forum, the land of glaciers and puffins, population 319,000, is the most gender egalitarian country on earth, with women having closed 80 percent of... ZNet Article For some fifteen years now, the proposal to accord 33% reservation to Indian women has been the most consequential and contested issue in India’s political discourse. - All Newest Content
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Commentary The recent Supreme Court decision on corporate personhood, The Citizen's United case, has evoked considerable comment, and even some indignation: "Corporations have the right to spend unlimited amounts of money on politicians?!" - "outrageous!" - All Recent Commentaries
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ZNet Article An unusual trial begins in Israel this week, and people around the world will be watching closely. It involves the tragic death of a 23-year-old American student named Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, she was crushed to death by an Israeli milita... -
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ZNet Article It's been a long winter for the peace movement. Waiting for Obama has proved fruitless. The Great Recession has strengthened Wall Street and diverted attention from the wars. The debate over healthcare still won't go away and has demoralized progr... -
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ZNet Article Latin America took another historic step forward this week with the creation of a new regional organization of 32 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The United States and Canada were excluded. ZNet Article A recent assignment of mine covering Israel’s presumed links to the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh provoked some more thoughts about the New York Times reporter Ethan Bronner. He is the Jerusalem bureau chief who has been at the ... -
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ZNet Article The doctrinal assumption that “we” (the United States) are inherently benevolent, noble, well-intentioned, helpful, and democratic in our foreign policies is ubiquitous in U.S. dominant media and indeed across the spectrum of respectable opinion i... - All Featured International
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