http://www.zcommunications.org/znet ZNet Recent Items Feed en-us Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:23:39 +0000 /police-chief-timoney-meet-bahraini-mothers-by-medea-benjamin The police don’t just shoot outside to disperse crowds. They use the tear gas canisters as weapons, shooting them directly at people Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:32:12 +0000 /mad-passionate-love-and-violence-by-rebecca-solnit Genuine gains come thanks to relatively modest exercises of popular power Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:45:52 +0000 /occupy-movement-saving-homes-by-adam-peck The Occupy Wall Street movement, as we noted last month, is shifting its focus to helping the 99 percent avoid foreclosures Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:26:15 +0000 /the-10-most-excellent-reasons-to-attack-iran-by-david-swanson Iran has threatened to fight back if attacked, and that's a war crime. War crimes must be punished Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:03:08 +0000 /greek-hospital-now-under-workers-control-by-working-class-self-organization Health workers in Kilkis, Greece, have occupied their local hospital and have issued a statement saying it is now fully under workers control Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:06:42 +0000 /a-tale-of-two-voyages-by-joseph-nevins There is a long history of deaths associated with the dangerous journey of migrants clandestinely trying to reach Puerto Rico from the Dominican Republic Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:37:16 +0000 /silence-as-bahraini-children-are-stabbed-and-gassed-by-tighe-barry So it goes in a world so addicted to oil, money and power that children can be stabbed, kidnapped, tortured, terrorized and gassed with nary a word from the outside world Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:34:42 +0000 /anticipating-fear-by-mary-elizabeth-king Weakening the grip of fear can benefit everyone embarking on nonviolent action Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:40:45 +0000 /furious-charges-stunning-irrationality-and-utter-nonsense-noam-chomsky-responds-to-john-grays-book-review-by-noam-chomsky 'Furious Charges, Stunning Irrationality And Utter Nonsense' Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:51:11 +0000 /an-apology-ceremony-that-we-need-to-publicize-by-bill-fletcher What is at stake in this ceremony is not only the apology but what it says about racism and ethnic cleansing in times of economic crisis Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:26:08 +0000 /parallelisms-sankara-the-hero-who-defied-his-creditors-by-leonidas-oikonomakis-1 “Those who led us to indebting ourselves had gambled as if in a casino" Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:27:48 +0000 /shame-on-europe-for-betraying-greece-by-william-wall Capitalism is triumphant as EU states sacrifice the Greek people in a desperate attempt to appease the gods of speculation Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:35:29 +0000 /eric-cantors-wall-street-insider-trading-loophole-by-robert-weissman Knowing that a committee chair plans to add an obscure provision to a piece of legislation could translate into major, short-term advantage on the stock markets Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:17:10 +0000 /protest-movement-topples-government-by-victor-cosmin After 28 days of protests, despite a harsh winter,the Romanian working class and youth stood up to the abuse and repression of the government Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:47:46 +0000 /fracking-obama-and-the-2012-debate-by-ted-glick It is up to the climate movement and the movements against extreme energy extraction to speak up and take action loudly and clearly to force those who want to lead us to respond Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:36:07 +0000 /we-are-drowning-on-a-road-to-nowhere-new-war-on-the-horizon-by-danny-schechter If there was ever a time for progressives to unite around some coherent ten point plan that can be used to broaden the movement for change, this is it Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:41:14 +0000 /scoring-the-global-war-on-terror-by-andrew-j-bacevich Once targeted assassination becomes your policy, the list of targets has a way of growing ever longer Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:46:22 +0000 /bolivia-challenges-along-path-of-governing-by-obeying-the-people-by-federico-fuentes There is a dilemma arising from tensions created when a project strategic to overall national development encounters resistance from those who will be locally affected Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:58:43 +0000 /why-students-are-hunger-striking-in-virginia-by-david-swanson Twelve students at the University of Virginia on Saturday began a hunger strike for a living wage policy for university employees Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:41:13 +0000 /does-aipac-want-war-by-robert-naiman If a bill pushed by Lieberman passes, it could give the US "political authorisation for military force" against Iran