Z Friends & Staff Posts
[A Talk Delivered in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 9, 2010 at the A-Fest, Festival of the Anti-Authoritarians] Thank you for inviting me.…
Norman Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. He wrote the weekly "Media Beat" column from 1992 to 2009.…
Cafes are full in Athens, and droves of tourists still visit the Parthenon and go island-hopping in the fabled Aegean. But beneath…
Laurie Goodstein’s article, ‘American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong?’ was intended as a sympathetic reading of the concerns of US Muslim…
[Presented in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 8, 2010 at the A-Fest, Festival of the Anti-Authoritarians] We are living in a world where…
My apologies to T. S. Eliot, but September, not April, is the cruelest month. Before 9/11/2001, there was 9/11/1973, when Gen. Pinochet…
A picture is not always worth a thousand words. The recently released photographs of Palestinian and Israeli leaders in Washington during their…
Gregory Wilpert is a sociologist, freelance journalist, editor of Venezuelanalysis.com, and author of the recently published book, Changing Venezuela by Taking Power.…
Writers often romanticize their subjects. At times they even manipulate their readers. A book – or any piece of writing for that…
Greg Wilpert on relations between the two countries…. Gregory Wilpert is a sociologist, freelance journalist, editor of Venezuelanalysis.com, and author of the…
The soldiers of the US 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division hollered as they made their way into Kuwait. "We won," they…
Brian Tokar, Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change ISBN 978-82-93064-01-5, Communalism Press, Published June 2010 Available from…
Why I Support the Boycott of Israeli Goods from the Olympia Food Coop by Peter Bohmer, August 23, 2010 The decision…
The real heroes of what’s left of the labor movement are not people with full-time union jobs, union-furnished cars and credit cards,…
With the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, the administration, the military and the media are trying to put a positive…
The controversy over the right of Muslim Americans to build community center and mosque a short distance from the site of the…
Still beset by ethnic divisions 45 years after independence from Britain, the country’s labor movement is now offering ‘bold leadership,’ according to…
Two young girls stood, as if frozen, starting below them at an ever vibrant Beirut. Their balcony, like the rest of their…
A new government in the Philippines offers the country a rare window to fundamentally shift away from failed economic policies, subordinate to…
Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him.…
An initial look at the first 76,000 records in the "Afghan War Diary" leaked by Wikileaks yields some important information, much of…
Beirut, Lebanon — Jamal is a Lebanese driver in his late 50’s. He appeared unshaven and terribly exhausted as he drove his…
Chomsky compares media reaction to Wiki leaks and a recent report on Fallujah…
Thousands of faithful assiduously listened as I outlined the challenges facing Palestine and its people. Cries of ‘Allahu Akbar’ – God is…
The past few years have proven to be particularly awful for the Palestinian people. The suffocating Israeli siege of Gaza, despite some…
Each time Israel fails to keep its ‘side of the bargain,’ the Palestinian Authority responds with the same redundant language. The cycle…
Sasha Polakow-Suransky, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa (New York: Pantheon Books, 2010). 324 pps. $27.95 hardcover …
MANILA, Philippines — Public attention has focused, in recent days, on the battle for the helm of high-profile agencies such as the…
Cluster bombs are in the news again, thanks to a recent report from Amnesty International. The human rights agency has confirmed…
In the last five years, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has gone from being a media darling to generating more bad…
Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably…
When the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were first declared, they were met with a sense of promise. A decade later,…
What it might have looked like inside the fence Hosting the G20 in Toronto was the first of a series of political…
With justifiable pride (and the numbers to prove it), the 1.9 million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has long claimed to…
It’s been a week since Rolling Stone published its article on General Stanley McChrystal that eventually led to him being fired by…
Finally, a parliamentary debate in Lebanon over the human rights of Palestinian refugees. What is unfortunate though, is that granting basic civil…
"Even despots, gangsters and pirates have specific sensitiveness, (and) follow some specific morals." The claim was made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep…
Twenty Eight months ago, over night a change transformed what had already been a long standing but relatively low energy “project” of…
"Even despots, gangsters and pirates have specific sensitiveness, (and) follow some specific morals." The claim was made by Turkish Prime Minister…
We have found ourselves wondering why President Obama is being ‘red-baited’ by the political Right. Any reasonable person looking at the policies…
War in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Collapse of the Climate Talks: Where is the Change Obama Promised? David Goessmann: Welcome to “Kontext.”…
From a young age, I would embark with my family on the short journey from our refugee camp to the beach. We…
The New York Times front-paged a story on the conflicting video images of the assault on the Gaza flotilla, concluding that neither…
“Any depictions of the prophet are considered blasphemous by Muslims,” wrote Agencies, as reported readily by Aljazeera.net English. The above statement is…
For six days in late May, 2010, Emergency, an Italian NGO providing surgery and basic health care in Afghanistan since 1999, welcomed…
Diane Wilson, a fourth generation shrimper from the Texas Gulf and a founder of CODEPINK, has been watching the BP spill and the…
The debate is no longer confined to a few academics in distant universities. It is now a widely prevalent, mainstream topic of…
Nearly a week after the event, Thailand is still stunned by the military assault on the Red Shirt encampment in the tourist…
When former US President George W. Bush left the White House, he left behind one of the most unpleasant legacies in history.…
In the past the Philippines foreign policy has been overly submissive to US interests and often failed to promote the country’s own…
