Z Friends & Staff Posts
Michel, I will confine my reply to points of disagreement, or confusion, for brevity, after addressing, again, one overarching issue that seems…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] Note: This text is adapted from the appendix of the book Changing Venezuela…
The election victory of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is likely to complicate US President Barack Obama’s new approach to his country’s conflict…
When he opened the door to the Holocaust Museum on June 10th, Stephen Johns probably thought that he was being polite in…
Let’s start with the obvious. President Obama’s speech was a remarkable speech for a President of the United States of America. Leaving…
In my question/answer about the Canada Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA), I cited a report by the International Crisis Group (ICG), an…
In Pakistan’s Swabi district, a bumpy road leads to Shah Mansoor, a small village surrounded by farmland. Just outside the village, uniform…
His room is ready; the walls have fresh paint and my kids prepared a basket of chocolates and other treats to place…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications…] Preface: When envisioning a piece for this ZNet exchange I originally thought…
The Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas meetings in May, followed by Obama’s speech in Cairo, have been widely interpreted as a turning point in US Middle…
Among many major misconceptions pertaining to Arabs and Muslims is the common belief that they are a weak-willed, irrelevant collective, easily influenced…
A CNN headline, reporting Obama’s plans for his June 4 Cairo address, reads ‘Obama looks to reach the soul of the Muslim…
The Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) was withdrawn from the table while being debated for its second reading in Canadian Parliament on…
"We’ve accomplished quite a few things, and I think the most important one is to cement the principle that the path to…
Will China be the "growth pole" that will snatch the world from the jaws of depression? This question has become a favorite…
For me the issue regarding p2p is how does one pursue it in a manner that pushes toward benefits for all workers…
"Gaza is not on the Pope’s itinerary, nor will it be. There will be no change in these plans. But I’ll say…
As Americans are inundated with revelations about the lies, torture and other crimes that accompanied the US-led war in Iraq, many who…
In 2006 we wrote Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence (Seven Stories) at a time when most Americans, even…
A collectively drafted open letter from the Mobilization for Climate Justice, calling for major actions on the eve. of this fall’s global…
The Sri Lankan military now (May 16/09) controls virtually all of the territory that was once controlled by the Tamil Tiger (Liberation…
US President Barack Obama took the podium in a White House press conference and stood with an all-embellished confidence that often accompanies…
I continue to mainly wonder what you see as the deep benefits of peer production for people’s options at work or more…
Michel, you don’t “think the human mind can capture the full complexity of social life.” True, but parecon proposes alterations in four…
From a distance, the struggle between Hamas and Fatah appears commonplace, a typical third world country’s political scuffle over interpretation of democracy…
With all the debates and controversies that surrounded Murray Bookchin’s many years of active political engagement, few commentators have addressed the lasting…
THE COURAGEOUS ISRAELI journalist Amira Hass, in her 1996 book Drinking the Sea at Gaza, tells us that in Israeli slang "go…
Michel, my main reaction to your essay is questions, which will make this reply just a bit longer than hoped. You…
Incongruous. One can hardly think of a more suited term to describe the new US administration’s approach to peacemaking in the Middle…
Opening essay offered as part of an extended exploration of views conducted with Michel Bauwens. Digital Curator and co-founder Peer to Peer…
The reverberations of the Israeli war on Gaza are still felt throughout the Middle East. One could in fact speak of a…
With all of the discussion about the pirating of a US ship off the coast of Somalia, it is possible to overlook…
AMY GOODMAN: Today, a conversation with one of the most important dissident intellectuals of our time, Noam Chomsky, on the global economic…
On the eightieth anniversary of the 1929 Stock Market Crash that led to the Great Depression, the United States is once again…
Noam Chomsky spoke to a full capacity crowd at the Orpheum Theatre 4-7-09.
Any variation of the words "Palestine" and "massacre" are sure to yield millions of results on major search engines on the World…
The ‘Alternative Economy Cultures (alt.econ.cult) programme on April 3rd & 5th brings together leading international and Finnish thinkers, cultural practitioners and activists,…
AMY GOODMAN: President Obama and European leaders arrived in France [yesterday] ahead of a key NATO summit to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of…
Sometimes I feel like I am reliving the era of President Lyndon B. Johnson. The era of ‘guns and butter,’ as they…
It’s one thing to study online articles describing the MQ-9 Reapers and MQ-1 Predators. It’s quite another to identify these drones as…
March27, 2009 — Top Khmer Rouge (KR) leaders are going on trial in Cambodia. You have some history with Cambodia and have…
The Group of 20 (G20) is making a big show of getting together to come to grips with the global economic crisis.…
The G-20 summit convening in London on April 2 is preparing to create a quarter trillion dollars of brand new stimulus money…
"It’s a well-established fact," reports The New York Times Book Review, "that Americans are reading fewer books than they used to." (1)…
Noam Chomsky speaks to Paul Jay on the Obama – Geithner plan. Chomsky says that "they’re simply recycling, the Bush-Paulson measures and…
On the top page of ZNet, in the box in the center column labeled Venezuela, for example, you will see some interviews,…
A U.S. Capitol Police officer stopped me as I tried to make my way inside the House Financial Services Subcommittee hearing on…
One of the oddest ‘espionage’ cases on record is that of the so-called ‘Cuban 5.’ The US Supreme Court is presently being…
It seems that the Palestinian-Israeli ‘peace process’ is in serious jeopardy. At least, this is the immediate impression one gleans from media…
The current economic crisis disrupts an already monumentally despicable system. The crisis makes what is horrible, horrific. But what can one do?…
