Z Friends & Staff Posts
An activist is a person who feels strongly about a cause and who is also willing to dedicate time and energy towards…
The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA), went into effect on 1st of January this year. For China, the benefits are clear, but…
AMY GOODMAN: Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with leaders of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia last week to increase support…
Bill Fletcher Jr. is a longtime labor and international activist and the former President and chief executive officer of TransAfrica Forum. He…
The killing of Palestinian activist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on January 19, 2010 was clearly a well-planned, violent and sadistic act, committed by Israeli…
[The English language version appears here at the top. A Spanish translation follows at the bottom.] For decades, Noam Chomsky has…
Washington and its willing mouthpieces in the media have for years been trying to sell us the preposterous war in Afghanistan. While…
When rank-and-file members run for office in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), it’s not easy to win—or even run. And that’s…
When American historian Howard Zinn passed away recently, he left behind a legacy that redefined our relationship to history altogether. Professor…
NLP talks to Michael Albert, co-founder of Z Magazine, ZNet and South End Press, about complementary holism, Participatory Economics and an alternative…
With the dreadful threat of yet another Israeli war in the Middle East looming, Israeli propaganda machine is likely to go into…
The media’s habit of revisiting certain issues at set intervals can be strange and even illogical at times. For example, many news…
Howard Zinn was supposed to have spoken in Olympia, Washington on February 6th. So we chose that day to do a celebration…
The Israeli military may be much less effective in winning wars than it was in the past, thanks to the stiffness of…
Jan. 21, 2010, will go down as a dark day in the history of U.S. democracy, and its decline. On that…
On January 12, Haiti was hit with an earthquake 7.0 on the Richter scale, leaving possibly 200,000 dead and 3 million affected.…
Scott Brown’s January 19 defeat of Martha Coakley in the race to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat has been greeted as a…
Guests: Noam Chomsky, author and Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT, where he taught for over half a century. He is author of…
Uri Avnery’s assessment of the recent Israeli-Turkish diplomatic and political row – that “the relationship between Turkey and Israel will probably return…
Everyone agrees that the Haiti earthquake is a serious situation. Serious enough for the US to send thousands of Marines, to take…
Should the United States be concerned about Iran’s determined efforts to reach out to Latin America? Or, as was suggestively described in…
To be a contender, “21st Century Socialist” vision needs elaboration, advocacy, and program. To improve focus and increase power, worldwide anti-capitalist organizations,…
[This is a reply to Robin Hahnelās ZNet article āHas The Left Missed The Boat On Climate Change?ā It is part of…
Writer Justin Podur visited Haiti in 2005, studying the government after the coup that overthrew the elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide…
The recent actions of people from around the world in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza have arguably represented the closest…
In this interview, Michael Albert, one of the originators of Participatory Economics (along with Robin Hahnel), is interviewed by parecon advocate Matt…
In the middle of September, Noam Chomsky was one of the guests of honor for La Jornada’s twenty-fifth anniversary. Eric French of…
As you flip through a range of channels on your TV or browse through a stack of newspapers and magazines at a…
Noam Chomsky delivers the 5th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture: The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of Imperialism at Columbia University School…
Those pesky taxi drivers of Gaza are always circulating rumors. One story that made the rounds during the first Palestinian uprising in…
One year ago, the brutal Israeli 22-day invasion of the Gaza Strip shocked the world, leaving some 1,400 people dead, thousands more…
World-renowned political organizer and one of Africa’s most celebrated poets, Dennis Brutus, died early on December 26 in Cape Town, in his…
The winter solstice of 2009 arrived as a grim metaphor for the current politics of healthcare, war and a lot more. “In…
History of US Rule in Latin America; Elections and Resistance to the Coup in Honduras – Professor Noam Chomsky PhD. Filmed by…
It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theater in France. Unlike theater, however, the…
[A Talk delivered at Boston University, March 17, 2009. Transcribed by Steve Lyne] I’ve been asked to talk about modern-day American…
Detailed accounts from participants in the recent Copenhagen climate summit are still coming in, but a few things are already quite clear,…
I wrote the following hypothetical interview Nov 5, 2008, right after Obama’s election. I sought to address people who thought the new…
November marked the anniversary of major events in 1989: “the biggest year in world history since 1945,” as British historian Timothy Garton…
(Burlington, Vt.) — Earlier this month, the "People’s Republic of Burlington" had a busy weekend mustering its “troops” for active duty on…
A just and peaceful solution to the protracted Palestinian-Israeli conflict is only possible when the US ceases to block every attempt made…
Ever since the end of Israel’s horrific military assault on Gaza in last December-January, the plight of the desperate people of Gaza…
Abstract: The terrain of "progressive labor" in the U.S. has shifted dramatically in recent years. The two-million member Service Employees International Union…
So this is how democracy works? In 2004, France banned headscarves and school principals chased after young "defiant" Muslim girls who…
Unless we re-think the export-oriented capitalism that’s causing all of our climate problems, the Copenhagen conference will be nothing more than a…
WTO+10: Before 1999, the momentum of globalization seemed to sweep everything in front of it, including the truth. But in Seattle, ordinary…
Like scores of journalists, I attentively listened as Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivering his closing remarks, and for the last…
This interview was conducted on Oct. 9, 2009, at Professor Noam Chomsky’s office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.…
A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and…
When British Foreign Secretary David Miliband uttered a few words regarding the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank,…
