Z Friends & Staff Posts
The US has decided to be ‘flexible’ regarding its once touted call for a total Israeli freeze on the expansion of its…
[Author, journalist, film maker John Pilger speaks at Socialism 2009 www.socialistworker.org; wwwhaymarketbooks.org Filmed by Paul Hubbard at the Womens Building in San…
I was raised, like most Irish-Catholics, not to speak ill of the dead—at least while the wake is still underway. Of course, the…
Gaza’s troubles have somehow been relegated, if not completely dropped from the mainstream media’s radar, and subsequently the world’s conscience and consciousness.…
With elections just around the corner in Afghanistan, it might be timely to reflect on the US engagement with that stricken nation…
THESE ARE extraordinary times. Flag-wrapped coffins of 18-year-old soldiers killed in a failed, illegal and vengeful invasion are paraded along a Wiltshire…
The last week or so has been the right-wingers-at-town-meetings moment, and it looks like it’s going to be supplemented by something similar…
Kipping: You have participated in several World Social Forums (WSF). What hopes and expectations did you have? Have they been fulfilled? Albert:…
This is hardly the rational order of things. An overpowering military occupation was meant to be resisted by an equally determined, focused…
Official Washington is buzzing about "metrics." Can the war in Afghanistan be successful? Don’t ask the dead. On August 7, under the…
The Media, the Left and Power TM: Why do you think it is important for progressives to understand the media and participate…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] For much of the 19th and 20th century, socialism was…
When seen from a distance, kites in Gaza may look quite ordinary. But while Gazan children, in many respects, are just children,…
Address to the United Nations General Assembly Thematic Dialogue on the Responsibility to Protect, the United Nations, New York, 23 July 2009…
Barbara’s Epstein’s article “Why the U.S. Left is Weak and What to Do About It” is an important one as we…
Israeli officials face a conundrum that may take more than military muscle-flexing to resolve: how to deal with Iran? The solution to…
THE collapse of neoliberal economics, with its worship of the “self-regulating market,” has had among its most significant consequences the revival of…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] Hi, Len. There are a number of Solidarity…
July 20, 1969 I was in Hyannis, Massachusetts. I was watching all the coverage of the moon landing and was positively thrilled.…
We’re all struggling with how to think — and what to do — in the face of the “great recession.” An…
Media eulogies for Walter Cronkite — including from progressive commentators — rarely talk about his coverage of the Vietnam War before…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] What sorts of decision-making institutions and practices would be appropriate…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] The present essay reviews in summary form the key ideas for…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] EXPLANATORY NOTE: Some of these ideas were debated at the Gyeongsang University…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] Introduction Imagine twenty tentative claims about vision and strategy for a participatory…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] Being active in the anti-war movement, supporting eviction blockades in my city,…
Robert McNamara’s Second Vietnam Walden Bello | July 13, 2009 Editor: John Feffer The conventional view of Robert McNamara, who passed away…
Years ago, following the initial military success of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the temporary fall of the Taliban, the people…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] It was about five years ago. I was talking with a radical…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications / originally published in For Reasons of State (1973)] A French writer, sympathetic…
As US combat troops redeployed to the outskirts of Iraqi cities on June 30, well-staged celebrations commenced. The pro-US Iraqi government declared…
(July 7, 2009) — Right after the June 12 elections in Iran, the Campaign for Peace and Democracy issued a statement expressing our strong support…
(July 4, 2009) — I returned from Bukavu yesterday. A sign of a country not having full sovereignty is the fact that…
(Durban, 28 June 2009) — With high-volume class strife heard in the rumbling of wage demands and the friction of township "service…
You mention “Agent Orange” and some people think that you are talking about a spy movie. For others, particularly those who know…
Our emergency international delegation to Honduras, organized from the United States by CODEPINK, Global Exchange and Non-Violence International, began its fact-finding mission…
Much can be said to explain, or even justify Hamas recent political concessions, where its top leaders in Gaza and Damascus agreed…
(June 28, 2009) BUKAVU, DRC – Like everything else, reading material is scarce and expensive here. There isn’t a daily newspaper in…
June 27, 2009 — I’m in Bukavu, in South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It’s a big city! About a…
One might be tempted to dismiss the recent findings of the US State Department on human trafficking as largely political. But do…
In early June, 2009, I was in the Shah Mansoor displaced persons camp in Pakistan, listening to one resident detail the carnage…
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…
