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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) —Ā Right after the June 12 elections in Iran, the Campaign for Peace and DemocracyĀ issued a statementĀ 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…
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…
