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While various Western governments are struggling to define a possible relationship with the Palestinian movement Hamas, some progressive and leftist circles are…
If you haven’t heard socialists doing much crowing over the fall of capitalism, it isn’t just because there aren’t enough of us…
As economies all around us gasp and constrict, more and more people are willing to seriously recognize what has always been evident…
On February 20, the Federal Court of Canada dropped most of the conditions it had placed on one of the prisoners of…
Last week’s comments by Attorney General Eric Holder to the effect that when it comes to race, the USA is a nation…
The political outcomes of the Gaza war are yet to be entirely decided with any degree of certainty. However, the obvious political…
Early this winter, the PBS "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" interviewed the medical director at a community clinic in Northern California. He recalled…
Hours after President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress, The New York Times printed the news that he plans to…
Biofuels: Promise or Threat? By Rachel Smolker and Brian Tokar In the coming weeks, the Obama administration is expected to release its…
This is the longer version of an essay by the author released by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on 6 February 2009.…
When US envoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke met with Afghanistan’s ‘democratically’ installed President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on February 14, he may…
The announcement of the unity government between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai brought with it a very cautious sigh…
The ten percentage point victory (55-45%) that President Chávez and his movement achieved on Sunday, February 15, 2009, in favor of amending…
February 10, 2009 — Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. Sameer Dossani interviewed him about the global economic…
As the Sri Lankan Civil War’s military aspect slowly but surely draws to a close, questions about Sri Lanka’s future are becoming…
When Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal declared before a cheering crowd in Doha, Qatar, on January 28, the need for a new leadership,…
As goods pile up in wharves from Bangkok to Shanghai, and workers are laid off in record numbers, people in East Asia…
People have asked me, since I returned from Gaza, how people manage? How do they keep going after being traumatized by bombing…
For more than three weeks, starting December 27th, Gaza and its 1.5 million people bore the brunt of a massive Israeli military…
One cannot emphasize enough the stranglehold Israel’s lobbying infrastructure has on US foreign policy. The events of recent weeks undoubtedly attest to…
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) wants its members to believe that their union is just like the alluring but ultimately nightmarish hostelry…
BELEM, Brazil, Jan 26 (IPS) – The World Social Forum meeting this week in this city in Brazil’s Amazon jungle region has…
When former President George W. Bush departed for his final trip home, that very moment represented an end of a long and…
The following is a Press TV interview with respected American author, political analyst and world-renowned linguist, Professor Noam Chomsky. January 24, 2009…
Barack Obama is recognized to be a person of acute intelligence, a legal scholar, careful with his choice of words. He deserves to…
I have found it difficult expressing my emotions in connection with the inauguration of President Obama. In the face of the jubilation,…
[This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is…
Noam Chomsky’s recent address on the Israeli atrocities in Gaza. Recorded: Jan. 13th, 2009 Wong Auditorium, MIT Cambridge, MA Recorded by: Charngchi…
Noam Chomsky’s recent address on the Israeli atrocities in Gaza. Recorded: Jan. 13th, 2009 Wong Auditorium, MIT Cambridge, MA Recorded by: Charngchi…
Noam Chomsky’s recent address on the Israeli atrocities in Gaza. Recorded: Jan. 13th, 2009 Wong Auditorium, MIT Cambridge, MA Recorded by: Charngchi…
Noam Chomsky’s recent address on the Israeli atrocities in Gaza. Recorded: Jan. 13th, 2009 Wong Auditorium, MIT Cambridge, MA Recorded by: Charngchi…
My three-year-old son Sammy walked into my room uninvited as I sorted through another batch of fresh photos from Gaza. I was…
Noam Chomsky’s recent address on the Israeli atrocities in Gaza. Recorded: Jan. 13th, 2009 Wong Auditorium, MIT Cambridge, MA Recorded by: Charngchi…
Pt. 2 of Noam Chomsky’s recent address on the Israeli atrocities in Gaza. Recorded: Jan. 13th, 2009 Wong Auditorium, MIT Cambridge, MA…
[This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is…
On Saturday December 27, the latest US-Israeli attack on helpless Palestinians was launched. The attack had been meticulously planned, for over 6…
Israel used the word "disengagement" in 2005 to mean continued occupation, control of movement, periodic massacre, and blockade. Now Israel is using…
As Israel unleashed its military fury against Lebanon for several weeks in July-August 2006, it had one major objective: to permanently ‘extract’…
On December 27, 2008, Israel launched its brutal assault on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead. The aim here has been to collect in…
Arish, Egypt — Yesterday, en route to the Rafah border crossing that leads into Gaza, our driver pointed to a long line…
"We are all Hamas," screamed a scrawny Mauritanian, repeatedly, as he determinedly drew his face closer to a TV camera. Behind him,…
If national media help make a nation, then we all need to stop reading and listening to conventional Canadian media if we…
The current crisis in Gaza began with Israel’s breaking the ceasefire with Hamas on November 4, 2008. The five-month ceasefire was unsustainable…
"SEIU has evolved into a dictatorship in which Andy Stern and others have consolidated power, decision-making authority, and resources among a few."…
[This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is…
In times of crisis, most Arabs tune in to Aljazeera television. Sometimes it’s comforting for the truth to be stated the way…
[This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is…
In September 2001, a group of terrorists from al Qaeda killed over three thousand Americans in New York. US friends and enemies…
The plot, so unexpectedly, thickened in Iraq on a Sunday like no other. The two main actors – US President George W.…
Not surprisingly, the swift unraveling of the global economy combined with the ascent to the U.S. presidency of an African-American liberal has…
