Z Friends & Staff Posts
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?…
Though the dust has settled in Gaza, the rubble from the untold number of demolished buildings, homes and mosques is far from…
In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world’s labor…
Noam Chomsky – arguably the most famous Western intellectual and dissident alive today – interprets former President Bush’s foreign policy actions (such…
Many countries are set to participate in the Conference against Racism, scheduled to be held in Geneva, April 20-25. But the highly…
“Also being debated [at the AFL-CIO executive council meeting] is whether to create a mechanism to nudge past-their-prime union presidents to retire…
[This ZNet article is part of our Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is…
Erik Olin Wright has a forthcoming book titled Envisioning Real Utopias in which he spends some time addressing parecon. Having just read…
In the March 21st Nation and the Nation online on March 4, there is a welcome foray into addressing vision and strategy,…
Michael Ignatieff, sometimes described as Canada’s “Prime Minister in Waiting”, is sometimes falsely accused of justifying torture. He is actually much…
One of Colombia’s major magazines, Cambio, published a story quoting from the magic laptops that survived bombing in the Ecuadorian jungle and…
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…
