Z Friends & Staff Posts
At first glance, history seems to repeat itself in Lebanon, where a lengthy cold war is intermittently interrupted by an extreme show…
1. What are the functions that have to be accomplished by any economy? An economy has to produce goods and sevices…
In what appeared to be a surprise to almost everyone, on January 30, 2005, in a speech to the 5th World Social…
The disparity between Israel’s public narrative and its actual intents cannot possibly be any more palpable than in the current Gaza onslaught…
Racism is “the belief that one ‘racial group’ is inferior to another and the practices of the dominant group to maintain the…
Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India’s independence movement in the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s, once said that “fasting is the sincerest form…
Olympia, WA–On Monday, July 3rd 2006 in Olympia, more than 600 concerned community members from Olympia and the surrounding Puget Sound region…
Have you seen Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth?” If so, you will understand what you are about to read. If not,…
The June 25 Palestinian fighters’ raid on an Israeli military post near the Gaza-Egypt border has sent Israel “scrambling to defend itself,”…
Ć¢€ÅI am sorry with all my heart for the residents of GazaĆ¢€Ā¦ but the lives and well-being of SderotĆ¢€ā¢s residents are more…
To their credit, top US Pentagon officials cautioned journalists and the public, since the Iraq warĆ¢€ā¢s early days, that the dissemination of…
The Baghdad bureau chief of the New York Times could not have been any clearer. Ā Ā Ā Ā Ć¢€ÅThe story really takes us back…
The New York Times calls him “arguably the most important intellectual alive”, yet he has needed police guards on his own campus.…
The convenient emergence and sudden disappearance of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi signals an end of an era. Though Washington and London insist on…
he urgency of halting the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and moving toward their elimination, could hardly be greater. Failure to do so…
The political and ideological division separating Palestinian society in the Occupied Territories has metamorphosed into a formidable chasm, despite the urgent need…
Arthur Miller wrote, “Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state…
Pincer: A movement in which two columns are driven, one on each side of an enemy stronghold, so as to be able…
John Pilger’s new book, Freedom Next Time (Bantam Press, 2006; http://www.johnpilger.com/) has just been published. Containing chapters on Diego Garcia, Palestine, India,…
Ā The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) rose to international prominence after the attacks on the US on September…
People who are concerned about the state of the U.S. news media in2006 might pause to consider those who have lost their…
Just as with the making of an invention, the building of a better society requires much trial and error and experimentation so…
“Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with…
On May 22, 2006 – after holding a blockade of the Highway 6 at Caldeonia, Ontario (Canada) since February – the indigenous…
What follows is a paper for presentation at the Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, to be held in June 2006. It…
Colombia’s peasant, indigenous, and union organizations called for a major mobilization on May 15, 2006. With elections on May 28, 2006, the…
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice couldn’t possibly have been more accurate when she accused Iran of “playing games” with the international…
Ā Noam Chomsky, whom the New York Times has called Ć¢€Åarguably the most important intellectual alive,Ć¢€Ā was voted the leading living public…
In a seemingly poignant analysis of the situation in Iraq, BBC news online analyst, Jim Muir assessed Iraqi politics following the choice…
Washington, DC, April 24. The spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund took place this weekend with police barricades…
{ This paper was prepared for the June 1 – 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held in Woods…
{ This paper was prepared for the June 1 – 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held in Woods…
For several months ZNet, an activist website, has been exploring the possibility of converting to free software and so joining the ‘free…
1. Where did parecon come from? What is its history? Participatory economics, or parecon, came mainly from the cumulative struggles of diverse…
We began by considering four critical issues that should rank high on the agenda of those concerned with the prospects for a…
On Thursday April 20, Hazel Hill, one of the Six Nations Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) leaders on the blockade at the Douglas Creek Estates…
Responding to successive decisions made by the US, the European Union and various European and non-European countries to boycott the Palestinian Authority…
Ā Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation Robin Hahnel New York: Routledge, 2005 Ā Robin Hahnel has written an important…
For as long as IĆ¢€ā¢ve been an activist for progressive social change, the spring and the fall are usually the times when…
MoveOn.org sent out an email with the subject line Ć¢€ÅDonĆ¢€ā¢t Nuke IranĆ¢€Ā to three million people on April 12. Ć¢€ÅThere is one…
Weeks after a British magazine published a long article by two American professors titled Ć¢€ÅThe Israel Lobby,Ć¢€Ā the outrage continued to howl…
The miscalculated policies of the US administration in the Middle East are quickly depleting the countryĆ¢€ā¢s ability to sustain its once unchallenged…
IN a world full of ruthless economics, fanaticism, dogmatism, aggressive sectarianism and, most of all, terrorism and violence, our survival depends, in…
Ā [The following was submitted as a paper/talk for the Seoul South Korea International Conference on Globalizing Social Transformation and Role of…
Daily media reports over the case of Afghan Christian convert Abdul Rahman have revealed a sudden concern over Afghanistan’s repressive human rights…
What is currently transpiring in the Occupied Territories is by far a worst-case scenario, ironically one made possible with the direct help…
[This piece is adapted from Chapter 2 of Noam Chomsky’s newest book, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on…
Ā Is President Bush guilty of war crimes? To even ask the question is to go far beyond the boundaries of mainstream…
Several days ago the Democratic Party put out “Real Security,” what they call a “bold security agenda” that “stands in stark contrast…
I’ve received many requests to comment on the article by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (henceforth M-W), published in the London Review…
