Z Friends & Staff Posts
When I began working as a journalist, there was something called “slow news”. We would refer to “slow news days” when “nothing…
Fifteen years ago, Robin Hahnel and I published a book titled Looking Forward. It was the first in-depth presentation of the economic…
In a recent article appearing on ZNet (re-posted from Dollars & Sense), Ethan Miller argues passionately and effectively on behalf of a…
Billed as the most comprehensive gathering of Latino leaders in the US in three decades, over 1,600 delegates and observers attended the…
Two Fox News journalists, Steve Cantani and Olas Wing were released by their Palestinian kidnappers in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, August…
Alan Dershowitz’s regular little performances are eminently ignorable, including the one reproduced below. But since I’ve been asked several times for comments…
In Lebanon, a little-honored truce remains in effect – yet another in a decades-long series of ceasefires between Israel and its adversaries…
In researching a new film, I have been watching documentary archive from the 1980s, the era of Ronald Reagan and his ‘secret…
And yet another menacing terror plot was thwarted 10 August, with the arrest of 24 suspects, all British Muslims. It was an…
UN Security Council Resolution 1701 came very late and posed a fragile ceasefire, yet there will be another war as long as…
Though there are many interacting factors, the immediate issue that lies behind the latest US-Israeli invasion of Lebanon remains, I believe, what…
UN Security Council Resolution 1701 came very late and posed a fragile ceasefire, yet there will be another war as long as…
And yet another menacing terror plot was thwarted 10 August, with the arrest of 24 suspects, all British Muslims. It was an…
Beirut – The bittersweet mood in Beirut on this day when the ceasefire took effect was perhaps best expressed by Rahul, a…
Do you agree with the argument that Israel’s military offensive in Lebanon is “legally and morally justified?” Noam Chomsky: The invasion itself…
A Sky News newscaster, interviewing British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Sunday, July 30 demanded an answer to this paraphrased question: if…
Doesn’t Israel have the right to defend itself? One has the right to self-defense if one is not oneself guilty of…
Murray Bookchin, the visionary social theorist and activist, died during the early morning of Sunday, July 30th in his home in Burlington,…
As a new front in the Middle East powder keg opens up in Lebanon, as Iraq descends into what can only be…
[The following excerpt is from the Epilogue to Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, by Noam Chomsky & Gilbert…
Syndicated columnist Richard Cohen declared in the Washington Post on July 25 that an-eye-for-an-eye would be a hopelessly wimpy policy for the…
Israel, the U.S., and the yet-again submissive Britain are now totally isolated in their collusive attack on Lebanon. As the emergency meeting…
This July in Dublin, five peace activists were put on trial for disarming a U.S. warplane parked on the tarmac of Ireland’s…
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,”…
“I am sorry with all my heart for the residents of Gaza… but the lives and well-being of Sderot’s residents are more…
To their credit, top US Pentagon officials cautioned journalists and the public, since the Iraq war’s early days, that the dissemination of…
The Baghdad bureau chief of the New York Times could not have been any clearer. “The 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,…
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…
