Z Friends & Staff Posts
The conflict in Iraq has become a holy war. In both directions. On the surface, the most prominent headline on the New…
In the Spring of 2002, after the US had taken Afghanistan from the Taliban and handed it to the warlords, Israel launched…
If Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s illness and unexpected departure to France represents the end of an era, as some rashly noted, it…
I woke up, suffered through the news, and opened my email. This was the first message I read. “Seriously.. I don’t know…
Ralph Nader won’t receive more than 1 percent of the vote nationwide on Election Day, but he’s already the winner in a…
The Bush administration is poised to steal this election as it did the one in 2000. Thousands of voters, mostly African Americans,…
Reviewing: Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India A story of people at war over borders and boundariesA documentary film by Pervez Hoodbhoy…
Three forgotten, grainy films shot more than 40 years ago reveal the evidence of a crime committed by British governments against some…
We’re at a moment in history when progressives must work together — not with a false kind of unity that papers over…
I was struck by two emails that came my way a few days ago. One was an endorsement of John Kerry by…
[This is a talk given in Rimini Italy at the Conference of the Pio Manzu Institute…on the occasion of Albert receiving the…
With the presidential debates now behind us, the struggle for the White House will tilt even more toward decentralized media battles for…
As American labor began gearing up for the 2004 election, many activists joined high-profile protests a year ago against free trade, mistreatment…
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin gave a moving speech at the United Nations on September 22, 2004. “Tens of thousands have been…
In 1983, the principal media in the Western world, which dominate much of the media in the rest of the world, were…
Peter Camejo was the first one I heard put it out, back in April: “Kerry will do what Bush wants to do…
We are assembled here in Beirut at a critical moment. It is a moment marked by crosscurrents: In Iraq, the US gets…
The following is an interview between Stephen Shalom and Matt Grinder of the Vancouver Participatory Economics Collective. Introduction: In the 2003 World…
The world is dividing into two hostile camps: Islam and “us”. That is the unerring message from western governments, press, radio and…
As Colin Powell explained the National Security Strategy (NSS) of September 2002 to a hostile audience at the World Economic Forum, Washington…
Venezuela’s presidential recall referendum was one of Latin America’s most historic electoral events of the past twenty five years. Such a statement…
Racism within U.S. institutions, law and culture is deeply imbedded in the history and reality of the United States going back to…
Understanding Cuban society objectively is incredibly difficult, given 45 years of unremitting US propaganda against Fidel Castro, the Cuban government and Cuban…
Most of the US’s recent wars were launched by Democratic presidents. Why expect better of Kerry? The debate between US liberals and…
The crows beat their wings against the bay windows, waiting to ascend and dive. Their cries are incessant; it is their apocalyptic…
It is hard not to believe that yesterday’s illegal and repressive arrest of approximately 200 peaceful sidewalk walkers across the street from…
I just saw a horror movie — “Bush’s Brain” — the new documentary based on a book with the same name by…
‘[W]hen you live in the United States, with the roar of the free market, the roar of this huge military power, the…
On August 22, 2004, a commission of leaders left the indigenous community of Toribio, part of the municipality of Toribio in the…
[This is a reply to an article by Noah Cohen, which in turn is a response to an interview Chomsky gave with Shalom…
On 6 May last, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution which,in effect, authorised a “pre-emptive” attack on Iran. The vote…
The nation’s top dog of war is frisky again. Donald Rumsfeld has returned to high visibility — after a couple of months…
At the time of writing (6am), the preliminary results of the Venezuelan referendum are in, courtesy of the National Electoral Council (CNE)…
Today is the day before the referendum. Not only is campaigning formally closed, but there is also a law in effect, quite…
Last night was the closing of the referendum campaign. It closed with huge marches of the opposition and the chavistas. They say…
It has been an interesting night and day. I have spent a substantial portion of the past 24 hours listening to Chavez…
We saw butterflies turning into bombers. And we weren’t dreaming. At the time when the Woodstock festival became an instant media legend…
Carlos Andres Perez, a former President of Venezuela and leader of the Venezuelan ‘opposition’ against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said in a…
MIT Professor Noam Chomsky is one of the world’s most perceptive social critics. I had the opportunity recently to ask him some…
In an oversimplified gesture of a defused crisis, Palestinian Authority President, Yasser Arafat and his Prime Minister, Ahmed Qurei kissed, hugged and…
In the first minute of his July 29 Democratic National Convention (DNC) acceptance speech, John Kerry told us that the Democratic Party…
No, hope does not gallop in like Paul Revere. And it certainly doesn’t arrive breathless from a corporate party convention. Movements…
I am constantly asked, nowadays, what should we do about the election? More often, I am told to work for Cobb, work…
Anyone who has been actively involved at a grassroots level in a progressive political campaign has probably done the nitty-gritty work of…
Ali Rodriguez is the president of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA. He is one of the Venezuelan Left’s main oil industry experts,…
With two words, the governor of California has managed to highlight the confluence of anti-gay bias and misogyny. Open contempt for “girlie…
Tom Ridge, the federal official in charge of defending the United States against terrorism, was on message when he told a July…
BRITAIN remains one of the few countries where documentaries are still shown on mainstream television in the hours when most people are…
“Political leadership is a matter of program, strategy and tactics, and not the color of those who lead it, their oneness of…
On 8 July, BBC television showed an outstanding documentary called The Boy from the Block. It is about Australia and opens with…
