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A recent Associated Press dispatch — headlined “Gadget May Help Sleepers Choose Dreams†— told the story of a new product that…
Based on a talk given to the ‘Nageh’ community group on June 11, 2004, in Toronto. Part 1 of 2. Go to…
Back to Part I From local ‘threats’ to global ‘threats’ Desmond Morton, another completely mainstream and conventional historian, nevertheless makes a good…
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one…
The Green Party of the United States took a huge step forward on Saturday, June 26th in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And it wasn’t…
This morning I mailed a form changing my party registration from “decline to state†to the Green Party. It’s a tiny individual…
When a federal judge compares George W. Bush to Benito Mussolini, is that newsworthy? After the conservative daily New York Sun…
Over the last year, I have been preoccupied, as so many of us have, with one thing, Iraq. Iraq, as Bob Woodward…
For over a year, the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees has been working in Montreal to stop deportations against these…
First it was Reagan, now it is Clinton. The homage continues. When Reagan died, Gavin Esler, one of the BBC’s star reporters,…
A few months ago, the commander of the Venezuelan Army, Raul Baduel, described something that worried him (1). Colombia had just purchased…
I am going to make an argument for voting for the lesser evil, not always, but sometimes, and in particular this time…
1) In Poland a growing number of economists are in favour of free market ideology. They called themselves ‘anarchists’ or ‘libertarian’ economists.…
Oldenburg: In one chapter of your book Understanding Power – recently published in Germany under the title Eine Anatomie der Macht -…
With regard to the political system, the Reagan era represents a significant advance in capitalist democracy. For eight years, the U.S. government…
The D-Day anniversary and the election campaign have been a rich time for the kind of propaganda that marks the limits of…
Hal Draper’s “The Two Souls of Socialism” is a very interesting essay, even decades after its origin. It is flawed, however, in…
We have just passed the first anniversary of the President’s declaration of victory in Iraq. I won’t speak about what is happening…
This year, Ralph Nader’s presidential campaign has two trains running that will collide at an unfortunate intersection — the Green Party’s national…
Rafah, Jenin, Khan Yunis, Zeitun: Foreign sounding names of so distanced and disturbing a reality. All that we know of them is…
Some stood up once, and sat down.Some walked a mile, and walked away.Some stood up twice, then sat down.I’ve had it, they…
The editor of the Daily Mirror, Britain‘s most famous mass-circulation newspaper, was sacked because he ran the only English-language popular paper to…
If George Bush were to be judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunals, he’d be hanged. So too, mind you, would…
On May 20, 2004, people from all over the Ontario and Quebec will go to the Mohawk community of Kanehsatake to show…
Thinking about education involves two broad frames of reference that in turn generate two approaches of study. Part of education is intrinsic…
Doesn’t sufficient evidence of deceit and destruction now exist for everyone to see it? Can the average American – much less the…
2004 is a big year in many ways, what with the Presidential election, the war in Iraq and other pressing issues. It…
Since I left Australia, one journey has remained a small dream unfulfilled. It involves going north in New South Wales, to an…
The Bush administration’s resolve on “reforming” the Arab world poses an entangled dilemma, at least for the Arabs. For one, Arab countries…
Looking at visual images from U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, news watchers now find themselves in the midst of a jolting experience that…
A beleaguered democracy beset by continual terrorist attacks by ruthless, depraved, and highly imaginative terrorists managed to foil a terrorist plot yesterday. …
On behalf of Safundi, Christopher J. Lee interviewed Professor Noam Chomsky on March 9, 2004, in his office at the Department of…
Writing in the Daily Mirror, John Pilger recalls the news coverage of the war in Vietnam and how American atrocities and torture…
TEN YEARS ago, South Africa’s racist apartheid system was finally swept away with the country’s first democratic elections. African National Congress (ANC)…
Among the millions of words that have appeared in the U.S. press since late April about abuse and torture at the Abu…
Taking the stage at a community center in the small Northern California town of Bolinas, a group of four musicians quickly showed…
(1) Why have you sent messages about your book’s paperback release as ZNet Updates? Out of frustration and out of hope.…
“What we need is to revive the vision of what the Rainbow Coalition campaigns of 1984 and 1988 could have become. A…
On his way to confirmation as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, the current U.N. envoy John Negroponte was busily twisting language like a…
Four years ago, I travelled the length of Iraq, from the hills where St. Matthew is buried in the Kurdish north to…
Four years ago, I travelled the length of Iraq, from the hills where St. Matthew is buried in the Kurdish north to…
Ehrenreich: I have heard that there’s been a lot of interest around the world in your new book, Parecon: Life After Capitalism,…
Those who were united a year ago in opposition to the war on Iraq find themselves divided on where we should go…
On the front door of my house is a sign, “Bring the Troops Home Now!” It’s been there for months. I hope…
In the New Statesman, John Pilger writes: “With the most lethal weapons billions of dollars can buy, and the threats of their…
When the anchor of public television’s main news program goes out of his way to tell viewers that he’s setting the record…
Having been kindly invited to contribute to an upcoming issue of Democracy & Nature, I was sent some back issues, including No.…
As a Czech poster put it, “the Poles took ten years, the Hungarians ten months, the East Germans ten weeks, and the…
With warfare escalating in Iraq, syndicated columnist George Will has just explained the logic of the occupation. “In the war against the…
Some of the most closely guarded documents in the White House are sure to be the ones written by the president’s top…
