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As I write this, the Federal Communications Commission is poised to vote on June 2 to relax several longstanding media ownership rules.…
Media outlets are the lifeblood of the body politic. Extensive circulation of ideas, information, analysis and debate must exist — not just…
Picture this: 20 military vehicles, including an armoured personnel carrier, surround an office in broad daylight. Dozens of soldiers and police proceed…
A new poll tells us that — by a two-to-one margin — Americans “use clearly positive words in their descriptions of the…
I am confident that the truth will win out someday, and justice will be done, but even if that is not the…
It is widely argued that the September 11 terrorist attacks have changed the world dramatically, that nothing will be the same as…
A controversy has arisen on the left in the U.S. about recent events in Cuba. The Cuban government has enacted draconian legal…
On 8 April, newspapers around the world carried a despatch from a Reuters correspondent, “embedded” with the US army, about the murder…
Hans Blix, Dennis Kucinich and the Dixie Chicks are in very different lines of work — but they’re in the same line…
[talk given as part of “One Book New Jersey 2003 Reads Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, William Paterson University, April 15, 2003]We…
Two decades ago, conservative columnist George Will wrote “it is bad enough we pay for the United Nations; surely we do not…
Last Sunday, seated in the audience at the Bafta television awards ceremony, I was struck by the silence. Here were many of…
The day after America‘s tax deadline, President Bush signed a $79 billion spending bill to cover military actions in Iraq. Then he…
Canadians are not being served as well as they should be, even by their own public media. We have spent the past…
(1) Why did the U.S. invade Iraq, in your view? These are naturally speculations, and policy makers may have varying motives. But…
When a New York Times correspondent indicated on its front page of February 16th 2003, that there were now only two super…
The fall of Baghdad has been proclaimed, though there is still fighting in various parts of the city. At this point, one…
A BBC television producer, moments before he was wounded by an American fighter aircraft that killed 18 people with “friendly fire”, spoke…
In times of war, journalists can serve as vital witnesses for the people of the world. So it’s especially sinister when governments…
ZNet commentator Patrick Bond and his colleague Simba Manyanya — a Zimbabwean currently employed in Johannesburg by a UN agency — provide…
WE HAD a great day,” said Sgt Eric Schrumpf of the US Marines last Saturday. “We killed a lot of people.” He…
We now glimpse the forbidden truths of the invasion of Iraq. A man cuddles the body of his in-fant daughter; her blood…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Venezuelan radio on March 31 that: “A short while ago, I ordered an air force operation…
1.Turkey is being bitterly criticized in the US for failing to allow us combat troops to use Turkey as a launching pad…
Minutes after the dawn spread daylight across the Iraqi desert, “embedded” CNN correspondent Walter Rodgers was on the air with a live…
By The United Nations General Assembly is hovering on the edge of calling an emergency session to challenge the US attack on…
Noam Chomsky , University Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founder of the modern science of linguistics and political activist, is…
Five Guidelines for Our Organizing There is a very positive development happening in the anti-war movement. That is, people are actively trying…
Below are some questions and answers from the ZNet forum system, the ZNet forums are a benefit offered to ZNet sustainers.Though the…
Two months ago, when I wandered through a large market near the center of Baghdad, the day seemed like any other and…
1. The anti-war movement supports our troops by urging that they be brought home immediately so they neither kill nor get killed in…
TODAY is a day of shame for the British military as it declares the Iraqi city of Basra, with a stricken population…
Review of: “Epidemic of Globalization: Ventures in World Order, Arab Nationlism and Zionism.” Dr.Adel Samara198 pp. Order from publisher: Palestine Research and…
WHEN Bush and Blair begin their illegal and immoral attack on a country that offers us no threat, we all have a…
US LAUNCHES PREEMPTIVE ATTACK AGAINST UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY All over the world, governments and civil society groups are proposing to take the…
At this grim moment, we can do nothing to stop the ongoing invasion. But that does not mean that the task is…
The national media echo chamber is not receptive to conscience. On television, the voices are usually loud and facile. People often seem…
The onset of war does not negate the unprecedented antiwar activism in recent weeks and months, nor does it provide reason to…
Bush has given Iraqis 48 hours to remove Saddam Hussein. If they do not comply they will be bombed and thousands of…
Link for News coverage: http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1248.shtml —– Memorial Rachel Corrie was an incredibly good person. I mourn and am very saddened by her…
If war comes even despite the historic, tenacious, and comprehensive opposition now raging across the planet, the U.S. government will proclaim triumphantly…
The most powerful state in history has proclaimed that it intends to control the world by force, the dimension in which it…
THE Blair Government has known, almost from the day it came to office in 1997, that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were…
How have we got to this point, where two western governments take us into an illegal and immoral war against a stricken…
As the possibility of a U.S. invasion turns into the reality of massive carnage, the war on Iraq cannot avoid confronting Americans…
Jennifer Loewenstein recently wrote I’ve said it myself many times. I need a break from this awful business I can’t watch any…
1. Do you have any predictions about what we might expect in the coming weeks? If anything’s obvious from the history of warfare,…
Three days after a British newspaper revealed a memo about U.S. spying on U.N. Security Council delegations, I asked Daniel Ellsberg to…
If the US attacks Iraq without support of the UN Security Council, will the world be powerless to stop it? The answer…
“Violence in Colombia†is such a popular topic of study that there are hundreds of articles, books, and essays with that title.…
