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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.…
Having failed to fabricate a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda, and prove that Iraq has a secret armoury of banned weapons, the…
Dr Al-Ali is a cancer specialist at Basra’s hospital and a member of Britain’s Royal College of Physicians. He has a neat…
The warmongers in Washington are not doing very well. France, China, and Russia – all veto-wielding members of the Security Council -…
There are several proposals floating about how to deal with the “Iraq Problemâ€. One wrong-headed one was released in December 2002. It…
One of the big media buzzwords to emerge in recent years is “globalization.” By now, we’re likely to know what it means.…
Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Parecon: Life After Capitalism, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Parecon:…
Even the New York Times was forced to admit it, after the mammoth Feb. 15-16 demonstrations: “there may still be two superpowers…
As the world protests against war, we hear again the lies of old. “A painful decision,” say the supporters of an invasion.…
As dissent grows and diversifies, the tactics and strategies for containing it must grow and diversify right along with it. Today, in…
Inspections, not war? The world is saying no to war. But demanding inspections as an alternative might not be enough to derail…
[Communiqué from the EZLN which was read during the demonstration in Rome, Italy, on February 15, 2003. It was read by Heidi…
TOMORROW one of the most important public events in memory will take place in central London. It is not possible to overstate…
These days, it’s a crucial ace up Uncle Sam’s sleeve. “Terrorism” is George W. Bush’s magic card. For 17 months now, the…
1. As anti-war sentiment grows and the anti-war movement gains momentum, what are the most important priorities for peace and justice organizations?…
On August 29th 2002 in Little Rock, Arkansas, George W Bush said: “We liberated Afghanistan from the clutches of a barbaric regime……
I hate apocalyptic politics. I was radicalized by the civil rights movement and Vietnam. People shouted all kinds of furor about the…
There’s no doubt about it: Colin Powell is a great performer, as he showed yet again at the U.N. Security Council the…
Matthew TempestTuesday February 4, 2003 Noam Chomsky: The [peace] demonstrations were another indication of a quite remarkable phenomenon. There is around the…
[This is an essay in progress…modest changes will be incorporated until its final version appears in Z Magazine, in March 2003. Ideas for…
1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book is about? What is it trying to communicate? The book is primarily…
BAGHDAD — Picture yourself as an American reporter here in the Iraqi capital. You’re based in one of the fraying rooms at…
The Palestinian writer Ghada Karmi has described “a deep and unconscious racism [that] imbues every aspect of western conduct toward Iraq”. She…
We are meeting at a moment of world history that is in many ways unique – a moment that is ominous, but…
William Russell, the great correspondent who reported the carnage of imperial wars, may have first used the expression “blood on his…
The richest country in the hemisphere, the United States of America, has a long history of interventions in Haiti- the poorest country…
The first Democrat I heard calling for a reinstitution of the military draft was Frank Lautenberg last November during my Green Party…
Strange days in Australia. “Paranoia in the lucky country”, say the headlines in Sydney, “Terror threat grips a nation”. The government of…
Socialist Worker has compiled an excellent anti war q&a based on interviews conducted with many different voices of the anti-war movement. Norman…
At 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., reporters usually shuffle along to a snoozy beat. But anyone who denigrates the mainstream media in general, or…
Crafting an anti-war movement from inside the belly of the beast is not easy. I’m going to talk today about how the…
Introduction: What’s wrong with South Africa’s primary city? The pages below are from the introductory and concluding chapters to Unsustainable South Africa,…
Introduction: Africa’s structural burdens When it comes to anti-capitalist resistance, the most economically-marginalized sites are amongst the most interesting. Not because the…
Presented to the seminar on Life After Capitalism: Health ZNet at the World Social Forum Porto Alegre, Brazil – 25 January 2003…
Presented to the seminar on Life After Capitalism: Health ZNet at the World Social Forum Porto Alegre, Brazil – 25 January 2003…
