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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 doesnĆ¢€ā¢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…
A recent Associated Press dispatch — headlined Ć¢€ÅGadget May Help Sleepers Choose DreamsĆ¢€Ā — 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 Ć¢€Ådecline to stateĆ¢€Ā to the Green Party. ItĆ¢€ā¢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 Draperās āThe Two Souls of Socialismā 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.IĆ¢€ā¢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…
DoesnĆ¢€ā¢t sufficient evidence of deceit and destruction now exist for everyone to see it? Can the average American Ć¢€ā 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 AfricaĆ¢€ā¢s racist apartheid system was finally swept away with the countryĆ¢€ā¢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 bookĆ¢€ā¢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…
