Z Friends & Staff Posts
Once again, the neat, placid surface of white Australia is disturbed by those who owned and cared for this country and remain…
Review of: Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Children. Catherine Cook, Adam Hanieh, and Adah Kay. Pluto Press, London,…
During the war against Iraq, the BBC’s Today programme sent Andrew Gilligan to Baghdad. Gilligan’s reports were unlike anything the BBC had…
WSF 4 in Mumbai was a quite different experience than prior Porto Alegre WSFs. In many respects it was better organized. Women…
Shortly after the collapse of the Iraqi regime, the BBC’s Today programme sent Andrew Gilligan to Baghdad. Gilligan’s reports were unlike anything…
The fourth annual World Social Forum was, for the first time, held in a different location from Porto Alegre, Brazil, its usual…
IN THE wake of the Hutton fiasco, one truth remains unassailed: Tony Blair ordered an unprovoked invasion of another country on a…
Ninety-five days before the invasion of Iraq began, I sat in the ornate Baghdad office of the deputy prime minister as he…
“It is my duty,” wrote the correspondent of the Times at the liberation of Belsen, “to describe something beyond the imagination of…
[Note: Evan Solomon is a reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), where this interview was broadcast. HotType is a book review/interview…
I would like to thank The University of Western Australia for inviting me here today, and especially Nigel Dolan for his warm…
It has become a morning ritual, like putting on a kettle of hot water for tea. I wake up, turn on the…
Tom Hurndall died on January 13, 2004 at 7:45pm, in a hospital in his country, the UK, after spending over 8 months…
I just had a look at the many comments here bearing on participatory economics. It is good to see the interest and…
Ralph Nader plans to announce this month whether he’ll be running for president in 2004. Some believe that such a campaign is…
Forget Hutton. He will not reveal what the US and UK authorities really don’t want you to know: that radiation illnesses caused…
[Speech delivered at Columbia University, NYC, November 20, 2003, at an event commemorating Edward Said. Transcript courtesy of Democracy Now.] The first…
In 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) was born. The nearly 20 trade agreements that underpinned the WTO were presented as a…
– As an opponent to USA policies, which political wing you belong to? If you mean Democrat or Republican, the answer…
We can argue about George Will’s political views. But there’s no need to debate his professional ethics. Late December brought to light…
Revised: Nov. 2005 typos corrected Oct. 2011 (This draft benefited from conversations with many people, but especially Michael Albert and Cynthia Peters,…
George… About your first point: A parecon is workers’ and consumers’ councils inside a country. Having a parecon would remove class differences,…
No doubt Lenny Bruce would have laughed with at least a tinge of bitterness if — like millions of Americans — he…
Colombia’s paramilitary killers were dramatically ‘pardoned’ on national television in late November, and are now in ‘negotiations’ with the government to ‘demobilize’. …
George, I think we have in many respects similar international aims. Our differences have mostly to do with our methods and what…
All people who have any concern for human rights, justice and integrity should be overjoyed by the capture of Saddam Hussein, and…
George, Your first question: “But what if [some] people affected by [its] decisions are not members of [that] community?” Suppose I am…
Part I: Watching a Train Wreck in Progress Watching Venezuelan politics now is like watching a train wreck in progress, with two…
Marko has two large reasons for not only disliking my advocacy of parecon and vision in general, but for thinking that such…
Imagine a biologist announces that cancer is forever so we should stop trying to cure it. Given the implications, he should have…
George, I agree with you that without global democracy national democracy is hamstrung (though it is nonetheless quite different to have free…
Alex, I agree that your party has differed even to the point of violent conflict with other Leninist parties. Leninism isn’t one…
Alex, You say your justice norm justifies what in parecon are two independent norms of remuneration, one for those who can work…
Saddam Hussein is one of the world’s great monsters. Nothing would be more welcome than to have him put on trial, a…
For months I’ve been thinking about who I’m going to support for President. For me, it’s not between Kucinich, Sharpton, Dean, Gephardt…
Alex, About values, your criteria for remuneration still confuses me. Who decides whether my estimate of what I ‘have reason to value’…
SAN FRANCISCO — Up against the campaign of a wealthy businessman who outspent him nearly 10-to-1, a strong progressive candidate nearly won…
We seem to agree on the desirability of solidarity, diversity, and workers and consumers influencing decisions in proportion to the extent they…
We seem to agree on the desirability of solidarity, diversity, and workers and consumers influencing decisions in proportion to the extent they…
Alex, I like that you start with values. I think creating vision requires a small set that covers our central aspirations…
Assuming we agree that a society built on authoritarianism, patriarchy, racism, and capitalist exploitation is abysmal, what new social systems do we…
Assuming we agree that a society built on authoritarianism, patriarchy, racism, and capitalist exploitation is abysmal, what new social systems do we…
Irshad Manji, according to the jacket of her book, is ‘a broadcaster, author, public speaker, and media enterpreneur, born in East Africa…
Back to Part I Manji the searching moral critic Manji says she wants to revive the idea of ‘ijtihad’, of self-criticism and…
In the 1841 Amistad case – vividly portrayed in Stephen Spielberg’s movie “Amistad” – the U.S. Supreme Court courageously held that human…
Greg Dyke, the BBC’s director general, has attacked American television reporting of Iraq. “For any news organisation to act as a cheerleader…
Shortly before the disastrous Bush visit to Britain, Tony Blair was at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. It was an unusual glimpse…
Drawing on poll numbers gathered last year, the influential Pew Research Center for the People and the Press waited until the recent…
It’s football season and I feel the same way I do every autumn. Perhaps it is just that I want to have…
MIAMI — The United States will try to paint the Miami meeting of the Free Trade of the Americas (FTAA) as a…
