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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…
First off, like all of you I despise capitalism. I don’t want an economy in which Bill Gates has as much wealth…
Class is a concept meant to highlight groups of people in the economy with similar interests and motives. Classes are groups that…
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…
Introduction Let me start by saying that my heart is heavy when I think of the destruction my country is wreaking on…
Mark Thomas: If we can start with US foreign policy in relation to Iraq and the War on Terror, what do you…
Human Rights Week is not much of an occasion in the US, with some notable qualifications. But it does receive considerable attention…
It’s impossible to adequately sum up any year, and 2002 is probably more difficult than most to grasp. Bursts of militaristic fervor…
THE American and British attack on Iraq has already begun. While the Blair government continues to claim in Parliament that “no final…
Isin ELICIN: I would like to begin with a current issue topic for Turkey. EU rebuffed US’s pressure for early entry talks…
Exactly one year after the opposition’s first “general strike,†on December 10, 2001, which launched the campaign to oust the democratically elected…
How words are used can be crucial to understanding and misunderstanding the world around us. The media lexicon is saturated with certain…
The threat posed by US terrorism to the security of nations and individuals was outlined in prophetic detail in a document…
The ‘general strike’ called by the opposition in Venezuela is now on its eighth day. The strike is the fourth called by…
The OAS-Mediated Negotiations, the Strike, and other recent events César Gaviria, the General Secretary of the OAS, has the unenviable job of…
ON November 7, the day before the United Nations Security Council voted on a resolution that made an American and British attack…
A dozen years after the Gulf War, public perceptions of it are now very helpful to the White House. That’s part of…
THE CORPORATE media have spent hours of airtime furiously speculating about every last detail of the looming U.S. assault on Iraq.…
The dedicated efforts of the Bush administration to take control of Iraq — by war, military coup or some other means –…
Editors Note: This is an extended version of an article that was carried by the New York Times syndacite… The dedicated…
During a debate on the coverage of the miners’ strike at the Edinburgh Television Festival, the BBC’s industrial editor at the time,…
The Colombian government is in negotiations with the paramilitaries, facilitated by the Catholic Church. The precondition for negotiations was put by President…
Americans owe a debt of gratitude to the coalition of people and countries around the world that is trying to save us…
Ever since the U.N. Security Council adopted its resolution about Iraq on Nov. 8, American politicians and journalists have been hailing the…
Dear Znet and Zmag folks, I am writing in regards to Justin Podur?s commentary on UN SC Resolution 1441 re Iraq. I…
With the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1441, the US has removed another obstacle in its path to an escalated war…
How can parents behave in a non-oppressive way? There is no getting around — nor should there be — the fact…
Graham Greene once described a “subterranean world, where the hopes and dreams of the mass of the people reside, unconnected with the…
Marketing a war is serious business. And no product requires better brand names than one that squanders vast quantities of resources while…
‘Chavez’ greatest error was to screw the middle class,’ says Carlos Escarra, a prominent constitutional lawyer and former Venezuelan supreme court judge,…
What passing bells for these who die as cattle?” wrote the great First World War poet Wilfred Owen. His famous line might…
(1) What are the reasons to oppose war in Iraq? Because of despising and rejecting the carnage it will likely wreak upon…
Evidence for the passions in and polarization of Venezuelan society was clearly on display on October 10, at the anti-government demonstration, and…
As I write, the US Congress has just passed by an overwhelming margin a resolution authorising President Bush to launch a unilateral…
Before decisions get made in Washington — and even before most politicians open their mouths about key issues — there are polls.…
For 40 years, Australian governments have colluded with state terrorism in Indonesia. Now, the Bali outrage allows John Howard to distract attention…
Michael Albert is interviewed for The Bookpress by Satya Mohanty and Lourdes Beneria, professors at Cornell and members of the Cornell Forum…
(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Trajectory of Change, is about? What is it trying to communicate? …
Many news stories and commentaries have marveled at the failure of Democrats to seize the high political ground this fall. With the…
10/7 will not go down in history or live in infamy the way 9/11 did. Those who wish that it would are…
I guess I should feel honored that, four days ago, I was given the opportunity to get up in front of the…
SAN FRANCISCO — The conventional wisdom in Washington is that it’s pointless or reckless for Americans to speak with Iraqi officials. But…
A GREAT many people believe that democracy has been lost in this country. Today, true democracy will demonstrate its resilience on the…
