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Recent ZNet
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Chomsky: Gaza’s Torment, Israel’s Crimes, Our Responsibilities
July 12, 2014
It is important to understand what life is like in Gaza when Israel's behavior is "restrained," in between the regular manufactured crises like this one
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Pilger: The Return of George Orwell and Big Brother’s War on Palestine, Ukraine and Truth
July 12, 2014
As advanced societies are de-politicised, the changes are both subtle and spectacular
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Jäntti: The EU, the US and the Plight of the Palestinian People
July 12, 2014
The Israel-Palestine conflict serves as an illustrative case study on both the international nature of the region’s tragedies, in general, and the reactionary role of Western countries’ Middle East foreign policy, in particular
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Khalidi: Israel’s Assault Obscures Racism, Occupation, Colonization
July 12, 2014
Nobody pays attention to the settlement project or thuggish incitement when there are air raid sirens in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
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Bishara: The Gaza conundrum: To invade or not to invade
July 12, 2014
The pretexts for any war or violence can be seen in two ways: explicit short-term justifications, and implicit longer-term explanations
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Swanson: CNN: Palestinians Want to Die
July 12, 2014
The view that the people you are abusing don't mind it has a long history of being employed to distract from the evil being done
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Mishra: Economic Survey 2013-2014
July 12, 2014
The economic survey presents a vision of a free market economy where the role of the government is limited only to clearing the path of private entrepreneurs
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Bahmani: Eu Flouts The 1951 Refugee Convention
July 11, 2014
Sometimes the deaths of migrants trying to make their way to Europe make headlines, sometimes they don’t
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Bacon: Debunking 8 Myths About Why Central American Children Are Migrating
July 11, 2014
‘Lax enforcement’ is not the culprit—U.S. trade and immigration policies are
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Ishchenko: Ukraine’s Fractures: Interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko
July 11, 2014
Kiev-based sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko discusses the unfolding of the Ukrainian crisis and its outcomes to date, against the backdrop of the political and economic order that emerged after 1991
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Kotz: Mississippi Freedom Summer – A Personal Account
July 11, 2014
We still need to work to build a different world of racial equality, economic justice, and peace. To do so, we must relearn the lesson that ordinary people have the ability to change the world when they stand up together
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Chaitin: Nothing new under the Gaza-Sderot Sun
July 11, 2014
The temperatures keep rising in the hot Gaza-Sderot region; after all it’s July. But it’s not the heat that is making our lives unbearable; it’s the renewed terrifying and senseless violence
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July 11, 2014
How social movements can win more victories like same-sex marriage
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Spanish activist David Marty extensively interviewed Michael Albert. Here are links to sections on radicalization, media, vision, debates, writings, Venezuela, Occupy, IOPS, and Chomsky.
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Sargent: Post Sexist Society
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Albert: IOPS for You
IOPS in Historical Context
Z Interview Series
Some interviews with regular Z writers
Stresing: An Ordinary Radical
Peters: No More Random Acts
Marty & Marty: The Challenge is Global
Podur: Leftist in Every Bubble
Street: Side with the Underdog
Wilpert: Tackling Institutions
Vegas: A Revolutionary Environment
Pearson: We Don't Have Borders
Pilger: View from the Ground
Full ZMag archive coming soon.
July/August ZMag
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Swanson: Truman and the Memory of Mass Murder
June 28, 2014
Harry Truman spoke in the U.S. Senate on June 23, 1941: “If we see that...
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Penrice: Remembering Maya Angelou
June 28, 2014
A memorial to a writer and activist. Throughout her career, she published over 30 books, including 6 autobiographies, 6 children’s books, 2 cookbooks, nearly 10 volumes of poetry and at least 5 books of essays. Libraries, schools, and other public institutions bear her name
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Solomon: An Assault from Obama’s Escalating War on Journalism
June 28, 2014
Five organizations—RootsAction.org, the Nation, the Center for Media and Democracy, the Progressive, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), and the Freedom of the Press Foundation—have joined together to start a campaign for protecting the confidentiality of journalists’ sources
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Chomsky: Edward Snowden, the World’s “Most Wanted Criminal”
June 28, 2014
State power has regularly sought to create the misimpression that it is terrorists we are fighting; throughout, the basic principle remains; power must not be exposed to the sunight
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Herman: War is Our Business and Business Looks Good
June 28, 2014
U.S. dealings with the Ukraine crisis
Videos by Frequent Z Writers.
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Recent Audio/Videos
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Assange: Fair U.S. Trial for Snowden “Not Possible”
July 10, 2014
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Responds to Hillary Clinton
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Assange: About WikiLeaks & Snowden
July 8, 2014
Assange discusses his new legal bid in Sweden, the ongoing grand jury probe in the United States, and WikiLeaks’ efforts to assist National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden
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Rasmus: Immigrant Children Abuse—the Latest U.S. Border ‘Crisis’
July 6, 2014
Jack Rasmus welcomes long time immigrant justice journalists, David Bacon and Alexandra Early, to discuss the latest issue in immigrant rights: the surge of 50,000 plus children across the US southern border
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Kucinich: On Iraq & Learning from Sweden’s Political Diversity
July 6, 2014
In Sweden to observe the political festival Almedalen Week, which brings together people from all points on the political spectrum. Kucinich says the United States needs a similarly inclusive political process
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Rasmus: US GDP Drop & Shadow Banks
July 1, 2014
Rasmus continues his analysis of the growing influence and instability in the global shadow banking system, including a look at the major role being played by shadow banks in China today
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Goodman: Greatest Curbs on Voting Rights Since Reconstruction
June 29, 2014
In a week marking the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, Mississippi was in the news when African-American voters crossed party lines to help Republican Sen. Thad Cochran narrowly defeat a tea party challenger
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Recent Blogs, below, is posts by Z Sustainers and Writers.
Recent Blogs
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Hermann: VT socialist party comments on ‘democratic socialist’ Bernie Sanders
July 8, 2014
Article after article in ‘left’ publications have advocated for US...
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Wilson: Family Farmers & Rural “Sweatshops” Subsidizing US/World Food
July 8, 2014
This is a response to: Brad Plumer, “Map: Here’s How...
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Bourgault-Christie: Freedom, Options, and the “Teen Bubble”: Why We Need to Solve the Skill Mismatch
July 5, 2014
Aristotle taught that anything, no matter how good, can be...
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Nikolaidis: Vicki Chats – Stay Calm Stay Positive
July 3, 2014
. . . And the last item to leave Pandora’s...
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Jeevathol: Rebuttal to Ravi Kiran’s blog post entitled “There is no poverty except thought poverty”
July 3, 2014
This will most likely be first of many articles addressing...
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