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Recent ZNet
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Porter: Iran won upfront sanctions relief, but with potential snags
April 5, 2015
One thing the US text makes clear is that the issue of Iranian research and development on advanced centrifuges research & development remains unresolved
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Cole: What if US & UN Sanctioned Israel over its Nukes as they did Iran over Enrichment?
April 5, 2015
For decades, the primary impetus to a nuclear arms race in the region has been Israel, which probably had an atom bomb by about 1970
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April 5, 2015
They want to work with people to make this a better world, and I think there’s an opening that needs to be recognized, supported and joined
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Fitz: Economic Inequality: It’s Far Worse Than You Think
April 5, 2015
The researchers found Americans overestimate the amount of upward social mobility that exists in society
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Johnson: California Is Burning
April 5, 2015
Why water supplies are drying up in the state that is home to one in eight Americans--and what needs to be done to press for an alternative
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Fletcher: Guns, Settlers & Race
April 4, 2015
Gun ownership in the U.S. was a defining feature of whiteness
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Golinger: Obama’s Legacy Set to Fail in Latin America
April 4, 2015
If the Obama administration truly wants to be a regional partner, then it will have to accept and respect what Latin America has become: strong, united and bonded by a collective political vision of independence and integration
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Stanchev: Mr. Anarchist, we need to have a chat about colonialism
April 4, 2015
Western anarchists still prefer to retreat into their own ideological ivory towers and claim superior knowledge and righteousness through empty statements about the “spineless” radicalism of other people — especially those in the Global South
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April 4, 2015
These thoughts are occasioned by my most recent week-long embrace of the valley of Kashmir...
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Prashad: The Sultans of Arabia intervene in Yemen’s domestic conflict
April 4, 2015
With Yemen in danger of entering a new order outside Riyad's control, Saudi Arabia had to act. All talk of Iranian proxies and Shia-Sunni divides obscures Yemen's real conflict.
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April 4, 2015
Interview on whether a radical break from the eurozone is possible
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Bennis: Iran Deal: A Game-Changer for the Middle East
April 3, 2015
Negotiators in Switzerland just won a huge victory for diplomacy over war. Now we've got to protect it
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April 3, 2015
f I were still the jingoistic nationalist I was raised to be I think I would feel somewhat embarrassed now by the blatant obviousness of it all
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April 3, 2015
The odd situation that gargantuan operations make it look like "free" is sensible - Google, Facebook, Twitter, and so on. You don't pay for them, or don't think you pay, anyhow - so why pay for anything else - especially coming from the left?
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Zollmann: The Scourge of Militarism
April 3, 2015
The vast military machine needs to be dismantled. This can only be achieved by the concerted and peaceful efforts of an international grass roots movement
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Emersberger: Nice about Katharine Viner, but Ads keeps the Guardian’s Lights On
April 3, 2015
We urgently need a mass media that does not chase after ad revenue or well-off subscribers
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Cooke: Fight “Right to Work” in Oregon With “$15 and a Union”
April 3, 2015
Right to Work is not inevitable in Oregon. There is still time to go on the offensive
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Assange: ‘I still enjoy crushing bastards’
April 3, 2015
There is not any pretense anymore that there is equality before the law
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Fang: How Big Business Is Helping Expand NSA Surveillance, Snowden Be Damned
April 3, 2015
American spy agencies have been pushing laws to encourage corporations to share more customer information
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Barrows-friedman: Defying college’s threats, California students build mock Israeli wall
April 3, 2015
Student activists at Pitzer College in southern California are risking administration sanctions this week to bring attention to Israel’s violations of the rights of Palestinians
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Fraser: Plutocracy The First Time Around
April 3, 2015
Revisiting the Great Upheaval and the First Gilded Age
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Peters: Liberation and Mental Health
April 2, 2015
A Review of “Social Justice in Clinical Practice”
Recent Audio/Videos
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April 4, 2015
Noam Chomsky is interviewed by a very prominent physicist on a variety of topics
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Prashad: The Geopolitics of Iran’s Nuclear Program
April 3, 2015
The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs held a lecture entitled: The Geopolitics of Iran's Nuclear Program with Vijay Prashad
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April 1, 2015
On the Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
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March 31, 2015
Talks over a nuclear deal with Iran are in their final stages
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Amin: The World Social Forum, Globalization & the Barbarism of Capitalism
March 29, 2015
Tens of thousands gather for the World Social Forum in Tunis, Tunisia
March ZMag
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Gordon: Immigrant Women and Violence
U.S. policy toward undocumented immigrants damages women in many ways—by separating them from children, by leaving them without support, by making it harder for them to earn for their families
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Zeese: With The Climate March Behind Us, What Do We Do Now?
The climate action weekend built around the People’s Climate March proved that the climate movement has broad popular support and millions are ready to mobilize.
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Sandronsky: Reading Samir Amin
The two books under review study the economy within the parameters of social change.
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Kuzmarov: Celebrating the Life of Peace Hero Fred Branfman
The noted peace activist Fred Branfman passed away on September 24 after suffering the effects of ALS (Lou Gherig’s disease). In 2002, while researching the history of the Vietnam War, I came across Fred’s Voices from the Plain of Jars...
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Events, books, music, video and other items of interest to progressives
Being Left
Spanish activist David Marty extensively interviewed Michael Albert on radicalization, media, vision, debates, Venezuela, Occupy, IOPS, and Chomsky: Being Left
Paulo Rodriquez extensively interviewed Albert on Revolution, Parecon, Winning, Venezuela: Thoughts and Deeds
Parecon / Parsoc
See also under Vision in the top Menu
Sargent: Post Sexist Society
Podur: Life After Racism
Peters: Kinship Vision
Shalom: Visionary Pol
Shalom: Future Pol
Albert: Parecon & Parsoc
Albert: 7 Reasons for Parecon
Is IOPS for You?
The IOPS Site
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
Z Books
ZBooks are a great way to learn, share information, and help ZCommunications!
Most Recent: Global Weirding 37.7 Seconds: Feminist Reader We Own The World: Intl Reader Fanfare for the Future Occupy Theory / Vision / Strategy
Recent Blogs
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libbyliberal: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 3/25/1911
April 3, 2015
Re-post from 3-18-11 Correntewire [historical info taken from American Experience presentation and...
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Emersberger: Reuters, of all people, exposes coup plotters in Venezuela
April 3, 2015
This is quite a refreshingly in-depth article by Reuters (authors...
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Levy: The Anthropocene? It’s just inhuman
April 2, 2015
From the People and Nature site Human activity has changed...
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libbyliberal: Latest US Crucifixion of a Conscience-Possessor, POW Bergdahl
April 1, 2015
The Pentagon has decided to bring desertion and misbehavior charges...
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Levy: Workers’ solidarity in wartime: Bosnia 1993, Ukraine 2015
March 30, 2015
From People & Nature There is a fragile ceasefire in...
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Wittner: Who Are the Nuclear Scofflaws?
March 30, 2015
Given all the frothing by hawkish U.S. Senators about Iran’s...
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libbyliberal: Return of the Firing Squad!!! WTF???
March 29, 2015
In “The firing squad returns to America” Barry Grey rails against the...