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Recent ZNet
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Cohn: The Chickens Come Home to Roost in Baltimore
May 5, 2015
Baltimore’s sordid history of racial and class oppression, combined with the war on drugs, made for a deadly combination
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Zollmann: Terrorism and Islam in Western Europe
May 5, 2015
Terrorism is much closer related to Western power projections in the Middle East than to Islam
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Rothstein: From Ferguson to Baltimore: The Fruits of Government-Sponsored Segregation
May 5, 2015
Federal housing subsidy policies still disproportionately direct low-income black families to segregated neighborhoods and away from middle class suburbs
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Prashad: General Strike of the Rich Alumni
May 5, 2015
We dissent too little. We accept too much. We allow our institutions to treat students like customers and consumers and not citizens
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Nulman: Why Political Campaigns Matter: A Lesson on Trust for Left Parties
May 5, 2015
Earning the public’s trust is not just important to gaining political power in order to try to make improvements through reform, but important in developing a new political culture of continuously earned trust
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Sunkara: Bernie for President?
May 5, 2015
A vibrant Sanders campaign would be a sign that bleak job prospects and the squeezing of American workers are creating a political constituency for change
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Glick: Bernie Steps Up; How About Us?
May 5, 2015
At the ripe old age of 73, Bernie Sanders has decided to rise to the urgency and seriousness of the times by running for President
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Shelton: Guilty of mental illness
May 5, 2015
Addressing mental health issues before people are incarcerated should be the solution
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Heller: The Onion Is Not a Joke
May 5, 2015
How a fake newspaper is turning into a real media empire
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Chomsky: ‘I Don’t Look at Twitter Because It Doesn’t Tell Me Anything’
May 4, 2015
Interview on the current media landscape
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Jäntti: Virulent anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism
May 4, 2015
It seems that Hollywood knows no limits when it comes to dehumanizing Middle Eastern peoples and adherents of Islam
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Leverink: Kazova workers claim historic victory in Turkey
May 4, 2015
Their ultimate aim is to become a role model for others: autonomous and independent
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Emersberger: Must the Venezuelan Right be Golpista?
May 4, 2015
Spreading misinformation and panic drives up borrowing costs and could encourage fringe elements of the military to use it as a pretext for a coup attempt
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Falk: Apartheid and the Palestinian National Struggle
May 4, 2015
This strategic bonding was greatly facilitated by Israel’s military prowess as revealed in its victorious wars, especially the 1967 War
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May 4, 2015
That’s why Scott McIntyre was fired: because he questioned and disputed the most sacred doctrine of the West’s religion
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Shipps: Baltimore gang members sound ‘like Noam Chomsky’ compared to the cops
May 4, 2015
Citing the damage wrought by decades of oppressive policies, including poverty and police brutality, Crips, Bloods, and Black Guerrilla members in Baltimore have banded together to find collaborative solutions to the problems facing their city
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Chengu: The Rise of the African-American Police State
May 4, 2015
Far from being a “post-racial” nation, American race relations are at a new low
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Quijones: Angela Merkel’s NSA Nightmare Just Got A Lot Worse
May 4, 2015
Europe’s economic powerhouse Germany still remains, to all intents and purposes, a militarily occupied country, with as many as 21,500 British soldiers and 50,000 US troops still stationed on its soil.
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Emanuele: No Alternatives to US Empire: Bernie Sanders and the 2016 Elections
May 3, 2015
Therein lies the hope: people connecting struggles and working effectively to resist domination and oppression
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Raptis: Greece: A possible Route
May 3, 2015
Will the Emperor and his Janissaries be successful in their effort to stop SYRIZA, Alexis, Zoe and all of us Greeks in our effort to move to a better society and to, even, become a catalyst for ecumenical hope?
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de Sousa Santos: The Strange Lightness of History
May 3, 2015
To what extent have the colonized learned from the colonizers the arrogance of racism?
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May 3, 2015
Perhaps the most tired of all the myths the right is trying to perpetuate is that anti-war activists’ actions dishonor U.S. soldiers
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Cole: The Middle East Policy of President Bernie Sanders
May 3, 2015
Sanders supported the Israeli attack on Gaza last summer but thought the Israeli army was a little heavy-handed and ‘over-reacted’
May ZMag
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Chomsky: History Handbook: The Passion for Free Markets
For more than half a century, the United Nations has been the main forum for the United States to try to create a world in its image, maneuvering with its allies to forge global accords about human rights, nuclear tests or the environment that Washington insisted would mirror its own values.”
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Herman: Global Versus Local Violence
In the U.S. establishment’s patriotic history of the Ukraine conflict it is also important to black out the fact that the United States, so passionately opposed to Russian “aggression,” committed a vastly more deadly one in Iraq from 2003.
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Street: Left Radicals, Radical Republicans, and Dismal Dollar Dems
In recent months, “Progressive Democrats” have been hoping to breathe new life into the nation’s hopelessly 1%-dominated “two party system” by running the nominally socialist, technically Independent, and genuinely populist and domestically progressive U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
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By the time I leave Kentucky’s federal prison center, where I’m an inmate with a 3 month sentence, the world’s 12th largest city may be without water. Estimates put the water reserve of Sao Paulo, a city of 20 million people, at 60 days
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Emanuele: A Tragic Anniversary
In the U.S., those in charge of the Empire don’t fret over the deaths of Iraqi children. Hell, they don’t shed a tear for poor or dying U.S. children, so why should we expect the managers of Empire to offer any mercy to the enemy?
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Bello: Washington Frets Over Beijing
To many analysts, Washington and its western allies have only themselves to blame for China’s increasingly assertive push to build new multilateral institutions
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The struggle to save the United States Postal Service is emblematic of the larger struggle against corporate plundering of public resources
Recent Audio/Videos
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Chomsky: Science at MIT: From the Cold War to Climate Change
May 5, 2015
Discussion on how scientific research at MIT has been affected for the past 50+ years by its relationship with outside funding agencies, in particular the US military
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Giroux: On the Struggle for a Cohesive Left
May 4, 2015
Interview on the failures of the liberal class, the limitations of our existing commercial/corporate media structure, and the need for alternative approaches to education
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May 3, 2015
"Baltimore today was everywhere in 1967, 1968"
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Katsiaounis: Greek Book Publishing in a Time of Crisis
May 2, 2015
The Greek social and material crisis has forced many book stores and publishers to close while writers and readers are considering new political ideas
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@hotdamnirock: Thoughts On Freddie Grey Protest by a Young Baltimore Resident
April 29, 2015
A call for disciplined protest from a young Baltimore resident
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 SiteZ 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!
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Recent Blogs
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libbyliberal: Time to Play Lucy and the Football with Sanders, Progressives?
May 2, 2015
Patrick Martin in “Bernie Sanders to seek Democratic presidential nomination” takes...
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Emersberger: Dear Reuters: Don’t you have access to Youtube?
April 30, 2015
Reuters does its bit support alarmist claims about Venezuela’s economy...
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Emersberger: Make up your own PDVSA data? What are Reuters’ folks smoking in the USA?
April 27, 2015
Plenty of international media have pushed claims that the Venezuelan...
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Khan: Commemorating the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan
April 27, 2015
Nasir Khan, April 27, 2015 Today is the anniversary of...
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Ananth: Trinity of Trifectas: an anti-oppressive mental health template for healing and liberation
April 21, 2015
by Sriram Ananth ([email protected]) Blog: https://loveliberationstruggle.wordpress.com/ An article...
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Simpson: The Chicago election: the electoral revolution that didn’t happen
April 21, 2015
It was one helluva an election season on the shores of Lake...
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Venkat: A critique on the immutability of word order in a language and science in general
April 19, 2015
First I must declare I am no expert both in...