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Paul Street: ZNet is "Harmful to a Young Public": Notes From Madison
Submitted by Paul Street on Fri, 2007-05-04 19:18.Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the Orwellian absurdity of daily political life in the United States. I am spending a few days in my old home away from home - Madison, WI. This morning I went ino my hotel's complimentary Internet room to have a look at my e-mail, the online New York Times, Common Dreams, and ZNet. I was curious among other things to see if my latest Empire and Inequality Report had gone up yet (it has - read it here).
Noam Chomsky: Polls, “Free Markets” & Vietnam
Submitted by Noam Chomsky on Tue, 2007-05-01 15:31.Categories: East Asia | Middle East | United States
Below is Noam Chomsky’s response to a question in the Z Sustainer chat board where Noam hosts a forum.
ZSustainer: Hi Noam, I was wondering what you thought of the poll results recently released by PIPA, which showed a "striking consensus" on the statement, "the free enterprise system and free market economy is the best system on which to base the future of the world, with an average 61% agreeing.
Noam Chomsky: The poll was interesting, but one has to look at it carefully. First, just to mention the conclusions, the major ones were:
David Peterson: Open Letter on an Open Letter on Darfur
Submitted by David Peterson on Wed, 2007-04-18 11:43.
Aside from Harold Pinter ("Art, Truth, and Politics"), how many of the
other nine leading figures of the contemporary European enlightenment
do you suppose would be willing to sign a comparable letter (mutatis
mutandis, of course) denouncing their home states, the 27 member states
of the European Union, and even the United Nations itself, over the
collective failure to lift so much as one little finger in opposition to the
mass deaths and the material and cultural destruction wrought by the
United States of America, as it embargoes, threatens, and militarily invades country after another -- most recently Afghanistan and Iraq?
Justin Podur: On Colombia, for the Dems
Submitted by Justin Podur on Mon, 2007-04-16 16:56.Categories: Latin America | US Foreign Policy
Having just read (and agreed with) Paul Street's latest blog entry I'm in the awkward position of trying to encourage people to get this letter to Dems to try to convince them to vote against the FTA with Colombia. The introductory note my friend Manuel wrote to a group of us.
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Mitchell Szczep...: Ruling Expected in Chicago Activist's Freedom of Speech Appeal
Submitted by Mitchell Szczep... on Sat, 2007-04-14 23:00.Categories: Activism | Repression | United States
From an article I posted on Chicago Indymedia:
Freedom-of-speech advocates and political activists are expecting a verdict this week in the case of a Chicago political activist who was arrested at a political rally for openly questioning police orders.
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