Table of Contents - November 2008

Commentary

Outrageous Gift Offer: *

Greetings from Z, It's time for our annual Outrageous Offer, which gives subscribers a chance to buy gift... More / Printer-Friendly version

Goodbye to Bush Offer: *

During our Goodbye to Bush Sale, you can subscribe to Z Magazine for $20 and choose from more than 30 DVDs at the special price of $15 each. You must use the printable PDF form to take... More / Printer-Friendly version

Net Briefs: *

Repression According to an email from filmsforaction.org: The First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, 3,000 to 4,000 soldiers, has been... More / Printer-Friendly version

FLIP-FLOPPING: Sarah Palin: *

After eight long years of incompetence and shameful blunders under neoconservative rule, I never thought I'd see this again in my lifetime: a presidential ticket that... More / Printer-Friendly version

GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY NOTES: Quo Vadis Culture Wars?:

Culture Wars have always been a staple of American politics, it's just that we've only been labeling them for the last two decades. Obviously issues such as woman's... More / Printer-Friendly version

FOG WATCH: US Nuke Threat:

In this Kafkaesque age everything is stood on its head: the champion violator of international law, sovereignty, and the territorial integrity of states is... More / Printer-Friendly version

CONSERVATIVE WATCH: Bush Seeks Legacy : *

In 2004, at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, President Bush's contribution to the evening's entertainment was his narration of a slide show that... More / Printer-Friendly version

Activism

CONVENTION PROTEST: Battle of St Paul: *

"If the Hanoi Hilton could not break John McCain's resolve to do what is best for his country, you can be sure the angry Left never will." - President Bush... More / Printer-Friendly version

HOUSING: Evict This:

As Congress convened to reach a deal on a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street's failing investment banks in Washington, DC, a human face was put to the crisis. In... More / Printer-Friendly version

“FREE GAZA MOVEMENT”: Breaking Gaza's Seige:

When Israel began imposing economic sanctions and withholding payments from the occupied territories of Palestine in response to Hamas's electoral victory over... More / Printer-Friendly version

Features

INVASIONS: The American War in Pakistan:

The decision to make public a presidential order of last July authorizing American strikes inside Pakistan without seeking the approval of the Pakistani government... More / Printer-Friendly version

INTERVIEW: Bailout & Election: *

Noam Chomsky, internationally renowned MIT professor, practically invented modern linguistics. In addition to his pioneering work in that field he has been a leading... More / Printer-Friendly version

ANOTHER TRILLION: Bush Economic Legacy:

The economic legacy of George W. Bush can only be measured in trillions of dollars—in fact many trillions. And it's all waste and loss. First... More / Printer-Friendly version

FINANCIAL CRIMES: Wall St.: *

From 1982 to 2000, the U.S. stock market went on the longest "bull run" ever, as share prices rose to dizzying heights. In the late 1990s, a combination of... More / Printer-Friendly version

Culture

TRADE AGREEMENTS: Globalization v. Democracy:

More and more, it is becoming clear that the essence of corporate globalization is to use capital's mobility to evade the constraints of democracy at the... More / Printer-Friendly version

REEL POLITICK: Review: Monsanto: *

How much outrage can a single multinational corporation inspire? How much damage can they inflict? The new film The World According to Monsanto... More / Printer-Friendly version

REEL POLITICK: NESHOBA:

A film by Micki Dickoff & Tony Pagano Emmy award-winning filmmaker Micki Dickoff was 17 in 1964, the year Freedom Summer sent people south to register... More / Printer-Friendly version

REEL POLITICK: Gibney Interview: *

There continues to be an ad nauseam array of indictments against post-9/11 United States governments, yet few have gone as deeply as Alex Gibney's non-fictional... More / Printer-Friendly version

BOOK REVIEW: Abortion & Life:

By Jennifer Baumgardner; Akashic Books, 2008, 250 pp. Amy Hagstrom Miller, owner of four reproductive health centers in Texas, tells every patient she... More / Printer-Friendly version

BOOK REVIEW: Hubert Harrison:

By Jeffrey Perry; Columbia University Press, 2008, 524 pp. Jeffrey Perry has constructed a masterful examination of the life of the little known, though immensely... More / Printer-Friendly version

Zaps

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Events BOOKFAIR - The 7th Annual New Orleans Bookfair is scheduled for Saturday, November 15 at the 500-600 blocks of Frenchmen Street. It will be a... More / Printer-Friendly version