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- Sunday, Feb 12, 2012
ZNet Article New research goes beyond the New York Times to show just how disturbing labor conditions at Foxconn, the "Chinese hell factory," really are ZNet Article Patenting seeds has led to a farming and food crisis – and huge profits for US biotechnology corporations.
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- Thursday, Feb 09, 2012
ZNet Article Apple’s prowess at turning out products that capture the popular imagination has kept it from being tainted with the image of being a labor exporter ZNet Article Pakistan desperately needs education that produces socially responsible, thoughtful, and well-informed individuals -
- Wednesday, Feb 08, 2012
ZNet Article CIA tactics in Pakistan include targeting rescuers and funerals -
- Saturday, Feb 04, 2012
ZNet Article China has been in the category of lower-middle income countries until it crossed over to upper middle income in 2010 -
- Sunday, Jan 29, 2012
ZNet Article "To blindly pressure and impose sanctions on Iran are not constructive approaches" -
- Friday, Jan 27, 2012
ZNet Article The Constitution that the United States imposed on Japan 65 years ago forbids war preparation, yet the United States trains its forces in Japan to fight wars elsewhere in the world ZNet Article Local HR practice blamed, but suicides, long working hours and disciplinary wage deductions give cause for concern -
- Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012
ZNet Article The more than 100 U.S. military bases and installations in Japan have served as jumping off points for U.S. wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq -
- Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012
ZNet Article Once upon a time Iran was Pakistan’s close ally ZNet Article The U.S. has yet to come clean on its role in the 1965 horror, and the New York Times has apparently decided to continue that silence -
- Saturday, Jan 21, 2012
Video Interview on Pakistan's internal turmoil, Pakistani attitudes toward U.S. foreign policy, the GOP presidential contest, and the prospect of a military strike against Iran -
- Thursday, Jan 19, 2012
ZNet Article Austerity is meeting with increased resistance -
- Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012
ZNet Article Ever since Antilla arrived on Altamount Road in Mumbai, exuding mystery and quiet menace, things have not been the same ZNet Article Diary account of North Korea ZNet Article Iran may be “isolated” from the United States and Western Europe, but from the BRICS to NAM, it has the majority of the global South on its side -
- Tuesday, Jan 17, 2012
ZNet Article Pakistan’s real dilemma comes not primarily because of America — with which it is now rapidly cutting off ties — but Saudi Arabia -
- Saturday, Jan 14, 2012
ZNet Article The new doctrine places China and Iran at the center of U.S. “security” concerns -
- Friday, Jan 13, 2012
ZNet Article The U.S. tilt against China may spur Beijing into a nuclear arms race with the United States, which is the last thing we need -
- Wednesday, Jan 11, 2012
ZNet Article With energy demand on the rise and sources of supply dwindling, we are, in fact, entering a new epoch in which disputes over vital resources will dominate world affairs -
- Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012
ZNet Article The origin of India’s practice of procuring farmland in Africa is traced back to the food crisis of 2008 -
- Monday, Jan 09, 2012
ZNet Article The safety of nuclear power has been vastly overstated by junk science and media collusion -
- Sunday, Jan 08, 2012
ZNet Article Just over a year ago, Salmaan Taseer, governor of Pakistan’s largest province, the Punjab, was assassinated in the most cowardly manner by a government-assigned security guard in federal capital, Islamabad. ZNet Article Two years ago, in 2009-10, there were around 3.3 million NGOs working in India. In other words, there was one NGO for less than 400 inhabitants, and several times more than the numbers of elementary schools and primary health centres. -
- Thursday, Jan 05, 2012
Commentary India’s future cannot be “retail dictatorship” and “seed dictatorship” -
- Monday, Jan 02, 2012
Commentary A preoccupation with women’s bodies sadly determines for some, which issues are labeled as ‘women’s issues’ -
- Saturday, Dec 31, 2011
ZNet Article The "war against terror" is now giving way to a strategy of "containment" of China -
- Thursday, Dec 29, 2011
Commentary A peaceful resistance as inspiring as Tahrir Square has arisen in the most militarised region on earth -
- Tuesday, Dec 27, 2011
ZNet Article What is happening among the Pakistan establishment currently must be regarded as extraordinary by any reckoning. - All Asia ZNet

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- Sunday, Jan 29, 2012
ZNet Article "To blindly pressure and impose sanctions on Iran are not constructive approaches" -
- Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012
ZNet Article The more than 100 U.S. military bases and installations in Japan have served as jumping off points for U.S. wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq -
- Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012
ZNet Article Diary account of North Korea -
- Wednesday, Jan 11, 2012
ZNet Article With energy demand on the rise and sources of supply dwindling, we are, in fact, entering a new epoch in which disputes over vital resources will dominate world affairs -
- Wednesday, Dec 07, 2011
ZNet Article When it comes to China policy, is the Obama administration leaping from the frying pan directly into the fire? -
- Thursday, Dec 01, 2011
ZNet Article If the ECB and European authorities stick with their suicidal doctrine of austerity, then the Federal Reserve must intervene -
- Sunday, Nov 27, 2011
ZNet Article With an increase of 2° C, the number of deaths per year attributed to climate change-related natural disasters, which was 350,000 in 2009,could skyrocket into the millions -
- Saturday, Nov 26, 2011
ZNet Article While North America and Europe were hard hit, China has resisted the international crisis of 2008 - All Featured Asia ZNet

ZMag Asia
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- Thursday, Oct 01, 2009
ZMag Article An interview with Pervez Hoodbhoy, activist and physicist -
- Wednesday, Oct 01, 2008
ZMag Article David Barsamian interviews Raj Bidwai on India's future direction. -
- Thursday, May 01, 2008
ZMag Article Having brought up Iran [in Part I], we might as well turn briefly to the third member of the famous Axis of Evil, North Korea. The official story right now is that after having been forced to accept an agreement on dismantling its nuclear weapons ... -
- Wednesday, Apr 02, 2008
ZMag Article After the death in January of Indonesia’s former dictator from 1967-1998, Suharto, the Western mainstream media rediscovered the zeal with which it had supported the Indonesian dictator throughout his killing sprees of 1965-66 and the 25-year occu... -
- Saturday, Mar 01, 2008
ZMag Article Fatima Bhutto published her first book, Whispers of the Desert, a collection of poetry, when she was 15. She is a graduate of Columbia and the London School of Oriental and African Studies. Her articles appear in the LA Times, CounterPunch, and ot... -
- Monday, Jul 01, 2002
ZMag Article Michael Albert
Cambridge:
South End Press, 2002
Review
by Jeremy Brecher
In
the 1960s student activists used to say, “Don’t trust
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- Friday, Jun 01, 2001
ZMag Article News of the hazards of genetically engineered foods has finally broken into the U.S. mainstream media, as the evidence for the unique dangers of genetically engineered foods continues to grow. Understanding the implications of commodification of f... -
- Monday, Mar 01, 1999
ZMag Article An investigative history of the Monsanto company, the most aggressive promoters today of GMO agriculture. This is a version of the article that won a 1999 Project Censored award. -
- Monday, Dec 01, 1997
ZMag Article
This December, heads of state from some 180 countries will convene
in Kyoto, Japan in an attempt to negotiate the first internationally binding treaty to
control levels of carbon dioxide and other climate-altering emissions. It is d... -
- Tuesday, Apr 01, 1997
ZMag Article
Seven years ago in these
pages, we launched an in-depth investigation of
the mainstream environmental movement. The
occasion was the widely publicized 20th
anni... - All ZMag Asia

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