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- Monday, Jun 17, 2013
Commentary Revelations about NSA spying on US communications should allow us to join the dots from previous disclosures -
- Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013
ZNet Article Not long before last month’s elections, dozens of workers (the youngest was 12) were burned to death in factory fires in Karachi and Lahore. Pakistan’s rulers were unmoved Video A report and interview with Manish Kunjam, General Secretary of the Adivasi Mahasabha, from their march for tribal autonomy on March 9, 2013, in Dantewada -
- Wednesday, Jun 05, 2013
ZNet Article East Asia in 2013 remains troubled by the question of sovereignty over a group of tiny, uninhabited islands -
- Friday, May 31, 2013
ZNet Article Significantly, this appears to be the first instance where a major Kashmiri nationalist leader was actually eliminated ZNet Article Are Washington, Moscow, and Beijing using the global arms trade to create a new cold war? -
- Tuesday, May 28, 2013
ZNet Article The Kashmir conflict has been going on for decades ZNet Article In the aftermath of the Maoist attack on the Congress Yatra in Chhattisgarh, activist and writer Arundhati Roy points out that the Maoists have no choice but to indulge in ‘counter violence’ -
- Sunday, May 19, 2013
ZNet Article On May 11 as millions queued in sweltering heat to cast their vote, defying Taliban threats, Pakistan made history. For the first time, a governmental transition has been made possible through the ballot. ZNet Article Modi is used to being Caesar for his customary good governance. -
- Sunday, May 12, 2013
ZNet Article All in all, Pakistan will have moved forward — but only by an inch ZNet Article Do a billion YouTube hits justify a war that left four million dead? -
- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
ZNet Article Interview on upcoming Pakistani elections, American influence in the region and other issues -
- Saturday, May 04, 2013
ZNet Article Interview with Himanshu Kumar, a Gandhian activist who worked to try to get villagers back to their homes, get people falsely accused out of jail, and win justice for victims ZNet Article The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) and West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT) strongly urge the U.S. government to condemn the unwarranted assault by Indonesian government security forces ZNet Article As tensions build on the ground, the US military and CIA have taken their war into Pakistan, driven by the legalistic logic of the Obama counterterrorism doctrine -
- Thursday, May 02, 2013
ZNet Article I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption. But leaping from this to an anti-politics political party is usually little more than a thunderbolt from a blue sky -
- Wednesday, May 01, 2013
ZNet Article Interview on the upcoming general elections in Pakistan, the performance of the previous government, minority and sectarian issues, and secularism -
- Saturday, Apr 27, 2013
Commentary The latest insanity from the genetic engineers is to push GMO bananas on India for reducing iron deficiency in Indian women -
- Friday, Apr 26, 2013
ZNet Article One of the most inspiring examples of people fighting back against international capital is taking place in the Jagatsinghpur district of the Indian state of Orissa -
- Thursday, Apr 25, 2013
ZNet Article In a tit-for-tat trade battle between the US and India over solar power, what is certain is that the environment will be the loser -
- Monday, Apr 22, 2013
ZNet Article Interview with Sudha Bharadwaj, a lawyer and a member of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Mazdoor Karkyakarta Committee) Commentary Quieter is better. That seems to be the motto driving the negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership ZNet Article Chinese officials appealed for calm in the Korean peninsula -
- Friday, Apr 19, 2013
ZNet Article Why is Modi seeking the death penalty for two people who served him so well in the past? -
- Sunday, Apr 14, 2013
ZNet Article The whole point of the corruption is to consolidate power and money -
- Saturday, Apr 13, 2013
ZNet Article On April 2, the four major student union federations jointly held a protest against the withdrawal of campus democracy in West Bengal -
- Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013
ZNet Article The shameful retreat of the Punjab government before the forces of narrow-minded intolerance and prejudice augurs ill for the future -
- Thursday, Apr 04, 2013
ZNet Article Control over seed is the first link in the food chain because seed is the source of life. When a corporation controls seed, it controls life, especially the life of farmers ZNet Article A review of Nirmalangshu Mukherji’s book Maoists in India: Tribals Under Siege - All Asia ZNet

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- Wednesday, Jun 05, 2013
ZNet Article East Asia in 2013 remains troubled by the question of sovereignty over a group of tiny, uninhabited islands -
- Sunday, May 12, 2013
ZNet Article Do a billion YouTube hits justify a war that left four million dead? -
- Monday, Apr 22, 2013
ZNet Article Chinese officials appealed for calm in the Korean peninsula -
- Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013
ZNet Article Over the last two years, the Obama administration has executed what the president has termed the “Pivot to Asia” strategy -
- Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013
ZNet Article After a year of intense diplomatic standoff and territorial brinkmanship among disputing states in the South and East China Seas, the U.S. military ‘pivot’ to the region appears to be in full swing -
- Sunday, Feb 03, 2013
ZNet Article The current dispute between China and Japan has escalated to a very dangerous level in recent months -
- Sunday, Jan 27, 2013
ZNet Article As important as the terminals are to the coal industry, they've run up against a wall of resistance -
- Wednesday, Jan 23, 2013
ZNet Article Will China-Japan-U.S. Tensions in the Pacific Ignite a Conflict and Sink the Global Economy? - All Featured Asia ZNet

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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
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South End Press, 2002
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by Jeremy Brecher
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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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