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Znet Article Ireland: Bush's Secret Assault On The World's Poorest AIDS Patients

Znet Article, June, 20 2006 Doug Ireland
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Bush's Secret Assault On The World's Poorest AIDS Patients

Znet Article Cromwell: From A Dying Planet

Znet Article, May, 11 2006 David Cromwell
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Last year we reported that Michael McCarthy, environment editor of the Independent, was "taken aback" at dramatic scientific warnings of "major new threats" in the Earth's climate system. For instance, the West Antarctic ice sheet, previously cons...

Znet Article Cromwell: The Curiosities of Utopian Thinking

Znet Article, March, 28 2006 David Cromwell
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Sean O'Grady wrote recently in the ad-filled motoring supplement of The Independent: "in answer to the many letters we get criticising some of our coverage, we don't make cars. We just write about them. [...] We try to concentrate on telling our r...

Znet Article Tokar: WTO vs. Europe: Less-and Also More-Than it Seems

Znet Article, February, 15 2006 Brian Tokar
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In the late Spring of 2003, amidst the political fallout of "Old Europe's" refusal to support the US invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration threw down a gauntlet that threatened to permanently aggravate transatlantic hostilities. As a political...

Znet Article Monbiot: Smoke Rings

Znet Article, February, 08 2006 George Monbiot
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Three weeks ago, while looking for something else, I came across one of the most extraordinary documents I have ever read. It relates to an organisation called Arise, which stands for Associates for Research into the Science of Enjoyment. Though l...

Znet Article Landy: Replying to Bush on Health Care

Znet Article, February, 01 2006 Joanne Landy
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We've replied below in two ways to the president's health care proposals: 1) sentence-by-sentence, not leaving out a single word of the two slight para...

Znet Article Landy: Why Labor Needs Improved And Expanded 'Medicare For All'

Znet Article, January, 27 2006 Joanne Landy
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Why Labor Needs Improved And Expanded 'Medicare For All'

Znet Article Cromwell: Point of No Return?

Znet Article, January, 18 2006 David Cromwell
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Billions Will Die The Independent and the Independent on Sunday (IoS) pride themselves on their environmental coverage. No doubt their editors will indicate today's dramatic front page as a case in point. The paper depicts the Earth from space ov...

Zmag Article Administrator: Cuba: The Revolution Lives On

Zmag Article, January, 01 2006 Site Administrator
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U nderstanding Cuban society objectively is incredibly difficult, given 45 years of unremitting U.S. propaganda against Fidel Castro, the Cuban government, and Cuban society. Even for those ind...

Znet Article Administrator: Two women, two cancers, two health-care systems

Znet Article, December, 31 2005 Site Administrator
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Two women, two cancers, two health-care systems

Znet Article Jensen: Intelligent-design Debate Reveals Limits Of Religion And Science

Znet Article, December, 18 2005 Robert Jensen
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Despite the clashes between claims based in faith v. reason, it seems that most people -- on both sides of the debate about religion and science in the United States -- share a belief in a kind of magic. Sadly, this need for magical thinking under...

Znet Article Edwards: The Insane Society

Znet Article, December, 14 2005 David Edwards
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In his classic book, The Sane Society, published in 1955, psychologist Erich Fromm proposed that, not just individuals, but entire societies "may be lacking in sanity". Fromm argued that one of the most deceptive features of social life involves "...

Znet Article Monbiot: Worse Than Fossil Fuel

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 George Monbiot
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Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a b...

Znet Article Monbiot: Worse Than Fossil Fuel

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 George Monbiot
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Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a b...

Znet Article Monbiot: Struggle Against Ourselves

Znet Article, December, 05 2005 George Monbiot
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  I want to take a moment to remind you of where we have come from. For the first three million years of human history, we lived according to circumstance. Our lives were ruled by the happenstances of ecology. We existed, as all animals do, in ...

Znet Article Glick: Grassroots Mobilizing to Demand Action on Climate Crisis

Znet Article, November, 29 2005 Ted Glick
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From Eastport, Maine to Los Angeles, California, North Americans concerned about global warming are holding events later this week to demand action by the federal government and the thousands of delegates at the United Nations Climate Conference m...

Znet Article Shalom: ParPolity: Political Vision for a Good Society

Znet Article, November, 22 2005 Stephen1 Shalom
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(This draft benefited from conversations with many people, but especially Michael Albert and  Cynthia Peters, and from feedback at a panel discussion in Porto Alegre on political vision and from very helpful comments from studen...

Znet Article Chomsky: Intelligent Design?

Znet Article, November, 10 2005 Noam Chomsky
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President George W. Bush favours teaching both evolution and "Intelligent Design" in schools, "so people can know what the debate is about." To proponents, Intelligent Design is the notion that the universe is too complex t...

Znet Article Davis: The Other Hurricane

Znet Article, October, 05 2005 Mike Davis
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The genesis of two category-five hurricanes (Katrina and Rita) in a row over the Gulf of Mexico is an unprecedented and troubling occurrence. But for most tropical meteorologists the truly astonishing "storm of the decade" took place in March 2004...

Znet Article Monbiot: A World Turned Upside Down

Znet Article, September, 20 2005 George Monbiot
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Climate change denial has gone through four stages. First the fossil fuel lobbyists told us that global warming was a myth. Then they agreed that it was happening, but insisted it was a good thing: we could grow wine in the Pennines and take Medit...

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