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Znet Article Jacobs: Remembering and Re-Examining the Third World: A Review of Vijay Prashad's The Darker Nations (New Press 2007)

Znet Article, March, 17 2007 Ron Jacobs
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Becoming politically aware in the 1960s and 1970s, one heard and read a lot about the Third World. Not only did the national liberation struggles of the Third Wor...

Znet Article Weisbrot: President Bush's Trip to Latin America Is All About Denial

Znet Article, March, 17 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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  "State of Denial" is the title of Bob Woodward's famous book on the Bush team's road to disaster in Iraq, but it would have served just as well for a description of their Latin America policy. This week President Bush heads Sou...

Znet Article Mst: Full Tanks at the Cost of Empty Stomachs:

Znet Article, March, 16 2007 Mst brazil's landless workers movement -- Mst
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Full Tanks at the Cost of Empty Stomachs:

Znet Article Agee: U.S., Latin America Trends

Znet Article, March, 15 2007 Philip Agee
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Anyone following the news in recent times cannot be unaware of the wave of progressive change sweeping Latin America and the Caribbean. For many lonely years Cuba held high the torch through its exemplary programs to provide universal health care ...

Znet Article Maass: The Way of the Commandos

Znet Article, March, 14 2007 Peter Maass
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Getting to Know the Ge...

Znet Article Zibechi: Let's All Stand With Cite Soleil

Znet Article, March, 14 2007 Raúl Zibechi
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In less than two years the troops of MINUSTAH (Mission of the Nations United for the Stabilization of Haiti) perpetrated three massacres in Cite Soleil, an outlying slum of Port au Prince. According to numerous testimonies, barely mentioned by the...

Znet Article Chomsky: War, Neoliberalism and Empire in the 21st Century

Znet Article, March, 14 2007 Noam Chomsky
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It's not very clear. What you said is correct. The law was not even seen by the Iraqi Parliament until it was finished, so it's an inside job. Exactly what this entails is still kind of open. It allows for Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) whic...

Znet Article Mertens: Bush in Uruguay: Mad, Bad and Lucrative to Know

Znet Article, March, 13 2007 Federico fasano Mertens
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He steps onto our homeland as a character with few antecedents in modern history. W...

Znet Article Stefanoni: Bolivian "Blue Helmets" in Haiti

Znet Article, March, 13 2007 Pablo Stefanoni
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The doubts about the way in which the Bolivian army is conducting itself in its intervention in Haiti have begun to open a larger debate — albeit still in its very early stages — over whether Bolivia should be participating in this...

Znet Article Robinson: Globalization and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the United States

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 William Robinson
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Keynote Presentation for “El Gran Paro Americano II” Immigrant Rights Conference, Feb 3-4 2007, Los Angeles It is an honor and a privilege to be here with you today, with the leaders and organizers of one of the most vital, just a...

Znet Article Burbach: Bush Trip to Counter Chavez is Destined to Fail

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 Roger Burbach
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Bush's trip to Latin America is a calculated effort to counter Hugo Chavez's growing influence in the region and to separate the "bad left" from the "good left", namely Uruguay and to some extent Brazil. He hopes to add them to the dwindling bloc ...

Znet Article Engler: Bush's Latin American Spring Break

Znet Article, March, 09 2007 Mark Engler
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Bush's Latin American Spring Break

Commentary Glick: Peace, Justice and a Clean Energy Revolution, Part 2

Commentary, March, 08 2007 Ted Glick
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"The best science tells us we have ten years to fundamentally transform our economy and lead the world in the same direction or else, in the words of NASA's Jim Hansen, we will face a 'totally different planet.' We're calling for 80 percent carbon...

Znet Article Swann: Chavez exploits oil to lend in Latin America, pushing IMF aside

Znet Article, March, 01 2007 Christopher Swann
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is squeezing the International Monetary Fund out of Latin America, the region that once accounted for most of its...

Znet Article Dangl: The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia

Znet Article, February, 28 2007 Ben Dangl
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1-Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, " The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia" is about? What is it trying to communicate?In the last six years, new struggles and protest movements have emerged in Bolivia over...

Znet Article Carlson: Fidel and his buddy Hugo, Exporting Revolution

Znet Article, February, 24 2007 Chris Carlson
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Fidel Castro is a hard core revolutionary, and what he said recently about the hanging of Saddam Hussein was pretty indicative of that. At eighty years old, gravely ill, and possibly on his death bed, Castro pledged that he wouldn't go down the sa...

Znet Article Lendman: Hugo Chavez's Social Democratic Agenda

Znet Article, February, 22 2007 Stephen Lendman
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Hugo Chavez Frias was reelected by an overwhelming nearly two to one margin over his only serious rival on December 3, 2006 giving him a mandate to proceed with his agenda to build a socialist society in the 21st centu...

Znet Article Lendman: Ecuador's President Embraces Bolivarianism

Znet Article, February, 21 2007 Stephen Lendman
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Hugo Chavez Frias gained an Ecuadoran ally last November when voters rejected Washington's choice and the country...

Znet Article Chomsky: Chomsky on Iran, Iraq, and the Rest of the World

Znet Article, February, 20 2007 Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On February 9, Michael Shank interviewed him on the latest developments in U.S. policy toward Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Venezuela. Along the way, Chomsky also commented on cli...

Znet Article Tabb: Resource Wars

Znet Article, February, 19 2007 William Tabb
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The close relation between war and natural resources is of long standing. What else was colonial conquest about? Vast estates held by the Dutch East India Company came under direct control of the Crown as did the lands conquered by the British Eas...

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