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Kunin: Supporting CUPE's Israel Boycott
Znet Article, August, 31 2006
Jason Kunin
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Not many people in North America were paying attention in July 2005 when The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, along with over 170 Palestinian unions, political parties, and organizations called for a global campaign...
Pilger: Return Of People Power
Znet Article, August, 30 2006
John Pilger
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In researching a new film, I have been watching documentary archive from the 1980s, the era of Ronald Reagan and his "secret war" against Central America. What is striking is the relentless lying. A department of lying was set up under Reagan with...
Fox: Defining the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas - ALBA
Znet Article, August, 25 2006
Michael Fox
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Much has been written and theorized about the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) since President Chavez first proposed the idea at Isla Margarita at the III Summit of the Heads of State and the Government of the Association of Caribb...
Lendman: Alternatives To the Collapsed WTO Doha Round Talks
Znet Article, August, 23 2006
Stephen Lendman
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On July 24, 2006, World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy was forced to halt the five years of negotiating of the so-called Fourth WTO Ministerial Doha Round that began in Doha, Qatar in November, 2001 and ended (for now, at le...
Lendman: Venezuela Leading the Race For the UN Security Council Seat
Znet Article, August, 22 2006
Stephen Lendman
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In October, elections will take place for five non-permanent UN Security Council seats to be held in 2007. One of them will be for the Latin American seat now held by Argentina. The two leading regional contenders vying to fill the opening are V...
Many: Heloisa Helena, a socialist woman for the Brazilian presidential elections
Znet Article, August, 20 2006
Authors Many
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Brazil is one of the countries with the highest level of social inequality in the world. The country has been described as a sort of "Swiss India," where the rich live as though in Switzerland, while the lives of the poor are similar to those of t...
Zibechi: Latin America Now
Znet Article, August, 18 2006
Raúl Zibechi
Zibechi's ZSpace page
In this interview, Raúl Zibechi discusses the challenges of the Evo Morales administration in Bolivia, the power and role of Bolivian social movements, projects for regional integration such as People's Trade Agreement and the Bolivarian Altern...
Ospina: Havana's Medics Work Around The World
Znet Article, August, 16 2006
Hernando calvo Ospina
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When Hurricane Katrina ripped through the southern United States in August 2005, the authorities were overwhelmed and the governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, appealed to the international community for emergency medical aid. The Cuba...
Fuentes: Bolivia
Znet Article, August, 10 2006
Federico Fuentes
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In an exclusive interview, Bolivia's powerful Hydrocarbons Minister contends that the recent visit of JoaquÃn Lavin (2) to La Paz "takes place in the context of constantly more frequent pronouncements in favour of a Bolivian route to the sea. He ...
Fernandes: Way Forward for the Left?
Znet Article, August, 09 2006
Sujatha Fernandes
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Following the rejection by the Mexican Electoral Tribunal this past Saturday August 6 of a full recount of the vote from Mexico’s recent elections, protesters have taken to the streets in support of center left PRD (Democratic Revolution P...
Beeton: What the World Bank and IDB Owe Haiti
Znet Article, August, 02 2006
Dan Beeton
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For several years Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, has been left out of the World Bank’s “Heavily Indebted Poor Country†(HIPC) debt relief initiative. At last, Haiti may soon see some of its IMF and...
Spronk: Another Hole in the Boat: Suez's "Private Corruption" in Bolivia
Znet Article, July, 27 2006
Susan Spronk
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The idea of privatizing public water utilities in the Third World was never a good one. Driven by neoliberal ideology, international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank have worked hard thro...
Lendman: The Crime of Lebanon and Palestine
Znet Article, July, 26 2006
Stephen Lendman
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By any interpretation of international law, Israel today is committing massive and egregious war crimes and crimes against humanity against the defenseless people of Palestine and Lebanon. It's doing it with the full support and encouragement of ...
Solo: Varieties of imperial decline
Znet Article, July, 25 2006
Toni Solo
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If people needed reminding that North American and European foreign policy, including policy on aid and trade, is based on sadism and hypocrisy, events in Palestine and Lebanon will surely have done so. While people inside the imperial Bluebeard'...
Private eye: The cheque's in the pipeline
Znet Article, July, 20 2006
Private eye
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BP has secretly settled the case being brought by more than 50 destitute Colombian farmers rendered homeless by construction of a major oil pipeline through their land (Eye 1142). The claim switched to the UK from Colombia after one of the farmer...
Zibechi: The Wished-For Technical Draw in Bolivia
Znet Article, July, 13 2006
Raúl Zibechi
Zibechi's ZSpace page
from La Jornada, published in Rebelion, 11-07-2006 The recent elections for the Constituent Assembly mark the end of the political transition in Bolivia. The developing scenario, despite the solid victory of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) of...
Almeyra: Words and Acts
Znet Article, July, 11 2006
Guillermo Almeyra
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Originally published in Spanish by Memoria*********************************Translated by irlandesa The events in San Salvador Atenco compel us to address the issues of what phase the country is in and what the left can and should do in order to b...
Caputo: Ransacking Chile
Znet Article, July, 11 2006
Orlando Caputo
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The rise in copper prices has produced euphoria in the government and ruling elites, despite relative complications for certain exporters. The price rise seems not to be a momentary phenomenon. Although abundance is not noticeable in the daily lif...
Cromwell: The System Works - The Independent On Latin America And Hugo Chavez
Commentary, July, 05 2006
David Cromwell
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An Understandable Mistake
Báez: The ambivalent Andean chessboard
Znet Article, July, 03 2006
René Báez
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The ascendant nationalist tendency in Latin America in the Andean region, ever more entrenched in the Venezuela of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivia of Evo Morales, has recently faced the impact of important elections.(1) Above all, there were the elect...
