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Znet Article Bassi: Kirchner in Word and Deed

Znet Article, January, 26 2004 Raul Bassi
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Nestor Kirchner's election as president of Argentina in May last year was the final act in a drama that began at the end of 2001, and shook Argentina's establishment. Nearly a year after his election, how are the people of Argentina flourishing? ...

Znet Article Street: Dean, Democrats, and Democracy

Znet Article, January, 26 2004 Paul Street
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A Screaming Nut Maybe…. Left democrats should not mourn the Iowa debacle and possible unraveling of Howard Dean’s supposedly populist Democratic presidential campaign. There are at least two reasons for them to hold back the tears...

Znet Article Pilger: Power, Propaganda and Conscience in The War On Terror

Znet Article, January, 26 2004 John Pilger
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I would like to thank The University of Western Australia for inviting me here today, and especially Nigel Dolan for his warm welcome and smooth organisation. I am a reporter, who values bearing witness. That is to say, I place paramount importan...

Znet Article Engler: Bush in Mexico

Znet Article, January, 25 2004 Mark Engler
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Ten years ago this month, masked rebels emerged from the mountains of Chiapas, the poorest region in Mexico, and stepped onto the world stage. They called themselves Zapatistas, taking up the Mexican Revolution's unfinished mission of promoting la...

Znet Article Scholl: Argentina's Forgotten People

Znet Article, January, 22 2004 Ann Scholl
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Monica Romero remembers how back in 1964, her family and neighbours were evicted from their farms, and their homes burnt down by Patrón Costa, to make way for sugar plantations and a refinery. With no land, her family could no longer cultivate th...

Znet Article Hylton: Chonchocoro

Znet Article, January, 18 2004 Forrest Hylton
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During Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada’s first administration, which emphasized the importance of foreign investment for Bolivian growth and development, Yerko Kukoc was Prefect of Potosí, and thus presided over the massacre, in November and D...

Znet Article Jasiewicz: Electricity in Basra

Znet Article, January, 13 2004 Eva Jasiewicz
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[Published Jan 8, 2004 on Occupation Watch] Five days ago, workers in Najebeeya and Haatha power plants, and power stations in Khor Zubair and She'iba, staged protests and walk-outs over low wages and long hours. In Najibeeya workers attacked the...

Znet Article Gilly: The Prisoner and the Presidents

Znet Article, January, 13 2004 Adolfo Gilly
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[translated by Forrest Hylton] At the meeting in Monterrey, the president of the United States prepares to “squeeze” Latin American governments, perhaps much more so on political than on economic terrain. In an electoral year, the...

Znet Article Lopez y rivas: Development within multicultural autonomies

Znet Article, January, 09 2004 Gilberto Lopez y rivas
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At the seat of the European Parliament in Brussels, the researchers for the project Multicultural Autonomy: a necessary condition for sustainable development, have recently made public the preliminary results of a two and a half year study in six ...

Znet Article Sagar: New Year's Wish List

Znet Article, December, 31 2003 Satya Sagar
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It is the New Year madness time once again. The bells have begun to jingle once more, neon-lit Christmas trees adorn the doorways of department stores and the middle-classes of the world are ready to shop, shop, shop till their creditors drop. W...

Znet Article Monbiot: Monbiot Rejoinder 1

Znet Article, December, 22 2003 George Monbiot
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Dear Michael, Many thanks for these questions and criticisms, and for the incomparable forum that Znet provides. I'm grateful to have the chance to discuss these ideas with you. Let me start with the most difficult area first, the Internationa...

Znet Article Gomes: Witnessing Democracy

Znet Article, December, 18 2003 Philip Gomes
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Democracy is like an accident - ask what happened to witnesses and you get many different interpretations. Accidents aside, most Australians would accept the following definition of democracy: "Participation by the mass of people in the decisions...

Znet Article Sustar: Defying The Police State In Miami

Znet Article, December, 05 2003 Lee Sustar
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"WELCOME TO the police state of Miami." That’s Florida AFL-CIO President Cynthia Hall’s greeting to thousands of union members gathering in the city’s Bayfront Park Amphitheater on November 20, as we prepare to march agains...

Znet Article Hylton: Empire and Revolution in Bolivia

Znet Article, December, 03 2003 Forrest Hylton
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"It's a utopia going in who knows what direction."Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, ex-President of Bolivia It is difficult, not to mention pointless, to resist being caught up in the tide of a revolutionary process on the capitalist periphery for the ...

Znet Article Palast: Chavez Versus The Free Trade Zombies Of The Americas

Znet Article, December, 03 2003 Greg Palast
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Caracas. It's as if they were locked in a crypt for the last ten years. The finance ministers of every Latin American nation last week signed on to a resolution in principle to join the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the hemispheric expan...

Znet Article Chavez: Interview Pt. 1

Znet Article, December, 02 2003 Hugo Chavez
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This interview was conducted last May by Mark Weisbrot, and published by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) website www.NACLA.org M: First I would like to try to set the record straight. This is for a U.S. audience. I have spoke...

Commentary Choudry: Blood, Oil, Guns And Bullets

Commentary, November, 28 2003 Aziz Choudry
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Terror, invasion, occupation and militarization are hallmarks of the US-led corporate recolonisation of Iraq. But they have long been the hallmarks of colonialism and imperialism the world over.

Znet Article Peries: Bush's Plan for Cuba

Znet Article, November, 26 2003 Sharmini Peries
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"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices." - Voltaire, 1767 FOREGROUNDING the 2004 United States election campaign, President George W. Bush announced on October 10 before a gathering o...

Znet Article Morales: Legalizing the Colonization of the Americas

Znet Article, November, 26 2003 Evo Morales
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This interview took place a month after Bolivia’s Gas War, a massive social uprising against the proposal to export the nation’s gas to the US through a Chilean port. Bolivia has the second largest natural gas reserves in Latin Ame...

Znet Article Solnit: Fragments of the Future:

Znet Article, November, 25 2003 Rebecca Solnit
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Fragments of the Future:

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