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Znet Article Christoff: G20 Austerity

Znet Article, August, 01 2010 Stefan Christoff
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A month ago, thousands of chanting voices echoed between downtown towers in the core of Canada's largest city, with people reclaiming the streets, facing down thousands of armed police -- a dignified challenge to the closed-door G20 summit.

Znet Article Christoff: Torture: A Canadian Value?

Znet Article, September, 11 2009 Stefan Christoff
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Canada is one country where political links to torture in recent years are unmistakable.

Znet Article Christoff: More Than Just a Beef

Znet Article, February, 14 2009 Stefan Christoff
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Social movements in Korea have vigorously opposed the country's succession into the WTO since the mid-1990s and have actively mobilized in opposition to the more recent bilateral trade initiatives.

Znet Article Christoff: Fisher-folk in the Philippines Oppose Bilateral Trade Accord with Japan

Znet Article, September, 20 2008 Stefan Christoff
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Opposition to a bilateral trade accord between Japan and the Philippines is growing increasingly public throughout the Pacific archipelago and this week Pamalakaya, a national fisher-folk alliance, announced a national campaign to oppose the Japan...

Znet Article Christoff: New youth group in Montreal North calls for justice

Znet Article, September, 17 2008 Stefan Christoff
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Street fires no longer burn in Montreal North, but the police shooting that killed 18-year-old Fredy Villanueva remains an open wound for community residents in the district. For Montréal-Nord Républik, a recently formed community group in the are...

Znet Article Ali: Canada, Hizballah and Terrorism

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Tariq Ali
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In 2002 Canada unveiled an official list of "terrorist" organizations, strikingly similar to that of the the US government. Today the Lebanese political movement Hizballah -- both the military and political wing -- is officially considered a "terr...

Znet Article Christoff: France's Colonial History, Contemporary Conflicts

Znet Article, February, 25 2008 Stefan Christoff
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PARIS--In the early evening outside of Belleville metro in Paris, a crowd gathers for a demonstration demanding citizenship for France's hundreds-of-thousands of non-status immigrants, locally known as sans papiers (literally "without papers").

Znet Article Christoff: The Debate is a Farce

Znet Article, December, 16 2007 Stefan Christoff
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Islamic identity in Quebec rests at the centre of the current storm of debate surrounding reasonable accommodation as the rights of Muslim minorities in the province to publicly practise religious customs are under attack in a state-sponsored comm...

Znet Article Christoff: Is Canadian Military Aid Funding Assassinations in the Philippines?

Znet Article, December, 09 2007 Stefan Christoff
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A history of popular rebellions is woven into politics in the Philippines, from the 1986 "People Power Revolution" of street protests that overthrew the US supported dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, to the ongoing left-wing guerrilla insurgency of the ...

Znet Article Ali: Canada, Hizballah and Terrorism: An interview with Tariq Ali

Znet Article, November, 30 2007 Tariq Ali
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In 2002 Canada unveiled an official list of "terrorist" organizations, strikingly similar to that of the the US government. Today the Lebanese political movement Hizballah -- both the military and political wing -- is officially considered a "terr...

Znet Article Christoff: Battle of the Ballot Box Part II

Znet Article, September, 09 2007 Stefan Christoff
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Violence surrounding the Philippine elections, including multiple assassinations and targeted bombings, has raised concerns internationally. Controversy over the mid-term elections of 2007, however, remains but one element of a broader political c...

Znet Article Christoff: Battle of the Ballot Box, Part 1

Znet Article, September, 04 2007 Stefan Christoff
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MANILA--Across the Philippine archipelago, millions of voters cast ballots in the 2007 mid-term elections in May while a wave of political violence swept the country, including multiple assassinations and fire-bombings of polling stations. Accord...

Znet Article Christoff: Canada's Spies

Znet Article, April, 21 2007 Stefan Christoff
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The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is conducting regular interviews and interrogations with hundreds of Arabs and Muslims across Canada at their work places, homes and in the vicinity of local mosques, say national and Montreal-base...

Znet Article Christoff: No shame in slaughter

Znet Article, February, 22 2007 Stefan Christoff
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The histories of Turkey and Armenia are deeply intertwined. Dating back to the Ottoman Empire, the Armenian Orthodox Christians, a prominent minority community, specialized in commerce, often working as intermediaries for merchants from Europe and...

Znet Article Christoff: Liberation Songs

Znet Article, January, 29 2007 Stefan Christoff
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In February 2004, rebel forces in Haiti launched a successful armed campaign to overthrow populist President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Anti-Aristide militias, comprised mainly of soldiers from the disbanded Haitian army, seized power and a wave of v...

Znet Article Christoff: The Manichean Middle East of Mark MacKinnon

Znet Article, January, 03 2007 Stefan Christoff
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When newspapers send correspondents afield to report on world events, the position is fraught with opportunity and responsibility. Opportunity to share meaningful insight into current events, and responsibility to accurately report on them. In ma...

Znet Article Christoff: Syria Lebanon Border Lockdown

Znet Article, July, 28 2005 Stefan Christoff
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Thousands of transport trucks line the winding highways of Akkar, an impoverished region in northern Lebanon which borders Syria. Currently all land border crossings into Syria are shutdown to economic traffic, dealing a serious blow to Lebanon's ...

Znet Article Christoff: From Montreal to Ein el Hilweh

Znet Article, July, 15 2005 Stefan Christoff
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In November 2003 Ahmed Abdel Majeed, a stateless Palestinian born and raised in Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, was deported from Canada. The distance between Montreal and Lebanon stretches thousands of kilometers over oceans and c...

Znet Article Christoff: Living War

Znet Article, January, 14 2004 Stefan Christoff
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The youth who play football on the small streets and narrow alleys of Bourj El Barajneh represent an entire generation of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon who live in a day-to-day low intensity war. This is a war waged against Palestinian refugees ...

Znet Article Christoff: The Geneva Accord and the Right of Return

Znet Article, December, 21 2003 Stefan Christoff
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Al-Baqa'a is Jordan's largest Palestinian refugee camp, located on the outskirts of Amman and home to more than 100,000 refugees. In the heart of one of Jordan's many desert valleys, at night, Al-Baqa'a is a beautiful array of lights sparkling bel...

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