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Znet Article Podur: Canada for anti-imperialists

Znet Article, July, 03 2004 Justin Podur
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Based on a talk given to the 'Nageh' community group on June 11, 2004, in Toronto.  Part 1 of 2.  Go to part 2 The United States is engaging in a bloody occupation in Iraq; it overthrew the democratically-elected regime in Haiti and pos...

Znet Article Engelhardt: Twenty-first Century Gunboat Diplomacy

Znet Article, March, 30 2004 Tom Engelhardt
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Imperial quote of the week (or: you don't keep the New Rome waiting in the New Spain): "A senior administration official traveling with [Secretary of State Colin] Powell described the meeting [after the funeral service for the Madrid bombing victi...

Znet Article Podur: The Forgotten Conflicts in Sudan

Znet Article, March, 14 2004 Justin Podur
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Review of: Douglas H. Johnson, The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars.  James Currey, Oxford, 2003.  234 pages. Sudan is, like the rest of Africa, neglected in the mainstream media except for the occasional use of it as a rhetorical de...

Commentary Monbiot: On the Edge of Lunacy

Commentary, January, 18 2004 George Monbiot
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Spare a thought this bleak new year for all those who rely on charity. Open your hearts, for example, to a group of people who, though they live in London, are in such desperate need of handouts that last year they received 7.6 million pounds in f...

Znet Article Landy: Questions for the Peace Movement

Znet Article, December, 30 2003 Joanne Landy
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On to Part II In February 2003, millions of people in the United States and around the world protested the impending U.S.-led war on Iraq. But today, even among opponents of the war, there is widespread confusion on the question of the ongoing o...

Commentary Bond: Cancun to Dubai

Commentary, September, 20 2003 Patrick Bond
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Well, that was a really great moment on the southeast corner of Mexico on Sunday, was it not?! A few Third World elites -- led by Kenyan and Ugandan delegates -- finally walked out of the World Trade Organisation summit, insulted to the bitter end...

Znet Article Halper: One State

Znet Article, September, 16 2003 Jeff Halper
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Paper given at the United Nations International Conference on Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People New York, September 5, 2003 Everyone pooh-poohs the road map. From State Department and other "quartet" officials through the office...

Znet Article Monbiot: Whose Side Are You On?

Znet Article, September, 10 2003 George Monbiot
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Outside the world trade talks beginning in Cancun in Mexico tomorrow, two battles will be fought. The f...

Znet Article Sharma: WTO and Agriculture

Znet Article, September, 02 2003 Devinder Sharma
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As expected, the United States and the European Union have arrived at a new accord, just ahead of the fifth WTO Ministerial at Cancun, which in letter and spirit lays out a detailed road map for what can be called as the second phase of the great ...

Znet Article Engler: Markets=Famine

Znet Article, July, 08 2003 Yves Engler
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If the western mainstream media told the truth about Africa, stories in our newspapers would be much different. "Market ideology causes Ethiopian Famine," the New York Times headline would blare. "130 years running and imperialists still mix wi...

Znet Article Bennis: Going Global: Building A Movement Against Empire

Znet Article, May, 14 2003 Phyllis Bennis
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As the Bush administration strengthens its military victory and consolidates its occupation of Iraq, it continues its trajectory towards international expansion of power and global reach. The arrogance of its triumphalism, ignoring civilian carnag...

Zmag Article Fitz: World Challenges GMOs

Zmag Article, May, 01 2003 Don Fitz
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F or decades, biologists have known that a gene can be removed from a cell, modified, and reinserted into the same cell or a different cell from another species or even the other ...

Znet Article Herman: From Vietnam To Iraq

Znet Article, April, 30 2003 Edward Herman
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There are, of course, important differences between the US invasions of Vietnam and Iraq. In Vietnam, from 1954 and till 1965 the United States simply tried to impose an imported puppet government on a populace that supported a deeply-rooted commu...

Znet Article Rai: Uphill Struggle

Znet Article, February, 24 2003 Milan Rai
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THE SCALE OF THE TASK A second UN Resolution on Iraq is politically vital to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and would be important in the post-conflict period when the US hopes to shift responsibilities to UN agencies. Opinion polls have clea...

Znet Article Herman: War-makers, Bribees, And Poodles Versus Democracy

Znet Article, February, 18 2003 Edward Herman
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One of the most dramatic features of the Bush-Blair drive to war--actually, "massacre" given the imbalance of forces-- has been the split and struggle between governments and their citizenry. It might be argued that this ongoing struggle demonstra...

Znet Article Galeano: The USA Is At War

Znet Article, January, 14 2003 Eduardo Galeano
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Translation. coorditrad@attac.org  volunteer translators (*) Times of fear. The world is living in a state of terror, terror in disguise: some say it comes from Saddam Hussein, now tired of being enemy number one, or from Osama bin Ladin, p...

Znet Article Shiva: In Praise Of Cowdung

Znet Article, November, 20 2002 Vandana2 Shiva
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In India we worship cow dung as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. Gobur-dhan puja is literally the worship of gobur (cowdung) dhan (wealth). Cow dung is worshipped because it is the source of renewal of soil fertility and hence the sustainability ...

Commentary Shiva: In Praise Of Cowdung

Commentary, November, 17 2002 Vandana2 Shiva
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In India we worship cow dung as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. Gobur-dhan puja is literally the worship of gobur (cowdung) dhan (wealth).

Znet Article Zunes: UN Resolutions being violated by countries other than Iraq

Znet Article, October, 03 2002 Stephen Zunes
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Editor's Note: In its effort to justify its planned invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has emphasized the importance of enforcing UN Security Council resolutions. However, in addition to the dozen or so resolutions currently being violated ...

Znet Article Administrator: Theme Song for 21st Century Famines: "We own the world, We ignore the children"

Znet Article, September, 27 2002 Site Administrator
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“The situation in Zimbabwe hit you guys hard, I suppose” said my neighbor to the young woman who had just sauntered out of the customs area at the airport. She was from Malawi, he was trying to make small talk about the famine rava...

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