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Znet Article Chomsky: Subordinate and Non-Subordinate States

Znet Article, May, 08 2006 Noam Chomsky
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  Noam Chomsky, whom the New York Times has called “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” was voted the leading living public intellectual in The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll conducted by the British magazine P...

Znet Article Webber: Nationalization of Gas!

Znet Article, May, 04 2006 Jeffery r. Webber
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La Paz. Monday, May 1, 2006, amidst celebrations and marches commemorating the day of the working class internationally, the Bolivian government nationalized the country's hydrocarbons sector (natural gas and oil).  With presidential supreme decre...

Znet Article Hayden: Who Are You Calling An Immigrant?

Znet Article, May, 04 2006 Tom Hayden
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I wore the multicolored Aymaran flag of Bolivia to the May Day march in Los Angeles, the same day that Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia, nationalized the oil and gas fields. It seemed right to recognize the reappearance of th...

Znet Article Chomsky: Afterword: Failed States

Znet Article, April, 26 2006 Noam Chomsky
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We began by considering four critical issues that should rank high on the agenda of those concerned with the prospects for a decent future. Two of them are literally matters of survival: nuclear war and environmental disaster. The first danger is ...

Znet Article Robinson: Aqui Estamos Y No Nos Vamos

Znet Article, April, 23 2006 William Robinson
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 Latino immigrants have launched an all-out fight-back against the repression, exploitation, and racism they routinely face in the United States with a series of unprecedented strikes and demonstrations.  The mobilizations began when over half a m...

Znet Article Fuentes: Evo Morales Confronts New Challenges

Znet Article, April, 10 2006 Federico Fuentes
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Three months into Evo Morales' presidential term, much of Bolivia's mainstream media has been focusing on a range of protests and mobilisations by different sectors that have sprung up across the country. The April 2 El Nuevo Dia commented that Mo...

Znet Article Fernandes: Beyond the World Social Forum

Znet Article, April, 06 2006 Sujatha Fernandes
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This past January, regional social forums were celebrated in Caracas, Venezuela and Bamako, Mali. Another regional forum happened in Karachi, Pakistan in March. The regional forums have their origin in the World Social Forum (WSF), a meeting of so...

Znet Article Gibler: Water Fight

Znet Article, April, 05 2006 John Gibler
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In Mexican water politics, poverty is good business. Eleven million people here live without access to potable water and another 25 million live in villages and cities with taps that run as little as a few hours a week. Most of those who do have i...

Znet Article Martin: US launches major military exercises in the Caribbean as a warning to Venezuela and Cuba

Znet Article, April, 01 2006 Jorge Martin
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According to a press release by the US Southern Command on Monday, March 27: "A U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Group will deploy from the U.S. east coast to the Caribbean Sea to conduct Operation Partnership of the Americas from early April through late...

Znet Article Solo: The Anti-Americans

Znet Article, March, 31 2006 Toni Solo
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Jean Kirkpatrick's recent intervention in Nicaragua's internal politics is a helpful reminder that US government foreign policy is marked not just by hypocrisy and sadism but also by delusional stupidity. Take this quote from an interview Kirkpatr...

Znet Article Paez victor: Mr. Danger and Socialism for the New Milennium

Znet Article, March, 29 2006 Maria Paez victor
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[A talk prepared for the "Walter Gordon/Massey Symposium", Toronto March 15, 2006] Throughout most of its history, there has been very little interest in North America about Venezuela except as a supplier of oil. With the election of Hugo Chávez...

Znet Article Elie: The New Reality in Haiti

Znet Article, March, 28 2006 Patrick Elie
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Roger Annis: On February 7, the Haitian people elected René Préval as president. He promised deep-going reforms in favor of the poor majority of Haiti. How do you view the election and its outcome? Patrick Elie: The election is a very positive ...

Znet Article Bigwood: U.S. Meddling in Peruvian Presidential Race?

Znet Article, March, 20 2006 Jeremy Bigwood
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Something smells funny about the recent denunciation of maverick Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala for alleged human rights violations. Before the accusations, Humala was riding high as the leading candidate in Peru's presidential ele...

Znet Article Engler: Latin America Unchained

Znet Article, March, 20 2006 Mark Engler
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  For decades the International Monetary Fund (IMF) served as one of the key pillars of the "Washington Consensus." Dominated by the White House, the Fund allowed successive administrations to control the economic policy of poorer countries in th...

Znet Article Dangl: Latin America's Leftist Shift

Znet Article, March, 20 2006 Ben Dangl
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 Within the last six years in Latin America numerous social movements have gained momentum in the fight for human rights, better living and working conditions and an end to corporate exploitation and military violence. Recently, left of center ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Latin American Integration

Znet Article, March, 07 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Bernie Dwyer: I am reminded of a great Irish song called "The West's Awake" written by Thomas Davis in remembrance of the Fenian Uprising of 1798. It is about the west of Ireland asleep under British rule for hundreds of years and how it awoke fro...

Znet Article Burbach: Bolivia's Morales deftly keeps enemies at bay while pushing reforms

Znet Article, February, 20 2006 Roger Burbach
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Evo Morales is just an inspirational symbol for his people? Think again. Bolivia's first Indian president has shown political acuity in his early days in office, skillfully maneuvering and sticking to his radical program for transforming the count...

Znet Article Galeano: The Second Founding of Bolivia

Znet Article, February, 19 2006 Eduardo Galeano
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On the 22nd of January of the year 2002, Evo was expelled from Paradise. In other words: Deputy Morales was ejected from the Parliament. On the 22nd of January of the year 2006, in the same hall of pomposity, Evo Morales was consecrated President ...

Znet Article Gordon: The New Bolivian Experience

Znet Article, February, 05 2006 Gretchen Gordon
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Newly elected Bolivian President, Evo Morales, recently swore in the 16 ministers who will form his new government cabinet. For the first time in Bolivia’s 180-year history as an independent nation, the majority of those who now fill the h...

Znet Article Lamrani: Cuba

Znet Article, February, 01 2006 Salim Lamrani
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The cruel state of siege that the United States has imposed on Cuba since 1959 stiffens day after day. Now, they openly confess that their goal is overthrowing the government in Havana by any means while the sufferings caused to the population onl...

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