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Znet Article Cook: Palestinians are being denied the right to non-violent resistance

Znet Article, November, 30 2006 Jonathan Cook
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If one thing offers a terrifying glimpse of where the experiment in human despair that is Gaza under Israeli siege is leading, it is the news that a Palestinian woman in her sixties -- a grandmother -- chose last week to strap on a suicide belt an...

Znet Article Raina: Irom Sharmila

Znet Article, November, 25 2006 Badri Raina
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I have before me a national English Daily which is much given to spreading the word about the beauties of “reform” and modern “development” in India.  Never a day passes when it does not remind us and the world how ...

Znet Article Raina: The Last Straw

Znet Article, November, 01 2006 Badri Raina
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When Jack Straw the other day encountered  a muslim woman, face veiled in niqab, it spelt in his mind the  last straw for white-dominated multiculturalism in Britain. Surely and soon enough the post-9/11 discourse centring on  the ostensibly unco...

Znet Article Roy: 'And His Life Should Become Extinct'

Znet Article, October, 29 2006 Arundhati Roy
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We know this much: On December 13, 2001, the Indian Parliament was in its winter session. (The NDA government was under attack for yet another corruption scandal.) At 11.30 in the morning, five armed men in a white Ambassador ...

Znet Article Raina: Capital Punishment

Znet Article, October, 11 2006 Badri Raina
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In recent weeks, the Indian public mind (often cutely managed by a savvy media world), has been much drawn towards two happenings. One of these concerns the propagation of “Gandhigiri” (a rather unfortunate analogue of “Ch...

Znet Article Raina: The Beginning of the End of the Neocon Empire?

Znet Article, September, 26 2006 Badri Raina
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Mr. David C. Mulford is formally the American ambassador to India. Over the last year or two, however, he has off and on made public pronouncements suggesting that he fancies himself more a neocon Viceroy than an ambassador who is required to fun...

Znet Article Albert: Why Parecon?

Znet Article, September, 14 2006 Michael Albert
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Fifteen years ago, Robin Hahnel and I published a book titled Looking Forward. It was the first in-depth presentation of the economic vision called participatory economics, or parecon for short. Of course Robin and I worked hard on parecon and rel...

Znet Article Cohen: Notes on the Ecological Dimension

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Mitchel Cohen
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(A talk by Mitchel Cohen at the "Another World is Necessary" conference on July 24, 2006 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, sponsored by the Center for Global Justice.) There is a kind of environmentalist who argues that police clubs must be made...

Znet Article Raina: Vande Mataram

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Badri Raina
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Some two decades into acclaimed and dedicated service to King and country, Cardinal Wolsey, Lord Chancellor of England, was finally confronted with his patriot test by Henry the VIIIth.  He was ordered to intervene with the Pope in Rome for his co...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Raina: Indian Muslims

Znet Article, August, 16 2006 Badri Raina
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My chief concern here is to understand the situation of muslims in India. But, to the extent that the issue is inevitably affected by the condition of muslims world-wide, it is relevant to take note of factors that impinge upon that condition even...

Znet Article Raina: Gujarat 2006— Same But Not the Same

Znet Article, August, 02 2006 Badri Raina
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It would be a grave miscalculation for the Indian State as well aswell-meaning secular and peace-loving Indians to be taken in by Narendra Modi’s seemingly conciliatory visit to the scene of the last round of violence  in Vadodra (in the m...

Znet Article Cook: The lies Israel tells itself (and we tell on its behalf)

Znet Article, July, 28 2006 Jonathan Cook
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When journalists use the word “apparently”, or another favourite “reportedly”, they are usually distancing themselves from an event or an interpretation in the supposed interests of balance. But I think we should re...

Znet Article Raina: We The People

Znet Article, July, 19 2006 Badri Raina
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In perhaps the first public statement he made after the event of December 13,2001 when the Indian Parliament became the target of a terrorist attack, (although there are those who still speculate about who the real attackers might have been), the ...

Znet Article Raina: Kashmir

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Badri Raina
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  Experience teaches us that often those sections of society who profit the most from historical change are the first to lament when calls go up for further change. The fact, nonetheless is, as atleast one school of political epistemology recogn...

Znet Article Raina: Back to a Better Version of Reform

Znet Article, July, 07 2006 Badri Raina
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Although the custodians of ‘ruling ideas’ seek always to lend ‘universal’ weight to concepts that suit them, it remains a truism of common human experience that the same words across changing histories do not mean t...

Znet Article Zinn: Patriotism & The Fourth of July

Znet Article, July, 03 2006 Howard Zinn
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The following essay is an excerpt from Zinn's forthcoming book, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (City Lights Books, ISBN 0-87286-475-8, www.citylights.com) In celebration of the 4th of July there will be many speeches about the young people...

Znet Article Raina: India, Nepal, and Left Praxis

Znet Article, June, 24 2006 Badri Raina
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In an earlier piece in the same space  (“India and Nepal”,  Znet, june 10) suggestions were made with respect to the implications of the Nepalese revolutionary upsurge for the idea of the theocratic State. That upsurge also has an...

Znet Article Dangl: 1491

Znet Article, June, 19 2006 Ben Dangl
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In many high school history classes students are told that before Columbus arrived the Americas were full of untamed wilderness loosely populated with savage Indians. Charles Mann’s book, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columb...

Znet Article Raina: India and Nepal

Znet Article, June, 10 2006 Badri Raina
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Replicating the wishful follies of the eighteenth century Bourbon monarch, Louis XVI,  King Gyanendra Shah of Nepal  has finally been denuded of all his powers.  It hardly matters now what royal robes  he wears; the emperor will henceforth be effe...

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