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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 “apparentlyâ€, or another favourite “reportedlyâ€, they are usually distancing themselves from an event or an interpretation in the supposed interests of balance. But I think we should re...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 Nepalâ€, 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...
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...
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...
Lendman: Sham US Proposal to Iran
Znet Article, June, 10 2006
Stephen Lendman
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It may be a new month, but it's the same old Wall Street Journal trumpeting the latest US gambit designed to hide its real intentions toward Iran. Again it was in a front page feature story on June 1 headlined: "In Shift, U.S. Offers to Talk to Ir...
Pilger: The Last Taboo
Znet Article, June, 07 2006
John Pilger
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John Pilger's new book, Freedom Next Time (Bantam Press, 2006; http://www.johnpilger.com/) has just been published. Containing chapters on Diego Garcia, Palestine, India, South Africa and Afghanistan, it is a devastating indictment of brutal sta...
