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Znet Article Chomsky: The Long View

Znet Article, March, 08 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Staunton: First of all, I wanted to clear something up. I understand that some remarks you made about Bertie Ahern and "shoe shining" may have been reported inaccurately.Chomsky: The Press Association story on December 26th said that on his way to...

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 Chomsky: Korea and International Affairs

Znet Article, February, 22 2006 Noam Chomsky
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SUN WOO LEE: How is your health? NOAM CHOMSKY: I am fine, as you can see. SUN WOO LEE: Is there any recent issue of interest related to Korea which you have been following? NOAM CHOMSKY: Korea is playing a very significant role in world affa...

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 Sharma: Indian Villages For Sale

Znet Article, February, 12 2006 Devinder Sharma
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Harkishanpura is a non-descript village in Bathinda district of Punjab in northwestern India. It suddenly made its way into news when in an unprecedented move the village panchayat announced that the village was up for sale. That was in Jan 2001. ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Irish Times Interview

Znet Article, January, 24 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Q First of all, I wanted to clear something up. I understand that some remarks you made about Bertie Ahern and “shoe shining ” may have been reported inaccurately. A The Press Association story on December 26th said that on his wa...

Znet Article Cromwell: Point of No Return?

Znet Article, January, 18 2006 David Cromwell
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Billions Will Die The Independent and the Independent on Sunday (IoS) pride themselves on their environmental coverage. No doubt their editors will indicate today's dramatic front page as a case in point. The paper depicts the Earth from space ov...

Znet Article Bricmont: Humanitarian Imperialism

Znet Article, January, 11 2006 Jean Bricmont
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In his new book, Humanitarian Imperialism, Jean Bricmont denounces the use of the human rights pretext to justify attacks against countries in the South. He is a pacifist and a committed intellectual. How is it that a professor of theoretical phy...

Znet Article Mondragon: Freedom for Mother Earth!

Znet Article, January, 09 2006 Hector Mondragon
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If there had been justice and reparation for the victims of hundreds of massacres committed in the last twenty years in the Colombian countryside, as well as those committed between 1946 and 1958 and in previous waves of violence, the prin­cipal m...

Znet Article Chatterji: Now, Hindu Nationalists Rewriting California Textbooks

Znet Article, January, 08 2006 Angana Chatterji
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The attempts of diasporic Hindu nationalist organizations in the United States to intervene in revising segments on India, Indian history, and Hinduism in 6th grade textbooks in California State schools is disturbing. On December 2, 2005, the Curr...

Znet Article Christini: none

Znet Article, January, 06 2006 Tony Christini
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  A bias against explicit, progressive political fi...

Znet Article Lendman: Venezuela's Bolivarian Movement

Znet Article, January, 04 2006 Stephen Lendman
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Venezuela today, under its democratically elected President, Hugo Chavez Frias, is imbued with the spirit of Bolivarianism and his Bolivarian Revolution. It's based on the vision of Simon Bolivar, the Caracas born 17th and 18th century general who...

Znet Article Chomsky: On War and Activism

Znet Article, December, 27 2005 Noam Chomsky
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First of all, happy birthday. Thank you. December 7th is also the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It's also the anniversary of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, authorized by Henry Kissinger, which probably wiped out a third of ...

Znet Article Scipes: Labor Rights: If Unions Won't Fight for Them, Then What Good are Unions?

Znet Article, December, 17 2005 Kim Scipes
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On December 10th, International Human Rights Day, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney pointed out that, "For all practical purposes, Americans have lost the freedom to form unions." Accordingly, the AFL-CIO and its allies engaged in a series of protest...

Znet Article Shiva: From Doha to Hong Kong, via Cancun

Znet Article, December, 12 2005 Vandana2 Shiva
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The WTO Ministerial at Hong Kong has already failed. For the corporate world it has failed because smaller, poorer developing countries are starting to have a say in outcomes of WTO negotiations. With the backing of peoples power on the streets th...

Znet Article Fisk: The Great War for Civilization

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 Robert Fisk
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Robert Fisk is one of the world's best known journalists. He has been based in the Middle East as the UK Independent's Middle East correspondent for nearly 30 years, during which he has reported on two U.S. wars in Iraq, two Afghan wars, the Israe...

Znet Article Pilger: A News Revolution Has Begun

Znet Article, November, 25 2005 John Pilger
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The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge". The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news an...

Znet Article Solomon: Thanksgiving and more Taking

Znet Article, November, 24 2005 Norman Solomon
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When Thanksgiving arrives, the media coverage is mostly predictable. Feature stories tell of turkeys and food drives for the needy. We hear about why some people, famous and unknown, say they feel thankful. And, of course, holiday advertising camp...

Znet Article Zibechi: Regional Integration After the Collapse of FTAA

Znet Article, November, 24 2005 Raúl Zibechi
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  Although every Latin American government pays lip service to integration, taking the concrete steps needed to attain it is much more difficult than simply issuing declarations. In the wake of the collapse of the Free Trade Agreement of the Amer...

Znet Article Landau: Who We Are

Znet Article, November, 22 2005 Saul Landau
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G. W. Bush returned from a brief but difficult November learning foray in Latin America: "Wow, Brazil is big." Meanwhile, US citizens grew impatient with his performance. CBS polls rated him at 35% approval in early November. Even his supporters a...

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