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Schwartz: The Campaign to Pacify Sunni Iraq
Znet Article, March, 12 2006
Michael Schwartz
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The December elections in Iraq did not initiate a period of state building, but instead marked an expanding, many-sided conflict whose latest major horror was the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra and the carnage it triggered. All the con...
Boukman: Opening Space for Popular Movements
Znet Article, March, 12 2006
Samba Boukman
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Interviewed by Stuart Neatby, John Dimond-Gibson, and Christian Heyne. Rush Transcript. The desperately poor neighbourhoods surrounding Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince have been hardest hit by the political violence and social cleansin...
Jones: How Britain helped Israel make its A-bomb
Znet Article, March, 10 2006
Meirion Jones
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Mirage jets swoop from the sky to destroy the Egyptian air force before breakfast; tanks race across the desert to the Suez Canal; Moshe Dayan, the defence minister, poses with eyepatch after the Jerusalem brigade has fought its way into the Old C...
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...
Loewenstein: Spinning us to war in Iran
Znet Article, March, 08 2006
Antony Loewenstein
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During former US President Bill Clinton’s recent trip to Australia, he said the two greatest threats facing the 21st century were terrorism and global warming. The Age welcomed Clinton’s presence in Melbourne as the coming of an al...
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...
Ziadah: Challenging the New Apartheid
Znet Article, March, 04 2006
Rafeef Ziadah
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The Palestinian solidarity movement has made significant gains since the onset of the Second Palestinian Intifada in September 2000. Over the last five years, a new generation of Palestinian solidarity activists has mobilized in the streets, ca...
Snow: Behind the Numbers
Znet Article, March, 01 2006
Keith harmon Snow
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On to Part 2 See Photos Below The British medical journal Lancet recently took greater notice of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) than all western media outlets combined. A group of physicians reported that about 4 million people ha...
Elie: Canada, Haiti, and the Struggle for Justice
Znet Article, February, 28 2006
Patrick Elie
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Patrick Elie is a former cabinet minister in the government of Haiti, a leading social justice activist in that country and a fierce opponent of the 2004 coup d’état against the democratically-elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide,...
Engler: No Activism?
Znet Article, February, 27 2006
Yves Engler
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Sometimes, activism can seem like a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. Every activist has heard people say: “Nothing ever changes. Things are the way they are and that’s how it is and always will be. All your complaining an...
Levy: As the Hamas Team Laughs
Znet Article, February, 22 2006
Gideon Levy
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The Hamas team had not laughed so much in a long time. The team, headed by the prime minister's advisor Dov Weissglas and including the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, the director of the Shin Bet and senior generals and officials, convened ...
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...
Mishra: Booming Indian Bourse: Illusion and Reality
Znet Article, February, 20 2006
Girish Mishra
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The sensitive index of the Bombay Stock Exchange, during the first week of February 2006, performed the much-awaited feat of crossing the 10,000-mark. This brought great joy to industry and trade. The media, both the print and the electronic, were...
Chandra: What the US Ambassador taught Nepalis
Znet Article, February, 20 2006
Pratyush Chandra
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Recently, the United States has been anxiously trying to pre-empt every possible uncomfortable situation in South Asia. Its ambassadors are actively intervening in internal political debates in South Asian countries. Of course, it is nothing new f...
Wearing: Are Muslims from Mars and Europeans from Venus?
Znet Article, February, 20 2006
David Wearing
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The row over a set of cartoons published in a Danish newspaper that mocked the Muslim prophet Muhammad, and their republication elsewhere in the European press, has raised some interesting questions; albeit not the ones that have been discussed in...
Nomi: Inequality and Japanese Education: Urgent choices
Znet Article, February, 19 2006
Tomoaki Nomi
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In December 2004, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced preliminary results of the second Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey that had been conducted in 2003 on 15 year olds from the 30 O...
Podur: A Dishonest Case for a Coup
Znet Article, February, 16 2006
Justin Podur
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I was convinced, reluctantly, into replying to Deibert.
Deibert: Reply to Justin Podur
Znet Article, February, 16 2006
Michael Deibert
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Reply to Justin Podur
Tokar: WTO vs. Europe: Less-and Also More-Than it Seems
Znet Article, February, 15 2006
Brian Tokar
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In the late Spring of 2003, amidst the political fallout of "Old Europe's" refusal to support the US invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration threw down a gauntlet that threatened to permanently aggravate transatlantic hostilities. As a political...
Varadarajan: Perils of 3-Way Security Cooperation
Znet Article, February, 13 2006
Siddharth Varadarajan
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THIS WEEK, the chief of Japan's Maritime Self-Defence Force — a well-equipped and robust navy that is still shy about calling itself by its proper name — will arrive in India to kick off a series of the most intensive high-level mi...
