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Safty: Manipulating the Evidence to Start a War
Znet Article, February, 12 2006
Adel Safty
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Last November, the US Senate Intelligence Committee was pressured by the Democrats to commence the long-delayed investigation of whether the Bush administration had deliberatel...
Underwood: Mitsubishi, Historical Revisionism and Japanese Corporate Resistance to Chinese Forced Labor Redress
Znet Article, February, 11 2006
William Underwood
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Just as Nazi Germany did in Europe during World War II, Imperial Japan made extensive use of forced labor across the vast area of the Asia Pacific it once occupied. Today, however, Japan's government and corporations are dealing with the legacy of...
Podur: Kofi Annan's Haiti
Znet Article, February, 10 2006
Justin Podur
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In the vast corrugated-iron shanty town of Cité Soleil, home to quarter of a million people, all the schools are shut down and the one hospital closed. White armoured UN personnel carriers patrol the perimeter, half a dozen blue-helmeted heads po...
Monbiot: Smoke Rings
Znet Article, February, 08 2006
George Monbiot
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Three weeks ago, while looking for something else, I came across one of the most extraordinary documents I have ever read. It relates to an organisation called Arise, which stands for Associates for Research into the Science of Enjoyment. Though l...
Surya: Saying Namaste to President Bush
Znet Article, February, 07 2006
Radha Surya
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On January 30, 2006, the results of an expansion and reshuffle of the Union Cabinet sent waves of shock through some sections of the Indian public. The Cabinet reshuffle in the nation's capital came in the wake of a week that had been rendered tu...
Concannon: Election Day and Beyond
Znet Article, February, 07 2006
Brian Concannon
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If Haiti’s much awaited (and four times postponed) elections take place on February 7, many questions will be answered: are the reduced number of voting centers sufficient, as the government promises? Did the troubled process of registerin...
Gordon: Why Hamas Won and What it Means
Znet Article, February, 07 2006
Neve Gordon
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Although it is still unclear what the future holds for Israelis and Palestinians, a few things can be said about the processes that enabled Hamas to win a landslide victory in the January 25 democratic elections and how the organization’s...
Walia: The Row over the Danish Cartoons
Znet Article, February, 06 2006
Harsha Walia
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From the burning of its flag to a boycott of its brands of butter and cookies, Denmark is feeling global outrage over newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The Danish paper Jyllands-Posten first published the cartoons on Sept. 30, 2005. The...
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...
Baroud: Punishing Denmark
Znet Article, February, 05 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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Only an irresponsible and intellectually inept individual would sketch such insulting images as those depicting Prophet Mohamed by a cartoonist in the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper. And no self-respecting newspaper would allow itself to run suc...
Haddad: A Parliament of Prisoners
Znet Article, February, 05 2006
Toufic Haddad
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Most attention surrounding the 25 January 2006 election has focused upon the sweeping victory of Hamas at the polls, and with good reason. But there are other aspects to this year’s election that will also leave permanent impressions upon ...
Sommers: 1984 Redux
Znet Article, February, 04 2006
Jeff Sommers
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Using American veterans as props, on November 11, 2005 President George Bush delivered a speech designed to justify his foreign policy failures since 9/11. Throughout his talk he intoned his audience to recognize the goodness of American foreign p...
Hussain: Democracy and violence
Znet Article, February, 01 2006
Faheem Hussain
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Don’t get me wrong. I am not advocating violence as such. But when I heard on the news and read in the newspapers about Jack Straw, Condoleeza Rice, Kofi Annan and others lecturing Hamas on the incompatibility of democracy and violence it ...
Dittmar: Climate Change
Znet Article, February, 01 2006
Michael Dittmar
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"One fundamental goal of any well-crafted indoctrination program is to direct attention elsewhere, away from effective power, its roots, and the disguises it assumes." (Noam Chomsky, 'Deterring Democracy', Vintage, 1992, p.303) Of Realists And St...
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...
Varadarajan: Messy Compromise on Iran
Znet Article, February, 01 2006
Siddharth Varadarajan
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IN REACHING agreement among themselves to report Iran to the United Nations Security Council for failing to comply with previous resolutions of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the P-5 countries and Germany have let the Manmohan Sing...
Fisk: The problem with democracy
Znet Article, February, 01 2006
Robert Fisk
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Saturday 28 January 2006 And now, horror of horrors, the Palestinians have elected the wrong party to power. Oh no, not more democracy again! Didn't we award this to those Algerians on 1990? And didn't they reward us with that nice gift of an Is...
Ahn: Good Morning America, Korea is Reunifying
Znet Article, January, 31 2006
Christine Ahn
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On my recent trip to South Korea last November, I was struck by how much reunification was in the air. I first got this impression as I waited at customs at Incheon International Airport. Looming above me were large flat screen TVs beaming a Samsu...
Fair: Editing Chavez to Manufacture a Slur
Znet Article, January, 30 2006
Fair
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It began with a bulletin from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (1/4/06) accusing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of invokin...
Pina: UN's Temporary Amnesia in Haiti
Znet Article, January, 28 2006
Kevin Pina
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HIP, Haiti - There has been much hand wringing and posturing by the international community since the fourth delay of elections by their Haitian surrogates who took power after the forced ouster of democratically elected President Aristide in Feb....
