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Znet Article Edwards: Paved With Good Intentions - 1

Znet Article, January, 27 2006 David Edwards
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On the rare occasions when the issue of civilian casualties is discussed in the mainstream media three words are invariably mentioned: Iraq Body Count (IBC). IBC describes itself as a project which maintains "the world's only independent and com...

Znet Article Bello: Humanitarian Intervention

Znet Article, January, 25 2006 Walden Bello
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(Revised version of a speech delivered at the Conference on Globalization, War, and Intervention sponsored by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, German Chapter, Frankfurt, Germany, January 14-15, 2006.) As war clouds ...

Znet Article Varadarajan: India, China, and the Asian axis of oil

Znet Article, January, 25 2006 Siddharth Varadarajan
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 In less than a year, India and China have managed to confound analysts around the world by turning their much-vaunted rivalry for the acquisition of oil and gas assets in third countries into a nascent partnership that could alter the basic dynam...

Znet Article Bohmer: Olympia Community Stand Up to Nazis

Znet Article, January, 25 2006 Peter Bohmer
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On Sunday, January 21st, 150 to 200 people rallied at Noon by the Texaco gas station on the Eastside of Olympia, Washington near where the National Socialist Movement, an openly Nazi organization was supposed to rally. When they didn't appear, we ...

Znet Article Baroud: Diplomacy as a Real Option

Znet Article, January, 25 2006 Ramzy Baroud
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Newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the new face of evil, US officials and media want us to believe. The dialectics that yielded such a conclusion have been offered in abundance within thousands of news broadcasts, commentaries...

Znet Article Frank: War with Iran

Znet Article, January, 24 2006 Joshua Frank
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Secretary of State Condi Rice doesn't think the United States and European Union should continue talking to Iran about their potential nuke development. Diplomacy should end and the UN Security Council must now take action, she says. Rice admitted...

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 Avnery: Have Pity on a Poor Orphan!

Znet Article, January, 24 2006 Uri Avnery
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IT WAS a colorful day in Bil'in. Political flags of many colors were fluttering in the brisk breeze, the vivid election posters and the colorful graffiti on the walls adding their bit. It was the biggest demonstration in the beleaguered village fo...

Znet Article Edalat: Iran, War, and Sanctions

Znet Article, January, 23 2006 Abbas Edalat
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UK based professor Abbas Edalat is a founding member of the newly formed Campaign against Sanctions and Intervention in Iran (CASMII). He recently traveled to the US and spoke at MIT and San Francisco regarding the coming hostilities against Iran....

Znet Article Lakoff: Canada, Haiti, the UN

Znet Article, January, 21 2006 Aaron Lakoff
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In his book “The Uses of Haiti”, author Paul Farmer writes; “...the world's privileged are protected from suffering violence, they are protected from having to perpetrate it – directly – and they are protec...

Znet Article Macleod: Silence on Haiti in Canada

Znet Article, January, 19 2006 Andrew Macleod
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Last Tuesday, Liberal prime minister Paul Martin made his pre-election stop in Victoria, meeting with supporters at a rally at the Hotel Grand Pacific. There, in what must have felt like a strange replay of countless such events across the country...

Znet Article Bagg: Haiti's Elites Pressure the UN

Znet Article, January, 18 2006 Leslie Bagg
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HIP - Haiti — Pressure from the elite sector of Haitian society has been mounting against the U.N. Mission in Haiti during the past several weeks. As the on again, off again elections approach the renewed deadline of Feb. 7, the United Nat...

Znet Article Chomsky: Chomsky: 'There Is No War On Terror'

Znet Article, January, 16 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Geov Parrish: Is George Bush in political trouble? And if so, why? Noam Chomsky: George Bush would be in severe political trouble if there were an opposition political party in the country. Just about every day, they're shooting themselves in the...

Znet Article Debito: The Coming Internationalization: Can Japan assimilate its immigrants?

Znet Article, January, 16 2006 Arudou Debito
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With the recent ethnic riots in France, The Economist (London) ran a thoughtful article ("Minority Reports") on their causes. It posed an i...

Znet Article Mishra: Hunger in the Midst of Plenty

Znet Article, January, 16 2006 Girish Mishra
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While the celebrations on the eve of 2006 were going on all over the world and the people with means were bursting crackers, drinking champagne and dancing enthusiastically, one person was desperately reminding them of widespread incidence of pove...

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 Hayden: Pacifying Iraq: Insurgent Scenarios

Znet Article, January, 11 2006 Tom Hayden
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AMMAN, JORDAN--Iraq's armed national resistance is willing to support an honorable American troop withdrawal and recognize "the interests of the US as a superpower," according to a Baghdad source with intimate knowledge of the insurgents. He was i...

Znet Article Whitney: China and the Dollar

Znet Article, January, 09 2006 Mike Whitney
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“It's the death blow to the US dollar,” said Peter Grandich, editor of the Grandich Letter.    On Thursday, The People’s Republic of China fired off the first volley in what could turn out to be economic Armageddon. China ...

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 Bagg: Bel Air

Znet Article, January, 08 2006 Leslie Bagg
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 Our second day in Haiti brought us to the slum of Bel Air, an area extremely different than other areas of Port au Prince. Not far from the glistening Palais Nationale, Bel Air is a poor neighborhood which has been hit hard since the February 200...

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